King of Han Dynasty of Ming Dynasty

Listen to the two men's questioning.

Feeling the cold atmosphere exuding in the hall.

Xia Yuanji's face couldn't help but change, showing embarrassment and helplessness, and he had no choice but to bite the bullet and say:

"His Royal Highness, Prince of Han."

"Calm down. Calm down."

"Masters Rong, let me tell you the whole story in detail."

"This matter is definitely not what you two think."

"Old Chen will never put any money in the treasury into his own pocket."

"There is no problem of corruption."

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu and the Crown Prince frowned subconsciously.

Old Man Xia's words were undoubtedly not told to the two of them, and they confirmed Zhu Gaoxu's calculation just now. There was indeed no less than 40 million silver coins in the process that were unaccounted for.

But the answer was in the affirmative.

Needless to say, it goes without saying that such a huge amount of silver is needed. The two of them knew in their hearts that Old Man Xia would not have the guts to be corrupt, let alone pocket such a huge amount of silver.

After all, no one is a fool.
So much money!
Even people who are jealous of money would not dare to play like this.

Therefore, from the beginning to the end, although the words of the two of them were warning and coercion, they never doubted that Xia Yuanji was enriching himself.

The purpose was just to enable Xia Yuanji to tell the truth about the whereabouts of the silver coins.

While the two of them were curious, they couldn't help but have a bad premonition in their hearts. The figure of Emperor Yongle appeared in their minds, and they couldn't help but deeply doubted whether this old bastard was here. Are you holding back something bad and digging holes to cause trouble?

After all, Xia Yuanji had not embezzled so much money to enrich his own pockets.

The only person who could ask Xia Yuanji to withdraw so much silver from the Household Department was probably Zhu Di, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the actual helmsman of the Ming Dynasty.

Thinking of this, the two brothers Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaochi subconsciously looked at each other.

Just at this moment, Xia Yuanji's old voice sounded:

"Return to His Royal Highness, Prince of Han"

"Nearly 30% of the money from the last refined salt auction was directly transferred to His Majesty."

"As for where the silver ends up."

Xia Yuanji did not directly explain the rest.

But neither of them are fools.

Naturally, he understood that so much money must have been transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs by the old man.

Hey!
You really get whatever you want!

It turned out that Zhu Di was really causing trouble in the middle, doing things that were inappropriate for others.

This old bastard is really shameless. The imperial court managed to get so much silver to fill the national treasury, but this old bastard actually walked away with nearly 30% of the proceeds in one go.

After receiving the exact answer, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaochi almost couldn't help but curse.

For a moment, the faces of Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaochi turned gloomy and black as the bottom of a pot.

Zhu Laosi! Zhu Laosi!

Can you do some personnel work?

Don’t you know what’s going on with the Ming Dynasty’s treasury?

Don’t you know what the court will do next? Don’t know what plans to implement?
Which of these things does not cost huge sums of money and countless silver coins!

It's simply not an ordinary dog.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but think of the way the old man had left him alone and asked him for benefits after he and Xia Yuanji discussed wool profits in the royal study, looking like he was crying and begging.

He is obviously a man with a huge amount of money, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs is simply fat and oily. It can be said that there are few places in the Ming Dynasty where the Ministry of Internal Affairs has money.

As a result, money was still deducted from him.

Is it possible for humans to do this?
Thinking about Emperor Yongle's face at that time, he was simply disgusted.

This old bastard.
It is said that Xia Yuanji is Ming Dynasty's little abacus. Compared with Zhu Di, Xia Yuanji is simply not worthy of Zhu Di's shoes!
If he had known that this was the case, he would not have agreed to give even half of his profits to Zhu Di at that time.

And at this moment, Zhu Gaoxu was 100% sure that Zhu Di definitely did this on purpose, deliberately digging such a hole for him and letting him figure out his own solution.

I really want the horse to run, but I don’t want the horse to eat food and grass.

It's all up to your own means.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu became angrier and angrier. He hated Zhu Di so much that he wished he could immediately order people to call in war horses, catch up with Zhu Di non-stop, pull him back and let him clean up the mess.

And in this situation, even Zhu Gaoxu could figure it out, and the extremely smart prince standing by also guessed the 'mystery' in an instant, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart:
"Old man! Old man!"

"It's too cruel!"

"It's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. The old man is very ruthless in trapping people. His method of digging holes and burying people is simply hard to guard against."

At the same time, he was extremely happy in his heart and said:

"so far so good."

"In terms of matters here, fortunately he is not in charge of the country."

"Otherwise, if something like this happened, he would probably act like a Muggle. He would be stunned on the spot and not know what to do."

Thinking of this, the prince could not help but cast a pitiful look at the King of Han.

The feeling of meeting such an unreliable father cannot be described in words.

In this situation, Zhu Gaochi, who was very eloquent and very good at comforting people and smoothing things over, didn't know how to speak for a while. He couldn't comment too much on this matter, so the only thing he could do was remain silent. , let Zhu Gaoxu digest it slowly.

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After a long time, Zhu Gaoxu, whose face was as gloomy as water, let out a long breath. Fortunately, reason finally defeated his anger. He suppressed the anger in his heart, and finally resisted the temptation to ride a horse to chase Zhu Di and pull him back. thoughts.

There is no other reason.

Because he knew in his heart that doing something like that was unrealistic and impossible to succeed.

After a brief moment of silence, Zhu Gaoxu turned to Xia Yuanji and asked in a deep voice:
"Old man Xia! Old man Xia!"

"Aren't you a famous miser and stingy person in the Ming Dynasty, nor are you a soft-eared person?"

"Why. The old man wanted nearly 30% of the profit from you, why did you give it so happily?"

"How could you bear to see the money that was about to go into your own pocket fall into someone else's pocket?"

"Don't you think you should give me a reasonable explanation for this matter?"

"Ok?"

This statement came out.

Xia Yuanji trembled and looked at Zhu Gaoxu cautiously. He couldn't help but recall Zhu Di's words to coax him in his mind. The embarrassment was evident in his expression, and a hint of blush appeared on his old face.

He was stunned on the spot and opened his mouth several times. He didn't know how to answer this question for a long time.

The scene once again became awkward. (End of chapter)