Zhuge Liang and Zhao Shuang greeted the officials almost at the same time, wanting to recruit Ma Deheng under their command, and the identity between the two was different. Zhao Shuang is just a thousand stones' squire, in terms of rank, just like the order of the big county, Zhuge Liang is the soldier of two thousand stones, and the rank is equivalent to the county guard, not to mention that he is still a captain is Hongfu's protégé, and he is also deeply trusted by the Son of Heaven. Therefore, there is no suspense at all about who the officials will listen to in the end, and which department Ma Jun will be assigned to.

Corresponding to Zhao Shuang's "Xingshi Questioning", Zhuge Liang personally greeted him in front of the house, bowed and apologized, and set down a banquet to entertain Zhao Shuang. He copied the words of Hongfu to explain his behavior: "The world has not yet been decided, and the military affairs cannot be delayed, so Yu thinks that instead of using the degree department, the military department that is not used is also - borrowing it temporarily, and when the Shu thief is calmed, it must be returned with both hands." ”

Zhao Shuang said that Ma Jun is just my disciple, and it is not private property, so what do you mean by "temporary borrowing" and "returning"? In fact, he didn't really hate Zhuge Liang, the friendship between the two would not be disgusted because of such a trivial matter, besides, regarding the distribution of Ma Deheng, each used his own means, in fact, it cannot be said that Kong Ming owes himself.

However, he took the opportunity to propose that Ma Jun had no place to live in the capital, so it was better to let him live in his own home, go to work in the military department during the day, and accept his guidance at night. Zhuge Liang naturally did not allow it.

So Ma Deheng fell into "purgatory", except for eating and sleeping, there was almost no rest - in contrast, Ma Qi was appointed as the secretary of the Liwen Department of Bintu County, Changli County, Pingzhou, although he was thrown thousands of miles away, like a distant stream, but in terms of work, he was definitely much more leisurely than him.

The Arsenal Department of the Ministry of War has a total of one member of Langzhong. Two members of Saro. There are six commanders at all levels and twelve miscellaneous officials. Ma Jun's position is the lowest rank of Lingshi, with a rank of 200 stones, and he can wear a single-beam crown, a soap robe, and a seal without a ribbon. Compared with later generations, this is the lowest official position, probably from the seventh rank, and then the eighth and ninth grades are all officials. The difference in status between officials is like a chasm. However, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and the officials were integrated - the small officials who fought food and Baishi may not dare to call themselves "officials", but even if they are the three dukes, they can also be called "officials". The same is true of Wei's system, it is Hongfu who is unwilling to completely separate the bureaucratic ministers from the front-line clerks, which leads to the vanity and decay of the entire bureaucratic system.

Because of his young age and low qualifications, Ma Jun has been assigned endless chores since he joined the Arsenal Division. In particular, he came up through the Ming Calculation Scientific Examination, so he developed, produced, stored, and transported all relevant weapons and equipment. But when it comes to calculations, all the work falls on his head. He often pulls the abacus beads all day long (including doing the arithmetic problems made by Zhao Shuang at night), which causes the five fingers of his right hand to be stiff and difficult to bend and stretch. The situation was pressing, and Ma Jun was soon forced to practice the ability to dial the abacus with his left hand, and even write with a pen in his left hand - it is not enough to write with two hands and two pens at the same time, but with an abacus in each hand, it is in sight......

It turns out that being an official is so hard, if it weren't for his mother's ardent expectations, but just Ma Jun's own thoughts, it is estimated that he would have stopped picking on his son a long time ago - I would rather go back to my hometown to guard a small mill than make cattle and horses for my colleagues in Luoyang......

