Doomsday Rise

The provincial government building is located on Ganjiang Street, covering an area of ​​1,000 mu. In Mars, where the land is vast and sparsely populated, this area is not large. As the administrative center in charge of Tianfeng Province, it has gradually become the governor's personal property. territory.

Behind the provincial government building is the governor's mansion. After several expansions, the area is only a little smaller than the provincial government, but from the map, the provincial government building and the governor's mansion are almost reattached. This was originally against the rules, but Mars is far away from the earth, and the retro trend is constantly being mentioned, and the Ma family covers the sky with one hand in Tianfeng Province. No one dares to mention such a trivial matter.

In Tianfeng Province, the provincial government building is also known as the City Lord's Mansion.

Below the governor, there are twelve deputy governors, six of whom are named Ma, which shows the power of the Ma family in Tianfeng Province. This is not a meeting room, but the governor's study. Spacious and quiet, the tall bookshelves almost occupy the entire wall of more than three meters high and five meters long. There are hundreds of books in the book, and there are no extra decorations in the study, a few chairs and a desk, not even a computer.

An old man was lying on the only reclining chair. He was tall and slightly obese. His half-hundred hair showed that he was over seventy years old. A wet hot towel was placed on his forehead. His eyes were slightly closed and he was breathing lightly, as if he was asleep. Yes, he is the supreme leader of Tianfeng Province, the ruler of the city, Ma Xuewang, and the head of the Ma family's generation.

The Ma family is the first generation of people who migrated from the earth. They were merchants at first. However, merchants have no status. , the identity of a businessman became a scholar, starting from a small staff member, step by step, after a hundred years of development, he sat on the position of vice-governor of Tianfeng Province. They are a famous family, but they are only in Tianfeng Province. What really made the Ma family the No. 1 family was a coup 20 years ago.

Ma Xuewang, who had just inherited his father's position not long ago, seized the opportunity in the chaos, suppressed other competitors with an iron fist, successfully aspired to the throne of governor, and removed the word "deputy" that had been worn on his father's head for more than 20 years , After that, Ma Xuewang gradually controlled the entire Tianfeng Province through the means of attracting and eliminating, and inserted a large number of Ma family members into government agencies. Now, the orders from the capital of the earth have been transmitted to Tianfeng Province, and some of them are no longer effective.

Nominally, Tianfeng Province is also subject to the management of the capital of the earth. In fact, everyone is well aware of the situation. However, this situation is not only in Tianfeng Province, but also in other remote provinces, and there are even more extreme ones. Therefore, no one accused Ma Xuewang of wrongdoing, but this did not mean that Ma Xuewang did not want to develop Tianfeng Province well.

Mars is short of food. Food has always been a sensitive issue. The topic of food is always cautious. That's why Ma Xuewang entrusted the food problem to the person he trusts the most. His own brother, Ma Xuecheng, unexpectedly came out trouble.

Ma Xuewang's father married four wives in total.

With the formation of the hierarchical system, it is very common for nobles to marry several wives. The law only advocates monogamy. In principle, polygamy or polyandry is not allowed, but when everyone does it , the law is already useless, but the law has not been revised because of some moral problems.

More wives means more children. Therefore, Ma Xuewang has seven brothers and four sisters, that is, eleven brothers and sisters. However, Ma Xuecheng is the only sibling with his mother. Ma Xuewang's mother was his father's third wife, who belonged to a concubine and had no status. Therefore, Ma Xuewang's childhood was not good, especially when his mother was hurt by giving birth to Ma Xuecheng, and died when Ma Xuecheng was one year old. After that, life became even more difficult.

Ma Xuewang's father was already the vice-governor at that time, but there are quite a few vice-governors in a province, and his father was just an inconspicuous one among them, with many political enemies and a lot of troubles, so basically no Time is in charge of the two brothers Ma Xuewang. Without a mother, having a father is the same as not having a father. Therefore, the childhood of the two brothers Ma Xuewang was not happy.

Because he suffered too much in childhood, Ma Xuewang tried his best to take care of his younger brother when he grew up, and handed over all the most important food in the province to him. Food is related to people's livelihood, especially in places where there is a shortage of food. High weight.

However, what makes Ma Xuewang a headache is his younger brother, who is talented and not lacking in brains, but has a bad temper, and sometimes he is too selfish and lacks a big picture. Taking this food crisis as an example, he had a premonition that his younger brother must have played a disgraceful role in it, otherwise, he would not be so angry.

"...If I catch who leaked the secret, I will not spare him, and those who loot food and raise prices must also be found out. These bastards are ruining the country—" Ma Xuecheng suddenly felt a wave The heavy pressure hit, like Mount Tai pressing down on the top, he couldn't help but suffocate, he suddenly raised his head, just in time to meet the big brother's bright eyes, two cold lights like knives, staring at him blankly without a trace of emotion.

Ma Xuecheng opened his mouth, felt an inexplicable chill, his mind went blank, and he forgot what he wanted to say. I have been very afraid of this elder brother since I was a child, but I still rarely see such cold eyes. Generally speaking, it only happens when my elder brother is furious.

His roaring stopped abruptly, and the study room went from the noisy summer to the dead winter.

"I asked you to come here to solve the problem, not to find the reason. Is it useful to find the reason at this time? Is there any time? It doesn't matter the severity." Ma Xuewang said coldly.

