Su Xingran, including the civil and military ministers who followed her, were all shocked. Although they were emperors or nobles, they had never seen so much gold and silver piled together. Even after so many years since the founding of the Zheng Kingdom, they had never seen so much gold and silver piled together. This is a year with the best income. The gold ingots and silver ingots piled up in the treasury are not bad if they can achieve the two achievements of the gold and silver in front of you!
The next moment, Wei Wen asked Chen Xiaomu carefully, "Captain Chen, is this car filled with all these yellow and white things?"
Chen Xiaomu yawned, shook his head and said: "No, there are two boxes of banknotes and three boxes of jewelry sandwiched between them. In short, the total adds up to more than 20 million taels. Prime Minister Wei, please find someone to come over and collect them." For a moment, I was almost sleepy!"
"Okay, okay, I'll do it right away!" Wei Wen agreed repeatedly, and then he reached out to call Dai Jun, and said carefully: "Dai Shangshu, this is the enthronement gift given to the emperor by Captain Chen. The total supply is equivalent to silver. There are more than 20 million taels, please quickly send someone to inform the treasurer in the treasury and ask him to bring more people to count and register, and there is no difference of one tael or one tael!"
At this moment, Dai Jun was like a penniless beggar on the street. Suddenly someone gave him a hundred thousand taels of silver! He has been working in the Ministry of Household Affairs for so many years, and has been promoted from the seventh-rank Yuanwailang to the second-rank Shangshu. He has seen so much money there at once. Now he is so excited that he is a little incoherent. He pats his chest and says proudly: "Master Xiangguo, don't worry. , I will personally go to the treasury to keep an eye on it, even if I have to stay awake to count the gold and silver!"
Because Zhuge Cheng was old and frail, although there were two guards supporting him, he still arrived late. Su Xingran faced him and said: "Old love, you can rest assured now, I will immediately give the order to the army." The various ministries in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China asked them to send people to collect the arrears, and double the original amount to be paid!"
With a smile on his face, Zhuge Cheng nodded repeatedly and said: "Okay, okay, your Majesty is wise and has resolved the long-delayed issue of military pay arrears at once!" After saying this, a look of disappointment flashed across his eyes unconsciously.
Chen Xiaomu whispered hello to Yi Fang, the Hubei general who was responsible for escorting the gold and silver, and prepared to escape. Unexpectedly, Su Xingran had been watching him secretly. Seeing that he was about to escape, he hurriedly shouted: "Stop!"
Chen Xiaomu had no choice but to turn his head and say with a grimace: "Your Majesty, I have done everything I have to do. Is it okay for me to catch up on some sleep?"
"Really, are you sure you've done what you should do?" Su Xingran had a half-smile on his face. As he asked, he slowly walked up to Chen Xiaomu and looked at him intently with a pair of wonderful eyes.
Chen Xiaomu stretched out his hand to scratch his head and said angrily: "Your Majesty, I got these gold and silver items for you as a gift for your enthronement. I didn't sleep all night last night. I turned the Sanqing Palace upside down. Now I'm going to make up for it." There’s nothing wrong with your sleep, right?”
Su Xingran was surprised: "There are so many gold and silver collections in Sanqing Temple?"
Chen Xiaomu spread his hands and said, "Who knows this? But according to the Taoist priests in the palace, every year Emperor Qi would allocate a large sum of money to him, the eldest brother of the emperor, for expenses, and the empress dowager would supplement some private money from time to time. , and the Taoist priests from Sanqing Palace often go down the mountain to deceive and deceive, so it’s not surprising that there is so much gold and silver in the temple!”
"Yes." Su Xingran nodded, and couldn't help but sigh: "This Qi country is really rich. For more than ten years, it has subsidized a deposed prince with more than 20 million taels of silver!"
