Ch80: First Day At Work

Han Tingxuan was shocked. He didn't see why Mo Yanzhi asked such a question.

Mo Yanzhi gently pursed his lips. "Hubby, isn't this suggestion good?"

Han Tingxuan smiled bitterly in his heart. Tian Yuexi looked the same as Mo Yanzhi. It would be good if they could adopt a child-like Zhuoyou.

However, Mo Yanzhi did not know Tian Yuexi’s health situation. Tian Yuexi was lucky enough to have Zhuoyou as his biological son. He couldn't have one more.

Han Tingxuan smiled bitterly in his heart. But he still said, "It's not a bad thing. But it is a big deal. We’d better wait for good timing. We can have this plan to ourselves. But we can’t rush into it.”

"Mmm," Mo Yanzhi nodded.

Han Tingxuan smiled and kissed Mo Yanzhi's lips. "I am going to work. You should go to bed now.”

"Yes," Mo Yanzhi nodded.

This night, Han Tingxuan rarely couldn’t sleep because of Mo Yanzhi's words.

He felt a little regretful for not having a child. He had to think about how to deal with this.

The next day, Han Tingxuan went up early for the morning meeting.

Mo Yanzhi slept until he woke up. Then he arrived at the Ministry of Army late as Han Tingxuan said.

The Wang family had always been neutral. Wang Yi, the Minister, took no sides and had always been honest and integrity.

No officials would dare to pick on him because he was already powerful and highly ranked in the government. Besides, he had a high reputation among the people.

Wang Yi only had one son, one she-man, and one male wife. His male wife died many years ago. His family was simple.

Wang Yi's son Wang Qingshan worked in other cities all year round. He barely lived in the City of Capital.

Wang Yi's she-man, Wang He was married to a former scholar who was not from a big family. He had settled down in the State of Bai. They would come to the City of Capital for celebrating festivals.

Wang Qingshan only had one son named Wang Siyuan. He was twenty-four years old, not married yet. He was now serving as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Army.

Everyone thought about the Minister would like to train his grandson as his successor. But now Prince Chen jumped in.

From the information provided by Han Tingxuan, Mo Yanzhi noticed three senior deputy ministers and four junior deputy ministers.

The three senior deputy ministers were Jia Sunian, Nangong Wudi, and Dongfang Yi.

Jia Sunian was the eldest son of Jia Qianfeng, a third-class official, while the male wife of Jia Qianfang was the youngest she-man of the Sun family.

It meant that Jia Sunian was on the side of the Sun family.

Nangong Wudi was the third son of the Nangong family's master Nangong Jue. He was 25 years old.

Dongfang Yi was the eldest son of Dongfang Quan, the third brother of the Dongfang family’s master Dongfang Xu. He was also 25 years old.

Each of the three great clans took one seat of the senior deputy ministers.

The four junior deputy ministers were Li Hui, Zhang Qiao, Liu Shuo, and Wang Siyuan.

Wang Siyuan was Wang Yi's grandson.

Li Hui was the eldest son of Li Chong, brother of Left Premier Li Su. He was already thirty years old and got married. His male wife was Jia Sunian's cousin, Zhou Lianxiang. They had a he-man who was three years old. Zhou Lianxiang was respected in the Li family.

Zhang Qiao completely came from a common family.

Zhang Qiao had no sides or family to support. He was an orphan, raised by his adoptive parents. He was smart to get promoted step by step.

He was the No. 1 winner of the test of national scholars.

Although Zhan Qiao had no sides to take, many factions wanted to pull him over.

It could be seen that he was capable of keeping it balanced. At least, no one hated him.

Han Tingxuan marked that Zhang Qiao, an official Tian Yuexi planted, was the one with the highest status in the Ministry of Army!

The third one was Liu Shuo. He was a relative to Dongfang Xu’s male wife, of course, someone working for the Dongfang family.

These seven were the highest positions below the Minister.

Below them were dozens of people from three families. A small number of them were neutral, and a few were planted by Tian Yuexi.

Therefore, the human resource in the Ministry of Army was the most complicated among the few departments!

However, Han Tingxuan had already told Mo Yanzhi how to treat them in detail. And Mo Yanzhi did it as he said together with his conclusion.

Regardless of whether he had real power or not, Mo Yanzhi's ranking was undoubtedly the highest in the Ministry of Army.

Therefore, all the people he saw had to bow to him.

Mo Yanzhi nodded lightly.

Neither he was arrogant or too modest. He was being nonchalant and distant from others.

When he arrived at the main office of the Ministry of Army, the three senior deputy ministers and four junior deputy ministers had been waiting there.

