"Father, this is the treasury of my Lingzhou City!"
"Oh, pity me, Lingzhou, as the capital of Huainan, is like a family with only four walls!"
"Father, when will the imperial court allocate another few hundred thousand taels of silver to provide relief?"
Emperor Yu looked at the extremely empty treasury in front of him, as if he had expected it. He smiled lightly and said: "Don't worry, after my inspection, if Huainan is really as you said, the imperial court will never sit idly by and ignore it."
"Father is wise!"
Ning Fan sighed in admiration, with an excited smile on his face.
"Let's go!"
"ah?"
Ning Fan looked surprised and asked doubtfully: "Father, you haven't seen this treasury yet, where are you going next?"
"Go to the dark warehouse!"
"Dark library?"
"What secret warehouse?"
Seeing Ning Fan's pretending to be dumbfounded, Emperor Yu sneered in his heart. Jing Li looked at Ning Fan with a look of compassion, wishing he could rush up and lie in his ear to remind him.
Concubine Xian, Prince Sheng and others were silently accompanying him, but their eyes were looking at Emperor Yu from time to time, as if they were looking at a clown.
"you do not know?"
Emperor Yu once again had a playful smile on his face. He looked at Ning Fan and said with a smile, "It's okay, I know. Jing Li, lead the way!"
"yes!"
Jing Li glanced at Ning Fan helplessly, slightly cupped his hands, and showed an apologetic expression. He couldn't help himself, he couldn't disobey your orders!
With that said, he led the way and drove through Lingzhou Mansion to the door of Anku.
The dozen or so guards from last night were still the same, majestic and upright.
"Is this what Father is talking about?"
"Exactly!"
Emperor Yu smiled proudly, like a general returning in triumph, looking at the majestic treasury in front of him, and said with a smile: "Why, don't you want to take me in to visit?"
"Father, what is there to visit in a place like this?"
Ning Fan suppressed his smile, but in Emperor Yu's eyes, he felt embarrassed as if a little secret had been discovered, so his smile became even more proud.
"Haha, I heard that in this secret warehouse, the gold and silver treasures are stacked like mountains, and the grain and fodder are like dung!"
"Father, those are all rumors. I can't believe them. This secret warehouse was set up by my ministers specifically to trap Jiangyang thieves. Don't tell me, this trick of inviting you into the urn is really effective. Just now, the government officials from the state government came to report. We just caught two thieves last night!"
"It's a pity that they escaped."
Hearing Ning Fan's calm words, a black line appeared on Emperor Yu's forehead again, and anger surged in his heart. However, thinking about the mountains of supplies in the treasury in front of him, he immediately smiled. .
"It doesn't matter, I'll go in and visit!"
"Ahem!"
Concubine Xian finally couldn't stand it anymore and couldn't help but said: "Your Majesty, since Fan'er said there is nothing inside, it's better to leave it at that."
"There's nothing in there?"
Emperor Yu looked straight at Ning Fan with a somewhat solemn look: "Second brother, if what I see inside is not what you said, I will punish you for the crime of deceiving the emperor!"
"well!"
Ning Fan sighed softly, as if giving up the struggle, and said helplessly: "Since father insists on going in and taking a look, Uncle Lin, go and open the treasury."
"yes!"
Lin Yong slightly cupped his hands, looked at Emperor Yu, grinned, and took out a key from his waist: "Open the door!"
"Crunch!"
The heavy door of the treasury was opened, Emperor Yu strode in front, but Ning Fan turned back and glanced at Jia Xu, who nodded slightly, signaling his lord to rest assured.
"Your Majesty, it's not easy for His Highness King Yong. How about you show mercy..."
"That's cool."
"snort!"
Emperor Yu snorted coldly and said calmly: "This little bastard is still stubborn at the end, how could I..."
When the two of them walked into the treasury first, they were once again shocked by the scene in front of them. The huge treasury was actually empty!
Not to mention the luminous pearls hung on the walls and top floors yesterday, not even a grain of rice or a copper plate fell.
The piles of large wooden boxes, the rows and rows of treasure shelves, and the thousands of sacks seemed to disappear out of thin air overnight.
The expressions of the two of them were as if they had seen a ghost. You looked at me and I looked at you. Emperor Yu's face was as black as charcoal and he looked at Jing Li aside: "What's going on?"
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, last night... it was indeed here!"
"Where's the gold? Where's the food?"
"Where's the armor?"
Emperor Yu felt his blood pressure soar, and looked at Ning Fan with his cannibalistic eyes: "Boy, what's going on?"
"What's going on?"
"Father, I have already said that there is nothing in this treasury!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Emperor Yu seemed to be unwilling to give up, and strode towards the treasury. However, he looked around most of the treasury, but could not see even a grain of rice.
"How could this happen? I saw it with my own eyes last night!"
"ah?"
Ning Fan looked extremely surprised. He looked at Emperor Yu and asked doubtfully, "What did you see with your own eyes?"
Seeing Ning Fan's expression, Emperor Yu suddenly fell silent and stared straight at him, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "Second brother, you are so smart that you are fooled by your cleverness!"
"Even if you empty out an entire treasury's supplies overnight, there's no way it won't reveal any clues!"
"Besides, with so many supplies, even if you want to move them, how far can you move them?"
Emperor Yu looked at Ning Fan as if he were a clown. Concubine Xian and others on the side also had dark faces and looked at Ning Fan with some worry. What His Majesty said is not unreasonable!
Moreover, they all know that the transfer of this treasury did not start last night, but started this morning.
Ning Fan showed a mean smile on his face: "Father, I don't know what you are talking about. This secret warehouse is empty to begin with. As for the transfer and transportation you are talking about, Father, I don't understand. !”
"Okay, very good!"
Emperor Yu angrily walked away, looked at Jing Li and said loudly: "Jing Li, go and check for me. Whether it's the government officials or the people on the street, who can find out what's in this secret warehouse?" For the whereabouts of the materials, I will reward you with a thousand gold coins and a knighthood!"
"promise!"
Ning Fan showed a mean smile, and Jia Xu, Chen Gong and others beside him were sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai without panic at all!
Concubine Xian looked at the expressions of several people and glanced at Emperor Yu with some pity. It seemed that His Majesty was going to fail again this time.
Oh, how pitiful.
Ning Fan looked at Emperor Yu's figure stumbling away, and a quote from his previous life could not help but come up in his heart: Look, he looks like a dog!
However, you can't say this sentence, it will make your head fall off.
"My son, I respectfully send my father off!"
"Gongtai, we Huainan people have had a hard time in the past two years. I heard that Xia County was hit by a disaster the day before yesterday. Please quickly allocate 100,000 stones of food and grass!"
"Yes, Your Highness!"
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