The arrival of Su Su and Xiao Cui was like throwing a boulder into the pond of the Hou Mansion, and it suddenly made waves. Everyone was very curious about the origin of the two, and when everyone learned that the two were from the Alum Tower, they couldn't help but be surprised. Feng Niang was a little disgusted, and asked Wu Zhi again and again what was going on. And Jin Lian looked at the tall and cold Liu Susu, a little surprised in her heart, and she was jealous, looking at Liu Susu was very eye-catching.

After Wu Zhi explained the situation to everyone, everyone's doubts were dispelled, and they were quite sympathetic to Liu Susu's life experience. Feng Niang felt pity and pulled Su Su to ask for warmth. Jin Lian also dispelled her jealousy and treated Su Su as a sister. Liu Susu is also very good at observing words and feelings, and her mood has also changed, she is no longer as cold and arrogant as before, her smile is heartwarming, and she quickly integrated into the Hou Mansion and became familiar with everyone. Xiaocui is well-behaved and has a sweet mouth, and she quickly won the favor of everyone and mingled with the maids.

Under the influence of Wu Zhi, the free, equal and casual life in the Hou Mansion made Su Su and Xiaocui feel very novel, and they soon found the feeling of home and felt the warmth and comfort of home. Moreover, the clean and convenient new toilets, convenient and unique new baths and washrooms in the Hou Mansion brought more shocking feelings and surprises to the two.

Wu Zhi was very happy to see that everyone could get along in harmony, and he was also relieved by Jin Lian's generosity.

So, seven days after Liu Susu and Xiaocui came to the Hou Mansion, while everyone was having dinner at the time of dinner, Wu Zhi announced four happy events in front of everyone. One is to announce that Jin Lian will be his wife, and he will marry her next year; the second is to announce that Liu Susu and Li Tianjiao are also his women, and I hope everyone will treat them well; the third is to announce that the salary of everyone will be raised, and Dahu will be appointed as the general manager of the Hou Mansion, with a monthly salary of 36 yuan; Appointed Er Hu as the second manager, with a monthly salary of 33 yuan; Suo Yanqing and Li Wanchun were appointed as the head and deputy head of the Houfu Nursing Hospital, with monthly salaries of 30 yuan and 28 yuan respectively; Liu Yue took care of Jin Lian, and her monthly salary was raised to twenty-six yuan like the Feng family; Yang's monthly salary for assisting the Feng family is 22 yuan; Liang assisted Wu Xiu and Feng Niang, and his monthly salary was also twenty-two yuan; Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, and Si Fangguo are now all officials of the imperial court, and they only give each person a subsidy of ten yuan per month; Chunmei, Chunyu, Xia He, Xia Tong, Qiu Ju, Qiu Xiang, Dong Xue, Lilac and Xiao Cui each have a monthly salary of ten yuan; As for the daily consumption of Jin Lian, Xiao'e, Liu Susu and Li Tianjiao, the average daily money has always started, and Feng Niang arranges the expenses, using more and taking more, and using less and taking less; Fourth, it was announced that from today onwards, as long as the people in the Hou Mansion have outstanding work performance, they will have bonuses every quarter.

As soon as the four events were announced, everyone rejoiced.

Wu Xiu and Feng Niang were happy that Wu Zhi finally had the idea of starting a family, and the Wu family was hopeful.

Xiao'e is happy to finally have a sister-in-law.

Jin Lian, Li Tianjiao and Su Su were both happy and shy.

Since Jin Lian followed Wu Xiu and Feng Niang to the capital, she has regarded herself as Wu Zhi's wife, but although Wu Zhi usually respects her like a guest, she has never promised a marriage contract in person, let alone when she wants to marry her, she still feels that she is not confident enough, and she can get Wu Zhi's promise today, she feels that she is bitter.

