In the afternoon, in the study, Yuwen Wen was convening a meeting of the leaders of the 'middle level and above' in the house to listen to the 'work report' in turn, starting with the housekeeper Li Sanjiu.

Li Sanjiu was a young eunuch in the palace and became the housekeeper of the Xiyang County Mansion, naturally he had a great responsibility, first of all, most of the servants in the palace were older than him, and even older than Yuwenwen, how to avoid Yin Fengyang violating his prestige and not being able to convince the public was the primary problem he faced.

The magic weapon set by Yuwenwen for him is 'power in hand, governing the government according to law', Mrs. Wei Chi Chi is only in charge of major matters, and the rest of the trivial matters are implemented by Li Sanjiu in accordance with the rules and regulations, and it is useless to intercede with anyone.

In order to prevent things like being beaten and smashed with sticks, Yuwen Wen specially assigned two followers to Li Sanjiu, and by the way, he also did some chores, and only he and Liu Caiyun could enjoy the treatment of followers in the house.

"Over the past year, Sanjiu already has the majesty of a housekeeper." Yuwen Wen looked at Li Sanjiu approvingly and nodded, the little eunuch who was weak at the beginning of last year has now grown taller and stronger, he took Yu Chi Chifan to Anlu to settle down, and the servants in the mansion are all new recruits, so Li Sanjiu can only be the housekeeper.

"Lord Lang, everything is normal in the house, and the servants don't have bad habits such as gathering crowds to gamble." Li Sanjiu said calmly, he was just a little eunuch in the Chang'an Palace, and if it wasn't for Yuwenwen to help him get out of the palace by the way, I was afraid that he would have been bullied to death.

"This is a record from June to the day before yesterday, please check it out." He put an iron box in both hands on the bookcase, and the iron gate was locked, and there were only two keys. One is with him, and the other is owned by Yuwen Wen.

"Is Anu still whining?" Yu Wenwen didn't pick the lock, but asked. Li Sanjiu nodded, but then added: "Mrs. Fang has already scolded her. This has not been the case since. ”

Side lady, such as Mrs. and the like is the beautification of the side room by the subordinate, in this era, there is no decree canonization of the wife, are not qualified to use the word 'madam', not to mention the side room, there are guests in the house, only the wife can come out openly to assist the husband in hospitality, and the side room, concubines and the like are not qualified at all.

"What a headache, this girl only recognizes Lihua." Yu Wenwen smiled and didn't say much, he gave Li Sanjiu an additional responsibility: to monitor, monitor the words and deeds of everyone in the mansion, except for the backyard of course, unless Yu Wenwen designated a person, such as Yang Lihua's personal maid Anu who was just talking about.

Since the incident of Huang Aqi, Yu Wenwen has taken the loyalty of the servants in the house very seriously, and who knows what a respectful servant is thinking in his heart. The task given to Li Sanjiu by Yu Wenwen is simple but also complicated: monitor words and deeds.

Anyone who complains or instigates others to make trouble, or is dissatisfied with wages, rewards and punishments, treatment, or sabotage, as long as they hear and see everything they hear and see, they can be roughly judged by the performance of this person's words and deeds, of course, the kind of scheming and taciturn is not included.

Yu Wenwen has developed a few dark lines in the servants, and he doesn't need to eavesdrop or peek but write down and summarize what he hears and sees on weekdays, which plays the role of ears and eyes, and he wants to know what the servants are thinking in private.

The surveillance target is even the four brothers Yuwen Fifteen, Zhang Yu, Liu Caiyun, Zhang \ Dingfa, and Lin Youdi Abacus, because it is 'passive' surveillance, and there is no need to worry about making people feel uncomfortable.

"Has anyone in the house been abnormal in the past two months?" Yuwen Wen first asked Li Sanjiu to report and listen to the key points, and he would look at the specific record content when he had time, and Li Sanjiu reported that the big abnormality was not more gossip.

"Lewd \ chaotic Liang Guo's harem, pulling out knives and slashing indiscriminately, blood flowing into rivers?" He could hear that the popular topic among the servants in the house was this, and he couldn't laugh or cry. As the saying goes, good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, that day, the 'spoof version' of him pulling Xiao Jiuniang into the palace to recognize his relatives was spread so widely, but no one cared about the truth.

