Beiming Palace.
In the imperial study, Si Han, wearing a blue dragon robe, sat at the desk, listening to his subordinates' reports with eyes as deep as the sea.
When he heard that An Xin and his men were refused entry to the Chang'en Marquis's Mansion despite holding the imperial edict written by himself, a hint of displeasure flashed in his eyes.
Eunuch De, who was standing nearby, lowered his head slightly and caught a glimpse of Si Han's expression. He felt that the people in the Chang'en Marquis's Mansion had probably had it good for too long.
How stupid is it to ignore an emperor's decree?
You can despise those who come to collect debts, or even refuse to pay.
But if someone is standing at your door with the imperial edict and you don't open the door, not only will this show that you despise the person who is collecting the debt, but you will also be slapping the face of the new emperor Si Han, and you will be despised.
It would be strange if the emperor didn't get angry.
The Chang En Marquis's Mansion is so disrespectful to the new emperor, it would be even more strange if Emperor Si Han could allow their family to live comfortably in the future.
Si Han looked out the window of the imperial study, gazing in the direction of the street where the powerful families of Bei Ming lived.
Up to now, only King Cheng has repaid the money he owed to the national treasury.
The second house An Xin went to was her adoptive uncle's house, but she was also turned away. There has been no movement since then. A dark light flashed in Si Han's eyes.
The old guy didn't put in much effort when he seized the throne of Beiming this time.
After he successfully ascended the throne, he came to him and recounted his blood relationship several times.
It was said that he did not fully support him in seizing the throne, but he remained neutral in order to confuse others...
Although Si Han is the child of his half-sister, he is also his nephew. If he doesn't want Si Han to sit on the throne, who else would he support?
Si Han didn't know whether his cheap uncle believed this or not, but he didn't believe it anyway.
If it weren't for the fact that the Taiwei held great military and political power and was known as the head of the world's military officers, Si Han would have wanted to destroy it long ago.
Not to mention that Si Han intended to kill those ministers who disregarded his imperial edict and did not take him, the new emperor, seriously.
Meanwhile, back at the Taiwei Mansion, Gu Mingde looked at the letters he had torn into pieces and the porcelain fragments that filled the study, and used great willpower to suppress his anger.
He called his trusted butler to withdraw the funds from his various properties as quickly as possible.
In order to keep the unknown secret between himself and his stepmother when they were young, Taiwei Gu Mingde had to bow to An Xin and decided to return the money that the Gu family had embezzled from the national treasury over the years.
General Gu looked at the boxes of silver being pulled out of the mansion with an expression of extreme anger in his eyes.
He was angry at An Xin, the ignorant envoy from a foreign country, for actually daring to come to his house to collect a debt.
General Gu angrily crushed the jade pendant in his hand into two pieces. If it were any other official from Bei Ming, they would never dare to come to his house to collect debts even if they had the emperor's edict in their hands.
He knew that Si Han decided to use An Xin as an envoy from another country this time, not only because he knew that this long-standing bad debt of the national treasury was difficult to collect, but also because he was targeting him as the biggest debtor.
As far as he knew, the maximum amount of silver that other families could borrow from the national treasury would not exceed 500,000 taels.
And because his Gu family had been heads of powerful officials in Bei Ming for generations, they thought that it would be a bastard not to take advantage of an opportunity, so of course they could borrow even more silver, a total of over one million taels of silver.
"Okay, okay," General Gu's face was full of anger, and his tone was sinister, "You are so good, Si Han, you just took the throne and you targeted me."
"Do you think that a bastard like you can sit firmly on the throne without my support?"
General Gu watched the last cart of silver being taken away, suppressing his anger with a cold look in his eyes, "Thinking that you can secure the throne of the Northern Ocean Emperor by relying on those secret weapons is wishful thinking. Let's wait and see!!"
After saying that, he threw his sleeves and left angrily.
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On the street where the powerful and wealthy families lived, An Xin looked at Chang Enbo who was about to act like a rogue.
Her expression remained indifferent throughout, as she just looked at him quietly, with a look on her face that said the money was borrowed from her ancestors, and if you want to pay it back, go ask them.
Chang Enbo saw An Xin looking at him silently and thought that he had pushed the responsibility onto his ancestors and An Xin could do nothing to him.
He looked at An Xin smugly, as if he was enjoying a good show, and said that if he wanted to collect the debt, An Xin would go looking for a bunch of dead ancestors, like a scoundrel.
"It's not impossible to ask your ancestors for debts," An Xin said quietly, "Paying back debts is a common excuse. The King of Hell will never praise your ancestors for not paying back their debts."
When these words were spoken, the faces of the people in Chang Enbo's mansion froze.
An Xin looked at Chang Enbo who was about to act like a rogue, smiled slightly, and continued slowly: "I heard that the aristocratic families buried a lot of their deceased elders."
“Since you said yourself that you owed the national treasury this debt, let your ancestors pay it back themselves.
Then I will reluctantly lead people to dig up the tombs of your ancestors and use the burial objects given to them to pay off the debt owed to the national treasury."
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"You..." Chang Enbo's eyes widened in anger, as if he was going to eat someone. He pointed at An Xin and shouted angrily, "Are you still a human being? You want to dig up someone's ancestral graves just to collect a debt."
An Xin's expression didn't even change.
"Didn't you ask me to collect the debt from your ancestors?" An Xin just watched Chang Enbo jumping up and down, his tone unchanged, "Why are you unwilling to do so when I really want to ask them for it?"
Chang Enbo: "I..."
"You are such a vicious woman," Mrs. Chang Enbo glared at her, "You actually want to dig up graves to pay off your debts. We will never allow this."
An Xin smiled and didn't force it.
Digging up people's ancestral tombs and the like, she was actually not very familiar with this business.
So she decided to ask the Chang Enbo Mansion to find a new way to repay the debt.
An Xin walked over and touched the plaque taken down by the guard, muttering in a neither-too-small voice, "I don't know, this plaque of the imperial title was taken openly and auctioned in places where wealthy businessmen gather.
Can you auction it off for tens or even hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, and use it as repayment of part of your family’s debt…”
"You dare!" Chang Enbo was going crazy. He stared at An Xin with red eyes, but he had no way to deal with her.
Today he finally believed that evil will be punished by evil.
In the past, whenever the royal family wanted to demand the return of the money from the treasury, he would act like a rogue in court.
He said that the debt was borrowed from his ancestors, and if he wanted to pay it back, he should go to his ancestors.
Chang Enbo relied on the merits of his ancestors who had followed Bei Ming Taizu to build the country. Every time he said this, no emperor could really dig up his ancestors' tombs to pay off the debt owed to the national treasury.
What Chang Enbo didn't expect was that his rogue behavior, which had always been successful, was useless against the female official in front of him.
This made him feel powerless.
Who could have thought that Si Han could find a scoundrel even more ruthless than him, who would directly dig up his family's ancestral graves to pay off his own debts. This is something a human being would do.