Qi Yushen slammed the table excitedly: "Wu Wei, how did you come up with such a wonderful idea?"

Qi Wushuang looked at Qi Yushen:

He usually looks pure and unworldly, but why does he change so completely when he sees Ye Wuwei?

Could it be that he has other thoughts about Wu Wei?

Thinking of this, Qi Wushuang stared at Qi Yushen.

Ever since Qi Yushen's wife died in childbirth, he has never remarried. Isn't it because he is afraid of the tragedy happening again, but because he likes men?

Your Majesty, you really think too much!

Qi Yushen was just excited to hear such a brilliant idea!

As for why he didn't remarry, it was because Concubine Zhuang always interfered and he couldn't find a suitable marriage partner so he simply didn't marry.

Qi Yushen was so excited that he didn't notice Qi Wushuang's gaze at all, and continued to talk with Ye Wuwei:

“We can also plan the new city into residential areas, commercial areas, entertainment areas and government service centers.

The residential areas can be divided into different residential areas of high, medium and low levels.

Commercial areas can be further subdivided.

For example, there is a food street, a clothing street, an antiques and cultural relics street, a gold and silver street, an ironware street, a medicine street, and so on.

As for the entertainment area... I haven't decided yet, but I think it can be categorized and planned."

The more Qi Yushen thought about it, the more excited he became:

"We can also lift the curfew so that people can do business and have fun at night."

Ye Wuwei said in his heart:

Who says ancient people were inferior to modern people?

He just copied the modern model, but what Qi Yushen said were all his own ideas.

The ancients simply did not have as much knowledge as modern people. After all, modern times have a thousand years more history than ancient times.

Seeing that Qi Yushen was very enthusiastic about building a new city and had many ideas, Ye Wuwei took the opportunity to help him:

"Your Highness, since Yu Shen has such great ideas, why don't you let him be in charge of the construction of the new city?"

I just made the same suggestion to Qi Wushuang, but Qi Wushuang didn't agree. I might as well give him another push and get him to agree.

Qi Yushen also looked at Qi Wushuang with an urgent look in his eyes, but he didn't dare to ask Qi Wushuang directly for it like Ye Wuwei did.

Qi Wushuang wanted to refuse. He just wanted Qi Yushen to go back to Lindu. But he was afraid of making Ye Wuwei unhappy. After thinking for a while, he said:

"It's too early to say this now. It's better to wait until the construction of the new city is put on the agenda."

Ye Wuwei didn't know what Qi Wushuang was thinking, and continued to lobby:

“If you don’t assign someone knowledgeable about the business to be in charge of the construction of the new city, I’m afraid it will become a ‘strange place, weird place’.

Yu Shen is such a good candidate, who else can you use if you don't use him?"

Chu Fuchi saw something going on. He never knew Qi Wushuang was so jealous.

If Ye Wuwei continued to plead for Qi Yushen, Qi Yushen would probably be "exiled" out of Chamdo by Qi Wushuang.

They are in need of people now and cannot waste a talent like Qi Yushen.

"Your Highness, you can arrange for Yu Shen to work in the Ministry of Revenue first, so that he can become familiar with its affairs."

Qi Wushuang understood what Chu Fuchi meant after interrupting him: "Okay."

Now it was Ye Wuwei's turn to be unhappy.

He even asked for his opinion, but in the end, nothing he said was as effective as one word from Chu Fuchi.

At this moment, Xiao Dengzi came in. Behind him was a man holding a tray.

"Your Highness, the kitchen happened to have some pear soup, and I thought you were wasting your time discussing matters, so I brought some over for you."

Xiao Dengzi served the pear soup to the four people.

Qi Yushen looked at the glass bowl of pear soup: "Is this glass?"

“Yes, this is glass.”

After answering Qi Yushen's words, Ye Wuwei drank the pear soup by himself.

Seeing that Ye Wuwei still didn't speak after drinking the pear soup, Qi Wushuang asked him: "Why don't you continue?"

"It's useless for me to say so much. You don't agree with what I say. Why should I say so much?"

"Where do I disagree?"

"Just now I told you to let Yu Shen be in charge of the new city construction, but you didn't take it seriously. I'm not doing this for myself, I'm doing this for you.

If you don't care, why should I bother so much?"

Hearing Ye Wuwei say that it was for him, Qi Wushuang became happy again.

"I agree. Is this a small matter worth your concern?"

Chu Fuchi and Xiao Dengzi pretended not to hear what the two were saying, but Qi Yushen was shocked.

When did Uncle Wang become so easy to talk to?

Qi Yushen subconsciously looked at Chu Fuchi, but Chu Fuchi remained calm.

Qi Yushen looked at Qi Wushuang again, but saw that Qi Wushuang was still arguing with Ye Wuwei:

"Today's pear soup is delicious. Don't you like it? Do you want Xiao Dengzi to bring you another bowl?"

"No, dinner will be served soon."

Qi Yushen was even more surprised: Could it be that Uncle Wang's personality has really changed?

Chu Fuchi was worried that if they continued talking, they would have no time to talk about business, so he interrupted them again:

"Captain Ye, besides what you just said, do you have any other good ideas?"

Ye Wuwei then got back to business.

"Aristocratic families control land, knowledge, technology, and talent. What I just talked about was using land and technology to reduce the power of aristocratic families. Now I'm going to talk about knowledge and talent."

At this point, Ye Wuwei suddenly remembered that Chu Fuchi was also the heir of the Chu family in Yingdu, and asked him:

"The method I'm going to talk about next will also affect the interests of your Chu family. Will you help the prince or the Chu family?"

"Since the day I decided to follow the prince, everything has been based on the prince's interests."

Ye Wuwei didn't know the story of the Chu family, but when he saw that Qi Wushuang didn't object, he knew that Chu Fuchi was on Qi Wushuang's side.

As for Qi Yushen, Ye Wuwei was not worried.

Although Qi Yushen is a member of the Qi family, he still enjoys the benefits from the imperial power and he will not go against Qi Wushuang.

Ye Wuwei continued:

"Due to the widespread promotion of paper-printed books at the beginning of the Qi Dynasty, there was no shortage of scholars after several decades of development.

However, the official selection system currently implemented by the Qi Dynasty means that these scholars cannot become emperors."

Qi Wushuang and Chu Fuchi had a deep understanding of this because they handled government affairs, but Qi Yushen, who had never been involved in political affairs, was not very clear about it.

"why would you say so?"

The official selection system currently implemented by the Qi Dynasty is similar to the recommendation system of a certain dynasty.

This means that local officials would inspect and select talents in their jurisdiction at any time and recommend them to the court, and then appoint them to official positions after probation and assessment.

Ye Wuwei asked Qi Yushen, "If you were a local official, would you recommend students, former officials, friends, or relatives?"

While Qi Yushen was thinking about this question, Chu Fuchi had already answered it for him:

"Most local officials would recommend students, former officials, friends, and relatives. If that were all, it wouldn't be too bad.

The problem is the phenomenon of buying and selling official positions, corruption for personal gain, and forming cliques."

Ye Wuwei took over Chu Fuchi's words:

"Most of these local officials come from aristocratic families, so the people they recommend are naturally chosen from their own families or families that are friendly with their own families.

How could an official selected in this way possibly become the emperor's subordinate?"

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