If Zhang Hong, who is still prepared for Wei You's talent, is a little surprised that Mi Zhu can quickly take over the affairs of Cangcao Rafter.

To say that although he doesn't know much about Mi Zhu, but after all, he is only fourteen years old, two years older than him, Zhang Hong is confident that he will surpass Mi Zhu a lot in terms of talent and learning, but if it were him, I am afraid that he would not be able to take over the affairs of Cang Cao Rafter in the same time, at least half of the time.

Suddenly, Zhang Hong remembered Gongsun Du's evaluation of Mi Zhu, and suddenly realized, and at the same time was full of admiration for Gongsun Du, who was the same year as him.

"Know people and be good at their jobs!" Zhang Hong is a little envious of Mi Zhu, and being able to give full play to his talents in the most suitable position is definitely the greatest reward for people like them.

Pushing himself and others, Zhang Hong thought of himself, and couldn't help but say secretly, "Can Hong really become a figure like Xiao Xiang and Liuhou?" ”

Thinking of this, Zhang Hong inevitably felt a little fluttery, and felt a little fluttery when he walked. However, Zhang Hong, which Gongsun Du values Zhang Hong, adjusted in just two days and redevoted himself to learning from Wei You.

Gongsun Du, who was in the craftsman's workshop, couldn't help but smile with relief when he heard the news, and then began to experiment with other carpenters-

"Okay, now is it!"

"Put!"

A piece of bark that I couldn't tell what kind of tree it was put into a large iron pot with a diameter of one zhang, and Gongsun Du and the other carpenters gathered around the large iron pot and stared at the pot without blinking.

Under the gaze of everyone, as time passed, the original light green liquid medicine, well, put so much grass or something, it should be regarded as the liquid medicine, and gradually began to fade, and then gradually turned into light red, and after nearly two hours, the liquid medicine in the pot has completely turned bright red, as if it was a pot of blood, and it was terrifying!

"Hahaha!" However, in this case, Gongsun Du and several other carpenters were happy and laughed wildly.

After a while, everyone's laughter stopped, but the excitement on their faces still couldn't be hidden.

"Well, you can make five kinds of red, yellow, green, white, and black new paint, and you have made great contributions!" Gongsun Du clapped his hands and said loudly, "Therefore, Ben Taishou officially recruited you to become master craftsmen in the craftsman's workshop, with a rank of three hundred stones. ”

"Thank you, Lord! Subordinates and others will do their best, and then die! "The carpenters carefully selected by the eight Gongsun Du are not stupid people, Gongsun Du handed over such a confidential thing to them, and returned them to their official official status, if they don't give a little expression, maybe they will throw their corpses into the wilderness at any time.

No matter what, Gongsun Du said with great satisfaction: "Everyone, please get up!" ”

"Thank you, lord!" The eight carpenters bowed again before they got up.

Gongsun Du bowed his head slightly and said, "Everyone, I hope you can make a finished product as soon as possible for the expansion of the furniture shop." Presumably, you also know that Liaodong is extremely dilapidated now, and it is very difficult to face foreign races, but if you have something you have created, as long as you can exchange it for enough money, you can make Liaodong come back to life as soon as possible. ”

Gongsun Dutu's face changed, and he shouted: "Everyone, are you willing to contribute your energy as much as possible to a certain great cause?" ”

The eight carpenters trembled in their hearts, bowed down again, and shouted: "My subordinates are willing to dedicate their energy to the great cause of the Lord, even if it is to go up the knife mountain and go down to the oil pot, they will not give up!" ”

"Okay, everybody, please!" Gongsun Du had expected this, so he immediately replied, "I don't want you to go up to Dao Mountain, and I don't want you to go to the oil pot, as long as you can make the furniture that you told you as soon as possible, it is your greatest loyalty to you!" ”

"Yes, my lord, my subordinates will do their best to contribute to the great cause of the lord!"

Cause? What is the great cause? Naturally, it is the great cause of ascending to the Ninety-Five! These eight carpenters didn't understand, and they even had a moment of stunned when Gongsun Du mentioned it. It seems that the time is very short, it is incredible, but what can they do, since Gongsun Du dares to speak out, he has the follow-up preparation to say it, if they don't agree, or even half a minute late, I'm afraid they will face death.

Indeed, just now Gongsun Du's heart was already full of murderous intent, if anyone hesitated, he would definitely face his thunderous blow. Moreover, after Gongsun Du left the craftsman's workshop, he transferred the most mysterious power in his hand here. It can be said that from this moment on, in a short period of time, the security force of the craftsman's workshop was higher than anywhere else, including Gongsun Du's Taishou Mansion. Moreover, for a long time to come, this force will only strengthen, not weaken.

Back at Taishou Mansion, Gongsun Du was about to send someone to look for Mi Zhu, but Mi Zhu came to the door.

"My subordinates meet your lordship!" As soon as Mi Zhu came in, he bowed heavily.

"Hahaha! Zizhong, you came just to find you. Gongsun Du smiled and helped Mi Zhu up, then pointed to an object in the house and said, "Zizhong, what do you think of this thing?" ”

"This ......" Mi Zhu swept this thing from the corner of his eye when he came in, and he didn't care about it, but as soon as Gongsun Du said it, he immediately understood that this thing must be extraordinary, and after taking a closer look, he was shocked.

"My lord, what is this?"

"Lacquerware Zizhong should know, right?" Gongsun Du asked.

Lacquerware Mi Zhu knew about it, so he nodded. Lacquerware appeared very early, the earliest can be traced back to the Xia and Shang periods, the Eastern Zhou Dynasty was able to flourish, and even the lacquer garden was set up, and special officials were appointed to manage it, and the Qin Dynasty, and now the Han Dynasty, have different developments. Especially in the current Han Dynasty, many large families are proud of their palaces and houses, and their lacquer is vermilion.

