Feeling that this statement was not strong enough, Zhu Qiyu asked the concubines again: "Do you know what will happen to you concubines if I die?"
Ningxiang immediately replied: "The Nu family knows that he is going to guard the imperial mausoleum. He will spend the rest of his life with the ancient Buddha of Qingdeng, just like a living dead."
Zhu Qiyu sneered: "You have a pretty good idea, and you actually want to guard the imperial mausoleum. Let me tell you the truth, if one of you cannot escape, you will all have to be buried."
"Hasn't the sacrifice for burial been abolished by my husband?"
"Haha, it's only when I'm alive that I have to say that I will be buried without sacrifice. Now that I'm dead, it's natural for me to leave. Who will care about me?"
Ningxiang stiffened her neck and replied: "It's better to die than to be a living dead, trapped in a high wall like a walking corpse."
Zhu Qiyu laughed when he heard this and said: "You little girl, you are silly and silly, but you are quite cute. But do you know how humiliating the burial process is?"
You have to bathe and purify yourself naked, under the watchful eye of the eunuch. Then you lie naked on the stone floor, while four eunuchs hold your limbs down, and the other two eunuchs use white silk to strangle you to death.
As for why I let you lie down on the stone slab, it is because after Bai Ling strangles you, you will become incontinent. It is easier to clean with a stone slab.
So after strangulation, your body will be very dirty, and eunuchs will have to clean every inch of your skin inside and out.
As for whether the eunuchs will ask you to do some perverted things before and after your death, I don't know. "
I heard several beloved concubines waving their hands, and Ningxiang represented the sisters' loyalty: "Don't worry, husband. From now on, we will have to taste it ourselves first. Even if the slave family dies, we will never let it go." Someone else hurts my husband.”
The other beloved concubines also nodded in agreement.
Seeing that the effect was achieved, Zhu Qiyu stopped threatening his beloved concubines. Instead, he waved and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, come to the bed, and let me comfort my beloved concubines."
Zhu Qiyu was having fun in the backyard, but Lin Xiangyu was in the front hall looking at Jin Ying in a daze.
No wonder Lin Xiangyu was confused. As soon as Jin Ying came up, he proposed to hand over the management rights of internal funds.
After being stunned for a long time, Lin Xiangyu said helplessly: "Isn't the Queen in charge of the internal funds? If you have anything to do, go and talk to the Queen. What's the use of talking to me?"
Jin Ying emphasized: "Princess Qi, this is the Queen Mother's explanation."
Seeing Jin Ying using the Empress Dowager to press her down, Lin Xiangyu sneered and said, "Then you go talk to the emperor. I am a little princess, and it is not my turn to take care of these things."
Jin Ying replied: "The old slave will ask to see the emperor now and ask the princess for permission."
"When you wait for the court meeting, you can meet me as a minister. The emperor is currently communicating with his beloved concubines about his life. It is impossible for him to meet strangers at this time.
Our new emperor is different from your orthodox emperor. The eunuchs can look at the bodies of concubines in the palace at will. But in Prince Qi's Mansion, all the new king's beloved concubines are forbidden concubines. Even the eunuchs don't want to see half of them. "
"Then when will there be a court meeting?"
"have no idea."
Lin Xiangyu got annoyed, picked up the teacup, and signaled Jin Ying to leave quickly.
Jin Ying sighed in his heart. Although the princess in front of him was his enemy, and although he was the chief eunuch of the inner court, he had to bow his head when he was under the eaves.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, by coincidence, it started to rain lightly.
The sky was overcast, but the entrance to Prince Qi's Mansion was still lively and crowded with people coming to receive rewards.
Now even Zhu Qiyu himself was a little curious. Sitting on the soft couch in the West Flower Hall, he asked He Yi and Huang Pu, who had come to the city to report on their work: "Is it so easy to chop off the head of this man who refuses to take away the night?" Why are there so many people coming to receive the reward?”
He Yi smiled and shook his head, and did not answer the specific question. He just joked: "With this speed of receiving rewards, I don't know how many days your majesty's warehouse can last?"
Zhu Qiyu was happy to cooperate, and he counted on his fingers: "One hundred taels per head, and there are 45,000 people. If they are all hacked to death, I will pay 45,000." A reward of one hundred thousand taels of silver.
There are more than 200,000 taels of gold and 800,000 taels of silver in the house; Jie Tianlou auctioned and raised funds, and there is still 1.2 million taels of silver in deposits. The princess could win back one to two million taels by betting at Sun's casino.
It's almost doable, but it's a bit reluctant anyway. Oops, I can't use internal funds. I am still too poor as an emperor.
And I can't just reward others with my money. The Qi Prince's Mansion I live in now is still temporary. When the Oala army retreats, I will have to spend one to two million taels of silver to build a new Qi Prince's Mansion. "
"One or two million taels of silver to build a palace?"
Huang Pu was a little stunned. A normal prince's palace cost three to four hundred thousand taels, which was already very luxurious.
Zhu Qiyu explained with a smile: "The mansion I want to build is completely different from the regulations of ordinary prince's mansions. It is not so much a prince's mansion, but an unprecedentedly huge landscape garden."
Zhu Qiyu wanted to give an example to make his statement easier to understand. But after thinking about it, I forgot about it. I can’t say that I want to build a collection of the Qing Garden, the Summer Palace, and the Jingming Garden.
So Zhu Qiyu added: "Generally, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty spent four to five million taels of silver to build an imperial mausoleum. I will not build an imperial mausoleum. I will only spend one to two million taels to build a garden for me and my family." Fifteen beloved concubines live there, isn’t this too much?
Moreover, I neither use the money from the court nor the money from the inner court, so I spend the money I get from the eunuchs.
A year's tax exemption for the people, a salary increase for civil and military officials, and the abolition of Ming Dynasty treasure banknotes. These three major things to be done in the first year of Jingtai require money to be spent like water. I won’t spend the court’s money, and I’ll save whatever I can. "
He Yi smiled and said: "Wei Chen understands that your Majesty wants to seize the eunuch's house for his own use and the house in Shanxi for the use of the court."
Zhu Qiyu praised: "The words are concise and to the point, and you have understood me clearly. Now tell me, in Shanxi now, not only Yang Hong does not listen to me, but also the two imperial envoys Wang Zhi and Yu Qian sent there Listen to me.
How can this family collect the money? "
He Yi shook his head and kicked the ball to Huang Pu.
Huang Pu replied: "I am willing to go to Shanxi on behalf of your Majesty."
When Zhu Qiyu heard this, he immediately waved his hands: "No, no, no, you can't go to Shanxi. I know that Chengji's medical talent is second to none among the younger generation, but I am reluctant to let you go to Shanxi.
You don't know how sinister those people in Shanxi are. After getting anxious, they really dared to let the imperial governor die without explanation.
Some people just die, and I don’t feel sorry for them. But you are all my core advisers, and I can't let you put yourself at risk. "
(End of chapter)
