Xia Miaoyuan found a chair and stood on it, looking down at the people kneeling on the ground begging for mercy, feeling extremely relaxed both physically and mentally.
"Your Majesty, what do you think should be done with these people?" asked the Jingzhao Yin who was kneeling and watching coldly.
Liang Chaozong and Yao Jinse are using the popularity of the Great Xia royal family to run such a shady business, making a ton of money to expand the power of the Liang Kingdom. How despicable!
[This time, we should take this opportunity to cut off their way of making money.]
Xia Miaoyuan looked at Emperor Mingxi with anticipation, "Daddy, you better be a little more ruthless!"
"Emperor Daddy!" Xia Miaoyuan slid down from the chair, ran to Emperor Mingxi and grabbed his robe.
"Miao'er is very angry! Emperor Daddy will punish them!"
After much deliberation, Xia Miaoyuan decided to remind Emperor Mingxi in this way.
Emperor Mingxi rubbed Xia Miaoyuan's head lovingly, and already had an idea in his mind.
"Princess Jinse, how many restaurants have you and your wife opened in the capital?" Emperor Mingxi asked in a deep voice.
Yao Jinse rolled her eyes and replied, "There are three restaurants, nine diners, and four barbecue restaurants."
Emperor Mingxi looked at the Jingzhao Yin and said, "Lord Liu, send people to seal off all sixteen shops and conduct a thorough investigation of their prices and services, focusing on whether there is any fraud or bullying."
Yao Jinse was stunned. "Your Majesty, please have mercy! If you close down all these shops, what will happen to Jinse and my husband's business?"
Emperor Mingxi's lips curled slightly: "Princess Jinse, you are still crying about the poverty of Shengming! Liang Xin has so many businesses, a dozen stores are nothing."
"Besides, I'm doing this for your own good. You're no longer just ordinary imperial merchants. You're also the adopted daughter and son-in-law of the Empress Dowager."
"Every move and every word you make affects the Empress Dowager's reputation. More broadly, it affects the reputation of the entire imperial family, and my reputation."
"If you use the names of the princess and the prince consort to open a black shop outside and make ill-gotten gains, outsiders will only say that it is me and the empress dowager who condone you. They will say that the laws of Daxia are collapsing."
[Hahahaha! The Emperor is awesome! He makes such a great point.]
Yao Jinse's eyes were red, and she took out her handkerchief and pretended to cry: "Your Majesty, Jinse is not strict with her subordinates, so I need to make corrections. Please don't close down all these stores!"
Emperor Mingxi's eyes glared. "Could it be that Princess Jinse is going to disobey the emperor's order?"
Yao Jinse felt a chill in her heart: "Jinse dare not, dare not!"
Emperor Mingxi continued, "Lord Liu, take all those who committed crimes today to the Ministry of Justice. Tell Lord Cui to conduct a thorough investigation and sentence them accordingly without reservation."
[Daddy is awesome! Hahahaha, Cui Lie from the Ministry of Justice is always ruthless in his trials!] Xia Miaoyuan clapped his hands excitedly.
Lord Liu responded quickly, and those who were kneeling on the ground collapsed to the ground as if their souls had been taken away.
"Manager Sun, you unlucky guy, it's all your fault! I'm innocent!" Captain Zhang cursed weakly.
If Shopkeeper Sun hadn't asked him to come to the barbecue restaurant to arrest someone today, he would still be leisurely working as a constable in the capital.
Although his official position was not high, he was still very powerful and respected in the market.
Just because he went to a barbecue restaurant, he suddenly fell from the sky into the mud.
[You deserve it! You don’t deserve it at all!]
[As a distinguished captain of the Beijing police, he didn't even ask a proper question before arresting someone. He just listened to the one-sided story of that shopkeeper Sun and immediately arrested him.]
[I can tell you're used to the generous gifts from the store. They give you gifts every month, and you just oblige with every request, without a second thought.]
"You seem quite old, yet you're still not as cautious as the younger detectives under your command. If you had listened to the younger detectives' advice, things wouldn't have gotten this far."
Emperor Mingxi stroked his beard and added, "Let those four little detectives go. They have nothing to do with this."
The detectives kowtowed to the ground to thank Emperor Mingxi for his mercy.
Yao Jinse covered her mouth with a handkerchief, pretending to be about to cry, but her eyes were rolling around as if she was thinking of some evil idea.
Emperor Mingxi said slowly, "Princess Jinse, you and Liang Xin are so audacious to open a barbecue restaurant under the guise of the royal family. For the Empress Dowager's sake, I will punish you with a month of confinement."
Yao Jinse's whole body froze, and she whispered, "Jinse thanks the emperor for his mercy." But her body had already gone limp.
The four words "audacious and presumptuous" were Emperor Mingxi's deliberate warning to her.
Being forced to reflect on one's mistakes behind closed doors for a month is not a severe punishment, but opening a shop under the false name of the royal family is a bold and presumptuous act and is a serious crime.
Emperor Mingxi said that he only punished the emperor with a month of confinement for the sake of the Empress Dowager's face.
This was equivalent to a severe warning to Yao Jinse and his wife, telling them not to take their status as the Empress Dowager's adopted daughter too seriously, as they would still be punished if they made mistakes.
At this time, the bailiffs under the Jingzhao Yin came up, locked up all these people with iron chains, and took them away.
The crowd of onlookers burst into thunderous applause, praising the "Emperor for his wisdom."
"This kind of black shop should be shut down. It's a good thing they shut it down!"
"That's right, it's so unpalatable and so expensive, it should have been closed long ago!"
"Oh, no wonder the barbecue tasted so bad. I thought the nobles in the palace had special tastes, but it turned out to be fake!"
"I won't complain if I kill them, but I dare to bully the emperor!"
"She's a princess! Even if she's a princess, she can't steal money from ordinary people like this!"
"Oh, I didn't know what the real Royal Roast was like. I didn't expect this to be a knockoff."
For a moment, the people started talking about it.
Xia Miaoyuan's eyes suddenly lit up as he listened to the diners' discussions.
[Yes, I've come up with another way to make money. If I use this princess's secret barbecue recipe and open a chain of barbecue restaurants throughout the capital, I'll make a fortune!]
A barbecue chain?
Emperor Mingxi was walking out holding the empress's hand. When they heard their daughter's thoughts, they were both stunned.
Barbecue restaurant understands, what does chain mean?
The emperor and empress pondered the meaning of the chain, and under the gaze of the people, they got on the carriage and returned to the palace.
…
Outside the Fanyin Temple, a carriage stopped at the door and a teenager got out of the carriage.
In the woods more than ten meters away, two secret guards hid their bodies in the trees, staring at the entrance of Fanyin Temple without blinking.
The young man turned around and saw that it was the fourth prince Xia Chengyue.
At the same time, in the Fanyin Temple, a young eunuch with an extraordinary appearance walked into the virtuous concubine's room carrying a tray.
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