Winter in the north is extremely unfriendly to the elderly. Every winter, there will be a peak period for the elderly to die, especially when the end of the year is approaching, many elderly people die in groups. Therefore, every winter is a gate of hell for the elderly. Many elderly people will prepare coffins for themselves before winter begins.

After Lao Zhu's seventyth birthday, his children and grandchildren who came from afar also left one after another, and his health was getting worse day by day, and even his spirit became weaker. Sometimes he was talking to others, but suddenly he fell asleep, and even this happened when he went to court.

Everyone saw that Lao Zhu's body was no longer as good as before, which made the court rush undercurrents for a while. However, no one dared to have any abnormal movements when Lao Zhu's previous prestige, but instead caused a strange calm in the court.

Early that morning, Li Jie went to the palace to meet Zhu Biao. Recently, Zhu Biao was almost all the government affairs in the court, but Zhu Biao was not in good health, so Zhu Biao asked Li Jie to enter the palace to help him handle some government affairs. Of course, Zhu Yunyu and Zhu Yunwen were also there. It can be said that in order to replace Lao Zhu, Zhu Biao called all his sons and sons-in-law to help.

When Li Jie came to Wenhua Hall, Zhu Yunyu and Zhu Yunwen were already here. Zhu Biao also sat in his seat to process the memorials in his hand. When he saw Li Jie coming in, he just stretched out his hand. There was a seat next to him empty, and there were a lot of memorials piled up on the table. This was the task Zhu Biao gave Li Jie.

Li Jie didn't say nonsense either. He greeted Zhu Yunyu and sat down, and then began to deal with the piled up memorials. However, the more he dealt with Li Jie, the more desperate he was, because most of the matters in these memorials were small matters, such as a certain yamen applying for a silver, an official's performance appraisal, etc.

These things are actually trivial things for an empire, and at least one emperor does not need to worry about them personally. However, when Lao Zhu was in power, these things must be approved by him personally so that he can control all aspects of the empire and thus monopolize the power.

In fact, Lao Zhu did a pretty good job. He was already very energetic and was quick and accurate in handling government affairs. Therefore, no matter how complicated government affairs were, they could quickly come to the results. The people below only need to follow Lao Zhu's approval to execute.

It was precisely Lao Zhu's extraordinary energy that caused this wonder. He captured all the big and small things in the court, and even Lao Zhu killed the prime minister in the end, and he took the prime minister's work into his arms. Anyway, he was extremely energetic and could handle these matters completely.

But now Lao Zhu is not energetic now, and the affairs in the court are suddenly pressed on Zhu Biao. In fact, it cannot be said that. Zhu Biao has been helping Lao Zhu handle government affairs before, but most of them are handled by Lao Zhu himself. Now all these affairs have fallen on Zhu Biao, and Zhu Biao's body cannot bear it.

So in this situation, Zhu Biao had to call Li Jie and the other three to help. Even so, the work efficiency of the four people was not as good as that of Zhu, especially Zhu Yunsheng and Zhu Yunwen were completely newbies. Li Jie was a little better than them, but it was also very limited. After all, these matters were too complicated and ordinary novices were confused at all.

What makes people even more desperate is that every one or two hours, new memorials will be sent, so the memorials in front of Li Jie and the other two are piled up more and more, and there is no downward trend at all.

"Father, this can't be done. If we just deal with it, these government affairs will probably never be handled!" In the end, Zhu Yunxiu couldn't help but stand up and said. He suddenly doubted his decision. If he had to deal with so many affairs as an emperor, he might as well not compete with Zhu Yunwen for the throne.

"Father, I think this is not a solution. Moreover, there are so many ministers in the court, and the court raises them not for nothing, so they should also let them do something practical!" Zhu Yunwen also agreed with Zhu Yunxi's words very rarely.

When Zhu Biao heard this, he put down the brush in his hand, then moved his stiff neck with difficulty, and then sighed helplessly: "That's the case, but your grandfather was handling government affairs like this. When I came to me, I couldn't give it to others, right?"

In fact, Zhu Biao was also very confused. As the eldest son, his father's health was getting worse and worse. Of course, he had to take over the heavy responsibilities of his father, and he had to show his abilities. He could not make others feel that his abilities were too poor. However, now he also felt that the burden on his father was too heavy, and he couldn't bear it, but he was embarrassed to say it out of his face.

"Your Highness, your health is not good, and overwork is a taboo. In addition, Yun Ying and the others are too young and have never really been in contact with government affairs before. Now they are suddenly indirectly taking over these things, and they are all in a hurry. The most important thing is that we handle it so slowly. If we delay government affairs, it may cause some unnecessary losses." Li Jie also persuaded at this time.

"This..." Zhu Biao also showed a hesitant look after hearing this. In fact, he knew that he could not continue like this. He just wanted to make a hesitant expression for face. After a while, he pretended to sigh, "What you said makes sense, let's do this. Let's meet your father later and ask him what he thinks about this!"

"That's great. Father, you should have done this long ago. I believe Grandpa Emperor definitely doesn't want to exhaust you!" Zhu Yunxiu said excitedly again when he heard this. Even Zhu Yunwen next to him smiled relaxedly when he heard this.

"Don't be too happy too early. Although it's my fault to let you deal with so many government affairs this time, you two are not young anymore. In the future, I will assign you some things within your ability to see how you perform!" Zhu Biao suddenly spoke to his two sons again.

Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Yunwen were all shocked after hearing this. Zhu Biao asked them to start contacting government affairs. This was actually a test for them. After all, Lao Zhu's health was getting worse and worse, and the days when Zhu Biao ascended the throne were probably not far away, so he also had to make plans for the next prince. However, the candidate for this prince has not been determined yet. Whoever it was depends on their own performance.

After Zhu Biao taught his two sons a lesson, he seemed to think of something again. After he hesitating for a while, he finally picked up a memorial from his desk and handed it to Li Jie and said, "This is the news just sent by Taiyuan. You can take a closer look!"
Chapter completed!