Raising grain prices, causing panic among the people, beating, smashing, and grain stores can be big or small, if he confesses this charge now, Xiao Tianyao will not want to wash it up in his life. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although this time the emperor did not severely punish Xiao Tianyao, only fined 200,000 taels, but if something similar happens in the future, the entire people of Dongwen will think that Xiao Tianyao is making trouble behind his back and using the war to make a fortune.

Therefore, after the holy decree was recited, Lin Chujiu knelt there motionless, without any intention of receiving the decree at all.

The official who announced the decree of the Ministry of Rites held the decree in front of Lin Chujiu, and seeing that Lin Chujiu had not moved for a long time, he had to remind him loudly: "Princess Xiao, please accept the decree!" ”

"Order?" Lin Chujiu raised his eyes and asked rhetorically.

"Yes, please Princess Xiao to take the order." The official who announced the decree was respectful on his face, but he was very disdainful in his heart, but he was fined 200,000 taels, and with King Xiao's net worth, he still cared about 200,000 taels of silver?

Princess Xiao is also careless, not as good as him.

"No, I can't take it." Lin Chujiu didn't care what the official who announced the decree thought, and shook his head firmly, "I can admit to the fine, but I can't admit the charges on the holy decree on behalf of the prince." The prince disappeared on the battlefield due to an accident, not deliberately concealing his traces, and it was not the prince who sent the news back to the capital. ”

The proclamation official was happy when he heard this, "Princess Xiao, you go and tell the emperor about this, it's useless to tell the lower officials." ”

After speaking, he handed the holy decree to Lin Chujiu again, if it weren't for the defense of men and women, the officials who announced the decree would have wanted to put the holy decree in Lin Chujiu's arms, "Princess Xiao, you better accept the decree quickly, and the officials who receive the decree will return to the palace to resume their lives." He doesn't care whether the charges on the holy decree are true or false, he is responsible for announcing the decree, and if there is a problem, go to the emperor.

"I'm sorry, but I can't take this decree." Lin Chujiu put his hands behind his back, and didn't give the other party the possibility of running away from the Holy Decree, "The crimes listed in the Holy Decree have not been committed by the prince of our family, and I can't accept the decree." ”

"Princess Xiao, are you disobeying the order?" Repeatedly refused, the officials who announced the decree were also angry.

Since he took office in the Ministry of Rites, I don't know how many holy decrees of rewards and punishments have been announced, and no one has ever dared to disobey the decree like Lin Chujiu.

"The thunder and rain are all Jun'en, Princess Xiao, you are a smart person, you have accepted the order, and the lower officials will treat it as if nothing happened, and this matter will pass. Otherwise, if the matter comes to the emperor, you will be the one who suffers. "The proclamation officer is half selling and half threatening.

Lin Chujiu's refusal to accept the decree is certainly not pleased, but he, the person who announced the decree, is not much better. Now that Lin Chujiu has taken the order, hello everyone, I am also a lot better......

"I can't afford to wear the hat of disobedience, and I will send the fine money on the holy decree to the household department, but I can't accept the holy decree." It was still the same sentence, and Lin Chujiu repeated it again without getting tired of it.

Without waiting for the propaganda official to speak, Lin Chujiu turned his head and said to Steward Cao, who was kneeling behind her: "Steward Cao, go open my treasury, clear out all the valuable things in my dowry, and collect 200,000 taels to go to the household department." ”

"Wang, princess......" Steward Cao was dumbfounded, "want, want to sell your dowry?" "Their Xiao Wangfu is not so poor, only 200,000 taels, they can take it out with their eyes closed, there is no need to sell Lin Chujiu's dowry at all.

"Well, go ahead...... Sell the dowry first to relieve the immediate urgency. Later, when there is money, it will be redeemed again. Lin Chujiu looked righteous and awe-inspiring, but only a few Jade Pearls knew, Lin Chujiu had long seen that those dowries were not pleasing to the eye, and now he has the opportunity to deal with them openly, how could Lin Chujiu live.

Moreover, he did not use the silver of King Xiao's mansion, but sold his dowry, and in the eyes of outsiders, King Xiao also seemed to be very incorruptible, and he couldn't take out only 200,000 taels, and he had to sell his dowry as the housewife.

Steward Cao is not a stupid person, he understands Lin Chujiu's intentions, but even if he understands, he is still very responsive to selling Lin Chujiu's dowry, and he wants to persuade him, but Jade and Pearl cleverly moved to Steward Cao's side, and whispered: "Steward Cao, you just listen to the princess, the princess must be justified in doing this." ”

While speaking, the two women helped Steward Cao up, "Princess, the slave and maid accompany Steward Cao to count the dowry." ”

"Go ahead." With Jade and Pearl going together, Lin Chujiu has nothing to worry about.

When the official who announced the decree saw the people in King Xiao's mansion, he went to count the dowry or something, and was immediately dumbfounded, "Princess Xiao, it's just a fine of silver, you don't have to sell the dowry." "I want outsiders to know that the emperor ordered to punish the silver of King Xiao's mansion, but forced Princess Xiao to sell her dowry, what do others think of the emperor?

He, a petty official who proclaims his orders, is he still going to do it?

"What if you don't sell your dowry?" Lin Chujiu looked up at the proclamation officer, and asked as if puzzled: "Don't you have to pay the 200,000 taels of silver on the holy decree?" "If the other party dares to say that she won't hand it over, she dares to go out with someone with the holy decree.

Just because she doesn't have to pay a fine means she's not wrong, right?

That's right, what else is the decree declared!

"No, no, of course I have to pay it, it is a fine money that King Xiao induced the merchants to raise prices and caused losses to the people." The officials who announced the decree repeatedly repeated King Xiao's crimes, but unfortunately Lin Chujiu said to himself as if he hadn't heard it: "Our prince didn't induce merchants to raise prices, everything was the spontaneous behavior of those unscrupulous merchants. As for the fine of 200,000 taels of silver, that is the request of the saint, and we in the Xiao Wangfu can only do it. ”

It is the merchants who raise prices, and the emperor asks those grain merchants to spit out the profits they eat, and the emperor is not ashamed to find trouble with Xiao Tianyao.

"Princess Xiao, the truth of the matter is in front of you, it's not what you say." When the proclamation official saw that Lin Chujiu looked like he was not going to eat oil and salt, he was immediately a little annoyed.

Is it so troublesome to make a decree?

No wonder the people in the ministry, as soon as they heard that it was the will of Xiao Wangfu, no one stepped forward to take the errand, if he hadn't been a step slower when he retreated, this unlucky errand would not have fallen on him.

"What the adults are saying is that the truth is in front of you, and it is not a few words that can distort the facts." Lin Chujiu echoed a sentence, but then his tone changed and said: "The prince of our family is uncertain about life and death on the front line, fighting to protect Dongwen, where can he have the leisure to take care of these messy things in Beijing." Those grain merchants who have made a lot of money, more than half of them are the people under the prince and King Wen, and no matter how bad they are, they are also the Xue family of the imperial merchants, what does it have to do with our prince? I don't know how much silver they have earned from it this time, and can a mere 200,000 taels make up for the losses of the people? ”

"Xiao, Princess Xiao, what are you talking about, the lower officials don't understand." The official who announced the decree was sweating profusely, and at this time, where did he still have high toes and toes.

Although he has not been in the officialdom for a few years, he has a clear understanding of the stakes, and he thought that Princess Xiao was just messing around a little, but he didn't want to ......