Emperor Ming Yan was furious and ordered the crown prince to investigate the matter personally.
Cabinet Grand Secretary Chen Yunxin, Left Censor-in-Chief Meng Kaicheng, Supreme Court Minister Li Zhengting, Shangshu Zuocheng Xu Qing and others jointly investigated the case, and at the same time ordered Ronggong Huo Qijing to lead the Yulin Army to assist.
All the officials involved, such as the former Ministers, Vice Ministers, and Directors of the Treasury, as well as the Imperial Censors who inspect the treasury every year, are required to be available for inquiries at any time.
The court was not dismissed until 3 p.m., and Emperor Ming Yan was still furious.
The imperial physician was already waiting to feel his pulse. Emperor Mingyan closed his eyes and calmed down for a long time before asking, "Where is Yue'er?"
Gu Jiuxing looked at his face and replied hastily, "Your Majesty, the little princess is fine. The Empress is with her! The little princess said that she was thinking about the incident at Yonghe Palace and was scared... She said that this was a disease called something like post-injury."
Emperor Mingyan frowned and asked, "What?"
Gu Jiuxing knelt down hurriedly and replied: "This old slave is useless. I never remembered the name. The young prince only said that he had experienced something very scary, and then when he encountered something similar again, he would be particularly scared and couldn't control himself."
Emperor Mingyan nodded slightly: "I think she is not right! She is so distraught! Last time, she was really scared!"
Gu Jiuxing was well versed in speaking, and first drew Emperor Ming Yan's attention to him, then he said, "It is an unexpected happy event."
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Emperor Mingyan sneered: "At this time, what kind of happy event can there be!"
Gu Jiuxing hurriedly smiled and said, "The imperial physician said that the little prince is pregnant and it has been about a month."
"Oh?" Emperor Mingyan was delighted: "It is indeed a happy event."
As he was speaking, he heard someone announce that Yan Shiyue had arrived.
Emperor Ming Yan called her in. As soon as she came in, she ran over and hugged his arm: "Aye, Aye!"
Emperor Mingyan touched her head and said, "Don't be afraid, I'm fine."
Yan Shiyue still couldn't suppress her palpitations until this moment. She hugged him tightly for a while, then took a long breath and said seriously: "Aye, you must promise me one thing."
"Um."
Yan Shiyue said: "Before I die, Aye is not allowed to die."
Talking about death to the emperor, the imperial physician and Gu Jiuxing were so scared that they knelt down immediately. Emperor Ming Yan was not angry. He touched her head and sighed for a long time: "You silly child, this kind of thing..."
She pursed her lips, tears slowly welling up in her eyes: "Promise me! Promise me! Aye!"
"Okay," Emperor Ming Yan sighed, "Aye promises you."
He gently touched her head: "Didn't you say you were pregnant? Don't cry anymore, take good care of her, don't worry about her, understand?"
"Yeah." Yan Shiyue nodded, and complained: "If I had known that you had such a low tolerance, I wouldn't have told you!"
This sentence broke the father's kindness and the son's filial piety. Emperor Mingyan slapped her in anger and said, "That's the national treasury! That's more than 7 million taels! Not 700 taels! Not 70,000 taels!"
"I know! I know it's serious." Yan Shiyue said seriously, "Aye, I want to ask you a question."
"Um."
"A beautiful illusion or a cruel reality, which one do you think is better?"
How could Emperor Ming Yan not understand what she meant?
He also answered seriously: "I want the truth, no matter how cruel it is, I want the truth."
Yan Shiyue nodded, then knelt down and said with a serious face: "I, your unworthy daughter Yue'er, hereby sign a military order. Within three years, I will earn 10 million taels of silver for the national treasury. If I cannot do it, I will donate all the money I earn from my business to the national treasury! Not a penny will be left!"
Emperor Ming Yan was both angry and amused.
But the haze that weighed on my heart was blown away bit by bit: "Okay, this is not your fault. Get up quickly."
"No, I'm serious."
She had never been so serious in her life! She called the attendant over and forced him to help write it, then signed and sealed it, and forced Emperor Ming Yan to use his seal as well.
In duplicate, it was written on the paper that three years later, on May 8th, the 14th year of Mingyan, the national treasury would earn 10 million taels of silver.
After finishing writing, he ordered Gu Jiuxing to take two boxes to pack them up. Then Yan Shiyue remembered and said, "But no matter what I want to do, you have to support me, Aye!"
"It's too late!" Emperor Ming Yan glared at her. "You didn't say anything while you were writing, but just rushed forward. Now that you're done, I won't recognize it! I'm waiting to confiscate your silver and fill the national treasury!"
Yan Shiyue chuckled: "It doesn't matter, Aye, just use it if you want! Give it all to Aye!"
Emperor Ming Yan: "..."
Gu Jiuxing said cautiously: "Your Highness, the Emperor hasn't had his meal yet."
"Oh," Yan Shiyue touched her stomach, "I haven't eaten either. I didn't eat yesterday. Hurry up and serve the meal. I'll go to sleep after eating."
Emperor Ming Yan's health was originally very good, but it has deteriorated a lot since he was poisoned last time. This time, he was so angry that it made the situation even worse.
But with Yan Shiyue around, all the anger and pent-up anger in his heart were dispersed by her jokes and military orders. He no longer had what the imperial physicians often called "a stagnation in his heart". Although he still needed recuperation, it was not too serious at all. It was a blessing in disguise.
Yan Shiyue was indeed tired, so after having dinner with Emperor Ming Yan, she went back to sleep.
I was half asleep when I felt someone lying next to me.
Yan Shiyue instinctively murmured, "A Jing." and moved closer. Huo Qijing carefully straightened her out, kissed her face contentedly, and closed his eyes and fell asleep.
When she woke up, he was gone.
Yan Shiyue just felt extremely tired and closed his eyes again, wanting to sleep for a while.
But someone outside said, "Hello, Fourth Master. Our master hasn't gotten up yet."
The Fourth Prince asked, "What time is it now? Why haven't you woken up yet?"
Wei Xin said, "Master was busy all night yesterday and was frightened. The imperial physician told him to have a good rest."
"Okay," the Fourth Prince said, "Then I'll go in and wait."
He came in.
Yan Shiyue opened his eyes when he heard the voice, and Weixin hurried forward to serve him. After Yan Shiyue washed and changed his clothes, he entered the hall. The Fourth Prince was standing in the hall with his hands behind his back. When he heard the voice, he turned around.
While Yan Shiyue asked someone to set the table, he asked him, "Fourth brother, have you had breakfast?"
The fourth prince glared at her and said, "What time is it now? The morning court is over! It's almost time for lunch!"
She said indifferently, "Do you have something to ask me?"
The fourth prince said, "The more I think about what happened last night, the more frightening it becomes! Now that our Great Yan is rich and powerful, and everything is peaceful, who could have thought that such a shocking thing would happen? If you were not alert, after checking the treasury once and finding nothing, you would have thought of mixing fakes with real ones. Such a huge deficit might have continued to be concealed... One day, when future generations want to use the silver in the treasury, they will find that there is no silver to use... That situation is really unimaginable."
Yan Shiyue looked at him and said nothing.
The fourth prince said, "At the court this morning, I submitted a petition requesting that all the silver in the treasury be cast into silver bricks."
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