"It mattered a great deal. After all, if you really appointed Fu Xuan as chancellor, and she worked tirelessly to prove herself, giving her all without making a single mistake in governance... then as the supreme decision-maker who 'recognized and employed talent,' wouldn't the contribution points you gained as emperor be far greater than Fu Xuan's, even though she was the one working herself to the bone?"
Chen Li mercilessly exposed Yao Guang's little scheme of getting something for nothing right to her face.
That was simply how the Emperor's Proof worked. It did not require the person seated on the throne to personally accomplish much. It only required this King's Land to function steadily.
Even if you were like the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, hiding in the harem to cultivate immortality for twenty-four years without attending court, as long as the machinery of the state continued functioning normally under capable ministers—and functioned fairly well at that—you would still be judged by the system as an exceptionally qualified emperor and continuously receive huge amounts of contribution points.
And if Fu Xuan's achievements in office were impressive enough, their relationship would be more like that of Zhuge Liang and Liu Shan.
It should be noted that while Chancellor Zhuge was praised as the greatest civil minister of all time, Liu Shan could at most be said not to have been a foolish ruler.
But the two were not even in the same lane. A chancellor was a chancellor, and an emperor was an emperor.
If an emperor could unconditionally delegate all authority to a chancellor who devoted himself wholeheartedly, then no matter how foolish that emperor was, he could not be called incompetent...
As long as he was not incompetent, he could remain in that position forever.
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