Volume 1 Chapter 23: The Plan to Make a Fortune
Xiang Yun sat down and waited for half an hour before Jia Yuan came over with a booklet in his hand, smiling: "Your Majesty, after a preliminary calculation, the total assets of Liu Bu are 1.8 million taels of silver."
Xiang Yun slammed his chair and stood up, pointing at Jia Yuanqi and cursing: "This Liu Bu actually embezzled so much money, which is the blood and sweat of the people. How many people have suffered because of him!
It's a pity to kill such a corrupt official who embezzled money and enriched himself with such a simple blow! "
Jia Yuan looked at Xiang Yun's finger pointing at him, and suddenly his body trembled. He quickly flipped through the list and exclaimed, "Oh, Your Majesty, I just made a mistake. In fact, the total assets of Liu's family should be 13.8 million taels!"
"What!" Xiang Yun was furious. He pulled out the sword of a soldier of the Imperial Guard beside him, waved it in front of Jia Yuan, and said in a gesture: "I should have used this sword to scrape off the flesh of this traitor piece by piece, so that he would know how painful it was for the people when he extorted their wealth!"
Jia Yuan was so frightened that he stepped back a few steps, his face turned extremely pale. Xiang Yun hurriedly stepped forward with a knife and asked, "Master Jia, why are you stepping back? Could it be that you have also been oppressed and plundered by Liu's army, and your body is also in pain?"
"Ouch, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt at all!"
Jia Yuan's forehead was covered with sweat. He wiped his eyes and shouted, "Your Majesty, I was dazzled just now. In fact, the total assets of Liu Bu are 47,180,000 taels, and there are countless jewels and antiques."
Xiang Yun kicked Jia Yuan in the buttocks in anger and cursed: "You old thing, you have poor eyesight and you are not the Minister of Finance. You can't even calculate the accounts clearly. Bring it here for me to look at it myself!"
Xiang Yun ignored Jia Yuan who was wailing beside him, snatched the statistical book and looked through it. After finding that Jia Yuan had no more false reports, he threw it into the flowers beside him and shouted loudly: "Put all of it into the treasury, and go to the next house!"
The next place they were going to was Wang Teng's mansion. After Xiang Yun issued the imperial decree to confiscate the property, the royal guards immediately rushed into Wang Teng's house and sealed up all the property, not allowing anyone to take away a single cent.
Even the slightly valuable jewelry and clothes on Wang Teng's family were stripped off, leaving them with only coarse linen clothes.
This time, a total of 21.32 million taels of silver were seized from Wang Teng's family, which is more than half less than Liu Bu's property. However, this amount is far more than the current silver reserves in the national treasury.
Hearing these figures, even Xiang Yun couldn't help but feel jealous. My goodness, they are just two ministers of state, but their combined wealth is four or five times more than the entire treasury of the Great Sun Dynasty!
These people are simply insane. They must have done everything they could to make money over the years. They are sucking the blood of the dynasty and draining the national treasury dry!
Xiang Yun was in a good mood today. After returning to the palace, he was humming a song while walking. He made a fortune this time. The national treasury was full of money, and he could do many things on a large scale. He would also have money to reward the three armies after the war!
As Xiang Yun thought about it, he couldn't help but feel hot in his heart. It seemed that these ministers' families were very rich. There were only two ministers who helped the country but they had so much wealth. If we raided the homes of all the civil and military officials, wouldn't that be...
Xiang Yun began to calculate in his heart, counting on his fingers, and said with satisfaction: "Well, this is feasible, but we have to take our time. Now the treasury has money, so there is no rush. Since you suck the blood of the dynasty, don't blame me for sucking your blood, you have to spit it out to me!"
All the urgent matters have been assigned. Time will give Xiang Yun the answer. Now Xiang Yun, who has returned to the palace, has nothing to do.
Xiang Yun now found that he had nowhere to go. Qin Su went to the military camp to take up his post and inspect the soldiers today, and Zhen Rou was busy with the ceremony of enthroning the Queen, so she must be very busy now.
Xiang Yun thought for a moment and said, "Go to Yuxue Palace!"
Wang Jiaojiao has been in a bad mood these days. Her father died, all the family assets were seized, and her family was left to live in the open.
If her mother had not asked the palace maid to find her and tell her about this, she would not have known that her family was having such a hard time in the capital.
Yesterday she had used up a large amount of her own gold, silver and jewelry and asked someone to send them out of the palace to give to her mother, just hoping that her family's life would be better.
She is feeling somewhat desperate now. Just a few days ago, she was the high and mighty Consort Wang, and her father was a minister of the court. She was second only to the emperor and above everyone else. Who would not be afraid of her?
But now, everything is gone, even she herself has lost the favor of His Majesty. Perhaps in a few days, even the palace maids and eunuchs under her command will not be able to control her.
Wang Jiaojiao is only eighteen years old this year, still a child. Faced with such a big change, she didn't know what to do for a while.
Suddenly, a voice came to report: "The Emperor has arrived~"
Wang Jiaojiao trembled when she heard this, a little bit unbelieving. His Majesty came to see her?
Wang Jiaojiao rushed out to greet him, and saw Xiang Yun's calm face. She saluted and said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!"
Xiang Yun looked at Wang Jiaojiao, who looked haggard and had messy hair, and couldn't help but frown and said angrily: "Look at what you look like, you don't look like a concubine at all!"
Xiang Yun cursed and walked towards the inner room. He found a seat in the room and sat down. Immediately, a palace maid made tea for him.
After taking a small sip, Xiang Yun felt that he couldn't get used to it. He still didn't understand this thing called tea.
