#2003 - So majestic
Dozens of soldiers rushed into the imperial court.
The Prime Minister's face was unsightly as he glared at the Prince of Lanling.
Jun Wuxie coldly watched the soldiers rushing in and said, "You bunch of bastards, you are the Imperial Guards, the army protecting the Emperor! Since when is it the Prince of Lanling's turn to command you?
Are you trying to rebel?"
His voice, like a dragon's roar, echoed within the palace hall, deafening.
The sound waves impacted the brains of the Imperial Guards, causing them to buzz, their bodies trembled, and the spears in their hands almost fell to the ground. Their hearts were filled with terror, and they dared not take another step forward.
"All of you, retreat at once!" Nalan Jingyi said coldly.
The Imperial Guards retreated a few steps, but then stopped, secretly glancing at the Prince of Lanling.
"What? You don't even listen to my orders anymore?
Are you really going to rebel and be subjected to the punishment of extermination of nine generations?"
The Imperial Guards trembled and finally retreated.
"Prince of Lanling, you have great prestige! Even my Imperial Guards have to act according to your expression!"
Nalan Jingyi knew that the Prince of Lanling was doing this on purpose, intending to tell her that even the Imperial Guards around you have to listen to me.
She knew that the Prince of Lanling wanted to force her to back down.
Because the position of Minister of Revenue was very important to the Prince of Lanling, and he was unwilling to let the Ministry of Revenue slip out of his control just like that.
"Your Majesty has wronged this old minister.
Guard Yue drew his sword and killed a minister in the imperial court, and this old minister was shocked, so he called for the Imperial Guards.
Presumably, the Imperial Guards thought that His Majesty's safety was threatened when they saw such a scene, so they did not retreat for a while. They were also doing their best for His Majesty."
"What minister was killed? This person is no longer the Minister of Revenue. Moreover, he had a bet with Minister Yue before.
It was not inappropriate for Minister Yue to behead him.
As for all of you, as subjects, you openly forced the palace in the imperial court, which is an act of deceiving the Emperor.
Guard Yue holds the Emperor's Executioner. If he feels that any of you are deceiving the Emperor and wants to kill any of you, I have nothing to say."
Nalan Jingyi was also very strong.
In the past, she did not dare to be so strong.
But now it was different. Jun Wuxie, holding the sword, stood in front of her, giving her great confidence.
She only felt that as long as this man was in front of her, she could be fearless, and even if the sky fell, he could help her hold it up.
"Your Majesty, please forgive this old minister for saying too much.
If Your Majesty continues to indulge Minister Yue like this, I am afraid it will have very serious consequences.
Your Majesty, please think twice and consider it carefully.
This old minister has said everything he needs to say, and only hopes that Your Majesty will think carefully about the consequences and not be impulsive because of youth.
An emperor cannot act on impulse."
After the Prince of Lanling finished speaking, he turned around and left.
His attitude was quite arrogant and domineering, as if the imperial court was his own hall, where he could come and go as he pleased, without even waiting for the Emperor to announce the end of the court session.
"Dismiss court!" Nalan Jingyi said with a cold face.
Most of the officials followed the Prince of Lanling and left.
The Prime Minister and the dozen or so ministers around him looked at each other, hesitant to speak.
In the end, they didn't say anything and withdrew from the imperial court.
They felt relieved by His Majesty's strength today, but at the same time, they were full of worries.
If they confronted the Prince of Lanling like this, they were afraid that the Prince of Lanling would use more drastic means to deal with His Majesty in the future.
They felt that His Majesty was a little impatient.
She had only just regained control of the Ministry of Revenue. Five of the six ministries were still under the control of the Prince of Lanling, especially the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Works.
It could be said that the lifeline of the entire dynasty was almost in the hands of the Prince of Lanling.
......
Back in the Imperial Study, Nalan Jingyi took a deep breath.
"Today, did I behave too strongly?"
She was also worried that she might have completely angered the Prince of Lanling, which would cause problems in many institutions of the dynasty, and the people would suffer at that time.
