I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 336 You should take the initiative to ask His Majesty to resign.
"This……"

Zhao Zhou and the others couldn't help but look embarrassed, but in the end Ni Kuan said shamelessly,
"Your Highness has ordered General Yang to send two groups of people to search for the Silver Mountain. If you can really find this Silver Mountain, Your Highness will have made a great contribution, and you should..."

Jin Midi immediately glanced over:
"Ni Nei Shi, do you believe this, or do you believe that I am Qin Shi Huang?"

"What do you mean, Captain Jin?"

Ni Kuan was stunned for a moment.

He had not had much contact with Jin Midi before, or rather, all the officials present had not had much contact with Jin Midi.

After all, when he was in Chang'an before, Jin Midi, as the son-in-law of the emperor, had been in an "invisible" state. Not many court officials had an impression of him, so there were very few people who had talked to Jin Midi. No one had ever thought that Jin Midi could actually say such unique and naughty words.

"Our trip originated from a dream of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. His Royal Highness once said that overseas is a fairyland with vast plains and swamps. The people living here are immortals and immortals who have no worries about food and clothing and are immune to all diseases."

Jin Midi said sternly,

"The results of it?"

"We only saw a few desolate islands and a group of short savages. What is the connection between these islands and the fairyland? What do these savages have in common with the immortals and the immortal people?"

"Do you superiors really intend to obtain the elixir of life from these savages?"

"..."

Everyone fell silent upon hearing this.

Just as Jin Midi said, this place was completely different from the dream Liu Ju had previously described in the inner court. This alone was enough to conclude that Liu Ju had probably deceived the emperor or had been deceived by the so-called "dream".

Therefore, the credibility of other descriptions should not be very high, including the so-called silver mountain that Liu Ju is looking for now.

That’s a mountain of silver!

Aren’t mountains of gold and silver things that only exist in ancient mythology? It seems that they also seem to be related to fairyland and immortals, right?
Now that it has been proven that the fairyland and the immortals do not exist at all, where did the silver mountain come from?

At this moment, Zhao Zhou suddenly raised his head:
"You can have this!"

"What do you mean by this is possible?"

Everyone looked at Zhao Zhou again.

"My idea is that the elixir of life can be found..."

Zhao Zhou lowered his voice and said,
"Hasn't it been confirmed that Xu Fu arrived on this island and was buried by the Nu Kingdom tribe after his death?"

"We can assume that before Xu Fu arrived at this island, he had seen immortals at sea and obtained the recipe for the elixir of life. However, there was no elixir required for the recipe on this island, so Xu Fu could not become an immortal. He had to hide the recipe, and then we found it by chance."

"If His Highness brings back a recipe like this..."

"Wait a minute!"

At this point, Yang Pu couldn't help but interrupt and said,
"If Your Highness brings back such a recipe, His Majesty will definitely try it immediately. If it has no effect after trying it, wouldn't Your Highness still be deceiving the emperor, and the crime would be much greater?"

"General Yang, please listen to me."

Zhao Zhou continued calmly,

"Do you know why His Majesty employs so many alchemists and is obsessed with alchemy with cinnabar?"

"That's because Li Shao Weng once told Your Majesty that if you can use cinnabar to refine gold, and use this gold to refine the golden elixir, you can become an immortal after taking it."

"However, after so many years, Your Majesty still has not been able to use cinnabar to refine gold."

"If those alchemists can use this method, we can also imitate it and deliberately add a medicinal ingredient that can never be obtained, just like cinnabar is used to refine gold. In this way, how can His Majesty find out that you are deceiving the emperor?"

"This……"

Everyone immediately cast strange looks at Zhao Zhou, and in their strangeness there was a bit of admiration.

"Prime Minister Zhao, please tell me the truth."

Jin Midi looked Zhao Zhou up and down, frowning slightly.
"You must have known about His Majesty's bribery and seizure of the title, but you didn't report it. I guess His Majesty didn't wrong you?"

"Also, regarding Chang Rong's fall into the sea, although I had my suspicions before, I always felt that no one else would have the guts to do it except Your Highness. Now it seems... it must have been your doing, Your Highness, you had no idea at all, right?"

"Captain Jin misunderstood!"

Zhao Zhou's face changed drastically when he heard this, and he quickly defended himself.

"I am doing this for your sake, right? Captain Jin doesn't want you to be punished by His Majesty for this, right?"

"Having said that..."

Jin Midi looked at Zhao Zhou with a colder look. After hesitating for a long while, he said seriously,
"For the sake of the Crown Prince, I can pretend that I know nothing this time. I can also try my best to cooperate with you and hide some things from Your Majesty after I return."

"But Prime Minister Zhao, after you return this time, even if His Majesty allows you to resume your position as Prime Minister."

"I also suggest that you take the initiative to ask His Majesty to retire. If so, you can still be the Marquis of Gaoling, and your son and fiefdom should be enough to ensure that you can enjoy your old age. If not, don't blame me for sparing no effort to find your faults in the future. By then, I'm afraid you won't be as lucky as this time."

