Summary of the previous chapter: On the first way to the court after the New Year, Ma Xiaoquan was stopped at the gate of the Forbidden City by Wei Zhongxian's minions

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In front of the Qianqing Palace, a group of court officials lined up in two rows, waiting quietly.

It's been almost an hour, and everyone is waiting for their mouths to be dry, and they don't see the emperor coming.

Ma Xiaoquan stood at the end of the queue, raised his head to look at the sky, and shook his head helplessly.

In the shade of a tree, in stark contrast to the two neat rows of queues, Wei Zhongxian was sitting upright on a chair, squinting his eyes and holding a cup of tea in his hand, sipping and sipping.

There were several officials who had a good relationship with Wei Zhongxian standing respectfully beside him, each holding a cup of tea, enjoying the comfort brought by the fragrant tea and the shade of the trees.

Yang Lian couldn't stand it anymore, walked up to Wei Zhongxian, and said loudly: "Wei Zhongxian, the court officials are all standing, you are a eunuch, you dare to sit on a chair and drink tea in the palace, you are so big, ah?" ”

Wei Zhongxian has always been afraid of Yang Lian, and as soon as the other party said this, he immediately stood up and snorted coldly: "Lord Yang, what are you talking about, this Taishi chair was given to me by the emperor, do you think I got it?" Okay, then you're amazing, you come and sit~" Wei Zhongxian said, pushing the Taishi chair in front of Yang Lian.

Yang Lian didn't know if what Wei Zhongxian said was true or false, so naturally he didn't dare to sit on the Taishi chair, Wei Zhongxian saw this, and said with a smile: "Since Lord Yang knows that this is given to me by the emperor, what else do you say, isn't the chair just for sitting, besides, the emperor said that this chair can only be in the palace, and cannot be taken back, so what do you let me do, for burning incense, then the emperor must not scold me to death?" ”

"Wei Zhongxian, you~~~" Yang Lian was choked by Wei Zhongxian and gritted his teeth, and stomped his feet in anger.

Ma Xiaoquan walked over, smiled, and asked, "What's the matter, why is it so loud?" ”

Yang Lian saw Ma Xiaoquan coming, and said, "Lord Deacon, you came just in time, you can tell me, Wei Zhongxian is sitting in the palace like this, is it right or not?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan glared at Wei Zhongxian with his eyes, and the latter was agitated and hurriedly jumped back.

"Uh~~ Well, I heard what Grandpa Wei said just now, this chair was given by the emperor, right, Grandpa Wei?"

Wei Zhongxian was a little weak-hearted: "Yes, yes, what's wrong?" ”

"Oh~" Ma Xiaoquan snorted, "But I remember that the emperor doesn't seem to have made a chair recently, if this Taishi chair is made with the emperor's craftsmanship, it will take at least a month to make such a chair, but from the day I returned to Beijing, I don't seem to have heard of the emperor doing it?" ”

Wei Zhongxian was a thief and said: "That's when you are not there, the emperor has done a lot when you are away~"

"No, no~~" Ma Xiaoquan shook his head, "I came back and checked it out, it seems to be a bit of a problem, um, Grandpa Wei, I'm not saying that there is a problem with your chair, I'm just talking about things, well, I have to go back and check this matter again today, in case I find out any clues, so I can give you an explanation, right?" ”

"Ma Xiaoquan, are you doubting that this chair was not given by the emperor?"

Ma Xiaoquan scratched his head: "I didn't say it, I just wanted to check it, there was suddenly such a chair in the palace, and I, as the deacon of Jinyiwei, had to check it, right?" There's a unicorn on it, huh? No, this unicorn seems to be for military generals, right? Grandpa Wei, you sit on this chair, what, you want to go to the front line to fight? If you really want to, then I'll tell my father, you went to Ningyuan, and you happened to be fighting with the Jurchens recently. ”

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand: "Who said that I was going to war~ Isn't it okay for the emperor to carve a unicorn on this chair?" ”

Ma Xiaoquan waved his hand impatiently: "Don't open your mouth and close your mouth to an emperor, is the emperor so casually called?" It's enough for you to play the flag, okay, don't say anything, I Jinyiwei deducted this chair first~"

"Ma Xiaoquan, you~~"

Ma Xiaoquan walked towards Wei Zhongxian, and immediately two bold guards of the Yellow Gate stepped forward, intending to protect their master.

Ma Xiaoquan's eyes were horizontal: "What, the little yellow door, the dog wants to do something to me?" ”

The two yellow doors didn't seem to be afraid of Ma Xiaoquan's reprimand, not only smiled slightly, but also rubbed their hands.

"Okay, it's good~~" Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly, "In the morning at the gate of the palace, you two dog minions treated me disrespectfully, and now it's like this again, well, interesting, a little interesting~~ Okay, I remember you two~" Ma Xiaoquan still maintained a smile on his face, but his eyes were already full of murderous intent.

At this moment, the gate of the Qianqing Palace suddenly opened, and a eunuch came out and said loudly: "Xuan, all the adults enter the palace." ”

Ma Xiaoquan put away his smile, pointed to the two Yellow Gate guards, and then entered the Qianqing Palace with the officials in procession.

In the palace, Emperor Zhu Youzheng of the Apocalypse sat on the dragon throne and looked at the hundred officials below with high spirits.

The hundred officials took three steps forward and said respectfully in unison: "The ministers knock on the emperor, long live my emperor long live long live (ten thousand sleep, ten thousand sleep, ten thousand sleep). ”

Zhu Youxiao stretched out his hand and said, "Everyone, Aiqing is flat~"

"Emperor Xie~~"

Zhu Youxiao rarely went to the DPRK once, so he naturally inevitably asked about the recent people's livelihood and national conditions and the war in eastern Liaodong.

Ma Xiaoquan, as a "person who came back from Liaodong", naturally inevitably had to tell Zhu Youxiao in detail about the war situation in Liaodong.

With his understanding of history and the gossip that he secretly sent someone to investigate, Ma Xiaoquan's war speech successfully deceived Zhu Youxiao, of course, Ma Xiaoquan's words are not all false, at least the war in Liaodong continues to be tight, and it is true that the food and salary are not enough.

Since Zhu Youxiao ordered Wei Zhongxian to bring down Zhang Tianhao, the richest man in Beijing, the treasury has been filled a lot, and Ma Xiaoquan proposed that he immediately waved his hand and approved 50,000 taels and sent it to the front.

Zhu Youxiao didn't know, he felt that the treasury was a lot fuller, in fact, if Wei Zhongxian's corruption was added up, it would be too much.

When Ma Xiaoquan heard about sending money, he immediately pushed the errand to his ally who had just pulled in the morning-Lord Huang, on the grounds that he had just come back and needed to rectify his work.

Sending money is actually a beautiful thing, although it is a little the road, but when you go to Liaodong, you can observe the people's feelings and feel the atmosphere of the battlefield on the spot, which is only good for an upright person like Xiang Huang, and there is no harm.