Half a month later, the two ministers from the Ministry of Justice returned one after another. Their disaster relief work had gone quite well. Zhu Jie offered a few casual words of praise, though his heart wasn't really in it; in his view, the sudden blizzard had drained a massive amount of silver from the national treasury, and even his personal coffers had been tapped.
He was deeply displeased by this.
"The three of you have done well; I am very gratified." Zhu Jie was still calculating what rewards to bestow. The treasury was currently empty, yet the rewards couldn't be too shabby, lest he lose face as the Emperor.
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