Chapter 321 Obstruction

Baili Yunhe carefully looked at the portrait, and then muttered to himself: "Xier, this girl, who is this person, has never said a few words to me."

When An Yunze's eyes fell on the portrait, he felt a little familiar.

But no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't remember where he had seen this face.

He lived in Liangshan Temple since he was a child and rarely went out. The only people he could see were mostly pilgrims who came to the mountain to pray for blessings.

However, he still said, "Your Highness, please make a copy of this portrait for me. This person must be very important to the princess. I want to help find him."

Hearing An Yunze's initiative to ask for help, Baili Yunhe certainly had no reason to refuse, "Okay, tomorrow morning, I will have someone send the portrait to you."

The next day, the copy of the portrait was delivered to An Yunze.

An Yunze put it away carefully, then got up and walked out of the palace.

Baili Yunhe, who was handling affairs in the main hall, heard his subordinates report An Yunze's movements, and his eyebrows relaxed. Hearing that he was going to leave the palace, he did not say anything to stop him.

He just told his subordinates: "Let the subordinate who found him yesterday help him in the capital. If he has any request, as long as it is not excessive, you don't need to report it to me, just do it directly."

"Yes, Your Highness."

The man who saluted in front of the case did not leave after answering, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Baili Yunhe raised his eyes and scanned the other person's face, with a gentle smile on his handsome face.

"Why? Is it difficult?"

The subordinate quickly replied: "It was you who asked me to prepare the silver. Although all the officials of the court sent valuable gifts when you returned, if these gifts were converted into silver, they could indeed make hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but..."

One million taels of silver was difficult for him, the newly arrived prince of Southern Qi, to collect.

It can be said that he had no extra silver in his hands except for those gifts.

But so what?

Silver can be earned again if it is gone, but people cannot be in trouble.

He would never let An Yunze in this life, from a pure-hearted and wise young master, turn into a cold-blooded and ruthless killer, the White-haired Ghost

. "Just say it straight."

Seeing the other party hesitating, Baili Yunhe reminded him.

The man then said, "Even if this part can be exchanged for silver, no one can take so much in a short time, and it will take at least a year and a half to gather a million taels of silver. If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is short of silver, do you want to ask His Majesty?"

Baili Yunhe frowned slightly, but shook his head.

Then he said, "Send these gifts back intact, and let those officials who have given gifts take out silver of equal value."

In addition to these gifts, he can also use some other means to get silver.

"This..."

The subordinates who were doing the work were obviously dumbfounded when they heard this.

Baili Yunhe saw that he still did not move, and his patience ran out: "I have already put the method in front of you, and it still doesn't work?"

"It's not impossible."

The subordinate took a long time to spit out a sentence.

Selling gifts given by others to the other party is simply unheard of and unseen.

Baili Yunhe said calmly: "If anyone does not accept it, just tell me the other party's name and position, and you say one more word, I will definitely not trouble them for such a small matter."

Subordinates: "I understand"

Seeing that the person left, Baili Yunhe retracted his smile.

He knew that by doing this, he would definitely offend many court officials in the capital, and might even cause others to impeach him.

But he didn't care.

Who said that Emperor Nanqi only had him as a son?

The order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did indeed make it difficult for those who had sent gifts.

As soon as the news spread, it was reported to the Emperor.

When he heard that the Crown Prince was saving money everywhere, Emperor Nanqi summoned him to the Yangxin Palace that night.

Baili Yunhe received his father's order and came to the main hall in the dark.

He was dressed in a moon-white brocade robe, standing in the middle of the hall like a zhilan jade tree, with his long black hair casually scattered down and lightly tied up.

"Yunhe greets the emperor, I wonder why the emperor called Yunhe here so late at night?"

The face of Emperor Nanqi sank slightly. There were two ministers in the Yangxin Palace, standing on his right.

The two were dressed in the official uniforms of the court of Nanqi, and even their crowns were straight and neat, without any care.

Emperor Nanqi said indifferently: "A minister reported to me that you have been squandering money recently. Is that true?"

"Yes."

Baili Yunhe answered directly without any hesitation.

This almost made Emperor Nanqi dizzy.

He raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows gently: "As the crown prince of a country, how can you do such a thing? It is simply disregarding the law of the king!"

Baili Yunhe showed a thoughtful look on his face. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly asked back: "Father, I wonder which law of the king and palace rules have I violated?"

"You"

Emperor Nanqi was a little speechless for a while.

Even if Baili Yunhe really violated the law of the king and palace rules, he is an emperor. How can he remember such things on weekdays!

Therefore, the Emperor of Southern Qi could not answer, so he turned his cold eyes to the two ministers who came to impeach him.

"You speak!"

The two ministers, both of whom were historians of the Southern Qi Kingdom, broke out in cold sweats when they heard this, but they did not dare to refuse.

One of them hurriedly said: "The prince is the heir to the throne of the country. He should be based on benevolence and virtue and set a good example. However, the prince actually went to the official's mansion to embezzle money, which is a crime of bribery."

"The crime of bribery?"

Baili Yunhe suddenly sneered: "I just sold my own things to those officials, how can I be guilty of bribery?"

The minister was confronted, his face turned pale and blue: "Where did the prince's things come from? It was from the hands of those officials."

Baili Yunhe: "They themselves gave me gifts to congratulate me for finally coming back. If this can be called corruption and bribery, then there are many corrupt and bribery people in the entire Southern Qi Kingdom. For example, the gifts received at my father's birthday banquet not long ago were much more expensive than Yunhe's."

The face of the Southern Qi Emperor suddenly darkened.

This son actually dared to use him as a shield!

Minister Yu Shi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty is the ruler of a country, so he naturally cannot be compared with other people!"

Baili Yunhe raised his eyebrows: "Oh? I, the crown prince, am not good enough?"

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is the heir to the throne, you should put yourself first and be a role model for court officials, and you should not be greedy for money."

Baili Yunhe raised the corners of his lips: "I don't quite understand what you said, my lord. When I first returned to Southern Qi, I thought this was the right way, after all, many ministers had set examples for me."

The Emperor of Southern Qi frowned, feeling that his son had something to say.

He couldn't help but ask in a deep voice: "Who are the people who set examples for you?"

Hearing his adopted father asking this, Baili Yunhe seemed to be prepared, and he took out a booklet from his wide sleeves.

"These are what I have recently investigated, with all the evidence and witnesses. Please take a look at this list, father."