The first generation of Zhenyuan Marquis is Zhu Yuanzhang's comrade-in-arms Gu Cheng, Gu Cheng's eldest son died early, so the second generation of Zhenyuan Marquis is Gu Cheng's grandson Gu Xingzu. In the Chongzhen period, the last generation of Zhenyuan Marquis was Gu Zhaoji. Gu Zhaoji was killed by the Liukou when Beijing fell in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, and the whole family also died under the Liukou's knife, so the title of Marquis of Zhenyuan is now vacant.

After Gu Congxin heard the news, his heart began to move, but he Gu Congxin was only in the third room, and there was also the second room of the Anshun Gu family above him, according to the law, no matter what the Marquis of Zhenyuan said, Gu Congxin's turn would not be able to. However, Gu Congxin has a good brother-in-law, that is Ma Shiying. After Gu Congxin learned that his brother-in-law had become the first assistant, he began to have ideas about this Zhenyuan Marquis, which was also the main reason why he traveled thousands of miles from Guiyang to Nanjing.

Ma Cheng was not interested in the title of Marquis of Zhenyuan, so he listened to Gu's history of Marquis Zhenyuan casually. Gu Shi didn't say anything when he saw that Ma Cheng was not interested, but smiled and said: "Bao'er, your cousin will come in another month, and your mother and your uncle have already discussed, and we will marry you in the first month!"

Ma Cheng has been in this era for more than half a year, and he has been so busy hitting the back of his head every day in the past six months, and he hasn't even looked for a few women, so he has already forgotten about his little wife, who has just turned fourteen.

What Ma Cheng likes is the kind of mature beauty with big breasts and long legs, what's so good about the kind of junior high school student who hasn't grown up at the age of fourteen? But Ma Cheng knew that in this era, the marriage was arranged, and he couldn't make the decision about his wife at all, so he had no choice but to agree.

"The mother is in charge of this matter, and my son has no opinion!"

Gu Shi saw that Ma Cheng was a little unhappy, not only scolded: "Cheng'er, Guiyang Ma, Gu, Yang, and Yue have been married for generations, and you are still a son-in-law, and you are destined to marry the daughters of the other three families." Most of the generals in your army are now your uncle's subordinates, and you will be more comfortable commanding them when you get married! ”

Hearing his wife say this, Ma Cheng was dissatisfied: "What about the eldest brother? Didn't the eldest brother find the daughter of the Zhang family in Ningbo to marry? ”

It's okay not to mention the boss Ma Luan, but when he mentions Ma Luan Gu's family, his stomach is on fire: "Your eldest brother was bewitched by your uncle Yang Wencong back then, so he had to find a scholarly family, but what was the result?" Your sister-in-law is just the concubine of the Zhang family in Ningbo, and the Yue family is even more of a person, and she has not helped your eldest brother in the officialdom at all, do you want to learn from your eldest brother? You're not ashamed of your old body! ”

As soon as Gu mentioned Zhang's was angry, as soon as the conversation box was opened, he began to scold, Ma Cheng was upset when he heard it on the side, stood up and found a reason to run first.

Leaving the old lady's residence, Ma Cheng came to the front yard, at this time Gu Yong had already returned, and Ma Cheng took his own soldiers and prepared to go to the Weapons Bureau to have a look. In the past few days, Song Yingxing is going to start casting cannons, so he sent a letter to Ma Cheng a few days ago.

Before Ma Cheng went out of the gate, he saw his second brother-in-law and Cao Taiwang coming.

Seeing Cao Taiwang coming to Ma Cheng, he was a little weak-hearted, after all, he played with his wife in front of him last night, what if this guy came to ask for the crime today?

However, when Cao Taiwang walked into Ma Cheng and found him smiling, it was estimated that he was not here to make trouble, after all, no one could still laugh after knowing that he had been cuckolded.

Walking to Ma Cheng's side, Cao Taiwang arched his hand and smiled: "Thank you Zhong and Brother Xian for sending Brother Yu home last night, Brother Xian said that Brother Xian personally carried Brother Yu into the house, and Brother Yu thanked Brother Xian!" After Cao Taiwang finished speaking, he bowed deeply to Ma Cheng and expressed his gratitude.

