Liu Ruyan's presence in Wuyi is actually very low.

When she was a girl, she lived in Wuyi for two periods, the earliest of which was as a prisoner, and she was not known to outsiders at all. The second time was that Li Ze, in order to grasp Liu Chenglin's weakness, sent an army to Shiyi and invited all their families over. But even during this period of time, she spent most of her time in the Li family's compound, and spent more time with Mrs. Wang a day.

It was also during this period of time that Mrs. Wang fell in love with her completely and had the idea of marrying her into the family as a daughter-in-law, of course, Mrs. Wang's idea was also strongly supported by Cao Xin, Tu Lichun and other Li Ze's henchmen at that time.

Love is naturally not a factor considered by Cao Xin and these people, Liu Ruyan is not beautiful, it is meaningless to them, of course it is better to be beautiful, fair lady, gentleman is good, but even if it is not beautiful, it doesn't matter. A man, especially a man like Li Ze, should naturally marry a wife and a virtuous man, and naturally marry a woman who is helpful to his great cause.

Liu Ruyan was the most suitable candidate at that time.

Marrying Liu Ruyan is equivalent to taking down Liu Chenglin, a fierce general, and taking the land of Jingzhou, which is extremely important to Li Ze Group at that time.

Later, Liu Ruyan became Li Ze's wife.

But their wedding was held in Chang'an, and after they got married, Liu Ruyan has also been living in Chang'an.

For the people of Wuyi, Liu Ruyan, the housewife, is unfamiliar. Just a symbol of existence.

But Xia He is different.

Since the beginning of Li Ze's business, Xia He has been by Li Ze's side, never left, with Li Ze's rising power, Xia He's power is getting bigger and bigger, and now the courtyard of the branch is the most influential place in Wuyi.

The officials under Li Ze's rule were familiar with Xia He, and privately called her the goddess of wealth, because Xia He's degree branch held all the financial power under Wuyi's rule. The annual budget review is a threshold for every local official.

The budget at the beginning of the year indicates that the year will be good.

The year-end review represents whether your performance is excellent, average, or poor, and these evaluations have a great impact on the promotion of officials.

This small courtyard not only controls the finances of the entire Wuyi, but also continues to cultivate batches of the latest financial officials, and the financial training received by these officials is completely different from the set mastered by those old officials in the past, and these people, without a doubt, can be regarded as Xia He's protégés. As these people took office one by one in various places and mastered the financial power of various places, Xia He's strength was, in the eyes of many of them, quite terrifying.

Even if she didn't have a single soldier in her hands, she could easily make Wu Wei's entire rule thunder.

Xia He is definitely a political oligarch under Li Ze in Wuwei Festival Town. Other officials, whether civil officials or military generals, are all controlled by each other, but in terms of financial power, Xia He has no one to restrain them.

This is naturally abnormal, but in Wuwei, no one has said anything about it. There is no other reason, just because Xia He is Li Ze's wife, and she is the person who has followed Li Ze the longest. Even a person like Tu Lichun can't be compared with Xia He.

Of course, for these officials, they are not worried about what will happen in the future, because after Xia He, it is absolutely impossible for such a figure to appear again. No matter who is the next person to hold the wealth and power of Wuwei, he will not be able to have the power and authority of Xia He.

Under the rule of Wu Wei, there were actually two sets of supervision systems, one belonged to the bureaucratic system of the Eight Classics, and the other was from the Yixing Society under the control of Yang Kai.

If the supervision system on the official side is sometimes emotional, and likes to turn big things into small things and small things, then the supervision system on the side of Yixing Society likes to get to the bottom of it the most. The officials in charge of these affairs in the Yixing Society are basically from the lowest level, and they hate the corruption of officials the most.

But these two systems are ineffective for Xia He. If Xia He retires one day, the successor will not be able to bypass the supervision of this system no matter what.

Just as the common people in the imperial capital like to talk about politics and think that they know everything, the common people of Wuyi now have such a unique characteristic that ordinary people in other places cannot learn.

Their news is naturally the most well-informed, because Wuyi is the place where officials under Wuwei come and go the most, even if it is the most humble teahouse in Wuyi, maybe at some point, there will be some officials with important tasks, and after their inadvertent words are passed out, they will be automatically made up by the brain, and all kinds of gossip will be formed, which will be circulated in the community.

