Honglou: This bastard is too persuasive.

Chapter 498 How to Build the Grand View Garden Without Money
While Jia Huan was waiting to watch the fun, other people in Rongguo Mansion were in gloom. Although they had recovered the money this time, what they had recovered originally belonged to them, while the loss was real.

After everything was settled, Jia's mother called several of her confidants to ask them where the money had gone and whether they could come up with any clues. Unfortunately, no matter how Jia's mother asked, no one came up with any clues. It can be said that the money just disappeared out of thin air, and the old lady still couldn't accept it.

"That's something worth 150 million taels of silver. How could it just disappear like that? And the patrols didn't even notice it. It took at most a few hours. How could million taels of silver in my warehouse disappear? There's also a lot of silver in my daughter-in-law's warehouse, plus the silver brought from the Lin family in the big warehouse. All of it disappeared in an instant. Is this something that an ordinary person can do?"

His words just reminded the others. After hearing what the old lady said, those confidants suddenly had an idea and someone said.

"Old lady, I think this is something that ordinary people cannot do. To do this, there must be thousands of people, and they must clean up all traces afterwards. These people must be well-trained. The only ones who have these people are His Majesty and the Emperor Emeritus. So if this matter is really implemented and our palace really suffers such a huge loss, then the most likely person is one of them who took action."

"Although I don't know the reason, since it was the Emperor or the Retired Emperor who took action, it must be that we did something wrong in our mansion and they are keeping it in mind. So, old lady, you'd better think about how you have offended the Emperor or the Retired Emperor."

After this person said this, other people also spoke up. Basically, there was only one conclusion, that is, the emperor and the emperor emeritus must be behind this matter, and no one else had the ability to do it. After hearing their analysis, the old lady drove them away, and finally called Madam Wang over and repeated her subordinates' analysis to Madam Wang.

"What I just said, you also heard about this matter. No matter how you think about it, only your majesty and the emperor have this ability. If this matter was done by them, then there is a very important question here. Why did they do this?"

"If they didn't do it, who else could have done it?"

When the old lady said this, Mrs. Wang's shrine changed, and finally she sighed and said.

"Your idea is correct. To achieve this, there is really no one else except His Majesty and the Emperor. And we didn't do anything to them before. This is Lin Daiyu's property. They took action as soon as it was sent here. Not only did they take away all of Lin Daiyu's property, they also emptied our warehouses."

"Then there is only one possibility for this matter. His Majesty knows that we want to use our neighbor's property to build the Grand View Garden, so he is punishing us. Or maybe we did something that made His Majesty feel uncomfortable, so he took away all our money."

After Mrs. Wang finished speaking, the two of them fell silent, because they both felt a little guilty. After all, they had both done many things that made His Majesty look down on them, and among those stolen things, there were many that could cost them their lives. So at this moment, the two of them not only felt guilty, but also felt fear. Unfortunately, they could do nothing before those things appeared.

Besides, it was already a night ago, and anything that was supposed to happen would have happened long ago, so the two men were not overly worried. They just thought that this was a warning from the Emperor or the Emperor Emeritus to them, and since the things were taken away, they would not worry about anything else.

“No matter if it was done by the emperor or the emperor emeritus, since it has been a night and no action has been taken against us, it means that the matter has come to an end. So we should downplay this matter and not let people know that the money in our Rongguo Mansion has been stolen.” “So we should do as we said before and just say that the front desk of Rongguo Mansion was taken over by these farmers. We have found evidence this time, dealt with the farmers and recovered the front desk. We can just pretend that nothing happened. I’m afraid we can’t get the money back.”

When Lady Jia reached this point, she suddenly sighed and continued.

"Don't even think about getting the money back now. We only found out about 1.8 million taels of silver during the search of the servants' homes. All of them have been put into the big treasury, and at least 500,000 or 600,000 taels of silver are for Lin girl."

"In this case, a problem arises. Where can we get the front desk needed for the construction of the Grand View Garden? You must solve this problem. This is related to the glory of our Rongguo Mansion!"

The old lady didn't say what she had pulled into the warehouse, and Mrs. Wang at the front desk didn't say what she had done. They both tacitly agreed not to tell anyone about this matter.
After all, they had suffered huge losses before. If they didn't make up for it from the front desk seized this time, where else could they get the money?
It’s just that before, they still had Lin Daiyu’s front desk to make up for it. Now, being able to give Lin Daiyu the 500,000 or 600,000 taels that they had mentioned before is already their limit. They really have no way to deal with the rest.

The remaining hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the treasury can only cover the daily expenses of the Rongguo Mansion, so the construction of the Grand View Garden has now become the biggest problem.

If you want this honor, you must see the Grand View Garden, and if you want to build the Grand View Garden, you must have money. At this moment, Mrs. Wang gritted her teeth and said.

"Mother, this matter concerns the entire Jia family. Brother Zhen has already said that he is willing to pay 200,000 taels."

"Adding the 300,000 taels from the Jinling Jia family, we now have 500,000 taels. We can then ask those Yinqin families for more money. Otherwise, our Rongguo Mansion really won't be able to build this grand official garden."

"You also know that the construction of the Grand View Garden is related to Yuanchun's visit to her parents, and also to the glory of the Rongguo Mansion in the next few decades. This matter must be done, so next I still hope that you, the old lady, can take action in person. Let's not talk about other things first, get the money first, and we will start construction as soon as possible."

"I'll go back to find my brother and ask the Wang family to give as much money as possible. After all, the Jia family has contributed a lot to his current position over the years. Now it's time for him to contribute something to the Jia family."

"As for the Xue family, I will also ask them to contribute as much as possible. After all, the better our Jia family lives in the future, the more at ease they will be. Now is the time for them to contribute."

(End of this chapter)