After thinking about it for a while, Yao Ruoyu suddenly said, "Eldest sister, dare to ask Xie Kai whether he is studying or helping now?"

Xie Liu smiled bitterly and replied: "My family is poor, I make a living by writing letters to others on weekdays, and he has already gone out to help, but fortunately, there are many books at home, and I don't have to worry about running out of books to read." ”

"I think he is smart, he is indeed a talent, it is a pity to be put in the town to help, after a long time, I am afraid that his talent will be buried," After thinking about it, Yao Ruoyu asked, "Why don't you let him come to me and be my scholar?"

"Be your scholar?" Xie Kai frowned, obviously for this arrogant child, being a scholar was too embarrassing, but Xie Liu was a little moved, after all, she didn't want her child to stay in the countryside all the time, and it was better to come to the city to see the world than to stay in the town.

Seeing that his mother Xie Liu seemed to want to agree, Xie Kai quickly pulled her, then looked at Yao Ruoyu, frowned, and said, "It's not impossible to ask me to be a scholar, but I want to see, what qualifications do you have for me to be a scholar?"

"Do you want to test me?" raised his eyebrows with interest, Yao Ruoyu looked at Xie Kai and nodded with a serious face, shook his head unconsciously, and said with a smile, "If you don't become a scholar, have you thought about what you will do in the future?"

"In the future?" Xie Kai frowned slightly and replied, "Go to Hangzhou to take the imperial examination." ”

Seeing that he replied without thinking, obviously having thought about it many times on weekdays, Yao Ruoyu nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, then you go and prepare more, and when you are fully prepared, you can go to Hangdu to take the imperial examination by yourself." ”

Xie Kai was stunned when he heard this, and Xie Liu was also a little surprised, because in her opinion, Yao Ruoyu, a leader, had a generous mentality, and he shouldn't care about his son's childish behavior.

Seeing the surprise of the two of them, Yao Ruoyu slowly put away his smile and said indifferently: "As a leader, since he is a corporal of etiquette and virtuous, and respects talents, but unfortunately, you are not, even if you are highly talented, trapped in the township, shallow in knowledge, arrogant, and still test me? Don't you forget, if you really become my scholar, you and I are the difference between the upper and the lower, so disrespectful and inferior, ignoring the etiquette of the upper and lower, why should I give you three points?"

Yao Ruoyu's words were fierce, Xie Kai was only a ten-year-old child after all, and when he was accused like this, his eyes suddenly turned red, and tears kept rolling in it, and Hou Jingru, who saw the overflowing motherhood on the side, quickly took out a handkerchief and helped him wipe away his tears.

Wu Xue, who was eating, also came over and said with a smile: "I said, will the words be too heavy?"

"Eat your meal, do you want to give me the chicken legs?" glanced at her, Yao Ruoyu said angrily, and immediately Wu Xue shrank back nervously, and carefully protected the chicken legs in the lunch box, for fear that Yao Ruoyu would come to grab it.

After Xie Kai's tears were wiped away by Hou Jingru, Yao Ruoyu continued: "Do not do to others what you do not want, if you want others to be polite and respectful to you, you need to start with yourself, I am older than you, and my status is higher than you, you need to face me with a humble attitude, not to make you humble, but humble, respect for the elderly, is respect for yourself." ”

To be honest, seeing Yao Ruoyu reprimanding his son, Xie Liu was a little angry at first, but after listening to it, he also heard the hint between Yao Ruoyu's words, so he sat on the side and never spoke.

It was Xie Kai, whose eyes were red again when he was told by Yao Ruoyu's words, and he almost shed tears again.

Seeing that the heat was almost over, Yao Ruoyu smiled and said softly: "The words are a little heavy, don't worry about it, it's all for your good, since your heart is for the imperial examination, I won't be reluctant, go back and study hard, if the travel fee is not enough, you can come to me." ”

"No," wiping away his tears, Xie Kai stubbornly raised his head and said in a deep voice, "I want to stay by your side." ”

"Do you still want to test me?" Yao Ruoyu asked with interest, and immediately Xie Kai shook his head and said embarrassedly: "Don't dare." ”

Haha laughed, Yao Ruoyu got up and touched Xie Kai's head, and said to Xie Liu: "The child will stay, although he is nominally my scholar, but I don't need him to serve around, I will arrange for him to go to the Ministry of Officials to be a small servant and learn from the Minister of Officials." ”

Xie Liu was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly got up and saluted, and said happily: "I have heard that Master Xu is very talented, and the plans for the three battles against the Yanggu Army are all from her, and it should be his honor for Xiao'er to be able to follow her." ”

Not far away, Xu Xuanrong, who heard the conversation here, couldn't help but roll his eyes, thinking that Yao Ruoyu was really powerful, turning the other party into a scholar, and then throwing it to himself to cultivate, and he would be busy for a long time when he was working together, all of which were for others to guide his subordinates.

Thinking about it, Xu Xuanrong naturally wouldn't get up to object, but the roll of her eyes just now startled the applicant who had just walked in front of her and sat down, and thought that she had done something bad and provoked the minister.

In this way, Xie Kai stayed in the Leader's Mansion, although he was nominally Yao Ruoyu's scholar, but as soon as he changed hands, he was thrown next to Xu Xuanrong, and became a small servant in the Ministry of Officials, responsible for boiling water and cleaning in the Ministry of Officials on weekdays.

In this regard, Xu Xuanrong naturally had a lot of complaints, but seeing that Xie Kai did have some talent, he didn't say much, but every time the officials talked about things, they would take Xie Kai with him, so that he could learn more. Xie Kai is precocious, so he naturally knows Xu Xuanrong's thoughts, and he is grateful.

