Disgusting husband cultivates virtuous

Chapter 169

When Ma Guogong and his son returned to Fuqingyuan cleanly, they told the old lady about the situation in the past few days.

The emperor was very interested in seeing the coke, steel knives and billets brought by Ma Erlang.From a short-term point of view, the front line is tight now. If a large number of high-quality weapons can be produced in a short period of time, this battle will be won.

In the long run, using charcoal to burn coke and then use coke to make steel is a big leap in smelting technology, which will greatly enhance the national strength of Daxia.There is also the application of "assembly line", which completely subverts the traditional production process and is applicable to any industry.

So, the next day, the emperor took the eldest prince and the officials in charge out of the palace in micro-clothes and went to the weapons factory in the western suburbs.At the same time, Ma Erlang secretly asked Ma Shoufu to bring the personnel involved in charcoal burning, casting and forging from the Jade and Iron Factory, as well as the coke oven to the weapons factory.

The emperor's adult princes, except for the fourth prince Zhu Deyong whose head was burnt out, the others have all lost their jobs in the sixth department.The eldest prince Zhu Dezhi is in the Ministry of Industry, the second prince Zhu Dexin is in the Ministry of War, the third prince Zhu Deli is in the Ministry of Officials, and the fifth prince Zhu Dewen is in the Ministry of Household Affairs.Judging from these distributions, the positions of the Second Prince, the Third Prince, and the Fifth Prince are all good. One is in charge of military deployment, one is in charge of personnel deployment, and the other is in charge of money and food distribution.The Ministry of Industry, where only the eldest prince stayed, was a bit weak. Apart from earning some money, it basically had no major role in "grabbing reserves".This is also an important reason why many people exclude the eldest prince from the camp of "grabbing the heirloom", feeling that the emperor does not value him.

In a few days, they saw with their own eyes that Ma Erlang led Yutie's people to smelt ordinary charcoal into coke, and the coke was smelted into steel billets, and then they fired weapons.Moreover, the work of the craftsmen is finely divided, and each takes care of it.From pig iron to steel billets to formed weapons, it didn't take much time, but the quantity produced far exceeded their imagination.

The emperor was overjoyed, and immediately issued an order to ask several weapon factories around the capital to work with Yutie to remake the weapons of the Ministry of War, and to make good weapons as quickly as possible and send them to the border.Jade iron is a private factory, so it is not qualified to produce weapons, but now the matter is urgent, let them manufacture it for the time being, and the court will pay the money to buy it.When the war is over, jade iron can only produce civilian ironware.

"The Holy Majesty has already said that Erlang will be appointed as Yuanwailang of the Yuheng Division of the Ministry of Industry. He will be in charge of smelting and weapon manufacturing. The imperial decree will be issued in about two days. Before the New Year is over, the First Prince and Erlang will go to the Xishan Arms Factory to supervise Make weapons." Ma Guogong said.

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard it.They knew that Ma Erlang would be promoted, and they thought it would be good to be promoted to a sixth-rank weapons supervisor, but they didn't expect to be promoted to Yuanwailang.Civil servants are not like military officials. There are plenty of people from the fifth rank for military officers at a young age, but it is difficult for civil servants to climb through the ranks.The No. [-] Scholar is powerful, but he can only start as a seventh-rank official.

The second master was born as a Jinshi, and he has been in the imperial court for 20 years, and now he has become a third rank, because there are people in the court who are easy to be officials.And Ma Erlang was promoted from the seventh rank to the fifth rank in an instant, and his speed was as fast as eight hundred miles, and he stepped up.Moreover, it is still a fat man full of oil and water.If the common people do the same thing, they will definitely not be able to get this official. This is thanks to the old man and the old lady.

After the old lady saw that everyone was excited, she said to Ma Erlang earnestly, "It is good to be an official, but you must also be able. Working with iron collars is different. After all, it is your wife’s workshop, and Ma Shoufu, who is in charge of them, is a servant of our family. But the Ministry of Industry is different. There are superiors, equals, inferiors, and many more. Conflict of interest. Grandma is most worried about your dealings with people, don’t be set up by others and not know it..."

Xie Xian'er was also happy and worried.On the one hand, I feel happy for Ma Erlang, after all, this is the ideal that Ma Erlang has been thinking about.At the same time, he was also worried about his ability to do the job well. Ma Erlang was naive, simple, accepting death, and was not good at communicating with others. He was an absolute talent in technology, but he might not be a good official.

Yuanwailang is equivalent to the deputy director level in his previous life, a high-ranking official, but there are too many higher-ranking officials above him.How he handles the relationship between superiors, peers, and subordinates is the biggest problem for him as an official.

Xie Xian'er now deeply resents why there was no Chinese Academy of Sciences in ancient times that was purely engaged in scientific research and technology. Let Ma Erlang be an academician, expert, full professor, receive special allowances, etc., and still be able to honor his ancestors and achieve his life goals.

In ancient times, only those who were appointed as marquises and ministers, and became officials were considered promising, and experts in technology were called "craftsmen".The Ma family didn't pay much attention to him, because he only loved to tinker with "craftsman" things, and felt that he was not promising, and hated iron for being weak.

