In the Imperial Study, after the Emperor finished boasting to Pri Minister He and the others about the good things Zhao Yao was planning to do, he showed them another secret morial from Zhao Yao.
"Take a good look at this secret morial," the Emperor emphasized.
Sun Kui handed the secret morial to Pri Minister He, who reached out to take it. He did not hastily open it but first asked, "Your Majesty, whose secret morial is this?"
"It’s from little ten," the Emperor said, sitting on his chair, raising his feet onto the imperial desk, putting his hands in his sleeves with an aloof expression. "Take a good look."
Upon hearing that it was another secret morial from Prince Han, and hearing the Emperor repeatedly instruct them to take a good look, Pri Minister He and Grandmaster Liu felt a shiver in their hearts, then they opened Prince Han’s secret morial and hurriedly started reading it.
Upon opening the secret morial, they found the content to be exceedingly long.
Pri Minister He held one end of the secret morial, while the Minister of Agriculture held the other end.
The three of them leaned their heads together, concentrating earnestly on the contents of the morial.
When they saw "Three Departnts and Six Ministries system," Pri Minister He and the others instantly had questions in their minds, what is this?
Harboring doubts in their hearts, the three of them continued reading. After a while, they nearly let out gasps of astonishnt.
The more they read, the more astonished they beca.
The Emperor noticed the increasingly shocked expressions on the faces of the Minister of Agriculture and the others, and he felt increasingly proud inside.
After Pri Minister He and the others seriously read through the morial once, they read it again from start to finish. During the first read, they were deeply shocked by just going through the main ideas. By the second ti, when they examined it word by word, they were even more startled inside.
"Your Majesty, was this proposed by Prince Han?" Pri Minister He asked, his voice slightly trembling.
"Of course it was him. He has already implented the new bureaucratic system in his little court," the Emperor, who had just seen the contents of this secret morial himself, was no less shocked than Pri Minister He and the others. "That mischievous boy despised the cumberso and complex bureaucracy of Great Zhou and ca up with this so-called Three Departnts and Six Ministries system, claiming it’s easier to rember and more practical than the current system of Great Zhou."
Grandmaster Liu took several deep breaths to barely suppress the surge of shock in his heart.
The Minister of Agriculture was so shocked that he couldn’t utter a word. He could only describe it using a phrase once spoken by Prince Han, which was "Wow!"
"Your Majesty, did Prince Han really propose this Three Departnts and Six Ministries system?" Grandmaster Liu also asked again, seemingly unable to believe that such a system could be proposed by a newly adult prince.
The Emperor knew what Grandmaster Liu was amazed about, nodding and smiling, he said, "Indeed, it was him who ca up with it. Didn’t he thoroughly explain the responsibilities and functions of the Three Departnts and Six Ministries in the morial?"
"This... Prince Han is truly..." Pri Minister He was at a loss for words to express his amazent at Prince Han’s talent. Prince Han always surprised them by accomplishing or thinking of things they couldn’t anticipate. Every ti they thought what Prince Han had achieved was shocking enough, he managed to co up with even more "startling" things.
Grandmaster Liu and the others knew that Prince Han was incredibly talented, but they always believed his talent lay in creating things, like the new paper, the curved plow, the printing technology, and the newly produced salt that Prince Han had invented previously. They never expected Prince Han to also have such skills in governntal affairs. This Three Departnts and Six Ministries system is astonishing!
"I recall that Prince Han was not familiar with our dynasty’s bureaucratic system." In Lanyuan Pavilion, Zhao Yao had often inquired about the duties of certain official posts. At that ti, Prince Chu told Prince Han to familiarize himself with the governntal positions, but Prince Han dismissed it as troubleso, saying he couldn’t be bothered to rember them. He even said he couldn’t rember clearly even if he tried.
"Little ten indeed wasn’t very familiar with the bureaucratic system of Great Zhou," the Emperor internally grumbled, thinking that if he weren’t the Emperor, he wouldn’t be able to distinguish them either.
"Before heading to Lingnan, Prince Han would hide behind Lord Wei during court sessions and sleep, yet he..." the Minister of Agriculture pondered whether Prince Han had been feigning sleep.
The Emperor retracted his feet from the imperial desk, interlaced his fingers to support his chin, and looked at Pri Minister He and the others with great interest, "What do you think of this Three Departnts and Six Ministries system that little ten ca up with?"
Grandmaster Liu responded without hesitation, "Naturally, it is excellent."
The Minister of Agriculture imdiately concurred, "Grandmaster Liu is right."
Pri Minister He, however, hesitated and did not respond.
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