Seeing that Cao Taiwang didn't come for the green hat, Ma Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, and silently thought in his heart that there was no need to thank him, your wife had already thanked Lao Tzu with her body. At the same time, he said: "There and there, it's all my own brothers, and I have seen these things outside!"

The second brother-in-law, Zhang Erpei, also said with a smile: "Second brother, we are here today in addition to this matter, and there is a big thing to thank you!" This morning, the Ministry of Officials wrote, Brother Cao and I decided to elect officials, Brother Fool went to Xinjian County, Jiangxi Province to serve as a Cheng from Qipin County, and Brother Cao stayed in Beijing to go to the Ministry of Industry to serve as the Eighth Rank Division! ”

Ma Cheng didn't expect Ma Shiying to do things very quickly, and just after talking to him last night, the official document came down this morning. In fact, Zhang Erpei and Cao Taiwang's procedures for selecting officials had already been completed, and they sent the secretary to sign and agree. In the past, the secretary of the ministry was Zhang Shenyan, a member of the Donglin Party, and now the secretary of the ministry has replaced Ma Shiying's hardcore Zhang Jie, as long as Ma Shiying agrees, there is naturally no difficulty on the part of the ministry.

Ma Cheng said with a smile after hearing Zhang Erpei say it: "This is a great event, junior brother congratulations to the two!"

Cao Taiwang took Ma Cheng's hand and said seriously: "Zhonghe, the two of us have to thank Brother Xian, thank you Brother Xian for speaking for us in front of Yuanfu!"

"Hey, how do you know it's Ma Cheng who said it?"

Cao Taiwang said with a smile: "To tell you the truth, Hezhong said to you, the matter between me and the elixir is stuck in the ministry, and Zhang Tianguan doesn't know why he just doesn't agree." But yesterday we just finished talking to Zhong and you, and today we came down with good news, the person who spoke for us is not Zhong He, who else can you be? ”

Hearing Cao Taiwang say this, Ma Cheng didn't hide it: "It's nothing, it's just a gesture of the younger brother, I told my father, both of them are their own family, and their own family doesn't care about their own family, does it make people see jokes?"

Hearing Ma Cheng admit that Cao Zhang and the two were even more affectionate, Cao Taiwang had to take Ma Cheng's hand and arrange for him to drink. Ma Cheng excused himself and said: "Two elder brothers, the younger brother really has something to do today, the younger brother has made an appointment with Xu Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry, and he is going to the Weapons Bureau today to have a look, so I really can't accompany the two elder brothers!"

Because Xu Zhenye took Ma Shiying's path, he is now Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry, and his official position is five-grade. And Cao Taiwang was going to the Camp Division, hearing that Ma Cheng was going to see his chief officer, Cao Taiwang hurriedly asked: "Brother Zhonghe Xian, this Xu Langzhong is the Langzhong of the Camp Division?"

"Yes, can Brother Cao recognize you?"

Cao Taiwang was happy in his heart, this Ma Cheng knew his direct superior, as long as he could rely on Ma Cheng, it seemed that it was not difficult to get promoted and make a fortune.

"Brother Zhonghexian, it just so happens that my brother is fine today, why don't you go to the Weapons Bureau with me to have a look, so that I can familiarize myself with my future work!"

Ma Cheng waited for Cao Tai to look at this, and said with a smile: "Okay, come on, find a sedan chair for Brother Cao!"

The Ma family has its own sedan chair man, listening to the second master say this, the family quickly found a small sedan chair, Cao Taiwang got on the sedan chair and went to Beicheng with Ma Cheng. Zhang Erpei wanted to go home to prepare, so he didn't go along.

Xu Zhenye has been prosperous since he took refuge in Ma Cheng, and he was promoted from the sixth-grade chief to the fifth-grade Langzhong in half a year, so Xu Zhenye is very grateful to Ma Cheng in his heart.

