The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 364

Chapter 364: Brother 193 Pit Slag

Gu Jinyu watched as his elder brother actually sent a gift to Gu Jiao, feeling increasingly uncomfortable at heart.

She had given her elder brother so many gifts, only to receive a mere “thank you” in return, and little did he think she didn’t know that the gifts for her birthday each year were prepared by Aunt Ling. Her brother didn’t even know what he himself had “sent.”

Although she could not see the contents from her angle, could the item personally chosen by her elder brother be of poor quality?

It was not the object inside the box that Gu Jinyu coveted, but the thoughtfulness of her elder brother.

What did he see in a girl who grew up in the countryside, who had neither beauty nor knowledge, and who resorted to hitting people from time to time?

Gu Jinyu didn’t meet with the Yao Family, feeling gloomy as she returned alone to the Marquis Residence.

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Elsewhere, the dispute between the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of War finally came to an end today with the Ministry of War emerging victorious, leaving the Minister of Works reprimanded harshly by His Majesty.

Fuming, the Minister of Works called Lord Gu to the Yamen after returning and questioned how he had managed his tasks before, “The Ministry of War said they come to you many times, and you dismissed them each time under the pretext of disbelief?”

Lord Gu retorted, “Not many times, initially he did not clarify but only asked me to rush into producing a large batch of weapons within a month. It was almost the New Year, and the Ministry of Works had plenty on its plate; we truly couldn’t rush it!”

Previously, the production of weapons was not under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Works, but responsibilities among the ministries had been reallocated when Zhan Country was founded, with the Ministry of Works seeing the biggest changes.

The Ministry of Works suddenly had many more trivial matters to deal with, yet there was no increase in salary or in status, making it the hardworking ox of the Six Ministries.

Of course, Minister Zhao understood that Lord Gu hadn’t lied. The Ministry of Works managed the entire nation’s agriculture, water conservation, civil engineering, transportation, and state-run industry, including but not limited to weapons production…

By the New Year, it really was as busy as splitting one person into three or four.

But what made him angry?

It was because Lord Gu didn’t even bother to check before asserting that there couldn’t possibly be a better bellows technology outside the royal court, only for it to be proven otherwise as the Ministry of War brought it back!

Now their entire Ministry of Works had to go to the Ministry of War to learn the bellows technology!

How could this be acceptable?

Where could he even place his old face?

On the way back from the royal court, his colleagues almost laughed him to death.