Beizhen Fusi Prison.

The dim cell, the indescribable stench, Yan Chengjin wore a three-layer mask and sprayed rose-scented flower dew to isolate the stench.

In the cell, a little finger-thick chain binds a man.

Before Qiao Xinyuan was imprisoned, he was a suave Confucian businessman.

At this moment, from an old handsome guy to an old homeless person.

"This official has come to see you." Yan Chengjin glanced at Qiao Xinyuan and continued, "But ...... Didn't bring you food. ”

There are many preparations to impeach Jiao Fang.

Qiao Xinyuan sent a concubine to Jiao Fang, but it is unknown whether he sent silver.

Yan Chengjin knew that Jiao Fang liked to accumulate money, so he specially came to verify Qiao Xinyuan.

"Jiao Fang is also in Dali Temple Prison, you go back to the official's question, and the official will fish you out."

Half an hour later.

Yan Chengjin came out of the edict.

Mu Bin was already outside the prison door, waited for a long time, and saw him come out and strode up to meet him, "Qiao Xinyuan's case, Uncle Shi has finished the trial, and he will be released in a few days." ”

Yan Chengjin said, "Master Mu will lock him up for a few more days." ”

In a few days, Qiao will come to visit him in prison.

Mu Bin naturally didn't know that Jiao Fang had many handles.

In the previous dynasty, he was too upright and couldn't get used to seeing Emperor Chenghua and Wan Guifei chasing pleasure, so he went to the rivers and lakes.

Therefore, the black material of the previous dynasty has not been known to the king.

Back at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the little eunuch came to announce Yan Chengjin, "Your Majesty asked Lord Yan to go to the Huagai Palace." ”

His Majesty suddenly announced, could it be for the sake of tiger wine, even if he was in a hurry, he couldn't drink it after throwing it into the liquor for three days?

Canopy Palace,

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the accounts of the hail repairs a few days ago, and lost 320,000 taels of silver, and there were still East Palace and Guozijian that needed to be repaired.

Only 10 million taels of silver were collected in the summer tax of a year, and 300,000 taels were used.

It's like silver being squandered, and it's always unpleasant.

Thinking of going overseas to find the Ming fleet of Jinshan Yinshan, he announced that Yan Chengjin came.

"If you can't find gold and silver, the cost of shipbuilding and going to sea will be in vain." Emperor Hongzhi said.

Liu Jian sighed, and the officials of the six ministries lowered their heads.

No one knows what the situation is overseas, and they dare not respond to Emperor Hongzhi's words.

Li Dongyang became irritable inexplicably, he remembered his eldest son, Mangara and Daming were separated by 108,000 miles, and he died in the sea by accident, and he couldn't even get the news of the funeral back.

Han Wen comforted: "Your Majesty, it's better not to have too much hope." ”

At this moment, Yan Chengjin strode into the hall, stood beside Li Dongyang, and saluted Emperor Hongzhi.

"Your Majesty?"

"When will the silver taels of Mangara be transported back to Daming?"

The imperial court is short of money again?

Yan Chengjin understood Emperor Hongzhi, the Great Wall was built in the northwest, and there was a big flood in the south, and the palace should be repaired......

"Liu Jin will only go to Mangara in April, Your Majesty will wait."

Emperor Hongji's heart was sad, as if he had returned to the time when he first ascended the throne, and the treasury was empty......

Li Dongyang suppressed his anger and secretly made up his mind that this time Zhaoxian would come back and let him participate in the imperial examination.

"I heard that you made Gonghu into tiger wine and made a lot of money?" Emperor Hongji smiled aggressively.

"Please also ask Your Majesty to bring the rumors to justice, the tiger has only been in the wine for three days, where did the money come from?"

Xiao Jing's face twitched, it was he who told Emperor Hongzhi.

"There is still a gap of 100,000 taels of silver to repair the palace, I am thinking, the tax and silver collected by the good township should be paid in advance, and there is no need to wait until the end of the year."

Han Wen looked at Yan Chengjin and discussed: "The household department can give Liangxiang a receipt first." ”

Crouch~

The eyes of the surrounding ministers suddenly turned into wolf eyes.

Yan Chengjin couldn't help but secretly smack at them, "The minister implores Your Majesty to open the house!" ”

No one in the court knows how much money Your Majesty has.

Only the female officials in charge of the treasury know how much silver there is.

Emperor Hongzhi's biological mother, Ji, was taken captive to the palace and was in charge of money and goods in the interior.