The same is true for the Mi family, but even with the huge wealth of the Mi family, only the largest houses have been painted, and the rest of the houses are only painted with the main beams for corrosion.

Of course, this is not the key, the key is that, according to Mi Zhu's observation, the lacquer in front of him is used in as many as five colors, and in addition to being more beautiful and moving, it also exudes a smell that makes the brain clear, unlike the current lacquer, the smell is very unpleasant, if it is painted, it will take at least three months to disperse most of it.

"My lord, this ......" Mi Zhu couldn't find any words to describe his thoughts, so he could only look at Gongsun Du like this.

Gongsun Du smiled and said, "Zizhong wants to say what is the yield of this lacquer?" Can it be copied? ”

Mi Zhu nodded hurriedly, looking at Gongsun Du very nervously, for fear of getting a bad answer.

"I'm only fourteen years old!"

Gongsun Du sighed in his heart and said: "Don't worry, this kind of lacquer is absolutely enough, and it is impossible for others to imitate it." In fact, Gongsun Du still has a sentence in his heart - "Unless that person also came through and has seen some paint formulas, otherwise, it will not be thousands of years, even if there is a finished product now, it will take at least hundreds of years to study and understand." ”

Mi Zhu's heart was relieved, and then he was overjoyed, and said, "Do you need a carpenter?" ”

The reason why Mi Zhu asked this question was that he knew that there were very few carpenters in the Liao army now, and if he wanted to expand his business, he would have to increase the number of carpenters in order to earn more money as soon as possible and use it to develop and expand Liaodong. And his Mi family, there are thousands of craftsmen of all kinds, although there are few carpenters, but there are also 500, if it is Gongsun Du camp, he will immediately write a letter, all of them moved.

How could Gongsun Du not understand Mi Zhu's meaning, but at the moment he couldn't agree, so he took a deep look at Mi Zhu, and then said: "Zizhong, there is a way that things are rare and expensive, and if there are too many things, they are not worth much. And—"

"If you don't have enough strength, you can't keep a secret." This sentence, Gongsun Du said it so meaningfully that Mi Zhu felt a little trembling.

"Your Excellency is wise!" Mi Zhu quickly packed up his shocked heart and said respectfully. After speaking, Mi Zhu asked again: "My lord, after the expansion of the furniture shop's business, is it mainly based on furniture shops, or is it mainly based on cooperation with other families?" ”

This is a matter of setting the tone, Mi Zhu does not dare to make decisions without authorization, compared with the two, the former develops relatively slowly, but the profits are all their own; The latter is developing rapidly, as long as the speed of manufacturing can keep up, it can spread all over the Han in a short time, but a large part of the profits will be caught, these families are guys who eat people and don't spit out bones!

Gongsun Du waved his hand when he heard this, and said: "Zizhong, since you have handed over these things to you, what to do is naturally up to you, whether it is to expand by yourself or to cooperate with a big business like your Mi family, it is the same." ”

This is not the first time Mi Zhu has heard this, before accepting the appointment, when he had a secret conversation with Gongsun Du, Gongsun Du said to him that he did not take it seriously at the time, now thinking about it, Mi Zhu felt the sincerity of Gongsun Du's affection, but because of this, his face changed sharply, as if there was something big and difficult to decide.

Gongsun Du seemed to have expected this, nodded slightly, returned to his seat, and glanced at the multicolored pen holder that had almost dried.

The five-color pen holder, which is the lacquerware that Mi Zhu saw, is the first lacquerware after the appearance of five-color lacquer, which has both experimental nature and great significance. Although the eight carpenters didn't feel it, Gongsun Du felt that it was of great significance. Especially now, Gongsun Du found that after the five-color paint dried, the color of the five-color pen holder was still distinct, and there was no overlapping and changing color area at the junction. This is not only a testament to the skill of the lacquerer, but also to the stability of the five-color lacquer far beyond all the lacquers ever known.

"Your Excellency!"

Mi Zhu's call made Gongsun Du wake up from his thoughts.

raised his eyes to look at Mi Zhu, and saw Mi Zhu's face full of fortitude and firmness, as if he had suddenly opened up more than ten years old, and he had matured too much. Gongsun Du smiled in his heart: You, finally came to my bowl. Ha ha!

Mi Zhu felt Gongsun Du's gaze, knelt on the ground with a "poof", buried his head low, and said sonorously: "My subordinates will see the lord, and from now on I am willing to die for the lord!" Please take it in! ”

Gongsun Du's face was indifferent, and he said softly: "Mi Zhu, or Mi family?" ”

Mi Zhu's body trembled, without the slightest pause, and replied directly: "Mi Zhu is Mi Zhu, Mi family is Mi family!" ”

Gongsun Du smiled, stepped forward to help Mi Zhu and said, "Okay, I agreed!" ”

"Thank you, Lord Gong, take it in!" Mi Zhu didn't know why, and a feeling of emotion rose in his heart.

Gongsun Du said again: "A certain hope, Mi Zhu is both Mi Zhu and Mi family." After speaking, Gongsun Du ignored Mi Zhu, who was a little stunned, and walked straight out.

Mi Zhu's heart trembled, and he said secretly: Father, I don't know if your decision is right or wrong.

It turned out that before he came, Mi Du had told Mi Zhu about it. Mi Du knows that if you want to be truly recognized by Gongsun Du, you can't do some grain and grass, only loyalty!

However, the problem of the Mi family, Mi Du does not seem to have made up his mind yet, and he is still considering it. But now Gongsun Du undoubtedly directly pushed the Mi family into a corner and forced them to make a choice. In Mi Zhu's mind, if his father Mi Du disagreed, I am afraid that ......