Yōngzhèng de zhūpī yǒushí bǐ dàchén de zòuzhé hái cháng.
The Yongzheng Emperor's vermilion comments were sometimes longer than his ministers' memorials.
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朱 is vermilion. Red ink was the emperor's alone; officials wrote their memorials (奏折) in black, so a red line on a document showed that the throne had read it. Red-ink notes that scholars wrote in the margins of books are also called 朱批.
