golden scales

Zhu Chunchen finally stood up, and no longer dared to look at His Royal Highness with the arrogance of the Duke.He lowered his eyes, recalling Zhao Qiming's kind words and persuasion in his heart, a burst of regret welled up in his heart, even overwhelmed the shame of being tied up in the hall.

"I would like to honor Your Highness with my wealth." Zhu Chunchen said, crying out of grief.

"My lord understands righteousness and can share the worries of the country. It's really a role model for my relatives!" Zhu Cihong smiled, and waved: "For lord, untie and give me a seat."

Zhu Chunchen regained his composure for a while, and the ghost knife on his neck seemed to gradually dissipate.He leaned against the chair, cupped his fists and said: "The old minister is getting old and can't turn his head around. He was summoned by His Highness in the morning, and he was in a daze. He didn't know what to do. He was at a loss for what to do. Please forgive me."

"My father-in-law is also a person who has worked hard for the country all his life, what's the point of losing his mind for a while?" Zhu Cilang said with a smile: "Now my father-in-law has figured it out? Do you really want to donate your family property to disaster relief and epidemic prevention?"

"Sincerely and sincerely!" Zhu Chunchen said hastily: "The old minister has been thinking about it all afternoon, and has always wanted to serve His Highness with his humble efforts. Unfortunately, the qualifications are stupid, the old and weak, and the only way to comfort his heart is to donate some family property."

Zhu Cihong nodded, and waved to Tian Cunshan: "Go and prepare the pen and ink, let the father-in-law list the assets to be donated, set it as a memorial, and put it in front of the imperial court."

"Your Highness," Zhu Chunchen said hastily, "The old minister is in a daze. I have long forgotten how many assets the family has. Please, Your Highness, ask the housekeeper and accountant to transcribe it." "

"Sure." Zhu Cihong said generously, "Go and recruit people from the finance department to come in and help."

The second section of the waiter's room has been named the Finance Section, and the section chief is still Yao Tao.This female official, who had never been out of the palace before, is now attracting more and more attention in the outer residence of the East Palace.It's not because of her beauty, but more importantly, everyone knows that she is the accountant of His Highness the Prince. She is a person who can talk to the Prince every day.

And in everyone's mind, the person who can manage the money bag for the prince must be the person the prince trusts the most.They didn't know that the prince only believed in systems and norms, not people.Yao Tao is only in charge of the accounts, but Liu Ruoyu is in charge of the warehouse.Check the account and treasury every five days, and no one can tamper with it.

The reason why Yao Tao brought someone in to log in was mainly due to the relationship with the female family members of the Duke Cheng's family.

The confidence of a wealthy family is not how many treasures there are in the storeroom, or how much gold and silver are in the cellar, it is also reflected in the clothes, utensils, furniture, and jewelry of the family... Zhu Cihong is well aware of the economic value of furniture in the Ming Dynasty. People's beds, cabinets, tables and chairs are also valuable, and there is absolutely no reason to waste them.

As for the gold and silver jewelry of the female relatives, it has always been the highlight of the family raids.

Zhu Chunchen soon realized that the prince was serious about accepting all his property, and a feeling that life would be better than death filled his heart.He wished he could hit his head on the ground and save his life, and he didn't want to imagine the miserable life in the empty house where he was penniless.

"There are also various land deeds." Zhu Cihong reminded: "It must be written down together, otherwise it will be troublesome in the future."

"Yes, yes, I absolutely dare not hide my secrets." Zhu Chunchen's voice was full of tears.

"It's useless for you to hide your secrets." Zhu Cihong answered casually.

Zhu Chunchen didn't understand the murderous intent hidden in this sentence, he raised his head suspiciously, then lowered his head immediately, and thought to himself: I really want to hide something, you may not be able to find it out.

"You still have to write a few letters to your relatives in Beijing." Zhu Cihong said briskly: "This epidemic prevention is very costly, let alone those medicines and lime, just the food and drink expenses for so many people is not a small sum .”

"Yes, yes..." Zhu Chunchen groaned in his heart, and he could only hope that those relatives would be more sensible and give more money.If everyone is as ignorant as he is, and is taken over by others, the Chengguo Zhu family will really cut off their incense.

