Chapter 141, Hou Ye went home

The Tianxuan Dynasty was founded in the third winter of the year.

In ten days or so, it will be the New Year, and the first-class Lei Weihou Mansion, located in the northeast of Chaoge City, is lit up and filled with a festive atmosphere.

Zhang Hao, the head of the Hou Mansion, commanded his subordinates to hang lanterns, sweep the courtyard, purchase flowers, plants, spiritual trees, fruits, vegetables, meat and vegetables for the New Year, and personally saw the gifts to the emperor, the prime minister, the four major families in the capital and the friends of the Hou Lord, and also counted the income of the Zhuangzi and shops in various parts of the Hou Mansion, and sorted out the gifts sent by the ministers of various ministries, wealthy families and princely states, etc., and was busy all day long.

Although there is the help of the chief manager's wife Xiao Ye, Wang Xiaotian and Li Zhongwei, the two leaders of the family, they are not allowed to be idle. However, Mr. Zhang enjoyed it.

Two years ago, Zhang Hao took Wang Xiaotian, Li Zhongwei and other younger brothers to graduate from the college, and then came to Qingshi's Hou Mansion as the head manager. After Zhang Hao came, he carried out a large-scale cleanup of the industries and personnel of the Hou Mansion, abolished mediocrity, recruited talents, expanded industries and channels.

The current Hou Mansion has seven shops dealing in pills and refining materials, four farms, and the first pharmaceutical factory in the history of the Tianlong Continent, the Xuanqing Pharmaceutical Factory.

Among the old people of the Hou Mansion, Zhang Hao only left an honest and reliable dozen, and all the others were sent to the farm, and now there are only about 40 people in the Hou Mansion, with the continuous improvement of the status of Qingshi, there are more and more court officials who come to move around, and they come more and more frequently, and even the kings and ministers of the vassal states and foreign vassal states have begun to come and go.

Zhang Hao felt that there was a shortage of manpower, and he had already asked someone to transfer more than 20 shrewd and capable people from various shop farms to return to the Hou Mansion on errands. In addition, some long-term and short-term workers were also recruited to help in the government.

Zhang Hao, the chief manager, and the leaders of the big and small housekeepers of the Hou Mansion are busy every day, but Qingshi, the Hou Ye, doesn't worry about the affairs of the mansion. He hadn't graduated yet, and he was still concentrating on cultivation in the Martial Arts High School of Tianxuan Academy.

In the past three years, Qingshi's true qi cultivation has reached the seventh stage of the Yuan Dan realm, and he has already caught up with Chen Tianye Duan Wutian, the original big brothers. Reaching such a cultivation at the age of less than thirty is indeed a genius of the world.

In addition to martial arts, Qingshi has made greater progress in the formation path and instrument path, especially the instrument path, and now Qingshi is already a fifth-level Xuanjin Array Master and a fourth-level refiner, and of course it is also a fourth-level alchemist.

With the improvement of his True Qi cultivation, the memories of Xiao Lou's martial arts and techniques in his mind became clearer and clearer, which helped him a lot in improving his cultivation.

Qingshi rarely returned home, and spent a lot of time in the cave near the west gate of the academy, and he continued to study the Xuanhu spaceship, constantly refining and improving its performance, hoping to use it to break free from the shackles of the Celestial Dragon World one day.

In addition, Qingshi also studied puppetry, which is a branch of the instrument path, and is actually inseparable from the formation path. A person who studies the puppet technique must have a certain level of attainment in the formation and instrument paths, and of course there is no problem with Qingshi.

Now, there are already eighteen puppet crews on his Xuanhu, a huge Xuanhu, it is difficult for Qingshi to completely control it alone, with the help of these special puppets, Qingshi is much more efficient in controlling the Xuanhu.

The academy has been on vacation for more than half a month, and Qingshi is not going home, he still stays in that cave to improve the Xuanhu, Qingshi once went to the Royal Battleship Factory to study for two months, and with Qingshi's current status, this is naturally no problem.

