In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the officials all took talent as the criterion for selecting officials, and those with talent were exceptionally promoted, and those without talent could only serve as low-level officials for a long time, and even some people did not get any official positions after obtaining official qualifications for 20 years. After Pei Guangting paid his respects to the prime minister, he presented the "Qualification Cycle", proposing to select officials at all levels, and take seniority as the condition for the promotion of officials.

The "Qualifications" have strict regulations on the length of service and promotion methods of various official positions, which must not be exceeded, and as long as you do not make mistakes, you will be promoted but not demoted. This made the officials who had not been promoted for a long time because of their mediocre talents very happy, and they called it the "holy book", but the talented people all complained.

Those who have changed drastically are either Pei Guangting's protégés and old friends, or people who benefit from qualifications.

Zheng Peng's eyes couldn't help but aim at Li Linfu's position, only to see Li Linfu standing quietly, neither happy nor sad, as if it was none of his business, but the sharp-eyed Zheng Peng still caught the joy that flashed on Li Linfu's face.

As soon as Pei Guangting died, Pei Wu's worries were less than half, with her bohemian and avant-garde personality, she would definitely get closer to Li Linfu, maybe the old feelings would rekindle, for Li Linfu, Pei Wu's family, who had a relationship with Concubine Wu Hui and Gao Lishi, was definitely a huge treasure trove.

At this time, Gao Lishi had announced the dissolution of the dynasty, Li Longji did not even change his clothes, accompanied by Gao Lishi, Xiao Song and others, hurriedly walked outside the hall, ready to see Pei Guangting for the last time, so that the relationship between the monarch and the minister could draw a complete end.

"Hurry up, hurry up" Li Longji said anxiously: "You don't need to prepare the car, prepare the horse." ”

Pei Guangting's deadline is approaching, and he can't last long, and Li Longji can't care about the honor guard.

"The old slave obeys." As he responded, Colliers gave a loud command to prepare the horses.

Before he walked out of the gate of the Taiji Palace, another middle-aged eunuch stumbled in, crying loudly as he walked: "God is jealous of talents, Pei Shizhong... Pawn. ”

As soon as the words fell, the noisy court just now suddenly quieted down, and Li Longji, who was in a hurry to go out and want to see Pei Guangting for the last time, also stopped, with a sad look on his face.

"Liancheng, you're walking too fast." Li Longji suddenly said with a sad face.

Seeing Li Longji sentimental, many ministers also burst into tears, Zheng Peng and Pei Guangting are general friends, not good, not bad, others are missing the controversial Pei Guangting, Zheng Peng is lamenting the profundity of Chinese culture, that is, death, people of different identities also have different sayings:

The death of emperors and queens is called collapse;

Wang Hou's death is called Xue, and the death of an official above the second rank after the Tang Dynasty can also be called Xue;

The doctor died;

Death is not a curse;

Civilians are called to death.

For a lifetime, it is not in vain to be a "buo" when you die, if you can get a "pawn" or "sting", it can be regarded as very decent.

Just now the eunuch said that Pei Guangting died, which is the name of a doctor, Zheng Peng sighed in his heart: he witnessed the departure of a legendary figure again.

"Qualification Cycle" can be said to be a pioneering initiative, so that many officials who can't see the hope of promotion have a hope, so as to stabilize the officialdom, those officials with ordinary qualifications have hope in their hearts, even if their talents are not outstanding, they will use hard work to make up for it, Zheng Peng knows that after Pei Guangting's death, Xiao Song will cancel the "Qualification Cycle" created by Pei Guangting, and will also release all the officials allocated by Pei Guangting according to the "Qualification Cycle", but "Qualification Cycle" is still a great innovation.

Even in later generations, the "Qualification Cycle" proposed by Pei Guangting will be borrowed by many places.

Ou Yangming's reproach was resolved by Zheng Peng, and the court meeting was also dispersed in advance because of Pei Guangting's "pawn", and he didn't see Pei Guangting's last face, and Li Longji didn't go, after all, he was the emperor, and it was not suitable to appear on that occasion.

Zheng Peng didn't go either, so he asked people to prepare a piece of silk gold to show his heart.

First, I went to the Firearms Department for a round, held a meeting with Sun Dayan and Jin Mingyu to discuss the plan and direction for improvement, and then rushed to Tiegou Ridge non-stop to see the situation of the mine.

