Summary of the previous chapter: Tian Ergeng passed the news to Wei Zhongxian by spreading gossip

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As soon as Hua Yue's voice fell, one of his subordinates walked into the study and reported to Ma Xiaoquan: "My lord, Wang Wenyan has been arrested~"

"Huh?" Ma Xiaoquan was stunned for a moment, and shook his head again and again, "Sure enough, I came, was I arrested by the people from Dongchang?" ”

"Yes, my lord~"

Ma Xiaoquan nodded, beckoned, and ordered: "Settle down, in the past few days, without my orders, you must not say anything to outsiders, otherwise, there will be no forgiveness~"

"Yes~~"

Hua Yue looked strange, and after his subordinates left, he asked Ma Xiaoquan: "What's wrong?" Wang Wenyan was arrested, why are you like a great enemy? ”

Ma Xiaoquan smashed his mouth and said: "Wang Wenyan came to borrow money from me, whether I borrowed it or not, it must have been known, maybe tomorrow, maybe the day after tomorrow, someone will definitely participate in my book"

"So serious?" Hua Yue was taken aback.

Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly: "This is the officialdom struggle, in fact, I didn't participate in anything from beginning to end, but a Wang Wenyan swept me into the whirlpool of the storm, hey~~"

Ma Xiaoquan's prediction was very accurate, two days later, there were speech officials who came to join him, of course, these so-called speech officials, except for a few eunuchs, most of them are still fishing in troubled waters.

Ma Xiaoquan was also in the court at the time, and he knew that no matter how he explained, he would get darker and darker, so Ma Xiaoquan simply didn't speak, and let these people criticize him, anyway, the emperor was not there.

Since the emperor did not go to the court, there were only a number of ministers in the court, so everyone quarreled about Ma Xiaoquan.

Ma Xiaoquan knew very well in his heart that there were not many people in the court who really helped him speak, and the reason why everyone quarreled so fiercely was actually for Wang Wenyan.

It is said that after Wei Zhongxian arrested Wang Wenyan, he was afraid that he would have a lot of dreams at night, and wanted to kill him secretly, but Wang Wenyan was really cunning, he somehow contacted his colleagues in the Donglin Party, Wei Zhongxian didn't have time to do it, and the Donglin Party people ran to the gate of his house to make a fuss and asked him to release him, Wei Zhongxian was helpless, and he only gave up the idea of killing Wang Wenyan.

Wang Tiqian's suggestion to arrest Wang Wenyan and put him in Dongchang Prison was vetoed by his new dog-legged Ruan Dayue.

Ruan Dayue said that Wang Wenyan was very cunning, and if he was to be locked up in Dongchang, it would be very troublesome for the Donglin Party guys to fight back.

Prison Ruan Dayue used to be a member of the Donglin Party, he knew better than anyone else about the Donglin Party's style of acting, Wei Zhongxian listened to Ruan Dayue's words, and naturally believed his judgment, and after some discussion, Wei Zhongxian decided to send Wang Wenyan to the imperial prison.

Imperial Prison - In fact, it is a prison under the jurisdiction of Jinyiwei, in which all kinds of punishments and detentions are available, under normal circumstances, even if the person who enters the Imperial Prison can come out alive, I am afraid that they will be crippled.

Wei Zhongxian thought very naïvely, he thought that if Wang Wenyan was put in prison, and then Tian Ergeng would be settled, even if Wang Wenyan did not die, he would live enough, but Wei Zhongxian ignored one person, and this person was Liu Qiao.

Liu Qiao is the commander of the Jinyi Wei Town Fu Division, although he and Tian Ergeng belong to the same "unit", but they are different departments, Tian Ergeng's main responsibility is to investigate assassination, spy intelligence, etc., while Liu Qiao's side is mainly criminal trial and detention, plus the two of them report to the emperor separately, so usually, the two do not have much intersection.

On the first day that Wang Wenyan was imprisoned, Liu Qiao received a letter from Tian Ergeng, the meaning of which was very clear, that is, to ask him to "serve" Lord Wang well.

If this matter was put into practice, Liu Qiao would really give Tian Ergeng this face, but it was unfortunate that Huang Zunsu of the Donglin Party had just found him before Tian Ergeng's letter and told him some truth, although Liu Qiao was not a member of the Donglin Party, but seeing that the Donglin Party usually did his best for the emperor and the Ming Dynasty, Liu Qiao decided to help the Donglin Party, of course, this was only Liu Qiao's reply to Huang Zunsu.

In fact, before Huang Zun came, Ma Xiaoquan came, and when he saw Liu Qiao, Ma Xiaoquan didn't say much, stretched out his hand and stuffed Liu Qiao with 20,000 taels of silver tickets.

The relationship between Liu Qiao and Ma Xiaoquan is not bad, although it is also the same as Tian Ergeng, with different departments of the "unit", but for his colleague and "big rich man" Ma Xiaoquan, Liu Qiao is still very face-saving, collecting money for others to eliminate disasters, not to mention that when Ma Xiaoquan gave him 20,000 taels of silver, the reason was that the Donglin Party asked him to come and tell Lord Liu that Wang Wenyan was innocent.

Liu Qiao naturally understood the meaning of Ma Xiaoquan's words, and after the two said goodbye, he immediately gave an order to his subordinates to serve Lord Wang

A few days later, Wei Zhongxian sent someone to secretly go to the Zhenfu Division to inquire about the situation, and the news he got was that Wang Wenyan lived a very good life in the Imperial Prison, except that there were no women to sleep with, wine and meat every day, and he could also read Spring Palace novels.

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and the people who entered the Zhenfu Si Edict Prison were still "living very well"?

Wei Zhongxian is very unwilling, good! Since Wang Wenyan can't be moved, then put this old guy aside, I, Wei Zhongxian, don't believe it, I can't deal with a Wang Wenyan, Ma Xiaoquan, can't I make a stumbling block?

It is normal for Wei Zhongxian to have such thoughts, Wang Wenyan has a group of Donglin Party people behind him, and Ma Xiaoquan, looking at the whole court, said that he is a deacon of Jinyiwei, but in fact, he doesn't have many friends. [Wei Zhongxian thinks so]

It's a pity that Wei Zhongxian was wrong.

Although Ma Xiaoquan didn't have many friends in the court, he didn't have many enemies (except for the eunuchs), Wei Zhongxian instructed his subordinates to impeach Ma Xiaoquan, for no other reason, or to hold on to Ma Xiaoquan's loan to Wang Wenyan.

Although Ma Xiaoquan will not be nervous about the eunuchs impeaching him, he is not afraid that he will lose his black yarn hat, because he has never lent money to Wang Wenyan at all.

It's just that because he wanted to solve this matter as soon as possible, Ma Xiaoquan still paid a lot of silver taels to settle the matter.

As the saying goes, money can make the devil grind, and what money can solve is often not a problem.

When Ma Xiaoquan gave enough money to those talkers, everyone changed their words and said that Ma Xiaoquan was fine, and they "saw it wrong and misunderstood Lord Deacon".

Ma Xiaoquan was very helpless, but he had to go through with a smile on his face, and the things and people in the officialdom were so complicated

At this time, Shoufu Ye Xianggao suddenly asked the emperor to resign, on the grounds that he was old and it was time to return to his hometown.