Now that the Official Gazette Office has Elder Zhong keeping an eye on things over there, plus Xu Chan and the others, it no longer requires much of Chu Heng's attention.
On the contrary, at the Ministry of Industry Office there are many commercial regulations that need to be redrafted, then sent down to the localities for feedback and revision.
But drafting regulations is not the hardest part; the hardest part is enforcing them, especially in the more remote state government offices, where the darker dealings run deeper, sometimes with the entire yamen colluding to deceive their superiors and hide the truth. Some of those malignant growths, even if the imperial court knows of them, are not easily cut out.
It was precisely this sort of petty but troublesome matter that Chu Heng needed to handle.
As soon as he entered the Ministry of Industry Office, he saw a pile of government business on the desk, most of it disputes that were hard to adjudicate.