Fortunately, Zhao Shuang took good care of Ma Jun. Although Ma Jun received the post, he ate and lived in Zhao's mansion, and Zhao Shuang did not let him pay for his meal, so he saved almost all the rice, and after saving for two months, he hired someone to send him back to his hometown to improve his mother's life. There has been a letter from the martial arts Ma Village, for Ma Qi and Ma Jun to be admitted to the office, the whole village is overjoyed, the patriarch Martin has always been stingy, and he even took out the public money in the clan to feast for three days to celebrate - but it is also very likely, anyway, the position of the patriarch will be passed to Ma Ben according to the promise, and the public money will not be in his own management in the future, so what does it matter if he is extravagant before handing it over?

When Ma Ben came to power, Ma's mother could naturally be taken care of, even if Ma Jun did not send it back, her daily use could also jump to a higher level. However, this is filial piety, and Ma Deheng has no expenses in Beijing, so he should naturally pay tribute to his relatives - Zhao Shuang also praised his move.

However, although Zhuge Liang spent his efforts to transfer Ma Jun to the military department, he almost ignored it in the following months, and Ma Jun only saw this Zhuge squire a few times when he was returning to the official. Zhao Shuang also did not reveal his tone, so Ma Jun did not know that he had to join the military department, relying on the power of Kong Ming.

In a blink of an eye, it was the New Year's Day of Yankang, and before and after the holiday, officials usually had a holiday of nearly half a month. However, although the capital is not far from Wugong, in terms of the traffic conditions of these years, it takes at least 20 days to come and go (unless the horse gallops), so Ma Jun does not dare to return to his hometown. It was the first time in his life that he left his hometown and his mother for the New Year, and he was suddenly homesick, and it was inevitable that the town would sigh for a long time during the day.

The military department always needs to leave a few officials on duty, so Ma Jun took the initiative to take up this burden - he wanted to save up more vacations so that he could return to his hometown to reunite with his mother, and even calculated how much money he had to save to buy a small house in the capital, so he simply took his mother to live with him. It's just that rice is expensive, and the homestead is even more sky-high, if you can't be promoted, it is estimated that there will be no eight or nine or even ten years, and it will be difficult to achieve your wish......

Let's say that on the morning of the fourth day of the first month, Ma Deheng said goodbye to Zhao Shuang as usual and came to the military headquarters to be on duty - saying that he was on duty, in fact, there was nothing to do, just to prepare for emergencies, but it was rare to hide for a while. He first filled in the anthracite produced in Shuozhou, built a stove, and then put a clay pot on the fire, boiled some water, then washed the lacquer cup, sprinkled a small handful of tea given by Zhao Shuang, sat on the fire, and waited for the water to boil. The habit of drinking tea, which began with Kosuke, is said to be able to eliminate food and detoxification, calm the mind and calm the mind, and has become quite popular in recent years. It's just that the source of tea is mainly Shudi, and the states in the south of the Yangtze River have just tried to plant, and the output is very small, so the non-rich and noble families are not allowed to enjoy it. Zhao Shuang's tea is still a gift from Hongfu, the new tea is vested, and the old tea is old, so he simply gave it to his disciple Ma Jun.

Ma Jun also heard that wealthy families such as Zhucao and Xiahou have recently used to crush tea leaves, and make crisp cheese from the north, and even five-flavor seasonings, and then wash them with boiling water - but according to Zhao Shuang, it was Hongfu's words: "This heresy is not the right way to drink tea!" ”

In recent years, the north has been relatively quiet, and Tuoba Xianbei has been attached to Shuo and Xianbei for a long time, and its chieftain Jiefen has been worshiped as the Marquis of Guiyi; the western part of Liangzhou is in decline; The secluded and peaceful eastern Xianbei lord Kebineng also sent a tribute to worship the righteous marquis, and another lord Budugen escaped from the fortress...... The mutual trade between China and Xianbei and Karasuma is very prosperous, and various specialties from Hudi can often be seen in Luoyang City, including crisp cheese, but whether it is Zhao Shuang or Ma Jun, they can't afford to eat it normally.

