As one old minister after another disappeared.
One newcomer after another took office.
Only then did those old ministers realize there was something wrong with the new emperor.
He seemed not to care about them at all.
It was as if it did not matter how many of them died.
This was simply terrifying.
More and more people realized that the emperor was being far too ruthless toward them.
He showed them no mercy whatsoever.
Moreover, the work they had previously done was swiftly taken over by newcomers.
There was no deception at all.
Those newcomers worked faster, more frugally, and better than they did.
In truth, the affairs of feudal society were not particularly complex. The difficulty lay in logistics, communications, and transportation, where technology was far too underdeveloped.
It also lay in the common people being uneducated.
They could not understand government decrees and needed local gentry to make arrangements for them.
Compared to these newcomers, those old hands had merely controlled cultural resources for many years and were more familiar with court affairs.
There was truly nothing they could monopolize.
Think about it: most of the time, they were merely going in circles and patching things up.
Was there any technical threshold?
No.
That was why someone who had studied the Four Books and Five Classics for many years could directly become a county magistrate.
Then, with a few Advisors, he could handle the affairs of a county with hundreds of thousands of residents.
It was simply absurd.
That was because there were no real technical difficulties in the feudal era.
And all the skills and methods they had once relied on for survival had been learned by the other side.
In short.
They were utterly unlucky.
They submitted memorials one after another. "Sixth Prince, you... what