The old military division's Zhou family's third room and his party were huge, and they alarmed the old lady in the fourteenth room of the Zhou family. Although he himself did not mean to publicize it, the news still spread.

By the evening of the same day, almost all the relatives and friends of the two streets in front and behind the Zhou family knew the news that the old lady of Sanfang Ma and the family member Zhou Shigong had built a private glass workshop and dug up the craftsmen of the border army workshop.

The Zhou clan was in an uproar.

Today, the three glass workshops in the northwest, whether it is the small one in Suzhou, or the lowest technical level in Ganzhou, or the largest, the most craftsmen, the highest skill and the most profitable in Chang'an, all belong to the name of the Northwest Border Army, and the profits are used to supplement military expenses, help wounded veterans, etc., just started, only to return to the capital, not yet to really make money, their own money is not enough, where can withstand others to go out?

The person who scavenged for the money is still the Zhou family who knows the real financial situation of the border army, so it is even more unforgivable!

Originally, there were many children of the Zhou family guarding the border guards, if the days were really difficult, and the food and grass were not continuous, ask the relatives for help, and those who had enough money and food on hand could also receive one or two. And those children of the Zhou family who were assigned to relatively wealthy and well-populated border towns, if they also want to build a glass workshop on their own territory, then when the craftsmen in Chang'an are sufficiently trained, it is not impossible to send a few people over to help. Anyway, the workshop produced glass, and the money from the sale was also subsidized for military expenses, and the fertilizer and water did not flow into the fields of outsiders, but flowed into the fields of the border army.

It's just that now the three glass workshops have a total of craftsmen, which is not enough at all, and of course it is necessary to give priority to meeting the production needs of Chang'an workshops. The money earned back by the Chang'an workshop is subsidized by the entire Northwest Frontier Army, and everyone can get benefits, so they are naturally in a priority position. If other guards want to have their own glass workshops, they have to wait patiently until the Chang'an workshop has spare power.

As for other big families, they also want to build a glass workshop to get a piece of the pie...... The Zhou family can't stop it, and the border army can't stop it. As long as they don't dig up the people of the border army, but find another way to find another glassmaker in the Western Regions, then let them go. If they really have the ability to find good craftsmen, maybe the border army can still think of ways to recruit people, which is more convenient than cultivating them from scratch.

But this can't include the Zhou family's own people, especially the Zhou family, who has no army under his command and doesn't need to rely on merchants to make money to supplement military expenses! Not to mention that the third room of the Zhou family is still poaching people from the workshop of the border army. Isn't this cutting the meat of the border army to fatten yourself?! The Zhou family has been loyal and good for generations, when did such a moth come out? !

Since the old military division left the third room of the Zhou family, Zhou Shigong has not been a guest, cousins and brothers of the same generation in the clan have come over, and even nephews have come to inquire about the news. Zhou Ma found an excuse to leave home and escaped for the time being, but Mrs. Ma never stopped the female guests.

It was probably because Mrs. Ma's reputation in the past was too good, and most of the clan ladies felt that there was some misunderstanding when they first heard the news? Someone probed the fourteenth old lady, and the fourteenth old lady didn't mean to cover up for Mrs. Ma at all, and scolded her for a bloody dog, and even told some of her black history in the past.

The men in the fourteenth room are basically in the army, only a few children are still raised at home, and the fourteenth old lady herself is the widow of a fallen officer, and she knows very well how important the money and food earned by the border army merchants are to the bereaved family of the border army, even if she has been a follower to Mrs. Ma for decades, she has never been a stammer, but now she is also angry, and there is no way to forgive Mrs. Ma for what she did. She also knew that Mrs. Ma had done some inappropriate things in the past, and she used to be careful to cover up for the latter, but now she doesn't want to cover it up anymore, once it is exposed, it will hurt Mrs. Ma's reputation very much.

