Volume 1 Chapter 10 Sky-high Price Eggs
Xiang Yun did not stay in the Zhen family for long. After the family had a meal, they left in a carriage.
But this time, the person responsible for driving in the front was Jiang Yue.
In the imperial study, Jiang Yue changed into a linen grey suit and waited somewhat uncomfortably.
In front of Jiang Yue, Xiang Yun was constantly looking through the memorials submitted by the ministers today.
They were all unimportant matters, but one of them was the most difficult, which was the transfer of some court officials submitted by Fuguo Qin Yu.
Xiang Yun was so angry when he saw the memorial. It went without saying that all the people on the list were Qin Yu's subordinates.
If this memorial is approved, I'm afraid Qin Yu will have the final say in the court in the future.
Now that two of the three giants have been destroyed, whichever one is left will be the most difficult to deal with.
It took Xiang Yun two hours to read these memorials, and Jiang Yue also stood in the imperial study for two hours.
Xiang Yun, who had finally finished handling government affairs, looked up at Jiang Yue and said calmly, "Are you tired of standing?"
"I'm not tired," Jiang Yue immediately replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.
Xiang Yun nodded and said, "I am very disappointed with your performance today."
Jiang Yue was so scared that he immediately knelt down and continued to say to Xiang Yun: "You have no opinion, right?"
"No!" Jiang Yue said affirmatively.
Xiang Yun raised his eyebrows, and felt a little relieved. He continued to ask, "What's the situation at home?"
"My parents are still alive, and I have a younger brother who is two years younger."
"Then bring them all to the capital to live, so that it will be convenient for you to take care of them. Let the Zhen family handle this matter." Xiang Yun nodded, and suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Do you like the eldest daughter of the Zhen family?"
Jiang Yue shuddered and explained hurriedly: "The eldest lady is of noble status, and I am not worthy of her. I am just daydreaming all day long."
"You are a grown man, but you are not honest." Xiang Yun teased and said, "There is no such thing as being worthy or not. If you don't disappoint me in the future, I will personally grant you marriage!"
Jiang Yue looked at Xiang Yun with disbelief, and quickly said gratefully: "Thank you for your grace, Your Majesty. I will do my best to serve Your Majesty!"
"Well, accept the decree," Xiang Yun said in a clear voice, "Today, Jiang Yue is specially appointed as the commander of the imperial guards and a personal guard with a golden sword, in charge of the imperial guards, and is granted three thousand pearls and silks, one thousand taels of gold, and enjoys a salary of the third rank. He shall take office immediately!"
Jiang Yue bowed again: "I accept your order and thank you. Long live the emperor!"
Xiang Yun took out a dragon-shaped military talisman from a small treasure box on the jade table and handed it forward. Jiang Yue quickly took it.
"This is the military order that commands the Imperial Guards. If you take this order, my life and property will all be in your hands!"
Jiang Yue suddenly felt that the dragon-shaped military talisman in his hand weighed a thousand pounds. An invisible pressure piled up, making it hard for him to breathe. However, the more courage he had, the more the emperor valued him!
Jiang Yue said quickly and firmly: "I will protect the emperor till my death!"
Xiang Yun nodded in satisfaction. At least Jiang Yue was quite steady. He added, "I have already given you grace. Now it depends on whether you have the ability to accept it!
I give you three days, no matter what method you use, to control the entire Imperial Guard. If you can't do it, you don't need to come to see me anymore!"
"I accept your order!"
Xiang Yun waved his hand and said, "Okay, go down!"
After Jiang Yue left, Xiang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. This time he had taken a risky move with Jiang Yue and had given up his life and property. He just hoped that it was the right choice.
"Jiang Yue, ah Jiang Yue, please don't let me down!"
Xiang Yun held his head and fell into deep thought in the imperial study. The position of assistant to the emperor had too much power. In name, it was to help the emperor solve problems, but in reality it was to decentralize power!
I am still young and have plenty of energy to govern the country. Why do I need to assist the country?
