After leaving the Ganqing Palace, Ma Cheng stood in front of Xihua Gate and hesitated. Today, he wanted to kill Qian Qianyi, but he didn't expect Lu Jiude to turn against him. Lu Jiude's rebellion made Lu Siye unreliable. The most important military intelligence department in Ma Cheng's hands was in Lu Siye's hands. There must be no mistakes in such an important department.

Ma Cheng thought about the operation of the Military Intelligence Department. Fortunately, the Military Intelligence Department has just been established for half a year, and its basic work is just to send spies to the Qing Dynasty. The biggest spy is Zuo Maodi. These things are nothing shameful. Fortunately, Ma Cheng has not had time to let the Military Intelligence Department carry out the task of surveillance of all officials. If this matter is exposed to Zhu Lunkui, he will not be able to explain it.

Now that Lu Siye is no longer reliable, how should the Military Information Department operate? This candidate is difficult for Ma Cheng. The Military Information Department is not the same as having a general official. The Military Information Department will be Ma Cheng's secret service in the future, so you must select completely reliable personnel.

Ma Cheng stood here at Xihuamen for a long time. The Han general who was guarding the gate saw this powerful figure standing at the door and didn't know what intentions were. Ma Cheng now is different from the miscellaneous admiral half a year ago. Ma Cheng held more than 100,000 troops in the capital and was a prominent figure.

The Qianhu guarding the gate stepped forward and asked, "The villain has paid tribute to the marquis. I wonder what else does the marquis need to do?"

After being reminded by the thousand households, Ma Cheng remembered that he was standing at the gate of the palace. The palace ban had strict regulations, and idle people could not hang out here. Ma Cheng said apologetically: "Sorry, I was thinking about some things just now, which delayed my brothers. Now I will go out!"

After Ma Cheng left Xihuamen, Ma Cheng came from later generations. The idea of ​​equality among everyone has been deeply rooted in people's hearts, so Ma Cheng always speaks in a harmonious manner, no matter whether he is ordinary or his generals. This is the first time that the thousand-household guarding the gate heard such a big man say this. It would be great if the nobles didn't scold you a few words, and it would be so kind there.

The Qianhu watched Ma Cheng go away and silently remembered in his heart that this Guiyang Marquis was really extraordinary, different from ordinary nobles.

Ma Cheng didn't know that he had made friends with a little person inadvertently, and this little person would play a big role in the future.

Ma Cheng left Xihuamen and turned to Qianbulang. Qianbulang is right between Chengtianmen and Hongwumen. It is the office location of Liudu, Nanjing. However, there are too few rooms here. In addition to this, Liudu has other office spaces in the city. Qianbulang is the office of Liudu.

Ma Cheng came here to find Xu Zhenye, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works. Lao Xu, the Ministry of Works, has been doing well for more than half a year. After joining Ma Shiying, Xu Zhenye, who was supposed to go home to farm, became the head of the Ministry of Works again, and was promoted from the seventh-rank chief to the fourth-rank doctor in less than half a year. This time, because he was successful in supporting Zhu Lunkui, and with the help of Ma Shiying behind him, he became the third in command of the Ministry of Works, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works.

Now the Minister of Works is Li Zhan. This old guy is Ma Shiying's same year. The second-in-command left minister is Ma Cheng's teacher Song Yingxing. His bosses are all his own people, so Xu Zhenye is really at work in the Ministry of Works.

Although Song Yingxing was entitled as the Left Minister, he worked in the Military Weapon Bureau in Beicheng all year round. Shangshu Li Zhan was originally the censor Qingliu, and he had no idea about a very professional department like the Ministry of Works.

So now the head of the Ministry of Industry is Xu Zhenye.

The Qing Dynasty surrounded the city outside the city. The six ministries in the city had basically nothing except the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works. Because the Ministry of Works had to manage the production of weapons in the whole city, Xu Zhenye was so busy these days.

Xu Zhenye was working in the yamen today and heard from the officials outside the Taoist sect that the Marquis of Guiyang was here.

Xu Zhenye's wealth lies with the Ma family and his son. Now that he heard that Ma Cheng was coming, he quickly put down his work and went out of the room to greet him at the second gate.

Ma Cheng was wearing a red python robe over shoulder. Seeing Xu Zhenye standing respectfully at the second gate to greet him, Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, you are the third-rank minister now, so there is no need to be so much courtesy!"

Although Ma Cheng was polite, Xu Zhenye did not dare to be careless. He knew that Ma Cheng in front of him was a smile and could destroy the whole family while talking and laughing, so he did not dare to neglect him and said, "The Marquis is joking. If there is no Marquis where there is a subordinate, the Marquis naturally cannot forget the Marquis' grace of taking in the Marquis!"

Seeing Xu Zhenye say this, Ma Cheng is very satisfied, he is afraid that these literati and officials will forget how they were promoted after becoming officials. Now, Ma Cheng is very relieved that Xu Zhenye says this, so that he can tell him some secret matters today.

Ma Cheng came to Xu Zhenye today not because he was idle but because he was strolling around, but because Ma Cheng wanted to find a close civil servant to help analyze what to do in the future. This time, Lu Jiude's joining the Donglin Party made Ma Cheng very passive. Lu Siye was his confidant. He knew that he had a lot of things. If Lu Siye did not solve the problem, what secrets would be left in front of Lu Jiude in the future?

