Of course, there were also official documents and letters that made her particularly happy—for example, people submitting memorials proposing to grant her the Nine Bestowments, and others considerately listing out all sorts of items, feeling that all these wonderful treasures ought to be rewarded to her.
Zhao Hanzhang read them with great interest; she was quite delighted while reading, then closed the memorial and tossed it aside, onto the same pile as the memorials proposing that the emperor perform the Heaven‑worship ceremony.
Grant what Nine Bestowments? Don't they know that these honors, at this stage, will only inflame conflicts, intensify struggles, and waste manpower and resources?
Those treasures were indeed nice, but who knows where they've drifted off to because of the war. The state treasury is in her hands now—if there were money she could use, would she really not use it?
