Shuo Wangfu,

In the hall,

"How's the money going?"

Prince Shuo was sitting on the main seat with a cup of tea, drinking tea and asking, and the dozen or so shopkeepers in front of him knelt respectfully on the ground and listened.

These people are all shopkeepers who run all kinds of business for the palace, after all, there are still dozens of mouths in the palace to feed, and the lives of these royal relatives are already luxurious, and they can't afford to rely on the little silver of the imperial court alone.

"Back to the prince, the seventeen Qinglou under the name of the small one, all the silver in the accounts this year has been withdrawn, and there are about 130,000 taels of silver."

When the words fell, a shopkeeper with the heaviest financial power took the lead in speaking out, it is naturally impossible for these properties in the palace to be directly listed in the name of the prince, and they are all singled out to take care of them.

Of course, the only one in the capital who can take the skin and meat business as the main business is the Prince Shuo in front of him, everyone knows that Qinglou is a gold cave, but he also needs some basic face, whether it is openly or behind the scenes, he does not want to be involved in these businesses.

"Back to the prince, the money of all the accounts of the thirteen restaurants under the name of the little one has also been transferred to the house."

"Returning to the Prince......"

More than a dozen shopkeepers carefully told each other, and the palace housekeeper took the account books handed by each family and checked them with the abacus.

"Is it all clear?"

After listening to this, Prince Shuo asked in a deep voice.

"Back to the prince, the cash silver collected by each family, plus the surplus silver in the house, is counted together, and the silver we can use now is counted together, totaling 320,000 taels."

The housekeeper got up and reported that although the prince was extremely noble, he had no real power in the capital, so naturally he couldn't compare with those bold Shangshu.

"According to the practice of losing the imperial court in recent years, the short-term grain price in Gyeonggi can rise by about 3 to 50 percent......

"If we do it properly, all of them can be sold when the price of grain is at its highest, and at most, we can make 160,000 taels of silver."

The housekeeper on the side compared the amount of grain price changes in Shangjing over the years and the accounts of the collected silver, and calculated and settled.

"160,000 taels of silver?"

Prince Shuo took a sip of tea and continued: "It's still a little less, and this king is still thinking about renovating and expanding the current palace." ”

"After all, this king still has to take advantage of the fact that he is not old now, take a few more concubines, and spread the branches and leaves for our old Zhu family, but the palace is too small, and now it is a little crowded."

Prince Shuo then shook his head again and said: "Speaking of which, this court is also a little stingy, and the amount of silver allocated every year is too small, otherwise this king would not have to rack his brains to get silver." ”

According to the rules of the Great Departure Dynasty, if you have the same surname, you will not be crowned king, although the kings are divided into various places and have titles, but except for the feudal mansions, they do not receive fiefs and subjects, and they are all awarded to "Zonglu" by the imperial court.

Except for a very small number of princes who are responsible for border defense and have real power, the rest of the kings can only control a small number of guards, and they can't interfere in the affairs of the fiefdom.

Because in the eyes of the founding emperor of Dali, although the descendants of the royal family can control all parts of the country and prevent foreign officials from domineering, they only need a few capable heirs, which are enough to guard the frontier and be supplemented by domestic capital, so that the dynasty of the Zhu family is solid.

As for those descendants who don't make it, it's interesting enough to find a piece of land and seal it for them, so most of the princes who are in the domain are not having a good time, and with the continuation of the dynasty, the good places have also been divided, and no one wants to go to the remaining places where birds don't.

Therefore, Prince Shuo and some of the remaining princes, the prince of the county, stayed in the capital with a dead face, with a shy face, and with the name of the emperor's relatives, they also seized a lot of business.

"Returning to the prince, this is also a helpless thing, after all, the land of Gyeonggi is densely populated, and there are a lot of grain reserves in various places, and there are more than 800 grain shops in the 128 square cities of Shangjing alone,"

"We really can't make a big splash with this little bit of silver, and it won't have much impact on the rise in food prices."

The housekeeper was also helpless.

"This king also knows this, as early as the day His Majesty raised money, after retiring from the dynasty, this king talked to your brothers, wanting them to give some silver, more silver, so as to raise the price of grain, but they said that they were not willing to earn this silver......"

"Today, the king also made an invitation early, but seeing that it was afternoon, they didn't come alone, either because they were sick or busy giving birth......

"The more I talk about this king, the more angry I become......"

"On weekdays, I also searched tightly, and the silver donation a few days ago was not a few thousand taels more than this king, but on the contrary, such a good thing to make a fortune, this king is worried about a family, and he is the eldest brother, and he wants to take them to make a fortune, they are good, and they shrink their heads like quails one by one......

