East Palace.

The prince is sitting in the study looking at the recent East Palace's expenditure ledger, the most needed to win people's hearts is money, the silver spent this month has exceeded the budget of the East Palace, if it is not earned, the expenses of the East Palace will definitely be a lot of constraints after that.

The crown prince frowned, his fingers tapped lightly on the table, and he was thinking about how to fill the vacancy of the East Palace's money, this kind of thing can't go into the palace and let the concubine Niangniang come to help, right? Besides, the concubine doesn't have much money there, and she can't support the huge expenses of her East Palace, so she still has to think of a better way.

And just when the prince was depressed about this matter, Fang Kui, the son of the Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, came to visit, saying that there was good news to tell him, the prince and he grew up together since childhood, and he was naturally on the prince's side.

Fang Kui was led to the crown prince by the eunuchs of the East Palace, and after saluting respectfully, he gave the prince a look, and the prince understood, and said, "This palace and Lord Fang have important things to say, you all should exit first." ”

"Yes."

Then there were only two people left in the prince's study, the prince and Fang Kui.

Fang Kui stepped forward with a smile, glanced at the account book in the prince's hand, and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, Weichen has a way to fill the vacancy of the East Palace's silver coins, I wonder if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is interested?" ”

"Oh? Tell me about it! ”

Fang Kui looked around to make sure that no one was there, then walked to the side of the crown prince, lowered his voice and said, "Your Highness, do you know the murderer who killed fifteen people who was sentenced to be beheaded in the prison a few days ago?" ”

"I know, the whole Imperial City knows about this matter, but what are you doing when you mention this matter in a dignified manner? Aren't they all sentenced? ”

"That murderer is the only seedling in the family, and the parents of the family, who are bent on saving this man's life, came to my house to ask my father for help, and promised to give 100,000 taels of silver to release their son from the prison, and they promised to leave the imperial city immediately and never return here."

The prince originally didn't want to care about the kind of things that had already been sentenced, but the amount of 100,000 taels of silver was really exciting, if the silver entered the East Palace, let alone this month, I am afraid that this year I don't have to worry about the expenses of the East Palace.

Between 100,000 taels of silver and not being nosy, the prince's rational strings were broken with a "snap", and now the most important thing is to fill the vacancy in the East Palace, just save someone and get 100,000 taels of silver, this is simply a good thing for pie in the sky!

What's more, saving one person is nothing more simple for him, the prince, and it is not a problem that a few words can be dismissed.

So the prince asked Fang Kui: "Your father didn't agree to this matter, right?" ”

"No, if I agree, I won't come here to find His Royal Highness the Prince, such a good thing, Your Highness can't let it go, if someone else preempts it, then the 100,000 taels of silver will easily fall into someone else's money bag!"

The prince felt that what Fang Kui said made sense, 100,000 taels of silver was not a small amount, since this matter was not a problem for him, he should solve this matter in his own hands.

"Good!" The prince slapped the table and said with a smile: "This matter has been agreed by the palace, you go back and tell the old couple to send 50,000 taels of silver to the East Palace first, and when you see the silver, the palace will help them solve this matter, and after the matter is completed, you will send the remaining 50,000 taels of silver." ”

"Okay, Weichen will do it!"

After Fang Kui left, the prince looked at the East Palace account book on the desk, and a confident smile appeared on his face, a small murderer is just a small murderer, he can let people out casually, if it really doesn't work, find a similar-looking Huazi and throw it into the cell instead, 100,000 taels of silver can be sent to the East Palace, the speed of this silver is simply not too fast!

On Fang Kui's side, the speed was also very fast, and that night, the 50,000 taels of silver were sent to the East Palace, and there was no mistake after the prince sent someone to count them.

Fang Kui stood beside the crown prince and said with a smile: "Your Highness, according to your request, fifty thousand taels of silver have been sent to the East Palace, and the next thing is up to you." ”

"Got it, this palace is out in person, what other problems can there be? Put your heart in your belly. ”

"Yes."

After that, the prince went to the government office in charge of handling this matter overnight, and when the lord of the palace saw that the person who came was His Royal Highness the prince, he knelt directly in front of him in a hurry and saluted.

After the prince smiled and explained his origin clearly, the expression on the face of the lord of the mansion was a little ugly, that murderer had killed a whole fifteen people, how could he let it out like this? And if this matter is exposed, they will not be able to escape punishment!

When the prince saw the worried expression on the face of the prince, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, the palace has already prepared everything, you just need to act as if you didn't see anything." ”

"But His Royal Highness the Prince, this ......"

"If you don't want to die here now, shut up and be obedient!"

“…… Yes, yes, yes! Wechen doesn't know anything, he doesn't know anything! ”

"Good!"

After that, the prince led people into the cell, opened the prison door, and brought the murderer out, and then threw Hanako, who was seventy or eighty percent similar to the murderer, whom he sent to find to be the murderer, in the cell instead of the murderer who was to be beheaded three days later.

When the murderer saw the prince, although he didn't know who he was, since he was here to save him, he naturally smiled and thanked him.

The prince smiled and said, "You don't need to thank me, thank your parents, I'm just taking money to do things." Tell your parents when you go back, send the rest of the silver, and in addition, take you out of the imperial city directly after dawn tomorrow, don't cause any trouble, if you implicate me, your fate will be even worse than now, do you hear clearly? ”

"I know, I'll go back now, thank you to this son!"

Then the murderer left the cell with a smile.

The prince turned to look at Hanako, who was thrown into the cell, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, a man named Hanako got 100,000 taels of silver in exchange, this deal is really a good deal!

"Come on, go in and cut off the tongue of this Hanako, so that I don't have time to talk nonsense and ruin my big thing!"

"Yes!"

When the prince walked out of the palace, he was in a happy mood, as long as he waited for the old couple to leave the imperial city with the murderer tomorrow, this matter would no longer be a disaster.

In this mansion, if anyone dares to say a word more, he dares to let them never speak another half a word in their lives!