After receiving the notice that Ma Cheng wanted to come to the Weapons Bureau, Xu Zhenye personally took the officials of the Weapons Bureau and stood at the door waiting for Ma Cheng's arrival.

When Xu Zhenye saw Ma Cheng coming to the door, he hurriedly trotted to Ma Cheng's horse, grabbed the horse's reins and said respectfully: "Xiaguan greets the military gate!"

Xu Zhenye is a member of the five ranks, although the official position is not as big as Ma Cheng, but Xu Zhenye is a serious imperial examination official, and it stands to reason that Ma Cheng should salute first when he sees Xu Zhenye. Now Xu Zhenye wants to come forward to lick his belly regardless of his identity, which inevitably makes some officials of the Camp Department very disdainful.

Xu Zhenye knew that these guys under him looked down on him, but Xu Zhenye laughed at these guys in his heart for not knowing how to advance and retreat, Ma Cheng is Ma Shiying's son, and he will do it in the future on this boat, so Xu Zhenye can still be a scholar before Zhishi, as for the class of the elder, Xu Zhenye can't think of it.

Ma Cheng got off the horse, patted Xu Zhenye's shoulder and said with a smile: "Old Xu, how is the work?" Have you had fun? ”

Xu Zhenye said with a smile: "I have to be taken care of by Lord Mengjunmen, and my officials are prosperous, so I am naturally very happy!"

"That's good, that's good!" After Ma Cheng finished speaking, he waved his hand to Cao Taiwang behind him, and then said to Xu Zhenye: "Lord Xu, this is Brother Cao, a good friend of the governor, who has just been assigned to your camp division as a secretary by the official selection of the Ministry of Officials, and will need to be taken care of by Lord Xu in the future!"

Hearing that it was Ma Cheng's good friend, Xu Zhenye didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "This is no problem at all, in the future, Brother Cao Xian will be the official's cronies, please rest assured!"

After Xu Zhenye finished speaking, he said to his colleagues in the Camp Division in the distance: "Everyone come over and meet new colleagues!"

Although the officials of the battalion division despise Xu Zhenye's character, Xu Zhenye is the chief official after all, who dares not to listen to what the chief official says? So they all came over to say hello to Cao Taiwang.

Taking advantage of the implicit time of Cao Taiwang and the others, Ma Cheng whispered to Xu Zhenye: "Old Xu, when this Cao Taiwang is hired, you will arrange heavy work for him, so that he will not be able to go home for ten days and half a month, you know?"

Xu Zhenye didn't understand what Ma Cheng meant, and thought that Ma Cheng wanted to train Cao Taiwang, so he promised: "Don't worry, Lord Junmen, the lower officials will definitely train him!"

Seeing that Xu Zhenye didn't understand what he meant, Ma Cheng scolded: "Fart, Lao Tzu didn't let him become a talent, he let him go home without time!" Lao Tzu fell in love with his wife, how can this guy be happy when he always goes home? ”

Hearing that Ma Cheng was so shameless, Xu Zhenye suddenly realized, and while secretly scolding Ma Cheng in his heart for not being human, he assured: "Xia Guan understands, please rest assured, I promise that I will not delay my adult's romantic and happy life!"

Hearing Xu Zhenye comprehend what he meant, Ma Cheng nodded with satisfaction, and then asked, "The teacher of this governor said that he would refine artillery in the past few days, how is the progress now?"

Xu Zhenye is in charge of the Ministry of Industry's Camp and Cleaning Division, responsible for the country's altar temples, palaces, city walls, government offices, mansions, warehouses, buildings, barracks and other projects. So Xu Zhenye hurriedly called the ambassador of the Ordnance Bureau and asked him how the progress of the artillery was.

The ambassador hurriedly bowed down and said: "Since Lord Song came, the production process has been improved, and the output of the steelmaking mill has increased greatly, and now Lord Song is making iron fans, and the production of cannon bodies will start in the next few days!"

Unexpectedly, Song Yingxing's progress was very fast, Ma Cheng said with satisfaction: "Okay, let's go in and see how it is, by the way, Bendu wants to meet the teacher!"