As soon as Jiang Yueyang saw Emperor Yuan’s guilty look, she knew that he remembered that he owed people wages.
[Your Majesty, this old rascal is too shameless! If Qingming and Guyu hadn't met me, half a year's salary would have been wasted. ]
System: [Host, I am not deliberately contradicting you. Are you so sure that you can get your wages back from the emperor? ]
[Of course, if he is not afraid that the whole world will know that he owes money and does not pay it back. The pressure of public opinion is a sharp sword that can kill people in any era.]
Emperor Yuan swallowed his saliva. It was just a little money. Was it necessary to make the whole world know about it?
The Queen Mother held her forehead helplessly and thought, "It seems I have to clean up this mess again."
What did I like about Your Majesty back then?
Hmm...it seems like I'm attracted to his face.
Beauty can mislead people...
Jiang Yueyang narrowed his eyes, raised the corners of his mouth, and smiled: "Your Majesty, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, I will explain it to you. Yesterday, I took Qingming and others to the street to buy things, but they said they had no money.
I felt strange at the time. Your Majesty is such a generous person. He just gave me a thousand households of food. How could they be poor when they work for Your Majesty?"
The Queen Mother couldn't help laughing, and the clever little boy even knew to compliment His Majesty first.
I just don't know whether Your Majesty will accept the challenge.
Jiang Yueyang continued, "Later, I asked and found out that it was the person in charge of money under Your Majesty who refused to pay them their monthly wages."
She wanted to directly say that Emperor Yuan did not pay them wages, but after thinking it over, she gave him a way out.
Emperor Yuan looked away guiltily, "Is... is there such a thing? No?"
Jiang Yueyang laughed angrily, [It seems that His Majesty is determined not to give the money. ]
[Host, I think the emperor may not be unwilling to give it, but he is unable to give it. ]
【What do you mean? 】
[As far as I know, his private treasury now only has 398,600 coins.]
It sounds like a lot at first, but when converted it's less than 310 taels of silver. (One tael of silver = 1,000 wen)
Jiang Yueyang subconsciously calculated in his head, and then suspected that he had heard it wrong, "Xiaogua, did you miss a few boxes of gold bars? Your Majesty's entire net worth is only a little over 300 taels?"
System hehe, [The emperor has no gold bars, only copper coins. ]
Emperor Yuan lowered his head in shame. If he had money in his pocket, who would want to withhold wages?
The Empress looked at Emperor Yuan with mixed feelings. She knew that His Majesty was poor, but she didn't expect him to be so poor.
Jiang Yueyang really didn't expect that Emperor Yuan would be so poor, and couldn't help but look at him with sympathy.
An emperor like him has so little money.
The system saw this and asked: [Host, are you unable to bear it? ]
Hearing this, Emperor Yuan's eyes lit up and a glimmer of hope ignited in his heart.
But the next second, hope was shattered.
[No, it is only natural to pay back debts. Qingming and his men are risking their lives to make money, so they deserve more sympathy than Your Majesty. Besides, isn't there a national treasury? The national treasury can't be without money, right?]
[He can’t touch the money in the national treasury. Your father, the Minister of Finance, is very impartial and selfless, and the emperor can’t get any money from him.]
[I don't care. I must get Qingming and the others' wages back today. Otherwise, I will write all of your majesty's scandals into a storybook and circulate it throughout the world!]
Emperor Yuan: You are so cruel!
Jiang Yueyang stopped talking nonsense with the system and continued to fight with His Majesty.
"Your Majesty, if this is true or not, you will know it once you check. Qingming and the others were once your people, don't you know what kind of people they are?"
Emperor Yuan admitted defeat, "I will have someone investigate later. If someone really embezzled their wages, I will definitely return the money to them."
"Your Majesty, please have someone investigate now. I will wait here."
Emperor Yuan was in a dilemma and secretly reached out to pull the Empress's clothes.
Jiang Yueyang, this troublesome girl, will not give up until she gets the money today.
But he has no money to pay back!
The Queen sighed helplessly, "Master Xiao Jiang, I believe in you. I wonder how much wages they still haven't received during Qingming Festival?"
"Half a year, a total of 1,800 taels for the two of them."
"Isn't the monthly salary for half a year 1,200 taels?" Emperor Yuan asked with gritted teeth.
Jiang Yueyang said as a matter of course: "Your Majesty, if you deposit money in a bank, you will get interest. It has been delayed for half a year, so you must pay some compensation."
Emperor Yuan was just about to say, "Is that one point?"
Then I heard Jiang Yueyang and the system say: [Little melon, I think I am a really kind-hearted girl.]
System: […Host, do you know what you are saying? ]
Emperor Yuan: Do you have any misunderstandings about yourself?
Jiang Yueyang snorted at the system, "I didn't expose the fact that His Majesty put Qingzhi by my side, and I also said that the salary he owed Qingzhi was interest, giving him enough face. Isn't this considered kind-hearted?"
System: [Okay! The host is the most kindhearted girl in the world.]
Emperor Yuan then remembered that there was a green branch and immediately shut up.
The Queen Mother said at the right time: "Master Xiao Jiang is right. Compensation should be paid. Someone, bring the silver over."
After a while, Aunt Shang brought over 180 taels of gold.
Jiang Yueyang looked at the gold ingots in the box and sighed, "The Queen is still very wealthy."
[That's right!] The system agreed, [The Queen's family is among the top ten in terms of financial resources in Daxia. Back then, the Queen married the Emperor with a huge dowry.]
[How much betrothal gift did Your Majesty give? ]
[Not much, all in accordance with the ancestral system. And over the years, the emperor has also spent a lot of the queen's dowry. ]
Jiang Yueyang clicked his tongue twice, [Shame on you, Your Majesty, you are actually spending your wife's dowry. ]
Emperor Yuan's face turned red after hearing what Jiang Yueyang said, and his ears turned as red as if they were about to bleed.
The Empress was afraid that Emperor Yuan would get angry and embarrassed, so she asked, "Master Xiao Jiang, is the amount of gold correct?"
Jiang Yueyang immediately came back to her senses, "By the way, thank you for your consideration, Madam."
"It's getting late, Lord Xiao Jiang, why don't you go to the Hall of Supreme Harmony first?"
Hearing this, Jiang Yueyang tactfully bowed and said, "I will take my leave."
After saying this, she bowed and took a few steps back before turning around and walking out of the hall.
She looked at the gold in her hands, and suddenly thought that since Emperor Yuan had withheld wages for Qingming and others, he must have also withheld wages for other secret guards.
Thinking of the secret guards who had saved her, she also wanted to help them.
But His Majesty has no money, how can we make him rich?
Jiang Yueyang suddenly thought of something and asked: [Xiaogua, do you know who the corrupt official is? ]
【Host, why do you ask this? 】
[I want His Majesty to raid the homes of corrupt officials so that he can have money to pay the secret guards.]
When Emperor Yuan heard this, his heart instantly warmed up. It seemed that this girl Jiang Yueyang was kind-hearted.
System: [I see…]
[Stop saying this and that.] Jiang Yueyang interrupted him, [Tell me whether you have it or not.]
【have. 】
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