The Evil Emperor Pursues His Wife: Sheng Chong Shifei

Chapter 248

"The concubine is very happy, the prime minister has been granted the title of Song Guogong, and there are two thousand households in the city." The news brought back by He Ye made Shangguan Qing's mood sink to the bottom of the valley.

The emperor really began to doubt her.

In the 500 years since the founding of the state of Chu, several prime ministers were granted the title of duke when they were in office. Without exception, they all resigned and returned home.

"Father first, then me next."

The joy of the completion of the second big house just now was diluted, and Shangguan Qing was a little disappointed. Sure enough, the emperor was suspicious, and it was a pity for her development plan.

As Shangguan Qing expected, after the market in the capital was re-divided, without waiting for the market to adapt to the new rules, Chu Huaitian assigned the salt depot and the banknote printing bureau in the capital to the Imperial City Division. Wanshi salt goods were also transferred to Huangcheng Division, and 50 gold in stock was also transferred from Luantai Secretary's warehouse.

Shangguan Qing just sneered, she said that she would support the Craftsmanship Division to improve its technology, but then she started withdrawing funds, and she wanted to see what Chu Huaitian wanted to do.

Chu Huaitian also knew that this move was too much. He wanted Shangguan Qing to build a firearms factory, gunpowder factory, and bullet factory. He couldn't offend people to death all at once. thing.It is equivalent to handing over Lingnan Road as a feudal country to Chu Qianhan.

Shangguan Qing doesn't like this kind of award at all. Don't look at the vast territory of Chu State, which can only affect the border areas but not completely control it. Chu Huaitian drew a big cake for Chu Qianhan. If he can eat it, he still has to ask Cake's opinion, if it weren't for the secret agreement with the Feng family on Lingnan Road, Chu Qianhan would not be able to stand in Qiongya Junzhou at all.

What Shangguan Qing is most worried about now is that the imperial court will distribute salt rolls indiscriminately, which will make her more than a year of hard work go to waste.

Despite all kinds of reluctance, bad things still happened.

The flowers made of paper are like a brocade, burning in the fire of human greed and desire, seeing that the prosperity is no longer, and the flying ashes are annihilated in front of our eyes.

Also as Shang Guanqing predicted, the bureaucratic group in the imperial court who had no concept of economics was completely unable to restrain the impulse to issue banknotes indiscriminately.They take it as a matter of course that the people must approve the government's issuance of banknotes.Just for the renovation of the Longtuge library, the Secretary of the Imperial City distributed an extra [-] shi in small amount of salt rolls, among which Shangguan Qing didn't even bother to calculate how much money was stolen. Qing commanded the goods and materials to recycle these small salt rolls. There would definitely be panic in the market, and the salt rolls that had finally established their reputation would become waste paper.

Shangguan Qing was not polite, and organized people to line up to exchange the 60 rock salt goods in the salt storehouse. The affected onlookers also exchanged the salt rolls in their hands for salt goods for storage, and exchanged the salt goods in the salt storehouse in just three days Seventy percent, there was a real run on the bank, and the imperial court had to close the exchange, urgently transported salt goods to Beijing from outside roads, and at the same time transferred [-] yuan in cash from the treasury of Luantai for emergency.

In just half a month, more than 200 million gold wealth evaporated from the imperial court's books.

Seeing this figure, Chu Huaitian, who was still preparing to continue reducing the power in Shangguan Qing's hands, was a little dazed. The money was fine in Shangguan Qing's hands, how could it disappear so quickly when it was earned on the accounts of the Imperial City Department and the Household Department? It's as if they never existed.

Chu Huaitian asked Wang Qiushan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Accounting, to inquire, but Wang Qiushan couldn't understand, and repeatedly emphasized that the money had arrived in the account of the Imperial City Secretary, and had not been transferred to the Ministry of Accounting. Causing panic in the market, the value of the salt rolls did not drop.

Chu Huaitian's focus was elsewhere, and he didn't hear the flaws in Wang Qiushan's words.

Wang Qiushan emphasized that there was no panic in the market, but he did not mention the work that Shangguan Qing did. She won't help anymore, she has no obligation to use the money from the Craftsmanship Department to fill the hole made by the household department.

At that time Wang Qiushan was a little unhappy, but now he was called by Chu Huaitian and he knew he was afraid.

Asking Wang Qiushan if he didn't understand, Chu Huaitian called Zhang Tan, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Chu Qiankang, the fourth prince, and asked them to investigate the matter strictly and make sure to get back the money that disappeared.

Chu Huaitian originally wanted to call Shangguan Qing to inquire, but considering the events of the past few days, he really didn't have the face to inquire, so he thought about calling Princess Xiyue into the palace, and wanted to ask Xiyue to inquire.

Xiyue heard Chu Huaitian's doubts and said: "Brother Huang, do you still remember what I said that Shangguan Qing was a lone minister?"

"remember."

"I think that's why the money disappeared."

Chu Huaitian recalled the scene at that time, when Xiyue went to test out Shangguan Qing's details, Shangguan Qing exaggeratedly said that she had mastered resources worth 5000 million gold, and calculated them one by one for Xiyue, and said that she was an orphan Minister, you don't have to take care of your colleagues' feelings, and with fewer bad rules and corruption, the court's income will naturally increase.

"I actually forgot about this, I really shouldn't."

Chu Huaitian regretted secretly, he should have trusted Shangguan Qing more, because it was Quan Yangyi, an island barbarian from Dongyi, who came out to sow discord.

At this time, Chu Huai only remembered Shangguan Qing's goodness.

But Quan Yangyi's words were still in his ears, and he was still worried about Shangguan Qing. Now that he had a goal to solve, Chu Huaitian was going to find another lonely official to help him manage the court's money bag.

At this time in the Ministry of punishment.

Chu Qiankang looked at the books and files on the table, his brows were furrowed so tightly that he could crush an elephant to death.

These bastards of the clan are really crazy about money. The emperor just delegated some powers, and they rushed up like blood-sucking leeches.

The huge sum of 200 million gold allowed them to divide it up within [-] days, leaving not even a single copper coin to the court.

Zhang Tan, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, watched Chu Qiankang waiting for him to make up his mind. Zhang Tan was known as a cruel official. He dared to punish civil servants and generals who persecuted the court, but he did not dare to attack the clan.All his rights come from the bestowal of the emperor, if he makes a move that endangers the clan, he may lose Chu Huaitian's trust.

Both are hesitating, unable to make a decision.

While Chu Qiankang was thinking hard, the eighth prince Chu Qiansi came in from outside: "Fourth brother, I have found you, I will marry Bai Xue as my concubine next month, and I want to borrow a house in the city with you. "

Chu Qiankang rolled his eyes, pointed to the north and asked, "Is that Bai Xue?"

Chu Qiansi nodded acquiescingly, with an extremely happy smile.

"Congratulations to the eighth brother, come and serve tea." Chu Qiankang greeted people to serve tea, and then said apologetically: "It's a bit messy here, and the eighth brother laughed, and it was also caused by those stupid people who don't have long eyes. The Shangshu is in a state of desperation right now." Regardless of whether Chu Qiansi liked it or not, he told the story of the clan's greed for ink.

Zhang Tan wailed and sighed in cooperation.

After hearing this, Chu Qiansi asked angrily: "Does the emperor know?"

(End of this chapter)