"You sent that group of people just now. Are you sure they won't simply make up some 'truth' to fob you off?"
"If they deceive me, aren't they afraid I'll punish them?"
"Of course they are. But that assumes you discover they've deceived you."
"Sophora Blossom Great World is only one of your territories. You now have three Great Worlds and fourteen Small Worlds under your name."
"Every day, unexpected situations are as numerous as the hairs on an ox. If you investigate them one by one, how much energy and time do you have?"
Hearing this, Ma Yuxuan fell silent.
Because he realized that ruling a region was even more difficult than he had imagined.
"These matters leave you unable to take a single step because you have no capable people beneath you, no true confidants."
"If you still don't understand what a confidant is, look at Xiao Hei."
"Whatever I entrust to Xiao Hei, it handles with care and diligence."
"Even if it botches the matter, it will tell me the truth."
"And when it encounters special circumstances I never instructed it about, it still knows how I would handle them."
"Someone who handles matters wholeheartedly and earnestly, and understands your thoughts, can be called a confidant."
Upon receiving this answer, Ma Yuxuan looked up at Chen Changsheng. "Teacher, don't other great figures cultivate confidants?"
"They do!"
"Those so-called 'treacherous officials' are their confidants."
"From an outsider's perspective, those 'treacherous officials' embezzle and break the law, borrowing a tiger's might to bully others."
"But from the perspective of great figures, these 'treacherous officials' are genuinely doing things for them."
"But they're all bad people!"
"So what if they are?"
"Even an emperor does not send hungry soldiers into battle. If you don't feed those 'treacherous officials' until they're