In the first year of Xiande in 952 A.D., at the end of December, the third army of Wu commanded Meng Xiao to conquer Mingzhou, and since then, Xiuzhou and Mingzhou have been included in the territory of Wu.

The states could not do without the history of the assassination, and Lu Yuan decided to promote Tao Rong to the history of the Mingzhou assassin and Zhang Du to the history of the Yuezhou assassin according to the merits of all the county orders under his command during this period of time.

Coupled with Kong Qian, the assassin of Muzhou, and Yin Dongyuan, the governor of Hui'an, among the two prefectures and three prefectures under Lu Yuan's jurisdiction, only Hangzhou Prefecture has no Mansion Yin.

Wende Hall, study.

Lu Yuan recently discovered one thing, since he became the king of Wu, many famous Confucian scholars began to write letters to him.

In the beginning, he would read every letter.

But later, he found that the content of the letter was basically the same, the first was to express their philosophy of governing the country, and the latter was to express their willingness to go to Wu.

It is a good thing that there are talents who recommend themselves, but these people are arrogant, and most of them are coming for the prime minister of Wu State, and those who ask for a lower level mean that Shangshu or Thorn Shi can reluctantly accept it.

Therefore, Lu Yuan did not plan to invite these big Buddhas back.

Influenced by later generations, he believed that an official's talent should be judged by the actual governance situation, and those who are well governed should be promoted, and those who are not good can be demoted to give way, so that real talents can be singled out.

In this world, there are many people who talk on paper, and he will never promote an inexperienced person to a high position unless there are special circumstances.

So later, he simply didn't read these letters, and it was safest to use the imperial examination to select talents, and he must not cut off the upward channel of those poor students.

When a country's class is stable, it is a precursor to decay, and in January next year, he plans to open the imperial examination again.

Now that Lu Yuan is in charge of five states, three of which have just been defeated, he decided to stop using troops, recuperate for a period of time, and stabilize his territory as soon as possible.

When the rule is stable and the people are well-being, we will consider the matter of expanding the territory.

To the south of the Wende Hall, in a huge building.

The piercing sound of the quarrel even reached the ears of Yuan An, who was standing outside the door, he had just gone to the Engineer Academy and had just returned to Shangshu Province.

After entering the main hall, he walked straight to the area of the household, and when he got closer, he realized that the sound of the quarrel was coming from the household.

Due to the habit he had developed for a long time, Yuan An stopped outside the door and peeked into the lobby.

There were three people in the church, two of whom he knew.

One is named Chen Mo, although he is young, but he has been said to have followed His Royal Highness King Wu very early and is currently serving as the Inspector of the Household Department.

About this person, Yuan An heard an interesting anecdote, it is said that Chen Mo had served in the army before, and later in a defeat frightened, he took the initiative to ask to be transferred to a civilian official, so he was despised by the high-level of Wu, and his promotion naturally did not give him a point.

The other person is called Tie Zheng, Yuan An doesn't know much about him, only that he has a beautiful wife, who was a close confidant of Zhang Dezhong before, and has just been promoted from a clerk to the head of the household department.

The quarrel between the two was a strange official in his forties, only to hear him say loudly: "I gave you all the official documents allocated the day before yesterday, and I have not handled it until today, and the money has not been allocated to our Guozijian until now, do you know how many children are waiting for this money to study?" ”

Chen Mo raised his eyebrows and said: "I told you, there are too many things to deal with here, and when it's your turn, we will naturally deal with it, wait patiently!" ”

"Then why did the Ministry of Industry apply only in the morning yesterday, and you transferred the money in the afternoon?" The officer questioned.

Chen Mo's face changed slightly, and he said angrily: "You are just a demoted official, don't pretend to work hard for me!" ”

Tie Zheng on the side persuaded: "Inspector Chen, why do you say such things? ”

"Why did you dare to teach me to speak as soon as you became the master?" Chen Mo said coldly.

Yuan An saw this and decided not to listen to it anymore.

He went around the circle, entered the main house through the side door, and asked a scribe to ask where the two Lang Zhong were.

At present, there are vacancies in the household department and the squire, and there are only two langzhong, one of whom is called Wang Liang, who is responsible for things like land taxation, and the other is called Wan Tianqi, who is in charge of commercial affairs.

After some inquiry, Yuan An learned that Wang Liang went to the countryside, and Wan Tianqi went to Fengming Palace, so he left the household department and went to Fengming Palace.