The most urgent task now is to take back all the power, and getting rid of Qin Yu and Wang Teng is the first priority!
"I won't be able to sleep or eat well unless these two are eliminated!"
The more Xiang Yun thought about it, the more headache he had. He simply stopped thinking about it and shouted, "What time is it now?"
A young eunuch came in and reported: "Your Majesty, it is almost time for guarding the palace."
"It's so late..." Xiang Yun looked at the young eunuch and felt that he was unfamiliar, so he asked, "Who are you? Where is Yuan Ping?"
The young eunuch hurriedly said, "My humble name is Li Ergua, Your Majesty, you can just call me Xiao Guazi. It was Eunuch Yuan who asked me to come here, saying that I would serve Your Majesty from now on."
Xiang Yun nodded. He remembered asking Yuan Ping to call such a person, so he didn't care and said, "Little melon seed, go to Shufangzhai."
In Shufangzhai, Zhen Rou had already received the notification that His Majesty was coming, so she was waiting outside with her people. When she saw Xiang Yunxing coming, she bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I greet you. May Your Majesty be blessed with good health."
"Hmph, I'm uneasy!" Xiang Yun scolded with a smile, and picked up Zhen Rou by the waist. Zhen Rou screamed, and was carried by Xiang Yun like a princess into the bedroom of Shufangzhai.
This action caused a round of teasing from the palace maids and eunuchs, so Xiao Guazi quickly closed the door of the bedroom and waited quietly outside.
In the bedroom, Xiang Yun roughly threw Zhen Rou onto the bed and angrily scolded, "You little girl, I treated you so well, but you left me alone when you went to the Zhen family. You are so brave!"
Zhen Rou was embarrassed when she heard this and quickly begged for mercy: "Your Majesty, I know I was wrong~"
It was useless to act cute and coquettish, Xiang Yun deliberately said with a stern face: "No, if I don't punish you today, you won't remember it!"
"Then why did Your Majesty punish me?" Zhen Rou said aggrievedly.
"I'll punish you three times tonight!" Xiang Yun sneered, taking off his clothes while talking. The look he gave Zhen Rou was like a hungry wolf staring at a fat little lamb.
Zhen Rou was horrified when she heard that. Before she could even beg for mercy, Xiang Yun pounced on her with a "wow".
In Kunning Palace, a maid hurried to Qin Su's side and reported: "Madam, the news from the Imperial Study is that His Majesty will stay in Shufangzhai tonight."
Qin Su frowned slightly when she heard this, and said in a cold voice: "I understand, please leave."
Today, Qin Su deliberately put on some blushing makeup, and carefully selected her clothes. She wore a bright red gold-threaded crane robe, and also specially selected a gold-inlaid jade hairpin;
She is dressed so elaborately, I wonder who she is showing it to.
After the palace maid left, Qin Yu pursed her lips, strode to the side room alone, took out a sword, and with the sword unsheathed, Qin Su danced a sword flower and rushed out of the side room.
That night, an old locust tree that had stood for a hundred years in Kunning Palace broke down, which scared many palace maids and eunuchs.
The next morning, Xiang Yun and Zhen Rou sat together in Shufangzhai and had breakfast: a bowl of porridge and two eggs, both of which had just been delivered from the imperial kitchen.
Xiang Yun was peeling an egg when he suddenly remembered the house search that Qin Yu had been responsible for yesterday, so he asked, "Xiao Guazi, how much is this egg?"
The little melon seed who was serving beside him said quickly: "Your Majesty, these eggs are ten taels of silver each."
Xiang Yun frowned when he heard this. Although he didn't know the purchasing rate of silver in this world, ten taels of silver could buy one egg. This price was obviously abnormal.
Xiang Yun asked again: "Do all the palaces and courtyards eat this kind of eggs?"
Little Melon Seed replied, "All ingredients in the palace are purchased by the Imperial Kitchen, so they must be the same."
Xiang Yun nodded thoughtfully, but only ate one egg and held the other tightly in his hand. He turned to Zhen Rou and said, "I'm done. I'll go to the morning court first. You can sleep a little longer. If you need anything, just tell Yuan Ping."