Chen Xiaomu laughed secretly when he heard this. He was afraid that Su Xingran would be unbalanced, so he concealed that among the more than 20 million taels of silver, there were more than 10 million taels that were actually used by the Chu army to plunder Zheng's treasury and palace when they invaded Xinjing. Of course, some of them were confiscated from the homes of escaped imperial officials and wealthy households in the city. Due to the tense war at that time, a considerable number of troops could not be mobilized to escort this batch of gold, silver and jewels, so they and the Sanqing Temple The abbot Xiao Cheng discussed and temporarily smuggled these gold and silver jewels into the python cave of Sanqing Temple for storage. After the Chu army completely annexed the Zheng State, they would then transport them to the Chu State. As a result, no one expected that the Chu State would actually come from The initial momentum was like a rainbow, but it suddenly turned into a rout, and the defeat was beyond control. In the end, Wu Yan, the general of the Chu army stationed in Xinjing City, was captured alive by Chen Xiaomu. On the night before his execution, in order to save the lives of his family, he offered On condition, he told Chen Xiaomu the whereabouts of the gold and silver baht treasures looted from Zheng State.
Originally, Chen Xiaomu wanted to wait until everything was settled, and then go to Sanqing Temple to try to get the money. In short, he would not be able to escape from the land of Zheng for a while. Who would have thought that the abbot of Sanqing Temple would be abandoned by Qi State? The prince Xiao Cheng's ambitions were even greater, and he even wanted to seize the throne of Zheng State with nothing to show for it. This made Chen Xiaomu determined to kill him!
At this time, Su Xingran asked as if he suddenly remembered: "I heard that the Taoist connivance with his Taoist priests kidnapped many young and beautiful women from the bottom of the mountain and went up the mountain, causing many families to be separated from their wives. I wonder if you rescued these captive women?" Have you come out?"
Chen Xiaomu smiled bitterly, because he was afraid that Su Xingran would be too excited and lose his temper after knowing the truth. Apart from concealing the fact that Lu Jun's wife and daughter were among the captive women, he told Su Xingran everything else. He said: "According to The captured Taoist priests confessed that as soon as these women were kidnapped to Sanqing Temple, they would be forcibly fed an aphrodisiac called Mihunsan prepared by the abbot Xiao Cheng as soon as they entered Sanqing Temple. Taoist priests say that no matter how hot-tempered a woman is, as long as she takes this kind of aphrodisiac, she will be manipulated like a puppet. And as long as any man comes into contact with her body, she will have an immediate reaction, as if she has nymphomaniac disease. , face flushed, hugging the man and not letting go. These women have to take this kind of aphrodisiac every day, and now they are all addicted to the drug. As long as they don't take it for one day, they will feel uncomfortable all over. In the past two days, even There have been several incidents of self-mutilation, so I want to temporarily lock them in Sanqing Palace to help them slowly wean themselves off the drug, and then let them go down the mountain to reunite with their relatives at home!"
After listening to Chen Xiaomu's story, Su Xingran turned pale with anger. She gritted her teeth and said to Chen Xiaomu: "Husband, you and Xingchen will start the case immediately after you and Xingchen handed over to Magistrate Bai and the others today, and will report it to the Ministry of Punishments within two days. When the time comes, I will personally go to the execution ground to supervise the execution!"
"What? You want to kill them all?" Chen Xiaomu was shocked when he heard this.
Su Xingran glared at him and said angrily: "Why don't we kill them and leave them alone? I can't bear to give food to these beasts!"
Chen Xiaomu persuaded bitterly: "Wife, oh, no, it's the emperor. That's hundreds of lives. Besides, hasn't the evil Xiao Cheng been killed already?"
Su Xingran's pretty eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light quickly flashed through her eyes, and then she said decisively: "Although the first criminal is dead, these little devils who helped the tiger are more hateful than the first criminal. No one is allowed to be left, and they must all be killed!"
Chen Xiaomu defended: "But there are some little Taoist priests there who are only thirteen or fourteen years old. They were simply coerced to go up the mountain. They are still children and have never done any big bad things!"
Su Xingran said coldly: "Do you know what it means to eliminate all evil?"
"But they are all children. Even if they do evil things, they are forced to do so!" Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but said anxiously.
"Haha..." Su Xingran sneered and said, "A woman's kindness, if Xiao Cheng gets her way this time, do you think these so-called children in your mouth won't kill us?"
Then he called out: "Come here, take Captain Chen to the Peace Palace to rest."
Two guards arrived in response, stood in front of Chen Xiaomu, bowed and clasped their fists, saying: "Master Captain, please follow me."
Chen Xiaomu was startled when he heard the sound, and then stepped back and said, "No! I'm not sleepy anymore. There is no need to go to the Peace Palace to rest!"
