Liu Bei was quite happy that Lu Zhi was willing to join the involution. However, he considered that Lu Zhi was already in his fifties, and his energy and body were far inferior to those of young people. He was worried about his illness, so he persuaded Lu Zhi many times.
Go back and rest early.
Why do you, a middle-aged and elderly person, get involved in the affairs of young people?
But Lu Zhi really got into it.
He insisted on continuing to discuss government affairs with Liu Bei, make decisions, and share the pressure for Liu Bei. If Liu Bei did not get off work, he would not get off work.
He said this was the working environment he had dreamed of for a long time. He was happy, energetic and not tired at all.
"Seeing you working so hard for the affairs of the Han Dynasty, how can I turn a blind eye even if I have no real power? Rather than letting you be exhausted, it is better to let me, an old guy, be exhausted. I can't leave everything to you.
, I just sit back and enjoy it?"
"Today's imperial court is the best imperial court I could ever imagine. How can I sit idly by if my long-cherished wish comes true?"
Lu Zhi cheered up and said - come on, give me more files, I can still read them!
Facing the energetic and excited Lu Zhi, Liu Bei had no choice but to agree to him and show him the files he wanted.
Huang Wan, who originally planned to watch the whole thing, could theoretically stay aloof from the incident. Liu Bei did not intend to torment him, but only tormented the young officials under his jurisdiction.
Huang Wan watched the people around him being captured by Liu Bei one after another to be used as coolies. Seeing that he was the only one still leisurely living in Taichang Mansion, the strange feeling in his heart became more and more obvious.
It seemed like he was being squeezed out.
Everyone around him was talking about state affairs, discussing what to do, and then running away while cursing.
Everyone else had things to do and were running around like crazy, but he was the only one sitting there all day long with a glass of water and a book.
Loneliness, loneliness, anxiety.
All kinds of emotions swept through his heart, exacerbating his mental internal friction.
I was excluded.
I'm isolated.
I have been forgotten by everyone.
This feeling……
It’s so uncomfortable!
In the end, Huang Wan could not hold on and was swept away by the involution frenzy.
He took the initiative to join the service team and asked Liu Bei to share some affairs - give me something to do, no matter what it is, give me something to do, otherwise, I will go crazy.
A few months ago, Huang Wan would have thought that such a thing was a fantasy. It must be a good thing to be able to get such a generous salary without doing anything?
But when this matter really appeared in front of him, he realized that as long as Liu Bei was here, nothing was impossible, and he was just an ordinary person.
He couldn't sit still, he couldn't stand it, he couldn't calm down, and he was about to be driven crazy.
So he was assigned by Liu Bei the task of connecting with Cao Cao in Yin, Henan, and was mainly responsible for feedback and statistics on the slave resettlement work in Yin, Henan, as well as the handling of emergencies.
When he encounters something that needs to be handled on-site, he has to go on a business trip and leave Luoyang City to do things.
With inexplicable excitement, Huang Wan plunged into the involution frenzy and began a career that would never return.
In the month with the heaviest workload, Huang Wan only returned home once and rested for half a day.
That day, he stayed up all night to supervise the transportation matters of Henan Yin Warehouse. In the early morning, he couldn't hold on anymore. After finishing the work, he went home, took a shower and slept.
I woke up at noon, had a meal at home, visited my younger son who was still asleep, and then went back to the government office to work overtime in the afternoon.
Mrs. Huang brought a bowl of chicken soup to Huang Wan, and then complained that Liu Bei was unkind.
"Recently, I heard that many people did not go home for ten days and a half in a row. My family members were worried to death. The general also really thought, where did so many things come from? I haven't been home for a while. Come back to rest.
How many days?"
Huang Wan shook his head while drinking the soup.
"There are really a lot of things going on. The general did not do it deliberately. In the past few days, a batch of grain will be transferred from Henan to Bingzhou. Bingzhou is still short of food. The official in charge of this matter from Cao Mengde fell ill. In a while,
I can't find anyone to take charge, so I have to keep an eye on it.
The people below are careless and unreliable. If something goes wrong and there is a lack of food, no one can afford it. I slept for a while. Cao Mengde was watching over there in person. I had to rush over as soon as possible to hand over to him. He would still be there in the afternoon.
I have to go to Yingchuan and I can’t wait too long.”
"Where did so many things come from? It was never like this before."
Mrs. Huang wiped Huang Wan's mouth with some distress.
Huang Wan smacked his lips and smiled bitterly for a while.
"Perhaps this is the reason why the power of the Han Dynasty was declining day by day? I don't know if I don't do it, but I was shocked when I did it. It turns out that the court had so many things that were left unfinished, and there were even more things that were done in a mess.
It’s a problem, we need to catch them all and deal with them again, alas…”
With that said, Huang Wan stood up.
"After handling this matter, I have to go to Hongnong County. There are some things that need to be dealt with there. Don't wait for me to go home in the next few days. You can take care of yourselves."
After saying that, Huang Wan trotted away from home.
On the grain transportation road outside Luoyang City, Huang Wan and Cao Cao, who had a fairy-like face, completed the handover. Cao Cao hurriedly drove to Yingchuan County - Yingchuan County released a large number of slaves, and a considerable number of them were released by Liu Bei.
He was assigned to settle in the Yin jurisdiction of Henan Province.
During the slave restriction operation, the Yin-controlled areas in Henan cracked down on local tyrants more vigorously and released a large amount of high-quality farmland. Liu Bei instructed that all of it must be utilized and not an inch of land should be wasted.
One of the subordinates who had been responsible for the handover was sick and injured. Cao Cao couldn't worry about the others, so he had to go into battle and hand over in person.
He is much busier than Huang Wan.
At dusk, Huang Wan finally completed this task. As soon as he submitted the report and returned to Taichang Mansion to take a breath, Liu Bei came with an urgent order.
Liu Bei asked the Taichang Mansion to immediately send people to Henan County to handle the local slave resettlement work. It was said that there were some minor problems with the local slave resettlement work. The General's Mansion needed to know the specific situation as soon as possible without delay, so as not to cause a civil commotion.
At that time, no one in Taichang Mansion had any free time. When Huang Wan saw that everyone around him had dark circles under his eyes and looked like a fairy, and there were piles of bamboo slips in front of him, he knew that they all had no strength.
So he drank a glass of water, took the initiative to take over the matter, and then quickly left Luoyang City before the curfew in Luoyang and sped towards Henan County.
Except for that half-day, for a month, Huang Wan spent all his time running around Luoyang City, or on the way to a business trip, where he became darker and thinner.
Very tired, very tired, but...
My heart felt inexplicably happy.
In this month, he had done eighteen things, large and small. Whenever he was almost too tired to bear it, as soon as a new task came, another force would surge into his heart, allowing him to persist in doing things.
He himself felt strange about this situation.
Not only Huang Wan, but many officials themselves also have a strange feeling. They should hate such tiring things, but the interesting thing is that after receiving feedback on the things they have accomplished, there will always be people from the General's Palace.
Bringing "praise from the general himself".
Some verbal praise, or some small rewards from the general himself, some pastries, some small desserts, a small drink and the like - it is said that these are top-notch snacks and sweet drinks that can only be enjoyed by the emperor.
It's really high-end and tastes great.
So every time they completed something and received feedback from the General's Mansion, they felt inexplicably satisfied.
As time went by, some veteran bureaucrats couldn't even figure out whether they resented Liu Bei more or whether they loved Liu Bei deeply.