Yu Wenwen asked the shopkeeper Liu how it was. Li Sanjiu said that Shopkeeper Liu, Shopkeeper Liu seemed to be entangled in his infertility, and when he heard Lord Lang ask Zhang Dingfa how it was, he replied that Boss Zhang was entangled in Shopkeeper Liu's infertility.

"What about Lin Youdi?"

"Lin Youdi seems to be struggling with the lack of waterwheels recently, and he doesn't dare to say that he wants to apply for another one."

"That silly boy," Yu Wenwen thought for a while and said with a smile, "What happened when I came back yesterday and saw fifteen blue noses and swollen faces?" ”

Li Sanjiu coughed dryly and said that Yuwen Fifteen has stayed in the house since he sent the letter back to the house, Yuwen Eying and his sister Yu Chi Mingyue have to pull Yuwen Fifteen to do coolies every day when they play, and the day before yesterday, they were playing kites outside and asked Yuwen Fifteen to release them, but when he was running in the field, he accidentally fell and gnawed on the mud.

"This kid, I thought he was smashed by his wife." Yuwen Wen was almost speechless, when he entered the backyard yesterday, he saw Yuwen fifteen with a blue nose and swollen face, and thought that it was Mrs. Wei Chi Chi who learned that he was going to bring Xiao \ San back and smashed things indiscriminately.

Hearing that everything was normal in the house, Yu Wenwen nodded, and began to ask other things: "How is the progress over there in Bazhou?" ”

Because sooner or later he will go to Bazhou to be the assassin of the history, Yu Wenwen went to Bazhou Prefecture to investigate the site in Xiyang, Bazhou Prefecture at the beginning of the year, and after some investigation, it was decided to carry out the 'old city transformation' of Xiyang City and the future mansion, and at the same time set up a workshop by the river, and the relevant matters were sent by the Huangzhou Governor's Office to be responsible for the renovation of the mansion and Li Sanjiu was responsible for supervising the renovation of the mansion.

This is where his family wants to live, but he can't be sloppy, from the very beginning, Yu Wenwen sent people from the mansion to stay in Xiyang City to keep an eye on the progress and supervise the work on the spot, seeing that six or seven months have passed, and it is almost completed.

"Lord Lang, the mansion is renovated according to the shape set by Mr. Yang, and the small one has sent people to the scene for inspection many times, and has not cut corners, and now it is close to completion."

Mr. Yang refers to Yang Ji, Yang Ji lived in the Xiyang County Mansion as a guest of the Lang lord Yuwenwen, so the servants called him Mr. Yang, Yang Ji often built mansions for the princes and nobles after coming to this era, so he was an expert in 'ancient architecture'.

Yuwenwen listened to many of his opinions when he carried out the renovation of the old city, and the renovation plan of the mansion was also designed by Yang Ji according to the actual situation when Yuwenwen gave the idea, so when the suspicious Yuwenwen wanted to design the mansion in the style of a fortress, which is the so-called 'fortressization', he was ruthlessly vetoed in the end.

After asking some more things, Yuwenwen got up and patted Li Sanjiu on the shoulder and said, "Don't stay up so late every day, I have dark circles under my eyes all day long, and others say that I abuse the housekeeper." ”

Li Sanjiu smiled awkwardly and said that he was afraid that he would not be able to do well with heavy responsibilities on his shoulders, so he got up early and went to bed late to think about doing more, so as not to miss something. Yu Wenwen disagreed: "Just use your heart." You have to be able to employ people, otherwise you will be tired sooner or later. ”

"In the future, there will be other courtyards, farms, etc., when the family is big and the business is big, how many heads will you be able to doppelganger? After a few days, the Japanese duke took a good look at the people in the mansion and promoted him to be your deputy. ”

Li Sanjiu, who was so loyal to his duties that he lamented that he had no skills, retreated. Zhang Dingfa and Liu Caiyun came in to 'report work', and the reason why Yu Wenwen let his wife come in together was that there was one thing to be arranged at the same time.

"Wang Yue and his wife have gone to Anlu to stay, and in a few days, the Japanese husband will arrange errands for him and his wife." Yu Wenwen clicked on the topic, he had already written to inform the government of the incident after rescuing Wang Yue and his wife in the Jiangjin Shu Chen Army Camp, so Zhang Dingfa and his wife were not surprised.