"Lord Wang, there are people outside the mansion who ask to see you."

"It was said that there was a deal to negotiate with the prince."

Just when Prince Shuo was angry and was about to scold, a porter trotted over to report.

"Talking about business?"

"Huh?"

"What cats and dogs are worthy of talking about business with this king?"

"No, no!"

Prince Shuo waved his hand impatiently.

"Lord, listen to themselves,"

"It seems to be someone from the four major merchant gangs."

The porter explained.

"Poof......

"The Four Great Merchant Gangs?

Smell,

Prince Shuo squirted out a sip of tea. On that day, I heard the truth in the court, that is, several of them ate the grain and grass of the Northern Expedition, and the financial resources were far from being comparable to their hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

"Damn, this is the God of Wealth who has come to the door!"

"Quick, quick, quick!"

"Command to go down, and set up a feast in the hall at once,"

"This king will be a good student to entertain them!"

Prince Shuo put down the teacup after saying that, and greeted him in person regardless of his identity, and disappeared from everyone's eyes in the blink of an eye, and I don't know why his round figure can be so agile.

In the middle of the hall,

The people of the four major merchant gangs were also sincerely afraid, and they didn't say anything about eating melons in Luo's Mansion, and they rushed to visit several other princes who were also closed-door, and when they were worried, they didn't expect this person to come out in person.

"So,"

"You want to cooperate with this king?"

"Let's short the grain market in Beijing together?"

After listening to the words of several people, Prince Shuo stroked the beard on his chin and groaned, his eyes were also rolling drippingly, and he did not respond directly.

"It's really as the prince said."

"The method that this king thought of before was a small fight, but there is a little bit of goodness, even if there is some chaos and someone finds out, Your Majesty scolds this king a few words......"

"If I really cooperate with you, I am afraid that I will have to bear the great responsibility of the world, and if Your Majesty knows, I am afraid that this king will not be able to explain it......"

Prince Shuo looked at the few people who were not good-looking, and he was secretly frightened, and naturally understood the hidden risks, where was the previous philistine at this moment, and his eyes were full of solemnity.

"If the prince agrees,"

"I'm willing to give up three percent of the profits!"

The leader of the merchant said directly, obviously he had discussed it with the master before he came, and he was ready to hemorrhage.

"Sancheng?"

"The prince doesn't need to pay the capital, he can also send someone to check the accounts, and when the matter is completed, it should be thirty percent of the prince's silver, and there will be no less."

The leader continued.

"If it happens, in less than a few days, we will be able to raise the price of grain in Gyeonggi several times!"

"When the time comes, the silver handed over to the prince can be in the millions!"

The merchant continued.

"In millions?"

Prince Shuo hesitated when he heard this, his face was also extremely entangled, and his heart was even more warring between heaven and man.

"Hoo ......"

"It's better to be free."

"This money is too hot......

After much hesitation, Prince Shuo shook his head.

"Lord Wang, if you can't do it......"

"And what about fifty percent?"

The leading shopkeeper and the remaining three glanced at each other, then gritted his teeth and spoke.

"I'll wait for the contribution, and the prince will come forward."

"I will wait for fifty or five percent of the money to earn the people's money."

"If you feel that you are still not stable enough, then every time the price of grain rises, we will advance the silver we are going to earn to you......"

"I don't know what the prince thinks?"

"Fifty percent?"

"Prepaid?"

Prince Shuo was also stunned when he heard this, you must know that if this matter can be done, he can lie on the golden mountain and sleep for the rest of his life, as for repairing the palace?

and repaired a hammer,

Directly re-build the new self-living,

The old palace is used to dismantle and play,

"......"

"This king can only deal with His Majesty's side,"

"Remaining Joint ......"

At this point, Prince Shuo was obviously moved.

"Please rest assured, the rest of the silver for each joint, I will take it out separately and hand it over to the prince, I want to put it on the top according to the name of the prince, they have no worries, and they will accept it."

The shopkeeper in the lead was also simply, and directly took out a large stack of silver tickets on the spot and handed it over: "This silver, and the tea money for the prince's errands, the rest of the silver ......"

"This ......"

"What's so embarrassing?"

Prince Shuo looked at the thick stack of 10,000 taels of silver tickets on the table, and his eyes were straight, and he carefully looked at the silver tickets of Huitong Commercial Bank, and they were all current silver tickets that could be exchanged on the same day, in other words, as long as he wanted to, he didn't have to wait for the future, and he could sleep on the big bed made of silver on the same day.

"Lord Wang, people die for money, and birds die for food!"

"Presumably this silver, that little risk is not to worry about!"

