Ma Cheng was beating, but suddenly realized that his father was a little unscrupulous and didn't listen at all. Ma Cheng asked, "Dad, why are there any trouble in the court?"

Ma Shiying was thinking about her thoughts just now, but after being interrupted by Ma Cheng, he quickly said, "It's nothing, Cheng'er, you tell me about it!"

When Ma Cheng saw that Ma Shiying was full of worries, he could still tell his own destruction at this time. Ma Cheng knew that the party struggles in the court are fierce now, so it must be that Ma Shiying had encountered something difficult, otherwise he would never look like this.

Ma Shiying is Ma Cheng's backstage. If Ma Shiying makes any mistakes, Ma Cheng can't escape, so Ma Cheng quickly asked: "Dad, if you have anything to say, my son will help you analyze it!"

Ma Shiying felt a warm feeling when she saw Ma Cheng's concerned gaze, and her son knew that he cared about him.

Ma Shiying smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just that a few ministers in the court and the father are not dealing with each other!"

Ma Shiying said it lightly, but Ma Cheng knew that party struggles have always been to the death, and Ma Shiying must have encountered some difficult situations in the court.

"Dad, aren't there two uncles? Can't they share their worries and problems for their father?" Ma Cheng said very well. Yue Qijie and Yang Wencong are both bureaucrats with bad hearts. What problems are they unable to solve?

After hearing Ma Cheng say this, Ma Shiying sighed with a wry smile: "Son, you are young and don't understand the situation in the officialdom. Your two uncles are very smart and have made many suggestions for their father, but they both said slightest words and did not help them in the court!"

Ma Cheng knew what happened after hearing Ma Shiying say this. The raw materials Ma Shiying was worried that the people in the court were single and lonely and no one could support him. This is also a problem. Now is the era of party struggles. People in the court fight in groups. Needless to say, the Donglin Party’s righteous people are all masters of group fights. Although Ma Shiying is no less than the Donglin Party in terms of personal quality, it is difficult to match four hands with two fists. If there are too many people, you can’t do anything about it.

Yue Qijie and Yang Wencong showed a disadvantage at this time. These two people were not even qualified to go to court, and they could not help Ma Shiying even if they were powerful.

After hearing Ma Shiying's words, Ma Cheng lowered his head and thought about a solution. He remembered that after his later generations, Ma Shiying quickly introduced Ruan Dacheng after becoming the prime minister. He was an expert in beating and fighting in the nest. Why didn't Ma Shiying recommend Ruan Dacheng yet?

Ma Cheng thought of this and asked, "Dad, my son heard that Ruan Dacheng has an old age with you, and when you started to restore Fengyang Commander or Ruan Dacheng's words, why don't you ask Ruan Dacheng to come out?"

Ma Cheng originally thought that after he said that Ma Shiying would definitely agree. These two people were the iron triangle that harmed the political situation of Nanming, but Ma Cheng did not expect that Ma Shiying shook his head after hearing this opinion.

"Ruan Jizhi was kind to me back then, but Cheng'er thought he was really good for me?" After Ma Shiying said sneer, "I don't know this Ruan Jizhi. I thought I didn't know. He gave Zhou Yanru three thousand taels of gold, and originally wanted to reunite with the Donglin Party. But he knew that Zhou Yanru had taken money and did not do anything, and his reputation was too bad, so the late emperor did not agree with him that Ruan Jizhi's revival was restored, so he died. In the end, he didn't want money to be spent, so he recommended me. Ruan Jizhi's plan was to use me to come out again. Did he think I didn't know?"

After Ma Shiying finished speaking, he looked at Ma Cheng: "Cheng'er, do you think you are the first to plead for him? Yang Longyou recommended Ruan Jizhi in front of me two days ago. Yang Longyou and Ruan Jizhi had a close relationship. This time he probably also collected Ruan Jizhi's silver, so he spoke for him!"

When Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying say this, he quickly explained: "Dad, my son didn't accept Ruan Dacheng's money!"

Ma Shiying heard Ma Cheng say this and said, "Haha, although Ruan Jizhi is shameless, he still has self-esteem. He still looks down on you, a young second-generation ancestor!"

When Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying talk about his ridiculous things in the past, he blushed and explained: "Dad, that's the past, and my son has learned it now!"

Ma Shiying is very satisfied with Ma Cheng's performance these days. All of me hope that his son will make a name for himself. Although Ma Cheng has no progress in his studies, the training of the new army these days has indeed made Ma Shiying look at him with admiration.

Ma Shiying nodded and said, "You guy has been good these days, but don't be proud if you keep going. Do you need any help?"

When Ma Cheng heard Ma Shiying say this, he quickly hit the snake and followed the pole, and said quickly: "Dad, my son still needs money! The muskets made by the Weapon Bureau are not good, so my son has to make them himself!"

Although Ma Shiying is the chief minister of the cabinet, the Minister of Revenue is Gao Hongtu. Ma Shiying can't control Gao Hongtu, but it's still okay if there is no big money or small money.

"Okay, it should be enough for my father to assign 10,000 taels of silver to you!"

Ten thousand taels are ten million, which is a lot of money. After hearing this, Ma Cheng quickly stood up and thanked Ma Shiying.

Seeing that his son was happy, Ma Shiying was also very happy, and waved his hand to let Ma Cheng go down to rest.

