One hundred and forty-one, Mr. Hou returns home
It was the winter of the third year since the founding of the Tianxuan Dynasty.
The New Year will be here in ten days, and the first-class Leiweihou Mansion located in the northeast of Chaoge City is decorated with lights and colorful decorations, filled with a festive atmosphere.
Zhang Hao, the general manager of the Marquis Mansion, directed his servants to hang lanterns, sweep the courtyard, and purchase flowers, plants, spiritual trees, fruits, vegetables, and vegetables for the festival. He also personally inspected the gifts for the emperor, the Prime Minister, the four major families in the capital, and all the Marquis friends. He also had to count the profits of the various villages and shops in the prince's mansion, sort out the gifts sent by ministers, wealthy families, and vassal states, etc. He was very busy all day long.
Although there was help from the housekeeper's wife, Xiaoye, and the two head servants, Wang Xiaotian and Li Zhongru, they still had no time to spare. However, Manager Zhang enjoyed it.
Two years ago, Zhang Hao, Wang Xiaotian, Li Zhongru and other younger brothers graduated from the academy, and then came to Qingshi's Hou Mansion as the general manager. After Zhang Hao came, he carried out a large-scale cleanup of the Hou Mansion's industries and personnel, abolished the mediocre, recruited talented people, expanded industries, and expanded channels.
The current Hou Mansion has seven shops selling elixirs and refining materials, four farms, and the first pharmaceutical factory in Tianlong Continent's history - Xuanqing Pharmaceutical Factory.
Among the old people in the Hou Mansion, Zhang Hao only left a dozen or so honest and reliable people, and all the others were sent to the farm. Now there are only about forty people in the Hou Mansion. As Qingshi's status continues to increase, people who come here There were more and more court officials walking around, and they came more and more frequently. Even kings and ministers from various vassal states and foreign vassal states began to come around.
Zhang Hao felt deeply that he was short of manpower, and had already asked people to transfer about twenty smart and capable people from various shops and farms back to the Marquis Mansion as errands. In addition, some long-term and short-term workers were recruited into the government to help.
Zhang Hao, the general manager, and the heads of the housekeepers in the Hou Mansion were very busy every day, but Qingshi, the Marquis, didn't worry about the affairs in the house. He has not graduated yet and is still concentrating on training at the Martial Arts Academy of Tianxuan Academy.
In the past three years, Qingshi's Qi cultivation has reached the seventh level of the Yuan Dan realm, and has caught up with the big brothers like Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian. To achieve such a level of cultivation at the age of less than thirty is truly a genius.
In addition to martial arts, Qingshi has made greater progress in the formation and weaponry, especially the weaponry. Qingshi is now a fifth-level mysterious formation master and a fourth-level weapon refiner, and of course a fourth-level alchemist.
As his Qi cultivation level improved, his memory of Xiao Lou's martial arts skills became clearer and clearer, which was of great help to his improvement in cultivation level.
Qingshi rarely returns home and spends a lot of time in the cave near the west gate of the academy. He continues to study the Xuanhu spacecraft, constantly perfecting and improving its performance, hoping that one day he can use it to break out of the shackles of the Tianlong World.
In addition, Qingshi also studied puppetry. Puppetry is a branch of the weapon path and is actually inseparable from the formation path. People who study puppetry must have certain attainments in formation, weapon, and bluestone. Of course, there is no problem with it.
Now, there are already eighteen puppet crew members on his Xuanhu. It is difficult for Qingshi alone to fully control such a large Xuanhu. With the help of these specially made puppets, Qingshi can control the Xuanhu. Much more efficient.
The college has been on vacation for more than half a month, and Qingshi has not returned home. He is still staying in the cave to improve the Black Tiger. Qingshi has already gone to the Royal Battleship Factory to study for two months. With Qingshi's current status, this is naturally no problem.
Then, Qingshi ordered a large amount of equipment and parts from the battleship factory to upgrade his Xuanhu, such as replacing it with more powerful naval guns. The Xuanhu is now a giant battleship.
