Chapter 866: You are so considerate of me for sacrificing my own family for your own good!

As night fell, Jiang Yubai slowly raised his head from the pile of papers, blinked in surprise and said, "Wow."

Xu Yu: “…”

Jiang Yubai put down his pen and rubbed his hands excitedly: "You mean that the old man took everyone in the family to the farm to look after the farmland, and you are the only one left at home?"

"Where are Nuonuo and Yuanbao? Why are you here alone?"

Before Xu Yu could reply, Mr. Xue, who was also working hard late at night, asked anxiously, "Yes, where's the child?"

"You yourself have been summoned to the palace, what are the two children going to do at home alone?"

Even the Prime Minister, who was buried in the mountains and seas, slowly raised his head and kept looking behind Xu Yu.

"Go now!"

Jiang Yubai casually grabbed an unused pen and threw it at Xu Yu, unable to suppress his laughter: "Go and get the child to stay with me for a few more days."

"When you insisted on taking the kids away today, I told you that they were living well with me and that you could pick them up in a few days. But you refused to listen."

"Do you regret it now?"

Xu Yu bent down to pick up the pen on the ground, his expression numb: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the child will be taken care of."

Jiang Yubai asked dissatisfiedly: "Who is it?"

"How can the servants in your house be as attentive as my husband and I are to you? How can you..."

"He's the child's second uncle."

Xu Yu rubbed his face tiredly, his tone filled with lingering resentment: "Xu Minghui said he was worried that it would be difficult for me to take care of the children, so he decisively took them away from home this afternoon."

Xu Minghui also followed the old man and the others out of Kyoto City. He walked without hesitation and with great determination, and did not even look back at Xu Yu the whole time.

Although Xu Yu knew very well that these were all excuses made by Xu Minghui, he could not stop it.

Xu Yu was still struggling to decide whether to ask for leave and stay out for two days, but before he could form this idea, someone came from the palace as if calling for his soul.

There was no one else around, and Xu Yu calmly looked into the eyes of Jiang Yubai, who had a look of regret on his face.

Xu Yu said, "Your Majesty, I actually want to..."

"My dear, you have worked so hard."

Xu Yu's face twitched and he narrowed his eyes suspiciously.

Jiang Yubai decisively slammed the table and said, "Sacrificing your own family for the sake of everyone, loving justice, really makes me happy. You are worthy of being my good brother!"

"No, Your Majesty, I actually..."

"Since there's no one home, my dear, you don't have to go in and out of the palace so often these days. Just stay here with me."

Jiang Yubai thrust a pen into Xu Yu's hand without further ado. Together with Mr. Xue, who had come at the same time, he shoved Xu Yu into a chair. He smiled and said, "It's late, and time is short. My dear, please don't dwell on your melancholy and delay your work."

"There are so many memorials submitted from all over the country waiting for approval. I really can't finish reading them all! Help me!"

Xu Yu's silence was as hard as a rock, and no one cared about his dark face.

As for the rules being broken once again...

Jiang Yubai sneered, "I even suspect this is the evil ambition of Emperor Yongshun's old ministers!"

Xu Yu looked expressionlessly at the pile of memorials that Mr. Xue quickly distributed to him, and at the Prime Minister who calmly added another pile to his pile. He almost broke the pen in his hand.

Xu Yu took a deep breath and asked, "Why does Your Majesty say that?"

"Don't you think these idiots want to tire me out quickly so they can replace me with a new emperor?"

"emperor."

The Prime Minister said sternly with bloodshot eyes, "Your Majesty, please be careful with your words."

You are the king of a country, how can you talk nonsense?

If someone heard this, where would the emperor's dignity be?

Jiang Yubai gave him an innocent look. The Prime Minister thought about it and said angrily, "But the emperor is right. There are indeed too many useless people."

The Prime Minister and Mr. Xue have followed the old prince for most of their lives and are already familiar with handling all kinds of documents.

They had never expected that the work they had been doing with ease for half their lives would undergo such a terrible change after arriving in Kyoto.

There is so much garbage and so much nonsense!

The Minister of Literature angrily opened a daily memorial and pointed at the endless nonsense on it and said, "This is the fourth memorial from the Governor of Anshan this month. He just glosses over the situation in his jurisdiction as if everything is fine, and he flatters the government!"

"Such slobbery memorials are not uncommon. There are all of them on display!"

"We had to find the key points in this nonsense to see if there were any important matters that were missed. But after patiently reading the whole thing, we discovered that there was no key point in the first place!"

Mr. Xue also sighed quietly: "Government affairs are piled up, and the upper level follows the lower level."

"This is a problem that has been piling up since the previous dynasty. It seems like nothing will happen if we just pay our respects every day, but we're vague about important matters. This can't go on."

The old prince's rule was extremely strict, and there was a clear process for handling government affairs.

Everyone has clear responsibilities and knows exactly what they should do at each stage, so there is no need to elaborate.

But this is not the case for the old ministers in Kyoto and the vassal ministers who have surrendered from all over the country.

Various malpractices left over from the previous dynasty became apparent, leading to a sharp increase in the number of memorials requiring Jiang Yubai's approval within a very short period of time.

Moreover, after the cabinet was dissolved, Jiang Yubai has never shown any intention of reorganizing the cabinet, which is an invisible pressure on Jiang Yubai.

Don’t you dislike the cabinet model?

Then I will let you see the importance of the cabinet and force you to rely on it.

Jiang Yubai held his chin in his hand and sneered, "You're trying to force me to submit."

"Submit?"

Xu Yu twitched his lips as if hearing some funny joke, threw a book of nonsense that was definitely meaningless into the pile of garbage at the Prime Minister's feet, and said lightly: "Your Majesty, killing a few people is easy."

If the ruler of a country is restricted in such small matters, how can he coordinate and dispatch big things?

Xu Yu was forced to do two things at once, quickly scanning the pile of documents in his hand that looked like dog shit, while he said, "Execute those who don't obey, and the rest will naturally obey."

"If Your Majesty feels it is inconvenient to take action, I can..."

"It's convenient for me."

Xu Yu paused and almost tore the thing in his hand. Jiang Yubai looked at him with a smile and said, "Don't even think about leaving Kyoto."

"Look at the Prime Minister and the Master. They are both so old. Do you have the heart to go out and enjoy yourself while you watch them suffer here with me?"

Xu Yu didn't say anything. Mr. Xue suppressed a smile and said, "Your Majesty is absolutely right."

"We are old now, and we feel exhausted after just a few days. We still need to rely more on young people."

The Prime Minister disliked Xu Yu from the beginning to the end, but he was very satisfied with Xu Yu's efficiency and modesty.

Looking at the documents being quickly sorted and categorized in Xu Yu's hands, the Prime Minister was very satisfied: "Who says that those who come from a military background are all hot-tempered and can't do quiet work? This is done very well."

"Don't stop talking, keep going!"