The merchant continued,

"That's the same thing......

Prince Shuo put the pile of silver tickets into the bad without a trace, feeling the weight of it and said ruthlessly:

"If Your Majesty blames it, it's a big deal that this king will go to the ancestral hall and kneel for a day."

"It's said that the sky is broken, but the knees suffer more, and the matter of kneeling for a few more days is just to kowtow to the ancestors a few more, bless the king to earn more silver, take a few more concubines, and add a few more men to our Zhu family......"

Prince Shuo remembered the sale of illicit salt in the past, and suddenly he didn't have so many worries.

"Come on, pour wine!"

"Let's talk about it!"

After the thought is understood,

Prince Shuo also removed the tea on the table, and asked people to bring a few jars of fine wine.

"When the time comes, go to see Your Majesty with a green bag on your head, even if he doesn't give face to the second uncle of this king, for the sake of the face of the ancestors, he will not be too embarrassed by the ...... of this king"

Never drunk to strengthen the bear's guts,

Prince Shuo is a man who is not taboo and bold. Under the influence of alcohol, he even boasted about Haikou, patted his chest and said unashamedly.

……

Luo Fu,

E,

"Xiaguan, I've seen Lord Luo!"

Bai Xiaosheng looked at Luo Congee who was still in the warehouse and bowed.

"Got it all figured out?"

"My lord, after their group of people left the mansion, they visited many princes in the city, but they didn't go in, and finally arrived at the Shuowang Mansion, and the prince personally greeted him, not to mention, he also set up a banquet in the mansion, and until this time, they haven't come out."

"Prince Shuo?"

"Is that the prince who donated eight thousand taels of silver?"

"Straight sissy thief,"

"It's really asking for money and not dying!"

Luo Congee casually picked up a gold ingot in the treasury and sneered while playing with it, for themselves, the so-called gold, silver and jewelry are just tools to get things done, but for them, they are more important than life.

"Lord Luo, do you want to send someone to mention it in advance while he hasn't participated yet."

"After all, he is also a person surnamed Zhu, and he has the blood of the royal family in his body, if he is implicated, I am afraid that His Majesty will not be able to explain it."

Bai Xiaosheng hesitated.

"Someone surnamed Zhu?"

"If you really want to talk about this embroidered spring knife, I haven't tasted the blood of the Zhu family, and I don't know what it tastes like......

Luo Congee patted the embroidered spring knife on his waist and said indifferently.

"......"

Bai Xiaosheng took out the content of the conversation of several people in the palace and handed it over, wanting to speak and stopping.

"Needless to say."

"You have to keep an eye on it."

"The official has his own measure."

"If you knock out a green bag, you can perfunctory it?"

"I'm afraid I want to,"

Luo Congee paused and continued,

"Just dig a grave bag out of the ground!"

……

Three days later,

In the main hall,

After the matter of the Northern Expedition of grain and grass was completely resolved, and the escort was started, all the ministries continued to discuss the issue of transferring people from various places along the way, and although there were occasional small disputes, they were generally considered to be harmonious.

As for the increase in grain in Beijing in the past few days, it has naturally been noticed by someone, but although it is faster, it has not reached the point of outrageous, so no one has proposed it in public in the court, and Zhu Ming can be regarded as a stable emperor for a few days.

"Aiqing, the four major merchant gangs have worked hard......"

When the courtiers are gone,

Zhu Ming patted Luo Congee's shoulder very closely, and his words were also light and soothing, after all, there was no urgent need.

"To do things for Your Majesty, why do you have to work hard?"

Luo Congee bowed and replied.

"I can't do anything like this, after all, this money is not easy to come by......"

"It's funny, a few days ago, I personally raised money and made a lot of jokes, and those courtiers didn't want to pay for the silver, and my elders also searched tightly......

"Counting, eight thousand taels of silver is not enough for him to contract a few flower boats on weekdays......"

Zhu Ming shook his head and said.

"Your Majesty, do you have a grudge in your heart?"

Seeing this, Luo Congee asked out loud.

I also want to weigh the weight of Prince Nashuo in his heart.

"Resentment?"

"Where is there no resentment?"

"In the end, the court pays money to support them, and occasionally when the green and yellow are not accepted, I have to pay silver from the inner treasury to subsidize them, but how can they make me feel happy when they act like this?"

"I can't ...... it"

"Even if you have resentment, you can't hate it."

Zhu Ming got up and changed his words and said, "I said something from my heart......"

“……”

Luo Congee was stunned, but he still listened patiently.

"When I was young, I didn't have any playmates except for Aiqing and you by my side, even those uncles were also very weak, one was that they saw too little in the fiefdom on weekdays, and the other was that they were not optimistic that I could sit in that position......