"No, you are the master of the dynasty, and you should have your own imperial authority, instead of looking at the faces of your subjects.
In the future, you must continue to be strong.
With me here, you don't have to worry."
"Fortunately, I have you, otherwise I really don't know what to do.
" She stepped forward and looked up at him, "I have been playing against the Prince of Lanling for so many years, but I have been defeated repeatedly. I have never felt so relieved as I do today.
The Prince of Lanling's face was almost green with anger.
This is the first time I have seen him being defeated."
"You don't have to be angry with him in the future. By the way, have Feng Ling gather all the Imperial Guard generals."
"Okay."
Nalan Jingyi now obeyed his every word.
Next, Jun Wuxie found out those who had defected to the Prince of Lanling from among the Imperial Guard generals.
Surprisingly, more than half of the generals were from the Prince of Lanling, including the commander of the Imperial Guards, who had secretly turned to the Prince of Lanling.
He originally wanted to kill all these people.
After thinking about it, he finally decided to convert them.
After all, there were too many people, and after killing them all, it would be difficult to find replacements for a while.
Moreover, they had a high reputation in the Imperial Guards, and it would be difficult for new replacements to manage these Imperial Guards for a while.
In the afternoon, he put on the official uniform of the Minister of Revenue and went to the Ministry of Revenue.
In the entire Ministry of Revenue, only a dozen middle-level officials came to receive him, and the others ignored him.
He found the Vice Minister of Revenue and asked him to bring all the accounts from these years.
The Vice Minister of Revenue was a slightly fat middle-aged man with a big belly and a greasy face. He glanced at him sideways and said, "If the Minister wants the accounts, why doesn't he go find them himself?
This official is busy with official duties and has many things to do. I'm afraid I can't help the Minister."
His attitude was very arrogant and domineering, which made the officials of the Ministry of Revenue who followed Jun Wuxie both angry and helpless.
The Vice Minister of Revenue was from the Prince of Lanling, so he would naturally not cooperate with the new Minister, after all, the Minister was from the Emperor.
"Since you are so useless, then there is no need to keep you."
As soon as he finished speaking, a sword cry was heard, and a flash of light streaked across.
The Vice Minister of Revenue screamed, his head fell to the ground, and blood gushed out like a spring.
The Emperor's Executioner returned to its scabbard.
Jun Wuxie said to the people around him, "Drag him out and hang him at the entrance of the Ministry of Revenue, post his crimes, despise imperial power, disobey superiors, engage in corruption, and embezzle the national treasury."
The other Ministry of Revenue officials who had recovered their senses quickly stepped forward to drag away the body of the Vice Minister of Revenue.
Jun Wuxie stretched out his hand and sucked the head into his hand, taking advantage of the fact that he had just died, and searched his sea of consciousness.
Soon, he obtained a lot of useful information from his sea of consciousness.
This information included where the fake account books were kept, who else in the Ministry of Revenue was colluding with him, and so on.
Jun Wuxie found the evidence, read it, put it away, and then beheaded all those in the Ministry of Revenue who were colluding with him, and hung them all on the stone pillars outside the Ministry of Revenue.
"From now on, you will serve as the Vice Minister of Revenue."
Jun Wuxie said to the patrol officer of the Ministry of Revenue before leaving.
The patrol officer was a person arranged by the Emperor.
The patrol officer was flattered, but did not dare to answer, and said, "Your Excellency, the position of Vice Minister requires the Emperor's personal permission, you..."
"My meaning is the Emperor's meaning, and an imperial decree will be issued tomorrow.
You must remember that if you take the position of Vice Minister of Revenue, the Prince of Lanling's mansion will most likely come to buy you off, using both coercion and inducement.
You must be loyal to the Emperor, and do not stand on the wrong side at any time, otherwise your head will not be guaranteed."
"Yes, this official thanks the Minister for his promotion!"
"Alright, you must pay more attention to the affairs of the Ministry of Revenue in the future.
