This banquet was very unproductive because from the beginning, the theme of this banquet was for Chang Yao and others to flatter Lu Xu.
After that day, Lu Xu was ready to leave Qinzhou Mansion. Wen Yuanzhong moved very quickly, just as Lu Xu expected, before Lu Xu and others left Qinzhou Mansion, Ma Xingzhou and others were escorted into the
Beijing.
Lu Xu had never heard of such efficiency, let alone seeing it. To be precise, he had never heard of it since he came to Daliang.
As far as Lu Xu knew, Wen Yuanzhong arrested more than 40 officials suspected of reselling military supplies this time. Such punishments are not insignificant.
But his gain was also very great. Many of Lu Xu and other rural soldiers and generals witnessed these people being escorted out of the city. At least Wen Yuanzhong successfully established in their minds the impression that national laws cannot be violated lightly.
For Wen Yuanzhong, it was considered a success.
Of course, for those vested interests hiding behind Wen Yuanzhong, it can be considered a success.
It's just that these have nothing to do with Lu Xu. Wen Yuanzhong's butcher knife can scare others, but it can't scare Lu Xu.
It happened that Yaya's body had recovered, so he and Yaya hurried back to Xinanzhai.
After entering Xin'an Village, Lu Xu returned to his official residence first. After all, he had a child with him, and Yaya was too young, so she needed someone to take care of her at all times.
Lu Xu can go to work first, but he can't leave Yaya behind. Besides, his preparations for the war have basically been completed, and there is nothing urgent for him to deal with now, so he is ready to
Go ahead and make arrangements for Yaya.
When Wen Yueqi saw Lu Xu coming back with a little girl, her eyes lit up!
Lu Xu saw stars shining in Wen Yueqi's eyes as she looked at Yaya. Lu Xu felt that she didn't need to worry about Wen Yueqi thinking too much.
Wen Yueqi said in a more artificial childlike voice than Lu Xu: "Hey, who are you? What's your name? Why did you come to my house?"
Lu Xu couldn't stand it anymore. He pulled Wen Yueqi and said: "Her name is Yaya, she has no name. I rescued her on the way to Qinzhou Mansion this time. There is no one at home. I think she is really pitiful."
, I just want to take her back and adopt her as an adopted daughter."
Wen Yueqi nodded: "This is a good thing."
With that said, Wen Yueqi pinched Yaya's cheek again: "Yaya, from now on you will be my child, okay?"
Yaya said in a sweet voice: "Okay!"
Now the big stone in Lu Xu's heart was completely put to the ground. Wen Yueqi agreed to put Yaya in her name, so the matter would be easier to handle.
Lu Xu pulled Yaya and said, "Yaya, since we are all a family, then you..."
Before Lu Xu finished speaking, Wen Yueqi slapped Lu Xu on the back of the head.
Lu Xu, who was beaten, looked confused: "What are you doing?"
Unexpectedly, Wen Yueqi stared at her big eyes and asked, "What are you doing?"
Lu Xu was even more confused: "What didn't I want to do?"
Wen Yueqi pointed at Lu Xu and said, "Stop pretending! I don't know you yet? Do you want Yaya to change her words?"
Lu Xu said matter-of-factly: "Yes!"
Wen Yueqi twisted Lu Xu's arm bitterly, which was so painful that Lu Xu almost gasped.
He grinned and asked, "What are you doing? Why are you pinching me?"
Wen Yueqi twisted Lu Xu's ears and pulled Lu Xu to her mouth and said, "If you ask someone to change their story just after a family member died, are you still not a human being? We'll talk about the change of story later."
have to!
Wen Yueqi had already said this, what else could Lu Xu do? After all this, he became the worst person in the family.
With no choice, Lu Xu could only coax the new mother and daughter to play. But soon, Lu Xu found that he had become the unnecessary person in the family.
After Yaya came, Lu Xu no longer had a place in Wen Yueqi's eyes. As soon as she hugged Yaya for a while, Wen Yueqi felt that Lu Xu was an eyesore, so Wen Yueqi simply kicked Lu Xu out and let her go.
He went to work.
Lu Xu: "..."
Lu Xu, who was messy in the wind, took a long time to recover from the fact that his wife had kicked him out of the house.
Lu Xu had no choice but to go to work obediently. By the time he arrived at his yamen, Li Changqing and Han Laoliu were already very familiar with each other.
Regarding the arrival of these two people, Han Laoliu was happy from the bottom of his heart.
It was really not easy for Han Laoliu during this time. He was originally a craftsman. Lu Xu asked him to be the head of the store, which was a bit of a rush.
But later, after Lu Xu started building Xin'an Village, all civil affairs work related to Xin'an Village fell on Han Laoliu's shoulders.
It's a pity that Han Laoliu is so old. In order to handle official duties efficiently, he has to learn to read and write from the gentlemen of the Liu family.
Fortunately, Han Laoliu's brain is relatively good, and with the help of the Liu family, Han Laoliu can barely cope now.
But Han Laoliu has been worried during this period. In peacetime, his ability is only barely enough. When the war begins, his ability may not be enough.
This time Lu Xu went out and brought back Li Changqing for him, which made Han Laoliu feel that the burden on his shoulders was much lighter.
He is not worried at all whether Li Changqing has evil intentions. Lu Xu is a modern person after all. Although his Xin'an Village still uses the Yamen of Daliang, this is Lu Xu's territory after all, and Lu Xu's subtle influence
Next, Xinanzhai has begun to initially establish a civil service system.
Of course, here in Xinanzhai we cannot call them civil servants, they should be called officials.
Although modern people always use the same name as officials when talking about the ancient official system, but in fact officials are two completely different people.
Most of the officials are floating officials, who are airborne officials from above. They will always leave their respective places in the future.
But officials are often native-born locals. Regardless of whether the officials above them leave or not, they will most likely stay in this position for the rest of their lives and even for their descendants.
In ordinary yamen, the people who really do things are also officials. It is precisely because of these officials that those officials in ancient times who were indifferent to grain and industrious would not bring down the local civil affairs.
Lu Xu further strengthened the authority of the officials based on the actual situation in Xinanzhai. In fact, he did not do anything. He just instilled a concept into his subordinates, that is, everyone only needs to deal with Lu Xu.
Just be responsible.
Now Lu Xu has no way to make the officials understand what it means to serve the people, so let them all serve themselves. Anyway, as long as Lu Xu can still serve the people, there won't be much difference in the results.
Because of this system, both Han Laoliu and Lu Xu believed that no matter how much authority Lu Xu gave Li Changqing, he could only serve Lu Xu.
But to Lu Xu's surprise, when Lu Xu came this time, Han Laoliu actually told Lu Xu something that Lu Xu didn't expect!