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Chapter 104 Majesty and Shabby Together

The low and narrow Asimun suppressed Qin Jie's arrogance.

Qin Jie walked through it indignantly, thinking in his heart that the King of Jin would not be a man, and that he came here at this moment was to represent the matter of today's investigation, how could he be allowed to go through the side door, no matter what, he should open the door to welcome him is.

It's just that this kind of indignation, he dared not show it anyway.

The deeper he went into the palace, the more oppressive he felt like the top of Mount Tai. Even the ground was too clean, not even a single fallen leaf.

The road to Lucang is long and wide, and it is specially built for Taiping vehicles. The walls on both sides are high and towering, and the bricks and stones pile up. Stop the prying eyes of outsiders.

Every ten steps, there are lampposts hollowed out by Baishi, inside which are candles as thick as a baby's wrist. After nightfall, these candles are lit one by one, illuminating the place into a long street.

The servants who came and went to fetch things held their breaths, and their footsteps were almost silent. When they saw Qin Jie and his party, they saluted respectfully, then turned their backs to avoid them, and only got up when they had all passed by.

The majestic palace, the clean roads, and the silent and steady servants formed a new, majestic and cold King Jin in the hearts of Qin Jie and others.

Everyone didn't dare to breathe, let alone speak, and they didn't breathe a sigh of relief until they reached Lucang.

King Jin's Lucang was not so magnificent as to be frightening. It was the same as the warehouses in the magistrate's office and the transfer department's office. The doors and windows were closed, airtight, and lightless, and the height of the ground was three steps higher than the ground.

A row of lucang, from left to right are seven warehouses including silver warehouse, rice warehouse, cloth warehouse and medicine warehouse.

A sign was hung in front of each warehouse, and there were two guards and a servant standing in front of each door. They were respectful and reasonable, but also very tough. Qin Jie and the others knew that they couldn't do anything when they saw it.

"Where is Ji Shi joining the army?" Qin Jie asked with his hands in his sleeves.

Xie Zhou stood in front of the Yincang door, stepped forward and replied, "The lower official is here."

Qin Jie looked at him and saw that he was very young with a little boy face, so he was not happy.

He himself has a silver basin face, mung bean eyes, a flat nose bridge, and a toad mouth, but when he sees a person with a flat head and a straight face, he doesn't like it. He wishes that everyone in the world will grow into a toad like him.

Withholding his scrutiny, he pointed to the warehouse: "Bring the account book and open the silver warehouse."

Xie Zhou handed the account book to Qin Jie, and the waiter who kept the silver warehouse took the key, and the brass key was inserted into the padlock. King Jin's family property suddenly lit up in the bright light like a little girl who hadn't had time to dress up. Mutually.

Shabby—everyone's first reaction.

In the huge silver warehouse, there are only ten camphorwood boxes stacked in the corner, and the rest of the place is empty, and the sound of the padlock being opened can echo from inside.

Zhu Guangli glanced at it, and felt the shabbyness of King Jin, because the silver warehouse in his yamen also experienced such an embarrassing scene just yesterday.

At the same time, he glanced back at the yamen servants he had brought, thinking that King Jin really made a big fuss, how could so many people be needed with just a few boxes of silver.

His wife's silver at the bottom of the box is more than this.

Qin Jie couldn't believe it, and walked in with the ledger, looked around, trying to see some more money.

"only these?"

Xie Zhou followed him, and said with a smile, "Yes, that's all. The palace has a lot of expenses."

"Large expenses?" Qin Jie couldn't believe it. If you want to know the money and salary of a prince, even if the king of Jin is as prodigal as Zhang Xutang, it is more than enough.

What's more, there are not many people in Jinwang's mansion, he is the only master in the huge mansion, and he only loves hunting and farming, and when it comes to renovating his mansion, where is the money going?
Qin Jie looked at Xie Zhou, and couldn't help but question: "I don't know what kind of expenditure, can it empty out a palace, or is it because King Jin is not strict with his orders, and let the people under him empty him out?"

"Where," Xie Zhou replied calmly, "Qin Xianggong just checked the account books and checked the money. After all, how the prince's money is spent is the prince's private matter."

He stretched out his hand to open the account book for Mr. Qin, pressed lightly on it, and signaled Qin Jie to read it.

Qin Jie looked down with displeasure, only to see Bao Huakui's expenses were clearly written on it.

He closed the account book with a snap, and closed his eyes as if he had been defiled: "What a shame! It's a shame!"

Xie Zhou took the account book with a smile, and whispered in his ear: "Mr. Qin, if you want to whore, the best one is the best. The prince is a good-looking talent, and he is a dragon and phoenix among people. His lady is also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. She is beautiful, gentle, and elegant. ! Daya!"

Qin Jie felt that Xie Zhou was insinuating that he was describing his ugliness, but he couldn't catch the truth in his words, so he could only snort coldly and give orders: "Cha Yin!"

The stewards of the two silver houses hurried forward with silver pair cards and eating silver tigers. Originally, they thought they would test a mountain of silver and a sea of ​​silver today, so they made full preparations and even brought ten of them.

Unexpectedly, the dignified Prince Jin's mansion turned out to be such a small scene, and the stewards of the Yinlou felt that they were overqualified.

The servants and guards entered the silver warehouse together with the people in the silver building, and they counted first, and then the people in the silver building inspected the silver.

When Yinzi was very poor, he met someone, and the job was half completed.

Xie Zhou ordered people to bring in two sets of tables and chairs, and brew some cups of strong tea comparable to Coptis chinensis, so that everyone would be bored and doze off.

Zhu Guangli picked up his teacup and took a long gulp, thinking that everyone knew about the fact that he fell asleep during the silver inspection?
He couldn't help feeling guilty, and silently took another sip.

Zhang Ya Nei was lying on the recliner, watching the tea and snacks in front of him calmly.

It wasn't until everyone drank tea out of boredom that he coughed and looked at Qin Jie: "Mr. Qin, have you heard of the haunted palace?"

"Oh? There are other things like this?" Qin Jie put down his teacup, "It's interesting, the yamen might as well talk about it in detail."

The others also looked at Zhang Xutang with expressions of wanting to hear anecdotes.

Zhang Xutang said with a smile: "There are rumors in the city of Tanzhou that a few young ladies came to visit a ghost in a garden called Jinyuan in the Wangfu, and that ghost can count silver. The monk entered the palace to catch ghosts"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly found that Xie Zhou was staring at him dumbfounded, as if he had just discovered his existence.

He frowned and asked, "Why is Xie Canjun looking at me like that?"

Xie Zhou maintained a look of surprise: "I didn't expect that Zhang Ya Nei was still alive, and no one seeks revenge from you? It seems that the saying that the scourge will last for a thousand years is true."

Before Zhang Xutang could open his mouth, he immediately made a look of sudden realization: "I see, Ya Nei's hands and legs are all for revenge."

Zhang Xutang's face turned ugly for a moment, his hands and feet were stiff, and he really wanted to sew Xie Zhou's mouth shut.

He sneered: "Then you are talking about who I offended? Who made my legs and hands? It just so happens that Zhu Zhifu is here, please give me justice."

(End of this chapter)