The next day, when Hou Dayong appeared in the government office, everyone's eyes lit up. His hair was neatly combed and his beard was shaved clean. On weekdays, Hou Dayong was always wearing military uniforms, but today hem was wearing a purple regular dress, with a round neck and big sleeves, a horizontal silhouette on his lower hem, a leather belt around his waist, a buckle on his head, and a boot on his feet. Hou Dayong was quite arduous when choosing clothes. It was very inconvenient to wear military uniforms on weekdays, but in the yamen, he could not always appear as a military general. After all, he was a senior official, not a simple military officer.
Du Gang and Chen Meng always felt awkward when they saw Hou Dayong dressing like this.
Hou Dayong summoned Liang Shouheng to the military officer, talked about specific issues such as the production of crossbow arrows and long swords in the blacksmith shop, and raised the question of how to resettle refugees. Liang Shouheng suggested that refugees go to build river embankments. Hou Dayong thought of this good idea and agreed immediately. Liang Shouheng saw that Hou Dayong was willing to listen to his opinions and was easy to get along with, and was very happy.
At this time, Zhengzhou Chief Fu Yanhui came to visit Hou Dayong. According to the Tang system, whenever the governor is short of a member or as a prince, the chief minister, Sima and other superiors can take charge of the state affairs. However, under normal circumstances, the superiors do not have specific positions. Because of their high character and high salary and no personal practice, they are often used to treat the royal family or place idle officials, so this type of official is also called "sending old officials".
The chief secretary Fu Yanhui is the brother of the King of Wei Fu Yanqing. There are many military generals of the Fu family. Fu Yanhui is one of the rare literati. After Hou Dayong arrived in Zhengzhou, he has been in Daming Mansion. Today, he came to see Hou Dayong in a hurry when he returned to Zhengzhou. Hou Dayong had heard of Fu Yanhui's name. He was an old minister of the Han and Zhou dynasties. Because of his illness, he was sent to Zhengzhou as the chief minister and did not do specific matters. Hou Dayong was very polite to Fu Yanhui, who could be called the royal relative. Hou Dayong invited Fu Yanhui to his study room, and after he settled down, he made a cup of tea.
Fu Yanhui said politely: "I have not been at home after the Hou Envoy arrived in Zhengzhou. I just came to see you today. I am really sorry."
"I've just come to Zhengzhou for the first time and am not familiar with government affairs. I hope the chief minister can help you."
The two of them said a lot of polite nonsense. However, most of the things people say in their lives are nonsense. Nonsense gives us a relaxed social environment. If everyone only says meaningful words, the number of people suffering from mental illness will definitely increase greatly.
Hou Dayong only said that Fu Yanhui was making a polite visit. After chatting for a while, Fu Yanhui suddenly said, "When I came back from Daming Mansion, I heard that Fu Ying, the four girls of the Fu family, had a lot of relationship with the envoy. The envoy had no wife, so I didn't know what to plan."
Hearing this, Hou Dayong remembered what Chai Rong asked and thought to himself: "Fu Ying had an engagement with the He family, and He Hui was beheaded. I wonder if the marriage is counted. Is Fu Yanhui hinting to me?"
Hou Dayong had a good impression of Fu Ying, but it was not yet at the point of talking about marriage. What's more important is that Hou Dayong always believed that he was a wife and never thought of getting married again. Chai Rong mentioned this matter on the same day, but there was no movement later. Hou Dayong thought Chai Rong was just talking about it casually. Now it seems that Chai Rong had some advice at that time.
Fu Yanhui's trip was specifically for this matter. On that day, the governor of Shouzhou, He Hui, proposed marriage to the Fu family, and Fu Yanqing agreed to the marriage. Empress Fu secretly sent someone to inquire and found out that He Song was a slutty young man. She was very dissatisfied. Fu herself had a painful lesson. Her first husband was Li Chongxun, the son of Li Shouzhen, the governor of the Later Han River. This person was a little crazy and caused Fu to suffer a lot. Fu did not want his sister to repeat the same mistake, so she persuaded her father to withdraw from the marriage.
At this moment, the Battle of Gaoping broke out, and then He Hui was killed, so the marriage was naturally abandoned. Under the entrusted by the queen, Chai Rong had been looking for a suitable husband for Fu Ying, and he chose it all over and over, but he didn't like it.
Since Hou Dayong came to the Guards Office, he often followed Chai Rong. Hou Dayong commanded the Black Eagle Army to make many contributions. What is even more rare is that Hou Dayong was clear-headed and made valuable suggestions many times. When besieging Taiyuan, Fu Yanqing and Hou Dayong respectively proposed the suggestion that the time was not ripe and the troops would be withdrawn as soon as possible. At that time, Taiyuan could be broken at any time, and Chai Rong insisted on attacking for a few more days to break the city. Unfortunately, it encountered continuous heavy rain, which led to the defeat of Taiyuan.
