Chapter 518 The Emperor's Persistence
It was past noon when Su Yue returned to the Prince's Mansion. As she expected, she encountered no accidents and returned to the capital smoothly.
She hurriedly ate some food and was about to go to the restaurant when the housekeeper of the Luo Mansion brought an invitation, saying that the Luo Mansion would hold a family reunion banquet for Luo Changlin the next day.
So Su Yue went into the space to choose gifts, just in time to organize the gifts received at the restaurant opening yesterday.
The gifts sent by each family were all ordinary, nothing special. After Su Yue sorted them out, she selected a set of four treasures of the study and several ancient books to prepare as gifts for tomorrow's delivery, and then began to practice in the space.
In the evening, Yueying brought back the restaurant's account book for today and showed it to her. Today's turnover was actually over ten thousand taels.
Su Yue was very surprised that the business was so good, but thinking about the unique food in the restaurant, it could indeed attract many customers.
The restaurant has just opened and everyone is here to try it out. It is normal to have such a high turnover at the beginning.
As time goes by, it will probably be halved.
But even if it is halved, an income of 5,000 taels a day is still a considerable income if it is earned steadily over time.
Gradually, the money of the dignitaries in the capital will flow into her pocket, and later into the treasury of Xifeng Kingdom.
Her purpose was to put money into Murong Li's wallet.
The next day, Murong Li took half a day off and accompanied Su Yue to Luo Mansion to support the family.
Murong Li attended the family recognition banquet at the Luo Mansion, and many officials came. The scene was very lively and smooth. People in the capital also knew that Luo Dinghai's son, who had been missing for more than ten years, was finally found, and the Luo family finally had a successor.
The Luo family's branch's plan to take over Luo Dinghai failed.
The days passed one by one, and half a month had passed in a flash.
Just half a month later, the black shadow trained those people as expected and handed them over to Su Yue, while he returned to work for Murong Li.
In the past half month, Su Yue handed over her medicine shop in the capital to the owner of Medicine King Valley. She exchanged it for the prescription of her pills, and he managed the medicine shop for her for ten years.
Ten years later, the decision of whether to stay or go depends on the master of Medicine King Valley.
Wang Xing was also promoted to her chief steward, and all her properties were handed over to him to manage, and she became a hands-off boss.
In the Imperial Palace, in the Imperial Study, the Emperor was lost in thought as he stared at the memorials on the table. The Ninth Eunuch placed a porcelain vase on the table, sighed, and said, "Your Majesty, are you really going to do this?"
The Ninth Eunuch also couldn't understand the Emperor. He was clearly going to pass the throne to Prince Li, but now he was hesitant.
Moreover, the date has been set and the invitations have been sent to the other three countries. But now they want to attack Murong Li. How should they deal with this situation?
Could it be that the emperor doesn't want to abdicate?
But his body wouldn't allow it. Even if he took the pills given by Princess Li, he would only live for half a year at most.
The emperor looked up, his cold eyes fixed on the Ninth Eunuch, and said coldly, "I have no ill intentions, I just want to make sure."
He was unwilling to be manipulated by his son.
These days, he has truly witnessed Murong Li's strength. Thinking about the theft of the national treasury, it is most likely done by him.
The Ninth Eunuch sighed. For the past half month, the Emperor had been investigating the theft of the national treasury a few years ago. After much investigation, the finger of blame was pointed directly at Prince Li.
So the emperor asked him to find a pill in the black market. After taking it, the person would fall into chaos and answer whatever others asked.
The emperor just wanted a result, that is, to find out whether he was the one who robbed the national treasury that year.
In fact, why bother doing this? It's already this time, what does it have to do with whether it was done by Li Wang or not?
From now on, the Xifeng Kingdom will belong to him, and those stolen properties will have to be returned to the national treasury sooner or later.
The Ninth Eunuch immediately knelt down and earnestly advised: "Your Majesty, if Prince Li discovers and sees through your plan, how will you face Prince Li?
Your Majesty, in my opinion, let's just leave it at that. A few days ago, didn't Prince Li deposit all the one million taels of gold he obtained from the East Phoenix Kingdom into the national treasury? Now that the national treasury is full and the West Phoenix Kingdom is enjoying good weather, Your Majesty really doesn't need to pursue this matter any further. If you do, it will cause discord between you and your son, and others will have the opportunity to take advantage of you."
The emperor insisted, "Old man, you have followed me for so many years, don't you understand me? I just can't accept it. If I can't be sure, I will never rest in peace when I die."
He had so many sons, but in the end he only had Murong Li, and he was fooled by this son.
How could he, a dignified emperor, be treated like this?
The Ninth Eunuch sighed and stood up tremblingly. Since he could not disobey the emperor's order, he decided to remind Murong Li.
Murong Li is a qualified emperor. The Ninth Eunuch does not want him to have any accidents. There is only half a month left, so he must insist on going on.
Murong Li has been very busy recently. The closer it gets to the day of his enthronement, the more tense the atmosphere becomes, and there's a feeling that a storm is about to come.
He had almost collected evidence of Huaian's rebellion, as well as evidence of his collusion with the Lin family and evidence of his wealth accumulation.
Prince Huaian was extremely cunning. Murong Li had no idea how deep he dug and how many tricks he used to get this evidence.
As soon as these evidences are made public, King Huai'an and the Lin family will be uprooted.
Of course, Murong Li also did not let go of the other three of the four major families and collected their information in order to prevent them from becoming desperate and joining forces to deal with him.
And those three families are even more powerful than the Lin family. If these four families are eliminated at the same time, Xifeng Kingdom will definitely be paralyzed.
As a last resort, Murong Li gradually disintegrated many of their forces over a period of half a month.
This not only weakens their strength, but also serves as a warning to them.
Seeing that it was getting late, Murong Li thought about going back, but a eunuch from the palace came to report that the emperor wanted to see him about something urgent, so he hurried to the imperial study.
When he arrived at the door of the imperial study, the Ninth Eunuch was waiting for him outside. Seeing Murong Li coming, the Ninth Eunuch immediately bowed and said, "This old servant greets Prince Li."
"Ninth Master, please get up. Your legs and feet are not in good condition, so don't wait here."
Murong Li immediately helped the Ninth Eunuch up. He was grateful to the old eunuch, who had always protected him.
The Ninth Eunuch stood up, looked around, and whispered quickly into Murong Li's ear, "When the Emperor tells you to eat something, you must not eat."
After saying this, he said loudly: "Prince Li, please go in quickly. The emperor has been waiting for a long time."
Murong Li looked at the Ninth Eunuch in surprise, nodded, and entered the imperial study. The Ninth Eunuch immediately followed with his head lowered.
"What have you been busy with lately, Lao Si? I haven't seen you these days?"
When the emperor saw Murong Li come in, he immediately stood up and spoke to him as usual.
(End of this chapter)
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