Yu Zizhen didn't care what others thought. She handed Lu Mingxuan the list of available people she had selected yesterday. "These are the people we've rescued before. Have someone pick them up and bring them to me according to the address above."
Lu Mingxuan bowed and replied "yes", then stretched out his hands to take the list.
Yu Zizhen picked up the pen and said, "Remember to find them first and ask them in person if they are willing to serve me. If they are unwilling, or if they are willing but their families strongly disagree, you should go to the heads of their families and ask them to repay their life-saving grace with money and food."
Lu Mingxuan had long been accustomed to Yu Zizhen's style of doing things, and when he heard her say this, he did not show any emotions such as surprise or shock.
He asked Yu Zizhen, "If they say that their family is in financial difficulty and they can't afford to provide enough money and food for a while..."
"Then let them borrow money. If there's nowhere else to borrow, you can ask them to pay in annual installments. But for installment payments, you'll have to add another half-percent interest."
Yu Zizhen snorted coldly, "They have no money or food, and they don't even want to work for me to pay off their debts. So, do I deserve to save them for nothing?"
Would the Lu family send people to hunt down ordinary low-ranking officials after they resigned and left Beijing?
More than 90% of the people she had people rescued before had climbed to the fourth rank or above.
Who among those people doesn't have some wealth? Even if they don't have it themselves, don't their relatives and friends have it?
If you don't want to work for her, then buy her out with money and food. No one should be ungrateful and take advantage of her.
"Remember to contact our local intelligence officers and garrison commanders whenever you arrive. That way, even if someone dares to attack you, you can just chop off their arms."
She didn't want to lose her capable subordinates due to a moment of carelessness before she even had time to recruit new talents.
Lu Mingxuan felt warm in his heart. Although Yu Zizhen always reminded them to be careful, Lu Mingxuan didn't think she was talking nonsense or worrying about nothing.
He was moved by the fact that his loyal people always put their lives first, and at the same time, he became more determined to serve Yu Zizhen and devote his life to him.
After Lu Mingxuan left, Yu Zizhen once again focused all his attention on the complicated pre-war preparations.
Those who had been secretly observing Xiao Yuanjin soon discovered the strength of their new colleague.
It was quite frightening that their new colleague could remember the contents and location of every document he read, which was quite difficult for them to find even after reading it.
However, what is even more frightening is yet to come. As Xiao Yuanjin becomes more and more familiar with various matters, he actually gradually starts to act as Yu Zizhen's human search engine.
If Yu Zizhen wanted to know the content of a certain business, she often didn't even need to look through the files. She just had to give the beginning, and Xiao Yuanjin would slowly repeat all the content related to this business that he had read.
If Yu Zizhen didn't want to know the whole picture and only wanted to know the latest progress, he could also repeat the latest official document content to Yu Zizhen in the shortest time and in the most concise language.
The other clerks were so busy every day that they felt dizzy and exhausted, but they still couldn't be as capable as Xiao Yuanjin. They soon became very obedient and followed Xiao Yuanjin's lead.
With their help in spreading the word, Xiao Yuanjin's prowess quickly spread among Yu Zizhen's subordinates.
Yu Zizhen felt that the time was right, so he issued a transfer order and directly transferred Xiao Yuanjin to the military supply and logistics department.
The Quartermaster and Logistics Department had a lot of things to do, and was no less complicated than Yu Zizhen's work. However, less than two months after Yu Zizhen threw him there, he had already sorted out all the affairs.
A group of rough guys who were originally not very convinced of him as an airborne soldier, actually came to Yu Zizhen in groups of three or five to protest when Yu Zizhen once again transferred Xiao Yuanjin with a transfer order.
Yu Zizhen didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Hasn't he already set up the procedures and rules for you? Can't you just follow them?"
He's not a little kid who needs someone to keep an eye on him all the time.
She drove away the general who came to her to plead for mercy, and then sent Xiao Yuanjin to be a prefect.
It is impossible for Xiao Yuanjin to come back so soon this time. It will take at least one to two years for a local official to achieve results.
Yu Zizhen was not in a hurry anyway. Right now, everyone and the Lu family were still in the pre-war preparation stage of dividing the territory and arguing with each other. Yu Zizhen did not intend to be the first to provoke a war, so he did not need Xiao Yuanjin's knowledge and brains for the time being.
While she remotely commanded and managed the states and counties under her jurisdiction through instant messaging tools, she also had her craftsmen busy making weapons, armor, and various mechanisms.
As for the more lethal gunpowder, guns and cannons, Yu Zizhen did not intend to let them flow into this world through his hands.
According to the timeline of the original book, the male protagonist, her good brother Yu Zicheng, should have met and gotten to know the female protagonist, the princess from Beiyan who traveled through the book, half a year ago.
As a little girl who traveled through time from modern society, the princess who traveled through the book could not adapt to the nomadic life in Northern Yan at all. In addition, her biological mother died early and her father was a man who only cared about his own interests.
All his princesses had the same purpose in life. He kept them for the sole purpose of using them for marriage alliances.
He doesn't care how old his "sons-in-law" are, how good-looking they are, or how many wives and concubines they have. He only cares about how much benefit the other party can give him when he marries his daughter to him.
Whether it was to appease the unruly tribal leaders or to exchange marriage for elite soldiers, the King of Northern Yan was quite happy to do it.
But the Princess of Beiyan who came from the book was not willing to follow in the footsteps of her half-sisters, so she planned for many years, and before her father planned to sell her for a fixed price, she secretly escaped with some of her trusted subordinates.
In order to escape safely, she also ordered the release of most of the Han slaves captured by Northern Yan over the years.
These Han slaves were important assets of Northern Yan, which needed them to work for the aristocracy for free.
Once they ran away, the Northern Yan royal court would of course send people to chase them.
The princess of Beiyan who came from the book seized the opportunity, escaped from the royal court, and headed straight for the border of Da Qi with a few trusted subordinates.
However, she did not go to the northern border which was closest to her. Instead, in order to avoid the army sent by the Northern Yan royal court, she took a long detour to the border between the northern border and the western border.
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