After Ma Cheng left, Ma Shiying fell into thinking again. Ma Shiying had thought about what Ma Cheng said just now. It was not that Ma Shiying had seriously considered what he said. Ruan Dacheng was a suitable helper for himself. But Ma Shiying knew very well. Ruan Dacheng was extremely smart and despicable. As long as he came out of the mountain, he would definitely be able to suppress the Donglin Party. But the Donglin Party is not a fuel-saving lamp. As long as he introduced Ruan Dacheng out of the mountain, he would never have a chance to ease with the Donglin Party. In the end, it would definitely be a lasting end.

Now this country has become like this. When Ma Shiying became the chief minister, he originally wanted to extend an olive branch to the Donglin Party and wanted to unite with the Donglin Party to build the country well. Therefore, when Zhang Shenyan recommended Jiang Yueguang and Wang Duo to join the cabinet, Ma Shiying had no objection at all, in order to make a good relationship with the Donglin Party.

But Ma Shiying thinks so much, but the Donglin Party doesn't think so. Not only did you, Ma Shiying, support the King of Fu, but you also ran away Shi Kefa, the candidate of the chief assistant who is our Donglin Party, and now you want to make a good relationship with us. Even if you uncle can tolerate this kind of thing, your aunt cannot tolerate it. So, what does Ma Shiying suggest in our Donglin Party do not work well.

Of course, the most fundamental contradiction between Ma Shiying and the Donglin Party is the issue of rights distribution. Both of these families want to be the boss and everyone wants to have the final say, so naturally they cannot reach an agreement at all.

Ma Shiying thought for a long time, but in the end the pressure from the court made him surrender. Although Ruan Dacheng was not a good person, he was his old classmate after all, and his own single and lonely person really needed help. So Ma Shiying was considering writing a letter to Ruan Dacheng after the third year, asking Ruan Dacheng to go to Nanjing to talk.

Ma Cheng didn't know what he had released. Ma Cheng first went back to the back house to pay homage to his mother Gu, and then returned to his yard to rest.

This is not Fengyang, and the Ma family has no such crampedness as the front yamen and back houses, so Ma Cheng himself has an independent courtyard with three yards in front and back, and a small independent garden, which is very elegant.

The hostess of this small yard is Gu Xiying. Ma Cheng has not come back these days, and Gu Xiying has no best friends to chat at home. Now I am very happy to see Ma Cheng coming home.

Gu Xiying and his maid came forward to salute the master Ma Cheng. When Ma Cheng saw that Gu Xiying was moistened and became more and more beautiful, he smiled and said, "What? Do you miss the master if you haven't come back these days?"

Gu Xiying nodded with a red face: "Yes, can you take me with me when I go out in the future?"

Hearing Gu Xiying say this, Ma Cheng scratched his head: "It's not impossible to bring you with me, but you know that my mother is strict with her. This is not Fengyang. If my relatives and friends of the Ma family see it, they will say that my family has no tutor!"

"Master, why don't I wear men's clothes like Fengyang? Anyway, I'm tall and outsiders can't tell it!"

It was not bad for Ma Cheng to hear Gu Xiying say this, so he nodded as if he agreed.

When Gu Xiying heard Ma Cheng's agreement, she quickly got up and prepared to go to bed for Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng hasn't been home for several days, so the young man is naturally very excited about that. Now seeing Gu Xiying put on a gauze dress and her delicate figure inside, Ma Cheng's heart is very moved.

But Ma Cheng still has some serious business to do tonight. He did not come back with Gu Xiying. He would design a steam engine suitable for the industrial capacity of the Ming Dynasty at night. So Ma Cheng saw Gu Xiying dressed like this and endured his desire. He touched Gu Xiying and turned around to the study.

When he arrived at the study, Ma Cheng calmed down and asked the maid to pour a cup of herbal tea to remove the fire. Then he picked up the pen he made to make and started drawing the design drawing.

The principle of the steam engine is actually not complicated. It is to use steam to push the transmission device and turn steam energy into mechanical energy. As early as the first century AD, the steam rotary ball invented by the ancient Greek mathematician Hero, this is the prototype of the steam engine.

The formal steam engine was invented by French physicist Dennis Baben in 1679. The industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty was no worse than that of Europe, so it was not difficult to trick up the primary steam engine.

However, the steam engine Ma Cheng is going to design today is not the reciprocating steam engine improved by Watt. The reason is very simple. The reciprocating steam engine needs to push the lever to move the piston. However, the Ming Dynasty lacked rubber now and could not be sealed at the piston at all. So Ma Cheng is going to do an upgraded version of the steam engine, a steam turbine.

The principle of a steam turbine is simpler than a steam engine, which is to use boiled water vapor to drive the fan blades to rotate, thereby driving other mechanical movements. Although the principle of a steam turbine is simple, maintaining high-pressure and high-temperature water vapor is a difficult point. However, Ma Cheng already has an idea about how to make steel, so there is no problem with the material. This steam turbine has great hope.

The principle of steam turbine is simple. Ma Cheng and later generations have watched many military programs and are very familiar with the principles of marine steam turbines, so he quickly drew the steam turbine drawings of single fans. Of course, Ma Cheng designed a single fan. The current Ming Dynasty's technology cannot produce the multi-fan shafts of more than ten layers in later generations. However, because of the lack of transmission loss of connecting rods, the thermal efficiency of the steam turbine is far higher than that of the reciprocating steam engine.
Chapter completed!