"But only my second uncle, who has been in the capital, often enters the palace, I have also seen a lot of faces, at that time I had a hard time in the palace, and only his unscrupulous temperament had the courage to help me say two good words in front of my father......"

Zhu Ming recalled that although it was many years ago, it was not difficult to hear the intimacy.

"I'm not blind or deaf, and I know that he has done a lot of business in the city, but he doesn't have much influence on the country, so I just turn a blind eye and close one eye......

"I see......"

Luo Congee nodded silently when he heard this.

But there was no wavering in my heart,

The two talked for a long time,

When Luo Congee left the palace, it was late.

……

Yinshi,

Luo Fu,

"Take the price of grain in the land of Gyeonggi today to the official."

Before Luo Congee returned home and had no time to eat, he sent someone to find Bai Xiaosheng, who also took out a few pieces of paper from his sleeve to calculate the price of grain.

"Qingqi Valley Dou to 17 Wen, Doumi to 57 Wen...... In just three days, food prices have risen by more than 70 percent? ”

After reading the paper, Luo Congee's heart suddenly sank a lot.

"Ninety percent of the price of oil in the city?"

"Vegetables and fruits have risen by seventy?"

"Lamb, pork...... Meat prices directly doubled? ”

When Luo Congee finished reading these pages,

The heart has sunk to the bottom.

"Back to Lord Luo, this is still in the case that the grain shops in the city have not run out of food, and the supply is still intermittent, I am afraid that the price of food will directly double in a day or two, and the price of cabbage can also be sold for meat."

"When the city is completely starved of food, I am afraid that it will be possible to raise it tenfold......

Bai Xiaosheng replied.

"Tut-tut......"

Luo Congee also smacked his tongue secretly when he heard the sound, and the ghost in his mind recalled the three years in his previous life.

"Have you collected the list of people involved?"

Luo Congee continued to ask,

"Lord Huiyu, I have collected all of them, except for Prince Nashuo, there are more than 50 high-ranking officials involved in this matter, including two people from the household department, and several people from the Yali of Shangjing Mansion, and most of the remaining officials are officials in the yamen of various places in Gyeonggi Land."

Bai Xiaosheng continued: "Do you want to close the net now? ”

"Let's wait."

"According to my great departure from the law, the price of food is raised during the war, and the officials involved in their cases are enough to lose their heads ten times......"

"But it's still a bit hot to cut off the prince's head......"

Luo Congee recalled Zhu Ming's words, suppressed the urge to kill with a knife in his heart, and said: "Since they want to die, they must be allowed to die neatly, and no one should be missed." ”

……

Seven days later,

Luo Congee still got up early in the morning, and he didn't eat breakfast in the house recently, but took advantage of the gap in the previous dynasty to personally investigate in the streets, and find a shop to solve the problem of eating.

"Let's eat here today."

Luo Congee looked at the steamed bun shop not far away and stopped, if he remembered correctly, when the price of food rose seven days ago, this shop was still doing very good business, and there were a few small people to help out, which showed its taste.

Now it is indeed a door, and the storefront that originally had several large drawers of steamed buns is now only steamed for a few cages, and the little guy who helped is gone.

"What are you eating, my lord?"

Far away, the shopkeeper of the small shop greeted him diligently, in the past, the shops were all small people, where was there such a big man to come, although he couldn't recognize this python robe, but he also knew that this person was either rich or expensive.

I didn't know where I found a brand new white cloth and wiped the table vigorously, and asked with a smile on my face while wiping it hard.

"Two baskets of fresh meat packets, two bowls of soy milk."

Luo Congee said loudly, and Bai Xiaosheng next to him also ordered one.

"Gotcha!"

The latter heard the fart and prepared the buns.

"My lord, you eat and drink well,"

The shopkeeper personally took the tray and put down the esophagus.

"Not bad."

Luo Congee lifted the white cloth on the top and the aroma suddenly hit, and after the water vapor dissipated, the twelve folds of xiaolongbao were piled up in the turquoise bamboo cage, which looked very gratifying.

It seems that the shopkeeper has also spent a lot of effort recently, and even the food is much more exquisite, but the business is still sluggish, and there are only people at his own table in the store.

"Your Excellency."

Seeing this, Bai Xiaosheng casually took out a grain of two taels of broken silver from his sleeve and threw it over.

"Little, thank you, adult!"

After the shopkeeper took the money, he smiled happily, and regardless of whether anyone came, he went straight to the door of the store and hung up a sign that was closed for today.

