Debating the Officials

Lu Chuan watched them walk far away, then turned and went back into the mansion.

This was no longer the National Preceptor's Mansion. Not long ago, Lu Chuan had also done as Shen Gongbao said and submitted his resignation for him, helping him resign from the post of National Preceptor.

The title of National Preceptor was only an honorary one, without real authority, but if one could win the ruler's trust, one could still influence decisions on major affairs.

After that, Wu Geng decided to turn this National Preceptor's Mansion into the Prime Minister's Mansion and bestow it upon him, but Lu Chuan refused.

The scale on which this National Preceptor's Mansion had been built was grand enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with Wen Zhong's Grand Master's Mansion, Bi Gan's Prime Minister's Mansion, and the Huang family's Martial Accomplishment King Mansion. It counted as one of the largest mansions in Chaoge.

Once Shen Gongbao resigned, Lu Chuan, as a Prime Minister, still felt that living in such a grand mansion was far too high-profile. It did not fit his usual low-key persona and style.

Secondly, every day when Lu Liang came to find him, the trip on the road alone almost took half a day. When the house was too large, the distance from one's family also grew large.

That was not what Lu Chuan wanted. So, at his request, Wu Geng had an ordinary residence built for him in the eastern part of the city.

Now that he had a home, from now on, he would never again have to suffer emptiness, loneliness, and cold in the Office of Extraordinary Scholars.

Thus, the Prefecture and County System proceeded like a raging fire throughout the territory of Yin Shang.

Three months later, although Yin Shang retained the titles of