Chapter 430

I do not know since when Zhou Wenqian grew increasingly terrified of attending court, even finding the desk laden with memorials a daunting sight. Every single one of those mountain-like memorials carried contents that left him distressed, irritable, and unsettled. Some memorials fiercely accused him of failing to provide adequate support to the border regions and delaying military opportunities; others wrote with bitter grief that the national treasury was already empty, making it difficult to sustain the expenses of the ensuing war.