Evil Girl Reborn: The Eldest Princess, She Takes Manchurian Civil and Military Affairs

Chapter 194 Spring Reopening
Zhou Mansion the next day
Zhou Yu personally brought the breakfast tray to Zhou Wu's yard early in the morning.

"Brother Jade?"

Zhou Wu's eyes widened in flattery, and his gaze slowly fell on the breakfast meal in Zhou Yu's hand.

"Brother Yu, why did you come to deliver food to me in person? Come on, hurry up. Come on, come and get a dozen more exquisite snacks. Brother Yu is here, hurry up."

The boy on the side was kicked by Zhou Wu and ran out of the yard rolling and crawling.

"Brother, sit down quickly."

Zhou Yu placed the tray on the stone table under the pavilion and sat down.

"Would you like to eat here? That's fine."

Zhou Wu said, happily opening the lid, "It smells so good. It couldn't have been made by my brother, right?"

Zhou Yu shook his head slightly, "I got it from the kitchen."

"Delicious."

Zhou Wu took a sip of porridge and looked at Zhou Yu in confusion, "Brother Yu, why are you looking at me all the time?"

Zhou Yu stood up and put his hands behind his back, turning his back to Zhou Wu, "I was tricked out of the capital when I was young and was almost killed by my tribe. Is it because of my uncle and aunt?"

The jade spoon in Zhou Wu's hand clattered into the bowl. Zhou Wu smiled stiffly, "Brother Yu, I don't know. I was still young at that time."

Zhou Yu nodded, "So when you found out later, you were both respectful and afraid of me."

As he said that, Zhou Yu turned around and looked at Zhou Wu, who was pale and said, "I don't care about the tricks my aunt did so that you could inherit the Zhou family. But this time you have violated the law, and the Zhou family will not protect you." Stay with you."

Zhou Wu twitched his lips, "Brother Yu, what did I do?"

Zhou Yu closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "People from the Criminal Department will come later."

Numerous and miscellaneous footsteps followed. Hua Xiang was waiting in the main hall of the Zhou family. Now came officials from the Ministry of Punishment.

"Master Tuesday, you faked the imperial examination, disrupted the examination room, and committed major crimes such as deceiving the emperor. If you are offended, someone will come and take you away."

Zhou Wu struggled immediately after being pinned down, "I don't accept it. I am the son of the Zhou family. Brother - um - let go. Zhou Yu, are you? For the sake of the eldest princess, you will even sacrifice your own brothers."

Zhou Wu's voice gradually disappeared, and Yiman walked out from the side and took Zhou Yu's hand.

"I don't know what you went through when you were young. Can you tell me about it?"

After coming down from court, Yiman sat in the carriage and went around to the market. He sighed as he looked at the people who were hurriedly buying rice.

"Go home."

Lu Bo took a few more curious glances, "Princess, what's going on? Everything was fine yesterday. The rice harvest has been bumper in the past two years. Why is there a rush to buy rice?"

Yiman rubbed his temples, "The case of the second son of the Zhou family was decided yesterday. Although the Zhou family was not implicated, the second son of the Zhou family was.

The emperor was very happy after hearing this. Not only did he praise me, he was also ready to go all out to suppress the family even more forcefully.He probably thinks now that the aristocratic families are all paper tigers. "

"What does this have to do with robbing rice? Is it a family?"

"Yes, it was done by the Aristocratic Family. Before the court went to court, the Aristocratic Family got the news. In just a few hours, the markets in Beijing began to rush for rice. Manipulating food prices and restricting rice grains was a sign of power to the emperor. .”

"What should I do?"

Yiman frowned, "I remember that Jindu also had a batch of rice grains shipped to the princess's residence?"

"Yes."

"Have people set up a temporary food selling point near the Princess's Mansion and sell it at yesterday's market price. Anyway, it's almost summer, so there's no need to save it, just take it all out. Be sure to let the guards guard you with a knife. Confirm the real need. Also, be sure to buy it with money, not charity.”

