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Chapter 182 The Emperor's Life

Li Zhongxing glanced at his son and sighed helplessly. He had several heads to give this quota to the Ma family, and it was probably passed to the emperor and he would soon be gone. His Majesty, his military power is more important than anything else!

"Okay, you don't have to join us here!" Li Zhongxing waved his hand and said, "If you don't give the quota to your home, you don't know how to make trouble. You can find a place to hide and try not to show up."

Li Xi nodded quickly and said, "Yes, dad, boy understand!"

He reached out and picked up the list on the table. The nobles' mansion, the Duke of Ding, and the Duke of Wei. In addition to these three old dukes, the rest were the Duke of Zhenbei Qi Jiguang and the Duke of Gongshun.

In addition to the Zhang family, Wang family and Fan family, the Ma family and nine families are included.

There was still a quota in his hand. Li Zhongxing pondered for a while, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

Since the news of the textile factory spread, Datong City has gathered countless merchants, including those in the capital of Jiangnan. If anyone has the most sensitive sense of smell, merchants are definitely at the forefront, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs has naturally become a hot yamen.

But compared to every day, today's internal affairs office is particularly lively.

Carriages came in one by one, then stopped the carriage, and then figures walked down from the carriage. Everyone greeted each other and invited them to the Interior Office. However, it was obvious that two groups of people were nobles from the capital, and the other was Shanxi merchants from Shanxi.

In the Office of the Interior, the large conference room had been prepared long ago, with a long table and a chair behind it.

This time, there were nine companies participating in the meeting, which was the nine on the list. When everyone arrived and the tea was placed, Li Zhongxing walked out. Everyone stood up quickly and bowed to Li Zhongxing to salute.

Although these people are all in charge of the family, they dare not act rashly when facing Li Zhongxing.

Li Zhongxing glanced over and found that several of them were acquaintances. The Wang family from the Zhang family was not from the same lineage. The Wang family came to Wang Chonggu's younger brother Wang Chongjun, and Li Zhongxing was very familiar with him.

With a smile, he stretched out his hand and pressed it. Li Zhongxing said with a smile: "Today I am looking for everyone to discuss the matter of the textile factory."

"I have another quota now. I plan to auction this quota, and the price will be higher." Speaking of this, Li Zhongxing waved his hand and said, "Of course, this has nothing to do with today's affairs."

Everyone looked at each other and found that it was really not a big deal. If it wasn't big, Li Zhongxing wouldn't have said it at this time.

"I will discuss the venue with Governor Zeng, and will soon come up with a charter. Today I will discuss with you the issue of scale and number of people and money." Li Zhongxing took out the person who was proposing to the internal affairs beside him, and the man quickly sent the booklets to everyone.

There are many articles written on it, each one is agenda, and Li Zhongxing is preparing to discuss one by one.

Governor's Office.

Zeng Shengwu sat on the chair, looked at Zhang Cheng, then looked at Ma Lu sitting below, and said, "General Ma, come here today, and I have two things to discuss with you!"

"Sir, please speak!" Ma Lu nodded and said, in fact, he was also very confused.

Yesterday he received a notice from the Governor's Office, asking him to come early in the morning, with his four deputy generals. Now seeing Zhang Cheng and Zeng Shengwu's serious look, Ma Lu also became serious.

Needless to say, Zeng Shengwu is the governor of Xuanda, who is of high power and powerful position, and Zhang Cheng, the eunuch in the Imperial Horse Prison, is here, so there is something big.

In fact, Zhang Cheng hasn't returned to Beijing for so long, which is an abnormal thing. Ma Lu has also thought about this. After all, Zhang Cheng is not a military supervisor. Now it seems that he should be able to get the answer right away.

"Let's talk about it!" Before Zeng Shengwu could speak, Zhang Cheng spoke first.

Seeing Zeng Shengwu nodding, Zhang Cheng then spoke: "Whether it is Lord Zeng or our family, this time we came to Xuanda, we actually came with the emperor's order. It's just that our family came earlier than Lord Zeng, but the purpose is the same."

"We were ordered by the emperor to clean up military discipline, but our family did different things from Lord Zeng."

"Our family is responsible for arresting people and arresting some scum in the army!" Zhang Cheng nodded to the back, and a small eunuch put a booklet in front of Ma Lu. Zhang Cheng made a gesture of invitation and signaled him to read it himself.

"These are found after our family arrived in Datong and thoroughly investigated. General Ma can take a look!"

While listening to Zhang Cheng's words, Ma Lu's heart sank, and it was very heavy. He reached out and flipped through the booklet, and Ma Lu saw two names at a glance: Zhang Lianhuan and Qin Biao, his two deputy generals.

Reselling military weapons, smuggling salt, forcing civilian women, and embezzling military pay, one by one, it is written clearly.

"General Ma, I believe you know that if we don't say it, these things are not a secret." Zhang Cheng continued to say lightly: "It's just that our family found out after checking it, which is shocking!"

Of course, Ma Lu knew that these were indeed not secrets, and it was common to do so.

"Mr. Zeng, Eunuch Zhang, this!" Ma Lu said hesitantly: "If all these people are punished, Datong's city defense." Speaking of this, Ma Lu stopped first, obviously he also realized the problem.

Who can still fight against Datong now?

The court is scheming!

Ma Lu thought of this instantly. When did Zhang Cheng come? It was before the Battle of Northwest and followed Qi Jiguang. Obviously, the court was ready to do this before the Battle of Northwest.

After closing the booklet, Ma Lu knew that he could not change the final result, but he still asked tentatively: "Have you found out?"

"Our family is not hiding General Ma. The Imperial Horse Supervision Inspection did not start from now, nor did it start from after our family arrived in Datong. In fact, it started several years ago. At that time, they were even more courageous and reselled arms to the Oirat."

"The Marquis of Zhenbei seized a lot of the weapons of the Oirats, all of which belong to our Ming Dynasty."

Ma Gui was silent, and after a while, Ma Gui spoke, "Mr. Zeng, Eunuch Zhang, can you ask me to take someone to arrest him?"

If things cannot be changed, then the losses can only be minimized. These are all your own robes. Magui doesn’t want anyone to be wronged. Doing this thing yourself can minimize the possibility of unjust cases.

"Of course!" Zeng Shengwu spoke first at this time: "I guarantee the character. After these people are arrested, I will personally interrogate them. No one will be wronged. Mahjong can join us."
Chapter completed!
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