"County Prince, Wang Yue's business skills are good, if he has to share the burden, the slave family will be much easier." Liu Caiyun took over the conversation first, she and her husband Zhang Dingfa had been in Yuwenwen's house when they were in Chang'an, but Yuwenwen did not let the couple sign the master-servant contract, so they were still called 'county princes' on weekdays.

"What is Leader Zhang's opinion?"

Zhang Dingfa listened to the question and said his thoughts, since the other party was humiliated and rescued in the barracks, there is basically no possibility of doing hardship. However, he didn't know much about Wang Yue's character, so he couldn't tell if he would find out the secret of the glass mirror and escape.

"It's unlikely, but it can't be ruled out." Yu Wenwen agreed with this point of view, but he still decided to use people boldly: "It's okay, the shopkeeper Wang is only responsible for sales, and he won't be allowed to see the production process." ”

"County Prince, since you want to use Wang Yue's recruitment of manpower, you can also hand it over to him, and the slave family can't be busy for a while."

Because considering that the toxicity of mercury is greater when tinning amalgamation is applied to glass, Yuwenwen has asked Liu Caiyun to avoid this process, after all, she and Zhang Dingfa are still working hard for the very slim pregnancy, so Yuwenwen decided to take care of the 'female worker'.

In this way, the production of glass mirrors is only responsible for Zhang Yiman and Hu Sanzi, so the output can't keep up with the fast, the north of Anzhou can't do business in the war, and Chen Guo, who has been 'bought out', has been out of sales for several months, so the heavy responsibility of making money falls on Liu Caiyun's glass jewelry, and she has not many people under her, so she can only work overtime.

"My father will consider selecting someone from the government to help you in a few days, and if there is a good candidate, you can also apply."

Because the money and grain accounts in the house had already been reported to Yuwenwen by Yang Lihua, who was in charge of the accounts in the morning, he began to ask about 'security' next. After Fu Youcai came in, he asked the two, "Have the guards practiced on time?" ”

"Don't worry, none of those rabbit cubs dare to be lazy." Zhang Dingfa is quite proud of this. As the head of the guards of the Xiyang County Mansion, he was in charge of hundreds of guards, and he trained those boys who did not have shifts to scream on weekdays.

Yuwen Wen saw that Zhang Dingfa was so confident, and then raised his eyebrows: "Very good, in a few days, the Japanese public will take the school examination to see how high the skill level of the guards of the Xiyang County Mansion is." ”

"At that time, Bengong will choose some people from the army to compete, and you let them prepare for it, don't make excuses after losing."

"Master Lang, is Mr. Yang still participating in the sword technique?" Fu Youcai is most concerned about this, if Yang Ji, who uses a two-handed long knife, is on the field, then all the guards along with Leader Zhang will be finished.

"Use a knife to kill chickens, and my father can let Mr. Yang's subordinates make a cameo." Yu Wenwen didn't care at all, his new army had already opened the meat after more than two months of fighting, and his courage had already been tempered with blood.

"Leader Zhang, those soldiers of this duke have killed people now, and they have seen blood, which is different from before, and the protective gear during the practice in the house must be prepared to avoid an ugly scene when they are obtained."

"Don't worry, those rabbit cubs are not easy to get along with!" Zhang Dingfa heard what the other party said, and his fighting spirit also burned, Liu Caiyun covered his mouth and smiled when he saw this appearance: "They are all the subordinates of the county prince, why are they so tense?" ”

Yuwen Wen was also relieved to see Zhang Dingfa so combative, his new army was an external attack and the guards in the mansion were internal guards, and it was great that the new army's knife and the shield of the guards could be used, thinking of this, he quoted the scriptures: "The so-called Wen Wu is the first and the Wu is the second, and it is not better than one to know who is better." ”

Zhang Dingfa and his wife finished reporting and retired, and it was Zhang Yiman and Hu Sanzi, who had been waiting for a long time, to come in for questioning, and Yu Wenwen drank a glass of water to moisten his throat and asked, "What did you bring?" ”

"Brought, please take a look." (To be continued.) )