Then, Qingshi ordered a large number of equipment and parts from the battleship factory to upgrade his Xuanhu, such as replacing it with more powerful naval guns. Now the Xuanhu is already a giant battleship.

This battleship was originally given to Qingshi by Ou Changzhi, so it doesn't have to worry about trespassing when upgrading it.

After another two days, the transformation goal was completed, and Qingshi was satisfied with the spaceship and prepared to go home.

Zhang Hao finally sat down to drink tea, and a subordinate brought a stack of gift lists, Zhang Hao looked at it casually, this batch of gifts were basically feudal officials from all over the country and some wealthy families of the subject countries. Among them, there are two small officials in the inner government, who also sent some New Year's goods to pay respect, which is a bit out of place.

The officials of the inner government are all close servants of the emperor and know the heart of heaven best, so although their status is low, no one dares to despise them. Under normal circumstances, during the New Year's holidays, the princes and ministers will often prepare some gifts for these minor officials in the inner government, and it is extremely rare for them to take the initiative to give gifts to the princes and ministers.

Zhang Hao saw that the New Year's goods sent by the two minor officials in the inner government were very ordinary, but the words on the gift list were extremely respectful. Zhang Hao pinched the list and muttered to himself for a long time: "It seems that the rumors may be true, after the New Year, the emperor should issue a decree to establish the heir to the throne, and Qingshi should be the first order." ”

Zhang Hao continued to look at the gift list, and suddenly heard a stack of shouts outside the door: "Master Hou is back home!" Hurriedly threw down the gift list and greeted him.

I saw the bluestone falling from the sky, falling steadily in the outer courtyard, and walking towards the inner courtyard with untidy clothes and unrepaired edges. Qingshi was too lazy to walk, and flew back directly using the Flying Snow Armor.

"Hou Ye is healthy!" Zhang Hao first asked for peace, and then greeted him with a smile and said: "You, the marquis, don't go back to the house for a few days all year round, fortunately, you flew in directly, otherwise, the new boy who guards the door doesn't know you, and he won't let you in." ”

"How can it be!" Qingshi smiled, "He dares to stop me and see if I don't kick his ass!" ”

The two laughed and entered the house and sat down, Xiao Ye and a few maids hurriedly came over to invite An to serve tea, Wang Xiaotian, Li Zhongwei and others also came to say hello.

After listening to Zhang Hao's report on some important housework recently, Qingshi smiled and asked, "Senior Brother Mouse, are you a good director of the pharmaceutical factory?" ”

"Good!" Zhang Hao replied with a smile, "No better, we have twenty-one machines, each with a minimum of three and a maximum of seven medicine furnaces, which can produce nine kinds of twenty-three grades of pills, and the twelve pharmacists are all graduated from Tianxuan Academy, and the lowest is also a third-level pill master, and now we are already one of the three major pill manufacturers in the country." ”

"Hmm!" Qingshi nodded with satisfaction, "Okay!" It is necessary to pay attention to the quality of the product, the quality must be destroyed if it does not meet the requirements, and it is not allowed to sell it at a low price. ”

"Yes, yes!" Zhang Hao said, "Originally, several pharmacists didn't understand, saying that medicines with poor quality were also medicines, and they could be sold cheaper, and there was no need to destroy them." I enlightened them one by one, and now everyone understands Master Hou's hard work, so you can rest assured. It definitely can't hurt people, and it can't smash signboards. ”

"That's good!" Qingshi said, "Is there any problem?" If you need me to solve it, just tell me. ”

"There is no big problem," Zhang Hao said, "but there is one thing that many people don't understand, saying that since ancient times, the place where the pill is refined is called a workshop and a hall, but ours is called a factory, which feels very awkward." ”

Qingshi laughed and said, "You want others to call you the owner or the hall master, hahaha...... Don't think the factory director is good? Why don't we change the name of our factory to the company, you call the general manager, and others call you Mr. Zhang when they see you, so is it good? ”

"It's called Gongfu! Seed a donkey! Zhang Chong! Zhang Hao's eyes widened in horror, and he hurriedly said, "No, no, no, the factory director!" It's still the factory director! ”