Suddenly Xiang Yun began to think about cola, orange juice and beer, but unfortunately this world has none of those. There is only bitter tea and wine as light as water.
At this moment, Wang Jiaojiao walked over slowly with her head down, and stood beside Xiang Yun without saying a word.
Xiang Yun ignored her and picked up the pastries that the palace maid had just brought to the table and slowly tasted them, scratching his back from time to time, and then continued eating.
Wang Jiaojiao was so worried that she couldn't help crying. Xiang Yun couldn't stand it and shouted, "Don't cry. Why are you crying when I'm here? Don't you like me coming over?"
"I dare not!" Although she said this, Wang Jiaojiao cried even harder. Xiang Yun frowned and pretended to be angry, "I still like the arrogant look on your face that day. It was so beautiful."
"Now you're like a little cat. I don't like it."
Wang Jiaojiao hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, I will never dare to do that again."
Xiang Yun nodded in satisfaction: "Okay, what's the good of you? Go take a shower, change clothes, and clean yourself up."
Wang Jiaojiao hesitated for a while, then left in a hurry, covering her face.
With the emperor's arrival, the eunuchs and palace maids in the Yuxue Palace no longer dared to disobey Wang Jiaojiao. Hot water was quickly brought, and with the service of the palace maids, Wang Jiaojiao came over in a fiery red gold-thread phoenix dress within twenty minutes.
Wang Jiaojiao is the kind of woman who looks very charming. Her eyes, eyebrows, and every move are all a bit seductive. She likes to wear extremely bright clothes in her daily life.
Now she cleaned herself up properly, and when she came out of the bath, she still carried the fragrance of a beauty on her body, and walked towards Xiang Yun against the heat wave.
Xiang Yun, who was bored, was stunned by this scene. He had to say, although he didn't have a very good impression of Wang Jiaojiao at first, this woman was really beautiful!
Otherwise, I wouldn't have looked at her first.
Wang Jiaojiao's temperament is different from Qin Su and Zhen Rou. Qin Su has the temperament of a spoiled and willful young lady. She has been practicing martial arts for many years and has a hot temper. Her body is also very firm and elastic. Although she has a good figure, it is just symmetrical.
Zhen Rou has not grown up yet, her body is not fully developed, she tastes green, and her personality is shy and timid. Although she is very soft, she is still a little girl.
But the Wang Jiaojiao in front of him is different. She is extremely charming. If you don’t look closely, you won’t realize that her figure is extremely graceful, with a nice body in front and a nice back. She is the standard figure for giving birth to a son.
Seeing Xiang Yun looking at her in such an idiotic state, Wang Jiaojiao felt a little happier. It turned out that she was still attractive to His Majesty and she would not fall out of favor.
Thinking of this, Wang Jiaojiao blushed and lowered her head.
Seeing this action, Xiang Yun felt hot all over. He quickly took a sip of tea, stood up and walked to Xiu's bed, and said casually, "Change my clothes."
Wang Jiaojiao was stunned and said hurriedly: "Your Majesty, it's still daytime, isn't it too..."
Xiang Yun was embarrassed when he heard this, and turned his head and said angrily: "What are you thinking about? I'm tired after wandering around outside the palace all day, and now I want to take a rest here with you!"
"Why, I can't sleep in your Yuxue Palace? Fine, I'll go back to Yangxin Palace!"
Xiang Yun was about to leave, but Wang Jiaojiao would not let him. She quickly hugged Xiang Yun from behind and said anxiously, "Your Majesty, please don't leave. It's all my fault. I apologize to you. Just let me help Your Majesty change his clothes!"
"Hmm~" Xiang Yun agreed reluctantly, but he still felt a little unhappy in his heart. This Wang Jiaojiao was really ungrateful.
After changing into a set of clean white pajamas, Xiang Yun lay down on Xiu's bed, covered himself with the quilt and went to sleep.
Wang Jiaojiao, who was standing outside the bed, smiled helplessly and lay down on it. As soon as she covered herself with the quilt, Xiang Yun hugged her from behind.
Wang Jiaojiao smiled shyly and was about to laugh, but she found that Xiang Yun didn't move at all.
"Eh? Why isn't your Majesty moving?"
After waiting for five minutes, Wang Jiaojiao heard Xiang Yun's slow breathing behind her. Her face turned red with anger. This His Majesty actually teased her and fell asleep while holding her in his arms without doing anything?
This made Wang Jiaojiao very anxious. What was going on? She was in dire straits and how could she sleep?
In fact, Xiang Yun did it on purpose. If he had just traveled through time, Xiang Yun might still be in a hurry and would never let go of the beautiful Wang Jiaojiao.
But it’s different now. He has twelve beautiful concubines in his harem. He will never be short of women. He can sleep with whoever he wants every day. This is the privilege of the emperor!
Especially in the past few days, he had vented his feelings with Zhen Rou and Qin Su, and all his eighteen years of virgin emotions had been released. Now, he could naturally resist this temptation from Wang Jiaojiao.
But Xiang Yun could endure it, but Wang Jiaojiao couldn't. She hadn't let Xiang Yun touch her for a long time, and she felt itchy inside.
After waiting for another twenty minutes, Wang Jiaojiao saw that Xiang Yun had no sign of waking up. She couldn't help but think of the earnest words her mother had told her when she got married.
"Jiaojiao, you have to remember that there is no man in this world who can tolerate the temptation of a woman. If he becomes the emperor one day in the future, you have to take the initiative and use your woman's skills to win the emperor's heart. Otherwise, your life will be over!"
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