Since Li Tianjiao was sent by Wu Zhi to take back to Weishi County from Langzhong and followed everyone to the capital, she is both grateful and admired to Wu Zhi. But because of her identity, she and everyone didn't dare to mention this stubble, so she could only silently bury her affection deep in her heart. Now hearing Wu Zhi's confession in person, she was both surprised and delighted. Her family was also very happy for her.

And although Liu Susu has a sudden affection for Wu Zhi and is doing well in the Hou Mansion, she is still a little entangled and trembling about her identity. Now that she heard Wu Zhi's personal promise, she regarded her as one of the hostesses of the Hou Mansion, she was both happy and moved, she never had the luxury of becoming a wife, as long as she could become Wu Zhi's woman, she would be satisfied.

Suo Chao's family and Li Zhenguo's family are happy that they have now finally been recognized by Wu Zhi and have truly become members of the Hou Mansion.

Chunmei, Chunyu, Xia He, Xia Tong, Qiu Ju, Qiu Xiang, Dong Xue, Lilac and Xiao Cui are happy that they have really met a good master, and Hou Ye can treat them as his own.

The Great Tiger, the Second Tiger, the Feng Clan, and Liu Yue were happy about the improvement in their treatment and the importance that Hou Ye attached to them.

Although Zhou Tong did not get a salary increase from the Hou Mansion, Wu Zhi and the Hou Mansion had already treated him as a relative, and he was also happy in his eyes.

Wu Zhi looked at everyone smiling, and he was happy in his own heart. The reason why he wants to announce these four things is that he wants to consider the overall situation, he wants to give it a go, and it will not work without a united and harmonious rear! In order to reduce the mutual suspicion among the people in the mansion, he must take precautions and eliminate the factors of disunity and instability in advance, so that the Hou Mansion can twist into a rope and work hard in one place.

Removing Cai Jing and Tong Guan and other roadblockers, it will be more convenient for him to do things in the future. Wu Zhi also had a bigger opponent, that is, Xiang Empress Dowager, Duan Wang, Liao State, and Wanyan Agu, who rose later, and the Jin State established by the latter was a major problem for the Song Dynasty. Wu Zhi's current strength is not enough, he still has to continue to work hard, increase the hole cards available in his hand, and strengthen his strength.

Since Cai Jing was arrested and imprisoned, Qian Mancang and others also returned to the capital with the boat from Weishi County, not only bringing thousands of catties of low-alcohol liquor brewed by Osmanthus New Distillery, but also bringing good news, "Pan Wu Ji" Caoyun Company has now achieved profitability after more than a year of operation, can be self-financing and still make money, no longer need Wu Zhi to come to blood transfusion to help, Wu Zhi is very happy to hear it.

The Wanda Football Club founded by Wu Zhi has become more and more famous under the vigorous publicity of the "Qiushi Weekly" of the Graphic Society, attracting many businesses and Keju fans to visit and seek scriptures, and a number of friendly matches have been held in the Wanda Football Stadium, and the new football has also begun to become popular all over the country, and many prosperous places have established new football stadiums, founded new football clubs, formed new football teams, and new football sports are in full swing.

In turn, the new style of football has also boosted the number of subscriptions to the "Qiushi Weekly", and the "Qiushi Weekly" is getting better and better, and the performance of the Graphic and Text Agency has also continued to climb, and finally achieved breakeven and began to make a profit! Gu Lin was ecstatic, and Wu Zhi was especially happy.

After the Spring Festival, the Huaxia Army began to devote itself to intense training.

In the first few days, Wu Zhi entrusted all the affairs of the front division of the palace to Liu Quan, and he personally visited the scene every day to inspect the training situation, watching the training of the soldiers class by class, and sometimes personally correcting some movements that were not in place. Unexpectedly, Wu Zhi saw Lu Qian in the Third Division, he was a company commander in a company, and he could be regarded as a member of the Huaxia New Army.

When the soldiers saw Wu Zhi, the supreme commander, coming to the training site in person, he did not hold an official stand, he was approachable and very easy-going, and they all felt very cordial, enthusiastic, and trained harder.