The little people in the market also have their own ways to make a living, and now that the nobles are here, naturally no one will disturb the purity of the nobles.

"Straight thief,"

After hanging up the sign,

The shopkeeper took out a bench and sat down at the door, took out the abacus and tapped the income of the past few days, and his face fell again, the business is not good these days.

After living for so many years, the reason is also saved, the Northern Expedition failed, and the ups and downs of grain prices in the city were also expected, but for some reason it rose so fast, and it has increased several times in just ten days.

"His grandmother's, let no one live."

The shopkeeper snorted lightly at the thought of this, and continued to calculate, if the price of food did not come down, it was not said that he was doing business and selling steamed buns, or he could not afford to buy the rice and noodles that his family ate, or it would not be long before he would have to go to the city to grab the roots and turf of the trees.

"Are all the grain shops in the city closed?"

Luo Congee looked at the row of stores with the closed door opposite the store and asked, I can't eat enough, and other livelihoods naturally can't be done, and if you look closely, the pedestrians on the street are also in a hurry, with vegetables on their faces.

"Returning to your lordship."

"Most of the more than 800 grain shops in the 1028 squares in Shangjing City have been closed, and the grain released by the government is also as the four major merchants said, and they have been bought out at a high price five days ago, and only the remaining more than 10 grain shops with deep backgrounds are still selling, but the price is ......."

"As for those counties outside the capital, they were all closed the day before yesterday, and even if they have money, they can't buy food."

"Even those farmer families, the surplus grain at home, in the end, did not resist the temptation of high prices, and they were all sold......"

Bai Xiaosheng wanted to speak and stopped.

"You've got to such a field?"

"Waiting, sir."

"Someone will quote the price of today's food later."

"Hmm."

Luo Congee took a bite of the bun full of juice and felt tasteless, so he simply waited quietly.

"Your Excellency, please take a look."

Not long after,

Two of them brought up the price of today's grain.

"Qingqi Valley Dou to sixty-two Wen, Dou Mi to two hundred and sixteen Wen...... In 10 days, it has risen more than sevenfold......"

"Heh......"

"After all, I still underestimate them......"

Luo Congee took a deep breath and said.

"The lower official estimates that at most, after today, the grain shops in the city will also be closed......

Bai Xiaosheng also sighed and said.

"It looks like it can't be delayed......"

"If you drag it any longer, you'll starve to death......"

"It's time to count the heat......"

"Send this price list to the palace."

"Let Your Majesty be prepared before you start."

Luo Congee swallowed the steamed buns in the cage with a few bites of soy milk.

"The official is also full,"

"It's time to kill people too......"

……

"Your Majesty,"

"This is an excerpt handed over by Lord Luo, saying that the situation is urgent, so the old slave took matters into his own hands and sent it in......"

Cao Zhengchun looked at Zhu Ming, who was still having breakfast, and bowed.

"Well, I'll take a look."

Zhu Ming put down the chopsticks in his hand when he heard the sound, but just after taking a look, the whole person was completely stunned, and the incomparably exquisite breakfast in front of him was also tasteless.

"This ......"

"Is that true?"

Zhu Ming handed the price list in his hand to Cao Zhengchun,

Manyan asked sluggishly.

"Back to Your Majesty, as far as the old slave knows, it should not be fake."

"Then why haven't I heard of it?"

Zhu Ming didn't have the heart to eat when he heard the sound, although he didn't know this way, he also knew what it meant that the price of food had risen to this point.

"Such a blatant increase in food prices, in just ten days, has reached such a point, during which there is no one who plays in me?"

"Isn't there anyone looking for it?"

Zhu Ming suddenly flipped over the table and asked sharply.

"Your Majesty, it's not that there is no one, but you don't dare to ......"

Seeing this, Cao Zhengchun hurriedly knelt down in the tunnel.

"Ridiculous, ridiculous!"

"Why don't you dare under the feet of the world in the land of Gyeonggi?"

"Who did this?"

"He can know that the guards in Jinyi can know, could it be that your fans in the East Factory are all dry rice?"

Zhu Ming stared at Cao Zhengchun with a torch in his eyes.

"Return, Your Majesty, the old slave doesn't dare to say ......"

Cao Zhengchun gritted his teeth and said.

"Bastard minion!"

"I commanded you!"

Zhu Ming said angrily: "No matter who did this, I will cut off his head!" ”

"Your Majesty......"

"The person behind this is Prince Shuo."

Seeing this, Cao Zhengchun had no choice, and a few traces of struggle flashed in his eyes before he spoke.

“……”

Zhu Ming's chest rose and fell when he heard this.

"Crackling ......"

"This old disrespectful bastard thing!"

