Li Mengxi handed over a major matter to the officials.

With a faint smile on his face, he glanced at Qin Shu and all the officials of the Ministry of Personnel, and said, "The Ministry of Personnel has just been established. It just so happens that there is something that can be handed over to the Ministry of Personnel.

There was a man named Jian Yong and Jian Xianhe. This man was an old friend of Duke Xuande, and they had a close friendship.

This time our army was short of food and grass, it was Jian Yong who traveled around to buy a large amount of food and grass. Without Jian Yong, our army would have been out of food.

All matters related to official promotion and assessment are the responsibility of the Ministry of Personnel, so I will hand this matter over to the Ministry of Personnel.

You guys put it all together and see how to give Jian Yong an official position."

Li Mengxi made it very clear. Jian Yong had great merits and was an old friend of Xuande Gong. His merits and great connections meant that he could not be a minor official.

Qin Shu thought for a moment, then bowed his hand to Li Mengxi and asked cautiously, "I wonder what officer the military advisor wants to confer on Jian Yong? I might as well wait..."

"Hey," Li Mengxi waved his hand, "It is also your official responsibility to review meritorious service and give full play to everyone's talents. Don't ask me."

Looking at Qin Shu who looked hesitant, Li Mengxi encouraged him, "Is it clear enough for you to give Jian Yong whatever official position he thinks he should be given?"

After saying that, Li Mengxi stood up abruptly, "Okay, I'll leave first, you can discuss it among yourselves."

Li Mengxi left very gracefully.

Li Mengxi, who saw many suggestions written by the officials of the Ministry of Personnel here and was very grateful, went to other ministries.

After Li Mengxi left, the officials Qin Shu and his colleagues looked at each other and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

If the official positions were directly designated by the above, then the affairs of the officials would be simple. They could just go and read it out. But Li Mengxi was too willing to delegate power, so the officials had sufficient rights and freedom. But because of this, they were burdened with

The greater the rights, the greater the responsibilities. If the rights are too sufficient, the responsibilities will be greater.

Qin Shu sighed and scratched his head. He carefully put away the papers scattered on the bed and cheered up. Qin Shu looked at his colleagues, "Brothers, let's do a total?"

While the officials in the Ministry of Personnel were busy thinking about countermeasures for Jian Yong's matter, and while Li Mengxi was running around everywhere, in the city lord's mansion, a frying pan was set up in the house, and the prepared carps were placed in a basket.

The chef standing next to him is indeed Guan Yu.

Guan Yu held a piece of paper in his hand, lowered his head and squinted his eyes for a long time.

Later, Liu Bei asked with a smile, "I said, Yun Chang, you are just a fish. You have been reading for a long time."

Guan Yu didn't even raise his head, he continued to stare at the recipe, and casually replied, "I'll take another look to make sure I didn't make a mistake."

Reading is one thing, and cooking is another. However, when the two are combined, a strange sense of contradiction arises.

Seeing that Guan Yu still didn't take action, Liu Bei turned around and looked at Jian Yong. Both of them couldn't help laughing.

Soon after, I made sure to memorize the recipe.

Guan Yu put away the recipe. He raised his head, squinted his eyes, and thought about it carefully. After making sure he remembered everything, Guan Yu rolled up his sleeves and started busy.

Among the people in the army who had experience in making sweet and sour fish, except for Li Mengxi and Guan Yu, the only one left was Zhang Ning.

But Li Mengxi had not returned yet, and it was inappropriate to ask Zhang Ning, so he could only trouble Guan Yu.

Guan Yu was not familiar with the cooking skills, so he had no idea, so he had to read the recipe over and over again in advance.

The amazing thing is that even Li Mengxi is not familiar with the art. Li Mengxi relies entirely on experimental data to make sweet and sour fish.

(Sugar is thirty-three to thirty-five, vinegar is ten...)

Guan Yu thought to himself, took a wooden spoon, dug out a spoonful of sugar syrup from the sugar bowl, scraped it flat at the mouth of the jar, put a level spoonful of sugar into a bowl filled with water and stirred it for a few times until all the sugar was in the bowl, and then added another

Two tablespoons of sugar.

Guan Yu did everything meticulously and carefully.

Who is Guan Yu? Guan Yu was so strong that he could lift a millstone. During the battle, he was a powerful man who cut people like melons with a sword weighing tens of kilograms. Guan Yu, who was usually powerful and majestic, turned into a cook at this time.

, full of dissonance.

If it were placed elsewhere, far away from the kitchen, and a man of Guan Yu's status was asked to cook in person, people would be furious.

If he had asked Guan Yu to cook for others half a year ago, Guan Yu would have been furious.

But the changes between Guan Yu half a year ago and Guan Yu now are huge.

Guan Yu not only cooked with his own hands, he also forged iron with his own hands, chopped grass with his own hands, boiled the pulp with his own hands, and made paper with his own hands. In other words, Guan Yu could not help but be infected with Li Mengxi's habits.

After a while, after Guan Yu had been busy for a long time and made all the preparations, someone came.

The person who came here wore iron armor on his upper body, an iron stomach on his head, and a sword tied with a hemp rope around his waist. He looked a bit impressive, but when he looked down, he saw that the clothes on the person's lower body were in tatters and tattered, and his feet were in tatters.

The worn-out straw sandals I was wearing were even stained with wet and dry mud.

The people in the room were puzzled for a while when they saw this person coming.

Outside the door, Qin Shu straightened his clothes and saluted Liu Bei from a distance. Qin Shu stood up straight, held his head high and said loudly, "Qin Shu, the commander of the Ministry of Personnel, has been ordered by the military advisor to come to Jian Yong and Jian Xianhe."

