Chapter 47 Emptying the National Treasury for Exile (2)
There are people who can't stump her.
Yun Zhaoxue was dressed as a palace maid, and the other party thought she was a palace maid serving the emperor. However, upon further reflection, they realized that palace maids and eunuchs were not allowed to enter the national treasury.
The guards emerged from the shadows. "Who goes there? Trespassing on the national treasury is a capital offense."
Yun Zhaoxue lowered her head, feigning weakness as she waited for the others to surround her. Then, two silenced pistols appeared in her hands, and she rapidly opened fire on them, firing over twenty bullets in seconds, each hitting its mark. "Bang bang bang!!!"
The guards drew their swords, intending to seize the man, but they had only taken a few steps forward when...
Some were sent flying into the air, their bodies pierced through, their forms faltered, and with a muffled groan, they crashed heavily to the ground, looking down to find a bloody hole in their bodies.
What kind of hidden weapon could be so powerful?
It pierced through them instantly, leaving them powerless after decades of martial arts training. They died before they could even understand what was happening.
The pistol was equipped with a silencer, producing only a muffled thud that the patrolling guards outside the heavy stone door couldn't hear.
Having dealt with the hidden guards, there wasn't enough time to look around further.
He quickly walked up to the mountain of gold and silver jewelry and glanced at it hastily.
The large boxes were piled high with silver ingots, gold bars, gold leaves, fist-sized luminous pearls, and crystal-clear pearls...
Collect, collect, collect!!!
The further you go in, the more treasures you'll find.
Ru ware with sky-blue glaze, Ding ware with white porcelain, Jun ware with purplish-red spots, Tian jade mountain carvings, ivory balls, rhinoceros horn cups, tortoiseshell plates, celadon cups, and glassware.
Shu brocade, Yue silk, kesi (silk tapestry), light gauze, Suzhou embroidery...
Rare medicinal herbs, including thousand-year-old ginseng, blood-ganoderma lucidum, snow mountain cordyceps, South China Sea ambergris, Western Region safflower, Tian Shan snow lotus, rhinoceros horn powder, tiger bone glue, bear bile cream...
There were also all sorts of rare and precious items, including camphor, agarwood, sandalwood, Korean bronze mirrors, Arabian glass, ivory mats, rhinoceros horn belts, and tortoiseshell combs...
There are also paintings and calligraphy by famous masters from all dynasties—collect them all!
With a wave of his hand, he took away all the shelves and boxes that were visible to the naked eye.
Soon, the three-story national treasury, spanning several dozen acres, was completely looted.
That wasn't all. He then threw out a yellow talisman with a poem written in cinnabar from the space and nailed it to the wall in the center of the entrance, so that it could be seen as soon as one entered the treasury.
After taking the money from the national treasury, they went to take the money from the emperor's private treasury. The private treasury was no match for the national treasury. With no time to spare, they waved their hands and put it all into their spatial storage.
On the way back to the Empress's Kunning Palace, we passed by the Imperial Kitchen.
He casually took her private treasury, then climbed through the window into her room, where palace servants were on night watch.
People in ancient times went to bed early; nowadays, even the empress goes to sleep around 8 PM.
Yun Zhaoxue slowly walked to his bedside, took out a box from her spatial storage, pulled out a drawer, and inside was a small black worm, the Heart-Eating Gu she had developed herself.
People afflicted with the Heart-Eating Gu will experience intermittent abdominal pain in the early stages, hallucinations in the middle stages, and organ failure and a life worse than death in the later stages, making them wish they could end their own lives.
If you enjoy poisoning others so much, then you should experience what it's like to be poisoned yourself.
He casually took a few of the most expensive vases, calligraphy and paintings, luminous pearls, and pearls from inside the house before returning to his residence.
She had just left.
There was a knock on the Queen's door, "Knock knock!!"
The old woman knocked twice and then pushed the door open, saying, "Your Highness, something terrible has happened to you."
The Empress was quickly awakened, her tone tinged with displeasure at being disturbed, "What is it?"
"The Crown Prince of Wei is dead!"
Upon hearing that her nephew was dead, the Empress's pupils constricted sharply. "Dead? How did he die? Who did it?"
"The Prime Minister of Qin pressured the jailers of the Dali Temple and tortured the Crown Prince of Wei. The Crown Prince couldn't withstand it and died."
