"Xing'er, who gave you this hairpin?" Chu Li took the hairpin and looked at it repeatedly, it was definitely exactly the same. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"My mother."

"Who gave it to you?"

"Of course it's my father!" Xing'er said, "Otherwise, how could she pass this on to me as a treasure?" ”

"Your father?" Chu Li fell into deep thought: Xing'er's mother actually has a hairpin that is exactly the same as that of Princess Qi; Could it be that the old pervert slept with that princess? Or did King Qi go to the Rouge Building and sleep with Xing'er's mother? According to the style of the old pervert, it is more likely that he will sleep with the princess. Could it be that this is the real reason why he was disfigured and went into hiding, ignoring his wife and daughter?

Asking what is the situation in the world is a promise of life and death.

It's all in the past, I don't want to think about it anymore. Thinking too much will affect your mood. These two hairpins may just look the same?

Holding the apricot hairpin, Chu Li returned to the Qi Palace. The hairpin is inserted into the lock hole, and it can really be stuck, and it is twisted slightly, only to hear a snap, and the wooden board under the board is completely opened, and there are drawer boards outside, and there are about half deep inside, hanging under the case like an inclined drawer, and there is a thick stack of silver tickets in the drawer board.

It seems that these two hairpins are not just as simple as the appearance.

"It's ingenious!" Chu Li took a deep breath, and even began to sincerely admire the Emperor Muzong who was not doing his job. actually made the key of the dark grid into a hairpin and put it on a woman's head, which is really not something that ordinary people can imagine.

But compared to this, what Chu Li didn't expect was the silver ticket in this dark grid.

This King of Qi is not a landlord in the countryside, is it necessary to hide his money so secretly?

It's really necessary.

Holding the silver ticket in his hand, Chu Li's arm couldn't help but tremble. The first one placed on the noodles: 200,000 taels.

As a little thief, Chu Li had never seen a silver ticket of this denomination, and he didn't even know that such an exaggerated silver ticket existed in this world. At the beginning, with the more than 20,000 taels left by the master, I already felt that it was enough to be chic for the second half of my life; When Zhu Xiaolong left Shanyin, he left forty or fifty thousand taels for himself, and he sighed even more for his husband. What is the concept of 200,000 taels? If it were converted into cash, would this room be able to pile up?

The next one, 100,000 taels, and further down, it's still 200,000. A rough count shows that there are twenty-eight sheets in total, even if not all of them are 200,000 sheets, this thick stack should have four or five million taels. The country's annual tax silver is only more than 6 million, which is equivalent to saying that the people of the whole country paid a year's tax to King Qi.

When he was still in Shanyin, Zhu Xiaolong complained after drinking, saying that in recent years, natural disasters have continued throughout the country, and people in various places have changed frequently, and the year before last, the Huai River was a great water and the country was thousands of miles, and there were only 100,000 taels of silver left in the treasury, and in the end, the emperor paid out of his own pocket and allocated more than 500,000 taels of silver from Da Nei to buy grain for disaster relief.

What does it mean to be rich? This word is definitely not an exaggerated description when applied to King Qi. In front of his old man, the poor emperor who cut down the governor of the navy for a mere 300,000 taels of silver was not even called Huazi.

He's just a prince, where did he get so much money? There is a saying: Guangsha tens of millions of sleepers sleep seven feet, and Jinshan Yinshan has three meals a day. He is a prince, and he doesn't have to raise a group of palace eunuchs with 3,000 beauties like the emperor all year round, just a palace, no matter how extravagant his life is, 35,000 yuan a year is enough to spend, hide so much money, what are you going to do?

Actually, Chu Li is not a fool. The most extravagant thing in the world is not to visit the kiln, but to fight. According to Zhu Xiaolong's words, in recent years, the rangers of the Northern Tatar State have repeatedly violated the border passes, and all the court can do is to send troops to defend it, allowing the people outside the pass to be plundered by the enemy and a large area of territory to be encroached upon by the enemy, but they can only swallow their anger. Why? Not because of the bag, but because of the lack of money! The treasury has long been emptied by a series of natural disasters in various places, not only can not collect taxes, but have to post money for disaster relief, and when the grain arrives a few days late, it will be a popular uprising.

"Could it be...... He remembered the ...... soldiers? Chu Li gasped, five million taels is indeed enough to fight a big battle.

At the bottom of the silver ticket is a folded piece of letterhead. When he opened the letter, Chu Li's heart was beating again.

The content of the letter is very simple, asking the king of Qi to find a way to bring down the crown prince, and then he can guarantee that there will be no new crown prince before the emperor dies, and the throne will finally be inherited by the son of the king of Qi. The whole letter has no signature and no seal, and it is more like a note than a letter.

Could it be that the King of Qi instigated his ministers to impeach the crown prince because of this? He was afraid that the emperor would know, could it be that it was in this letter? Who is the person who wrote the letter, is it the current queen mother?

Today, the saint has six sons, the first of which was born to the queen, but unfortunately died at an early age, and the queen has not given birth since then. The rules in the palace have always been that the mother is more expensive than the son, once the emperor dies and Zhu Xiaolong ascends the throne, the queen mother is Zhu Xiaolong's mother, although today's queen mother also has the status of the queen mother, but the power position is worse than the emperor's mother.

Since the founding of Daning, there has been such an unwritten rule in the imperial court, if the first emperor dies and has no children under his knees, or there is no prince suitable for the throne, that is to say, if the emperor's biological son is demented, crippled, or deposed for committing serious crimes, the son of the vassal king can be passed on to the queen, and the queen can be recognized as the queen, and then inherit the unification; As the emperor's godmother, the queen is naturally the queen mother; If the emperor is young, his biological father is likely to become the regent, and the queen mother can also listen to the government. Since the founding of the country, there have not been one or two emperors who have ascended the throne in this way.

Combined with the analysis of these factors, the queen's motive for writing this letter is sufficient, and she also has this ability: first find a way to get the emperor to issue a decree to abolish the prince, and then find a way to keep the prince's seat empty until the emperor dies. If the emperor did not appoint another crown prince until his death, then it was up to her to decide who would ascend the throne.

How does the queen ensure that the emperor will not establish a prince before his death?

The best way, of course, is to die violently! And it's the kind of violent death that doesn't even have a chance to say a last word!

Since ancient times, it is not uncommon for the emperor to die violently in the palace, but in the world, where are there so many diseases that can make people die violently?

God knows, earth knows; The emperor in the coffin knows, and the black hand behind the scenes knows.

Thinking of this, Chu Li couldn't help but gasp, it seems that the people who are looking forward to the emperor's return to the west as soon as possible are not only the Xu family! The emperor and his six princes who were kept in the dark have been able to live safely until now because of Zhu Xiaolong's blessing! Those assassins in Sanyin are likely to be the disciples sent by King Qi in the past; Everyone thought he was the one of the Six Princes, but everyone was wrong. This man took a risk, just to put his son on the throne!

It's no wonder that just five words can scare him like that, if this matter is really known by the emperor, how can it be punished by the nine clans? What an accident, the evidence of such a heinous crime has not been destroyed, is this King of Qi stupid, or is he too smart?

In addition to this, there is a problem.

This matter, but the crime of conspiring against the Yi clan, is it a bit overkill to use it just to blackmail? What's more, this person really wants to put Zhu Xiaolong to death, even if Zhu Xiaolong's temper is good, but in the face of this kind of death threat, can he continue to swallow his anger?

"That's the ......!" Chu Li muttered to himself and put all the silver tickets back into the dark compartment along with the letters.