The Summoning World of the Great Qin Empire

Chapter 977
After a while, Du Fu and Du Shenyan both came over, Wan Xiliang hurriedly stood up and saluted.

According to his duties, he is Du Shenyan's disciple, and should be of the same generation as Du Fu, but Du Fu is not white, but an official, so he has to stand up and salute.

"You don't need to be too polite." Du Fu nodded slightly, motioned Wan Xiliang to sit down, and then said: "Originally, all the officials in my Daqin came from the imperial examinations, or were selected by His Majesty the Emperor himself. I rashly arranged positions for my juniors. If you don’t have this right, it will make your junior brother’s career difficult and you will be squeezed out by your colleagues.”

Wan Xiliang listened, nodded and said yes, and waited for Du Fu's next words, because according to his knowledge of Du Fu over the years, if he really couldn't help, Du Fu would not say so.

"But I do have an errand here, which is to go to the army, and there is a certain degree of danger?"

Wan Xiliang was so frightened that his expression changed: "I have never practiced martial arts, I am afraid that there will be no battlefields in the world."

"No hurry, it's not too late for you to listen to Zimei!" Du Shenyan chimed in from the sidelines.

Du Fu said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's not going to the battlefield, and after you go, you will follow His Majesty the Emperor, so even if you go to the battlefield, there will be no danger, don't worry."

"But before I say this, I have to ask you again, how many relatives are still in your family, but you must tell them about everything that has a little relationship." With these words, Du Fu's expression has become severe.

Wan Xiliang said: "My family's ancestors have been single-handed for five generations from my grandfather. Finally, there is an additional aunt in my father's area, but she has married far away and has not been in touch for many years; The situation is similar, there is only one young girl in the family right now."

"It's not that I deliberately made things difficult for you, but this matter is very confidential, so we must be cautious." Du Fu said seriously: "Do you still remember where your aunt was married? Who is her husband's family and how many children did she have? "

"This..." Wan Xiliang thought about it seriously: "I vaguely remember a cousin, but I don't know much about the others. My husband's family is Yan's, named Yantang, and she is a butcher for a living; When my parents passed away a few years ago, I borrowed some money from my uncle for the burial, but I couldn’t repay it later. My uncle took advantage of my going out to study and sold my land to pay him back. The uploaded fields are sold, so there has been no contact in these years!"

After all, Wan Xiliang was ashamed: "These are all past events that I don't want to bring up, and my mentor and senior brother laughed at me."

"It's okay, every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, I still understand this." Du Fu took out a small notebook from his sleeve.

When the first page of the booklet was opened, it read: Wan Xiliang, male, 30 years old, from Anping County, Guzhu City, Liaoxi County..."

The above information is collected by the authorities, and it is similar to what Wan Xiliang said now.

Du Fu then nodded and said: "Since we haven't seen each other for many years, it's okay. Do you still remember the muffled thunder that came from outside the capital some time ago?"

"I heard that it is auspicious auspiciousness from heaven, which indicates that the great fortune of the Great Qin Kingdom will last forever." Although Wan Xiliang didn't understand why Du Fu asked himself this, he still told what he knew.

"Haha..." Du Fu laughed loudly after hearing this: "That's not the case, I tell you, the emperor invented a thing called gunpowder, which can explode after being lit with an open flame, even if it is the city wall of our Great Qin capital, It can be directly blown to pieces!"

"There is such a thing?" Wan Xiliang also said in surprise.

Du Fu then said: "There just happened to be a small official who counted and guarded gunpowder. Originally, Meng Shangshu had already found someone to go, but when he checked the family background, he felt that there was something wrong with that person, so he dismissed him. After the list is released, but you are not on the list, I will recommend you to the top."

"Thank you, brother!" Wan Xiliang was overjoyed, he finally got an official position!
"This matter is not over yet. This is not an ordinary job and requires great secrecy." Du Fu didn't know that there was a problem with the formula of gunpowder, so the officials below could only strengthen the secrecy and would not think about anything else.

"You go back to Anping County first, pick up Lingmei, put her in the barracks in the capital, and then go to the Yamen to report and register, what do you think?"

"Don't worry, brother, I will definitely take care of this matter." Wan Xiliang said excitedly.

Du Fu laughed and said, "We all serve the emperor and the empire, so you don't have to thank me, but our emperor."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Wan Xiliang said excitedly, almost dancing. Thinking about it, he took the exam five times, almost from the first imperial examination, until now, and he has not been on the list. It is rare to pass his senior brother's relationship , got into a regular official position, and everyone would be dancing with excitement.

……

Gunpowder had already been invented, and grenades were being produced in full swing. The emperor was the official at all levels in the imperial court. Zhou Shi also led the eunuchs to sort out the memorials for the emperor every day, dividing them into priorities.

In order to prevent Zhou Shi from leading the eunuchs to tamper with the memorials, for example, deliberately putting some memorials in the non-urgent pile, five people were randomly drawn from hundreds of eunuchs every day to participate in this matter.

Fusu had to admire the astonishing wisdom of the ancients. The rank of the officials was very low, but he had the full power to impeach all the officials. The man sprayed so much that he didn't know whether to take his left foot or his right foot when he walked.

Therefore, this group of people hated high-ranking officials very much, especially Zhou Shi, who became the emperor's servant without passing the imperial examination.

Once, Zhou Shi almost treated a general's memorial as a delay, but was caught by the spokesperson on duty that day.

It's just that that time the emperor led the army and was not in the capital, and the queen came forward to protect Zhoushi, so Zhoushi deducted three years' salary to warn others, otherwise, the family would be wiped out!

It seems to be a very severe punishment if the memorial is wrongly distributed, but there are still countless people who have smashed their heads and drilled into it, hoping to become the emperor's servant.

Just today, Fusu saw a memorial from Du Fu Chen and recommended an official to the emperor. The position of this official was set by the emperor himself, because there was no official in charge of this thing before.

According to the six-department system, the production of gunpowder weapons should belong to the four departments under the Ministry of War, that is, the arsenal of the four divisions of military selection, staff, car driving, and arsenal. So, the emperor picked up a pen and re-opened a new department called the Gunpowder Department, with one doctor and one Yuanwailang each, and two principals.

(End of this chapter)