This emperor is too strong!

Chapter 197 The Other World

The next day, the Royal Garden.

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

Listening to the flattering call of the golden-headed parrot and seeing the golden-headed parrot nodding and bowing to please, several concubines covered their mouths and snickered.

"Your Majesty, this little Jinzi really got the true biography of Lai Shilang, and he will definitely make people happy."

Gu Ruoyun giggled, and at the same time stretched out her hand to tease the golden-headed parrot, which attracted another wave of compliments.

"The empress is so beautiful, the empress is so beautiful~"

Wanyan Yaoyao curled her lips and said softly: "Compared to its owner, it is far behind."

"I heard from Sister Wan'er that Lai Yongqing is the most greedy person in history! There are twelve secret vaults where all kinds of money, primordial stones, jewelry, spirit brew and other treasures are hidden, with a total value of more than [-] million taels gold!"

"This doesn't include calligraphy and paintings, antiques, formation disks, land deeds, and other rare treasures of inestimable value. If everything is counted together, I'm afraid there will be [-] million taels of gold!"

Hearing this, the other concubines who didn't know the inside story were shocked and gasped.

"Six hundred million taels of gold? That's equivalent to 60 prime primordial stones! God, such a number is simply unimaginable..."

"That's right. In the past, my annual tax in Daxia was only 3000 million taels, and last year's tax was only about 6000 million taels of gold. This is equivalent to my tax in Daxia for ten years!"

"It's really scary when you think about it, but it's not unacceptable that Lai Yongqing cheated most of the huge family fortunes of the nobles of the five countries."

"My Great Xia now dominates the land of the Six Kingdoms. If we take Qingqiu and Daliang again, then this year's taxes will be three to four billion taels of gold, right?"

"I can't stop thinking about it. Now Airbus has greatly accelerated business exchanges and market prosperity. In addition, there are no trade barriers, various restrictions, and intermediate links that consume costs. This year's taxes may also be [-] to [-] million. about."

"Speaking of which, although the unit of this statistic is gold, there are endless veins of primordial stones now, and primordial stones have already occupied a large part of the money system. In the future, it may be more appropriate to use primordial stones to measure."

"These are the affairs of the court officials, we should not worry about them."

All the concubines were talking softly, but Xia Ao just listened quietly without speaking.

However, there is a saying that is correct. After the world is unified, the measurement and statistics system does need to be reformed.

Just like Lai Yongqing's huge wealth, the proportion of gold, silver and copper coins is actually very small, and most of them are Yuanshi.

And now that the vitality of the world is becoming more and more intense, the emergence of primordial stone veins may gradually increase, and the foundation of primordial stones as a mainstream currency has initially stabilized.

Speaking of Lai Yongqing, Xia Ao was also quite emotional.

At the beginning, he chose to train Lai Yongqing, in fact, it was a casual chess game on a whim. He originally had the mentality of reaping a small amount of domineering value, but he did not expect that this guy is so courageous...

Through Lai Yongqing, he at least squeezed out [-]% of the wealth of the nobles of the five countries, and he didn't have to bear any infamy.

Such a good business, who can not like it?

But at the moment, Lai Yongqing's mission has to come to an end.

Otherwise, if the people he recommended are really allowed to sit firmly in those seats and spread their power, not to mention how many hidden dangers will be left behind, at least they will have to go to war to make the already unstable Xinde Land come back again. There was confusion.

Weighing the pros and cons, it is most appropriate for Lai Yongqing to end his mission at this time.

Just as Xia Ao was meditating secretly, Zhao Gao walked over with his head bowed.

"Report to Your Majesty, please see the bad guy."

"Oh? Yuan Qing is back? Xuan."

Xia Ao raised his eyelids and nodded with a smile.

"Yes."

Not long after, Yuan Tiangang appeared quickly.

"His Majesty."

"Well, tell me, has anyone ever found it?"

Hearing this, a look of embarrassment appeared on Yuan Tiangang's face.

"Return to Your Majesty, not yet..."

"No?"

Xia Ao frowned slightly.

Yuan Tiangang gritted his teeth, and said bravely: "Your Majesty, according to careful investigation, I suspect that Chu Lixuan may have disappeared from Tiannan..."

"Disappeared from Tiannan?"

Xia Ao narrowed his eyes, thoughtful.

"You mean, he might have left Tiannan in an unknown way?"

Yuan Tiangang nodded solemnly, and said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, I know that this matter is indeed a bit bizarre, but according to the torture of the last prisoner who saw Chu Lixuan and the place where Chu Lixuan disappeared last To investigate, I think this is the greatest possibility."

"Tell me in detail."

Xia Ao didn't get angry, but became interested.

"Yes!"

Yuan Tiangang breathed a sigh of relief, organized his language and began to speak.

"The last person who saw Chu Lixuan and survived was Ge Hui, the captain of Chu Lixuan's personal guard who was in charge of guarding the team outside the tent. According to Ge Hui, after the generals discussed the matter, Chu Lixuan His emotions were depressed and desperate for a while, and he even broke many things in the tent alone."

"And before the start of the war, there seemed to be a mysterious fluctuation appearing from the commander's account."

"It's just that the fluctuation was very obscure and weak, and no one else noticed it. He also thought that he was hallucinating, or that Chu Lixuan was still venting, so he didn't care about it at the time, and he didn't dare to ask."

"After our army's Jinpeng battleship bombarded the Chu army's camp from the air, Chu Lixuan once came out."

"At that time, although Chu Lixuan's expression was very ugly, it lacked despair."