After Cao Zhengchun's voice fell,

The head was buried dead on the ground.

I only heard a crackling sound,

and Zhu Ming's angry curses,

"Hoo ......"

"Do you have proof?"

I don't know how long I've been venting,

Zhu Ming calmed down and looked at Cao Zhengchun and said.

"The old slave has not, and does not dare to collect evidence......"

"Hoo ......"

"That's it,"

"Send someone to his house immediately to inform him."

Zhu Ming said coldly.

"The Old Slave Receives the Order......"

"Remember, be quick, be sure to rush before the morning court!"

Zhu Ming calmed down, and also recalled what Luo Congee asked him a few days ago, he still didn't understand in his heart, he had already set his eyes on this person, but there was no way, what he said in person, after he was released from prison, for those who were not conducive to the country, let him use his own way to deal with them, and it was absolutely impossible to change the order.

"And one more point!"

"Send some more,"

"Give back all the money in his house."

"Don't leave a tael of silver in the house."

Zhu Ming spoke up again.

"I hope so,"

"I don't want to kill you, you should be more interesting......"

……

"Your Majesty, the ...... has been arranged"

Not long after,

Cao Zhengchun returned to Zhu Ming's side to report.

"Hmm."

"Let's go, you go with me, I have to go over and think about how to clean up this mess."

Zhu Ming got up and said.

"Your Majesty, there is one more thing about the old slave."

Cao Zhengchun said as he took out a few land deeds from his arms and handed them over.

"What do you mean by that?"

Zhu Ming looked at the things that Cao Zhengchun handed over and was stunned.

"Back to Your Majesty, these are all old slaves, the property that they bought in the city earlier, I thought that when I was older, when I couldn't serve Your Majesty, I would leave the palace to find a right food and enjoy the blessings, but thinking about the situation in the capital now, I also broke this thought, and after selling it, it would be good to fill in more."

"The old slave also knows the taste of an empty stomach, one or two people can't eat enough to get in the way, but if millions of people in Gyeonggi can't eat, the world will be in chaos......"

"The old slave doesn't have the ability to make the world stable, but he doesn't want to see His Majesty worried."

Speaking of which,

Cao Zhengchun took out a few silver tickets of different denominations from his arms and handed them over: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the silver you allocated to Dongchang is from the yamen of Dongchang, the old slave, you are definitely not greedy for a tael of silver." ”

"Some of them were accumulated by the old slave in the early years, and the remaining large amount of silver tickets, and the old slave was also recently promoted to the overseer of the East Factory, so he received a lot of filial piety money below, and the old slave took it and didn't know much, but it was also excellent to make the capital more stable."

Cao Zhengchun said sincerely.

"Well, I'll take it!"

Zhu Ming clutched the silver tickets tightly.

"In the end, it is still the most loyal ...... of their own minions"

Zhu Ming patted Cao Zhengchun's shoulder with relief and said, but as soon as he turned around and remembered the bastard things that Prince Nashuo had done, the anger in his chest was even more difficult to suppress.

"After waiting for the court, I will definitely ask for it in person!"

"Why is he so presumptuous!"

Zhu Ming said with a gloomy face.

……

"Why, just because this king is also surnamed Zhu!"

Prince Shuo said in a loud voice.

"What are you dog slaves doing?"

"If you go to the court, you will go to the court, what kind of silver will you carry?"

Prince Shuo kicked the leader of the stall and asked.

"Fuck, you're going to rebel?"

"Don't you see what kind of place this is?"

"Lord, this is what Your Majesty meant......"

The head of the Dongchang stall said helplessly, if it were other ministers, it would be fine, no matter how high his official position was, he would not be afraid, but this person didn't dare to really do anything when he stopped in front, after all, his surname was Zhu, and Dongchang was essentially a slave of the Zhu family.

"Lord Wang, you are doing this,"

"I'm afraid it's not good to explain to Your Majesty."

The head of the Dongchang stall said bitterly.

"Afraid?"

"Afraid of what?"

"Who else dares to impeach this king in the court?"

"Your Majesty can still cut off the head of his second uncle?"

Prince Shuo pulled his neck and shouted, if it had been earlier, there might have been a possibility of stopping, but now the treasury was already full of gold that the other party had prepaid.

Once these are handed over, not only will they not confess themselves, but they will not be held responsible, but the busy work of these days will also be empty, how can they be willing to give up.

"Someone!"

"I'm good for this king!"

"It's not easy to come without the king's order!"

Seeing that those fans were unwilling to leave, Prince Shuo simply summoned the guards of the palace and guarded them in front of the treasury. Earlier, he was still a little sane, but now it is the golden mountain that has lost his mind.

