usatvline Chapter 206 Listen to the protagonist's voice and eat melons 4
Chapter 206 Listen to the protagonist's voice and eat melons 4
Just as the ministers were arguing, Bai Shiran suddenly thought of something:
[Isn't it just money? Is it necessary to go to such trouble? There is no shortage of corrupt officials in the court. If we raid a few of them, all the difficulties will be gone.]
The emperor's eyes lit up: Yes, why didn't he think of it? The court can tolerate corrupt officials, but those corrupt officials who bully men and women and commit crimes are definitely not tolerated by the court.
Before the emperor could speak, Bai Shiran became active again:
【Huh? Oh! Let me check, oh wow, it turns out that the person present here who is the most greedy is Li Zhigao, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Dachen collects 50 million taels of tax revenue a year, and 10 million taels go into his pocket.】
The emperor was just thinking about which official to start the investigation with, but he didn't expect his daughter to immediately contribute one, and it caused a big explosion.
At this time, the Minister of Revenue Li Zhigao, who was standing in the middle, immediately trembled like a sieve and thought: It's over, it's all over now.
Different from Li Zhigao's fear at the moment, the emperor's mood at this moment was more complicated. He was shocked at first that the Minister of Revenue actually embezzled such a huge sum of money every year, and then he was delighted. As long as his house was raided, no matter whether there was floods in the south or droughts in the north, it would not be a big deal this time.
At this time, the emperor suppressed his raised mouth corners and said seriously: "I have found some news recently. The Minister of Revenue is not strict in his official duties and has embezzled tens of millions of taels of tax silver from the national treasury. Do you have anything to say?"
Li Zhigao, the Minister of Revenue, suddenly knelt on the ground, with beads of sweat on his forehead: "Your Majesty, I am innocent! Chen has been in charge of the Ministry of Revenue for 20 years, and has always worked diligently. He has never done such a deceitful thing."
Bai Yu knew that his eighth sister would never do anything without a purpose, and she must have found it on the melon-eating system, so he looked at Li Zhigao kneeling on the ground calmly.
He is the Minister of Revenue who has been cuckolded for more than 20 years and raised someone else's son. Doesn't that mean he is Concubine Chun's biological father?
[Unfair? Bah, how can he say that? The emperor ordered that farmers in the disaster-stricken areas be exempted from taxes for three years, but this old man still collected taxes as before. All the tax money collected went into this old man's pocket.]
The emperor became angrier the more he listened. Since he ascended the throne, he has been working hard to govern the country for decades, but he never expected that there was such a big parasite hiding by his side.
He was really angry.
[Also, your cheap son has bullied the girls of the two families many times over the years. When they refused to obey, he would directly hire someone to smash their houses. He secretly sent the boys to underground Nanfeng Halls and the girls to brothels. Was there not this old man behind the scenes to clean up the mess every time?]
When the emperor heard this, he was like, "Okay, okay, this is how his subjects treat his people? People who don't know would think that he is such a stupid emperor? He actually allowed his subjects to bully men and women."
After hearing this, Li Zhigao dared not say anything more. He knelt on the ground and shook like a sieve.
[Also, the underground in his backyard has been almost hollowed out by him, and it is full of the gold he has embezzled over the years. There is also a farm outside the city where he keeps a mistress, and there are also many good things in the underground of the backyard.]
Bai Yu asked Zhu Zhu in his heart: "Zhu Zhu, do you think my gold is more or the gold of the Minister of Revenue is more?"
Zhuzhu: "Master, you have some misunderstanding about your banditry in so many worlds, right? Not to mention before, just the private treasury you collected in the last world is already more than ten times that of this Minister of Revenue."
Bai Yu: "That's right. He just embezzled part of the tax revenue of one country. I robbed multiple coffers of multiple countries. Well, he is not as rich as me."
The emperor was just about to send someone to search Li's mansion, but Bai Shiran immediately began to take inventory of the assets of the Minister of Revenue that were distributed everywhere.
Bai Shiran was counting the gold, silver and jewelry in the cave of Hutou Mountain in the east of the city, the weapons in the underground of the ruined temple in the south of the city and so on. The emperor was recording them with great interest. At the end of Bai Shiran's inventory, the emperor felt a throbbing pain in his temples when he looked at the contents recorded on paper.
He angrily handed the recorder and other idiots over to his servants and ordered them to quickly bring the Imperial Guards to investigate. At this time, the whole imperial study was so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
Bai Yu didn't like this kind of occasion in the first place, so he was the first to break the silence.
"Father, I have to go back and drink my tonic for today. Father, please be busy now, so I will take my leave now."
The emperor looked at his little daughter and spoke, then he responded with a gentle expression and asked her to go back and be more careful.
Bai Yu gave Bai Shiran a wink and left on his own.
After leaving the imperial study, Bai Yu went straight towards the imperial garden.
While walking, he chatted with Zhuzhu using his spiritual sense.
Bai Yu: "Hey, Zhuzhu, it seems that I came out too late. Those happy melon-eating life don't belong to me at all."
Zhuzhu: "But Master, Zhuzhu has heard it many times before, and it really makes me happy."
"Forget it. I didn't feel any happiness today. I only felt anger."
Zhuzhu: "Master, you don't have to think too much. Everything has its own development trajectory. We can participate, but it's best not to change it."
"I know that I have now changed the fate of this body's early death. Logically, it is best for me to play the role of a native and not interfere with the development of a world."
Zhuzhu: "Master, there are many things you can't manage. You can manage one thing, but not all. So don't think about those corrupt officials anymore. As long as the master stays the same as before, it's fine."
"You said you created a way to make money and did charity in ancient times?"
Zhuzhu: "It's not impossible. It can't be changed, but it can be developed. The master has countless things that are in line with this world and can be used to make money. The way of heaven only restricts things that don't conform to this world from appearing in this world. It doesn't mean that you can't create something else yourself."
"You're right. I can just provide methods and ideas. There are so many people in this world who can help me. I can just be a hands-off boss."
So, Bai Yu thought about what was suitable to develop in this world. Things that were too modern would not work. After all, Bai Shiran came from the modern era, and something that was too noisy would arouse her suspicion.
She felt that this was something she needed to think about carefully.
Afterwards, Bai Yu asked the emperor for a token to leave the palace. When Bai Shiran found out, she insisted on going with her.
So on a sunny day, the two sisters left the palace with their maids and several secret guards.
The two of them came to a teahouse to listen to music, but at this time Bai Yu was not paying attention to the music at all. He was only focused on listening to Bai Shiran's thoughts.
[Eh? Isn't that the second son of Grand Tutor Zhang next door? Eh? The youngest son of Zuodu Yushi and the third son of Dingyuan Hou? This teahouse is really lively today.]
Bai Yu also glanced over there casually, and sure enough, the people in the compartment over there were all dressed in the style of the rich or noble.
[What? The second son of Grand Tutor Zhang's family was injured when he tried to rob a commoner girl, and now he's gay? He's attracted to the young son of the Minister of Justice's family? ]
[Oh my god, the young master of the Ministry of Justice's family is already engaged, but he was seduced by the second young master of Zhang Taifu's family? ]