After the Battle of Cangzhou, Chai Rong had asked someone to investigate Hou Dayong's life experience. He knew that he had returned from the north and had no entanglement with the powerful and powerful in the court. All his relatives in his family died of military disasters. After the Gaoping War, Chai Rong intended to marry Fu Ying to Hou Dayong, so he had a question on that day.
Fu's mother knew about Hou Dayong's situation and was quite satisfied with all aspects, but Fu's mother was a stubborn man. On that day, Fu escaped from the chaos army, and she actually wanted Fu to become a nun. This time, she hoped that Hou Dayong could come to the woman to propose marriage, which would be more etiquette. Therefore, she called Fu Yanhui to Daming Mansion, explained it clearly in person, and asked her to be a lobbyist.
Fu Yanhui described the past and back, including Chai Rong's attitude. Hou Dayong knew that this matter could not be changed, so he agreed to choose an auspicious day to formally propose marriage to the Fu family.
After seeing Fu Yanhui off, Hou Dayong was in a mess and had no intention of working, he handed over the political affairs to Liang Shouheng and returned to the yard. "In history, Zhao Kuangyi married six daughters of the Fu family, and Chai Rong married the eldest daughter of the Fu family. Now the four daughters of the Fu family are married to me. If nothing unexpected happens, I will become my brother-in-law with the emperors of the two dynasties, and accompanying the king is like a tiger. For me, I don't know whether it is a blessing or a disaster. After Chai Rong dies, will I become the target of Zhao Kuangyin's elimination? Where should I go in the future and join Zhao Kuangyin?"
Chunlan Qiuju saw that Hou Dayong's face was extremely bad, and she did not joke with the two after she came back. Knowing that Hou Dayong had encountered a difficult situation, she quickly brought tea and water. After finishing her work, she went to do her own work.
Hou Dayong locked himself in the house, took out his cell phone, and his wife and daughter appeared in front of him. Hou Dayong felt that accepting the marriage was a betrayal of his wife, and he repeatedly listened to his wife's instructions: "Husband, be careful of your health, don't work too hard, drink less alcohol, and miss me and my sister." Hou Dayong stayed alone in the house for a long time before leaving.
Hou Dayong thought repeatedly in the house and finally made up his mind, "No matter whether the east wind overwhelms the west wind or the west wind overwhelms the east wind, or the old saying, the power comes from the gun, as long as he has the strength, he can advance or retreat. As Chai Rong's brother-in-law, he must be low-key in his actions. The scale of the official blacksmith shop must be reduced, otherwise it will easily attract others' attention. However, other businesses such as silk and tea can be represented by Fu Gong and others."
After making up his mind, Hou Dayong took off his regular clothes, put on casual clothes, and decided to go to the blacksmith shop opened by Fugong to check their production situation. Hou Dayong asked Fugong to gather the best craftsmen together, conduct new technology experiments, and manufacture high-quality weapons. Other blacksmith shops only produce ordinary farm tools. Hou Dayong named this blacksmith shop Fujia Iron Shop, which is called Fugong's industry. Fugong came from Cangzhou and was not known to outsiders. Hou Dayong asked him to establish his own business, specializing in various businesses for Hou Dayong, and became Hou Dayong's agent.
After Fujia Iron Shop used a tool that was super-era - a piston-type bellows, the furnace temperature was greatly increased. Du Baoyi tied the pig iron and soft iron sheets together, sealed them with mud, and smelted them into the furnace to obtain better quality steel pouring. Hou Dayong observed next to him, thinking about the craft he saw at his second uncle's house when he was a child, which seemed to be available here, so he called masters such as Dou Tian and Du Baoyi, told them the ideas and let them practice them.
"I know a method, but I don't know if it's feasible. I have seen people put the cooked iron into the furnace and heat it first, and then put one end of the pig iron into the furnace mouth to heat it. When the furnace temperature is very high, the cooked iron softens and the pig iron will continue to melt. Use pliers to pinch the cast iron blocks to make the iron water evenly pour onto the cooked iron. After the pouring, stop blowing, clamp out the steel ball, and hammer it on the anvil. This will make good steel."
Dou Tian and Du Baoyi were guided by Hou Dayong and regarded Hou Dayong as a celestial being. Seeing that Hou Dayong said this method, although he did not know the effect, he would not be wrong. Anyone who is obsessed with something and studied it for a long time, as long as his IQ is normal, he would probably become a master of this. Dou Tian and Du Baoyi were both obsessed with this theory. They were the top craftsmen at that time. Their masterpieces - Cangzhou Iron Lion, in modern times, were also a model of ancient technology. The two of them focused on listening to Hou Dayong's key points, and after repeated inquiries, they hurried to experiment.
Hou Dayong was unintentionally concerned about the specific operation, and could not control it. After finishing the key points, he took Du Gang and Chen Meng to leave the blacksmith shop.
Chapter completed!