Chapter 015 I don’t care, I don’t have money
The next day, Qin Zhaoyue was having brunch.
Last night, I was drunk and I was intoxicated too. I played for a while and drank a little too much. I woke up at a neither too early nor too late.
This is the correct way to start a time-traveling princess, and then she met someone she really didn't want to see.
"Why are you here again!"
Hearing the undisguised complaint in the princess's tone, Sui Mo also sighed in his heart.
If she had a choice, why would she be willing to come?
"Your Highness, I'm here to collect the fundraising money."
What the hell? What are you holding?
Seeing that she was confused, Suimo simply explained it more clearly, "It's the ten thousand taels you pledged at the morning court yesterday."
"No!" Qin Zhaoyue waved her hands quickly, "Did you make a mistake?"
"You're right, I just came out of the palace."
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! This matter..." Qin Zhaoyue winked, "Didn't the Queen Mother tell you? I was just saying..."
"His Majesty said he wants money."
The room fell into silence, Qin Zhaoyue and Sui Mo stared at each other.
"I don't believe it! My mother is the Queen Mother, and her words are law.
We agreed to do this, and there's absolutely no way we'll go back on our word!"
Sui Mo: Hey~~~
If you are so loyal, you should say it in front of His Majesty. Who is snoring openly in the court?
After a lot of trouble that morning, she thought she had finally completed the difficult task, but unexpectedly, something went wrong in the end, and she ended up suffering the consequences.
Sui Mo silently took out an imperial edict from his sleeve and placed it in front of the princess.
Qin Zhaoyue's heart skipped a beat. No way, it can't be ten thousand taels of silver.
I opened it with a nervous mood, and my heart was completely dead.
As for her mother, she is really that serious!
This imperial edict was not stamped with the imperial seal, nor was it issued through the Fengge Terrace. Instead, it used His Majesty's private seal, the "Phoenix Beak Seal," which was inscribed with the words "Mountains and Rivers Within the Grip."
It is not as effective as a formal imperial edict, but it is still an imperial decree. It may be a bit troublesome to deal with ministers, but it is enough to deal with royal princesses.
Bang!
Sui Mo's eyes twitched wildly. The imperial edict said it should be thrown, so it was thrown. If His Majesty doesn't punish her, who else will he punish?
His Majesty has assigned her to do these two tasks. Her future is really worrying.
"Your Highness, please pay the donation as soon as possible to avoid angering His Majesty again, which would be more trouble than good."
Qin Zhaoyue's face was as gloomy as water.
She never dreamed that the empress would go back on her word!
He just dozed off a little during court session, so why should he be fined 10,000 taels?
Ten thousand taels is not ten thousand yuan.
Ten coins for a dou of coarse grain, one liang of silver equals one guan of money, which is one thousand coins, ten thousand liang...
Asking her to pay for it? Just thinking about it made her heart ache so much that she couldn't breathe.
Seeing the Sixth Princess's face darken, Sui Mo delivered a fatal blow at the right moment:
"Your Majesty said that if you don't pay the silver, you can use your shop or farm as collateral, or even give me the land deed."
Qin Zhaoyue:!
The arm cannot twist the thigh, and the empress is the thickest thigh in the Dagan Dynasty.
Why would she, a mere sixth princess, disobey the imperial order?
"I don't care. I have no money. Kill me if you can."
Broken Ink: ...
No, weren’t you quite clever in the Imperial Study?
She had heard that the officials in the court were constantly raising funds.
Guaranteed by the Prime Minister, some officials secretly pledged to pay a much larger amount than the amount pledged in the court according to their official rank.
This is equivalent to a disguised indulgence, but it is only limited to officials in the capital, and it prevents problems before they occur, so the impact it causes is far less than that of an indulgence.
Including the proceeds from the house searches, more than half of the disaster relief funds listed by the Wanmin Division were raised in just one day!
Moreover, the donations they openly seek are all for grain, with coarse grains purchased at a price of 10 wen per dou, and about 30% of it being bran.
Civil and military officials all showed their talents and had to buy at a premium. Fortunately, they could offset part of the cost with bran.
The problem that had previously given His Majesty a headache was solved with just a few words from the Sixth Princess.
With such talent, instead of climbing up the ladder through merit, he is lazy and obsessed with money...
As the emperor's personal guard, Sui Mo couldn't say anything, but if he couldn't get the 10,000 taels of silver, he would definitely be in trouble.
She was already implicated for her misbehavior in front of the princess, and now she messed up again...
Sui Mo didn't dare to think further. Just when she was about to give further advice, she heard the Sixth Princess speak:
"Of course, it's not impossible to discuss..."
Sui Mo's intuition was wrong, and his body subconsciously leaned back, taking a defensive posture, his cheeks tense under the mask, "What are the conditions?"
"I haven't been feeling very safe lately. If the Queen Mother is willing to assign two Blue Luan Guards to serve as my personal guards..."
Broken Ink: ...
Wow, this guy really dares to speak up!
The Qingluan Guards are the personal guards of His Majesty who protect the inner city. Not to mention the significance it represents, the cost of training a Qingluan Guard is more than ten thousand taels, but the Sixth Princess asked for two.
She subconsciously wanted to refuse, but Sui Mo thought about it and realized that this was a matter between her and her mother. What did it have to do with her, a guard?
"Yes, I will definitely tell Your Majesty."
"Go ahead, go ahead. Don't come to my house if you have nothing to do."
Sui Mo: Do you think I am willing?
After the people left, Qin Zhaoyue's face looked gloomy, as if there was a dark cloud over his head.
Even the silly maid didn't dare to speak and huddled in the corner: for no other reason than that they were afraid of having their monthly wages deducted.
Qin Zhaoyue had a premonition that no matter whether he could capture the Qingluan Guard or not, he would not be able to escape the ten thousand taels.
She also knew that the possibility was slim and it was just a matter of trying.
The problem is that there is not much cash in the mansion, but there are still many rare treasures, calligraphy and paintings, cloth and other things in the warehouse.
But those things are very precious, most of them come from rewards from the palace, and the confidence accumulated from childhood to adulthood.
It's easy to sell, but difficult to buy again.
Qin Zhaoyue thought for a moment and decided that it was not the time to sell the property yet, so he stood up immediately.
"Let's go to the No. 1 Restaurant in the World."
She wanted to see what kind of people her predecessor had gathered.
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