Ten days later, Wu Zhi saw that the training work was on the right track, so he withdrew and was relieved to be managed and trained by his generals. Especially in the first and second divisions, under the leadership of Lin Chong and Wang Jin, Sun Qi and Li Tingliang worked hard to train, and the training results were even more gratifying. The first, second, and third regiments of the First Division led by Suo Chao, Li Zhenguo, and Si Fangguo trained particularly hard, and the results were even more remarkable. Zhou Tong is a hero, and he has a lot of effort to teach fighting and grappling.

Wu Zhi returned to the front of the palace, checked the affairs of the front office, found that there was nothing wrong, and praised Yoo Quan. Then he came to the Measurement Division and asked about the progress of the Measurement Division in Kaifeng Mansion in the recent period after the Spring Festival.

The training work of the new army is being carried out in an orderly manner, and the work of apportioning the land to the mu on a pilot basis in Kaifeng Prefecture is also being carried out step by step.

After more than half a month of hard work, the training of the new army has achieved very good results, and the mental outlook of all the officers and men of the Huaxia Army has taken on a new look. And every soldier received a full salary for the second time, and everyone smiled.

Soon after the Spring Festival, Wu Juhou personally led the team and led the officials of the Measurement Division and the supervisors to go down to the 16 counties under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture to begin the work of measuring and liquidating the fields. Wu Zhi sent a full 16,000 forbidden troops to follow, and assisted the officials of the Measurement Department in the measurement work, and stationed 1,000 people in each county. Wu Zhi selected and sent veterans over the age of 40, and they couldn't fight, at least they had no problem dealing with ordinary people. Before leaving,

Wu Zhi informed the officers and soldiers of the ban on discipline: handle it impartially, do not engage in favoritism, if there is a violation, the military law will be carried out, and it will not be spared!

At the beginning, the measurement and liquidation work was carried out very smoothly, but when the measurement and liquidation reached the landlords and the official gentry, there began to be resistance, and all kinds of obstructions, threats, and resistance emerged in endlessly. As a last resort, Wu Zhi made a decisive attack and ordered the forbidden officers and soldiers to crack down on a group of officials and gentlemen, and fines and imprisoned, and the situation was quickly controlled. When the officials and gentlemen saw that the court was serious this time, they knew that their arms could not twist their thighs, so they had no choice but to give up resistance and began to obediently cooperate with the land measurement and liquidation. As a result, the resistance was gradually reduced, and the measurement and liquidation work was implemented relatively smoothly.

In the middle of April, after statistical accounting, the summer grain field tax was collected in advance, and the results of the collection shocked Zhao Xu and all the civil and military officials: only the summer grain pre-harvest field tax in 16 counties of Kaifeng Prefecture increased by nearly 400,000 yuan at once! This means that the sixteen counties of Kaifeng Prefecture previously concealed more than 10 million mu (new standard acres) of fields! It can be seen from this that there are more than 100 million acres of fields concealed and unreported in the country!

Wu Zhi already knew the bottom of his heart and felt that it was relatively normal, but for Emperor Zhao Xu, this was an unexpected surprise. Therefore, according to the experience of Kaifeng Prefecture in the pilot implementation of apportionment into mu, Zhao Xu expanded the pilot project to Gyeonggi Road, Jingxi Road, Jingdong Road, Hebei Road, Hedong Road, Huainan Road, Jiangnan East Road, Liangzhejiang Road and Jinghu North Road, and sent a large number of officials and supervisors of the Measurement Department to various places, and also sent some commanders and guards of the forbidden army of the Fourth Army to various places to coordinate and assist the forbidden army in various places, strengthen military deterrence, and ensure that the land is in full swing around Bianliang in the capital. As for the result, only time will have to tell.

Seeing that the work of spreading the land into the mu and the training of the new army had been smoothly rolled out in an all-round way, Wu Zhi began to focus his work on the research and development of new weapons in the Firearms Bureau.