"By the Mandate of Heaven, the Emperor proclaims."
With the princes standing in front and the civil and military officials bowing their heads in attention, Zhang Sheng stood at the very front holding the imperial edict and read aloud in a clear voice:
"For twenty years, We have acted in accordance with the Mandate of Heaven to guide the realm, laboring day and night with utmost diligence for state affairs without the slightest slackness, fearing always to show disrespect to High Heaven. Over these past twenty years, under the protection of the heavens and with monarch and ministers of one heart, the Holy Dynasty has enjoyed favorable weather, national peace, and people's livelihood, with secure borderlands—truly a golden age. The people of the realm hail Us as Ten Thousand Years, yet how can there truly be a person of ten thousand years?"
Chapter 54