Zhu Cihong gave Zhu Chunchen a smile and asked someone to tidy up Zhu Chunchen's study.If he didn't expect, the news of the plague in Duke Cheng's mansion would spread to the palace soon.Maybe His Majesty the Emperor will send someone to inquire overnight, and the prepared response must be prepared.

"Your Highness," Liu Ruoyu saw that there was no one around, "with such a big fanfare, if someone has not come back and talks nonsense outside, I'm afraid it will hurt His Highness's reputation."

"The army is different from the folks," Zhu Cilang said, "it doesn't matter what the folks say whatever they want, but what the army wants is a strong heart. This time it looks like they are going to raid the silverfish's lair, but in fact they are also preparing to clean the army. Anyone who has ungrateful people talking nonsense behind their backs must be severely punished, otherwise there will be no more battles in the future!"

Liu Ruoyu's eyes drifted away for a while, and he echoed: "Your Highness is thinking rightly. Now the training officers in the banner teams are all saying gratitude, and let them say how they didn't have enough food and warm clothes back then. The soldiers are still very loyal to His Highness. Geng Geng is grateful to Dade."

"That's good." Zhu Cihong said coldly: "The way of loyalty and filial piety is the foundation of being a person. These people have no family members to be filial. If they do something disloyal, they don't need to be human."

"What Your Highness said is very true." Liu Ruoyu kept it firmly in his heart, and prepared to teach those trainers after he went down.

Today, eunuchs are still the main trainers, but Tian Cunshan's family is no longer in charge.More and more sand was mixed in, and even Liu Ruoyu mastered several banner trainers.In view of the prince's indifferent attitude towards the army, these eunuchs have a desire to control the army, at least they will not be bullied if they get a prisoner in the future.

Even if Liu Ruoyu doesn't know about it, there is still a hidden underground organization in the army.The basic framework of the ten-member regiment has been set up, and there is no clear relationship between superiors and subordinates. It is just a branch line of communication to pass on news from the army.Although the prince didn't seem to care too much about military affairs and only checked various data reports, he never relaxed his grasp of the bottom.

Even if the training officers guessed that someone was secretly reporting, they never imagined that the scope of this kind of reporting could cover the entire army.

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Yao Tao led the female officials into the inner house, and naturally there were guards around them to protect them.These female officials are used to seeing men, and many of them are men with lower status than them, so they are not shy.

The female family members of Cheng Guogong's mansion have never seen such uniformly dressed adult men with murderous faces, huddled together in horror, and even prepared to hang themselves to preserve their reputation.

"Sister, why doesn't it look like there is a plague here?" Yingyue finally couldn't help but lowered her voice and asked.

Yao Tao is more knowledgeable than her, and has long felt that the atmosphere in the inner courtyard is strange, full of fear of ransacking the family and exterminating the family, but no one mentions the plague.If you can't change your mind, you will indeed have the same doubts as Yingyue.However, Yao Tao immediately thought of her aunt's rhetorical question: "Did Tian Cunshan really fall into the water by himself?"

Donggong used to kill people without a teacher when he was young, not to mention now he holds the power of epidemic prevention and disaster relief.

Whether there is plague in Duke Cheng's mansion is not important, what is important is that the crown prince said his family has it.

——Even if the prince says the moon is square, I have to find four corners for him!

Yao Tao squeezed her palm lightly, reminding herself secretly.

Yingyue was even more puzzled, and was about to ask again, when she suddenly saw her amiable sister's eyes turned harsh, and she quickly shut up.

"Everyone," Yao Tao walked to the first fork in the road, "everyone and a group of soldiers to transcribe the donations. Anyone who leaks reporters for personal gain, beheaded! Those who don't have records, they will be assigned to the Clothes Bureau! Do you understand me?"

"Yes, Si Zheng!" All the female officials responded one after another.

Yao Tao held Yingyue back, watched the crowd disperse into the huge inner mansion, and said in a low voice: "Misfortune comes from the mouth, you can't say what you shouldn't say even if you die."

Shadow Moon lowered her eyes, as if she understood something.But she was unwilling to accept this answer: How could the wise and mighty Crown Prince copy the minister's house under the banner of epidemic prevention because of personal grievances?Isn't this what those assassins on the stage did!

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