After thinking for a while, Yao Ruoyu suddenly said, "Sister, can you ask if Xie Kai is studying or helping with him now?"

Xie Liu smiled bitterly and replied: "The family is poor. I make a living by writing letters for others on weekdays. He has already gone out to help. Fortunately, there are many books at home and there is no worry about not having any books to read."

"I think he is smart, and he is indeed a talent. It's a pity to be put in the town to help. After a long time, I'm afraid his talent will be buried," Yao Ruoyu asked, "Why would you rather let him be by my side and be my book boy?"

"Be your book boy?" Xie Kai frowned. Obviously, for this arrogant child, being a book boy was too embarrassing. Xie Liu was a little moved. After all, she didn't want the child to stay in the countryside. It would be better to be able to come to the city to see the world than to stay in the town to help.

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 book boy, but I just want to see, what qualifications do you have to make me a book boy?"

"Do you want to take the exam for me?" raised your eyebrows with interest. Yao Ruoyu looked at Xie Kai with a serious face, shook his head without realizing it, and said with a smile, "If you don't be a scholar, what should you do in the future?"

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

Seeing that he answered without hesitation, it was obvious that he had thought about it many times on weekdays, Yao Ruoyu nodded and smiled: "Okay, then you can prepare more. When you are well prepared, you can go to Hangzhou 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, the leader, had a generous mentality and should not care about his son's childish behavior.

Seeing the two of them surprised, Yao Ruoyu slowly put away his smile and said calmly: "As a leader, you should respect the wise and the talented. Unfortunately, you are not. Even if you are talented, trapped in the township, shallow knowledge, and arrogant, you still have to test me? Don't forget that if you really become my book boy, you and me will be the best. Such a person who does not distinguish between high and low and ignores the etiquette of the superior and inferior, why should I be polite to you?"

Yao Ruoyu spoke fiercely. Xie Kai was just a ten-year-old child after all. After being criticized by him, his eyes suddenly turned red and tears kept spinning inside. Seeing Hou Jingru on the side made her motherly body overflow. She quickly took out her handkerchief and wiped her tears.

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

"Eat your meal, why don't you give me the chicken legs?" Yao Ruoyu said angrily, and Wu Xue shrank back nervously, carefully protecting the chicken legs in the lunch box, for fear that Yao Ruoyu would come to grab them.

After Xie Kai's tears were wiped away by Hou Jingru, Yao Ruoyu continued: "Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you. If you want others to be polite and respect yourself, you need to start with yourself. I am older than you and have a higher status than you. You need to face me with a humble attitude, not to humble you, but to be humble. Respect the elders, and respect yourself."

To be honest, when Xie Liu was a little angry when he saw Yao Ruoyu scolding his son, he heard the slightest bit of Yao Ruoyu's words, so he sat upright and never spoke.

However, Xie Kai's eyes turned red again by Yao Ruoyu's words, and almost shed tears.

Seeing that the temperature was almost done, Yao Ruoyu smiled and said warmly: "You are a little heavy, don't care, it's all for your own good. Since you are interested in the imperial examination, I won't force you to go back and review it carefully. If the travel fee is not enough, you can come to me."

"No," wiped his tears, Xie Kai raised his head stubbornly and said in a deep voice, "I want to be by your side."

"I still want to take the test for me?" Yao Ruoyu asked with interest. Xie Kai immediately shook his head and said embarrassedly: "I dare not."

Haha, Yao Ruoyu got up and touched Xie Kai's head, and said to Xie Liu: "Let's stay the child. Although he is nominally my book boy, I don't need him to serve him. I will go back and arrange for him to be a servant in the Ministry of Personnel and learn from the Minister of Personnel."

Xie Liu was overjoyed when he heard this, and quickly stood up and bowed, saying happily: "I heard for a long time that Xu Zhubu is very talented. The three plans for fighting Yanggu Army were all from her. It is his honor to be able to follow her."

Not far away, Xu Xuanrong couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard the conversation here, thinking that Yao Ruoyu was really powerful, turned the other party into a book boy, and then threw it to him to train him. He worked hard for a long time and would give others guidance to his subordinates.

After thinking about it, Xu Xuanrong naturally would not stand up to object. However, the rolling eyes just now scared the applicant who had just walked up to her and sat down. He thought he had done something bad and provoked the Minister of Personnel.

In this way, Xie Kai stayed in the Leader's Mansion. Although he was Yao Ruoyu's book boy, he threw him next to Xu Xuanrong as soon as he changed his hands. He became a servant of the Ministry of Personnel, and was responsible for boiling water and cleaning the Ministry of Personnel on weekdays.

Xu Xuanrong naturally complained about this, but seeing that Xie Kai is indeed talented, he didn't say much. However, every time the Ministry of Personnel talks about things, he will bring Xie Kai with him to see and learn more. Xie Kai is precocious, so he naturally knows Xu Xuanrong's thoughts and is grateful.

After many days of trouble, all the officials under the Leader's Office, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Justice were finally recruited. Finally, the list of all the officials was integrated into a book by the Ministry of Personnel and delivered to Yao Ruoyu.

