The eighth prince looked at Zhao Yao helplessly and dotingly: "Tell me, what do you want from me?"
Zhao Yao smiled sheepishly: "Bago, can you lend me some money?"
The eighth prince thought that what Zhao Yao was asking for was something big, but he didn't expect that it was to borrow money. This made him slightly stunned, and then he said with a smile: "How much do you want to borrow?"
Borrowing money was Zhao Yao's temporary excuse. He didn't think clearly about how much money he wanted to borrow.
"Bago, I don't know how much money I need."
The Eighth Prince was amused by Zhao Yao's words. He said helplessly: "You don't even know how much money you need? Are you borrowing money to buy something?"
"Bago, I want to buy something, but I can't tell you what I want to buy for the time being." Zhao Yao thought for a while and said, "Bago, please lend me two dollars first." The two dollars are neither too much nor too little.
"What can two pieces of gold buy?" the eighth prince said amusedly, "I will give you a piece of gold, which should be enough for you to buy things."
"A piece of gold?" Zhao Yao was shocked by the Eighth Prince's generosity.
The Eighth Prince glanced at Yu Hai, and Yu Hai understood. After a while, he took out a piece of gold and handed it to Zhao Yao.
"Your Highness, please accept it."
"Myna, this... is too much. I can't use the gold to buy things." When did Myna become so arrogant, and he would get a piece of gold every time he made a purchase. "Bago, I can't afford it."
"You don't have to pay it back, I'll give you this piece of gold." The Eighth Prince smiled, "If you run out of money in the future, just tell me."
"Bago, when did you become so rich?" It seems that Bago has done a lot of business privately and made a lot of money.
The Eighth Prince said without changing his expression: "Brother Prince gave it to me."
Zhao Yao pretended to be very surprised: "Is Brother Prince so generous?"
"I helped the prince brother take care of some properties privately, so the prince brother gave me some money." The eighth prince said with a smile, "This is considered the salary given to me by the prince brother."
Zhao Yao nodded as if he understood: "So that's it. Then Bage, you must be doing a good job in helping the prince brother take care of it." With Bage's ability and means, he can help the prince brother take care of many properties. It is estimated that part of the money earned by Brother Prince from these properties has gone into Bage's pocket.
"I have lived up to the expectations of the prince brother." The eighth prince was afraid that Zhao Yao would buy things randomly, so he told him, "I will give you money, but you don't want to buy any random things."
"Messy things?" Zhao Yao blinked in confusion, "Bago, what are the messy things?" Why did he feel that there was something in what Bago said.
The Eighth Prince was slightly startled when he saw Zhao Yao's confused expression, then shook his head and said, "It's nothing, you can buy whatever you want."
"Bago, I will accept it without mercy." Zhao Yao stood up and gave a grand gift to the eighth prince, "Thank you, Bago, for the gift of gold."
When the Eighth Prince saw Zhao Yao quickly putting the gold into his arms, his eyes were full of smiles.
"Don't worry, I'll give you the gold, and I won't regret it, let alone take it back."
Zhao Yao's little thoughts were seen through, and he smiled flatteringly at the Eighth Prince: "Brother Bage, I know you have something to do, so I won't disturb you. I'm going back first." With that, he walked towards the Eighth Prince again. He bowed and immediately left the eighth prince's house.
"Your Highness, why did you suddenly ask His Highness the Eighth Prince to borrow money? You are not short of money?" Tongxi said in confusion, "Don't the second masters give you a lot of money every time, and you haven't spent it all." In the past few years, , the second master gave His Highness a lot of money.
"I was afraid that Brother Bagh would be suspicious, so I just found an excuse to borrow money." Zhao Yao took out the piece of gold that the Eighth Prince had just given him from his arms, gently threw it into the air, and then reached out to catch it. "I didn't expect Bago to be so generous." He had to think about what to buy. If you don’t buy something, Myna will definitely be suspicious.
"Your Highness, it seems that the Eighth Prince is very rich now."
"Buy a parrot and give it to Bago." "If you want to understand the affairs of the Southern Wei Dynasty, no one knows it better than Bago." But it is simply impossible to learn about the Southern Wei Dynasty from Bage. It can only be learned from the myna through other methods.
"Your Highness, do you want to give His Highness the Eighth Prince a parrot?" Tongxi said disapprovingly, "Your Highness, the parrot is very noisy and His Highness will definitely not like it. You might as well give him a falcon."
"Then buy a falcon and give it to the myna. It will be easier to send messages to the myna in the future." In the future, you can also use the falcon to know what the myna is doing. If the myna is in danger, he can help the myna as soon as possible. Of course, the most important thing is to figure out what happened in Southern Wei.
He really didn't want to use birds to monitor Bago, but Southern Wei was too mysterious and powerful, and he had to figure out the purpose of Southern Wei to prevent the people of Southern Wei from harming Bago.
"Your Highness, His Highness the Eighth Prince is about to come of age. Where do you think His Highness's fiefdom will be?" Tongxi was a little worried. His Highness the Eighth Prince was not liked by the emperor, and maybe the Emperor would give the Eighth Highness the land as a fiefdom.
"My father doesn't like Bage and won't give him a good place. However, with Bage's methods, he will definitely make the prince brother beg his father to keep him in the capital." Bage will not leave the capital easily if he wants to compete for the throne. He will not leave the prince brother easily. Besides, Brother Taizi's trust and respect for Bage will not let Bage leave him.
