Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiao fully meets the Emperor of Tianqi, Zhu Youxiao, and persuades the emperor to issue an imperial edict. At the critical moment, Wei Jinzhong appears, disrupting Ma Xiaoquan's plan...
The Minister of Industry took a few glances at Ma Xiaoquan and Wei Jinzhong who were beside the emperor, and said: "To inform the emperor, the renovation project of the training ground has not yet started. This... the money has not been received yet."
Ma Xiaoquan curled his lips, thinking that it was not in place. It has been so many years and there has been no renovation. I don't believe it was not in place. Huh, it must have been embezzled by you thieves who eat people without spitting out their bones.
"Oh, it's not in place yet. Well, let the national treasury allocate it again," Zhu Youxiao wrote lightly.
"I obey the decree!" The Minister of Industry was overjoyed and quickly knelt down and kowtowed.
"By the way" Zhu Youxiao seemed to have remembered something, "This time, let's let Ma Aiqing be the supervisor."
"Ah? Your Majesty, this..." Minister of the Ministry of Industry was startled, "Your Majesty, Lord Ma is a Jin Yiwei, this..."
Before the Minister of Works had finished speaking, Ma Xiaoquan had already knelt in front of Zhu Youxiao and shouted: "Thank you Lord for your kindness, my emperor will sleep forever and sleep forever."
...
After leaving the Yangxin Hall, the Minister of Industry said to Ma Xiaoquan in a strange tone: "Master Ma, congratulations, you have become the supervisor of our training ground project."
Ma Xiaoquan naturally knew the meaning of the Minister of Industry, and said with a smile: "No, I have to rely on the Minister for support in the future."
"Humph", the Minister of Industry and Commerce sneered and left.
Looking at the back of the Minister of the Ministry of Industry as he walked away, Ma Xiaoquan frowned and thought: This Minister of the Ministry of Industry is not a good person. It seems that he should be more careful. Well, let's go back first. This matter will be beneficial to me for the time being.
Thinking of this, Ma Xiaoquan patted Wei Jinzhong on the shoulder, smiled and left.
...
When Wei Jinzhong saw Ma Xiaoquan leaving, he immediately went after the Minister of Industry.
"Master Shangshu, please stay!" Wei Jinzhong stopped the Minister of Industry.
"Huh? Eunuch Wei, what's going on?" the Minister of Industry said unhappily.
Wei Jinzhong chuckled and said: "Master Shangshu, I am afraid that Master Shangshu is very unhappy about Ma Xiaoquan's unauthorized involvement in the renovation of the training ground?"
"Eunuch Wei, if you have something to say, just say it directly. There is no need to beat around the bush."
Wei Jinzhong chuckled and said grimly: "Master Shangshu, I have a way to make Ma Xiaoquan unable to do anything, hum."
"Really? Tell me your conditions. What do you want?"
Wei Jinzhong smiled and said: "I want the lives of Ma Xiaoquan and even everyone in the Ma family!"
"Hiss" the Minister of Industry raised his eyebrows, "Eunuch Wei, do you really mean what you said?"
Wei Jinzhong nodded and said: "Master Shangshu has good relations with Master Lu Zhan of the Ministry of Punishment, and he also knows that the Lu family and the Ma family are feuding. It just so happens that I, Wei Jinzhong, also hate Ma Xiaoquan, so I think we should form a team.
alliance."
"Well," the Minister of the Ministry of Industry dragged his chin, not knowing what he was thinking. After a while, he murmured, "Okay, let's have a meeting with Brother Lu Zhan in the evening. If Eunuch Wei has time, you can
Let’s get up and discuss it.”
Wei Jinzhong was overjoyed and quickly handed over his hand: "Thank you very much, Lord Shangshu."
"Um"
...
When Ma Xiaoquan returned to Ma's house, Li Qinghan's three daughters surrounded him.
"How's it going? Is there any result?" Li Qinghan asked.
Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Did you fail?" Li Qinghan's eyes darkened.
"It just didn't meet my expectations. After all the hard work, I only got an overseer."
"Supervisor? What does a supervisor do?" Bei Mingxue asked.
"Well, I just watch others working."
"Oh, that's a lot of power, right?" Bei Mingxue nodded.
"A lot of power? Haha, if there is no money to start the work, the supervisor is just an idle job."
Dongfang Qingxue said: "What are you going to do next, Ma Xiaoquan?"
Ma Xiaoquan frowned and asked Li Qinghan: "How is the work done by the Five Golden Flowers?"
Li Qinghan nodded: "We have just begun, it will take some time."
"Yeah" Ma Xiaoquan nodded.
...
After lunch, Ma Xiaoquan returned to Jinyiwei's office.
The Jinyiwei is a special agency directly under the emperor's control, and its main responsibilities are assassinations, investigations, kidnappings and other shady work.
Ma Xiaoquan is now a fourth-rank official, and many confidential information that could not be viewed before can now be viewed. Among these documents, there are many personal information of officials of the current dynasty, including their birth dates, children and grandchildren, and even their food, drink and food.
Sadhu’s investigation records are very detailed.
Ma Xiaoquan found the "Ministry of Industry" from the information rack and took out two hinged volumes.
The first hinged book is clearly the personal information of the Minister of the Ministry of Industry at that time, while the second one is the information of other personnel of the current Ministry of Industry.
Looking through the personal information of the Minister of Industry, Ma Xiaoquan became more and more worried.
"Well, Minister of the Ministry of Industry... The Lu family... no wonder the training ground project was handed over to Lu Zhan. Lu Zhan is the actual controller. So, um, so you can understand the previous work.
The minister is ignoring me. It seems that I am not a good supervisor."
Ma Xiaoquan picked up another book, opened it and continued reading.
"Huh? The Ministry of Industry... Well, this person seems to be able to win over..." Ma Xiaoquan pointed his finger at a person's name on the hinged book and murmured, "Zhang Jiude, Zhang Jiude...
...Um"
With a plan in mind, Ma Xiaoquan immediately closed the hinged book, put the information away, and left the Jinyiwei office.
Returning to Ma's house, Ma Xiaoquan immediately called Li Qinghan and others and said: "The Minister of the Ministry of Industry is a tough nut to crack, and he has a deep relationship with the Lu family. After work starts, I'm afraid they will deliberately make things difficult for me."
"What should we do?"
Ma Xiaoquan said: "There is another person in the Ministry of Industry named Zhang Jiude. This person does not get along well with the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, but he is not in Beijing at the moment, but in Ningxia Wei."
"Ah, it's so far away from Beijing." Bei Mingxue sighed.
Ma Xiaoquan smiled slightly and thought to himself that I came from Ningxia Wei, but in my era, it was not called Ningxia Wei.
"No matter what, we have to recruit Zhang Jiuda, otherwise, the renovation work of this training ground will not be carried out. The rise of our Ma family will definitely encounter difficulties in opening the door."
After speaking, Ma Xiaoquan stood up, wrote a letter, and asked his close servants to hurry up and deliver it to Ningxia Wei Zhang Jiude.
...
From Beijing to Ningxia Wei, if you choose to fly, train or car now, you can only go by land in Ming Dynasty, and the road is not easy to travel.
Ma Xiaoquan estimated that it would take more than half a month to set off from Beijing to Ningxia Wei, even if he ran at full speed. As a result, Ma Xiaoquan could only wait for the past half month.
