Flipping through the documents piled on the desk, Zhou Xu was still highly efficient at reviewing them.
The main reason was that aside from internal development, Great Zhou had not encountered any difficult problems over the past few years.
The importance, difficulty, and urgency of a document were not directly proportional.
Take a simple example: Was a document concerning Great Zhou's entire annual fiscal budget important?
Of course it was important. Charman simply had no way to approve it, but the key issue here lay in the authority to process it, not in its difficulty.
Zhou Xu's return to his position had set parts of Great Zhou that had previously ground to a halt back into motion.
Moreover, Zhou Xu had convened a court assembly first thing the next morning, telling the ministers and officials of every department to hurry up and report anything that needed to be presented to him in person.
For the next half a month, Zhou Xu had spent most of his time working overtime.
His afternoons had originally been set aside for cultivation or studying true words. Now, aside from occasionally going out to inspect projects, he spent all his other time in the Hall of Diligent Governance processing documents.
Among the pile of documents, quite a few had been sent over from the Rakshasa District.
When they had first incorporated the newly conquered Rakshasa District, Zhou Xu had sent Karl there with the intention of letting him train himself and accumulate practical experience.
But that did not mean the affairs of the Rakshasa District had nothing to do with him.
Clearly, there was still a mountain of matters that needed to be submitted to him for instructions and reported to him.
According to the grand plan they had confirmed earlier, the Rakshasa District would