Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan held an internal meeting and decided to abandon the training ground project, and at the same time take the merchant market first, and wait for Zhang Jiude, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, to come back

On February 10, the second year of the +++++++++++++++++++++ Apocalypse, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, rewarded the officials in the court.

According to the usual practice, before the emperor's wedding, the favorite officials must be rewarded, and the content of the reward can be a reward for finance, land, promotion, marriage, etc., or a combination of several rewards can be "distributed".

Ma Xiaoquan undoubtedly got a good reward in this time, he was upgraded from the previous deputy commander of the third product to the commander of the three products, and also got the land reward of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, I don't know if it was a coincidence or something else, the Emperor of the Apocalypse gave Ma Xiaoquan the reward land, which happened to include the gathering place of merchants outside Beijing.

Ma Xiaoquan almost laughed out loud after receiving the reward, if he hadn't been pinching his thighs all the time, I'm afraid he would have been exposed.

Ma Xiaoquan has not been upgraded again in the official rank, but the leader has undergone a qualitative change, the former Ma Xiaoquan was led by the commander (Zheng Sanpin), and now after the emperor's reward, he has become directly obeyed the emperor's orders, and no longer listens to the orders of the Jinyi Guard.

In other words, Ma Xiaoquan does not have to report to the commander in the future, but directly to the emperor, which is actually equivalent to letting Ma Xiaoquan do what the commander does, therefore, the emperor's big reward order, the officials of the court and the central government have changed to call Ma Xiaoquan "Lord Deacon".

Deacon, this word is rarely used in the Great Tomorrow Dynasty, and generally only people with special status are called "deacons".

Inside and outside the court, discerning people can see that Ma Xiaoquan is favored, of course, Ma Xiaoquan is not proud after being favored, but visits every official one by one.

Ma Xiaoquan's move can be described as very "official", and the officials who originally had some opinions about him (except for Wei Jinzhong, the secretary of the Lu War Industry Department), also changed their attitude at this time.

At the same time that Ma Xiaoquan was rewarded, another person also got a great benefit, this person is Wei Jinzhong.

Wei Jinzhong was arrested by the Emperor of the Apocalypse as Dongchang, and was specifically responsible for the guarding of the capital during the emperor's wedding

In Ma's house, there are three brocade guards standing next to Ma Xiaoquan, and these three people are the henchmen who have been following him a few days ago.

One of them reported to Ma Xiaoquan: "Lord Deacon, Wei Jinzhong has been making frequent moves recently, and after you let go of the training ground project, Wei Jinzhong seems to have mixed in."

Ma Xiaoquan snorted coldly: "Wei Jinzhong, hmph, I expected it a long time ago, let them wolf bèi for rape, my current goal has been shifted, hum, but you keep an eye on me!" ”

"Yes, Lord Deacon!"

Ma Xiaoquan's expectation was not wrong, after he didn't care about the training ground project, Wei Jinzhong immediately invited the emperor, saying that he also wanted to participate in the supervision of the training ground project, Zhu Youxiao was young and ignorant, and after being fooled by Wei Jinzhong, he immediately agreed.

Wei Jinzhong was overjoyed, and immediately took the emperor's edict to find the Ministry of Industry Shangshu and Lu Zhan, and affirmed his intentions.

Although Lu Zhan and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu were not very happy in their hearts, but the emperor said that they had no way to refuse, plus the two originally wanted to pull Wei Jinzhong into the camp to deal with Ma Xiaoquan together, so after discussion, they warmly welcomed Wei Jinzhong's joining.

Wei Jinzhong relied on the fact that he was arrested by the East Factory and was responsible for the guards of the capital, and as soon as he joined the gang, he wantonly intercepted the project money under the banner of "defending the capital", and made a lot of money.

Of course, Wei Jinzhong is not a person who likes to swallow alone, and he gave a part of the intercepted project money to Lu Zhan and the Ministry of Industry, although this part of the money is much less than before, but it is better than nothing.

On February 24, the three of them got together to discuss how to continue to make money.

I'm afraid that the training ground project will not be able to be fished this year, so the three of them decided to extend their claws to the gathering place of merchants.

It's just that the merchant gathering place is the place where the emperor just gave Ma Xiaoquan a reward, if this rashly intervenes and lets Ma Xiaoquan know, I'm afraid it will be inappropriate, so the three of them discussed and set up a "Chamber of Commerce" in the merchant gathering place.

The "Chamber of Commerce" in the intention of the three of them is not a chamber of commerce that actually does business, to put it bluntly, it is a gang organization similar to the head snake of the land, and its main target is the merchants who come and go, collecting tolls and protection fees from them, although there are some small organizations in the gathering place, but they are not backed by the mountains, so the three of them joined in and decided to secretly set up a violent chamber of commerce in the name of Wei Jinzhong

At the same time that some of the businessmen in the gathering place were co-opted by Wei Jinzhong to set up a violent chamber of commerce, Ma Xiaoquan had also begun to plan the next step.

The gathering place is the land given to Ma Xiaoquan by the emperor, and Ma Xiaoquan naturally has absolute dominance.

Originally, this land was ternullius, and the merchants who came and went also carried out their trade in their own way, although there were also small organizations such as gangs within it, but there was no background, and it was easy to reorganize.

It's just that recently I heard that there are a group of "merchants" in the gathering place, who are specifically responsible for collecting tolls and protection fees from merchants.

After Ma Xiaoquan learned about it, the first step in his plan was to completely defeat these landlord snakes, but he heard that the background of these landlord snakes was to arrest Wei Jinzhong in Chaodongchang.

Although Ma Xiaoquan is not afraid of offending Wei Jinzhong, there is a reason for the incident, and it is best to find a reason to destroy the local snake, otherwise, with Wei Jinzhong's style, he will definitely not be forgiving

On this day, Ma Xiaoquan led Li Qinghan's three daughters to inspect the gathering place, because of the beauty of the three daughters, Ma Xiaoquan specially instructed the three daughters to make a disguise.

When he walked to the door of the gathering place, he was stopped by a tall and thin man with an obscene appearance before he entered the door.

"Hey, you, what about you, what do you see, pay the money, pay the money to enter."

Li Qinghan's face turned cold, and he said, "Presumptuous, do you know who he is?" ”

"Hmph, it doesn't matter who he is, Lao Tzu only recognizes money, you have to pay money when you come here, and you can only enter after paying money, tell you the truth, this businessman gathering place is the only way to the capital, you can choose other places to go, but I tell you, you will never be able to enter the capital!"

"You!" Li Qing was cold, and was just about to have a seizure, when Ma Xiaoquan stopped her, and said to the tall and thin lewd man with a smile: "This little brother, how much does it cost to enter this door?" ”