Since the appointed military officers would be staying in the Northeast city for a long time, they were allowed to bring their families and would be allocated houses in the military compound.
But if their families decided to stay at their current homes, they would share rooms with other soldiers instead.
Meanwhile, Yao Zhi was reading the investigation reports submitted by her guards in her room.
Ling Shi'er and his brothers had gathered a lot of information about the situation in the nearby towns, cities, and villages.
Besides the political and economic situations in those places, they also investigated the officials, nobles, and wealthy families living there.
Perhaps due to their proximity to the Northeast City, where the barbarians had stayed for the past few years, economic growth was slow.
The local government didn't have much power over the laws. Instead, it was the wealthy families who held the power to decide who was rewarded and who was punished.
