noffsinger Chapter 306: It is more difficult to prevent people from speaking than to prevent rivers from flowin
Chapter 306: It is more difficult to prevent people from speaking than to prevent rivers from flowin
Zhou Chang was not very afraid of Emperor Lin, because every emperor would save his reputation.
If word gets out about what happened tonight, the first person to lose face will be Prince Yi, and the second will be the emperor.
If she could suppress the matter, no matter what means she used, I'm afraid Emperor Lin would turn a blind eye.
Therefore, she gave King Rong a reassuring smile.
Zhou Chang straightened up again, looked at everyone, and announced the rules again in a loud voice: "Everyone listen carefully. First of all, one piece of letter paper costs one thousand taels of silver. Anyone who has seen it with their own eyes and cannot pay the silver will not be able to leave."
Everyone in the room was even more shocked and wailed, but unfortunately the voices were already weak.
Zhou Chang was really surprised by the effectiveness of the medicinal oil. He didn't expect that in addition to You Wan, Doctor Meng was also an expert.
Taking advantage of the moment when everyone was wailing, she sniffed the small gourd in her hand again without leaving any trace.
This cooling oil needs to be smelled from time to time, otherwise it will become ineffective.
"Brother King Xian, stop struggling..." Zhou Chang watched King Xian pinch off the incense, but he was already unable to stand steadily.
King Xian's big head was shaking, and he was more top-heavy than anyone else.
Since he was of noble status, naturally no one dared to stop him easily.
Zhou Chang had no choice but to go up and help him himself.
"Bang..." But because King Xian was too heavy, he fell to the ground.
Zhou Chang raised his eyes to the sky. The moon was already at its zenith. He really couldn't afford to waste any more time.
Prince Duan and Prince Xian are two tough nuts to crack, so we can only pick the soft ones.
Walking up to Prince Rong, he chuckled, "Brother Prince Rong, did you also have two pieces of letter paper in your hand just now?"
"You bastard, do you even want to make money from my brother?" Prince Rong supported himself on the armrests of the chair, maintaining basic demeanor.
"Brother Rong, please treat everyone equally tonight." Zhou Chang said loudly, and then he could not help but beg in a low voice, "Brother, please help me open the shop, otherwise no one will pay the money. If the stalemate continues, it will really become a big deal."
"Didn't you just snatch those two pages of paper? You should also take your two thousand taels of silver." Prince Rong was not happy and was not prepared to help her. "Ninth brother, if you don't stop, I will be really angry."
Zhou Chang had no choice but to beg him: "Brother Rong, please help me. If you don't pay the money first, they won't be willing to do it. Don't delay my chance to make a fortune."
As he spoke, he reached directly into Prince Rong's arms and took out his purse in a flash.
He took out all the silver bills in the purse, but there were only a few silver bills of one hundred taels.
"Brother Prince Rong, why don't you bring more silver when you go out? How can these several hundred taels of silver be consistent with your status?" Zhou Chang curled his lips and reluctantly put the banknotes into his sleeves.
The others were somewhat shaken when they saw this scene.
"Yes, I didn't expect to bring so much money with me to attend a wedding banquet."
"Yes, I don't have any money."
"Why don't we go back and get the silver and then send it to His Highness."
"Your Highness, please take less money. Just take whatever you have."
……
"Not a cent less." Zhou Chang shouted and pulled the jade pendant from Prince Rong's belt.
"Ninth brother..." Prince Rong didn't have time to stop him.
"Thank you, Prince Rong, for your generosity. This jade pendant is worth more than two thousand taels of silver." Zhou Chang had already raised Prince Rong's jade pendant high in the air. "Listen, the second thing is, if the silver is not enough, you can use the things on your body to pay off the debt."
"You..." Although Prince Rong felt weak all over, he was not completely unable to move, and he did not try to stop it.
Prince Duan and Prince Xian still showed no intention of paying.
Zhou Chang had already set his next goal.
He walked up to the Minister of Justice Pei Li and said, "Sir Pei, you are the Minister of Justice. How many pages of the letter have you read?"
Pei Li wanted to stand up, but was pushed back by Zhou Chang.
This table was just below that of Prince Duan, and all of them were high-ranking officials of the imperial court. Others included the Minister of Rites, the Minister of Personnel, etc., and their faces were all very grim.
"I didn't see anything." Pei Li insisted.
Zhou Chang did not see any letter paper in his hand or around him.
"Sir Pei, everyone else is looking at you but you don't look at me. Isn't that a little unsociable?" Zhou Chang's eyes curved with regret.
Ever since Pei Li lost the chariot last time, he has kept his distance from King Yi "wholeheartedly". He had no choice but to follow the crowd in attending the wedding banquet today. He really had no choice but to fall into another "trap".
Now he was paralyzed, dizzy, and regretful, but his mind was still clear: "I have been the Minister of Justice for so many years. I don't have any other skills, but I can still judge cases. These letters are from unknown sources and I don't know whether they are true or not. It's useless to read them."
Zhou Chang raised his lips in a beautiful arc, and patted Pei Li's shoulder with satisfaction: "Master Pei finally said what a normal person should say. In view of Master Pei's wisdom and bravery, I will not accept your money."
"Ninth brother, if that's the case..." Prince Rong was the first to react. He waved the paper beside him and threw it on the ground. "You shouldn't have accepted my money. I don't believe it either."
When everyone saw this, the smart ones immediately followed suit and shouted.
"Yeah, we don't believe it either, we don't believe it..."
"Master Pei must be right. This is fake."
"Yes, it's fake."
"Not credible."
……
At once, everyone followed suit and threw away the letters in their hands.
The letter paper fell to the ground, and someone kicked it aside, trying to avoid it, so that the ground was covered with white paper.
What Zhou Chang said just now was in vain. The bill was worth one thousand and two taels of silver, but now it was impossible to tell who had held it and who had read how many pages.
But when he looked around, he saw the letter papers under his feet, but he didn't feel any pain at all.
"Who else among you is willing to pay to watch this farce?" Zhou Chang asked again after most of the papers had fallen.
Of course no one responded.
Zhou Chang's eyes gradually became stern, like an invisible knife, sweeping across the room: "Everyone here, listen carefully. If anyone secretly hides a page or half a page today, and this king finds out in the future, it will not only be 1,000 taels of silver per page, but 1,000 taels of gold per page. When the time comes, don't say you can't afford it. This king will help those brainless people come up with a solution. Even if he loses everything and his life, he must pay this king back. Do you understand clearly?"
Her voice was not loud, but it was like the starlight on a cold night, able to penetrate the darkness and reach people's hearts.
Everyone held their breath and looked at Prince Yi's expression. They were even unable to speak and could only nod.
This is a combination of soft and hard tactics, coercion and inducement.
This was the only solution Zhou Chang could think of in a short period of time. As the saying goes, "It is harder to stop the people from speaking than to stop a river from flowing." Stopping the people from speaking is the most difficult thing in the world.
This was only the first step, and she dared not relax her tense nerves at all.
At this moment, a voice came from the east corner door: "Let me in, I want to explain everything."
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