"?!"

Everyone looked at Jin Midi in surprise again.

Anyone could tell that Jin Midi was not joking but a naked threat.

The prince consort threatened the prime minister in person! Even if it was a prime minister who had made meritorious contributions while serving his sentence, this was an extremely rare occurrence in the court!
Moreover, everyone knew that Jin Midi had the ability. The Royal Guard was a close minister and eunuch of Liu Che, while the Prime Minister Zhao Zhou could not even enter the inner court. If Jin Midi was determined to make things difficult for Zhao Zhou, and spared no effort to find Zhao Zhou's faults and constantly gossiped about him in Liu Che's ears, it would definitely have a certain impact on Liu Che.

Not to mention Prime Minister Zhao Zhou, even Crown Prince Liu Ju would probably not be able to withstand such level of criticism.

"I……"

Zhao Zhou also looked at Jin Midi's brown eyes and slightly exotic face with surprise.

He saw unquestionable fortitude on this face, and undying loyalty in these eyes... A Hun was so loyal to the Han Dynasty and to Liu Che. He really didn't understand what magic power Liu Che had.

Under this premise...Liu Ju would appear even more terrifying!
He still can't figure it out. Liu Ju clearly only recently remembered Jin Midi and dug him out from his entourage, so why could he make such a compromise for Liu Ju?

Such a person is obviously a loyal person who will not serve two masters.

Why could he firmly defend Liu Che in this matter and yet cooperate with them in deceiving the emperor in order to protect Liu Ju?
Such unimaginable contradictions and splits appeared in such a person. What did Liu Ju do to him? Is Liu Ju's magic power stronger than Liu Che's?

While speaking.

"Report!"

Suddenly, a report came from outside the tent.
"His Highness has summoned all the superiors to the tent to discuss important matters. Please move forward!"

……

Liu was inside the tent.

"Look what this is."

Liu Ju placed two fist-sized stones on the table and happily showed them to everyone.

Everyone stepped forward to watch.

I saw that in one of the stones that looked like sand and gravel, there were densely distributed small silver dots, which even had a matte metallic luster.

On another piece of stone similar to quartzite, there are actually two irregular silver snakes attached to the stone, forming a strange state of silver inlaid stone, which has an indescribable artistic beauty.

"Your Highness, this is..."

Everyone's heart trembled, and they looked up at Liu Ju unconsciously.

"Silver mine! The silver mountain has been found!"

Liu Ju's face was flushed and his tone of voice was slightly excited.

Iwami Silver Mine is indeed worthy of its reputation. Even in the rocks on the top of the mountain, such high content of silver ore was discovered, which is even richer than Liu Ju had imagined.

"Did you really find it?"

Everyone's eyes widened immediately and they stepped forward to look at the two stones more carefully.

If the silver mountain in Liu Ju's "dream" is really found, and if he makes up some elixir of immortality, this is a real benefit, a truly great achievement, what sin can't offset it? !

"I have ordered Gongsun Qing to send a message to the divine messengers of each tribe, asking them to bring the untouchable 'living beings' of each tribe as soon as possible, so that we can start the work as soon as possible!"

Liu Ju continued,

"General Yang, you should also make some arrangements. Lead your soldiers to find a suitable place at the foot of the Silver Mountain and start building a city that can be used for long-term farming. Be prepared for the long-term stationing of the Han army."

"Then we will plan the route carefully to ensure that the silver ore can be transported to the Korean Peninsula continuously via the closest and safest route."

"By the way, we can recruit laborers from the lower households in Kyushu Island to build cities, roads and ports."

"Don't forget to design a spectacular temple in the city. The temple will serve as the central hall for the shrines and messengers of the various tribes, and become a sacred place for all the Japanese to make pilgrimages. Therefore, when recruiting these laborers from the lower households, you don't need to let them know about the silver mine. Just tell them that you are building a temple."

"I think since they can have food to eat and contribute to their faith, they will be full of enthusiasm and motivation."

"And Prime Minister Zhao and Internal Affairs Minister Ni..."

"..."

Yang Pu did not respond immediately, and the others remained silent.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?"

Liu Que was halfway through his speech when he realized that something was wrong with the expressions of these people. The way they looked at him was indescribably strange, as if they had never seen him before.

"No, no..."

Jin Midi asked hesitantly,

"Your Highness wants to build cities, roads, and harbors. I wonder how much silver this silver mountain contains?"

"If we produce 152,000 kilograms of silver a year, we can probably mine for more than a hundred years..."

The annual output of Iwami Silver Mine during its peak period seemed to be 38 tons of silver. Liu Ju had already converted this unit into the weight unit commonly used by the Han Dynasty.

"Snapped!"

Suddenly there was a crisp sound, and Zhao Zhou slapped himself hard in the face for some reason.

(End of this chapter)