Chapter 239: Stability
At the beginning of October, the weather in Hedong Mansion was already very cold, and although the sun was shining outside, the house was already burning a warm brazier.
Liu Meibao saw Lu Yan striding out of the window, and a smile appeared on her face.
Lu Yan entered the house and did not approach Liu Meibao first, but untied his robe and warmed up in front of the brazier.
Liu Meibao stood aside and looked at him with a smile.
"Is it really okay to come back so early every day?" She smiled and said, "Will you be laughed at by your wife and children?" β
"Love to laugh but not to laugh." Lu Yan replied, and after warming up his body, he reached over.
Liu Meibao smiled and handed him her hand.
"Mr. Wang just made a rule." He then smiled and said, "In addition to the promotion of generals, in addition to the merits of war, they must also start a family. β
"What kind of rules are these called?" Liu Meibao said with a smile.
"Mr. Wang said, how can a family be a business." Lu Yan thought about it and said after learning Wang Mo's words.
"Hey, this sycophant is really amazing and treading the snow without a trace." Liu Meibao couldn't help but smile and leaned back, "Isn't it an extra bonus for respecting your daughter-in-law and loving your children?" β
"Madame's good suggestion, I wrote it down." Lu Yan pretended to be serious and said, "I'll tell them to be included in the charter tomorrow." β
Liu Meibao smiled and beat him.
For a moment of laughter, Liu Meibao reached out and hugged Lu Yan.
"Isn't it a little lost that your career is not going well?" She smiled, "Don't force a smile with me, come, tell my daughter-in-law, I'll .....give you a hug to rely on."
After this incident, Shangguan decided that Hedong Fort was still under the control of Lu Yan. The garrison position of the old camp fort naturally fell on the heads of others.
Lu Yan laughed, and took her into his arms again with a flip of his hand.
"But that's fine." Liu Meibao smiled in his arms, "It's okay to be cooked or not to be raw, this base is built well, but it is also comfortable." β
Base? Lu Yan didn't understand, but he somewhat understood what his wife meant, and he pulled Liu Meibao out of his arms. looked at her left and right, and only saw Liu Meibao's hair.
"Really, I'm not comforting you, I raise so many livestock, at least harvest a crop before leaving. Otherwise, there is no sense of accomplishment. She grinned.
"It's not." Lu Yan smiled, "You're so happy, I can't see if you're happy?" I know you're so happy. β
"I have long hair and short knowledge, and I don't want to make progress." Liu Meibao said with a smile.
Lu Yan interrupted her.
"I'm so happy, too." He said seriously, "I also think that it is easy for me to put down roots here, and it is a pity that I left before it blossomed and fruited." β
No matter how sad and pitiful outsiders look at this Hedongbao incident and look at Lu Yan. Both of them are in a general mood, and that's enough.
"Hey, you said that you were still elated without being promoted, there is only a fool like you in this world, right?" Liu Meibao said with a smile.
"No, there's another one." Lu Yan smiled and reached out to pinch her nose, "You." β
Liu Meibao laughed.
After laughing for a moment, Lu Yan began to look for his son.
"In my aunt's house." Liu Meibao said with a smile, "I dislike me for always making children cry and refuse to hug them." Say I'm lazy. β
"Don't be tired of my aunt, there are two nurses." Lu Yan said.
"Yes, I said, it's so easy to go out to rest, she doesn't listen, she has to go around the child." Liu Meibao shook her head and said, while bringing Lu Yan tea.
Follow the rules. Liu Meibao was going to live at her parents' house for a few days after she was confined, but Lu Yan disagreed when she learned about it.
"My aunt's family also has children, it's not good for you to go again." He said.
Coincidentally, it was on the day Liu Meibao gave birth. Xiao Ling also gave birth to a son.
"My aunt said that my sister-in-law also happened to go back to her parents' house to live, so it won't be in the way." Liu Meibao said.
Lu Yan was silent for a moment, and after a while he still disagreed, the weather was cold, the road was bumpy, the child was injured and the child was small, in short, a lot of reasons were not allowed to go.
Although this person is obedient to his words, when it comes to the safety and health of his wife, he is dead-headed.
This is a first-time father with anxiety, and Liu Meibao is not good at stiffening because of his concern, so he has no choice but to give up.
After Song Sanniang learned about it, she cleaned up and came over by herself, so Liu Meibao was very embarrassed.
Lu Yan smiled without saying a word, took a thick cloak and wrapped it in Liu Meibao, and the husband and wife went to Song Sanniang's house hand in hand.
Entering November, the first snow covered the entire Hedong, but the high-spirited construction momentum of the entire Hedong has not weakened in the slightest.
"The wheat is very good, except that it is far away from the canal and it is not alive." Master Ning Baohua looked at the statistics and said.
Although he insisted that he was sick, Lu Yan still arranged something for him.
"The only person who came with us who could read and hyphenate was you, Master." Lu Yan said sincerely, he was silent for a moment, and then said in a low voice, "I know, you are not happy about you and Mei Bao..."
The dispute between Liu Meibao and the master, although neither of them mentioned it again, but how could this kind of thing be hidden from Lu Yan.
"I'm useless, old man." The master bowed his head and sighed.
"How can people be useless, it's just that everyone has their own strengths, if you say that, I'm also useless, and I can't even write articles." Lu Yan said.
"My lord, Hugh is going to say so... What kind of person you are, I know in my heart, old man." The master said.
