The king behind the empress

Chapter 216

Hearing the young man in black's words, the middle-aged Taoist priest couldn't help frowning slightly. He saw that the young man was also a member of the sect, so he didn't think too much about him when he spoke, but he didn't expect the young man in black to take the initiative to talk to him.

Before the Taoist priest could say anything, the impatient monk Yuanzhi asked directly, "Boy, who are you?"

Hearing Yuan Zhi's question, the young man in black didn't rush to answer, but sped up his movements, and after eating all the food on the table like a storm, he stood up and went to Yuan Zhi two people.

"Hiccup~"

Perhaps because he ate too fast, the young man in black couldn't help hiccupping when he walked over, but he didn't care, walked up to the two of them, and saluted seriously.
"Qi Xiu, the junior of the voice transmission valley, has met the two seniors."

"Valley of Sound Transmission?"

Yuan Zhi was stunned when he heard the name of this sect, "Oh, so it's the sect that plays with birds."

Hearing Yuan Zhi's words, Qi Xiu couldn't help but twitch his brows. They are good at domesticating birds and beasts in Chuansheng Valley. The methods of domesticating communication birds such as hawks and harrier pigeons used by the court of the Zhou Dynasty are basically from They spread out through the Valley of Sound.

And this is also the reason for the name of their sect Chuanshenggu, so if you insist that their sect is for playing birds, it makes sense.

It's just that these words came out of Monk Yuanzhi's mouth, and it seemed that he didn't deserve to be beaten, so Qi Xiu smiled and said: "Master has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and now it seems that his cultivation is really advanced."

"That's... hmm?"

Hearing Qi Xiu's praise of his strong cultivation, Yuan Zhi just wanted to be proud of himself, but suddenly felt something was wrong, "Boy, do these two sentences not match each other? What does walking in the rivers and lakes have to do with advanced cultivation? Do you mean something in your words?" what?"

"Can't you hear that?"

The Taoist priest on the side laughed a little when he heard this, "What this young man means is that you, with your stinking mouth, would have been beaten to death if you hadn't been strong in cultivation."

After finishing speaking, the Taoist ignored Monk Yuanzhi, and said to Qi Xiu: "Poverty Taoist Yuheng, I have met my little friend."

"Curse people as soon as you curse, and it's so twists and turns, it's not cool at all."

Yuan Zhi muttered, but he didn't get angry because of it. After all, he was the first to talk about other people's sect, and he should be scolded back. But remembering what Qi Xiu said before, Yuan Zhi stared at Qi Xiudao again :
"By the way, kid, who did you say was superficial?"

"If you can't say something one, two, three today, then don't blame Sajia for bullying the small and beat you up."

"Don't worry, little friend, sit down and chat slowly."

Yuheng smoothed things over, pulled Qi Xiu to sit down, and then said: "I heard what my friend said just now, it seems that there are different opinions on this matter, why don't you sit down and speak freely, even if you say something wrong, it doesn't matter."

"You're such a fool, you'll pretend to be a good person."

Seeing Yuheng smoothing things over, Yuan Zhi just muttered, but didn't say anything else.

Qi Xiu didn't show any timidity at all. After he sat down, he first apologized to the two of them: "Forgive me, the two seniors. It's not that I deliberately contradicted you, but I feel that those remarks are really unfair to King Zizai."

"What's unfair?"

Yuan Zhi retorted: "Ever since Sa's family entered the city, I've heard that this Mo Zizai not only murdered ministers without authorization, ransacked homes at every turn, but also beheaded all innocent businessmen in the capital for money, killing innocent people indiscriminately. , you still complained about injustice for him."

"Innocent, they also deserve the word innocent?"

Qi Xiu laughed disdainfully, "Because I have a better relationship with the imperial court, I know more about the affairs of the imperial court than the two of you."

"Master only knows that King Zizai confiscated the ministers' homes, so do you know how much money he confiscated from those ministers' homes?"

"It's true that he killed all the merchants in the capital for money, but before killing these merchants, His Majesty asked them for donations, hoping that they would help the three counties. How much did the merchant pay?"

Qi Xiu's two questions confused Yuan Zhi and Yu Heng. The folk rumors only said that Mo Zizai murdered people and ransacked his house, but no one ever mentioned the specifics.

Yuan Zhi stroked his bald head, thought for a while, and said, "It's impossible to expect the officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty not to be greedy, so if they ransacked their homes, they might be able to get tens of thousands... no, a few hundred thousand taels." Silver."

Seeing Qi Xiu's demeanor, Yuan Zhi felt that these officials' greedy money would definitely not be less, so he originally wanted to say tens of thousands of taels of silver, so he directly increased the amount by ten times. Two silver should be about the same.

After all, his huge Jinlian Temple, except for some special expenses, costs only tens of thousands of taels of silver throughout the year.

"Oh, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of taels are not even a fraction in their eyes..."

Qi Xiu sneered and shook his head, he raised a finger and said to Yuan Zhi: "It's more than 1000 million taels, and it's just money copied from the household department's Zuo Shilang's family."

"More than 1000 million taels?!"

Yuan Zhi's voice suddenly rose several times, both he and Yu Heng were shocked by this astonishing number.

"Straight mother thief! Where did he get so much money?"

Yuan Zhi, who came back to his senses, said furiously: "No wonder my court of Great Zhou has no money every year. With all this money, these sons of bitches have been greedy for it!"

"It's not an exaggeration to kill this kind of traitor a hundred times!"

"Ugh……"

Unlike the irritable Yuan Zhi, Yu Heng just sighed faintly and said, "I already knew that corruption among officials is serious, but I never thought it would be so serious."

"A servant of the household department can greed so much money, what about the minister of the household department? What about other ministers? Are they greedy more?"

"Yup!"

Yuan Zhi came back to his senses and asked, "Then...then why didn't King Zizai confiscate all the houses of these ministers, and see how much money these traitors have embezzled from the court!"

Yuan Zhi, who thought that Mo Zizai should be killed just now, immediately changed his position, and subconsciously changed his address to Mo Zizai as an honorific title.

"If you can kill yourself, the king will definitely not be soft."

Qi Xiu shook his head helplessly and said: "But there are few civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty who are not greedy. If they are all killed, the court will be paralyzed immediately."

"hateful!"

Yuan Zhi patted the table again angrily, "It's too cheap to let these traitors go like this."

"How can we let them go so easily? This time His Majesty married the prince. The prince said that every corrupt official must give half of his net worth as a congratulatory gift, so that those corrupt officials will bleed hard."

There was a hint of complacency in Qi Xiu's words, "As far as I know, the Minister of the Household Department alone paid out 1000 million taels of silver. Although other officials don't know how much they paid out, there are quite a few of them."

"Hahaha, that's how it should be."

Yuan Zhi laughed heartily, "Just for the news of my little brother, the Sa family will drink three big bowls with you later."

(End of this chapter)