Although his official position is higher than Chen Mo, as a newcomer to officialdom, it is impossible for the other party to listen to him, and the best way is to find Wan Tianqi and let him solve this matter.

Fengming Hall is a small hall, located next to the Yangxin Palace, which is the place where Sun Shaoqing and Qin Youyu deal with government affairs, and the important decisions of the household department and the Privy Council will be reported here.

However, Qin Youyu was more often in the forbidden army camp in the imperial city, so most of the time in the palace was controlled by Sun Shaoqing.

Wan Tianqi is Sun Shaoqing's hand, and he has great respect for her, and he likes to run here in three days.

Yuan An made a report outside the Fengming Palace, and after getting permission, he entered the main hall, and under the leadership of a maid, he entered a study on the right.

"My subordinates meet Concubine Qing." Yuan An bowed.

"Please, in the future, this kind of kneeling will be exempted." A pleasant voice came from behind the desk.

"Xie Niangniang." Yuan An stood up, looked up and peeked up, only to see a woman in a gorgeous dress wearing a phoenix crown sitting behind the bookcase, with a beautiful appearance and a noble temperament.

He quickly withdrew his gaze, glanced around, and found Wan Tianqi sitting on a chair on the left side of the study.

He took a few steps forward and arched his hand and said, "Wan Langzhong, Inspector Chen and an official of Guozijian quarreled, you can go back and take a look." ”

"What's going on?" Sun Shaoqing frowned behind the bookcase.

"That's the ......" Yuan An said what he had just seen in a few words.

Sun Shaoqing was silent for a moment and said: "Wan Langzhong, you go back immediately to deal with this matter, and after you finish dealing with it, you will present the results, and this palace will know why the money of the Guozijian has been delayed for so long!" ”

Hearing that the concubine's tone was a little stern, Wan Tianqi hurriedly said: "The minister knows, the minister will retire first." ”

"That Weichen also retired." Yuan An arched his hand and slowly retreated.

"Wait."

"I don't know what the mother commands?" Yuan An stopped.

Sun Shaoqing smiled and asked, "I heard that you are from Japan?" ”

"Yes."

"How is your country? How does it compare to our Wu Kingdom? ”

"My hometown is an island country, and it is not as good as Wu in terms of resources, army and prosperity." Yuan An bowed his head and said.

Sun Shaoqing nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Okay, you can step down." ”

Yuan An arched his hand and exited the study.

After exiting the Fengming Palace, he suddenly noticed a carriage passing by.

He was slightly curious, stopped to look, and saw that the carriage stopped at the door of the Heart Cultivation Hall next to the Fengming Palace, and a woman stepped down from the carriage.

Could it be that she is the Yan Concubine who heard that she had fallen out of favor? Yuan Anxin thought. He didn't dare to look at it more, and walked away from Fengming Palace.

At the gate of the Heart Cultivation Palace, Su Wan got out of the carriage, and after telling the guards at the door, she entered the palace.

Seeing the wide flat ground at the entrance of the main hall, she nodded secretly, thinking that it was worthy of being the residence of the palace, and this kind of momentum was incomparable to that of Changle Houfu.

After walking a few steps, Su Liuying, who had been informed, greeted him and said happily: "Sister, you are here, come in and sit, I have made you a lot of delicious food." ”

He took her hand and walked towards the main hall.

Su Wan followed her and asked, "Sister, isn't your husband in there?" ”

"No, he's so busy, he comes back late every day."

Su Wan relaxed a little and said with a smile: "Sister, did you ask me about the things I asked me to ask?" ”

"I asked, and the prime minister said that he was busy and forgot, and he would give your subordinate the title in two days."

Su Wan glared at her and snorted: "I knew that he had forgotten, Lai Qing had the credit for dedicating the city gate, if he forgot about it like this, how wronged would it be!" ”

"No, Xianggong has just been too busy recently, and he will definitely remember it in the future." Su Liuying said with a smile.

While talking, the two entered the palace, Su Wan didn't want to sit in the hall, so she had to go to Su Liuying's room to talk, Su Liuying had no choice but to take her into her room.

The room is very richly decorated, and the area is also very large, consisting of an interconnected outer hall and an inner room.

"Do you all live here?" After Su Wan entered the outer hall, she asked while looking.

"That's right." Su Liuying pulled her to sit down at a round table inlaid with jade.

"It's really strange, my father would arrange a palace for each concubine back then, your husband has such a big palace, why is he so stingy and let you live together?" Su Wan wondered.

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