Volume 3 Chapter 13

"The imperial edicts are all drafted. Do you take Me for such a muddle-headed emperor who treats everything as a game?" He said this while naturally placing a dish into her bowl. "Didn't Xiaoru say that unjustly detaining officials is just something done in the Imperial Prison? I have instructed Longyang to take all the imperial physicians from the Imperial Hospital to go door to door, taking pulses and leaving prescriptions, and I will cover the medicine costs. With such painstaking care in bestowing medical treatment and medicine, let's see what fault they can possibly find."

She looked at the food bestowed upon her by Your Majesty, pushing aside her strange emotions. For Your Majesty to seize actual power under the pretext of treating subordinate officials with rites was indeed a brilliant move, but power and practical governance were, after all, inextricably linked. The political reforms were domestic policies that Your Majesty had been pushing nationwide ever since ascending the throne, involving land, fertile fields, military control, and all sorts of aspects, which had always been firmly controlled by Prime Minister Li alone. Even her White Lotus father, though disliking Prime Minister Li's overbearing and autocratic conduct, praised the new reforms endlessly and had no choice but to submit to them. "Yet, Lord Long's words are not without reason. The various Commander Mansions of Dongxu Mansion can naturally handle their respective posts, but as for the positions of Chief Counselor and Prime Minister... Does Your Majesty truly intend to have Young Master fill in for the Prime Minister's post?"

"Prime Minister Father is ill, is he not? A son sharing his father's worries fulfills both loyalty and filial piety. How wonderful." He once again naturally passed a bowl in front of her. Seeing her at a loss, he lifted his