After Luo Youdu came out of the Council Hall, he returned to Kaifeng Mansion.
He asked the newly promoted Kaifeng Prefecture Courtyard Yin Ming to retrieve all the case files handled by Kaifeng Prefecture in the six months since he left.
Luo Youdu carefully read each volume, and if there were any that were properly handled, he would take them out, call the officials handling the case to him, give serious instructions and give a stern warning.
In today's world, most scholars gather in the Southern Tang and Meng Shu, and arrogant soldiers and generals are prevalent in the Central Plains.
Although it has improved a lot in the past two years, the salary of scholars is still not high.
Civil servants were extremely scarce, so it was common for an official to hold multiple positions in the temple.
But there are not many people like Luo Youdu who hold both civil and military positions.
Kaifeng Mansion manages the people's livelihood in Kaifeng, and his position is very important. With this position in hand, he can do many things.
Before Guo Rong took action to kill him, Luo Youdu did not want to cause internal instability in Kaifeng Mansion due to his own reasons, and thus lose his position as Kaifeng Mansion Judge.
Others are in Kaifeng, and with him in charge, everything will be safe.
But now he is often ordered to go on expeditions, which can take as little as half a year or as long as one or two years.
This will test the ability of the officials below.
During the six months since he was away, the problems that existed in Kaifeng Mansion can be clearly seen from the half-year files.
Sure enough, a lot of problems were discovered, and they appeared in the most critical department, the Fa Cao Department.
There are three departments of Kaifeng Prefecture: Facao, Tuiguan, and Prefecture.
Among them, there have been no changes in the promotion department over the years. Gao Ze, the promotion official, has done his duty and made no mistakes. The government department is also average. The internal fighting between Zhang Yue and Lu Bin at the beginning gave him and Yin Yide an advantage.
Although the Fuyuan Department has lost two Fuyuan, Zhang Yue's remaining team is still there, and the Fuyuan Yin Ming who came over is also very familiar with things in Kaifeng Mansion and has not been affected.
The Facao Department is different.
He was promoted too fast, and the Fa Cao tribe lost two Fa Cao soldiers in the army. At the same time, due to interests, he got rid of Lu Bin's confidants, resulting in a situation where the Fa Cao tribe was in a state of insecurity.
The Facao Department happens to be the most important of the three departments in Kaifeng Mansion. If it had not been for Cui Yan's help in the past six months, there might have been trouble.
Cui Yan, the top leader of the Kaifeng Mansion, lacks decisiveness, but he is really experienced in handling things, leaving people speechless.
But you can't let this first-in-command help your second-in-command.
In the past four months, not only the affairs of the Royal Camp Department must be properly handled, but the Kaifeng Prefecture's Law and Cao Department must also be properly handled.
"It seems that we need to go to the civil service department to see if there are any talents available. It just so happens that the Imperial Camp Department also needs a lot of civilian vacancies."
Luo Youdu muttered to himself that in addition to serving officials, there were also alternate officials in the Ministry of Personnel.
This type of alternate officials can be selected by themselves based on the circumstances of each ministry.
"Ms. sir, I'm back!"
While Luo Youdu was flipping through the files, Zhang Jin arrived outside the office in a hurry.
"come in!"
Luo Youdu put down the file in his hand and waited for news from Zhang Jin.
Zhang Jin grinned and said: "Everything is pretty much what my subordinates thought. All the big foremen at the docks have expressed their willingness to cooperate with my husband's arrangements. Not to mention five hundred people, a thousand people are willing to cooperate."
This is exactly what Luo Youdu expected.
Despite the complexity of the situation at Kaifeng Pier, various black forces are intertwined, and some even have the support of big bosses.
But Luo Youdu, the judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, defeated them to death.
No matter how clever a thief is, he can't avoid it, and he can't see the light of day.
And Kaifeng Mansion is the sky.
If nothing else, just ask those high-ranking emperors, relatives, officials, and nobles during the Renzong period of the Song Dynasty if they were afraid of a man named Yama Wang Bao.
Luo Youdu asked again: "How is the response below?"
Zhang Jin said: "My subordinates even learned about it and were extremely enthusiastic. Most of them, who risk their lives for a living, have low-level status. This can get them a household, a military household, and make them work hard. Let alone join the army normally.
, and still receive military pay and live a normal life."
"That's good!" Luo Youdu said: "Let the big foremen select 500 people. Then recruit 500 workers who voluntarily sign up according to the standards, and let them wait for notification and be ready. Only 500 people will be selected on the basis of merit.
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Luo Youdu took a piece of paper, wrote down his conditions on it, and handed it to Zhang Jin.
Zhang Jin looked at it carefully and said hesitantly: "This tests leg strength, waist strength, and how many stone bows can be fired. It is understandable, but literacy is a bit difficult. If one person out of twenty people can read ten big characters, it is pretty good."
Luo Youdu said: "It doesn't matter. Literacy is not a hard standard. It's just that literate people can lower the standard a little and have priority in admission."
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Shaanzhou.
Pan Mei said goodbye to her boss Wu Lin and quickly returned home. She saw her wife sitting on a chair with a solemn expression and said with a smile: "Hurry up and pack your bags, let's go to Beijing."
Pan Mei's wife, the Cui family, is a descendant of the daughter of the Cui family with the fifth surname, the most powerful family in the world and the head of the northern wealthy family.
However, the so-called aristocratic families with five surnames have long since perished due to party strife in the late Tang Dynasty and the weapons and cavalry of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.
The Cui family is no exception. Now they are just a small local wealthy family.
But the scenery is gone, but the remains remain.
Ms. Cui has been studying since she was a child and is full of knowledge. She is an excellent housekeeper.
Ms. Cui said worriedly: "Now that the military officials are in power, is it worth offending those military ministers in order not to offend Mr. Luo?"
Pan Mei said: "Madam, have you read the letter from your husband?"
Mrs. Cui's face turned red and she said, "I did not deliberately peek into Pan Lang's letter. I found it on the ground and saw it unintentionally."
Pan Mei remembered that she was too happy to see the content of the letter, so she put it on the table and said goodbye to Wu Lin.
I think it's because of the wind.
He smiled and said: "You and I are husband and wife, and we have no intention of hiding it from the madam. When the madam said this, she obviously underestimated the husband. If the gentleman was really a narrow-minded person, he would not have made the powerful relationship so clear.
, just deceived me directly. He was honest with me and obviously let me make my own decision. Mr. is open-minded, and even if I choose to stay in Shaanzhou, he will not blame me."
"The choice to go is my personal choice."
Pan Mei stepped forward and picked up Mrs. Cui's hands and said: "This letter seems to be quite sinister, but from my husband's point of view, it is not. My husband respects the two people most in his life. One of them is the current official family. The official family is still here.
When I was staying at the residence, my husband was fortunate enough to become an official's attendant. He received guidance from the officials and learned a lot. The second one is my husband. I didn't get to know him for a long time, but I saw how he behaved.
The feeling, even for people who are terminally ill, is truly astonishing. One night of conversation is better than ten years of studying."
"How can a mere warrior stop something that even officials and gentlemen think is right?"
"Right now, you are short of manpower, but judging from the number of people you have, if I don't leave earlier, my position will be occupied by others."
"It will be too late to regret it by then."
Mrs. Cui hurriedly said: "That being the case, why don't you go ahead? I will sort out everything at home and come later."