Su Xingran quietly approached Chen Xiaomu, put her mouth in his ear and whispered: "Husband, go to the Peace Palace and wait for me, I miss you!"
Chen Xiaomu immediately replied: "Promise me to let go of those little Taoist priests who are not yet adults. My body of more than 100 kilograms will be handed over to you today!"
Su Xingran's expression changed when he heard this, and he sternly said to the two guards: "Bring Captain Chen into the palace!"
The two guards were in a dilemma, so they had no choice but to bow to Chen Xiaomu and salute: "Your Majesty, the Captain is offended!" After saying that, they forcibly picked up Chen Xiaomu's arms and ran towards the Ping'an Palace, following Su Xingran who came out of the court. The civil and military officials couldn't help laughing when they saw this scene, covering their mouths and snickering.
This time Captain Chen was totally humiliated in front of the court ministers. On the way to the Ping'an Palace, he struggled to break away from the hands of the two guards, glared and said angrily: "Don't touch me! I can leave on my own!"
Seeing this, the two guards quickly let go of their hands and knelt down in front of him, pleading: "Master Captain, we are also acting under orders. There are seniors and juniors in the family. Your lord has a lot of money." , please don’t embarrass us!”
Chen Xiaomu sighed heavily and said helplessly: "Let's go!"
In the Ping'an Palace, Furong was cleaning with several palace maids. When she saw Chen Xiaomu listless and swaying in from the outside, she couldn't help but said in surprise: "Prince-in-law, today is the day of the princess's enthronement. Why did you come so early?" came back?"
Chen Xiaomu had a sullen face and said nothing. He walked straight to the dragon bed in the inner room, fell down on the dragon bed, let out a long breath, and then said: "Don't mention that woman, I made her suffer this morning. !”
Furong was startled when she heard this, and hurriedly dismissed the busy maids, then walked up to Chen Xiaomu and reminded in a low voice: "Prince-in-law, this is not the princess's palace, and the princess is now the emperor. You can't talk nonsense anymore." Just talk nonsense!"
Chen Xiaomu snorted angrily: "Who cares about her emperor! When she comes back later, I will strongly ask her to divorce me. Anyway, if she doesn't divorce me today, I will divorce her!"
Furong couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this, and hurriedly warned: "Prince-in-law, you must not say such stupid things. If the emperor really divorces you, can you still walk out of this palace alive?"
Chen Xiaomu sat up from the bed and said angrily: "Then I'll divorce her first!"
Furong shook her head gently: "Prince-in-law, please stop being stubborn. No matter who divorces the other, the final consequences will be the same!"
"Alas..." Chen Xiaomu sighed and muttered unconsciously: "This evil feudal society!"
"What? Prince Consort, what are you talking about?" Furong didn't understand.
Chen Xiaomu waved his hand: "I didn't say anything, I just expressed my feelings!"
"Prince-in-law, what does it mean to act out of emotion?" Furong asked curiously.
"This is what I said from the bottom of my heart!" Chen Xiaomu explained.
"Then what is the evil feudal society?" Furong chased Chen Xiaomu like a studious student and asked.
''this……! "Chen Xiaomu was speechless for a moment. It was really hard for him to explain. After all, this is the definition given by postmodern people to ancient society. In particular, he also added the offensive and derogatory word "evil" in front of it.
Seeing Furong in front of him staring at him curiously with a pair of red phoenix eyes, Chen Xiaomu couldn't help but have an idea and said with a smile: "Sister Furong, you go out of the palace to help me with something, and I will tell you when you come back. How about it?" ?”
Furong immediately refused and said: "Prince-in-law, this is really not possible. Without the princess's will, if I leave the palace privately and am discovered, I will be beaten to death with a stick!"
"Oh! Is it that serious?" Chen Xiaomu was surprised when he heard that.
Fleur nodded silently.
Seeing the anxious look on Chen Xiaomu's face, Furong couldn't bear it. She hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly: "Prince-in-law, if you really have something urgent, I can send my father-in-law out of the palace to handle it for you!"
"Oh! Really?" Chen Xiaomu slapped his thigh, stood up from the dragon bed, and said hurriedly: "Sister Furong, hurry up and get paper and pen. I will write a letter and ask him to send it to the Prime Minister's Mansion and give it to Wei. Miss!"