The ladies who came to the door were all persuading Mrs. Ma not to be confused, and they couldn't forget the foundation of the Zhou family for generations because the old lady of the third room retreated to the rear and stayed away from the battlefield for decades, and the eldest sons and grandchildren of the family were all from literature to the army. The old lady of the third room has presided over the logistics of the border army for decades, and has never dug the foot of the border army, and hates the moths in the army the most, and I don't know how many sinners who are greedy for military funds have been caught. How could his widow and eldest son go against his will and do what he hated most in his life? I'm afraid that if he knows something about the old man, he will be angry and come back to life!

Mrs. Ma has been accustomed to hearing praise since she married into the Zhou family, when has she encountered this kind of concubine pointing her nose and scolding, her nephew and daughter-in-law insinuating and scolding, and even her nephew and daughter-in-law can come to her to find her unhappy? At first, she could still pretend to be a white lotus, and she repeatedly said that it was a "misunderstanding", which made people think that she had been wronged, but after hearing it, she couldn't maintain the expression on her face, stretched her face and served tea to the guests, and then without waiting for a new group of guests to come to the door, she claimed to be sick and closed the door.

Zhou Shigong hurriedly used the excuse that his stepmother was ill and sent the guests away, and since then the door has been closed and no longer accepts new guests.

However, if real guests can still be turned away, how can the family treat outsiders with courtesy? Those cousins of the same generation who came directly to the door, ignored the obstruction of the servants, and broke into the main courtyard as soon as they lifted the person, and Zhou Shigong couldn't really beat the person out, and he couldn't beat a group of retired veterans if he wanted to, so he could only continue to be sprayed. In order to alleviate his guilt, he sacrificed the banner of "filial piety" as usual, and put all the responsibility on his stepmother, Mrs. Ma, declaring that he was forced by his stepmother.

It's just that the people of the Zhou clan have gotten the news and know that this glass workshop is recorded in the name of Zhou Shigong's eldest son, Zhou Jinpu. Saying that Zhou Shigong does not need to be responsible for this matter, who can accept it? Everyone began to count down his godson again, and asked people to directly call Zhou Jinpu back and scold him in the court.

Since Zhou Shigong can shirk responsibility in the name of filial piety, his son must also be bound by "filial piety" and must be scolded honestly, but any rebuttal is unfilial and rude. Zhou Jinpu has been spoiled since he was a child, when did he suffer such grievances? couldn't bear it for a while, so he showed the uncles of the cousin clan a look, and finally ran away with a black face.

Seeing this, the people of the Zhou clan sprayed at Zhou Shigong for a long time. Zhou Shigong could only smile bitterly again, claiming that the child was spoiled by his grandmother, and he didn't dare to take care of it.

Several of his cousins felt that although Mrs. Ma had meritorious service in raising her stepson and stepgrandchildren, she had raised her stepson into a literati and did not inherit the fine military tradition of the Zhou family; raised his step-grandson to be a gentleman, and he didn't even follow the etiquette in front of his elders, which shows that his upbringing failed.

Although Zhou Shigong's step-family, Zhou Ma's clan, has always had a mediocre reputation in the clan, and many people say that she is unkind to her mother and refuses to raise her stepson, but seeing that she raised her biological son into a stable officer, she didn't do anything bad to her stepson, and she could still pay money to help the down-and-out clansmen, so she was not an unvirtuous and wicked woman. I knew that Mrs. Ma was so unreliable, so it was better to hand over Zhou Jinpu to Zhou Ma's upbringing! Even if Zhou Ma doesn't care about his stepson and teaches a mediocre person, it is better than a rude and unfilial moth among the descendants of the Zhou family, stepping on the face of his grandfather and ancestors to the ground!

The old generals used to respect Mrs. Ma because of the old lady in the third room, and now they despise Mrs. Ma, also because of the old lady in the third room, and they can't see his widow ruining his reputation behind him.

They have been fighting horses for half their lives, and they see that people are not easily affected by public opinion in the back house, and they only trust their comrades. Mrs. Ma has had a good reputation for most of her life, and she is highly regarded among her relatives and daughters, and in the eyes of the old generals, she is not as credible as the accusations of the old military advisor.

Mrs. Ma's good character design is collapsed today.

(End of chapter)