Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan agreed to House's 10,000 taels of cash betrothal gift, but he couldn't give it in vain. He made an agreement with Lisa Yi's family to give them 10 taels of cash and let them make money...
Lisa supported her father and left slowly.
Li Yao turned around and closed the door, and said helplessly: "Brother Ma, I don't understand why you want Lisa and the others to make money. What is your ultimate goal?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled and said: "They are businessmen doing currency exchange business. Making money will not trouble them. Of course... What's more, I got news recently that Wei Zhongxian is planning to
Taking action against the Donglin Party members will definitely cause a big turmoil in the court, so during this period, we will do our best to protect ourselves as wisely as possible."
Hua Yue said: "If Wei Zhongxian really wants to take action, he will definitely eradicate it. Ma Xiaoquan, will you protect anyone?"
Ma Xiaoquan smiled bitterly and said: "I am still attached to King Xin's tent. How can I protect anyone? Besides..." At this point, Ma Xiaoquan sighed secretly in his heart. If he could save Yang Lian, he would not change.
As for history, of course he will take action, but... history cannot be changed, nor can it be changed...
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Tomorrow, the fourth year of Qi Dynasty, the first day of October in the park, 1624, Wei Zhongxian's house.
Wei Zhongxian sat on the imperial chair with his legs crossed, and Li Yongzhen stood beside him, reading to him the memorials of the past two days.
The first few books are nothing, but the next dozen or so books all feature Wei Zhongxian's performance.
Wei Zhongxian laughed and said: "These idiots know that I can't participate in the concert, but they still do it over and over again. It's really annoying!"
Li Yongzhen said: "Having said that, three people make a tiger. This group of people, especially the Donglin Party, likes to stick together. Mr. Wei, you must be on guard. Well, Mr. Wei, please listen to this memorial...
.." Li Yongzhen picked up a memorial and read it to Wei Zhongxian.
After Wei Zhongxian heard this, he patted the armrest of the Grand Master's chair angrily and said, "Who the hell wrote this?"
Li Yongzhen said: "Li Yingsheng."
"What a fool, a little beast of science and a big official, how can he be so presumptuous!"
Li Yongzhen said: "Master Wei, why don't you kill one as a warning to others and have Li Yingsheng be operated on?"
Wei Zhongxian nodded: "Well, there's no rush, no rush, just go and call Wang Tiqian and Liu Ruoyu."
"yes"
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The next day, Zhu Youxiao suddenly became interested and said that he was going to court. After hearing the news, all the civil and military officials rushed to the Forbidden City one by one. Among them, Ma Xiaoquan was also there.
Since it was Zhu Youxiao's impromptu idea, the court was temporarily chosen to be the Yangxin Hall.
After saying "Long live Long Live Long Live" to all the officials, they stood in vertical rows and listened to Hou Zhuyou's words.
Zhu Youxiao did not speak quickly, but was stunned for some unknown reason. His actions attracted the attention of some ministers.
A courtier approached Ma Xiaoquan and asked in a low voice: "Master Deacon, the emperor doesn't look very happy. Did something happen to him?"
Ma Xiaoquan did not say a word, but shook his head gently.
At this moment, Wei Zhongxian suddenly said on behalf of the emperor: "If you have something to do, put down the memorial, and if there is nothing to do, you will retreat from the court!"
"This..." All the officials asked, "What the hell is this? If you have something to do, you can only put down the memorial, but you can't talk about it?"
In desperation, the officials had no choice but to return to their posts when they had something to do and to retreat when they had nothing to do.
Ma Xiaoquan walked among the hundreds of officials and never spoke. He knew that the emperor's abnormal behavior today was actually what Wei Zhongxian said...
After the officials left, Wei Zhongxian and his party members immediately surrounded Zhu Youxiao. Wei Zhongxian started, and several people started talking.
Everyone had already colluded and colluded on the lines. They had only one purpose, which was to use Li Yingsheng's memorial to change the content into a mess, so as to anger the emperor.
Zhu Youxiao was already in a bad mood because his second son had just died recently. When these people talked about it, his anger increased sharply. He did not ask clearly what was written in the memorial. Zhu Youxiao immediately issued an imperial edict to order
Tingzhang Li Yingsheng.
Of course Wei Zhongxian and others were happy, but their purpose was far more than that, so with the emperor's imperial edict, Wei Zhongxian actually "begged for love" on behalf of Li Yingsheng, but... Wei Zhongxian's reason for begging for mercy was that Li Yingsheng was not wrong.
Yes, the fault lies entirely with those in the Donglin Party. They are the ones who are messing around and talking nonsense.
Zhu Youxiao Long Yan was furious, swung his sleeves and said, "Zhongxian, I'm very annoyed by this matter, you can do it as you please." After that, Zhu Youxiao turned and left.
Zhu Youxiao's words were equivalent to giving Wei Zhongxian a Shangfang sword. How could Wei Zhongxian not accept it?
Immediately, Wei Zhongxian ordered Li Yongzhen to draft an imperial edict asking Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian and Xingguan to be demoted to five levels.
Being demoted by three levels is already a big deal. Being demoted by five levels is undoubtedly forcing Zuo, Yang and Zhao to submit their resignations.
Sure enough, after receiving the imperial edict drafted by Wei Zhongxian, Zuo, Yang and Zhao all submitted their resignations to Zhu Youxiao.
If Zhu Youxiao knew that the three people had submitted their resignations, he would definitely retain them, but... until the resignations of the three people were approved, Zhu Youxiao did not know about it. The reason is very simple. All of this was
Wei Zhongxian and his party members took care of everything.
...
Ma family.
Ma Xiaoquan immediately learned about Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian and Xing's resignation and returned home. In this regard, except for secretly sending someone to retain Yang Lian, he did not take any action.
Yang Lian had a good relationship with Ma Xiaoquan. Before leaving, he also sent someone to give Ma Xiaoquan a message, urging him to resign if he couldn't do it so that he could have some peace and quiet.
Ma Xiaoquan secretly complained in his heart. If he could resign and save himself and the Ma family, he would have done it long ago.
Hua Yue looked at Ma Xiaoquan's helpless expression and worried, "Will the Ma family be implicated in this storm?"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded: "I can't guarantee it, so I plan to go see King Xin. At this time, we have to hold on to King Xin tightly so that we can protect ourselves."
"Yeah" Hua Yue nodded, "By the way, someone came here this morning and told me to leave this to you!"
Ma Xiaoquan took the superstition handed over by Hua Yue, opened it and said, "Well, this time Zuo Guangdou and Yang Lianxing resigned, and only Ye Xianggao is left."
Hua Yue said: "Will Ye Xianggao resign?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head: "He should be patient and resisting, but it seems there is little hope." After that, Ma Xiaoquan handed the superstition to Hua Yue.
After looking at it, Hua Yue sighed: "Wei Zhongxian, you are already unstoppable! Ma Xiaoquan, I am very worried that Wei Zhongxian will attack us!"
"Well, you are right, it is only a matter of time before Wei Zhongxian attacks us!"