After the marriage, the cousin was spoiled by the whole family of the Marquis's Mansion

Chapter 218: Settlement of Accounts after Autumn
Rong Linggao pulled him and wanted to get on the carriage.

Rong Lingkuan shook off his grip and said coldly, "There are many people trying to gain connections with me recently."

"There are so many uncles, aunts, and so on. Should I bring everyone with the last name Rong into the palace?!"

Just at this time, Ji Xing found Rong Lingkuan, "Sir! I finally found you!"

"Right now, the front door of our house is surrounded by Rong family members who are looking for their relatives. Today, the Second Prince came out of the palace to look for you, and he was almost injured by them! Now he is crying out of fear!"

Rong Lingkuan made a prompt decision, "Go find Brother Wei and drive all these troublemakers out of Yanjing! Those who don't listen will be arrested directly!"

As he was about to get in the car and go home to see Ji Rongan, he had just taken a step when his sleeve was pulled.

"I'm different from those fakes. I'm a real Rong family member. My name is Rong Linggao and yours is Rong Lingkuan. They were both given by my second uncle!"

Rong Linggao never expected that there would actually be someone who dared to pretend to be a relative of the Queen.

But he is real!
His father said that when his second uncle went to Beijing to take the imperial examination, it was he who collected the travel expenses!

Rong Lingkuan thought that Ji Rongan was frightened by people like him, so he pulled back his sleeves.

"Two days ago there was a guy called Rong Ling Zhai, today there's a Rong Ling Gao, and tomorrow there will be another Rong Ling Short. Do I have to recognize them all?!"

Jixing is in the mansion every day, dealing with such people every day.

At first he was afraid that he was really a relative of the Queen, so he treated him to delicious food and drinks.

As a result, the number of “relatives” is increasing!
After reporting to the palace, I found out they were all liars!
Fortunately, the young masters did not live outside, otherwise, they would have been frightened like the Second Prince today!
Before Rong Linggao could say something, Rong Lingkuan and Jixing had already boarded the carriage and left!

He could only grit his teeth as he watched the carriage go away. He was obviously somewhat similar to Rong Lingkuan! Otherwise, why would the eldest princess keep him in the princess's mansion as her second uncle?
Yes! Meng Yunying!
Although Meng Yunying is no longer a princess, she is still bigger than a horse. When she is occasionally sober, she can still give him one or two thousand taels of silver!

As long as he finds the silver she hid, he will leave immediately!

But he searched everywhere and couldn't find it!

Thinking of this, he still walked towards the alley with disgust on his face. At least she couldn't die before he found the money.

When he walked into the alley, the wretched old men had already left.

Meng Yunying was lying naked on the ground, her eyes wide open and her mouth slightly open.

It seems like he's out of breath.

Rong Linggao thought something was wrong and put his hand under her nose, and sure enough, she was dead!
He jumped up with surprise.

As soon as he walked out of the alley, he met a patrolman.

The patrol noticed Rong Linggao's panicked look, "What are you doing?!"

Rong Linggao was shocked and ran away.

"stop!"

Two patrolmen quickly stepped forward and subdued him, and the other two patrolmen walked out of the alley with grim expressions.

"The former princess Meng Yunying has died."

The leader looked at Rong Linggao, sized him up and down, and chuckled, "I didn't expect you to have this ability."

Rong Linggao felt as if his life in the Princess's Mansion for more than ten years had been spied on, and he said angrily, "It's not me! I don't want such a disgusting old woman!"

The leader didn't listen to what he said, "Take him away!"

Rong Linggao immediately shouted, "Who dares to touch me? The Queen is my cousin!"

The leader directly stabbed the handle of the knife into his stomach, "Another one who wants to claim a relative! I'll let you see whether it's so easy to marry the Queen's relative!"

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More than half of the palace maids were dismissed from the harem. Almost all of them were old and had no hope of promotion. It would be better for them to take the money and return to their hometown to buy two pieces of land, become a landlord, and make a living.

Or local county officials would hire someone to raise their children, and maids from the palace would be in great demand.

It's better than staying in the palace.

The rest are those who have lost their families, or those who are young and beautiful and hope to climb onto the throne and fly to the branches of the family. Rong Peilan looked at the purchases and enthronements over the years, and received the quotas from the various palaces.

She has been doing the accounting for so many years, and she can tell at a glance how much water there is in it.

"I have no business dealing with the affairs of the previous dynasty."

"Now you are still fooling me, so blame me for being merciless."

She pointed to the new account book and said, "There are only seven masters in the palace now. In just one month, they have consumed five stone of rice!"

One of the young female officials knelt down and said, "Maybe, maybe it was written wrong..."

"Is it written wrong?" Rong Peilan threw the account book on the table and looked at the top of the female official's head.

"It should be one, one stone!"

Rong Peilan laughed angrily, "I remember the first day I met you, I told you not to fool me."

"Come here, drag him away and give him twenty strokes of the cane, and drive him out of the imperial city!"

The female official raised her head in shock, "Your Majesty, you can't do this to me!"

"My father is the Minister of Finance! Your Majesty has just established a new dynasty, so he needs the support of all officials. By doing this, you are chilling the hearts of all officials!"

Rong Peilan narrowed her eyes slightly, "Are you threatening me?"

"Minister of Revenue?" A cold voice came from the door.

A figure in a dark blue cross-collared robe walked in from the door.

The clothes he wore had been improved, and the new uniform was both dignified and light.

Ji Yunzhang snorted softly, "Why did the previous dynasty disappear? It's because there were too many evil spirits like you."

"Eunuch Qian, tell Lord Wei that the Minister of Revenue doesn't need to be released. The daughter of the Minister of Revenue..."

"Embezzlement, fraud, and insubordination. Throw her in there with her corrupt father."

The other ladies-in-waiting lowered their heads.

It’s not that the Queen Mother will not deal with it, but she wants to settle the score later.

Rong Peilan rubbed her brows tiredly. Each of them had eight hundred thoughts in their minds, and they were all directed at her.

Ji Yunzhang saw her somewhat tired face and thought, whether it was in Jinpeng or Zhaofeng.

She seldom looked so tired.

He looked at the kneeling female official on the ground, and his voice became even colder, "You can't even do such a small thing. If you don't want to do it, get out now while you still have money to take it!"

The female official kowtowed to the ground and said, "I dare not."

These female officials had some background to some extent, and Eunuch Qian was just a eunuch in charge of the Imperial Study, and he had suffered a lot of bullying in the past.

He bowed and gently scolded, "You have no sense, get out of here now."

The female officials bowed and fled out hurriedly.

Ji Yunzhang stepped forward and skillfully placed his hands on her shoulders, kneading and massaging her.

"Madam, next month, all the troops will be ready to go."

Rong Peilan turned around and looked at him, "So fast?"

She knew that this was a thorn in his heart, not just the invasion of the Western Jin Dynasty.

Ji Yunzhang nodded, "I have been waiting for many years. I not only want to take the lost city."

His eyes sparkled, "We will also annex the Western Jin Dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)