"Yes, servant girl understands."

When he returned to the mansion, he saw Han Yan already waiting.

"Princess."

"What's wrong?" "Yesterday we discussed a new scientific examination in Chunwei. His Majesty agreed, but he refused to allocate money to fund it.

Most students cannot adapt to the high cost of living in Beijing, and some of them live in temples.If the government does not allocate money, those students will return home soon.Now some people don't even have food to eat, or they have already left Beijing. "

Yiman sighed, "Go and call Hanzhi."

Hanzhi came after a while holding the ledger, "Princess."

"How much money is left in the house?"

Hanzhi glanced at Han Yan and frowned, "You can get four to five million."

Han Yan sighed, "If the princess wants to pay in advance, it's still not enough. It will cost at least one million taels of silver. There are so many candidates, and they all need to spend money on food, clothing, housing and transportation."

Yiman sneered, "Don't you still have money in the East Palace?"

Han Yan quickly bowed her hands and said, "Yes, there is more."

Yiman wrote a note, "Hanzhi, take someone to check the warehouse in the East Palace. I remember there are still about 30. After the death of the emperor, if someone in the palace embezzles money, just take the people from the East Palace to find it." Including the people in the mansion, we must collect enough 100 million silver."

Hanzhi nodded and took the note, "I understand."

Han Yan quickly wiped her cold sweat and said, "Is the eldest princess going to rob her openly?"

Yi Man glanced at him and said, "In the palace, everyone is worshiped and downtrodden. After the emperor leaves, the people in the palace will treat my sister-in-law and Ning Xiu harshly. If they don't come back now, when will they?"

"Yes, yes, the eldest princess said so."

"You go to the East Palace and watch. If anyone dares to go to the East Palace to look for him, let him come to me. I will go and apologize to him with my sword."

"Yes, I understand. But Your Majesty——"

Smiling broadly, "As long as he doesn't take money out of the state treasury, doesn't take out money from his private treasury, and retains talents for him, he's not a complete fool."

They robbed food outside the palace and robbed valuable things inside the palace.

People from the Sixth Bureau of the two provinces in the palace are now hiding away when they see the people from the Princess's Mansion and the East Palace.

Seeing them taking things under clever pretexts, they didn't dare to fight back.

One is because there is a eldest princess who dares to break into the palace with a sword to support her, and the other is because someone brought the report to His Majesty, but His Majesty just summoned the eldest princess and gave him a few words of reprimand.

It can be seen from this that the eldest princess is in good health and your majesty is willing to protect her.

Song Guo looked at the account books in the eldest princess's house and couldn't help but sigh, "Princess, you said that we have managed to save all these things in the house, but we are going to throw them out all of a sudden."

Yiman rubbed his eyes, "It's because the money was spent to retain those candidates who took the re-examination that the emperor tolerated Hanzhi and the others to 'rob' everywhere."

Song Guo pursed his lips, "But our house is still in deficit."

"The money will go out, but it will have greater value. The fiefdom is still there, the shops are still there, and these will slowly come back."

"But why doesn't Your Majesty withdraw money from the treasury?"

Yiman smiled and said, "Either there is no money, or there is another use. Isn't Hezhouyan going to be repaired this year?"

Song Guo nodded in realization.

"Princess, everything is ready. Do you want to deliver it in person?"

Yiman responded, "I only go to one or two inns and temples in the city to deliver money, show my face and then go back home. But you still have to search carefully. There must be some penniless money in those ruined temples and on the streets, or maybe Starving students."

Lu Bo quickly wrote down, "Yes, I understand. By the way, Jiang Lu has been notified. Jiang Lu promised to spread the news about the eldest princess selling her property in a more exaggerated way, but he wants to see you."

Speaking of which, I really haven't seen him since the emperor brother left.

"Then let him wait in the inn where I went."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)