Many people only know that Zheng Peng built roads, but few people know that Zheng Peng built railways, and railways need to use a lot of steel, and the quality of these steels directly affects the quality of railways.

Don't look at just two simple railroad tracks, there is too much knowledge in them, because of the heavy load, and they have to face the weather all year round, including the inability to deform, stretch, and crack under heavy pressure; alternating between cold and heat, like thermal expansion and contraction within the bearing capacity of iron; The high temperature of friction between the train and the rails does not hinder driving safety, etc.

Building roads, Fang Bin and Jin Changlu are experts, there are Lao Qi and Ah Cai to build bridges, Zheng Peng told them, just do it according to the plan on the drawings, what can be solved, solve it first, what can't be solved, first bypass it, do what can be solved, and then think about how to solve it together when you have time, so that Zheng Peng can concentrate on solving the iron problem.

When Zheng Peng arrived at Tiegouling, hundreds of miners were in full swing: Tiegouling is a rich iron mine, and it can be mined in the open pit without digging holes.

As soon as the iron ore is mined, it is immediately transported down the mountain with a hanging basket and poured on the bamboo basket on the bamboo row, and the bamboo basket follows the bamboo row down the stream until it reaches Wangniudun, which can be directly refined in the smelting furnace set up in Wangniudun and converted into iron for reuse.

"Fat man, it's okay, have you encountered any difficulties?" Zheng Peng nodded contentedly, and asked An Lushan, who was working hard to please on the side.

The mine is running in an orderly manner, both the connection and the mental outlook are very good, and those mine slaves are also working hard, and it can be seen that An Lushan is doing a good job.

"Smooth, too smooth" An Lushan said happily: "The young master has long ordered to treat these mine slaves well, they can see meat every day, and they can drink a little wine every other day, even the clothes are also washed by people, and they are working hard one by one, and there is no resistance here, by the way, there are two groups of market people who still want to come here to fight the autumn wind, and when they hear that it is the young master's industry, they can slip faster than rabbits." ”

At the beginning, there was some confusion, and there were a few thorns who liked to make trouble, An Lushan just used a little trick to level them all, Tiegouling is an iron-rich mine, it is not difficult to mine, and the most important thing is that Zheng Peng treats his subordinates well, and the subordinates work hard, and the work is carried out smoothly, and when things are on the right track, everything becomes easy.

An Lushan assigns people according to the style of the army, forms teams, each team and each group has a small leader, hands over the task to the small leader, and then the small leader supervises the following team members or team members to work, as long as the requirements and tasks are arranged, An Lushan, as the principal, is also idle, and when he has time, he ponders how to improve efficiency, and when he is interested, he instructs the kitchen to make a few small dishes, and drinks small wine with the beautiful maid he personally picks, rolls on the couch or something, and the small life is very nourishing.

The more moisturized the small day, the more grateful An Lushan is to Zheng Peng, because all this was brought to him by Zheng Peng, otherwise, maybe he will be broken now, and he will be miserable begging on the streets of Chang'an.

"Good job" Zheng Peng waved his hand and said: "Let's go, go to Wangniudun to see what progress they have made." ”

Seeing that Zheng Peng wanted to ride a horse, An Lushan said with a smile: "Young master, it's better to sit on a bamboo row, it's not slower than riding a horse, it's not bumpy, and the scenery on both sides is not bad." ”

"Okay, it's up to you." Zheng Peng accepted An Lushan's proposal without hesitation.

To use bamboo rafts to transport ore to Wangniudun, it is necessary to build a dam to raise the water level, and the dam of a small stream is not worth Zheng Peng's worry, so he gave Fang Bin an order, Fang Bin sent a former disciple to get the dam in two days, and after repairing the embankment, Zheng Peng has not seen it.

"Young master, this hanging basket is a little dirty, and I am wronged."

"Cardinal girl, be careful" Seeing that the cardinal was looking at her body with some worry, An Lushan knew that she was worried that her weight would make the hanging basket unbearable, and quickly explained: "This hanging basket has been reinforced, and it is no problem to hang twenty stones of iron ore at a time, but now it is only three people, no problem, absolutely no problem." ”

"Hmph" Cardinal snorted coldly, and soon stopped paying attention to An Lushan.