Therefore, it is now a female official who is in charge of the internal treasury.

Emperor Hongzhi handed Yan Chengjin a dangerous look, as if he had poked his sore spot, and his face turned grim.

"I want to keep this silver for the prosperous times, and now I use it, and the prince will ...... in the future How to govern the country? ”

His silver is to be left to Zhu Houzhao.

Pass the prosperity to the prince, pass the internal money to the prince, if the prince still can't govern the country, then he ......

I admit it!

Yan Chengjin knew that Emperor Hongzhi wanted to give money to Zhu Houzhao, and Zhu Houzhao really had a good baby.

"Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has hidden a lot of silver."

"The one thousand three hundred and twenty-six cents he saved?"

Zhu Houzhao thought that he was well hidden, and His Majesty knew it clearly......

Yan Chengjin planned to tell Zhu Houzhao in a while and let him change places.

"Don't hide it from Your Majesty, Liangxiang built a winery, bought a lot of wine and grapes, and there is no silver."

Yan Chengjin continued: "The household wants silver, and can only wait for the return of the Ming fleet. ”

Emperor Hongzhi secretly thought about it, thinking that there would be no more hail.

Let the East Palace and Guozijian put it aside for now.

…………

Mangara,

The mine was full of people, holding hammers and beating yellow-brown boulders, Liu Jin took a few prisoners to the mountain, and cut a tree when he saw it.

"If there is a white **, viscous as porridge, tell us."

I'm afraid of being killed by Yan Chengjin.

After he arrived on the island, he kept looking for a tree called rubber, and he only remembered that Yan Chengjin said that the juice was as white as milk and sticky as porridge.

"Sir, don't you see this?"

A dwarf prisoner was holding a small sapling with pimples at its roots, and when he peeled back the pimples, he saw something strange the size of two beans.

With a gentle pinch, milky white juice flowed out, and it was a little sticky.

Liu Jin was ecstatic, "The juice is as white as milk, and it is as sticky as porridge?!" ”

But he took a closer look, and felt that something was wrong, the rubber tree that Lord Yan said was as tall as a pine and tall as a bamboo.

How could it be so small, could it be that Lord Yan remembered it wrongly?

"Where did you find it?"

The prisoner pointed to the ground, and saw that the ground was full of small saplings, and there were hundreds of them.

"Pull them all up and take them back to prison."

An hour later,

Liu Jin happily walked back into the barracks and whispered flatteringly: "Master Li, we have found the rubber tree that Lord Yan wanted." ”

Raising the pimple tree in his hand, he shook it in front of Li Zhaoxian's eyes.

Zhang Yong saw it, with a bitter look of being beaten up, and held up the drawing in his hand.

I haven't found the vegetable seedlings that Lord Yan wants:

Red as blood, as big as an egg...... I'm going back to the court now.

Li Zhaoxian ordered: "Sail back to the dynasty tomorrow, the two fathers-in-law should prepare." ”

The silver mines in Mangara are open-pit mines, and they are very shallowly buried, and in just over a month, the condemned prisoners dug up a small hill-high silver mine.

However, it still needs to be shipped back to Daming refining.

Paradise Prison is composed of hundreds of straw huts, just like the grass huts of the homeless people in Liangxiang.

Mangarat is an island, and as long as the ship is guarded, the prisoners cannot escape.

And there are soldiers from the Mangara Kingdom to assist in monitoring, Li Zhaoxian is not worried.

The real paradise prison is still under construction, with drum towers set up at the four corners, huge stones surrounding the wall, and small walls in the wall to protect it.

At night, the soldiers of Mangarat surrounded the prison camp with torches.

"Envoys of the Ming Dynasty, you have stolen our important grain!" The ministers of Mangarat spoke an unskilled Chinese language.

Liu Jin thought of the hundreds of rubber trees that had been uprooted, and he didn't care: "Pull it out, do you want silver?" ”

The most precious thing in Mangarat is food.

They don't know how to farm, and they eat what they grow.

The envoy waved his hand and commanded: "Hold him up and find out the food!" ”

The Mangarat people and the Ming Dynasty respected each other, and they valued food as extremely important.

Li Zhao hurriedly stood up: "These rubber trees, and we will bring them back to Daming first, and the envoys can return to Daming with us, and they can learn Daming's cultivation techniques in exchange." ”

Lord Yan has ordered, and it must be brought back to Daming.