Having dealt with the reorganization of the army and the matters of the Northern Border,
time had already reached the eleventh month of winter.
By this time, there wasn't much time left until the new year.
Similarly, throughout Chu State, with the end of the year approaching, everyone started to become busy.
The common folk were busy earning more money in order to buy enough new year goods for the winter to have a good celebration.
The civilians from regions just recovering from war took this rare opportunity to sort out their meagre remaining possessions, calculating how to survive the cold winter.
The officials in the government were also busy tallying up the year's achievements and losses, preparing for the year-end assessment and evaluation.
Lu Yuan was also sorting out the accounts of the year along with a host of ministers, yet he could not help but take time to look at the report from southern Yangzhou.
