The first generation of Zhenyuan Marquis was Zhu Yuanzhang's comrade Gu Cheng. Gu Cheng's eldest son died early, so the second generation of Zhenyuan Marquis was Gu Xingzu, the legitimate grandson of Gu Cheng. During the Chongzhen period, the last generation of Zhenyuan Marquis was Gu Zhaoji. Gu Zhaoji was killed by bandits when the city of Beijing fell in the 17th year of Chongzhen, and his whole family died under the sword of bandits, so the title of Zhenyuan Marquis is now vacant.

After hearing the news, Gu Congxin began to move in his heart, but Gu Congxin was only a third wife, and there was also a second wife of Anshun Gu family. According to the law, the Zhenyuan Hou was not the turn of Gu Congxin. However, Gu Congxin had a good brother-in-law, Ma Shiying. After Gu Congxin learned that his brother-in-law became the chief minister, he began to have ideas about the Zhenyuan Hou. This was also the main reason why he traveled from Guiyang to Nanjing from thousands of miles away.

Ma Cheng was not interested in the title of Zhenyuan Hou, so he listened to Gu's talk about the history of Zhenyuan Hou. Gu saw that Ma Cheng was not interested, so he stopped talking, but instead smiled and said, "Baoer, your cousin will be here in another month. I have already discussed it with my mother and your uncle. We will get you married in the first month!"

Ma Cheng has been in this era for more than half a year. He is so busy that he can't even find a few women every day, so he has long forgotten his wife, who has just turned fourteen.

What Ma Cheng likes is a mature beauty with big breasts and long legs. What's the point of that kind of junior high school student who has not grown up at the age of fourteen? But Ma Cheng knew that marriage arrangements in this era, and he could not make any decisions about his wife's choice, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

"It's enough for me to make the decision on this matter, my son has no objection!"

Gu saw Ma Cheng a little unhappy and not only cursed: "Cheng'er, Guiyang Ma, Gu, Yang, and Yue families have been married for generations, and you are still the legitimate son, and you are destined to marry the daughters of the other three families. Now most of the generals in your army are your uncle's subordinates, and you will be more at ease after getting married!"

After hearing what his mother said, Ma Cheng said dissatisfiedly: "What about the eldest brother? Didn't the eldest brother get married to the daughter of the Zhang family in Ningbo?"

It’s okay if you don’t mention the eldest son Ma Luan. When you mention Ma Luan, Gu was furious: “Your elder brother was bewitched by your uncle Yang Wencong, and he insisted on finding a scholarly family. What’s the result? Your sister-in-law is just a concubine of the Zhang family in Ningbo, and the Yue family is even more of a juren. She has no help to your elder brother in the officialdom. Do you want to learn from your elder brother? You don’t think you are embarrassed or embarrassed!”

When Gu mentioned Zhang, he became angry and started scolding as soon as he opened his mouth. Ma Cheng was upset when he heard it by the side, so he stood up and found a reason to run away first.

Ma Cheng left my mother's residence and came to the front yard. Gu Yong had already returned. Ma Cheng took his personal soldiers to the Weapon Bureau to check out. Song Yingxing was going to start casting cannons these days, so he sent a letter to Ma Cheng a few days ago.

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

Seeing Cao Taiwang coming, Ma Cheng felt guilty. After all, he played with his wife in front of him last night. What if this guy came to the door to ask for guilt today?

However, when Cao Taiwang walked into Ma Cheng, he found that he was smiling. He probably wasn't here to cause trouble. After all, no one could laugh after knowing that he was cuckolded.

Walking to Ma Cheng, Cao Taiwang bowed and smiled, "Thank you last night for sending Brother Yu back home. I said that it was my brother who personally carried Brother Yu into the house. Brother Yu thanked me!" After Cao Taiwang said that, he bowed deeply to Ma Cheng and expressed his gratitude.

Seeing that Cao Taiwang was not coming for the sake of cuckold, Ma Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and silently said in his heart that there was no need to thank him. Your wife had already thanked me with her body. At the same time, she said, "There are all my brothers there, and I'm talking about these things!"

The second brother-in-law Zhang Erpei also smiled and said, "Second brother, in addition to this matter, we have another major event to thank you! This morning, the Ministry of Personnel issued a document, and Brother Cao and I decided to choose an official. Brother Yu went to Xinjian County, Jiangxi to serve as the seventh-rank county magistrate. Brother Cao stayed in Beijing and went to the Ministry of Works to serve as the eighth-rank chief secretary!"

Ma Cheng didn't expect that Ma Shiying was doing things quickly. He just finished talking to him last night and came out this morning's official documents. In fact, the procedure for selecting officials by Zhang Erpei and Cao Taiwang had already completed, and he just signed and agreed. The former Minister of Personnel was Zhang Shenyan, a member of the Donglin Party. Now the Minister of Personnel has replaced Ma Shiying's iron-core Zhang Jie. As long as Ma Shiying agrees, it will naturally be no difficulty in the Ministry of Personnel.

After hearing Zhang Erpei's words, Ma Cheng laughed and said, "This is a great joy. I congratulate you both!"

Cao Taiwang took Ma Cheng's hand and said seriously: "Zhonghe, we both want to thank you brother. Thank you for speaking to us in front of Yuanfu!"

"Hey, how do you two know what Ma Cheng said?"

Cao Taiwang smiled and said, "To be honest, telling you, Lingyao, my affairs and I are stuck in the Ministry of Personnel. Zhang Tianguan didn't know why he just disagreed. But yesterday we just finished talking to Zhong and you, and today we got good news. Who else can you be if you are not Zhong and you?"