"Lord Wang, don't be obsessed......"

"Hmph, don't talk nonsense!"

"Remember, trespassers are unforgiving!"

"But this king wants to see who has the courage to testify against this king."

With that, Prince Shuo walked out the door.

"By the way, call the prince and the heirs of this king together, speaking of which, since the eldest brother of this king, the first emperor, left, Your Majesty has not seen you cousins and cousins for a long time, and today I happened to accompany this king to meet Your Majesty."

Arrival,

Prince Shuo felt that it was not safe enough, what if there was really someone who didn't open his eyes to impeach him, he actually called a whole family directly, since he wanted to play the emotional card, he simply played it thoroughly, His Majesty couldn't kill all his family and relatives in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, right?

……

Suzaku Street,

Prince Shuo led a large group of people to the palace gate, and although the forbidden army guarding the city was extremely curious when they saw this, they did not dare to stop it.

It was also quite surprising that there was a large family of people in the court, but according to the etiquette, they were also qualified to go to the court, and they didn't ask much, and the officials who vaguely guessed what was going on were even more silent.

"If you have something to do, you have nothing to do!"

"The minister has his own music."

The eunuch's voice just fell,

Luo Congee walked out of the ranks,

"What's going on?"

Zhu Ming looked at Luo Congee who walked out of the ranks,

I also chuckled in my heart.

"As far as the minister knows, the price of grain in Beijing is now ...... The people behind the scenes, the ministers have also been investigated, and His Majesty is invited to take a look. ”

Luo Congee said,

He handed over a fold with a person's name written on it.

"Hoo ......"

As Zhu Ming expected, the first name on the top was Prince Shuo, but what he didn't expect was that there were dozens of officials behind him, and there were people involved in the yamen from the household department to the Yamen in Gyeonggi.

"Your Majesty, according to the law of my great departure, there is a clear basis for conviction of those who raise prices and hoard grain and grass in wartime,"

"Whoever makes a profit of more than five hundred taels of silver will be punished with eighty rods!"

"Anyone who has made a profit of more than three thousand taels of silver will be imprisoned for seven years!"

"Those who have made a profit of more than 5,000 taels of silver will be decided!"

"Those who have made a profit of more than 10,000 taels of silver will be cut all over the door!"

"Those who have made a profit of more than 100,000 taels of silver ......"

"I don't know, Prince Shuo, together with all the lords and the four major merchant gangs, how profitable is it to short the grain price of the entire Gyeonggi land?"

"How many more heads are enough to chop off?"

Luo Congee shouted sharply, and his tone was extremely cold.

The temperature of the entire hall seemed to be much colder with the words of Luo Congee, and several ministers unconsciously swayed when they heard the voice, and even more directly collapsed to the ground, and the rest of the magistrates were not qualified to participate in the daily court, but they did not encounter this scene.

"You yellow-mouthed boy,"

"How dare you criticize this king like this?"

Prince Shuo was shocked and angry when he heard this,

But I still bite the bullet.

"Oh?"

"Criticism?"

"Then please listen to Prince Shuo."

Speaking of which,

Luo Congee took out a piece of paper from his arms again.

"At noon ten days ago, the people of the four major merchant gangs entered the mansion of Prince Shuo, and did not walk out until the end of the day, during which the cashier was 580,000 taels ......."

"Nine days ago, the four major merchant gangs sent people to send 640,000 taels of silver into the house, and before the eighth day, the four major merchant gangs sent people to send 790,000 taels of silver into the house......"

Keeping this in mind,

Prince Shuo's face was already pale.

"As of today,"

"A total of 6,320,000 taels of cashiers."

Luo Congee still read it unhurriedly.

"I don't know, Prince Shuo,"

"Would you like to be more detailed?"

Luo Congee jokingly said: "Prince Shuo, don't forget our Jinyiwei's ability to eat." ”

"Prince Shuo, do you have anything else to say?"

Luo Congee pressed step by step.

"Your Majesty,"

"Your Majesty,"

"Your Majesty, the minister is confused for a while!"

Prince Shuo knew that there was no refutation of the ironclad evidence, and he also knew that the character of the person in front of him had no room for detours, so he directly knelt on the ground and climbed to the steps under the dragon chair.

If it is true according to the law,

Even if you have a hundred heads, you won't be able to cut them off.

He also knows very well,

Only one can save himself at the moment,

"Where's the silver?"

Zhu Ming was also extremely shocked when he heard this, he didn't expect that in just ten days, he had earned the accumulation of hundreds of years for most of the family's gate valves, and the anger in his heart had reached the extreme, as if he had already moved to kill.