Of course, most of these rumors are unreliable, but occasionally there are one or two bombshell news that are later confirmed. And these things, which could have been regarded as lonely evidence, will be infinitely magnified, and instead become ironclad evidence that they know everything.

The story of Xia He has been spread in Wuyi.

And Liu Ruyan's story has also become the focus of heated discussions on the streets and alleys in the past two months. Because of the news that came back one after another, the image that Liu Ruyan originally imagined for the people here was completely subverted.

originally thought that the lady of the handsome man must be a beautiful and dignified lady with a thousand manners, but the military reports returned to Wuyi again and again, and under the rendering of the messengers who sent the news back, Liu Ruyan suddenly became a majestic and martial arts general.

Originally, he was still skeptical, but as more and more seriously injured soldiers were sent back to the Wuyi base camp for treatment, Liu Ruyan's image became clearer and clearer. Compared with the half-crushed news of those messengers, many of these wounded soldiers were people who had followed Liu Ruyan in battle, and their words were undoubted.

If anyone doubted, the last thing these people had to say was that I was charging with Madame at that time was enough to silence everyone.

The legend of Liu Ruyan began to circulate.

And I don't know when, the saying that the two ladies of the marshal Li Ze are very powerful has also begun to spread in the community, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, this is the consensus of everyone, the two ladies of the marshal are so powerful, I am afraid that everyone will look at who is not pleasing to the eye, in the past, the two ladies were in Chang'an and Wuyi, naturally they were safe, but now that Mrs. Liu has returned, I am afraid that a good show will be staged between the two.

When this kind of rumor was very loud in Wuyi, Tian Bo, Tu Hu and the heads of intelligence agencies were not in Wuyi, and the other people were not politically sensitive, and when Xia He also heard this rumor, he was naturally shocked and angry, so he ordered to start the investigation.

But at this time, the initiator of the rumors has long been untestable, or it may have disappeared without a trace, and it is just some hearsay, and those people are all innocent, but they have a broken mouth, and the results of such an investigation make Xia He helpless.

This is also the reason why Xia He must greet Liu Ruyan in person when she returns to Wuyi, even if she was still on official business in Cangzhou and Dezhou before this, she had to compress her itinerary and return to Wuyi day and night.

Unlike Liu Ruyan who didn't really know Xia He, Xia He also never really understood Liu Ruyan.

Xia He didn't want Liu Ruyan to hear this kind of rumor as soon as he came back from Chang'an, so he planted awkward seeds in the hearts of the two. For more than a year, he has been by his son's side, Liu Ruyan wants to say that he doesn't taste it in his heart, and Xia He, who is also a woman, will not believe it.

So this time, Xia He attaches great importance to welcoming Liu Ruyan's return. Even if she was wearing that dress, she thought about it for a long time.

Liu Ruyan is a three-grade edict, and he was also canonized as a fifth-grade edict, so do you want to wear this clothes? It doesn't seem to be appropriate, because Liu Ruyan came back from afar, and it is impossible to wear a big dress.

In addition to the five-grade edict, he is also a five-grade court official, wearing an official uniform? Of course not, wearing it like this, will it make Liu Ruyan have an opinion in her heart?

After thinking about it, in the end, Xia He still chose a plain and elegant regular clothes, and he didn't even bring a piece of jewelry with him, just because Mrs. Wang has not passed a hundred days since she died.

When it was close to noon, the mighty greeting procession arrived outside the south gate of Wuyi. Led by Xia He, all the officials of Wuyi, large and small, came out to greet them.

The news that Liu Ruyan was about to arrive in Wuyi had already spread throughout Wuyi City, so on this day, the streets of Wuyi were crowded, which made Lu Liang, who had just become the county magistrate of Wuyi, sweat and sweat, because he didn't think of this problem at all. It was not enough for the county government to send out scribes to maintain order, and in the end, they had no choice but to turn to the Wuyi garrison, which barely maintained order.

Xia He didn't expect it to be like this, when she walked out of the city gate and saw that even outside the city was crowded with people, her brows furrowed involuntarily, which made Lu Liang even more frightened. He still doesn't know what Mrs. Liu's temperament is, but he is in Wuyi, and he is thunderous about Mrs. Xia's power.

Fortunately, Mrs. Xia only frowned.

As the scouts kept coming, the team of Liu Ruyan and his party was getting closer and closer to Wuyi.

When the cavalry of the brigade appeared in the field of vision, Xia He's originally somewhat apprehensive heart suddenly calmed down.