Ma Jun boiled the water, made tea, and sat in the hall in a daze with the lacquer cup in his hands. Having leisure, it is inevitable to miss his family and old friends, and I don't know if Ma Qi has successfully arrived in Pingzhou, let alone what his mood is at the moment after Chen Wei was defeated, and whether he has studied hard in order to get off to Kede Middle School - this year, communication is very underdeveloped, there was a letter in Ma's Village, but there was no mention of Chen Yun, how did Ma Jun know that Chen Zifu had actually become a traitor and had already escaped from the realm of Cao Wei......

Thinking of Chen Yun, I couldn't help but think of the set of "The First Words of Physics" - it's a pity, I don't know when I will see it again, and I will finish reading the next few volumes. In fact, there is a set in Zhao Shuang's study, because Zhao Junqing is also one of the compilers, but when Ma Jun read the first two volumes that day, he simply skipped the name of the editor who was full of two pages between the preface and the main text - it was Hongfu but not Lu Buwei, and he would not just pass on his own name, but obliterate all the real writers - if he knew that Zhao Shuang was also involved, he would definitely propose to borrow it. He had visited a bookstore in search of the book, but found nothing.

It's a work by Kosuke, and even if it's a bestseller in these years, whether you can read it or not, as long as you can afford it, you can buy it, and you must have a collection of letters at home, even if it's a book as difficult as "The First Words of Physics", it's been out of stock for months.

Ma Jun couldn't help but sigh, finally got a moment of leisure, at this moment the huge military department is only he and two fighting food officials left, if you can hot tea in one hand, the first word of physics in the other, read all day in one breath, how comfortable it is.

He wanted to relax, but he was bored—he had been busy for months, and he felt uncomfortable when he suddenly became idle—and he felt uncomfortable when he suddenly became idle—and there were some books in the pavilion, although they were all tactics of war that he was not very interested in, but he was also idle, so he might as well take them and read them to kill time.

As soon as he got up, suddenly a small official rushed in from outside the door, bowed down and reported: "Zhuge Shilang sent someone to summon Ma Lingshi." When Ma Jun heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and said in his heart that although Zhuge Liang was a friend of his teacher, he had no contact with him, and his position was separated by more than ten levels, what was he suddenly summoning himself? Is there a miscalculation of the account, and you have to call yourself to reprimand? Or is there something urgent temporary, and Ling Shi on duty is the only one on duty......

I had to put down the teacup, pull out my legs and go to the main hall. The little official hurriedly stopped and explained: "No, the squire is not in the ministry, the task force is here, and Shi is summoned to go outside the city." ”

Ma Jun was confused, and in a daze, he followed the little official out of the door and boarded the carriage that came to greet him. The carriage galloped all the way out of the west gate of Luoyang, Ma Deheng saw that this road seemed to be quite familiar, so he immediately asked: "Wei, unknown waiter, waiter...... Where and where will I go? But the driver just shook the reins with his head and ignored him.

Sure enough, the surrounding scenery became more and more familiar, and the carriage finally galloped into a village courtyard - it was the village courtyard that Ma Jun had lived in during the imperial examination. This time, Ma Deheng was even more confused, and said that Zhuge Liang was looking for me, not in the government office, nor at his house, but he came to Taiwei's other business, what is his intention? Ah, I think that in order to vent his anger, Chen Zifu carved sixteen characters on the beams and pillars of the main hall of the other courtyard, although the name was deleted later, don't you finally be discovered, right? Because I am a fellow villager with Chen Xuan, I was summoned to inquire?

Thinking about it, Chen Xun is quite good to himself, and he is in the same village, how can he betray him? But after thinking about it again, since he summoned himself, he must have locked the target for Chen Xuan, even if he didn't recruit him, I am afraid that he would not be able to escape punishment...... But in that case, what do you call yourself to do? It's just that there is no reason for fellow villagers to sit together! (To be continued......)

PS: I forgot to say, in yesterday's chapter, the reader "September Sakura Fei" appeared and played Qian Ying.