Emperor Zhengde of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 146 Bribery
Zhu Houzhao stood there in a daze, unable to close his mouth for a long time. He felt that the Taoist priest who disappeared in front of his eyes was probably sent by heaven to help him.

"Yang Aiqing, try to keep this person in the palace, no matter what conditions he asks, you must meet, try to keep this person by my side."

Yang Tinghe stood up, cupped his hands and said: "I obey the order!"

After finishing speaking, he hurried towards the direction where the Taoist priest left, but he had long since disappeared.

Shangguan Haitang waited anxiously. When she heard the Taoist priest say that she was not destined to die, a glimmer of hope was ignited in her heart.

She is such a person, since she was a child, she hoped that she would survive. Although many times her hopes failed, it was better than nothing.

"Master, my uncle said that my fate is not over, but I don't know what to do. Now I am in a mess, what should I do?"

The teacher clasped his hands together, stood in front of his chest and said: "Amitabha, Bodhisattva, bless you, everything will be as good as fate, if there is fate, we will meet again even across thousands of mountains and rivers."

"Since senior brother said that you are not destined to die, you will go out in the future. Stay here for a while, calm down, let your heart calm down, think about it, maybe the Bodhisattva will help you."

After listening to Shangguan Haitang, she wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and pretended to start over.

At the same time, in the Yang Mansion, Yang Yan's left eyelid twitched several times, and then a crow landed on the roof of her house and began to call.

Yang Yan asked the servant girl to go out and have a look, and took some food to scatter on the ground.

After a while, a servant Fei Ye seemed to run over with a letter in his hand, as if he had won some treasure.

"Miss, there is a letter."

Yang Yan beamed with joy, she turned her head and said to the maid next to her, "Ling'er, do you think it's strange? Last night I dreamed that there was a raw horse neighing at home, and this morning there were magpies screaming on the branches. I know that I will receive a letter from the son."

After finishing speaking, her cheeks blushed quickly, then she waved her hand to signal the servant girl to take the letter, and looked under the window.

The more Yang Yan looked at her, her face became redder, and her heart beat harder.

This is the first love letter she has received since she grew up, and it is from a man she has been secretly in love with for a long time. She feels how happy she is at this moment.

When she saw Xinli saying that she would find time to go to the Peach Blossom Villa in the suburbs for a date, Yang Yan's face turned redder with embarrassment.

Zhu Houzhao also vaguely felt that there was something called affection appearing in him.
After the meeting ended, Zhu Houzhao stayed alone in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Ouyang Jing walked over cautiously.

"See Your Majesty!"

"Get up, what are you doing here to see me?" Zhu Houzhao felt that Ouyang Jing was a little abnormal, for example, her chest was more bulging than usual.

"See you, concubine"

"Undo your official robe." Before Ouyang Jing could finish speaking, Zhu Houzhao interrupted her, his face turned slightly cold.

Ouyang Jing blushed, could it be that the Son of Heaven is the closest?
However, this is what His Majesty said, and what His Majesty said is what He said. As a female official, there is no way to resist.

Even if you don't wear anything below, you still have to obey others' orders.

Ouyang Jing was stunned for a moment, not daring to hesitate, she reached out and untied the official robe on her body.

Crashing, many silver currants fell out of Ouyang Jing's arms.

Ouyang Jing was shocked.

"Where did this silver come from?"

"Returning to His Majesty, this is, this is Jing'er's filial piety to His Majesty."

Ouyang Jing replied casually.

"What I'm asking you is, where did the silver come from here, not what are you doing with it?"

Ouyang Jing didn't dare to hide anything, and hastily explained everything that was rewarded to her by the Queen Mother in the past few days.

Zhu Houzhao couldn't help admiring him secretly.

As far as making money, this female official is the number one official in the entire palace, that is, most of the ministers under him are greedy for ink, and their methods are not very clever, and Jin Yiwei often catches them tightly.

It's a pity that she is a daughter, but if she is properly trained, she will indeed be a good financial expert in the palace.

The Empress Dowager rewarded so much silver taels casually, and those court ladies also paid tribute to her, so there must be a lot.

However, this kind of thing, this kind of talk is generally not wanted to be pursued. If this kind of thing is even pursued, then the harem will appear deserted.

Ouyang Jing must be panicked.

"The minister deserves to die, the minister deserves to die, I will never dare again in the future."

"Don't dare? I allow you to take this money in the future!"

Ouyang Jing was stunned for a moment, the emperor allowed herself to collect money?
"However, I heard that you have to pay money from everyone on the official record book. This is not a good sign. I advise you to be more cautious."

"By the way, what does your father do?" Zhu Houzhao asked
"I'm telling you, your Majesty, my father was on duty at the Ministry of Household Affairs, and because he offended his superiors, he was arrested and imprisoned."

"Fortunately, Chen's family saved Chen from prison through money management."

Zhu Houzhao nodded, sighed and said, "No wonder you are so good at making money. You learned it from your father."

Ouyang Jing also nodded and said nothing more.

"Then since you are my female official, why don't you try to clear your father of the crime?"

"Return to Your Majesty, I have thought about this problem, but it has never been successful."

Of course Ouyang Jing wanted to, but she took all the money and spent it all, but in the end it all went nowhere, and she was tricked by the eunuchs in the palace several times, so, many times, she stopped spending money.

However, she didn't give up, she wanted to rescue her father, so she tried every means to collect money, even went to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to ask the Queen Mother how many times she wanted money, and coaxed the Queen Mother to say which beautiful girl Your Majesty is with tonight.

Of course the queen mother was happy, no one in the harem said such things again, and the queen mother liked to hear what she said.

"Okay then, I will give you a letter. Tomorrow, you will let the little eunuch leave the palace and thoroughly investigate this matter for me."

According to Zhu Houzhao's words, Ouyang Jing was moved to tears.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty, I will give you all the money.

puff!

Zhu Houzhao couldn't hold back, and even laughed out loud. This is at most 100 taels of silver, and he still wants to give it to him?
However, it can also be seen from the side that many people in the Ming Dynasty used money to ask for help when doing business.

"Chen, damn it, such a small amount of money is indeed very little, but, Your Majesty"

"You don't leave Yinzi in three and a half sentences?"

"Chen, I should die. It's just that I have a wish. I want to be the richest person in the world."

"Then you might as well empty out my treasury."

"Your Majesty, I don't mean that."

"I know what you mean, but I want to tell you that if you want more money, you have to leave the palace and go outside the palace to do big business, doing business with overseas people, so that you can earn more money."

Ouyang Jing blinked a few times, looking at Zhu Houzhao, this young emperor must really know a lot.

"Returning to Your Majesty, I think so too. After a few years, when I have accumulated enough money, I will leave the palace to do big business."

"You take my money to do business?"

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, he couldn't help but started to laugh again, "Jing'er, do you know that all the money in this palace is actually mine."

"Your Majesty, I know that all the silver in the world can belong to His Majesty, but how can His Majesty use up all the silver in the world by himself? Let the common people use it!"

After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly and said, "Well, yes, she is a talented woman."

(End of this chapter)