Zhong Hui walked with them all the way to the Imperial Academy gates before bidding them farewell and leaving.
Watching Zhong Hui depart, Pan Yue could not help saying, "Lord Zhong is a true famous scholar. Even toward juniors like us, he is so warm and courteous, so caring and considerate. He never looked down on us for our youth. He truly is a model for us all!"
Xiahou Zhan nodded as well. "Lord Zhong certainly treats people well."
Chen Zhi's eyes were full of disbelief.
Were we talking about the same person??
Zhong Hui was warm and courteous? Caring and considerate?
How did I not know that?
Zhong Hui rode toward his own mansion, his carriage filled with memorials and documents.
Because he had so many matters to handle each day, yet was unwilling to miss these activities, he had turned his carriage into a temporary study.
He often dealt with important affairs in his carriage.
Zhong Hui was currently helping the emperor implement the rewarded fields edict and the land-occupation edict.
These two laws, coming one after the other, could well be said to be wringing the life out of the great clans.
The reason powerful hereditary families could become what they were was that their status as officials sheltered them, exempting them from taxes. Then they began frantically annexing other cultivated land, growing ever wealthier.
But now that this privilege had been broken, they were all at a loss.
Many people were responsible for this matter.
Among them were Wei Guan, Zhang Hua, and even Lu Zhi, Du Yu, and others.
But Zhong Hui had always regarded himself as the man actually in charge. In his eyes, all these people were "working" for him.
When Zhong Hui arrived at his mansion, he saw the disciple he had