"The national treasury is empty?" Yuan Qing sneered. "Then where has all the silver in the national treasury gone?"
The grain sent to Tongzhou was purchased by the Prince himself, without costing a single penny from the national treasury.
Now the Ministry of Revenue is crying poverty, saying that the national treasury has no money to set up soup kitchens and distribute soup. Then, where has all the money in the national treasury been spent?
Does silver have the ability to grow legs and run away on its own?
The matter was ultimately not resolved.
After Yuan Qing left, Yuan Dan, who had been lazily being petted by the man for half an incense stick's time, slapped his wing on the back of the man's hand.
"How much silver is left from the profits of selling charcoal?"
Xiao Changqi removed the little bird's wings from his hand and asked calmly, "What are you planning to do now?"
"I'll earn back your reputation." Yuan Dan glanced at the man sideways. "Didn't you have your eye on that position up there?"
Xiao Changqi remained expressionless, his gaze sharp as he looked at the little bird: "How do you know I have designs on that position?"
“Because if the Crown Prince ascends the throne, he will not tolerate you.” Yuan Dan analyzed for the man seriously, “After all, you hold military power in three prefectures. If the Crown Prince ascends the throne, you will be the first one he targets.”
Xiao Changqi gazed at the round, soft little bird: "You see things very clearly."
Having read most of the original novel, Yuan Dan naturally understands it better than anyone else.
Since Xiao Changqi had designs on the position above, he naturally couldn't ascend the throne without proper legitimacy, as depicted in the original work, and without bearing the scorn of the people.
New Year's Day: "Let's set up soup kitchens in the name of the Prince Gan's Mansion."
Xiao Changqi looked at the little bird without saying a word.
“I know that once you start to clear your name, the Crown Prince and the other princes will definitely become suspicious of you, but do you really want to be called a tyrant by your own people when you sit on that throne?”
Thinking about Xiao Changqi's final fate in the original novel, Yuan Dan suddenly felt a little sad.
She didn't want to see Xiao Changqi follow the same path as in the original story.
That's why they go to great lengths to clear the man's image in the eyes of the people.
"A tyrant?" Xiao Changqi's eyes flickered as he placed the little bird on the table. "What's wrong with being a tyrant?"
On New Year's Day, she stood up, her slender little paws pacing a couple of steps on the table, and stared at the man with wide, beady eyes: "Do you really want to be a tyrant?"
Xiao Changqi neither said yes nor no, but instead threw the question back to Yuan Dan: "If I really become the tyrant in the eyes of the people, what will you do?"
On New Year's Day, I casually remarked, "What can we do? Can't we just get a divorce?"
Upon hearing the bird utter the word "leave," Xiao Changqi's expression suddenly darkened. He pinched the bird's claws and said, "You still want to leave me?"
New Year:"??"
When did she say she was leaving?
"I only raise live birds and dead birds," the man said coldly. "If you want to leave, I will have you dissected."
New Year:"?!"
Holy crap!
Why are you like this?
He used to threaten to roast her and that would be the end of it, but now he's saying he'll dissect her...
"You are simply..." unreasonable.
The last four words were swallowed back by Yuan Dan under the man's cold and icy gaze.
"Does it have to be so fierce?" The little bird lowered its head and muttered softly, "Little birds all grow up and fly away."
"You are the little bird I raised."
Therefore, you are not allowed to go anywhere except by my side.
If you wish to fly away, then I, the King, will clip your wings.
On New Year's Day, she glared at the man and said, "Are you even being reasonable?"
Xiao Changqi glanced at her indifferently: "What I say is the truth."
New Year:"……"
He really is a tyrannical dictator!
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