Chapter 188 Famous Ink Master

"My brother is different from my subordinates. Although I love literature and history, my brother likes Confucianism and advocates loyalty and patriotism. I prefer Mr. Huang's incompetuable rule... Although a mother compatriots, the elder brother had a gap since he urinated and cut the table. Therefore, I infer that on the onehand, my brother will not abandon the secret, and on the other, he will not shake his heart because of his persuasion. Wei Dan arched his hand and said, his eyes were full of indifference.

But in fact, Ma Chao obviously found that Wei Dan was deliberately observing himself. After turning his eyes, Ma Chao opened his eyes and said, "The super self-propelled army to invade Yongzhou has long been suspected of usurpation. My brother is loyal and patriotic, and treats the people well. Naturally, he can't wave his troops to attack the city, so he came to ask for advice. After Mr.'s words, it seems that Tianshui County still needs to be discussed in the long-term.

"The young master is generous and kind, and pursues the righteous way to quell the rebellion in Yongzhou, which is a great move to comply with the way of heaven. However, the elder brother is stubborn, which is really sad and lamentable. After hearing Ma Chao's apology, Wei Dan also let go of his mind and complimented Ma Chao.

"Sir joked. In troubled times, the fittest survives. What he has done this time is just to protect himself." Ma Chao apologized again, without the arrogence of the winner.

"Super support the wind, I haven't seen Lord Wei Dan for a long time, and he is very good at writing, especially proficient in ink-making technology?" After the polite, Ma Chao finally talked about this topic.

"Is the young master interested in making ink?" Wei Dan was a little puzzled. You know, Wei Dan is a famous calligrapher of the Three Kingdoms. Among Shilin, all of them praised his words, but how could this person write "Persuasion to Learn" and "Report to the Country" (Lu You's "November 4th Storm" was shamefully changed by Ma Chao for changing his name, which is really suspected of being a masterpiece.) The talents of these two famous poems came up and asked themselves if they were proficient in ink making technology?

"making ink is a major event in the library. If it is good ink, coupled with wind paper, isn't it the luck of the world's scholars?" Ma Chao looked surprised and pretended to be as much as possible.

"The young master has the world's scholars in his heart, and his subordinates are ashamed!" Wei Dan was really shocked by Ma Chao's great feelings when he heard Ma Chao's explanation. I am no longer worried about the surrender. Even, he faintly resented himself: Ma Chao, known as the Kirin of the Ma family, showed his reputation in the two states of Yongliang. How could he be a ruthless man? I'm really ashamed to be a gentleman's belly as a villain!

"My subordinates have some experience in making ink, but this matter is not a day's work. If you want to make good ink, you need to study it carefully..." After a meal, Wei Dan hurriedly shared his ink-making experience with Ma Chao: "A good mellow smoke, sieve it in the cylinder with fine silk, and sift away the grass like fine sand and dust. This thing is mild, and it should not be screened. If you like to fly away, you must not be careless. One catty of ink, soaked in wood skin juice with good glue. Mu Cen, the bark of Fanji in the south of the Yangtze River, has a green skin, degumming, and ink color. You can remove five yellow chickens, and use one or two real stone cinnabar and one or two musk. Don't treat fine sieves and adjust them into the iron mortar. Thirty thousand pestles, the better. Combined ink can't pass February and September. It stinks when it's warm, but it's hard to dry when it's cold. Tong Rong saw the wind and day shatter, and the weight could not be more than two or three taels. The big secret of ink is so, it's better to be small..."

Ma Chao was confused. Except for hearing that the ink has miscellaneous removal, ingredients, pounding, combined ink and other processes, the rest is completely ignorant of those raw materials, crafts and so on. Anyway, in the end, he knew that this ink production was still an extremely difficult process, and it would take more time to mass produce the assembly line.

"In this case, I will make you an ink maker and transfer you to Ma's Arsenal to develop ink technology, sir?" Ma Chao thought that he was a leader and didn't want to care about these details.

