He will soon be able to see his friends.
Beijing
The national treasury has been robbed!
This matter infuriated Zhu Jingchen!
"Investigate! I want to see where these thieves came from, daring to rob the national treasury!" Zhu Jingchen slammed his fist on the table in anger.
Tang Xiuyong and the others knelt at the lower end, not daring to utter a sound. Even though he had been an official for many years, he had never heard of the national treasury being robbed.
Li Tianyou followed behind Tang Xiuyong.
I didn't understand what was going on.
His warehouse has never been burglarized.
How could thieves dare to steal from the national treasury? I wonder which petty thief is so audacious.
"Have you found out exactly how much is missing?" After his anger subsided, Zhu Jingchen asked the question that had been bothering him the most.
"Your Majesty, that man seems to be looking for something in the national treasury," Tang Xiuyong replied cautiously.
After all, the national treasury has not been depleted.
"Looking for something?" Zhu Jingchen frowned. The national treasury was so empty that even mice wouldn't bother to dig holes in it.
What could it be?
If there is anything, it only includes Li Zhiwei's dowry and some silver recently collected by the Ministry of Revenue.
Could it be that there's something in Li Zhiwei's dowry?
Thinking of this, Zhu Jingchen looked at Li Tianyou.
"You may all leave, Lord Li, please stay!" Zhu Jingchen waved his hand, leaving only a bewildered Li Tianyou behind.
Upon hearing this, Li Tianyou's lips twitched.
Why did you keep him?
Isn't Your Majesty trying to make others misunderstand you?
Especially Lord Tang, his own direct superior.
How is he supposed to feel about himself?
"Yes!" Tang Xiuyong breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and did not mind at all that the Emperor had asked Li Tianyou to stay.
You should know that the Emperor is not in a good mood right now.
Whether those who stay behind are a good thing or a bad thing is hard to say.
Xiao Guozhi didn't dare utter a single word.
He had long understood that as long as he followed Li Tianyou in the Ministry of Revenue, he could do nothing wrong.
"Minister Li!" Zhu Jingchen looked at Li Tianyou, tapping his fingers on the table intermittently.
Li Tianyou's heart was also filled with mixed feelings, wondering why the Emperor had kept him behind.
"Your Majesty, I am here," Li Tianyou replied cautiously, feeling somewhat uneasy. It is said that serving a ruler is like serving a tiger, and since the emperor is in a bad mood right now, he should try his best not to provoke him.
"I've heard that when the Li family married off their daughter, the dowry was extremely generous, amounting to a total of 1,360 sets of dowry items," Zhu Jingchen asked Li Tianyou.
"Your Majesty, I was just a merchant before, and I knew nothing. When the Marquis of Ru'an came to ask for my hand in marriage, our social status was far apart. At the time, my wife and I disagreed, but we did not dare to go against the Marquis of Ru'an's family, so we had no choice but to agree to the marriage. We thought that we should prepare more dowry for our daughter so that she could have more confidence in her husband's family."
Li Tianyou replied in a low voice.
He thought to himself, "Didn't all those things go into the national treasury?"
Why is the Emperor asking about the dowry again?
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