Chapter 318
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Chapter 318: An Unexpected Encounter
Meanwhile, Luo Ji, after Shen Jun had left, felt a distinct physical discomfort as he leaned back in his chair.
“He Liang…”
“Your Majesty?!”
The guard, whose name was He Liang, felt a sudden panic at Luo Ji’s pale face.
“Go fetch a doctor. Remember not to be too conspicuous, understand?”
“Your subordinate understands!”
After responding, the guard, He Liang, hurriedly rushed towards the medical department.
The person who came was Zhang Sheng, the head of the medical department, arguably the most experienced person in the medical department at the moment.
After a careful diagnosis of Luo Ji, Zhang Sheng breathed a slight sigh of relief.
“Your Majesty, you are overworked. If this continues, I fear it will lead to illness from exhaustion. You must recuperate and rest for a while.”
“Recuperate and rest for a while?”
Luo Ji muttered this sentence with a subtle tone.
“I also need to be able to rest.”
Hearing this, Zhang Sheng’s face also showed a bitter smile.
He, of course, understood how busy their Emperor’s governmental affairs were.
The entire Myriad Worlds Civilization was currently developing at high speed.
How many important reports awaited his review every day?
How many important decisions awaited his making?
On this matter, even the usually stubborn Zhang Sheng had to make concessions.
“But at least, please Your Majesty rest well for 2 days first. Then, this old subject will prescribe some medicine for Your Majesty to slowly recuperate for a while. It should improve.”
“Let’s do that for now.”
Luo Ji nodded. If it was just 2 days of rest, he should still be able to manage.
“Remember not to spread word about this matter.”
“This old subject understands.”
After Zhang Sheng left, Luo Ji looked at the remaining few reports on his desk, all marked yellow.
According to previous arrangements, reports of this level were to be personally reviewed by him, but he simply didn’t have the energy today.
After pondering for a while, he decided to hand them over to his two secretaries to handle.
As for himself, after eating some light food, he went to bed early to rest.
Having decided to rest for 2 days, Luo Ji slept until noon, a rare occurrence.
Yet, he still didn’t feel fully rested. But Luo Ji knew he couldn’t keep sleeping.
The accumulated mental fatigue over a long period truly couldn’t be eliminated with just one sleep.
Casually draping a black silk robe over himself, Luo Ji asked Liu Ye to bring some food.
After a simple lunch and drinking the medicinal soup that Zhang Sheng had sent, Luo Ji stretched, planning to go out for a stroll, get some fresh air, and relax his mind, which would also help alleviate his mental fatigue.
He definitely couldn’t go to crowded places, so Luo Ji chose Mirror Lake as his place to relax.
This month happened to be the closed fishing season.
After prohibiting the fishing teams from fishing extensively, there were basically no people to be seen on Mirror Lake.
It was quite peaceful.
Thus, Luo Ji lay on the raft with his legs crossed, letting the raft drift on the lake.
A fishing rod was set up beside him, and he didn’t care if any fish bit, he was simply pursuing this state and ambiance.
In fact, the fishing rod was indeed forgotten by him.
Luo Ji, lying on the raft at this time, habitually played with his Black Jade Carp, while his mind inevitably pondered development matters.
This was unavoidable. Years of professional habits truly couldn’t be changed just like that.
However, the matters he was pondering at this moment weren’t too complicated.
Simply put, it was about the classification of reports.
Initially, he had divided reports into 5 levels based on color: green, blue, yellow, orange, and red, with green being the lightest and red the most severe.
Luo Ji originally thought 5 classifications would be enough, but recently, he increasingly felt that this classification was not rigorous enough.
Take, for instance, reports marked as yellow.
Within this level, some matters genuinely required Luo Ji’s personal review, while other matters were not that important, and his two secretaries could completely handle them.
Therefore, ultimately, the 5 levels of classification were not rigorous enough.
Some reports with subtle level judgments were categorized into this middle level.
Thus, a thought struck Luo Ji, and he planned to use Arabic numerals later to divide the importance of document reports into 1 to 10 levels, with level 1 being the most important and level 10 the lightest.
As for what level of importance corresponds to what kind of matter, Luo Ji would have to meticulously define that later.
At the same time, the authority of the branch city lords of each city and his secretaries, regarding what level of documents and reports they could handle, also needed careful consideration.
Furthermore, after this incident, Luo Ji also more clearly realized that he needed to take care of his body.
After coming to this other world, perhaps because he had fought more battles, his body had also become stronger, he had barely fallen ill.
It was precisely because of this that he had become careless, and this time, he almost fell ill from overwork, which served as a wake-up call.
Although as the Emperor, he basically had a huge number of matters waiting for him to handle every day, if he truly dedicated himself to them, he estimated he would have to work 365 days a year, without a single day off.
But he was not a machine made of iron.
He hadn’t paid much attention before, but this time, he was determined to establish a fixed rest day for himself.
Not only for him, but also for his branch city lords and city defense generals under him, and their rest days also needed to be properly arranged.
12 months in a year, minus some holidays he set himself, working for half a month and resting for 1 day, that shouldn’t be too much, right?
However, what Luo Ji didn’t know was that as early as the Western Han Dynasty in his Celestial Dynasty, officials had a system of ‘resting every 5 days,’ which was changed to ‘resting every 10 days,’ by the Tang Dynasty.
To put it bluntly, it was the difference between ‘working 4 days and resting 1 day within 5 days’ and ‘working 9 days and resting 1 day within 10 days.’
Compared to the systems of these two dynasties, he, working half a month for only 1 day of rest, was truly much more diligent.
However, as Luo Ji was pondering this, with a soft thump, the raft, which seemed to have collided with something, suddenly swayed, knocking his fishing rod crooked.
Before he could look up, a gentle voice, tinged with a bit of panic, reached Luo Ji’s ears.
“This is my first time navigating this raft. I apologize for disturbing you, sir!”
Hearing this voice, Luo Ji instinctively got up and turned his head, looking in the direction of the sound.
Immediately, a white-robed young master, holding a long pole and looking quite disheveled, appeared in his sight.
