The white moonlight of the paranoid tyrant was stolen

Chapter 140 Too Heavy
Early the next morning, Gu Ruzhen woke up and was stunned for a long time before recalling what happened last night.

Because she has not had a good appetite in the past few days and it is difficult to eat, so men will take time to go back to Shengning Palace.

But when he came over, she forgot about it again.

After a few times, she hesitated, and simply let it go. She didn't know whether the woman on the left or right side was a man or a woman, and it was still a long time before the birth.

When she was five months pregnant, Cui Ling's mother came to Shengning Palace to greet her and talk about Cui Ling and Wu Zhu.

Gu Ruzhen was not supposed to take care of this matter, but Mrs. Cui herself knew that her sister-in-law was unreliable, and she might lose her face if she went to the Wu Mansion to talk, so she thought for a long time and handed a post to Shengning Palace.

The wedding date is set for next spring, but there will be an engagement banquet in two months.

Gu Ruzhen couldn't go there for the time being, so after Mrs. Cui left, she ordered someone to go to the warehouse to take out small wooden boxes one after another, and then put the corresponding gifts into the list of Cui's family members given by Ruotong.

There was an accident in the middle of the river, and a lot of effort was wasted due to measurement errors.

Emperor Tianqin asked people to investigate with a cold face, only to find out that there were more than a dozen wastes who only knew how to eat rice and nothing else.

Their parents hoped that by spending some money, their son would be able to claim some of the credit. It would be better if he could enter the imperial court and get a part-time job. Even if he couldn't spread his reputation, it would be better.

It would be better if these people didn't do anything, at most they would waste some food, but in order to show their merits, they point fingers and make mistakes, and they don't listen to persuasion. The people below are afraid that they will offend them and can only do what they say.

"I don't know that such a thing can happen under my hands." The man's voice was calm, but he smashed the handout to the ground.

From top to bottom, he took a careful look at the people kneeling on the ground, and the already cold gaze on them made people feel even more frightened.

"Chen, Zhao, Zhou, Yuan..." Every time a surname was mentioned, sweat beaded on the forehead of the relevant officials, and their bodies trembled non-stop.

They thought for a long time, but they didn't have the courage to stand up and intercede, so they could only kneel on the ground and pray to His Majesty the Gods and Buddhas to let them go.

"Use money to send my son in, and if you show it between your fingers, it's 1 taels or 2 taels?" Emperor Tianqin caressed the beads on his wrist one by one, and said something in a low voice. , "It seems that your family is really rich."

Hearing this, one of them came out on his knees, and kowtowed with a "plop", "I would like to hand over half of my wealth to the state treasury."

After him, the other people seemed to have thought it through, and came out one after another, saying that they would hand over the money or other things from the family to the state treasury.

But no one has the courage to say that he will hand over half of his net worth like the first one.

Even if half of it is left, they still have a lot, enough to eat, drink and wear for several lifetimes, but they are reluctant.

Emperor Tianqin watched quietly, did not speak immediately, but slowly stroked the beads in his hand.

Wei Sheng, who was kneeling on the side, raised his eyebrows, then moved slightly, shrunk to the side, thinking while shrunk, it seems that this day...is really going to change.

In the past two years, Emperor Tianqin seldom got angry, and even seldom punished people, so everyone gradually forgot what he did in the past.

After not hearing the response from above for a long time, everyone panicked.

I don't know how long it took before Emperor Tianqin casually called towards the door, "Cui Shao."

Cui Shao immediately walked over with fists folded, the sword on his waist collided with the armor on his body, making a pleasant and frightening sound.

"Put them... into the sky prison, and the others..." He saw some of them couldn't help raising their heads with surprised eyes, and said two words slowly, "Chasing the house."

The courtiers who were taken away by the imperial guards were terrified when they heard these two words, and hurriedly struggled to kneel down to beg for mercy, but how could they break free, and they could only be taken away in the end.

For a moment, there seemed to be no one in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and it was so quiet that one could even hear a needle drop on the ground.

"Your Majesty, is this, is this too serious." After pondering for a moment, Shen Ji couldn't help but raise his head, "Some of them are just the younger generation in the family making their own decisions, and others don't know about it."

At this time, Emperor Tianqin was much less angry, so after hearing Shen Ji's words, no one dragged him out.

Shen Ji's thought was very simple, not to mention that some people didn't know about it, even if each of them knew about it, this kind of punishment was too much.

He was thrown into the sky prison again, and his home was ransacked again.

In the silent and terrifying atmosphere, Li Yu bit the bullet and echoed, "I think the disaster will not hurt my family."

Emperor Tianqin stared at the two early birds until he was sweating profusely, "I know, so only those who sneaked in died, and the others did not die."

After Shen Ji thought it over, he couldn't help but gasp, so His Majesty's words meant that if their family members knew about this, the final punishment would be to sit...?

Although I was also angry that the fact that these moths were almost killed fell short, no matter how I said it, such a punishment was still too heavy.

"Shen Xiang, do you have any other opinions?"

Hearing the impatience and faint threat in the man's voice, Shen Ji paused, shook his head and said, "It's gone."

As for the rest of the people, let alone having opinions and opinions, they tried their best to hold their breath, for fear that their heavy breathing would make His Majesty angry, and then they would be dragged out as well.

After a long time, with a "pop", Emperor Tianqin put the rosary on the armrest of the dragon chair, and he slowly stood up and walked down the steps.

Go in front of the crowd, from left to right, and finally to the door.

Most of the light outside was blocked by his body, making the entire Hall of Supreme Harmony look like a giant beast that would eat people in the dark.

"I once said at the beginning of my ascension that no matter whether you come from a rich family, or you are poor and need to support your parents to raise children, or you are talented, or you have made great achievements, as long as you make an unforgivable mistake on my side, the end will be the same."

"Since you think I'm going to punish you severely, if the human and financial resources that have been spent in the river for so long fall short because of these people, who can bear the losses?"

"If one of you stands up and says you can afford it, then I will let them go."

His voice fell for a long time, and no one dared to respond.

Who dares to bear these shortfalls, this time the Kaihe criss-crosses, from Shengjing to the outside, it can even connect Shun'an and other places.

If it succeeds, it will be very convenient to do many things in the future.

As for the cost of taels of silver alone, just these few days, it has used up to tens of millions of taels of silver, and it will cost even more in the future.

So everyone had been fighting for their rights for a long time, and finally bowed their heads.

(End of this chapter)