Shang Ruoyi looked at the Western Region Emperor's brow calmly, and a look of understanding flashed in her eyes.
"People have already seen it. Little Princess, do you want to go and see the Queen Mother?"
"That's exactly what I meant." She looked at Jun Zegan and said softly, "Brother, the Queen Mother is not feeling well. You can come to Ningshou Palace to look for her in half an hour. Father has repeatedly told us to return home quickly if there is nothing else."
"good."
Jun Yunting frowned slightly when he heard this. He asked Jun Zegan to enter the palace today and did not want him to go back. Now the treasury is empty. To be precise, the Western Region has become an empty shell. Not to mention the military chaos, it is very difficult to maintain the normal operation of the royal family.
Nowadays, the richest place in the Western Regions is the Prince's Palace in the city.
Shang Ruoyi knew his plan for the palace in Wangcheng, so she ordered people to guard the palace just in case.
After Shang Ruoyi left, Jun Yunting sat in the main seat and said with a smile: "Ze Gan, I have something to discuss with you."
Jun Zegan naturally knew his intention and whispered, "What do you want, Prince?"
"Ze Gan, why are you so unfamiliar? Putting aside your identities, you can be cousins." Jun Yunting patted his arm: "Privately, we can call each other brothers."
"Although we are cousins, the etiquette between monarch and subject cannot be abolished. You, the crown prince, the future monarch, how can you two call each other brothers?"
Seeing that this tactic of getting close to you didn't work, Jun Yunting smiled awkwardly: "That being said, in my heart, you are no different from your biological brother, and you are even closer than a biological brother."
This was not a lie. After all, although his other brothers were commoners, they were all competitors for the throne to him. Fratricide was common in the royal family.
"The prince hasn't said anything yet that he wants to discuss with you?"
"It's nothing." Jun Yunting said in a low voice: "I just want to borrow some money from your palace." He looked at Jun Yunting, rubbed his hands a few times, and said embarrassedly: "I believe you have heard that the national treasury has been robbed, and my father's private treasury has also been robbed. The court can't get any money. My father is seriously ill, and now even the expenses of the palace have become a problem. Among my father's brothers, only your City Palace is loyal to my father. Now that my father is in trouble, you are the only one he can think of."
Jun Zegan sneered in his heart when he heard this.
Loyal?
They were indeed loyal, but what was the result? Isn't he suspected by the emperor?
His father and the emperor are brothers! Brothers!
What's the use of that?
Don't you want to be used as a pawn? serve as hatchet man?
When the tip of the gun stops and breaks, it will be the end of the King's Palace in the city.
"It's not impossible to borrow money, but how much money would you like to borrow, Prince?"
Jun Yunting's face turned a little ugly when he heard this.
He thought he had asked to borrow money, but given the King of the City's character, how could he really accept it?
They will definitely say that what they have now is the gift of the emperor, and now that the country is in trouble, even if they empty the entire City Prince's Palace, they can fill this hole.
He never expected that Jun Zegan would say the word "borrow".
Seeing that he didn't speak, Jun Zegan asked again: "Your Highness the Crown Prince?"
Jun Yunting came back to his senses and whispered, "Three million taels."
"How many?"
"Three million taels."
"No." Jun Ze said bluntly, "I can't borrow it."
Jun Yunting couldn't help but feel a little annoyed when he heard this: "What do you mean by this? I borrowed it, but I won't return it."
Jun Zegan waved his hand: "Prince, you misunderstood. Our City Palace does not want to borrow it, but we don't have it."
No?
How is that possible?
Seeing his look of disbelief, Jun Zegan couldn't help but smile and said, "I think the prince should know that you and your father have been stationed at the border all year round, and we don't have much time to go back home throughout the year. Especially after my mother passed away, we sometimes didn't go back to the capital for several years. The palace didn't have much property before, and now it has even less. The silver earned is mostly used for palace expenses, and the silver left is all the rewards from the emperor when he returned victoriously before. A total of only a few hundred thousand taels. I think these are all registered in the court, and you can ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to check. If you can borrow a few hundred thousand taels, then the ones that the emperor rewarded before can be lent to you. If you want three million taels, you can't get it even if you sell the city palace."
Hearing him say this, Jun Yunting was not sure whether what he said was true or not.
"Also, if you want to borrow these hundreds of thousands of taels, please write a note and pay it back in the future."
Hearing him say this, Jun Yunting's face turned even worse.
Hundreds of thousands of taels, and an IOU?
"Now Ruoyi has reached the age of marriage. She has just returned to the palace and will get married in the future. Father wants her to be a daughter of a concubine and only a sister, so he must prepare a generous dowry. This silver was originally intended to be used as her dowry."
When Jun Yunting heard this, his head began to buzz.
A city king's mansion, with such a small amount of savings, is it possible to deceive a three-year-old child?
When he mentioned Shang Ruoyi, he thought of Jun Luoyun. He remembered that a hairpin on Jun Luoyun's head cost hundreds or even thousands of taels, not to mention a complete set of headwear. He remembered that the third princess once complained to him that Jun Luoyun lived more like a princess than they did.
How come you had money back then but are now penniless?
If you don't want to borrow, then don't borrow. What are you looking for to borrow here?
Unfortunately, this excuse made him unable to refute.
And give it to Shang Ruoyi as a dowry. As a prince's consort, who else does she want to marry? Would He Jingheng allow her to marry someone else?
Not to mention whether he likes it or not, no man would agree to it just for the sake of face.
But seeing that he was talking nonsense seriously, Jun Yunting had no choice. Now the people in the court were in turmoil, and they still needed the City Prince's Mansion to stabilize the morale of the army.
Seeing that he stopped talking, Jun Zegan whispered, "Go back now and have someone send the silver."
Hundreds of thousands of taels of silver could not sustain it for long. If the City Prince's Mansion could not provide the silver, he would have to use the silver from the Crown Prince's Mansion to make up for it.
But how could he be willing to do that?
These were saved by my mother, so that I could use them in emergencies when the time came.
If the emperor wakes up and investigates the whereabouts of the money, he might become suspicious of me.
After all, several million taels is not a small amount.
But if you don't bring it, I'm afraid there will really be problems.
At this time, he set his eyes on Concubine Xiao who was attending to the sick in the inner room.
However, Concubine Xiao was his father's favorite concubine, and she was from the Xiao family, so she must have a lot of money. Even his maternal grandfather Yu's family was inferior to the Xiao family.
늀At this moment, a young eunuch came in and whispered, "Your Highness, the Queen is in love."
"Since the Queen has something to discuss with His Highness, I will take my leave first."
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