Tianjin tax envoy Ma Tang has been very beautiful in recent years, this person was originally a young eunuch of the seal and ribbon prison, and then I don't know whose path he took, and was sent as a tax envoy in Tianjin, and he was also in charge of the tax customs in Linqing.

I have to say that Ma Tang has a lot of means to make money, and he has a lot of filial piety to the palace, which is deeply favored by the emperor. Therefore, even if there was a civil uprising in Linqing a few years ago, merchants collectively boycotted the market, and even gathered people to set fire to the government office, his status as a tax envoy in Tianjin has never been shaken.

However, in the past few days, Ma Gonggong has been thinking a lot, and the visit of Shi Yuanya, the fourth gear of the East Factory, yesterday made him a little more worried. hated Gao Huai, the Liaodong mine supervisor who was stirring up the situation, but he couldn't help the other party.

Shi Yuanya brought Ma Tang the words of the Si Li palm print Chen Gonggong, to the effect that Dongchang can help intercept people, but how to deal with the aftermath is Ma Tang's business.

The implication is that Chen Ju can't take this matter to the end, it's best if he can be good, if he can't be good, he won't help each other. After all, Gao Huai is there, and it is impossible for Chen Ju to tear his face with him and make a big fight.

You must know that although Chen Ju is the eunuch of the palm seal of the celebrity, the eunuch is not the one who can cover the sky with one hand, and the rest of the Bingbi are staring at this matter.

If it's too ugly, whoever can't keep it will mention a few words to the emperor, and then things will be out of control.

In this regard, Ma Tang has nothing to say, who let this matter be his hand. If you don't do things cleanly, there will naturally be a day when the East Window incident happens.

It's just that this incident happened at a really bad time, and he just caught up with his horse hall to seek the promotion of the priest Bingbi. If he can't suppress the matter, most likely, he Matang will no longer have any hope of becoming a eunuch in this life.

Now, in addition to the people from Dongchang in action, Ma Tang's subordinates have also sent a lot of people. Can you intercept people, one looks at the providence, and the other is to see what Gao Huai is doing behind his back.

Now, apart from waiting for news, Ma Tang doesn't know what to do.

The competitor Gao Huai has no possibility of making peace with him at all.

There is only one missing pen, either he is on the Ma Gonggong, or Gao Huai, and there is no third result.

Who is promoted and who can't be promoted is related to the future status and even fate of the two.

Under the heavy heart, Ma Tang didn't even have the heart to go to the front hall to give his subordinates some mao today, and sat in the room, grooming his beard in front of a mirror.

Unlike the outside world that their husbands are all white-faced, many of the eunuchs in the palace actually have beards, and one in more than ten people has a beard.

The reason for this is that in addition to accepting castrated children, the palace also recruits those who have been castrated as adults from time to time.

This move has aroused strong opposition from the foreign court, but the opposition of the foreign court is fierce, every year in Beijing there are thousands of "self-palace white" seeking the opportunity to enter the palace as a husband, if the palace interrupts the door for these people to enter the palace, it is undoubtedly the hope of these people, and even the lives of these people. Therefore, if the outer court opposes no matter how fierce it is, the palace still recruits what it should do.

A large number of adult eunuchs are recruited, and there will naturally be husbands with long beards.

Ma Tang himself was not born "from the palace", but entered the palace at the age of eight. Xu ate too many good things when he became an adult, and unconsciously grew his beard back, which made Ma Tang very proud.

This pride is somewhat deformed, but it is a true portrayal of the eunuchs in the palace.

The beard is a symbol of a complete man, even if there is nothing underneath.

It is said that many eunuchs sent out of town would put on a small fake beard in order to show their majesty in front of the officials.

Matang's tax supervisor yamen is located in the east of the yamen of Tianjin Bingbei Road, and there are a lot of "mallet masters" and "shihu" in the yamen, these are the tax collectors of Matang's snares, the number is enough three or four hundred, and there are quite a lot of outlaws.

It was with these scoundrels that Ma Tang was able to show off his might in Tianjin and use all means to make money for the emperor.

The more silver is sent to the palace, the more stable the status of the horse hall will be. On the contrary, if Ma Tang wants to stabilize his position, he will have more subordinates.

There are many people, coupled with the identity of the tax supervisor, in Tianjin, Ma Tang can be described as a bully-like existence, and no one dares to provoke Tianjin Sanwei.

Of course, in addition to sending money to the palace over the years, Ma Tang has also made a lot of money himself. This is already known to everyone, even the emperor.

However, the outer dynasty could not earn money for the emperor, and the emperor could only rely on these internal supervisors. Even if you know that these inner supervisors are greedy, you still have great faith in them. For this reason, the emperor would rather bow his head to the outside on the "national capital", but never abolish the mine tax inspectors.

When Ma Gonggong was grooming his beard in the house, outside, a stick man named Pang Bao was carrying a hundred taels of silver tickets and asked to see Ma Gonggong with hope.

This is the first time Pang Bao has asked to see Ma Gonggong after three years as a tax supervisor, so he is very worried.

After handing over the red envelope of Ma Qijin and five taels of silver brought by Ma Gonggong from the capital, Ma Qijin led Pang Bao to the backyard of the tax supervisor.

The tax supervisor yamen was originally the house of a wealthy businessman in Tianjin, but because this rich businessman was very blind, now the whole family has gone to Nanzhili.

When he arrived in front of Ma Gong's house in the backyard, Ma Qijin asked Pang Bao to wait, and went in to pass the word for him.

"Pang Bao?"

Ma Tang's memory is very good, and when his subordinates say the name of the person, he will have the appearance of Pang Bao in his mind, this person seems to be a good hand recruited into the yamen three years ago, and he doesn't look very outstanding on weekdays.

"What is he looking for us to do?"

Ma Tang was a little unhappy, if it weren't for Ma Qijin being a distant nephew in his hometown, he was afraid that he would scold a few words.

"I guess I want to ask the third uncle to send a better errand."

"How much did you collect from someone?" Ma Tang glared at his distant nephew.

Ma Qijin smiled, Ma Tang snorted slightly, didn't care about him, and waved his hand: "Let him come in." ”

"Hey!"

Ma Qijin was relieved and hurriedly went out to bring people in.

"Little Pang Bao has seen his father-in-law!"

As soon as he entered the room, Pang Bao whispered, and then stopped moving forward, lowered his head, and stood by the threshold, looking very respectful.

Pang Bao's appearance made Ma Tang nod slightly, he looked up and down at Pang Bao, who was not good-looking, and slowly said, "What are you looking for in our family?" ”

"Back to my father-in-law, the little one wants to enter the palace to serve, so I ask my father-in-law to give me a way."

has been in the tax supervision yamen for more than three years, although he has never been looked at by Ma Gonggong at all, but Pang Bao understands Ma Gonggong, and knows that Ma Gonggong likes to go straight to the point, and he doesn't like to go around in circles when talking to people, the more direct the better, if the euphemism is not direct enough, it will make him angry.

"Into the palace?"

What Pang Bao asked for made Ma Tang stunned: This person is afraid that he is thirty years old, how can he still think of entering the palace?

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