Among the four departments under the Leader's Office, Wu Xue and Hou Jingru serve as directors of the Inspection and Supervision Department and Bang En Department respectively. The director of the Civil Voice Department is Bai Qiuyu's senior brother, that is, Bai Junru's eldest disciple Huang Kuankuan, and the director of the Military Machinery Department is Yao Ruoyu, and there are no personnel for the time being.

In the Ministry of Personnel, the four directors of the four subordinate institutions are Wang Dehou, Ji Chang, Wu Liang and Yuan Ren. Among them, Wang Dehou and Yuan Ren are both from Baihe Academy and are disciples of Bai Junru. Wu Liang changed his mind after surrendering to Yao Ruoyu and others. He was also considered a little talented person, while Ji Chang was born as a scholar. Unfortunately, he never met him.

Among the Ministry of Revenue under Bai Qiuyu, four directors were from Baihe Academy. However, it is not surprising that the only one who is famous in Hezhou City is Baihe Academy. Almost all local scholars have studied in it, which is considered to be from the academy.

The four subordinate directors of the Ministry of Justice, except for the director of the People's Conscience Department who are scholars, the directors of the other three departments are all captains selected by Song Kai from the townships under Hezhou. They have rich experience in handling cases and are in line with their job responsibilities.

As for the Ministry of Works where Li Li Duan was in charge, the director of the Ordnance Department was Li Huo, the leader of the Western Xia tribe. Obviously, this person finally realized the form. In order not to make the Western Xia tribe have no status in the city-state, he finally signed up for an official position.

The other positions are also from the Dali and Xixia ethnic groups. Yao Ruoyu and Xu Xuanrong were prepared for this, but they did not intend to stop them. After all, the Ministry of Works cannot be considered a real-powered department, and the Ministry of Revenue has suppressed money, so they are not afraid that the Ministry of Works will make a comeback.

As for the Ministry of Rites, with Bai Qiuyu's constant persuasion and Yao Ruoyu's words, Bai Junru finally put down his pride and agreed to serve as the Minister of Rites. However, in this way, two of the five departments came from the Bai family, which was extremely powerful.

Seeing this, Luo He was naturally envious, but he also knew that he had become the lord of Hezhou City, and the two governments and five divisions were established in Diaoyu City. This means that as long as Yao Ruoyu did not come to Hezhou City in the future, he would be the local emperor even if he was such a honor, and he would be embarrassed to nag again.

After all the officials from the two governments and five ministries were recruited, Yao Ruoyu asked the Ministry of Personnel to prepare a list of titles and titles, and then wrote the city-state law with Song Kai, Bai Junru, Bai Qiuyu and others.

As a result, during the compilation, Bai Junru had a big temper at Yao Ruoyu more than once, because Yao Ruoyu actually divided the city-state's regime into several pieces and distributed them to five departments roughly evenly. At the same time, he gave the Elders' Mansion great privileges, allowing them to discuss and evaluate each announcement of the city-state. Once the number of oppositions is too high, the promulgation of the announcement can be rejected.

In Bai Junru's view, this is undoubtedly a manifestation of delegating power. Once the days go by, the Elders' Mansion will form a faction, which will disrupt the normal operation of the city-state regime and make the Elders' Mansion grow bad energy, which is simply foolish.

However, in Yao Ruoyu's opinion, these are nothing.

First, Yao Ruoyu always believed that power was born from the gun. As long as the military power was always in his own hands, he would be fearless no matter how powerful the Elders' Mansion and the Five Divisions were.

Second, although the regime was scattered into the Five Ministry and the Elders' Mansion, they also had restraints each other. In addition, the two key departments of the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Justice were in their own hands, and Bai Qiuyu, who was in charge of the Ministry of Revenue, was also considered his followers. This means that three of the Five Ministry belonged to him.

There is also the Elders' Mansion, although the power is huge, as long as you strictly control the membership of the Elders' Mansion, you can divide the members of the Elders' Mansion into several factions and restrain each other, and it will not affect the normal operation of the city-state at all.

After several quarrels, Bai Junru gradually understood Yao Ruoyu's idea and finally stopped opposing it.

Although there are many 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. In addition to the death penalty, these disability punishments of Mo, Li, Wei, Gong, and Da Pi almost did not appear, but were punished in the form of labor.

While Yao Ruoyu and others were writing the law in full swing, Xu Xuanrong came to the Leader's Office with the last list of canonizations compiled by the Ministry of Personnel and handed the list to Yao Ruoyu for approval.

According to the initial resolution, the titles of city-states were divided into five levels, and were formed by referring to Western titles, including barons, viscounts, Counts, Marquis, and Dukes. According to the 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.

Five ministers, Xu Xuanrong, Song Kai, Bai Qiuyu, Bai Junru and Duan Li, were all named marquis, while officials at the level of directors were named Counts. As for Yang Renjie, Jiang Siyu, Fu Feng and other generals who were in charge of a battalion of troops, they were also named marquis.

Of course, the so-called canonization is just a name and no gift of money. After all, after several wars, the city-state's economy consumes a huge amount. If every canonizer gives money, the leader's mansion may not last half a year.

Yao Ruoyu naturally trusted Xu Xuanrong's ability, so after reading it casually, he handed it over to Bai Junru to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.
Chapter completed!