Nuclear power is banned!"

Jian Yong was still in the dark and looked confused. Liu Bei didn't know this. Liu Bei immediately stood up and walked towards Qin Shu. He smiled as he walked towards Qin Shu, "I was just about to say something about Jian Xianhe. I don't want to talk about it."

Everyone in this department is more considerate than me!"

Jian Yong also stood up blankly at this time, and watched blankly as Liu Bei greeted Qin Shu. Liu Bei smiled and said to Jian Yong and Qin Shu, "Why don't you go to the side room? It's quiet there. I'll be waiting after chatting.

Let’s eat fish.”

Qin Shu, who came for the mission, and Jian Yong, who was at a loss, arrived in the side room. They sat down opposite each other, and Liu Bei closed the door with a creak.

Qin Shu looked at Jian Yong, bowed his hands to Jian Yong, then looked at Jian Yong and said with a smile, "Xianhe, on the order of the military advisor, I came here to verify the merits of the official.

This is where our department's responsibilities lie.

But, there is something I still don’t know, can Xianhe give me a brief answer?”

Jian Yong looked at Qin Shu in front of him. Not a day ago, he had only met Qin Shu once. When he turned around, Qin Shu was ranked first in high school. When he saw him again, Qin Shu was wearing an iron stomach and an official body, leading an order.

Come on, for a moment, Jian Yong looked at the high-spirited Qin Shu in front of him and felt a little confused.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Xianhe, maybe answer a few questions, not many questions, just a few questions..."

Jian Yong came back to his senses and said, "Oh! Just ask!" He smiled at Qin Shu.

Qin Shu then asked Jian Yong about the process of raising food, the amount of food raised, etc., and finally asked about the disasters that occurred during the process.

At that time, he went to buy grain from Liu Yu, but he was not in a hurry. During the Chinese New Year, Liu Yu went out of the city to visit relatives. At that time, Jian Yong forced Liu Yu to come and hung himself on top of the city to freeze all night. He suffered a lot.

However, when he returned to Zhuozhou with the food, Jian Yong only said that the journey was normal and there were no accidents. He said it lightly.

At this time, when Qin Shu, an outsider, asked again, Jian Yong naturally only talked about the fine wine and food served by Liu Yu, without mentioning the hardships involved.

Not long after the conversation, Qin Shu asked and understood. Qin Shu smiled and said, "Xianhe is out raising food, but you don't know that Julu was running out of food and was panicking. Fortunately, a few days later, the food arrived.

When the food arrived, I had been hungry for a long time. After the cook made rice, I drank a big bowl of porridge. It was so delicious!"

It is no exaggeration to say that Qin Shu was also a benefactor of Jian Yong's kindness. Qin Shu said with gratitude, "Xianhe raised food in time and relieved the army's life and death emergency. For this great contribution, no matter how big the reward is, it will be small!"

When Jian Yong heard Qin Shu's praise, he laughed happily, "It takes a lot of effort to do this, but it's a lot of effort to raise a hand!" Jian Yong smiled and waved his hands in modesty.

Qin Shu said seriously, "Based on Xianhe's merits, a certain person wants to grant Xianhe the position of director of [Ministry of Foreign Affairs]. I wonder what Xianhe's arrangements are for this."

Jian Yong knew very well that although the officials of various ministries were assigned to five levels of departments and bureaus from top to bottom, and although the highest official position was at the ministerial level, the officials held by the officials of each ministry were like Qin Shu, who ranked first in high school.

But he is only a division officer.

Jian Yong was busy rejecting the offer, saying that he should not be rewarded so highly for his trivial achievements, and that being a bureau official would be enough.

Qin Shu insisted on giving Jian Yong the title of Chief Officer, but Jian Yong refused, so he could only accept it with a smile.

——

Liu Bei had been paying attention to the movements in the side room. When he saw Qin Shu and Jian Yong coming out with smiles on their faces, Liu Bei immediately stepped forward to ask what was going on.

After a while, as the conversation progressed, everyone in the room knew that Jian Yong had been promoted to the position of Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because of his contribution to raising food.

The Zhuozhou scholars all congratulated each other. Jian Yong smiled brightly and kept responding to everyone's congratulations.

Judging from Jian Yong's bright smile, it seems that Jian Yong also wants to be an official and does not care at all.

After finishing the work, Qin Shu said goodbye and left. Liu Bei asked him to stay and said that he would eat the fish before leaving. Qin Shu only said that he still had things to do and refused Liu Bei's request to stay.

Liu Bei had no choice but to let Qin Shu leave, and told Qin Shu, "Is the military advisor with you? Call him back."

Liu Bei said it very naturally, just like someone calling their children to go home for dinner.

After leaving the city lord's palace, Qin Shu breathed a sigh of relief, an important task was over.

Back at the camp, Qin Shu looked around for Li Mengxi. Li Mengxi happened to come out of a tent and bumped into him twice.

"Military advisor, Duke Xuande calls you back..."

"I'm not busy," Li Mengxi refused. He looked at Qin Shu, who had put on his armor and carried his sword. Li Mengxi smiled, "How about it? Is the matter done?"

Qin Shu was preparing to report, so he returned to the Ministry of Personnel with Li Mengxi.

In the small tent of the official department, Li Mengxi listened to Qin Shu's report.

After listening, Li Mengxi thought seriously for a while. He frowned slightly and looked up at Qin Shu and the officials. Li Mengxi asked, "Qin Shu, what do you think about Jian Yong's matter? How did your officials handle it this time?"

This question made Qin Shu unable to answer. Should he boast that he had done a good job?

After hesitating for a moment, Qin Shu asked cautiously, "Please ask the military advisor to correct me."
To be continued...