The old lady, Ma Guogong, and the second master took turns educating Ma Erlang on the way of being an official and how to employ people.Why being an official requires diligence and hard work, not being arrogant, and being an official requires the hearts of the people... What is it about being an official is knowledge, wisdom, and courage. If you are a little careless, opportunities will become a trap, and losing an official is not uncommon, etc., and so on.

They talked about it from the upper hall to the dining table in the west wing, from the admiration of upright officials to the abomination of corrupt officials... Ma Erlang was listening seriously just now, but he didn't know where his thoughts went after a long time, anyway, from his slack You could tell by his eyes that he wasn't listening to them.

Ma Guogong was so angry that he wished he could give him the way of being an official for more than [-] years at once, but he didn't listen carefully.He was so angry that he threw his chopsticks on the table and cursed, "You can't get on the table. If you don't listen carefully to serious things, you should spend your whole life dealing with iron bumps." After speaking, he swung his hand and wanted to hit someone.

Ma Guogong yelled back Ma Erlang's thoughts, seeing that his father was going to do something, Ma Erlang subconsciously hugged his head.He said angrily, "Father, my son is already this old, you can't hit me every now and then."

The second master hurriedly stopped him, "Brother, what Erlang said is right, he is such an old man, we should show him some face and stop beating him casually. Besides, he is already going to be Yuanwailang, if colleagues listen It is said that he is often beaten at home, which also affects his official authority."

The old lady also said at another table, "Frozen three feet is not a day's cold, how can it be changed immediately? Talk about things slowly."

After hearing this, Ma Guogong put down his slap.

The old man was sleepy after listening to these people's preaching, and finally became excited when he saw that he was going to hit someone, but he failed again.He said unhappily, "Why don't you fight? It made me happy for nothing."

A pure fool is sympathetic, but this kind of stupid person sometimes makes people grit their teeth with hatred.The old man belongs to the latter category now, and he has become bad at the same time. Xie Xian'er gave him a hard look.

The old man has some insight now. As soon as he finished saying this, he knew that his granddaughter-in-law would definitely be unhappy.So he turned his head to look at Xie Xianer at the other table, just in time to see Xie Xianer glaring at him.

He pulled his beard and smiled, and said, "I'm just kidding, kidding, granddaughter-in-law, don't be angry."

Xie Xian'er could tell that Ma Erlang had reached the limit of concentration, no matter what others taught him, he would definitely not listen.Then he smiled and said to the old lady, "Grandma, today is Chinese New Year's Eve, and now we are eating New Year's Eve dinner..."

The old lady laughed, "Yes, yes, when I was happy, I forgot that it was a reunion dinner, and I should have said some funny things." Then she nodded Qin and said, "Sanlang's daughter-in-law, you usually talk the most, today Why didn't you talk?"

Mrs. Qin just put a piece of pheasant into her mouth, when she heard the old lady call her name, she hurriedly smiled and said, "Oh, my daughter-in-law doesn't have the time to talk now, I'm thinking how can I get you to seal me up more?" Year-old silver, let my brother Fang earn more private money."

One sentence made everyone amused again.

Today, when the family was reunited, they called Aunt Feng and Aunt Dou to eat on a small table next to them, and set up a small table for Tai Chi and Sister Xiong to eat.Although the two aunts didn't dare to talk too much, Tai Chi and Sister Xiong loved to play tricks, and the atmosphere was a little more lively than in previous years.

After a long New Year's Eve dinner, I always have to have some fun.Rich families are nothing more than beating drums to pass flowers, or telling jokes with poetry.The Ma family is no exception. Although other than the second master and Ma Silang, the others have less ink in their stomachs, they can still recite other people's poems, tell some jokes, or punch punches.

Xie Xian'er didn't know that there was such a saying, and she didn't know what to perform after thinking about it for a long time.As for dancing, I only know three-step, four-step, and face-to-face dance. This was what Ma Jiahui taught her when he was dating Ma Jiahui in college in his previous life, trying to take advantage of her.Singing, it seems that in ancient times, all the ladies sang while playing the piano, and no one sang a cappella.Don't you want to steal the classic poems from your previous life?She was a little afraid to really spread the reputation of a talented woman, because the ink in her belly was too limited.

When she was struggling with what to perform, the table had already had three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, and the routine performance began.It stands to reason that we should start with the old man first. A few years ago, the old man was sick and stopped performing, so we started with the old lady.

Every year, the old lady performs "Golden Snake Lighting Up the Lamp", and uses a golden snake whip to extinguish the candles three meters away.She stood up very self-consciously and said, "I'm throwing a brick to attract jade, and it's up to the younger generation to whip a few whips."

Candles had been prepared in the room on the east side, and the old lady whipped out the candles. After five whips, all five candles were extinguished.Everyone applauded.

Then starting with the men, Ma Guogong took the lead and memorized an ancient poem in a regular manner, while the second master recited his own poem, which received a lot of applause.

The next one was Ma's Sizhilang. Ma Erlang recited other people's poems. Due to nervousness, he stuttered a little, but his performance was average and his reaction was mediocre.Ma Sanlang played a beautiful set of punches, Ma Silang wrote a stunning poem, and Ma Wulang wrote a picture of elegant calligraphy, all of which naturally received a lot of congratulations.

What made Xie Xian'er very unconvinced was that when Ma Erlang performed, it was the pissing point of some people, including servants.Needless to say, she can guess that this has been the case all year, it's so annoying.

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