The Empress gritted her teeth, a fire burning in her heart, "Damn Prime Minister Qin, how dare he kill my nephew."
She had found a scapegoat and was just about to get Wei Bao out when he suddenly died.
At this moment, a palace maid hurriedly stepped into the hall.
"Your Majesty, Princess Zhaoxue is unwell and suffering from severe abdominal pain. She has been writhing in agony on the bed for half an hour and has fainted. Her maid is crying and begging someone to fetch the imperial physician. What do you think..."
The Empress summoned Yun Zhaoxue to the palace to save Wei Bao, but now that he's dead, there's no point in keeping her in the palace.
The Empress was still furious. It was all Yun Zhaoxue's fault for being so tactless. If she had compromised and revealed the mastermind earlier, her nephew Wei Bao would not have died.
Why would they find a royal physician for her? She deserved to die from the pain.
"Find a sedan chair and have someone throw her back into the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion. Whether she lives or dies is none of our business."
"yes!"
Yun Zhaoxue walked for more than half an hour from the Empress's Kunning Palace to the national treasury and then to the Emperor's private treasury. Her legs were weak. When she left the palace, she was offered a sedan chair. Suddenly, she felt that the Empress was a really nice person.
Next time, I'll treat him with a friendlier Gu worm, but there probably won't be a next time.
The palace will soon be breached, and the emperor, his concubines, ministers, and their families will be taken to the north as slaves by the enemy. How pitiful!
The next day, early morning.
The imperial chefs and palace maids and eunuchs dressed up and went to the kitchen to get busy as soon as they opened their eyes.
The wooden door was pushed open forcefully, making a 'creak!' sound.
I found the kitchen empty. I thought it was my imagination, so I rubbed my eyes and looked again, but it was still empty! ??
Suddenly, I felt a chill on my neck; in an hour, the noble ladies in the harem would be having their breakfast.
What if they can't make breakfast, and the nobles get angry and threaten to drag them out and behead them?
They haven't lived enough yet, they don't want to die. Who did it?
Hurry up and step forward to take the blame.
"What happened? Who was the last to leave? Who came into the kitchen last night?"
"I don't know. We left together last night, and I remember everything inside was fine before we locked the door."
The first person to enter the kitchen said, "It wasn't locked when I came in."
The person standing by the door took down the lock hanging on the door and found that the lock had been pried open.
"The lock is broken. A thief must have broken in. It must have been someone who stole it."
"There were so many things in the kitchen, even the table is gone. The palace is heavily guarded, how did they manage to do that?"
"It's the Prince of Zhenbei! The wronged spirit of the Prince of Zhenbei has returned."
"I heard that people outside the palace are saying that he died with his eyes open in disgrace, and that he emptied the mansions of more than a dozen ministers, as well as the East Palace storeroom. Now it's the palace's turn."
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The Emperor's Sleeping Room and the Funing Palace.
The eunuch outside the palace whispered, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, something terrible has happened!"
The Emperor had been in high spirits last night after favoring a beautiful woman, but was suddenly awakened by this disheartening news. His eyes darkened, and he sat up, asking, "What's all this shouting about?"
"The national treasury has been emptied, just like the treasury of the Crown Prince's palace and the ministers' treasury. Nothing is left, it's all empty."
Upon hearing this, the emperor suddenly stood up, but his body swayed and he lost his balance, falling forward.
The eunuchs and concubines rushed over to help him sit down.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you must take good care of your health."
The emperor's chest heaved violently, his face turned ashen, veins bulged on his forehead, and his fingertips trembled as he pointed towards the door.
"It's empty, completely emptied. Even dozens of cartloads wouldn't be enough to move all this stuff. Thieves infiltrated the palace; were the Imperial Guards and the secret police just sitting around doing nothing?"
The eunuch replied in a low voice, "The Imperial Guards didn't find anything. The secret guards inside have all disappeared, leaving only a pool of blood. However, the other side left a yellow talisman with a poem written on it."
"What did you write? Present it!"
The eunuch knelt on the ground, trembling all over. "The yellow talisman was taken out of the storeroom and suddenly caught fire and burned to ashes. However, a guard still remembers the contents of the talisman. He can read it to the Emperor."
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