This battleship was originally given to Qingshi by Ou Changzhi, so Qingshi didn't have to worry about transgressions when upgrading it.
After another two days, the transformation goal was completed. Qingshi collected the spacecraft with satisfaction and prepared to return home.
Zhang Hao finally sat down to take a sip of tea. A servant brought another stack of gift lists. Zhang Hao flipped through them casually. The gift givers were basically the feudal officials from various places and some wealthy families in the country. Among them, there were two minor officials from the inner government who also sent some New Year's goods to express their respect, which was a bit out of place.
The officials in the inner palace are all the emperor's close servants and know the heart of heaven best. Therefore, although their status is low, no one dares to despise them. Under normal circumstances, during the holidays, princes and ministers would often prepare some gifts for these minor officials. It was extremely rare for them to take the initiative to give gifts to princes and ministers.
Zhang Hao saw that the New Year's gifts given by the two petty officials were very ordinary, but the words on the gift lists were extremely respectful. Zhang Hao held the list and pondered for a while, then murmured to himself: "It seems that the rumors may be true. After the New Year, the emperor should issue an edict to establish the successor to the throne, and Qingshi will undoubtedly be the first in line."
Zhang Hao continued to look at the gift list, and suddenly heard a voice outside the door shouting: "The Marquis is back!" He quickly threw down the gift list and came out.
I saw the bluestone falling from the sky and landing steadily in the outer courtyard. A man with disheveled clothes and unkempt appearance strode toward the inner courtyard. Qingshi was too lazy to walk and directly used Feixue Armor to fly back.
"The Marquis is well!" Zhang Hao first said hello, then greeted him with a smile: "You, the Marquis, don't go back to your house to stay for a few days all year round. Fortunately, you flew in directly. Otherwise, the new gatekeeper wouldn't know you. You, I will never let you in."
"That's unreasonable!" Qingshi laughed, "He dares to stop me and see if I don't kick his ass!"
The two of them laughed and went into the room to sit down. Xiaoye and several maids came over quickly to invite An to serve tea. Wang Xiaotian, Li Zhongru and others also came to say hello.
After listening to Zhang Hao's report on some important household chores recently, Qingshi asked with a smile: "Brother Moazi, how good are you as the director of a pharmaceutical factory?"
"Okay!" Zhang Hao replied with a smile, "It couldn't be better. We have twenty-one machines. Each machine has at least three and up to seven medicine furnaces, which can produce nine kinds of elixirs with twenty-three grades. , all twelve pharmacists graduated from Tianxuan Academy, the lowest is a third-level alchemist, and now we are one of the three largest elixir manufacturers in the country."
"Yes!" Qingshi nodded with satisfaction, "Okay! Pay attention to the quality of the product. If the quality does not meet the requirements, it must be destroyed. You are not allowed to sell it at a low price. I will not comply with the flow of inferior products."
"Yes!" Zhang Hao said, "Originally, several pharmacists did not understand, saying that medicines of lower quality are still medicines and can be sold cheaper. There is no need to destroy them. I enlightened them one by one, and now everyone understands the painstaking efforts of Mr. Hou. Yes, don’t worry. It will never harm anyone or damage the signboard.”
"That's good!" Qingshi said, "Do you have any problems? Just tell me if you need me to solve it."
"There is no big problem," Zhang Hao said, "There is just one thing that many people don't understand. It is said that since ancient times, the places where elixirs are refined have been called workshops or halls, but ours is called a factory. It feels very strange. hard to pronounce."
Qingshi laughed and said: "Do you want others to call you the boss or the hall master? Hahaha... you don't think the factory director sounds good? Why don't we change the name of our factory to the company, and you call yourself the general manager, and others will be embarrassed when they meet you?" Is it okay to call you Mr. Zhang?"
"Call the man! Seed donkey! Zhang Seed!" Zhang Hao's eyes widened in horror, and he said hurriedly, "No, no, no, factory director! Let's still be the factory director!"
