Everyone sat in the court, a faint layer of smoke emanated from the beast head incense burner, and Ma Yue and Guan Yu Yan exchanged pleasantries, telling about what they had seen and heard in the past few months.

Ma Yue was always reluctant to cut to the chase, and he was in a dilemma.

After chatting for a while, Guan Yu coughed lightly and said, "San Lang, you asked me to come back with Yan Ming because there is something important to discuss, I heard that Chao Yi San Lang did something big this morning." ”

Yan Xing was still wearing armor today, and when Ma Li went to look for him, he was training with a sergeant, and when he heard that Ma Yue Xiangzhao had not changed his clothes and armor, he came directly, and said with a smile: "Lord, if you have something, just tell us directly, who are you hiding with, do you still want to see us?" ”

"Ahem, I really don't know what to say about it." Ma Yue said with some embarrassment: "You must have heard about the reconstruction of the North and South Palaces, the permanent servants instructed the people below to take the opportunity to be greedy for money, and the governors of the prefectures and counties could only increase the woods for collecting wood and stone from the people, and in the end it was the people who suffered." Since Your Majesty has recruited me as a counselor as soon as you return, I must do something for Your Majesty and for the people. Therefore, at this morning's court meeting, I mentioned this matter to Your Majesty. ”

Yan Xing was in the barracks all day long, he didn't know much about the affairs of the imperial court, he was mixed with a group of big-headed soldiers all day long, if you want to say who in Luoyang has superb martial arts, he is Men'er Qing, but when it comes to these things discussed by the court, he doesn't know anything, just waiting for Ma Yue to say what to let him do.

"San Lang, did you really mention this?" Guan Yu was stunned when he heard it, he was a Langguan official in Dongguan, there were a few old antiques in Dongguan, nothing to talk about all day long, the old man was bored and told him some things inside the court, and over time he knew more things, and especially the matter of wood and stone, he knew a lot about this matter, Guan Yu said: "Lord, this matter can't be managed, otherwise no one cares about it for so many months, the lord just returned to Luoyang and didn't understand it." ”

Ma Yue was stunned for a moment, and his brows furrowed. Guan Yu is like a brother, he usually never calls him the lord, and only when something big happens, he will call him the lord. Ma Yue asked: "What can there be, isn't it that Zhang asked Zhao Zhong and them to be greedy for some money, they didn't do it right, I'm not afraid of them." ”

"It's not either, it's right or wrong." Guan Yu himself also said all the official words of Luoyang, almost biting his tongue, and even his accent has changed in Dongguan these days. Then in a blink of an eye, he changed his Hedong accent and said: "Dongguan Lang's name is Shan Yang, he is a character of the older generation, at first when this incident first happened, the old man talked to a certain person, and Chang Shi was greedy for some money, but few people knew that Chang Shi was not only greedy for ink money, but also bought those wood and stones with the money from greedy ink, and transferred them to his own treasury. Does the lord know why? ”

"Why?" When Guan Yu asked this, not only Ma Yue didn't know, but even Fu Xie and Gai Xun didn't know.

"Because it's Your Majesty's intention to buy wood and stone!" Guan Yu said seriously: "When the first batch of wood and stone arrived, Zhang Rang sent his cronies to build a large homestead between the river, and the wood and stone that the eunuch bought back were all transported there, and now it is estimated that the land has been leveled, think about what kind of place the river is......"

Hejian Kingdom, his father's hereditary fiefdom before Liu Hong ascended the throne, Ma Yue suddenly understood everything, and understood why Zhang Rang smiled so lightly when he took over the music in the court, and now I think about it, it is all intriguing.

Zhang Rang was laughing at Ma Yue for taking a mouse.

"How can Your Majesty be so stupid!" Gai Xun only beat his chest, he and Fu Xie moved Ma Yue to propose to Liu Hong, and he also had his share in it, but how could he, who was dedicated to state affairs, think that it would be such an end! "Your Majesty is going to build a mansion, why don't you make it clear, just recruit craftsmen to do it, why do you want to hide it so much?"

"I don't know about that."

Guan Yu closed his mouth, everything he knew was said, and the rest depended on what Ma Yue was going to do.

