On the other side, Henry, who was being sent to the Ministry of Punishment, was cursing loudly all the way.

None of the imperial guards could understand the gibberish he was mumbling.

The cursing did not stop until Henry saw Kangxi in the Ministry of Punishment.

Kangxi had been waiting for Henry here early in the morning.

The anger in his heart was raging, so naturally he wanted to find a good vent.

Who could be more suitable than this balding old yellow-haired guy?

But Henry didn't know that.

Henry thought he had met his savior and desperately begged Kangxi for help.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! These barbarians broke into my house armed with weapons. You should punish them severely!"

Hearing him speaking broken Chinese, the imperial guard who brought him here curled his lips in disdain.

However, Kangxi sat in the chair without saying a word, watching him being taken to the rack by the imperial guards with an expressionless face.

Henry panicked until his neck, arms, and legs were fixed.

"Your Majesty, what are they doing? I'm an envoy from abroad. You have no right to punish me!"

"messenger?"

Kangxi smiled.

He stood up, walked in front of Henry, and then quickly slapped Henry twice.

“Ouch!”

Henry screamed and tried to rub his face with his hands, but his arms were bound by chains and he couldn't move.

"Are you more awake now?"

Kangxi admired the slap mark on Henry's face that was swelling rapidly and shook his hand.

Barbarians are barbarians, they are so shameless.

Henry was in so much pain that tears came out of his eyes. He stared at Kangxi with red eyes, as if he wanted to eat him.

"His Majesty the Emperor is also an unreasonable barbarian!"

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

As soon as he finished speaking, Kangxi slapped him twice more.

Henry was beaten by Kangxi until he felt dizzy and had tinnitus, and blood was oozing from his mouth and nose.

I am not very conscious anymore.

Kangxi rubbed his wrists and finally let out some of the anger in his heart.

"Splash him to wake him up."

At Kangxi's command, someone quickly brought cold water and poured it hard on Henry's face.

Henry groaned in pain, the flesh on his face was swollen beyond recognition.

Only then did he realize that the emperor before him was no longer the emperor who had treated him with courtesy before. He even... wanted to kill himself.

Henry felt the discomfort on his face and body, and suddenly became frightened.

"Your Majesty, what crime have I committed?"

Kangxi narrowed his eyes and looked at Henry's fat body, thinking about the scene when he first saw him seven or eight years ago. At that time, Henry was clearly a skinny middle-aged man.

Half of the fat on his body was eaten in the Qing Dynasty.

You take the salary he gives you, eat his food and drink his drinks, and now you are thinking of using that poisonous thing to make money from him!

A murderous look flashed across Kangxi's eyes.

"The merchant ship that arrived at Tianjin Port the day before yesterday was yours, right?"

When Henry heard this, his eyes, which were wrapped in fat, widened instantly. He stared at Kangxi nervously, his voice a little hoarse.

"Those are all good things brought from my country. Your prince agreed to buy them!"

Henry carefully observed Kangxi's expression, trying to see his attitude.

Those ores and wood are heavy but not worth much silver. The spices and opium on the ship are the most profitable.

And those pieces of diamond jewelry.

He wrote to his son to take them out of his collection, preparing to sell them to the emperor in front of him in exchange for a huge reward.

If the emperor also likes those diamond jewelry, he can sell all his collections at a high price later!

Henry had planned well, but before the goods reached his hands, he was arrested by the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Thinking of the one hundred boxes of opium on the ship, Henry broke out in cold sweat on his forehead.

Before he sold opium, he also learned about the Qing Emperor's attitude towards opium and knew that the Qing Dynasty's annual opium import quota was only 60 boxes.

Now Henry only prayed that if the Qing Emperor really discovered the opium, he would not confiscate his goods.

"Did the prince also agree to purchase the opium on board?"

Henry was stunned for a moment after hearing this——

Sure enough, it was discovered.

He explained dejectedly,

"Mr. Tong wanted the opium."

Henry had no sense of keeping a secret. He felt that since the emperor had discovered the opium, it meant that his goods would never reach the hands of buyers.

He is a man of integrity. Since he cannot fulfill the agreement on time, he must let the customer know the reason why he cannot fulfill the agreement.

"Which Mr. Tong?"