I embezzled 100,000 taels at the beginning, and the empress begged me to be more greedy

After the auction, Jiang Zuo was in a particularly good mood. After all, after careful calculation, deducting the cost of buying land and building houses, and calculating the dividends, he, Jiang Zuo alone could earn nearly two million taels of income.

Such a huge sum of money, plus the wealth previously gained in the State of Chen, is enough to bring wealth and glory to Jiangzuo for a lifetime.

With this standard of living, why bother going to Beijing to become a high-ranking official? You might as well stay in Jiangzhou City and become a rich landlord.

Jiang Zuo has always thought like this.

At this time, Chen Xiu was already preparing to leave Jiangzhou City.

The auction just now really opened his eyes. It seems that after arriving in the capital, he will have to discuss with His Majesty and find a way to get some money from these wealthy businessmen to make up for the financial deficit of the court.

Now that the imperial court has just pacified the south, the national treasury is in urgent need of silver.

How can we get money from these wealthy nobles? Maybe Jiang Zuo will have a way...

The carriage for the trip to Beijing has been prepared, and Chen Zhengzheng is preparing to leave Jiangzhou and go to the capital.

"When are you going to Beijing?"

Chen Xiu turned around and asked.

Jiang Zuo's attention was still on the account, and he simply replied, "It will be almost done in a few days."

This answer is ambiguous and it is obvious that the author is not willing to respond.

"How long will it be after some time?" Chen Xiu asked again.

"Just these few days." Jiang Zuo said.

Chen Xiu nodded silently.

"By the way, could you please help me send a letter back to the capital, Master Jiu?"

Jiang Zuo took out a letter from his arms.

"A letter to your Majesty?"

Chen Xiu asked doubtfully.

Jiang Zuo said: "No, no, the address is already written on the envelope."

This letter was naturally sent to Siyue.

Previously, after receiving the letter from Siyue, Jiang Zuo would immediately write a reply and have the messenger send it back to the capital.

But in the past few days, since Jiang Zuo had just returned to Jiangzhou City, no letter had been sent from Siyue. Jiang Zuo was anxious to explain the situation to Siyue, so he had to ask the Ninth Prince to help deliver the letter.

Chen Xiu glanced at the address on the envelope - the mansion at No. 3 Jude Street, South City, Beijing.

"No problem. See you later."

Chen Xiu put away the letter and walked out the door.

"I'll take you there." Jiang Zuo followed behind him.

Before leaving, Chen Xiu reminded him again: "Jiang Zuo, you'd better finish your work quickly in the next few days and return to the capital as soon as possible. Don't keep His Majesty waiting too long."

Jiang Zuo said calmly: "Don't worry, I will definitely go to the capital."

Having said that, Jiang Zuo still decided to delay it as long as possible. If he went to the capital, he might not be as free as he is now.

"Farewell."

The Ninth Prince's carriage slowly drove towards the capital.

At this time, Master Guo came to Jiang Zuo and said, "Sir, the construction of the port is almost completed. Please go over and check it out."

"Have there been any foreigners near this port recently?" Jiang Zuo asked.

Ever since the last contact with that group of foreigners, Jiang Zuo was still quite wary of them, because these foreigners still had a bandit mentality at heart, and they must have come from afar to plunder. If Jiang Zuo had not met them before, these people would probably have caused trouble along the coastal area.

Master Guo said: "No outsiders have appeared in the past few months."

Jiang Zuo was still worried and warned: "Now you must pay attention to the coastal areas, especially the newly recovered Chen Kingdom. Those foreigners will definitely come again."

"I understand." Master Guo nodded.

Now that the South Kingdom has just been pacified, the southeastern coastal area is still under the control of the old Chen family. Because Jiangzuo had previously promised those families that they would hand over the territory to them for governance, and only required these people to nominally submit to the Yan Kingdom, it was not convenient for the Yan court to directly control those places.

It is precisely because of this that coastal areas are more prone to accidents.

He always felt that although the current situation had stabilized, something might happen again in the future.

Jiang Zuo didn't care about so many things. As long as those troubles didn't come to Jiangzhou City, he didn't care about anything.

Anyway, he will stay in Jiangzhou City these days and enjoy his leisure time.

As for going to the capital, Jiang Zuo would naturally have a way to fool people when the empress sent people to urge them again.

Thinking back to the beginning, in order to avoid the summons from the empress, Jiang Zuo made excuses again and again. Sometimes he pretended to be sick, and sometimes he said he had important tasks to attend to. Anyway, Jiang Zuo would definitely choose to avoid such a hard task as going to the capital.

While thinking about it, I suddenly heard someone coming to pass on a message: "There is a girl outside the door who wants to see Lord Jiang."

Jiang Zuo suddenly raised his head: "Girl, who is it?"

The first thing he thought of was Siyue's face.

Because he was busy conquering the State of Chen, he and Siyue had not seen each other for more than half a year and had been communicating through letters.

The servant said, "I don't know the identity of that girl. She just said she wanted to see Lord Jiang."

"Then let her in." Jiang Zuo felt a little more expectant.

A moment later, light footsteps were heard, and a slender yellow and white figure appeared in front of Jiang Zuo.

But the woman in front of him was not Siyue, but Qin Yu.

The expectation on Jiang Zuo's face turned into indifference.

"Sir, I will go and get busy now."

Master Guo on the side took the opportunity to leave.

At this time, Qin Yu slowly came to Jiang Zuo with a gentle smile on her face: "Jiang Zuo, why didn't you tell me that you were going back to Jiangzhou City?"

"Didn't you go back to the Qin family?" Jiang Zuo looked a little confused.

Qin Yu raised her head, looked at Jiang Zuo's face, and said, "Why, don't you want to see me?"

"Uh... not really, I just wonder why you came to Jiangzhou. Shouldn't you stay at the Qin family now?"

Jiang Zuo's feelings towards Qin Yu are complicated.

Qin Yu said, "I was entrusted by my brother to come and discuss something with you."

In fact, there was no commission at all. Qin Yu came here completely regardless of his brother's opposition and insisted on going to Jiangzhou City.

"So, your brother wants to talk to me about something?"

Jiang Zuo was half-believing and half-doubting.

Qin Yu nodded: "Yes."

"Just say it straight." Jiang Zuo said.

Qin Yu couldn't come up with an idea for a while, so he just said, "We'll talk about this later."

"You must have sneaked out, right?" Jiang Zuo stared into Qin Yu's eyes and saw through her lies.

Qin Yu turned his head and said, "So what? Don't forget, I also have a mansion in Jiangzhou City. Why can't I come?"

"Okay, okay, okay." Jiang Zuo didn't want to argue with her.

"I helped you so much before, but you didn't even thank me." Qin Yu said again.

Looking back, it is true.

If Qin Yu had not returned to the Qin family and ordered the rebel army led by the Qin family to capture Xinyuan City, the Yan army might have had to fight with the Chen army for a long time, and the Yan army on the front line would not have been able to get more supplies.

Although the final decision on success or failure was made by the surrender faction within Chen State, in terms of credit, the Qin family did help a lot.

Looking at Qin Yu's complicated eyes, Jiang Zuo said calmly: "Then you can have fun in Jiangzhou City. I have something important to attend to, so I will not accompany you for now. I will thank you another day..."