Early in the morning, a few yawning little yellow doors came out listlessly from Liu Xie's living house under the supervision of an old eunuch, holding tigers.

"It's all neat!"

The old eunuch Ma Xun is ranked as a regular servant, and he is the head of Liu Xie's close attendants, he is not young, but his personality is not very gentle, and he treats the little eunuchs under him quite harshly on weekdays.

"Hurry up and clean up the tiger! Later Your Majesty and the concubine will use it when they get up! Ma Xun screamed and screamed.

The so-called tiger refers to the urinal basin of the Han Dynasty, which can also be said to be the prototype of the ancient toilet.

Just when the old eunuch was chirping, I saw a man in white walking in front of the old eunuch Ma Xun with a warm and kind smile on his face.

"Aweng, are you so busy early in the morning? Have you had breakfast? ”

When Ma Xun heard this, he felt very uncomfortable.

Didn't see us pouring the urinal here!

At this time, you still ask if you want to eat breakfast, isn't this deliberately unappetizing?

It's just finding fault!

Ma Xun turned his head, and was about to say two words angrily, but as soon as he saw the voice and smile of the comer, he immediately put away the anger on his face, replaced it with a smile, and bowed and said: "It turned out to be the prince of Taiping, and the old slave was disrespectful." ”

Tao Shang smiled and waved his hand, and his words were very gentle: "Ma Aweng and I don't have to be polite, when Tao met the Son of Heaven before, he didn't have time to talk to you...... The Son of Heaven has suffered a lot for many years, and his life is all taken care of by Ah Weng, and Ma Ah Weng takes care of the world for us, and he has suffered a lot. ”

Ma Xun was really flattered when he heard the potter's politeness: "Don't dare! Can't! The old slave is just an internal servant, how dare he praise him so much, and besides, the title of Ah Weng is unacceptable. ”

The potter smiled and took out a bag containing gold grains from his sleeve and stuffed it into Ma Xun's hand without a trace.

"What's the matter, I heard that the Son of Heaven has to call you a Weng every day, and in the future, we will all be courtiers under the command of the Son of Heaven, everyone will work together to protect the Son of Heaven, Kuang Fu Sheji, we are the ministers of the same hall in the court, and we are friends in the court, how can there be so many words."

Ma Xun weighed the money bag in his hand, and his heart was both surprised and delighted.

After the party was reinforced, coupled with the rebellion of the ten permanent servants, the people in the scholar clan have always regarded the eunuchs as tigers and wolves, and even Dong Zhuo, Li Dao and others, who have been in power in recent years, treat them like wild dogs, either beating or scolding, and it is very common to kill a few at every turn.

A man of the scholar clan like a potter, who deliberately intersected with each other, and spoke so politely, Ma Xun carefully recalled that since the martyrdom of the Son of Heaven, this was really the first in a few years.

Ma Xun was very moved in his heart, he bowed to the potter, and said: "The son is so polite, the old slave is really ashamed...... The old slave is here first, so let's say hello to the prince of Taiping first. ”

The potter gently touched the bridge of his nose and said with a smile: "Give me a greeting?" I don't know where Tao's joy comes from? ”

Ma Xun said in a low voice: "Gongzi doesn't know yet, Your Majesty is ready to issue an edict, and after the soldiers and horses of the princes from all walks of life arrive in Fan County, Gongzi will be officially canonized as the general, Marquis Wanling!" This kind of honor, since General He, there is no second person. ”

The smile on the potter's face suddenly stiffened.

"Is this true?"

Ma Xun nodded vigorously and said, "How dare the old slave deceive the Taiping Prince?" It's true! In the edict of King Qin written by His Majesty to all the princes, he has already pointed out this matter, so that all the princes can be prepared first. ”

The potter took a deep breath and tried his best to suppress the restlessness of rushing into the mansion now and pulling out the son of heaven Liu Xie.

Impulsiveness is the devil.