Ma Cheng originally wanted to discuss it with his father Ma Shiying, but Ma Cheng just thought at Xihuamen that he would be independent in the future and told his father everything, which would inevitably make his father look down on him. You must know that if Ma Cheng succeeds in the future, the first mortal enemy he faces is Ma Luan, and he is Ma Cheng's most favorable competitor. If he wants to take the lead in the competition with Ma Luan, he must let me see that he is indeed a qualified successor.

In order to show his ability, Ma Cheng naturally couldn't ask me for help when encountering any difficulties, but Ma Cheng had too few civil servants and counselors. Wang Xian was one, but Wang Xian had never been in the officialdom, so he didn't understand many things at all. If he was a conspiracy and trick, Wang Xian was a good player, it would be better to find experts in such officialdom.

Xu Zhenye is also considered Ma Cheng's person. If Ma Cheng had not been recommended by Ma Cheng, Xu Zhenye would have returned to his hometown to farm. However, Ma Cheng was afraid that Xu Zhenye would forget his roots after being promoted, so he was about to come over and test it first. Now seeing that Xu Zhenye still respects him as much as before, Ma Cheng lets go and walk into Xu Zhenye's office.

The office here in Qianbulang is tense. Except for the Shangshu Li Zhan himself, there are several people crowding in an office. Even Xu Zhenye's assistant minister can only run a room with Zhaomoshi's secretary. However, a small reception room is divided by a screen at the back of the house, which is considered Xu Zhenye's separate space.

Ma Cheng came to Xu Zhenye's desk and flipped through the documents casually. Although Ma Cheng couldn't recognize traditional Chinese characters, he could still understand the basic meaning. These documents were documents sent by various manufacturing bureaus in the city. Some people needed craftsmen and some people needed raw materials.

There are also those who need to allocate wages and food.

It seems that Xu Zhenye is very serious in his work. No matter what documents, Xu Zhenye has made detailed instructions. Ma Cheng is very satisfied with this.

Ma Cheng sat down on the chair next to him, and a bookkeeper served tea for Ma Cheng and Xu Zhenye, then closed the door and left.

Xu Zhenye also knew that Ma Cheng would not come to see him for no reason. After all the people in the house went out, Xu Zhenye asked, "Mr. Marquis, I wonder what's wrong with coming to find a minister?"

Ma Cheng didn't want to hide it from Xu Zhenye. After taking a sip of tea, he smiled and said, "It's nothing big. Just now, I was going to kill Qian Qianyi in front of His Majesty, but I didn't expect that at the critical moment, Lu Jiude took action to speak for Qian Qianyi, which caused my intention to fail. This time, I came here to ask Lord Xu to help analyze it!"

Xu Zhenye was overjoyed when he heard Ma Cheng say this. Although he was a member of Ma Shiying's party, he basically couldn't get in contact with any core secrets. Ma Shiying's official career has been in office for more than 20 years, but there were many old friends in the same year. Now there are more than 20 senior officials at the Shangshu level in the court. Among them, the core figures include Ruan Dacheng, the Minister of Personnel Zhang Jie, the Minister of Revenue Yang Weiyuan, the Minister of Works Li Zhan, the Minister of Works Tian Yang, and the Minister of War Tian Yang. There is only one member of the Donglin Party with the Minister of Justice Xie Xuelong and the Minister of Rites Wang Duo.

The core figure of Ma Shiying's party is far above Xu Zhenye, regardless of his identity and status. Xu Zhenye usually discusses any major matters, so Xu Zhenye has no chance to attend. So today, when Ma Cheng came to discuss the matter of killing Qian Qianyi, he thought it was Ma Shiying's instructing him.

"Marty, why didn't Yuan Fu participate in this matter?" Xu Zhenye quickly found the key to the problem. Qian Qianyi is also a cabinet master. If he really wants to kill him, Ma Shiying should take action. Why did Ma Cheng just said nothing about Ma Shiying?

Ma Cheng laughed: "Haha, that's the matter, this matter was temporarily initiated by this governor, and my father didn't know about it!"

It turned out that it was Ma Cheng's own meaning, no wonder the matter did not succeed. Xu Zhenye knew that Ma Shiying was an old official. If he really wanted to kill Qian Qianyi, he would definitely be well prepared. He would definitely not be as prepared as Ma Cheng, and he would not be as defensive as Lu Jiude.

"Xiaguan knows why. Although Lu Jiude was an ally of Yuanfu before, Han Zanzhou is dead now, and the common enemy of both sides is gone, and this alliance will naturally disintegrate. Now Yuanfu has the strongest momentum. As long as Lu Jiude still wants to control power, he naturally has to find another ally. In this way, the weak Donglin Party will become a good target for the alliance!"

Ma Cheng knew some of these principles, but the authorities were a little confused. Now, after hearing Xu Zhenye's explanation, Ma Cheng couldn't help but nod.

"There is another thing that the Marquis miscalculated!"

When Ma Cheng heard that he had not calculated one thing, he quickly asked respectfully: "There is still something I haven't calculated? Please help Mr. Xu to solve the problem!"

Ma Cheng is good at this. As long as it is useful, it is respectful and will immediately take advantage of it if it is useless. Now, after hearing Xu Zhenye say that he has not calculated it, he should lower his attitude and ask for advice.
Chapter completed!