noffsinger Chapter 651: Continue to Spend Money
Chapter 651: Continue to Spend Money
The sixth day after Prince Xian's death was also the fourth day after Prince Yi threw the silver.
Early in the morning, Zhou Chang and Yuan Qi stood on the city wall together.
Yesterday, Yuan Qi came in person and brought another one million taels of silver.
Zhou Chang was so shocked that he stared blankly for a long time and couldn't speak.
Yuan Qi just gently pulled back his white fox fur coat and said, "One million taels is nothing, but if you want to break it all up... these silver ingots were collected in advance, so I'll have to trouble Your Highness to send someone to break them up."
"Okay..." Zhou Chang had half of the word "Okay" stuck in his throat. He really wanted to prostrate himself to Yuan Qi.
Zhou Chang was shocked and surprised by Yuan Qi's sudden arrival, and he never expected that Yuan Qi could be so decisive in his work.
The purpose of Yuan Qi's arrival was very clear.
First of all, it was indeed to send silver to Prince Yi.
Secondly, after receiving the news of King Xian's death, he must see it with his own eyes.
It has just been confirmed that King Xian is the murderer who kidnapped and poisoned his father. He is just waiting for the war to be over. He must find a way to settle the "debt" with King Xian no matter what.
But who would have thought that King Xian would die first due to his injuries?
It is good that the enemy is dead, but he always feels like something is missing in his heart because he was unable to take revenge personally. Therefore, Yuan Qi decided that he must see it with his own eyes.
How could Zhou Chang not know what Yuan Qi was thinking, so he didn't say much nonsense and accompanied him directly to King Xian's mourning hall, and carefully sent everyone else away.
Yuan Qi stared into the coffin for a long time and finally confirmed that the person lying in the coffin was King Xian himself, but his expression did not change much.
But he still felt unwilling when he spoke again: "He died a quick death, and got the reputation of sacrificing his life for his country."
Zhou Chang had not thought of this, but he understood Yuan Qi's feelings: "Indeed, no matter what the King Xian had done, death is the greatest thing. I believe that Your Majesty will not delve into it further. After all, there is a thing called 'the face of the court'."
"The dead are greatest? Then what about my father?" Yuan Qi took one last glance and turned away.
Zhou Chang didn't know what to say, so he asked tentatively: "If you can't accept it, then you can only find a chance to expose it later. However, he is already dead, so even if you expose it again, others will only sigh and say a few words, and other things... other things..."
What else could there be?
Yuan Qi knew this truth, but he felt depressed and had no way to vent.
Zhou Chang was not happy about this situation.
King Xian died just like that, and it was all over. He would definitely have a good reputation in the future. Not to mention that he left an unfinished battlefield that King Yi would have to take over.
Yuan Qi failed to expose to the world the crime of King Xian kidnapping and poisoning his father. He will probably feel guilty for the rest of his life because he will not be able to comfort Yuan Yu's spirit in heaven.
But King Xian’s funeral hall is not a place to talk, and the current situation is not the time to make detailed plans.
In order to appease Yuan Qi, Zhou Chang changed the subject and asked, "By the way, how could you get here so quickly? It took me more than ten days to get to Maicheng from Beiji."
Yuan Qi just smiled tiredly, shook his head and did not answer.
So Zhou Chang said no more, accompanied Yuan Qi out of the mourning hall, and asked someone to arrange for a small courtyard in the city defense post to be vacated and insisted that Yuan Qi stay there.
This morning Zhou Chang and Yuan Qi stood on the city wall to greet the first sunrise of Maicheng.
Then, when the Mirage Army beat drums as usual to challenge them, they would still hang up the banner of no fight and throw silver coins.
At this moment, Zhou Chang pointed at the Mirage Soldiers who were fighting over the silver in the distance and said to Yuan Qi: "Look, those short guys, some fat, some thin, look like gray mice, don't they? They are the Mirage Soldiers."
This was also the first time that Yuan Qi had come to the northern border of Vietnam, so Zhou Chang felt obligated to be her "tour guide".
Yuan Qi put on a lake blue dark gold fur cloak, hid his face deep in the hood, and tried to keep a low profile on the battlefield where women were not allowed to appear. His voice was so low that only two people could barely hear it: "If your Highness puts it that way, those people are like mice."
Although Jiang Meng was dissatisfied with Prince Yi's blatant behavior of bringing a woman into the military camp, he could not say anything because the other party was not only Prince Yi's "close friend" but also his "financial sponsor".
Prince Yi held the title of "first-rank military officer", while Jiang Meng, the second-rank general and deputy governor, had also been "regularized" by the court. Even if he was extremely dissatisfied, he could not reveal even a single bit of it.
As for Jiang Meng's head full of gossip about Prince Yi and the former Princess Yi...
Wasn't Yuan Qi deposed by Prince Yi a long time ago and had to write a letter of divorce?
Why are the scenes so harmonious when these two people are together?
He didn't even dare to ask such questions.
Because of this, Jiang Meng, who was standing on the side of the two men, was almost injured.
The two people on the other side were completely unaware.
Yuan Qi was in a gloomy mood the whole time: "The prince said yesterday that he wanted me to watch a good show, is this it?"
"Yeah, isn't this a good show?" Zhou Chang smiled with his eyebrows curved, looking more and more like a fox, and a shrewd and scheming one at that.
Yuan Qi hid in the hood of his cloak, and since the voice was only audible to the two of them, he was not so polite: "Your Highness, all the silver was borrowed. Adding it up, it's already 1.5 million taels. Are you just throwing it away like this?"
"How can this be called playing? But we don't have that much today, so we only plan to throw out 300,000 taels today." Zhou Chang was serious but it looked like he was talking nonsense. "Those bastards are greedy and never satisfied. I'm afraid they've become addicted to it. They're eating what's in their bowls and are thinking about what's in our 'pot'. If they get impatient and come up to lift the 'pot lid', we still have to feed them slowly and steadily."
Yuan Qi listened to Zhou Chang's nonsense and seemed to sigh: "Alas, it's all about money, but all this money belongs to the court, so what's the big deal? If you want to throw it away, don't feel bad about it."
The two have always had vastly different ideas about spending money and have always disliked each other, but today it seems that they have finally come to an agreement.
Zhou Chang did not argue, but instead thought about it: "You say, I'm throwing away so much money, will the court deny it in the future? All this money was given to the other side, and I didn't put a penny in my pocket. I was only thinking about winning the war."
It was not until the third day of throwing the silver that Zhou Chang remembered this concern.
It is said that human hearts are hard to predict, and even harder to guard against are the gossips of the public.
Prince Yi is throwing silver on the front line in northern Vietnam, but who can guarantee that there are no court officials making up nonsense in the rear of Jindu?
Yuan Qi just chuckled: "It's hard to say, I thought the prince wouldn't care about his reputation."
"It's hard to say?" Zhou Chang seemed to be about to jump up and down, and put his hands on his hips, but his eyes were always fixed on the battlefield outside the city, "I am talking about strategy, strategy... How many people in the world can understand it?"