"I know." Ma Yue nodded slightly, looked at Gai Xun, and said, "I know why Your Majesty did this. Now that the treasury has no money, His Majesty wants to set up a mansion in the river, and those ministers in the court will not agree, and they must be chattering endlessly, but I am afraid that Your Majesty will also have this purpose in abandoning the early dynasty. From here, nothing has been touched in the treasury, His Majesty's own money has not been taken, the house in the river has been set up, and the ministers of the court have become accustomed to the greed for money of the ten permanent servants, and they are too lazy to argue about this matter. How many people are greedy for money? Not to mention, Chen Tan and Liu Tao have just been buried, who will offend the eunuchs because of this? ”

"Huh." Ma Yue smiled self-deprecatingly, and said dejectedly: "Only I, a fool from Liangzhou, think that I am dedicated to serving the people......"

"San Lang, don't say that." Gai Xun patted Ma Yue on the shoulder, he felt guilty about Ma Yue, he and Fu Xie both valued Ma Yue's identity as a servant and let Ma Yue speak for them, otherwise it would not be so, if he had known the inside story, he would definitely write Liu Hong by himself, how could he let the junior bear this blame. "You've done a good job, you're brave."

"Yes, San Lang, don't care what, I, Fu Xie and Mr. Yuan Gu, will stand with you. In any case, if you do it, you will be a master, and there will be results, at least the people will not raise taxes for no reason. Fu Xie said to Ma Yue sincerely: "The money for selling officials is not enough, I will help you make up, and I have saved 100 gold for the purchase rewards over the years, and I will give it to you." ”

Gai Xun said: "Yes, San Lang is dedicated to the people, my old bones also have to contribute to you, the old man can't help with the money, you do the old man who will be a master craftsman to help you fight and supervise the wood and stone." ”

Last year, helping the hungry people in Liangzhou, Gai Xun has already scattered all his family wealth.

"Nanrong, Mr. Yuangu." Ma Yue looked at the old and young in front of him, with a smile on his aggrieved face, and his nose was about to cry, and he didn't know what to say for a while, but he kept nodding.

Guan Yu and Yan Xing heard it at this time, the lord was going to buy an official, Guan Yu asked: "Yanming, how much did you buy for the yellow scarf last time?" ”

Before Guan Yu finished speaking, Yan Xing heard Gai Xun and Fu Xie say that when Ma Yue asked for money, he had already gotten up and ran out with a whoosh.

No matter what Ma Yue did was right or wrong, he should support his lord as a retainer, not to mention that Ma Yue was asking for the people's life! Yan Xing has never been an upright and great person, but in his eyes, Ma Yue's current insistence on doing things is a great thing.

Guan Yu saw that Yan Xing was gone, and he counted the money he had saved in the past few years in his heart, which was originally intended to be sent back to the Hu family in Liangzhou, and wanted to ask the Hu family to find a teacher for Guan Ping, and live a good life with money, but the war in Liangzhou made the pass forbidden to enter and exit, and he said to Ma Yue: "The lord wants to do a big thing, Yu saved a hundred gold before, and this will be taken for the lord." ”

"Lord, lord, the money is coming, the money is coming...... Alas! ”

Guan Yu walked out and pretended to be full of Yan Xing, who ran with the box, and the one-and-a-half-foot box was scattered, and the white and yellow ones were scattered all over the ground.

Yan Xing rubbed his head and crawled on the ground, lowered his head to pick up the money, and held it in his arms, and said, "Lord, look, it's all money, Yanming has ten, twenty, forty here...... Damn, if only I could kill more thieves, lord, I have forty-five gold. ”

"Babble, uncle, it's gone." Following Yan Xing, a pink and tender little doll behind the buttocks ran over, Xiao Wanning ran over with a golden cake in his arms, ran to Ma Yue with a golden cake in his arms, and was mixed with a few feet and fell directly into Ma Yue's arms, holding the golden cake with both hands and saying: "Uncle give, the lord is for the master, and the pig is for the pig." ”

Ma Yue hugged Wan Ning, who was holding the little tooth, and looked at Yan Xing who was picking up money, with a smile on his face that was the same age as Wan Ning, his eyes looked upward, and he couldn't stop blinking.

What's wrong with your nose?