Xiao Yuanhe is a wealthy businessman who is as rich as a country, but his roots are in Yanzhou City.
But with his strong financial resources, he can easily buy a courtyard of the same size as the Xiao family's in Yanzhou City in any city in the Dagan Dynasty!
Otherwise, the Xiao family would not have become the fat meat in the eyes of the emperor.
He would not even want to exchange the disabled Sixth Prince, who he considered the least favored and had the least future, for a marriage with the Xiao family!
The emperor's purpose was to use the marriage to legitimately take money from the Xiao family, who were royal relatives, to fill the increasingly empty national treasury!
But Xiao Qingluo could see at a glance that the emperor used this tactic very well!
This move is not a conspiracy, but an open conspiracy!
The emperor used the disabled sixth prince, who was known to the world as having no talent, no favor, and no possibility of ascending to the throne, in exchange for a marriage alliance with the Xiao family!
Even if the disabled Sixth Prince Lu Changgeng becomes a prince in the future and has a fiefdom, he will only be a rich and idle prince, and at most he will be a rich and idle man for the rest of his life.
It is impossible for the Xiao family to gain anything truly beneficial from Lu Changgeng. At most, they would just gain the title of a royal relative!
But the emperor can use the title of royal relatives to control the Xiao family and take money from the Xiao family with justification!
The power of this conspiracy lies in that no matter whether the Xiao family agrees to the emperor's marriage or not, the emperor can legitimately take money from the Xiao family to fill the national treasury!
Because the emperor granted the marriage to the eldest daughter of the Xiao family, and the Xiao family agreed to the marriage, so they are royal relatives!
The country is in trouble. As a royal family, how can it be justified for your Xiao family not to contribute money and manpower to help the country?
If the emperor grants the marriage and the Xiao family disagrees, it would be disobeying the emperor's order and they would be beheaded!
The emperor can then legitimately confiscate the property and put all the wealth into the national treasury!
Get rich overnight!
Xiao Qingluo believed that the emperor actually hoped that the Xiao family would disobey his order!
After all, in this way, the emperor would not even give the Xiao family the title of royal relatives, but would directly embezzle all of the Xiao family's savings!
Why would we need to take some money from the Xiao family now?
After paying the money, I still have to owe the Xiao family a favor?
So, there are two final answers to the previous questions!
One is that the emperor wanted to secretly eliminate all the people in the Xiao family, so that the daughter of the Xiao family could not successfully marry the disabled sixth prince according to the marriage contract in the imperial edict, so she took advantage of the situation and raided the Xiao family!
The other possibility is that other members of the royal family, or some princes and nobles who can cover the sky with one hand in certain places, think that the lowly merchants of the Xiao family have occupied the toilet that their daughter wants to squat in, so they want to get rid of the Xiao family and at the same time help the emperor create a slope to back down, promote the idea of using all the assets of the Xiao family to fill the national treasury, and make a lot of money from it, killing two birds with one stone!
When Menglan heard this, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak!
Menglan muttered to herself in an almost dazed tone, "Miss...are you smart people always so subtle when speaking? So impressive!"
Xiao Qingluo couldn't help laughing out loud.
Meng Lan suddenly thought of something and asked, "So, Miss, do you really have a backup plan in the Xiao family?"
Xiao Qingluo blurted out, "Of course. The world is treacherous, so how can we not make plans for ourselves? Living cautiously is definitely better than dying in confusion!"
Meng Lan looked at Xiao Qingluo with admiration and said, "Miss, you are amazing. You always think so thoroughly!"
Xiao Qingluo smiled slightly.
Did she really prepare a backup plan?
Who knows?
…
Behind the convoy, three figures followed the carriage from a distance.
The three of them were concentrating, their ears twitching constantly.
These three people are none other than others.
It was the peddler who looked like an old farmer and the two big men dressed as rangers!
The old farmer followed the carriage from a distance, his speed seemed neither fast nor slow, as if he was strolling leisurely in the garden.
But the figure was still chasing the carriage from a distance, the distance remained the same, not too close or too far!
Suddenly, the vendor frowned slightly, then sighed: "It seems that the little girl really has a backup plan, but it is not ruled out that the little girl is on guard against eavesdropping.
, we overheard it."
A big man frowned and asked, "Should we continue to follow, or..."
The vendor stopped right where he was and said, "If that little girl is careful and cautious, she won't reveal a single flaw even if we chase her all the way to Xuzhou City. The answer to her secret of whether she has a backup plan will probably be buried deep in her stomach."
…
Xiao Yuanhe sat in the front carriage, the carriage carrying goods was in the middle, and the carriage carrying Xiao Qingluo and Menglan was at the end.
At this moment, on the cargo carriage in the middle.
Yu Huilan and Xiao Ruolian's faces were still pale and bloodless!
Xiao Ruolian was the first to lose control and asked with a wary look on her face, "Mom, how come Xiao Qingluo is like a completely different person? Could it be that he's been reborn?"
Yu Huilan had wanted to say this to Xiao Ruolian a long time ago. Now, hearing that Xiao Ruolian was thinking the same thing as her, she said solemnly, "You're right. I think so too. She, Xiao Qingluo, must have been completely transformed!"
Xiao Ruolian frowned, a hint of jealousy flashing in her eyes: "How could someone who is timid and has never been scheming since childhood suddenly become so smart? I don't believe she has been reborn!"
Yu Huilan's expression grew even more serious after hearing this: "Mother doesn't believe it either! But if this bitch didn't suddenly undergo a complete transformation, then there's only one explanation..."
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