"All right, this won't be difficult. You can go get ready now. I'll have Old Ma take care of the paperwork for you."
Xu Yi agreed readily.
It wasn't that he had his eye on those two. He simply lacked capable people. Though the pair were a couple of crooked melons and cracked dates, they could get things done, especially the things that were hard to handle.
As for transferring them, that was even easier. Neither of them was a star official, so their transfer didn't need to go through the Civil Administration Department. It was an internal reassignment within the First Section, and he could make the call as its steward.
After sending Zhao Xing and Zhou Rui away, Xu Yi hurried to Hanchun Ridge. He went through the formalities, and his new position was officially confirmed.
Steward Wang had already left. Guan Shan and Cao Jie greeted him with sour faces, then awkwardly sat through a meeting to welcome him. Xu Yi didn't act like a petty victor; he exchanged a few pleasantries, then told the two men to get back to their official business.
As was customary, Xu Yi then met one by one with the officials in charge of the First Section's offices, as well as several deputy commanders from the First through Third Divisions.
After all that running around, the sun was already setting.
Once he had arranged the official business, Xu Yi was about to rest at the First Section when the voice-transmission orb in his waist pouch suddenly stirred. He answered it and heard Gong Xiuhua say he was coming to visit Cold Sun Peak. He was already on his way.
Xu Yi's thoughts stirred, and he agreed at once, then set off for Cold Sun Peak.
An hour later, Xu Yi arrived