"Your Majesty is so good, why did you make me a general? After all, since the death of General He, our dynasty has never set up a general, Tao remembered that when Han Sui took the initiative to ask His Majesty for this knighthood in Chang'an, His Majesty was in crisis every day, and he never promised the tiger and wolf. ”

Ma Xun looked around, then pulled the potter to the side of the house, and saw that there was no one around, so he whispered: "The old slave sees that the son is a humble gentleman, and he thinks about His Majesty, so he told him...... The old slave has been with His Majesty for many years, and even if he has watched His Majesty grow up, he also feels that His Majesty will definitely not easily grant the position of general to others...... However, if I am not mistaken, the day before the soldiers under the command of Gongzi entered Puyang City to meet him, there was a person who secretly met with His Majesty in the middle of the night, and the old slave was guarding the outer room at the time, and did not hear what he said to His Majesty. ”

"Who is it?"

"Jia Xu, who was under the command of Niu Fu of the former Xiliang Army, when he was in Chang'an, he repeatedly saved His Majesty from danger three times, so His Majesty has always believed in his advice."

When the potter heard this, he suddenly realized.

"It turned out to be him...... This old poison. ”

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The potter had kind words to comfort Ma Xun, and promised to give him a generous gift in the near future, hoping to make more friends with Ma Xun in the future.

Ma Xun rarely met a prince who was willing to be friends with his eunuch, and the so-called good shade under the big tree, he naturally happily agreed.

And in his opinion, the little thing he said to the potter was not a matter at all.

Compared with the many behaviors of the ten permanent servants back then, he Ma Xun was just a little short of the family with the pottery merchant, compared to Zhang Rang and others back then, he Ma Sun, the eunuch, was already a saint-like behavior.

Soon after Ma Xun left, he saw Chen Deng and Guo Jia coming to the potter's side from not far away.

After the potter told the two of them about this, both of them showed solemn expressions.

Chen Deng frowned and pondered, his expression was very solemn.

"The Son of Heaven has made the prince of the palace a great general, this move is really dangerous for you! This is tantamount to putting the prince on the opposite side of the princes, if our Xuzhou's strength and power are listed among the princes, the position of the general is well-deserved, and it will be able to shock the heroes, but now it is far away, just say that it is near, there are two major forces of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao close to the side, especially that Yuan Shao, not to mention the excellent face, and the official position, he was the leader of the princes back then, if the prince became a general, then the first to regard the prince as an enemy, it will be Yuan Shao. ”

The potter smiled a little sarcastically: "Yes, Cao Cao is still in a hostile relationship with us now, if we add a Yuan Shao, there is still Yuan Shu in the south and we are mortal enemies, this day is really a bit unbearable." ”

Guo Jia's thoughts were deeper than Chen Deng's: "I don't know if the prince of the palace has ever thought about it, if you become a general, how should the relationship between you and Ling Zun Tao make the monarch handle?" Ling Zun is the assassin of Xuzhou, you are a general, this time you look back and calculate carefully, is it you in charge of your father, or is your father in charge of you? Among them, the danger is really very dangerous, and it must be handled with caution. ”

The potter looked up at the sky and said quietly: "It's such a poisonous method, even my father has calculated it, this is really not going to let me live well, who is to provoke whom." ”

Chen Deng was puzzled: "Who is this Jia Xu?" Chen had never heard of this person's ability. ”

The pottery merchant told the two of them: "Jia Xu is a wise man in Liangzhou, the most good at poisonous schemes, in my opinion, this person's skills should be above the students of Yingchuan Academy, this person either does not make a move, and a shot must be a unique job!" We need to be more careful. ”

Chen Deng was shocked when he heard this, and secretly said that the ghost place in Liangzhou where birds don't can still give birth to such a human spirit?

It seems that the wise and resourceful people in this world are really beyond their imagination.

Guo Jia thought of the relative reality: "Jia Xu has now laid down the Tao, just waiting for us to break it, but the problem is that it is difficult to collect the water now, and the edict of the Son of Heaven has been issued, unless you resolutely accept it!" ”

The potter pondered for a while, and said: "Resolutely not to accept it is a policy, I still have a way, I can kill several birds with one stone-that is, let the Son of Heaven take the initiative to withdraw the edict." ”

Chen Deng hesitated: "The problem is that the Son of Heaven has already issued the edict to the princes who want to make the prince of the palace a general, and at this time, the Son of Heaven suddenly retracts the edict, whether it is on the face of the Son of Heaven, or the face of the prince is not good-looking. ”

The potter said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, I have a way to let this matter be revealed logically, and at the same time, it will not damage the face of the Son of Heaven, nor will it lose the momentum of my Xuzhou army...... And it can also make our Xuzhou have a big benefit to earn! ”