Check the accounts of these years carefully, then make a list and hand it over to me.
If you encounter any unsolvable problems, report to me at any time."
"Yes, this official has remembered it, this official respectfully sends off the Minister!"
......
Jun Wuxie had just come out of the Ministry of Revenue and returned to the palace not long after when Feng Ling found him.
"Young Master, people from the Donghai and Longxi Dynasty commercial firms want to see you."
"When?"
"It's today, they are waiting for you right now."
......
Before long, Jun Wuxie met with people from the commercial firms of the two dynasties.
"It's late, and we are still disturbing you, sir. Please forgive us."
Seeing Jun Wuxie's arrival, they hurriedly got up to greet him.
"You want to see me, presumably to solve the doubts in your hearts."
"That's right. Sir, you have a huge amount of medicinal herbs in your hands and can completely sell them at a high price to earn a huge amount of wealth, but you insist on selling them to us at the purchase price.
We really don't know why sir is doing this."
Jun Wuxie smiled faintly, "I know that behind you are the Donghai and Longxi aristocratic families.
Someone in the Lanling Dynasty owes the two major aristocratic families behind you a favor.
What I am doing is to repay them."
You should take the medicinal herbs and hurry back to refine and sell the elixirs as quickly as possible.
In this way, you can not only quickly recover your costs, but also make a lot of money in a limited time."
They couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this.
In a limited time?
They thought about it carefully in their hearts, but they couldn't understand what he meant.
"Since sir has said so, then we won't ask further questions.
Sir, you have treated us sincerely, and we are grateful in our hearts.
Time is tight, so we will say goodbye."
They felt a sense of crisis in their hearts and didn't want to waste any more time.
The person in front of them was not only the person selling the elixir recipes, but also the person selling the medicinal herbs.
Since he mentioned a limited time, it meant that there would definitely be changes.
This was not a small matter, but a big deal for them, related to huge wealth.
They left with the medicinal herbs.
They directly drove the divine boat, riding the wind and breaking through the clouds, disappearing into the clouds at dusk.
......
In the next two months.
Jun Wuxie traveled between the Ministry of Revenue, the imperial court, the inn where Jingya's clone was, the Empress's bedroom, and the Queen's bedroom.
During these days, the war preparations and money prepared for the border had been completed.
Aside from the East Sea and Longxi, other chambers of commerce and trading firms had repeatedly sent people to seek to purchase medicinal herbs.
He had consistently refused them.
It wasn't until yesterday that he finally relented.
During this period, the one that sought to buy medicinal herbs from him most frequently was none other than the Qianlong Chamber of Commerce, backed by the Prince of Lanling.
"What, a tenfold price increase?"
When those chambers of commerce and trading firms learned of the price of the medicinal herbs, their faces all turned ashen, and they really wanted to say, 'Why don't you just rob us!'
It was too exorbitant.
Medicinal herbs bought for dozens of silver coins per catty now had to be bought for hundreds of silver coins per catty!
The key was that these medicinal herbs were all sold by them personally, but now they had to buy them back at ten times the price, giving them a feeling of wanting to vomit blood.
However, if they didn't buy them back at a high price, the medicinal herbs for refining pills would be too scarce.
The chambers of commerce and trading firms in Longxi and the East Sea, it was unknown where they got so many medicinal herbs from.
During this period, they refined massive amounts of pills, which sold like crazy, and had already earned enough of the ten trillion silver coins to purchase the pill formulas, realizing a huge net profit.
And they, due to the shortage of medicinal herbs, had barely recovered even one-tenth of their capital so far.
Watching the trading firms and chambers of commerce in the East Sea and Longxi making money like crazy, they were extremely envious.
"According to the price of pills, even if you recycle the medicinal herbs at ten times the price, you still have a profit of about one times.
The price is just like this, you can buy if you want, and forget it if you don't."
"Buy!"
The heads of the major trading firms and chambers of commerce gnashed their teeth.
