"You worthless bastard! Spending all day taking powders and drinking, neglecting government affairs-how can someone like this serve as a county magistrate?!"
"Dismiss him! Dismiss him at once!!"
"Is Guo Yuan's grandson really such a mediocrity?!"
Cao Mao threw down the document in his hand again and said angrily.
The memorials submitted by the palace officials each day were practically endurance training for Cao Mao.
The palace officials had gone out to the various regions, and every day they sent back a wealth of news about the officials there. A single glance at these reports was enough to enrage Cao Mao.
Cao Mao considered himself a very calm person. He had been through a great deal and could control his emotions well, but that was little defense when each of these treacherous scoundrels was more hateful than the last.
Even Sima Shi would probably have leaped up in fury at the sight of memorials like these.
With a bitter expression, Zhang Hua watched the emperor fly into a thunderous rage, then took it upon himself to pick up the document Cao Mao had thrown away.
"Your Majesty... you cannot dismiss him."
"What?!"
Zhang Hua shook his head. "Your Majesty, you really cannot dismiss him."
"Although County Magistrate Guo of Fengqiu takes powders and neglects his duties, he has committed no acts such as harming the people or embezzling funds."
"Fengqiu has still achieved some results over these years..."
"If Your Majesty dismisses him, his successor might not do any better."
Hearing Zhang Hua's words, Cao Mao truly struggled to keep his composure.
It really was an age of competing to be the least rotten.
Never mind asking officials to be any good-just ask them not to be too rotten?
Yet Zhang Hua's words were not without reason. Great Wei did