After saying that, Xiang Yun strode away and headed towards the Golden Palace. Jiang Yue had already been waiting outside Shufangzhai. As soon as Xiang Yun came out, he followed behind him to protect him, while Xiao Guazi stood on the other side.
Xiang Yun was still thinking about the eggs. He walked for a while before noticing Jiang Yue. He handed the hot egg in his hand to him and said, "You haven't eaten it yet. Here, eat it first."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Jiang Yue took the egg, but did not eat it immediately. Instead, he put it in his arms.
Xiang Yun continued to walk forward, saying as he walked: "Don't stand behind, come and talk to me."
"Yes" Jiang Yue stepped forward immediately.
"If you need anything, go to Yuan Ping. I will do whatever you want. Just complete the task assigned to you, okay?"
Jiang Yue felt warm in his heart and quickly replied, "I will definitely not let your majesty down!"
"Well, that's good." Xiang Yun suddenly remembered the egg and asked casually, "How much is an egg outside the palace?"
Jiang Yue was stunned, as if he didn't expect Xiang Yun to ask such a question, but he still answered in time: "The prices in the capital are higher, about 800 coins for one string of coins."
Xiang Yun stopped immediately upon hearing this and asked in surprise, "What did you say, eight hundred?"
Jiang Yue thought he had overstated the price, and quickly explained, "The capital city doesn't have abundant products, so many materials need to be purchased from other cities, so the prices are higher than in other areas. If you go to Baocheng near the capital, you can buy 1,500 eggs with one coin."
“Five thousand…” Xiang Yun’s eyes widened immediately after hearing that, and he could no longer speak halfway through his words.
Upon hearing this, Xiao Guazi, who was standing nearby, was so frightened that he immediately knelt down on his knees, crawled on the ground, and dared not say a word.
Xiang Yunqi was trembling all over and unable to speak. He walked towards the Golden Palace in silence, muttering, "One thousand five hundred..."
Jiang Yue also felt something was wrong and called Xiang Yun a few times in a hurry, but there was no response.
Although Xiang Yun didn't know the purchasing power of ten taels of silver, he at least knew that one tael of silver was equivalent to one tael of silver, and eating an egg was equivalent to spending the money for fifteen thousand eggs!
In fact, what Xiang Yun didn’t know was that, because the quality of cultural coins varied among the people, one tael of silver could often be exchanged for two strings of large coins, and the purchasing power was even greater!
Xiang Yun was walking in a daze, when suddenly his chest surged and he spurted out a mouthful of blood. Then his eyes turned black, his body went limp, and he actually fell down.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty!" Jiang Yue, who was following closely behind him, quickly supported Xiang Yun. When he saw that Xiang Yun had fainted, he immediately shouted, "Quickly call the imperial physician!"
His Majesty the Emperor fell ill, and the entire court of the Great Sun Dynasty was in an uproar. Everyone regarded the auxiliary Qin Yu as the backbone and advised him to govern the country on behalf of the emperor.
Qin Yu naturally tried to refuse, but he could not resist the persuasion of the crowd, so he took the initiative to finalize the transfer of some officials that Xiang Yun had originally intended to reject, and all departments implemented it.
Everyone in the court was in high spirits, but no one noticed that Lord Wang Teng had taken sick leave and did not come to the court today.
In the emperor's bedroom, the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the imperial physician Wei Jiyuan removed the silver needles that had been used on Xiang Yun one by one, packed up, and stood up to leave.
Qin Su and Zhen Rou had been waiting outside for a long time. When they saw Wei Jiyuan coming out, they hurried forward and asked in unison, "How is the emperor?"
Wei Jiyuan quickly replied: "You two ladies, don't worry. The emperor is fine. He was just too worried these days and became ill. He encountered something he couldn't get over and became depressed, so he fell into a coma.
Your Majesty only needs to rest and recuperate for a few days and you will recover. I will prescribe some soothing medicine to help your Majesty feel better and recover faster."
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