"But—" Ma Xuecheng said unconvinced.

"How do you find the reason, do you find it yourself?" Ma Xuewang's voice raised a little, with a hint of anger hidden.

"No——" Ma Xuecheng closed his mouth immediately after saying one word, feeling a chill from his heels to the back of his head, almost breaking out in cold sweat, and said in a low voice: "What the big brother taught me is that I know what to do. It did."

He originally wanted to say that it was someone from the Public Security Bureau, but he immediately realized how he, a deputy governor in charge of food, has the right to command the police department. , but there is no brotherhood to talk about, if he hadn't stepped on the brakes at the door, he would definitely not have a good life in the future.

Ma Xuewang's cold eyes moved away from Ma Xuecheng's body, and his slightly raised head fell again. Ma Xuecheng suddenly felt the tide-like pressure recede, his body lightened, knowing that his elder brother finally let him go, and he heard his calm voice: "Outside How's the situation?"

In addition to Ma Xuecheng, there were two other people in the study, one was Cheng Zhizhang, the deputy governor in charge of publicity, and the other was Ma Xuecheng's secretary.

Although Cheng Zhizhang's surname is not Ma, he is a die-hard supporter of Ma Xuewang, and he is Ma Xuewang's most trusted confidant. Otherwise, he would not have given such an important department of publicity to him.

"Citizens don't worry about it. They are just spreading rumors. As long as they tell the truth to the citizens, I believe the market will restore calm soon." Cheng Zhizhang said with a bow.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Ma Xuewang said quietly, with a daunting murderous tone in his tone.

"Is it the Xiang family and the Xue family?" Ma Xuecheng's heart moved.

The Xiang family and the Xue family are famous families second only to the Ma family. Although they lost the competition with Ma Xuewang for the governor's position and suffered a lot of pressure, the two families are deeply entrenched and each occupies a position in the vice-governor. It is easy to deal with, especially in order to fight against the increasingly powerful Ma family. The two families formed an alliance, and I heard that they even got married. During the process of Ma Xuewang's ruling, they kept making small moves.

Needless to say, they must be involved in this food crisis.

"It's not just these two families." Cheng Zhizhang glanced at Ma Xuewang, his tone was somewhat dignified, "There are also the Wang family and the Su family."

Ma Xuecheng's expression changed, and he became very ugly. The four major families standing together were enough to contend against the Ma family.

"As long as there is food, I am not afraid of anything." Ma Xuecheng's face changed a few times, and finally he said coldly. He knew that in order to deal with some crises these years, tens of millions of tons of rice and flour were hidden in the underground warehouse. Feng Province has had no grain harvest for two years, so there is no need to worry about the food problem. As long as a part of the food is used to quell food prices, the rumors of the food crisis will be self-defeating.

However, after he said that, he found that Cheng Zhizhang's expression was very strange. It was an expression that couldn't be described in words, which made him wonder, did he say something wrong? His doubts didn't last long, and his eldest brother Ma Xuewang's voice sounded with a strong nasal tone.

"There is no more food in the warehouse."

Ma Xuewang was busy with the monster invasion during this period, and his work and rest were irregular. He suffered from some wind and cold two days ago, and caught a cold today. With the advancement of science and technology, the level of medicine has also been greatly enhanced, and a mere cold is no longer a disease. At least in the past hundred years, there has been no death due to a cold. However, discomfort is indispensable.

"What?" Ma Xuecheng almost jumped up, "How could there be no food? Why didn't I know?" He couldn't help but be shocked. As the deputy governor in charge of food, Chang Pingcang's food is his most important political resource. , but now the eldest brother said no more.

This feeling was even more absurd than when he woke up in the morning and found it was still dark outside.

Ma Xuewang's cold eyes told Ma Xuecheng that all this was not a joke, but real. Under Ma Xuewang's cold gaze, Ma Xuecheng quickly calmed down, regained his rational thinking, and asked cautiously, "So much food...where did it go?"

The only one in Tianfeng Province who can bypass him and take away the food silently is his elder brother, but he really can't figure out where so much food is used, and it is impossible to feed pigs so quickly.

Ma Xuewang looked at Cheng Zhizhang, and said in a calm voice with a trace of weariness: "You know what to do, I believe you can do it well, and tell Lu Mingxiao that the society must be stable, and those who make trouble cannot stay. Go. "

Lu Mingxiao is the director of the Public Security Department and concurrently the director of the Xinfeng City Public Security Bureau.

"Your subordinate will leave." Cheng Zhizhang bowed and left the study.

"There were some things, and it was not time to talk about it." Ma Xuewang stared at Ma Xuecheng with serious eyes: "This matter is related to the life and death of the Ma family, so I have never told you. The grain is sold, and now there is only Hundreds of thousands of tons are all military rations.”

Ma Xuecheng was inexplicably nervous. However, he knew his elder brother's habits and didn't like being interrupted when he was speaking. Although he had many questions in his mind, he remained silent.

"All the food was exchanged for weapons." Ma Xuewang's light words fell in Ma Xuecheng's ears like thunder, and he almost couldn't stand still.

arms? A frontier official, what do you want a weapon for? If you want to clear up the traitors or something, you can just apply directly to the above. It is against the law to change weapons in private, and the answer is ready.

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