When they saw Mo Yanzhi, they immediately stood up and saluted. Everyone was completely respectful, although deep inside they might have different thoughts.

Minister Wang Yi barely came to work. He was not here today.

"Your highness!" The seven people said in unison.

Mo Yanzhi nodded lightly. "At ease. I am still new here. I may need your help for future work.”

"Just let us know. We will make all-out efforts to help you, your highness! "The seven people spoke in unison again.

It was a routine greeting procedure among officials. The seven people here were very experienced in answering these.

Mo Yanzhi waved his hand, "Go back to your work. Today, I plan to walk around on my own."

"Yes!" The seven people replied.

Mo Yanzhi walked around. The tables of the seven people were divided into two rows, but the distance between them was still a bit far.

If Han Tingxuan were here, he would say that it looked like a teacher's office!

After walking around, Mo Yanzhi had a look at the people who were immersed in work before finally walking to Jia Sunian. "Mr. Jia, bring some files over to me."

Jia Sunian immediately stood up. "Yes, I'll go get some now."

Mo Yanzhi did not specify what files. Thus, Jia Sunian brought over a large pile of files that were about army deployments of the Ministry of Army in the past two years.

Mo Yanzhi came to his seat. His seat was side by side with the Minister. The Minister’s table was tidy, but there were also some files on it.

And Mo Yanzhi's table was much cleaner. However, his seat being arranged here could mean something.

Their seats were at the end of the hall.

Mo Yanzhi read the files quietly without making a sound.

The hall was quiet too. An hour later, the hall returned to its usual state.

In the past, Nangong Wudi and Dongfang Yi liked to share their opinions when dealing with some cases and problems.

On the other side, Jia Sunian, Liu Hui, and Zhang Qiao would say something.

Today, they were quiet for a long time because of Mo Yanzhi. But Mo Yanzhi was too quiet to notice,  everyone returned to their usual state after a while.

Although Nangong Wudi was currently working in the Ministry of Army, he was just transferred at the beginning of the year. Otherwise, he would be at the border right now!

Nangong Wudi didn't like to deal with files. His files were handled by Liu Shuo and Wang Siyuan after he scanned them over.

Liu Shuo and Wang Siyuan were used to it.

Today, Nangong Wudi had done a lot of things and had finally used up all his patience. Hence, he glanced at Mo Yanzhi and waved at Liu Shuo.

Liu Shuo then went over immediately. Nangong Wudi pointed to his desk, and Liu Shuo moved all the documents away.

Mo Yanzhi lifted his eyelids slightly as if he had not seen anything.

Jia Sunian didn't usually stay here every day. He stayed here for less than two and a half hours a day. Coincidentally, he had an appointment today.

Jia Sunian checked the time and stood up and walked over to Mo Yanzhi, "Your Highness, I have some personal matters to deal with today. I'm afraid I'll leave early."

Mo Yanzhi said flatly, "I see. You may leave."

Jia Sunian told Mo Yanzhi out of respect. So when Mo Yanzhi agreed, he immediately left.

Nangong Wudi also walked towards Mo Yanzhi. "Your Highness, I have an outgoing work to the horse training ground. I have to…"

Mo Yanzhi cut in, "Horse taming ground?"

Nangong Wudi had to explain the horse taming ground. The purpose of the Ministry of Army was to prepare for war. The department was responsible for army deployment and logistics.

Horses were naturally the most important tools for combat.

The horse training ground was very large and there were hundreds of thousands of horses inside. However, these horses had to be tamed before they were used on the battlefield. There is no special training personnel.

Nangong Wudi didn't like dealing files because he was a warrior and only liked those related to the army. Therefore, he often went to the horse training ground.

Mo Yanzhi was interested in the horse training ground.

"In that case, I would like to go with you. Shall we?"

How dare Nangong Wudi to say no! "Sure, of course! Your Highness, please! "

Then, Nangong Wudi decided to bring Dongfang Yi with them when he passed.

He was not good at socializing with a prince. But Dongfang Yi was cunning enough to do it. Thus, Nangong Wudi smiled and said, "Mr. Dongfang, let's go together?"

Dongfang Yi secretly twitched the corner of his mouth and said mean things about Nangong Wudi in his mind, but he still put on a smile, “Okay!”

Great! He was so angry! Soon later, something that made Dongfang Yi angrier happened. And his impression of Mo Yanzhi was changed.

At the same time, Nangong Wudi was impressed by Mo Yanzhi because he was so deeply hit by the blow that he almost couldn't regain his confidence.