After hearing Cao Taiwang say this, Ma Cheng stopped hiding: "It's nothing, it's just a little bit of work for me. I told my father that both of them are their own family members. Is it a joke for them to be careless about their own family members?"

After hearing Ma Cheng admit that Cao Zhang and the other two were even more intimate, Cao Taiwang insisted on holding Ma Cheng's hand to arrange for him to drink. Ma Cheng refused: "Two brothers, I really have something to do today. I have made an appointment with Doctor Xu of the Ministry of Works. I want to go to the Weapons Bureau today. I really can't accompany the two brothers!"

Because Xu Zhenye took Ma Shiying's way, he is now a doctor in the Ministry of Works' Department of Construction and Training, and his official position is the fifth rank. Cao Taiwang is going to the Department of Construction and Training. When he heard that Ma Cheng was going to meet his chief officer, Cao Taiwang quickly asked, "Brother Zhonghe, is this doctor Xu the doctor in the Department of Construction and Training?"

"Yes, Brother Cao can recognize it?"

Cao Taiwang was happy. 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 money.

"Brother Zhong and Weird, it just happened that my brother was fine today. Why not go to the Weapon Bureau with him to check it out and get familiar with your future work!"

Ma Cheng waited for Cao Taiwang's words and said with a smile: "Okay, come here, find a sedan chair for Brother Cao!"

The Ma family had a sedan chair owner. After hearing what the second master said, the servant quickly found a sedan chair. Cao Taiwang got into the sedan chair and went to the north city with Ma Cheng. Zhang Erpei wanted to go home to prepare, so he did not follow him.

Since Xu Zhenye defected to Ma Cheng, he has a prosperous career. In half a year, he was promoted from the sixth-rank chief to the fifth-rank doctor, so Xu Zhenye was very grateful to Ma Cheng.

After receiving the notice that Ma Cheng wanted to come to the Weapons Bureau, Xu Zhenye personally brought officials from the Weapons Bureau to stand at the door waiting for Ma Cheng's arrival.

When Xu Zhenye saw Ma Cheng coming to the door, he quickly ran to Ma Cheng's horse, held the reins of the horse and said respectfully: "Please welcome the military master!"

Xu Zhenye is a fifth-rank doctor. Although his official position is not as good as Ma Cheng, Xu Zhenye is a serious imperial examination officer. It is logical that Ma Cheng should be polite to see Xu Zhenye first. Now Xu Zhenye is going to go forward to lick his butt regardless of his identity, which inevitably makes some officials in the Battle of the Military Affairs Department very despised.

Xu Zhenye knew that these guys under him looked down on him, but Xu Zhenye laughed in his heart for not knowing how to advance and retreat. Ma Cheng is Ma Shiying's son, and he will be the minister of the minister in the future when he boarded this boat. If Xu Zhenye could still be a minister before resignation, as for the class of the cabinet, Xu Zhenye would never dare to think about it.

Ma Cheng got off the horse and patted Xu Zhenye on the shoulder and smiled, "Old Xu, how is your job? Are you happy?"

Xu Zhenye laughed and said, "I have to take care of the emperor of the military, and I have a prosperous career, so I am naturally very happy!"

"That's good, that's good!" After Ma Cheng said that, he waved to Cao Taiwang behind him, and then said to Xu Zhenye: "Mr. Xu, this is my good friend, Brother Cao. He was just assigned to your Military Affairs Office as the Chief Secretary by the Ministry of Personnel. He needs more care from the future!"

When Xu Zhenye heard that he was Ma Cheng’s good friend, he did not dare to neglect and quickly bowed and said, “This is absolutely fine. Brother Cao will be my confidant in the future. Please rest assured by the military!”

After Xu Zhenye finished speaking, he said to his colleagues from the Training Department in the distance: "Everyone comes here and meets new colleagues!"

Although those officials from the Military Affairs Department did not consider Xu Zhenye's character, Xu Zhenye was the chief official after all. Who dared not to listen to the chief official's words? So they all came over to say hello to Cao Taiwang.

While Cao Taiwang and everyone were being implicit, Ma Cheng whispered to Xu Zhenye: "Old Xu, when Cao Taiwang gets into the position, you can arrange a lot of work for him so that he can't go home for ten days and half a month, do you know?"

Xu Zhenye didn't understand what Ma Cheng meant, and thought Ma Cheng wanted to train Cao Taiwang, so he promised: "Don't worry, the military lord, the subordinates will definitely train him!"

Seeing that Xu Zhenye didn't understand what he meant, Ma Cheng cursed: "Fuck, I'm not letting him become a talent, but to let him have no time to go home! I'm in love with his wife. How can I be happy when I always go home?"

When Xu Zhenye heard that Ma Cheng was so shameless, he suddenly realized. While cursing Ma Cheng in his heart, he promised: "I understand, please rest assured, so I will not delay my love and happiness!"

After hearing Xu Zhenye understand his meaning, Ma Cheng nodded with satisfaction, and then asked: "The teacher of this governor said that he would refine artillery these days. How is the progress now?"

Xu Zhenye is in charge of the Ministry of Works' Construction and Cleaning Office, and is responsible for the national projects such as temples, palaces, city walls, government offices, government offices, warehouses, government offices, barracks, etc. He is busy with daily affairs, so where can he keep an eye on the Weapon Bureau every day? So Xu Zhenye quickly called the ambassador of the Weapon Bureau to ask him how the artillery progress was.

The ambassador quickly bowed and said, "Since Lord Song came, he improved the production process and the steelmaking workshop's output has increased significantly. Now Lord Song is making iron models. The production of cannon bodies will start in the next few days!"
Chapter completed!