"Ma's Arsenal? "Master ink maker?" At this time, Wei Dan was confused: Why didn't he understand the meaning of the noun in the young master's mouth?

"Ma's Arsenal is the Ma Family Development Department... The place where the new craft was invented will be known as soon as he arrived. And the ink maker is the self-designation official position of the Ma family, which belongs to... Six-grade official rank.

Zheng Hun and Pu Yuan are iron craftsmen and masters respectively. Under the rule of the Ma family, they are only seven-grade officials. However, Wei Dan himself is a seven-grade county guard. If he seizes other people's Guangwei County and transfer him to his own Ma's arsenal to be a seven-grade official, how can he feel comfortable? As a result, Ma Chao specially improved Wei Dan's treatment at Ma's Arsenal.

Ma Chao's small calculation is that anyway, Han Feng is responsible for everything in Ma's Arsenal and gives Wei Dan an inflated position, but only gives him a little more salary. But once Wei Dan's ink-making process takes shape, another one can be added to the Ma family's fist products. Although this ink is not a profiteering product, it can't stand it and make a name for the Ma family! The soft power exchanged during this period is not comparable to those real gold and silver.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, there was a preliminary admiration for literati calligraphy and painting. Its four treasures of pen, ink, paper and inkstone are even more sought after by those readers. After the birth of Fufeng paper, Ma Chao's reputation became famous in the Shilin. If there is another kind of good ink that is 'hundred years like stone, a little like paint', how can Ma Chao not become a wind-like figure in Shilin?

How can the peaceful people in Wei's birthday know these little nines in Ma Chao's heart? Hearing that Ma Chao was not only promoted to an official position, but also fully supported his beloved career, he was overjoyed and immediately bowed down: "I will definitely try my best to create the best ink for the young master!"

"Sir joked and sought the blessings of the world's scholars. How dare he specialize in his beauty?" Ma Chao said modestly, but he thought: fame and wealth, both of them! Wei Dan, you Ansheng signed this sales contract and turned it into a golden chicken to lay golden eggs for your brother!

Wei Dan boasted about Ma Chao again and again, and finally packed his luggage happily and was escorted by 200 Ma soldiers to help the wind.

After finishing Wei Dan, Ma Chao turned around and looked at Pang De and said, "Ling Ming took Guangwei County without bloodshed this time, which did not kill the life, but also got Wei Dan's gold... He is respectful and virtuous, but he really understands the essence of military tactics. You can be the first contribution in this battle!"

"The young master praised that this plan was made by filial piety. Someone just waited for a few hours. How dare he ask for credit?" Pound returned to his life in awe and was full of righteousness.

"No pride in victory, no discouragement in defeat. Don't be greedy, don't make profits, and be good generals. Ma Chao praised, but he was extremely relieved: this brave general of history finally began to become a great general under his own influence!

"This time, there are still two counties of Tianshui and Longxi. This merit has been recorded. After the capture of the two counties, we will be rewarded together!" Ma Chao looked at Pound, Fa Zheng and Ma Dai and said.

"Thank you, young master!" The three saluted with their fists, while Ma Dai blinked his eyes to Fa Zheng: You're really right, and we are really the first success!

"I don't know what good strategy you have for the battle of Tianshui?" Although Ma Chao said to everyone, he glanced at Jia Xu and Fa Zheng.

"The young master has a decision in his heart, why do you have to play again?" Fa Zheng jumped out and turned his eyes and said, "Why don't we and the three of us write the strategy of breaking the sky and water to see if the heroes think the same?"

Ma Chao and Jia Xu's eyes were bright and interesting. After ordering the guard to bring the pen, they both wrote two words in their hands. After unfolding, all three of them showed a gloomy smile, which made all the soldiers of the Ma family cold all over...

I saw that all three people had the same two words in their hands: Yishan!