"All in the treasury of the king's house......"

"You really don't know how to write dead words!"

Zhu Ming got up and walked in front of Prince Shuo and shouted, he has been on the throne for a long time, and he has cultivated that momentum, which erupted like a flood beast at this moment, and it should not be underestimated.

Several cousins and cousins beside him suffered from this unwarranted disaster, and they fell to their knees directly with pale faces.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

"Your Majesty, you are angry......"

Prince Shuo also woke up from a dream at this moment, kneeling in front of Zhu Ming, crying tears and snot.

"You're damned!"

Zhu Ming looked at Prince Shuo, who was holding his thighs and crying bitterly, and squeezed out this sentence from between his teeth.

"Your Majesty, you beat me, you scolded me......"

When Prince Shuo heard this, he was like being struck by lightning, and in a panic, he grabbed Zhu Ming's hand and greeted him in the face regardless of the difference between the monarch and the minister, and the latter was indeed unmoved.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty,"

"Isn't it just a few million taels of silver......

"Otherwise, the minister will go to the ancestral hall and kneel......"

Prince Shuo panicked.

"Kneeling?"

"Kneeling?"

"Heh......"

"Do you know how much I have suffered for the sake of a few million taels of silver in your mouth......

"You can get over with a light kneeling?"

Zhu Ming laughed at himself.

"Why don't you put all the silver into the treasury and go back to the fiefdom immediately?"

"You're going to die!"

Zhu Ming put aside Prince Shuo's hand and said coldly.

The latter was stunned when he heard this, and even the heirs with him collapsed to the ground weakly as if their backbones had been removed.

"Your Majesty, according to the law of the great separation......"

Luo Congee still refuses to spare.

"More than six million taels of silver, Prince Shuo should be ......"

Luo Congee paused, naturally did not speak, but changed his words and said, "It is not too much to want to kill only Prince Shuo today and these people who entered the court with him." ”

"Aiqing, why do you ......"

"Isn't his head, along with dozens of officials' heads, enough?"

Zhu Ming turned around and looked at the young man with burning eyes.

"Not enough!"

Luo Congee said categorically.

"When the minister is released from prison, you have a word first."

Luo Congee said loudly.

"I ......"

"I ......"

Zhu Ming looked at the young man who was wearing a python robe and was full of anger, and then looked at the family relatives who collapsed to the ground, and their hearts were extremely annoyed.

"Your Majesty......"

"There are moths of these nations...... The country will not be a country, could it be that his family's surname is more important than this country? ”

Luo porridge is quiet.

"Jiangshan Sheji ......"

"The ...... of the Nation's Moths"

"That's it, that's it, you can deal with it......"

Zhu Ming was silent for a long time when he heard this,

Finally, he waved his sleeves and walked back to the dragon chair.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty......"

"Minister, damn it, but ......"

Prince Shuo knew that his death was hopeless, and he kept kowtowing, and his originally white forehead had a lot of bruises and swelling, and he looked at the innocent heirs beside him and couldn't wait to slap himself a few times.

"Minister, Commander!"

"Escort the offender out first."

"Take Prince Shuo and his family together."

Luo Congee really ignored it and ordered in a deep voice.

"Let's execute outside the noon gate, and let the rest of you see the blood, lest you forget how to write the word "death", and think about what will happen before doing things. ”

Luo Congee said to the leader of the forbidden army.

"Bang ......"

The first to be beheaded were the prisoners in the court.

The sound of the head hitting the ground heard Prince Shuo's heart pounding, and the crying of the heirs beside him broke the last line of defense in his heart.

"The rest of these people."

"Let's do it yourself."

Luo Congee pushed away the executioner who was about to be executed.

"Bang ......"

"Father, I don't want to die......"

"Bang ......"

The sound of crying and crying in my ears,

has turned into a hysterical wail,

When you reach the last man,

Luo porridge is covered with blood,

"Prince Shuo,"

"This official pities you for kowtowing so many times today."

Luo Congee looked at Prince Shuo, who was full of green bags, leaned over to his ear and whispered: "According to the number of green bags swollen on your forehead, leave a corresponding grave for you and your heirs." ”

"Bang ......"

Heads fly,

The blood flowed like an infusion,

I don't know if it's because of the high blood pressure of fat people, the blood spurting out of Prince Shuo's neck is actually higher than that of Xie Shilang on the previous day.

"Well, this Zhu family's blood ......"

"It doesn't seem to be any different from ordinary people......

Luo Congee looked at the corpse that fell to the ground,

Licking the blood stains on the embroidered spring knife, he muttered to himself.

(End of chapter)