Chapter Seventy-Four: Comparing Hearts to Hearts
"Nanrong, fortunately, I will not be dishonored, and I will go to court early tomorrow."
As soon as he opened the door of the mansion, Ma Yue saw Fu Xie who was circling in the courtyard and an unexpected but reasonable one, as soon as Fu Xie heard what Ma Yue said, he immediately clapped his hands excitedly and said: "San Lang is really powerful!" In this case, the matter will basically be completed tomorrow! ”
Saying that, Fu Xie said excitedly to Ma Yue: "San Lang, I expected that you could say that your majesty would go to the court, and Mr. Yuan Gu rushed to Luoyang from Hanyang a few days after writing the letter. ”
"San Lang, I haven't seen you for many years."
The person who came was Gai Xun, I haven't seen him for many years, the last time was the hurried side of the Liangzhou Thorn Mansion four years ago, Gai Xun was a few years older, he was about the same age as Liang Hu, and now the hair between the temples has turned white.
"How have you been doing lately? A few days ago, I heard that my lord was assigned by the new assassin of Liangzhou to the place where the enemy was first blocked, and I was very worried about your safety. ”
"I'm worried about work." Gai Xun sighed and said, "It's a pity that the Liangzhou soldiers are still in turmoil, San Lang, let's talk about business first." The old man listened to Nan Rong tell San Lang about the eunuch who was greedy for ink and wood, how was it? ”
Ma Yue took off the crown belt on his head, waved his hand and said, "Let's come to the study to talk, please." ”
"Please!"
Instructed Ma Li to take charge of the night's meals, Ma Yue led the two into the study.
The study is full of Liang Hu's ink treasures, hanging on the wall, on several cases, and even hanging on the ceiling with large characters, this is the first time Ma Yue invited someone to come to the study to discuss matters.
"Today, a certain person to the West Garden, Zhao Zhong and other permanent attendants are behind, as well as Jiang Lan's waiting, I didn't give direct advice, I just told Your Majesty about what I saw and heard when I came, and finally said a little bit about the mountains of wood and stone outside the city, Your Majesty is very smart, and understands that someone is making an obstacle in this matter, so he directly asked me to inform Jian Huangmen to inform the hundred officials of the matter of tomorrow's court discussion."
"Zhao Zhong was beside His Majesty when San Lang said this?" Fu Xie frowned and asked, "I'm afraid that San Lang will offend them." ”
"Good offended! They are corrupt and pervert the law, since they are offended, why don't they tell Your Majesty everything directly? At this time, is Saburo still afraid of the permanent servant? ”
Fu Xie still has some friendship with Ma Yue in the end, after all, he once bathed in blood in Lingzhou in the north, and he still has a lot of affection in his speech. Gai Xun is completely different, it is basically a feeling of an old man training his son.
"I'm not afraid of the attendants, a little thing is not a big deal." Ma Yue thinks about the feelings in his heart, fucking no one in the world can afford to look down on Lao Tzu, it is these eunuchs who others hate to the end who can afford it, but in the end he wants to stab them back, even if this matter is righteous, he is a little unhappy in his heart, but in the same way, because this matter is correct, so he must do it. "Tomorrow, I would like to ask Your Majesty to take over the position of Inspector from the Standing Attendants, and I hope you will support me."
"San Lang, you have to think clearly!" Fu Xie's eyes widened, and he said: "If San Lang is just criticizing the eunuchs, I think there will be many people in the court who support you, but if you want to monitor this matter, I'm afraid it will ......."
Fu Xie's words from the bottom of his heart didn't come out, if it was a different person, there would be a lot of people to support it, if it was Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, or even the captain of the city gate, but Ma Yue did it, it would not work. In the eyes of these courtiers, he wears a pair of pants with the eunuchs.
And he didn't know whether Ma Yue did this because he was an upright person, or because he was fighting for power and profit with the Ten Standing Servants.
"San Lang, you have to think clearly, Your Majesty has his own ideas to send people to do it, no matter who it is, it will not benefit from doing this, not to mention offending the permanent servants, and it will not make the civil and military officials change their opinion of you. And in case...... Do you know how much wealth there is? ”
"I don't know, I don't care." Ma Yue shook his head and smiled, and said: "I only know, if you change people, Your Majesty likes money, you know, now this matter is Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, the two permanent attendants, are doing, I am afraid that at this time they have already handed over the money to Your Majesty and are asking for guilt, if your Majesty decides tomorrow, the most likely person is Your Majesty's brother-in-law Zhang Rang's false son Taiyi Ling Zhang Feng, Zhao Yan, the younger brother of Zhao Zhong in Dachangqiu, and Zhao Yan, the captain of the City Gate, and the commander of the West Garden Cavalry, Zhonghuangmen from Jian Shuo...... If so, I'm afraid that these wood and stones will still be collected until next year, so what's the point? ”
"If it is Jian Shuo, it should not be like this, Jian Shuo is not greedy for money as far as the old man knows."
Hearing Gai Xun say this, Ma Yue had a slight smile on his face, and when he heard that Gai Xun didn't say that Jian Shuo was bad, he was very happy, he said: "Yes, Jian Shuo is my friend, I know him, he is indeed not greedy for money, but His Majesty has been inspired by the way the attendants collect money, and today Your Majesty is angry not because someone accepted bribes, but because the bribes were not handed over to Your Majesty's Wanjintang." Jian Shuo is not greedy for money, but as far as I know, he is loyal to His Majesty, and will not admonish His Majesty in anything, as long as His Majesty says even if it is just a joke, he will desperately carry it out. ”
"If that's the case, what if Saburo is in charge of this?" Gai Xun asked, he was not afraid that Ma Yue would be greedy, he knew that Ma Yue was an upright person when he was a child, he was just worried that Ma Yue would offend so many people if he didn't do this well.
"If you two can trust me, please Nanrong recommend me tomorrow to supervise the transportation of wood and stone, I am sure to persuade His Majesty to give up this idea, first, I can enter and leave the West Mansion at will for the waiters, and secondly, I have not torn my face with the permanent attendants, and I still have a line. I'd like to see if we can get everyone to do something together. Ma Yue looked at Gai Xun's eyes and said: "In addition, I hope that the adults will not blame the permanent attendants too much, they are also a group of poor people, I have two others who can afford it, but no one can afford the permanent attendants, and those who rely on the permanent attendants to make a fortune also want to stay away from the permanent attendants......"
"Could it be that San Lang is really like the rumors in the market, and he is devoted to eunuchs?" Fu Xie frowned and asked, "San Lang, you have to remember who you are, you are different from them!" ”
"Huh." Ma Yue smiled bitterly, shook his head and said: "I don't like eunuchs, I just talk about things, even if you scold them in the court, what can you do?" Your Majesty is a monarch who misses the old, and the Ten Permanent Servants have the merit of welcoming His Majesty to the throne, as long as Your Majesty is there, no one can move them, since they must be there, I want to try, if not to guide them to good, at least to make them less evil. If even people like me look down on them in this world, then who else can look down on them? ”
Gai Xun looked at Ma Yue with some disappointment in his eyes, he thought that Ma Yue's rise was another upright person in Liangzhou who spoke for the world, but he didn't want this young man who was recommended by himself to be an official to speak to the eunuch everywhere after growing up to be a man.
"My lord, don't look at me like that first, at least don't look at it like that now, what really affects the suffering of the people in the world is this matter, we have to collect some information, and we can refute them in the court tomorrow with reasonable evidence."
Gai Xun and Fu Xie didn't understand his thoughts, he understood.