When Zhou Ping returned home, it was already dark, and the door of Zhou's mansion was still full of people who wanted to see the new Zhou Shangshu.

The palanquin driver carried the sedan chair directly into the door and stopped in the courtyard.

The butler stood next to the sedan chair and said respectfully:

"Master, there are Shazhou Thorn Shi Yang Zong, Jiangzhou Weifu Governor Shi Gu, Luojiang Water Division Governor Wen Jiang, and the rest of the twelve officials at the county level, this is a worship post."

Zhou Ping took the prayer post, glanced at the greeting post of the official of the Shangfeng Commander who counted three copies, and commanded in a tired tone:

"These three all replied to the post, my lord, I am busy with affairs, and I have been involved in major events in the army recently, so I have no time."

The housekeeper took the post, bowed down and said: "That Wen Jiang is a general valued by the prince, and it is said that Wen Jiang's surrender was also promoted by the prince." ”

Zhou Ping raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and thought about it carefully:

"Then pick out Wen Jiang's post separately, you can meet in person, and mention my difficulties."

The housekeeper responded, and Zhou Ping supported his tired body into the bedroom and saw his wife and daughter who were whispering.

"The master is back."

"My father is back."

The two asked and talked, and the lady helped Zhou Ping to sit down, poured him tea, and complained:

"The master is now a six-book book, you can't just take care of business, but don't get tired."

Zhou Ping drank the tea, looked at his daughter, and thought of the time when the establishment of the Ordnance Mansion was discussed today, Dani's hair recommended herself, and her heart was instantly unbalanced.

"Zhiqing, you are not too young, haven't you ever thought about joining the army or being an official, but just thinking about getting married?"

Daughter Zhou Zhiqing looked at her father a little stunned, she didn't understand why her father suddenly wanted to let herself join the army, is that what a girl can do to join the army, General Xie Wan was also forced out, and now there are no people.

Mrs. was suddenly dissatisfied: "What happened to you again, why did you think about pushing your daughter into the fire pit." ”

Zhou Ping said about Dani, and supported the whole family with his weak shoulders, even the prince was amazed, and now she was allowed to act as the chief officer of the Ordnance Palace, and in the future, she will be General Mingwei from the fourth grade.

"The Ordnance Mansion will not only be the current grade, I estimate that the prince wants to completely separate the Ordnance Mansion, or it is a grade similar to the Taixi Academy of Sciences, subordinate to the Minister of War, but naturally independent."

"The chief officer of the Academy of Sciences, but the official second only to the Minister of War Banpin, has reached this point as a woman, and Captain Wang is the first person."

Madame listened to Zhou Ping's remarks, and her eyes began to glow.

"Doesn't the Ordnance Mansion have to go to the front line? If this is the case, you can let your daughter in, even if you are married, you don't necessarily have to teach your husband and children at home, our daughter can not be an ordinary family when she marries. ”

Zhou Ping snorted coldly: "What ordinary people, I Zhou Ping started from the cold, what's wrong with ordinary people, ordinary people can't enter the Ordnance Mansion as officials." The prince has already said that in the future, these officials will be selected through examinations, and women can also participate in the examinations. ”

Zhou Zhiqing listened to her father's words, and a light flashed in her eyes, Your Majesty, General Xie Wan, and Captain Dong Ling, these were all examples that she envied, listening to the meaning of her father's words, it seemed that the prince was about to open a new exam again, and he must participate in the exam and become an official of the imperial court.

Holding her wrinkled arms, Zhou Zhiqing said coquettishly: "Father, what exams, what are the contents of the school......

At the same time, a scene similar to Zhou Ping's house began to be staged in the homes of officials all over the capital, all concerned about the content of the school examination and the grade after passing the exam.

In the palace, Su Yun was talking to Su Lu about what he had seen and heard in the north, what happened when he was clearing the remnants of Rouran, and the performance of the generals.

"Our baggage transfer is inconvenient, although there are things like sleds and slides that my brother proposed, but the weather is too cold, and the horses can't stand it."

"Fortunately, there are large flying birds, which solves some of the problems of transporting baggage, if there is no transportation of flying birds, I really don't know what the result will be."

The final stage of the war was to pacify the bandits and deserters everywhere and pacify the herdsmen, which required a large amount of grain and grass to carry a large amount of baggage, and Lao Fan of the baggage battalion almost cleaned his hair.

Su Lu nodded: "Now we lack the tools to transport the baggage, the carriage can't work, although the sleigh can work, but it is a great test for the horses, it would be good if we could develop a train." ”

"Trains?"

Su Yun looked at his brother in amazement, what kind of novelty is this.

Su Lu said casually: "A means of transport, walking on a specific track, can transport a large number of heavy materials, day and night, as long as there is a specific track, this car can go to the ends of the earth." ”

Su Yun pursed his lips: "What you think is quite beautiful, brother, let's still think of something practical, such as asking all over the country to offer horses that can pull sleds in extremely cold weather, or letting the Ordnance Mansion develop new and larger birds." ”

Su Lu asked Gao Dabao next to him: "Dabao, your family is from Jiangzhou, how long does it take to walk here from Jiangzhou?" ”

Gao Dabao calculated carefully, "Back to the prince, it will be twenty days younger, unless I hurry up, I can go faster." ”

Su Lu shook his head, this is just to Jiangzhou, and in the future, when the Tang Kingdom is destroyed, and the land of the Southern Tang Dynasty is occupied, from the south to the north of the country, this time will be longer, and it will take three months to go to the north and south.

"We still have to get the delivery equipment out."

"By the way, I discussed with the people in the military department to reform the military system, prepare to set up a staff office in the military department, and mobilize young generals from the front line to serve in the staff office, are you interested?"

Su Lu looked at Su Yun and asked.

Su Yun's eyes lit up: "How many grades is the staff general?" ”

Su Yun laughed: "The fifth grade starts, the highest is the third grade, and the rest have the staff general of the flying bird soldiers, the staff general of the crossbow artillery, the staff general of the infantry army, and so on." ”

Su Yun's eyes rolled: "Brother, who do you like to be the staff general of these three products?" ”

Su Lu shook his head: "I haven't thought about it yet, if you want to talk about the candidate, it is naturally Dong Ling who is the most suitable, but she is not qualified enough, she has just crossed the rank and promoted the general, and now she has suddenly reached a high position, which is not suitable." ”

Su Yun said with a smile: "Then if I serve as the staff general of these three grades as a princess, it should be no problem." ”

Su Lu looked at Su Yun for a moment, "The grade is enough, but I'm afraid you can't suppress the young generals who were transferred from the front line to the General Staff." ”

Su Yun didn't care at all and said: "Let Dong Ling also come, she will serve as the staff general of the infantry army, she doesn't need me to make a move, she can clean up those thorns." ”

Su Lu glanced at Su Yun: "Then you have to think about it, the grade of this staff office is definitely not so high, the highest is only from the fourth grade, and it will slowly rise up later." ”

Su Yun said impatiently: "I know, I know, brother, you have the final say, by the way, brother, if there is your car, how many days will it take for us to go back to our hometown?" ”

"Half a day"

Su Lu said casually, in the past, I used to take the high-speed rail, a journey of hundreds of miles, and it was completed in a few hours, but I still talked about it for half a day.