When the emperor heard Zhou Qiongyue say this, his expression was stunned. "This isn't just my cousin talking about you two. How can you let a child do whatever he wants?"
Zhou Qiongyue raised an eyebrow. "What else? Kang'er will be a prince in the future. He won't have to worry about anything. He will have three generations of wealth. He can live whatever life he wants! As long as he understands the rules and doesn't make stupid mistakes, it will be fine."
Zhou Qiongyue's words left the emperor speechless, but he didn't have the courage to refute.
Because no matter how much the emperor loves his cousin, he would never make Yuan Chaokang a prince.
Yuan Chaokang's title of a prince was the limit of his rank, after all, Yuan Chaochang was already a prince. If one family produced two princes, the honor and favor would be too much.
Emperor Li Jingchen was silent for a long time, and only managed to say this: "Another day of envying Yuan Chaokang for his reincarnation."
Zhou Qiongyue still flattered the emperor, "Your Majesty, cousin, you are joking. Only others can envy you."
Li Jingchen didn't want to beat around the bush with Zhou Qiongyue. "Just tell me how you can manage these businesses."
When Zhou Qiongyue heard her cousin say this, she sighed deeply in her heart. Now that her second cousin was the emperor, if he insisted on letting her take charge, she really couldn't hand it over.
After figuring this out, Zhou Qiongyue quickly started to plan for her future. "Cousin, let's be honest. How long do you want me to be in charge?"
The emperor actually hadn't thought about this problem. Anyway, he only trusted his cousin at the moment.
After all, Prince Fu'an's Mansion is already wealthy, and my cousin herself has quite a bit of dowry. Plus, if my cousin manages the business occasionally, it should be quite a bit as well.
Who else wouldn't want to make some money after seeing so much?
Li Jingchen said truthfully: "I really haven't thought about this issue yet, cousin, you take care of it first!"
The emperor had said so, what could Zhou Qiongyue do? She could only bite the bullet and accept it.
Zhou Qiongyue was thinking at this moment that when she returned home, she would start teaching her youngest son, who was extremely smart and had free time, how to do business.
When he grows up, she can leave him to take care of him. This way, it won't affect her retirement life. The more Zhou Qiongyue thought about it, the more she felt that this idea was feasible.
Otherwise, if the emperor kept letting her take charge, wouldn't she have to earn money for the rest of her life? Being able to earn money and wanting to earn money were two completely different concepts.
After the most important matters were settled, Emperor Li Jingchen couldn't wait to ask the question that concerned him the most, "Cousin, where did you put all this silver? Or did you exchange it for banknotes?"
"I felt the silver notes weren't safe enough, mainly because there were too many of them, and I was worried the bank would run away. So I exchanged some of them for gold in neighboring countries, and some for silver. I even bought a bank to store them.
Your Majesty, what do you think will happen next?"
Zhou Qiongyue now has the attitude of doing whatever the emperor says.
The emperor thought about it for a while and decided that he should send someone to take over. Otherwise, with so much money on the farm, he would not be able to sleep well.
When Zhou Qiongyue heard the emperor's order, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. She was under a lot of pressure with so much silver in her hands.
"I will prepare for the handover when I return. When the time comes, you, my cousin the Emperor, can just send someone over. We will need to check everything on the spot."
Zhou Qiongyue's meaning was very clear, which was to let the emperor choose the right person, and after the handover, any problems that arose would not be her responsibility.
The emperor obviously understood what Zhou Qiongyue meant. He nodded solemnly and said, "I will pay attention to it."
Having talked about this, we have basically finished talking about the serious business.
Zhou Qiongyue and the Emperor talked a lot about business, and Zhou Qiongyue was very forthcoming. She wished the Emperor would learn everything on his own and take the business back to him.
When the retired emperor and the empress dowager returned, they saw Zhou Qiongyue and the emperor having a very pleasant conversation.
The Emperor smiled and said to the Queen Mother, "You're still worried, don't you see they're having a good chat?"
The Queen Mother suppressed her urge to roll her eyes, left the Emperor behind, and walked straight towards Zhou Qiongyue and the others.
The retired emperor looked at Zhou Wenshi, who seemed to have a more bad temper after becoming the empress dowager, and there was even more smile in his eyes.
Afterwards, Zhou Qiongyue had lunch with the retired emperor, the empress dowager and the emperor in the royal villa before returning.
Originally, the Queen Mother wanted to keep Zhou Qiongyue in the royal villa for a few days, but she thought that her niece was now in charge of a lot of businesses, and it would not be good to delay her work.
After giving Zhou Qiongyue a bunch of rewards, he reluctantly let her go.
After Zhou Qiongyue returned home, she took Yuan Bohua and the brothers Yuan Chaochang and Yuan Chaokang to live in the farm where they had kept the silver. Zhou Qiongyue even asked the palace for leave for Yuan Chaochang.
The emperor knew that Zhou Qiongyue's taking her family to the farm for fun was just an excuse, so the emperor approved Yuan Chaochang's vacation very readily.
The farm where Zhou Qiongyue deposited the money was just an ordinary farm on the surface, except that there was an underground storehouse in the mountains behind the farm.
If you are not Zhou Qiongyue’s confidant, you won’t know how to open the mechanism even if you go there.
In order to find a place to store the money, Zhou Qiongyue racked her brains for a long time and even personally took people to visit many farms before finding this one that was barely suitable.
Zhou Qiongyue brought the prince and two children to the farm and did not wait for the people sent by the emperor to arrive.
Instead, he took Yuan Bohua and his two children to pick vegetables, pull weeds, and catch fish every day. They even ate a variety of farm food and personally participated in farming.
The whole family had a great time playing on the farm.
The emperor's men came in the middle of the night when Zhou Qiongyue was sleeping soundly. They were acquaintances, the former fifth prince and now Prince Rong.
Zhou Qiongyue was still surprised when she saw that it was the fifth prince. The emperor had been choosing for so many days, and she was quite curious about what kind of person the emperor would choose.
The result is the Fifth Prince! Why did he have to think about it for so many days?
Emperor: Don't I consider where to put the silver after it's brought back? Who should I send to collect it?
When the Fifth Prince saw Zhou Qiongyue, he went over to her in surprise and called out, "Cousin!"
Before Zhou Qiongyue could agree, she saw Yuan Bohua walk up to the fifth prince, arm in arm, and walk up the mountain.
From time to time, the Fifth Prince would protest, "I just wanted to complain to my cousin about my brother. Why is he biting my sister more and more?"
Yuan Bohua thought, let you not tell your own princess, because if the emperor blames them, they won’t be able to bear it.
But Yuan Bohua heard Prince Rong mumbling all the way, so he had to remind him: "That's the emperor!"
"Okay! He's my brother who is the emperor!" Prince Rong Li Jingyu didn't seem to be afraid at all. He was used to clinging to his brother anyway, and he didn't have any ambitions. Without desire, there is no fear!
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