After tossing for many days, the officials under the Leader's Office, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Households, and the Ministry of Punishment were finally recruited, and finally the list of all officials was integrated into a book by the Ministry of Officials and delivered to Yao Ruoyu's hands.

The four subordinate departments of the Leader's Office, Wu Xue and Hou Jingru served as the directors of the Inspection and Supervision Department and the Bangen Division respectively, the director of the Minsheng Division was Bai Qiuyu's eldest brother, that is, Huang Kuankuan, the eldest disciple of Bai Junru, and the director of the Military Aircraft Division was taken by Yao Ruoyu, and there were no personnel for the time being.

Among the officials, the four directors of the subordinate institutions are Wang Dehou, Ji Chang, Wu Liang, and Yuan Ren, among which Wang Dehou and Yuan Ren are both born in Baihe Academy, Bai Junru's disciples, Wu Liang has changed his mind since returning to Yao Ruoyu and others, and he is also a little talented, and Ji Chang is from the common people, and he is a talent, but unfortunately he has never met a talent.

Among the household departments in charge of Bai Qiuyu, the four directors are all from the White Crane Academy, but it is not surprising that only the White Crane Academy is famous here in Hezhou City, but almost all the local scholars have studied in it, which can be regarded as the academy.

The four subordinate directors of the Criminal Department, except for the director of the Civil Affairs Department, who was born in Xiucai, the directors of the other three departments are all specially selected by Song Kai from the townships under the jurisdiction of Hezhou, and they have rich experience in handling cases, which is also in line with their job responsibilities.

As for the Ministry of Industry that Duan Li was in charge of, the director of the Ordnance Division was Li Huo, the patriarch of the Western Xia relics, apparently this person finally recognized the form, and in order to prevent the Western Xia relics from having no status in the city-state, he finally signed up for the official position.

And several other positions, are also from the Dali and Xixia ethnic groups, about this, Yao Ruoyu and Xu Xuanrong have long been prepared, and they have no intention of stopping it, after all, the Ministry of Industry is not a real power department, and there is a household department to clamp on money, and they are not afraid that the Ministry of Industry will turn the sky upside down.

And the Ministry of Rites, under Bai Qiuyu's continuous persuasion, coupled with Yao Ruoyu's words, Bai Junru finally put down his head and agreed to serve as the Minister of Rites. However, in this way, two of the five are from the Bai family, which can be described as powerful.

Seeing this, Luo He was naturally envious in his heart, but he also knew that he had become the city lord of Hezhou City, and the five departments of the Second Mansion were established in Diaoyu City, which meant that as long as Yao Ruoyu did not come to Hezhou City in the future, he would be the local soil emperor, and he would be embarrassed to nag him anymore for such an honor.

After all the officials of the two governments and the five ministries were recruited, Yao Ruoyu asked the officials to prepare a list of titles and canonizations, and then together with Song Kai, Bai Junru, Bai Qiuyu and others, they compiled the laws of the city-state.

As a result, during the compilation, Bai Junru lost his temper with Yao Ruoyu more than once, because Yao Ruoyu actually divided the power of the city-state into several parts, roughly evenly distributed to the five departments, and at the same time gave the elders' palace great privileges, allowing them to discuss and evaluate each announcement of the city-state, and once the number of objections was too high, they could veto the promulgation of the proclamation.

In Bai Junru's view, this is undoubtedly a manifestation of decentralization, once the days go by, the Elder's Mansion will become its own faction, which will disrupt the normal operation of the city-state regime, and will even make the Elder's Mansion breed bad energy, which is simply unattainable.

However, in Yao Ruoyu's view, these are not things.

First, Yao Ruoyu always firmly believed that power came out of the barrel of a gun, as long as the military power was always in his own hands, no matter how great the power of the Elders' Mansion and the Five Ministries was, he would have no fear.

Second, although the power is dispersed into the five ministries and the elders' mansions, they also contain each other, plus the two key departments of the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Punishment are in their own hands, and Bai Qiuyu, who is in charge of the household department, can also be regarded as his own followers, which means that three of the five departments are on his side.

There is also the Elder's Mansion, although the power is huge, as long as he strictly controls the joining of the Elder's Mansion, he can make the people in the Elder's Mansion divide into several factions and contain each other, which will not affect the normal operation of the city-state at all.

After several quarrels, Bai Junru gradually understood Yao Ruoyu's thoughts, and finally stopped objecting.

Although there were a lot of quarrels here, Bai Junru was extremely satisfied with Yao Ruoyu in the formulation of punishments, because under the leadership of Yao Ruoyu, the existence of corporal punishment was greatly reduced.

While Yao Ruoyu and others were in full swing compiling the law, Xu Xuanrong came to the leader's mansion with the canonization list finally sorted out by the officials and handed the list to Yao Ruoyu for approval.

According to the original resolution, the titles of the city-state were divided into five ranks, with reference to the Western titles, barons, viscounts, counts, marquises, dukes, according to different titles, the number of private soldiers under his command was also different, the highest duke could have 2,500 private soldiers, and the lowest baron could only have 500 private soldiers.

The five ministers Xu Xuanrong, Song Kai, Bai Qiuyu, Bai Junru, and Duan Li were all canonized as marquises, and the officials at the level of division chief were named earls, and as for Yang Renjie, Jiang Siyu, Fu Feng, and other generals in charge of a battalion of soldiers and horses, they were also canonized as marquises.

Of course, the so-called canonization is only a name, not money, after all, after several wars, the economic consumption of the city-state is huge, if each canonization gives money, I am afraid that the leader's mansion will not last for half a year.

Yao Ruoyu naturally trusted Xu Xuanrong's ability very much, so after reading it casually, he handed it to Bai Junru and asked him to prepare for the canonization ceremony.