"Now that you know that if you don't help me, who else can help me." Lu Yan looked at him and said slowly, "The things in the fort will be handed over to you to be responsible, this is a major matter related to the food and drink of our army and civilians, and it is also a major matter related to the future of our Hedong Fort, and this is also the foundation that I Lu Yan exchanged for my life." β
As he spoke, he handed over a piece of paperwork.
The master took it a little puzzled, and when he opened it, he couldn't help but tremble.
This is a confessional document, which clearly says that Ning Baohua is a hundred households and is the secretary of Hedong Fort.
Master Ning Baohua has already joined the military household, and Lu Yan was not qualified to appoint officials before, and he never thought about what official position he wanted, but having an official body is the desire of everyone's heart. Unexpectedly, Lu Yan did it for him quietly.
He is a hundred households, the scrivener of Hedong Fort, in charge of Tuntian, and this position is the third in command of Hedong Fort.
Ning Baohua couldn't believe his eyes, he rubbed and rubbed, and those small and dizzy eyes were swollen.
"Son, me. I'm old." He trembled his lips, stammered, and finally choked up and couldn't speak, and bent down deeply, "Xiaguan Ning Baohua takes the order." Rest assured, the subordinate will be loyal and dutiful. β
Lu Yan looked at him and smiled, please get up.
The master raised his body, his thin body unconsciously straightened, and his wrinkled face swept away the gloomy and gray, looking energetic.
Afterwards, Liu Meibao received a gift from her master. apologized for what he said at the beginning, of course, he just apologized for looking down on Liu Meibao's faux pas, and praised this paragraph for helping Lu Yan to appease the people, which played a very good role, he repented for his shallowness, and at the same time implicitly expressed his concern about her jealousy, and still had reservations about Lu Yan's acceptance of concubines and scattered leaves, which made Liu Meibao cry and laugh, and gave him the word "get out" with a pen.
Such a scolding. Although the two did not have direct contact, the hurdle in their hearts was overcome.
At this time, the council hall of the Ethics Hall was full of people, and the regular meeting was held once a month.
Now Hedong is no longer barrier-free, several powerful families have been uprooted, and the rest can no longer be obedient, even the prefect has come to ask Lu Yan for many affairs, and the bloodshed of that night completely frightened this literati. Since then, there has been no advantage of civilian officials over military attachΓ©s.
Afterwards, he asked Lu Yan if Li Changsan's people had really come to woo him.
"I never tell lies." Lu Yan replied solemnly, "You really wooed me, otherwise I wouldn't have known that the Li thief had lurked in my east of the river and set off such a big civil unrest." β
Who started the civil unrest, the prefect shed tears in his heart. He now understands that this Lu Yan is indeed not lying, it is true that Li Thief is co-opting, it is also true that the spies are also real, and it is also true that the big clan is causing civil unrest, but it is he Lu Yan who has successfully reaped the benefits of killing three birds with one stone.
What an honest man who doesn't lie.....
"Zheng Boke Duan Yu Yan..."The prefect muttered to himself.
Lu Yan is still extremely enthusiastic about knowledge, and immediately solves it when he hears the words.
"Actually, it's really nothing if I haven't read it." The prefect looked at him with a deep expression, "Books are still self-acting, and no books are better than books." β
Lu Yan couldn't understand what he said, so he left it to think about it later.
"We have to open up the land again, and some of the canals have to be dredged and repaired." The master continued, while opening the book, his eyes were a little red because of staying up late.
Since becoming a tuntian official, he has worked day and night.
"Lord Ning still has to pay attention to rest, take your time with these things." Lu Yan said.
The title of adult reached Ning Baohua's ears, which made him tremble with excitement and straighten his waist again.
The title of adult is his lifelong dream, and now his dream has finally come true, he can hear this title all the time when he goes out, no wonder he Ning Baohua is reluctant to rest, no matter how he listens, he can't get tired of hearing it.
"You can't slow down, you have to rush to sow seeds next spring." He replied in a loud voice.
"Old man, be quiet." Zhang Shun, who was sitting next to him, stretched out his foot and kicked him, saying, "None of us are deaf. β
Lu Yan glared at him, Zhang Shun just giggled, he and the master are used to everyone, and the master doesn't care.
"These homeless people are almost finished, it's time to pick some new recruits from them." Wang Jiu interjected.
"We already have a lot of soldiers, and it's a bit difficult to recruit cotton armor weapons and rations, so why don't you wait until next year to recruit them?" It was also suggested.
"There's no rush here, the most important thing is to recruit some more people." Wang Mo said suddenly.
And the population? Everyone looked at him and thought he was a little crazy.
"In those years, the governor of Xuanda Xing was in power, and the emperor of Xiaoxing sent an edict to the nine sides to take it as a formula, all of which was the fact that the governor of the capital recruited the population, granted the fields to plough cattle, low land taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and had strong soldiers to protect each other, so as to retain people, start a business, farm during farming, go into battle during wartime, and fight while farming..."The more Wang Mo said, the more excited he became, and his eyes lit up.
"But can we afford to feed so many people?" Someone couldn't help but ask.
"Now Hedong is all under the control of adults, nowhere can it be used, feeding the population is very simple, that is, eating well and sleeping well, I think these two points are not difficult for adults." Wang Mo looked at Lu Yan and smiled.
Yes, what I want in life is only these two points, Lu Yan also smiled.
"Anyone who comes to join my Hedong Fort will not refuse as long as they are willing to join the military household." He nodded.
These things are easy to say, but they are still very complicated to do, and everyone is engaged in busy work.
On the tenth day of the first lunar month of the first year of Tianshun, this day is a 100-day banquet for the eldest son of the adult.
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