In addition to writing memorials like writing letters, these guys will also try to send things to the capital to please Guo Peng.

For example, although Guo Peng lives a simple life, he likes to eat meat, including chicken, pork, mutton, horse, donkey meat.

Except for beef that is explicitly prohibited, he has almost no meat to eat.

Therefore, many local officials will choose to send some local meat-producing livestock with good quality to the capital and present them as tributes.

For example, chickens that are well-raised in Yuzhou, seafood from Qingzhou and Xuzhou, hybrid pigs raised in Yanzhou that are produced by hybrid pigs and wild boars, and sheep and horses from Mozhou.

In addition, there are well salt in Yizhou, citrus from Jingzhou and Yangzhou, sugarcane, fresh fish in the river, etc.

Guo Peng sent someone to investigate and learned that in order to make up for these tributes by himself, local officials would distribute these things downward, layer by layer to bottom, which put a lot of pressure on the lower-level people, so he completely stopped the delivery of tributes.

He would send people out from the inner court to buy whatever he wanted, and then rush back from the local area, not sending local officials to send them away.

He sent someone to bring money to buy it, and the cost was borne by the inner court, so as to reduce the various burdens of corvee that the lower-class people had to bear.

Even so, things that are loved by the emperor will emerge in the local area and Luoyang and become things that people like.

So for various reasons, there will always be local officials sending local fresh things to the palace in various names, and repeatedly telling them not to do such things, but they still cannot stop these officials from pleaseing the emperor in their private names.

Of course, this is also a manifestation of imperial power.

Can officials try their best to please themselves? Isn’t it just to prove how powerful they are?

Just as directly communicating with ministers through this system, this itself is also a manifestation of imperial power.

Many emperors dare not think about such a thing. He even did it. What else can I complain about?

No, you still have to complain if you should complain, and you still have to reduce the burden if you should reduce it.

His limited energy must be used where he should be used. How can he waste time chatting with these flatterers?

However, this part of the memorial was a channel for communication between the emperor and his subordinates, and as the emperor, he had to take it in his hands.

At this time, the cabinet that is not around can't join in, and the attendants in the Nan Study room nearby can use it in this place.

There are some questions that he is unhappy to deal with and those he is unhappy to reply to, so these attendants can help deal with. Anyway, they are all under their noses and are separated from him by a door, so it is quite simple to deal with.

Ask, check, and supervise at any time. Guo Peng used this method of close communication to deal with problems when he was in Jizhou.

After becoming emperor, he had to be a little distance from his ministers, so this method did not continue. However, this need was still very necessary for Mr. Guo. The establishment of the Nan Study Room was also to meet Mr. Guo's need to directly control his ministers.

It is definitely not enough for two people, and we will continue to add them later. As for who to add, we need further thinking.

Let these two people try to run and see how this mode is.

If it were good, Mr. Guo would not mind turning Nanshu into his own shadow cabinet, fighting with the real cabinet, infringing on the power of the cabinet, and avoiding the cabinet from invading the imperial power.

Zhuge Jin and Pang Tong probably didn't think of this. They probably just thought that they could get unexpected benefits when approaching the emperor, so they were ecstatic and came to Nanshu to work on duty early every day and stayed with the emperor.

Guo Peng asked them to classify the memoirs, and then took some memoirs and replied in the [sample] format given to them by Guo Peng.

That is, [I know] [I understand] [I don’t need] [Don’t say more] or something like that.

Only some truly important state affairs will be handed over to Guo Peng, and Guo Peng will make decisions in person.

During this stage, the two of them fully understood how busy Guo Peng was in daily government affairs. Sometimes they couldn't go home late at night, and Guo Peng did not fall asleep either.

About half a month later, Guo Peng asked Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin how he felt he was on duty in Nanshu.

"Your Majesty is busy with government affairs and is very hardworking for the country. I am also tired of your Majesty."

Pang Tong expressed his true feelings.

I was really tired, and I couldn't finish many things at all. Guo Peng nodded and felt quite emotional.

"There are so many government affairs that I can never handle, so I can only take a break from my busy schedule, but if there are too many government affairs, I can't even take a break from my busy schedule. I have to sit here from morning to night. Now you two are exhausted, right?"

"I'm not tired."

"It is my honor to do things for Your Majesty."

The two have very high political awareness.

"Don't say anything about honor or something, it's boring."

Guo Peng shook his head: "It's certain that you are tired, and you can't keep being tired like this. I really need more people like you around me to share government affairs for me and enter the Nanshu Study."

Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin looked at each other and began to vaguely realize that the special existence of Nanshufang was a bit unusual.

Of course not ordinary.

But they can't say where they come from.

Afterwards, Guo Peng chose Xu Shu and Shi Tao from the cabinet.

While they were holding their cabinet positions, they entered the Nanshu Room to serve on duty, assist the emperor in handling daily government affairs, and share the responsibilities for Pang Tong and Zhuge Jin.

Xu Shu, Shi Tao and Zhuge Liang are veterans who entered the Guo Wei regime at the same time. They served in the cabinet during the founding period. For more than ten years, they have become one of the group assistants and have important responsibilities.

Xu Shu and Shi Tao didn't know what was going on, so the emperor asked him to come to Nanshu to work on duty.

The four of them negotiated with each other and always had to ensure that two people would accompany the emperor to handle government affairs in the Nanshu every day.

By November of the ninth year of Yande, Guo Peng had drawn eleven officials of varying qualifications from the Cabinet, Nine Departments, Staff and other departments, including senior officials and small officials who had just become officials.

The only similar thing is that these officials have been innocent and have never been punished, and have escaped unscathed in all political storms.

Only such officials can get the opportunity to enter the Nanshu Room to serve the emperor in handling government affairs.

They all have the title of attending the Nanshufang, but their specific identity remains unchanged. They still work in the original department and are promoted. It is just the day when they go to Nanshufang to work, and they don’t work in the official office, that’s all.

If you have to say something different, it is that you have more opportunities to meet the emperor, and you can always get along with the emperor, feel the emperor's existence, and let the emperor feel their existence.

As time passed, the name Nanshufang began to slowly spread in the officialdom of Luoyang. Many people have heard the three words Nanshufang, but they don’t know what Nanshufang means or what it means.

But envy is certain, because the attendant of Nanshufang can get close to the emperor, and basically meet, get along, chat, read, or discuss government affairs every two or three days.

Or, on behalf of the emperor, go to the cabinet, go to the nine ministries, and convey the emperor's orders.

Sometimes the emperor asked them to draft edicts on their behalf and then sent them directly to the service department.

The senior officials and nobles soon noticed the existence of Nanshufang and the group of Nanshufang attendants.

This department has no fixed resident, no establishment, no official office, but just an emperor's study. The emperor works and studies here and is so simple.

Despite this, because this group of people is very close to the emperor, they are concerned and envious, and they are inquiring through various channels about the conditions and possibilities of entering the Nanshu Room to become attendants.
Chapter completed!