"When the bombardment was over, Chu Lixuan suddenly called Ge Hui in, and asked Ge Hui to present the secret talisman plate up, sending a certain message out."

"Ge Hui doesn't know what Chu Lixuan wrote and who it was sent to. However, according to the siege of the secret lair where Chu Lixuan kept the dead men last night, we have confirmed that Chu Lixuan's order was passed on to these people , the content is to assassinate the Empress Dowager Chu Mi Yan!"

"Chu Lixuan has always coveted the Empress Dowager Chu. He didn't want the Empress Dowager Chu...to step into our Imperial Capital of Great Xia, so he sent someone to assassinate him. Obviously, he wanted to destroy the Empress Dowager Chu if she couldn't get it!"

Having said that, Yuan Tiangang paused for a while, and secretly glanced at Xia Ao.

Seeing Xia Ao's expressionless face, he continued to speak.

"The most important thing is that Ge Hui noticed that there was a black to purple strange rock on Chu Lixuan's desk. The fluctuations felt outside the account are consistent!"

"Out of curiosity, Ge Hui took a closer look and felt an amazing suction force from above, as if the strange rock was an extremely deep black hole that could pull his consciousness into it."

"Ge Hui was frightened and didn't dare to look around. Then, Chu Lixuan gave him an order - let him burn the commander's tent in a quarter of an hour."

"Although Ge Hui was puzzled, he just thought that there was some secret way hidden under the handsome tent. Chu Lixuan wanted to escape through this illusion, so he did it honestly."

"But when the battle was over and Ge Hui was escorted to the scene, no trace of the secret passage was found. Chu Lixuan and the strange rock all disappeared strangely."

Hearing this, several concubines were stunned, while Xia Ao was thoughtful.

"You mean, that strange rock may be a powerful treasure that can open up some kind of space channel and transport people to other places?"

Seeing Yuan Tiangang nod his head heavily, Xia Ao frowned slightly.

"But how can you be sure that he was not teleported to other places in Tiannan, but was directly teleported out of Tiannan?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, I actually dare not be 100% sure about this."

Yuan Tiangang responded in a solemn voice with a calm expression.

"However, I traced the origin of Chu Lixuan's disappearance according to Liu Ren's method of derivation, and as a result, I captured an extraordinary aura."

"The essence of this kind of breath is still Yuanli, but it is very strange, and it is very different from Tiannan's Yuanli. Therefore, I suspect that Chu Lixuan used the strange stone to connect a world that is completely different from Tiannan, and it is very different from Tiannan's Yuanli. It is possible to go there!"

After listening to Yuan Tiangang's analysis, Xia Ao pondered for a while, finally chuckled, got up and paced slowly.

"interesting."

"If you look at it from another angle, this is not a bad thing. Tiannan has been a lost place for a very long time, and there has never been a channel to communicate with the outside world."

"But this Chu Lixuan has opened a hole in this absolutely closed barrier. Maybe he can bring a channel to the outside world? Hehe..."

Yuan Tiangang frowned slightly, but there was a look of worry on his face.

"Your Majesty, if this is the truth, and Chu Lixuan can come back again, then what he brings may not necessarily be hope, but more likely to be disaster..."

"It doesn't matter, soldiers come to block, water comes to cover."

Xia Ao shook his head, calmly.

"As long as you are strong enough, it doesn't matter if he comes from a demon or a Buddha, anyone who dares to be a monster will be given the head!"

……

Dali Temple Prison, Heavy Prison Area.

Lai Yongqing's hair was unkempt, his body was stained with blood, and he was no longer the glamor and luxury of the past.

At a certain moment, the heavy prison door suddenly opened, and a figure walked in slowly.

Shocked, Lai Yongqing shrank back instinctively, only then did he dare to look up cautiously.

After seeing the person coming, Lai Yongqing's lips trembled suddenly, and tears of excitement left in his eyes.

"Zhao Zhangdian, Zhao Zhangdian, you are finally here! Wuwu...I knew it, I knew His Majesty would not ignore me..."

Lai Yongqing burst into tears and got up quickly, his eyes full of hope.

"Zhao Zhangdian, please tell your majesty that this minister is guilty, but he still has an effect on your majesty, and this minister has thought of a wonderful idea to earn a lot of wealth for your majesty..."

Zhao Gao shook his head slowly, his eyes full of pity.

"Lai Shilang, do you still have the face to plead with His Majesty? In the past six months, you have used His Majesty's favor to bluff and cheat everywhere, and put most of the wealth into your own pockets. You are really big. ..."

"No, Zhao Zhangdian, listen to me, no matter how you say it, I have worked hard without credit, and all I have done is..."

Lai Yongqing turned pale, and hurriedly defended himself.

However, Zhao Gao was not in the mood to talk nonsense with him.

"All right!"

"Lai Shilang, His Majesty didn't care much about your small actions, and he trusted and favored you in every possible way. But who made you so greedy? You are really tired of living if you dare to swallow His Majesty's wealth!"

"How do you think you survived the assassination by the killer sent by Chu Lixuan when you came back from your mission to Dachu?"

"If His Majesty hadn't ordered the strong man in my net to protect you secretly, how could you still be alive today? Hmph!"

"Your Majesty treats you so kindly, but you are so heartless, you really want to die!"

"Okay, don't waste your time talking anymore, just prepare to go on the road with peace of mind."

"However, His Majesty still misses your contribution, so he will leave a bloodline for you, so that you will not be completely cut off."

After saying that, Zhao Gao turned around and left in Shi Shiran, leaving Lai Yongqing limp on the ground with ashen face.

(End of this chapter)