"Your Highness, it would be better for His Highness the Eighth Prince to stay with His Highness the Crown Prince."
Zhao Yao didn't say anything more about the matter. When he returned to his house, he wrote a letter to his second uncle, asking his second uncle to help him buy another falcon from the Western Regions.
After a while, Tong Xi walked in and said respectfully to Zhao Yao: "Your Highness, the hot water is boiled. Go take a bath quickly."
"Okay, let's go take a bath." Zhao Yao went to the penthouse next door. When he was taking off his clothes, the gold given to him by the Eighth Prince fell out of his arms.
Tong Xi knelt down and picked up the gold that the eighth prince gave to Zhao Yao.
"Your Highness, my servant will help you put it away."
"Wait a minute." Zhao Yao hurriedly stretched out his hand to Tong Xi, "Give me the gold."
Tongxi put the gold into Zhao Yao's hand.
Zhao Yao lowered his head and stared at the gold in his hand.
Tongxi saw Zhao Yao staring at the gold and asked curiously: "Your Highness, why are you staring at the gold? Is there anything wrong with this gold?"
"Tongxi, do you think there is something different about the gold that Brother Bago gave me?"
Tong Xi looked at the gold in Zhao Yao's hand carefully and found nothing different.
"Your Highness, this servant is blind."
"Go get the gold that my father gave me before."
"My slave, go and get it now." Tong Xi quickly took a piece of gold that the emperor had previously given to Zhao Yao, "Your Highness, the gold you want."
The gold rewarded to Zhao Yao by the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty was gold refined from the treasury of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The bottom of the gold was engraved with the words "Golden Yuanbao of the Great Zhou Dynasty".
Zhao Yao put Da Zhou's gold ingots together with the gold given to him by the Eighth Prince for comparison, and then asked Tong Xi to shine a candle on them.
"You see, the gold ingots from Dazhou are brighter than the gold that Bage gave me, while the gold that Bage gave me is darker."
After hearing what Zhao Yao said, Tongxi discovered that this was really the case.
"Your Highness, why is the gold given to you by His Highness the Eighth Prince darker? Could it be that the gold given to you by the Eighth Prince is fake?"
"No, the gold that Brother Bago gave me is real." Zhao Yao ordered Tongxi again, "Go and get a piece of the gold that my second uncle gave me before."
"yes."
He Lianfang gave Zhao Yao a lot of gold before.
Zhao Yao compared the gold given to him by He Lianfang with the gold given to him by the Eighth Prince, and it was exactly what he thought.
Tongxi also noticed it and asked with a look of astonishment: "Your Highness, the gold given to you by the second uncle is as dark as the gold given to you by the eighth prince."
"The gold that my second uncle gave me was from Annan, and the gold that my father gave me was from Dazhou." Zhao Yao said seriously, "The gold from Annan is darker than the gold from Dazhou."
"Your Highness, why is this?" Tongxi asked with confusion on his face, "Shouldn't gold be the same?"
"The technology is different. Dazhou's gold refining technology is higher than that of Annan, so the gold refined by Dazhou is brighter than the gold of Annan." Zhao Yao didn't know much about refining gold, so he guessed , "The craftsmen of Dazhou should have added something when refining the gold, so the refined gold should be brighter."
"So that's it." Tong Xi flattered Zhao Yao and said, "Your Highness, you know so much."
"Bago has the gold from Annan." Zhao Yao narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Bago just said that the gold was given to him by the prince's brother, which means that the prince's brother has gold from Annan." It's not surprising that Bago has gold from Annan. But it is somewhat intriguing that the prince's brother has gold from Annan.
"Your Highness, is there anything wrong with His Royal Highness having gold from Annan Kingdom?" Tong Xi didn't quite understand what Zhao Yao meant, "Don't you also have gold from Annan Kingdom?"
"Isn't it strange to me, but the prince brother is a bit strange." Zhao Yao said thoughtfully, "It seems that in recent years, the relationship between the prince brother, Zhen Guo Gong and the Annan royal family has been very close. "The word "intimacy" is very important to Zhao Yao.
Zhao Yao had a bold guess in his mind. In order to obtain the throne, the eldest prince of Annan secretly colluded with the prince's brother and others. In order to get help from the prince's brother, the eldest prince privately "honored" many things to the prince's brother, and gold was one of them.
Although Zhao Yao and He Lianfang had long guessed that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Highness the King Dai would be in private contact with the princes of Annan Kingdom, Zhao Yao and the others did not investigate how they got together, nor did they send anyone to keep an eye on them.
If Zhao Yao and the others keep an eye on the prince and the people who act as the king, they will be easily discovered, and then their people in Annan Kingdom will be exposed.
Tongxi's expression instantly turned gossipy, and he said with bright eyes: "Your Highness, do you mean that His Highness the Crown Prince is having an affair with An Nanguo?"
"More than one leg." With Duke Zhen's ambition and methods, he might have a deeper purpose, such as using Annan's gold to raise troops or forge weapons, or use it to bribe people. "There is also Bage. He must have an ulterior relationship with the Annan royal family."
Just the first update tonight, no time for the second update.
Dear friends, have a happy Dragon Boat Festival.
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