After giving up being the wife of a powerful official, Ling Yunlu became a concubine

Xiao Minshen paused.

"Now, do you still let her go?"

"But she is a girl." Shen Yunjin disagreed.

"Well, I understand, Your Majesty."

"By the way, this was delivered by the secret guard today."

Xiao Minshen took out a stack of papers from his arms and handed it to Shen Yunjin.

Shen Yunjin took it and looked at it. "Silver note?"

She counted it and it was exactly 50,000 taels.

"Your Majesty, what is this?"

Shen Yunjin looked at Xiao Minshen in confusion.

Xiao Minshen touched the tip of his nose.

"This is the discarded ore. After it is refined again, the weapons made are sold to make money."

Stone from the mine can be smelted into iron ore.

However, this iron ore is also divided into grades.

Stones with high iron ore content produce purer and more iron.

Some stones contain certain impurities when they are produced.

At the beginning, the master tried to refine it multiple times to produce iron with higher purity.

Later, in order to speed up the process, these stones of low purity were discarded halfway.

One day, a miner's tool broke.

In order to speed up the work, he picked up a few pieces of discarded stones at random, forged them and made tools.

It turned out that even with iron of low purity, the forging tools were no worse than those on the market.

The mine manager is also a money-obsessed person.

He immediately arranged for several people to forge ordinary weapons from these stones.

Even stones that have already been smelted can be refined again by adding something.

Later, it happened that the second prince was about to rebel, and his men purchased weapons on a large scale.

Mo Yi thought of a way to sell this batch of ordinary weapons in batches.

After listening to Xiao Minshen's explanation, Shen Yunjin's eyes were filled with envy.

All her businesses in Beijing combined could only earn her a few tens of thousands of taels a month.

I didn't expect that mining could be so profitable.

Xiao Minshen coughed and said, "I would rather not make this kind of money."

After hearing what Xiao Minshen said, Shen Yunjin came back to his senses.

Every time there was unrest in the imperial court, it was the ordinary people who suffered.

This kind of money is really hot to handle.

She hesitated for a moment, but still took the money.

If the King of Qi doesn't make this money, someone else will.

They made money, and at least the people who depended on them could survive.

Shen Yunjin stood up and went back to the house.

She was thinking about the two maids who were still kneeling in the room.

As soon as they saw Shen Yunjin come in, the two people who were kneeling on the ground, straightened up immediately.

Shen Yunjin pretended not to see the two people's little actions and walked to the table and sat down.

"Princess, I shouldn't have acted on my own. I know I was wrong."

"If the princess wants to punish me, please punish me alone. Cui Liu did nothing wrong. Otherwise, the princess will let her get up first?"

Yang Liu pleaded with Shen Yunjin.

Cui Liu pulled her hard.

Shen Yunjin glanced at it and pretended not to see it.

"You are all my maids. It is a big mistake for her to know the truth and not report it."

"Ah?" Yang Liu opened her mouth wide.

"I have already told the prince that you cannot participate in this hunt."

Yang Liu still held out hope that after being punished by Shen Yunjin, she would still be able to go with Mo Yi and the others.

Hearing Shen Yunjin say this, she was completely disappointed.

Shen Yunjin handed the thing in his hand to Yang Liu.

"Take this and keep it safe. Starting tomorrow, there will be more things that I need you to do with me."

Yang Liu took the thing from Shen Yunjin's hand dejectedly.

In her depressed mood, she thought it was a letter and absentmindedly held the paper in her hand.

Suddenly, her eyes stopped on the paper in her hand.

"Bank notes?"

She took it in front of her and looked at it carefully without believing it.

That’s right, it’s the silver note that is used throughout the court.

When Cui Liu heard what Yang Liu said, she also came over to see.

Yang Liu counted the banknotes with trembling hands.

There are a total of fifty pieces, with a face value of one thousand taels.

"Fifty thousand taels?"

Yang Liu looked at Shen Yunjin in disbelief.

"Well, we need to plan this money well and create benefits for more people."

Shen Yunjin pursed her lips and smiled.

Yang Liu's tears suddenly flowed down.

"Princess, now you can finally have a good night's sleep!"

Shen Yunjin also felt a pang of pain in his heart.

She stretched out her hand and helped Yang Liu and Cui Liu up.

"Don't worry, the prince is here for everything."

"From now on, if you have any problems, please tell me first and don't act on your own."

"Especially you." Shen Yunjin reached out and poked Yang Liu's forehead.

Yang Liu covered her forehead and burst into laughter.

"Princess, I'll remember this!"

After saying that, she carefully took the banknote and put it in Shen Yunjin's private vault.

Xiao Minshen was outside and heard the laughter of the master and servants, and knew that the matter was over.

He thought for a moment and called Mo Yi.

"You are going to set out tomorrow, are you sure?"

"To reply to Your Majesty, no." Mo Yi answered straightforwardly.

Hearing this, Xiao Minshen looked up at Mo Yi.

"I asked the hunters who participated in the event, but not a single hunter could describe the appearance of the beast."

"They said the beast's tusks were as long as a tree, and that the beast was as tall as two men."

"If such a beast really existed, wouldn't it be more terrifying than a leopard or a tiger?"

"But everyone I asked turned pale when they mentioned the beast."

"So, I don't know what kind of monster that is?"

Xiao Minshen fell into deep thought.

"I want to go explore first and see what that monster is."

"Are there any shortcomings? Or any weaknesses? This way, our chances of winning should be better."

"Then you must pay attention to safety. Don't act rashly without a foolproof plan."

"Yes, I understand."

Because King Rui's fiefdom and Xiao Minshen's fiefdom belong to the same mountain range.

Now, King Rui offered a reward of 1,000 taels to send people to capture the beast.

If the beast is frightened, it will come towards Xiao Minshen's fiefdom.

Then the ones who suffer are the people of Xiao Minshen's fiefdom.

That's why Xiao Minshen asked Mo Yi and others to participate in the hunt.

If you can kill the wild beast in King Rui's fiefdom, you can also earn a bounty, killing two birds with one stone.

After Xiao Minshen explained everything to Mo Yi, he turned around and went back to the house.

Shen Yunjin was sitting in front of the dressing table, taking off all the jewelry on her head.

Xiao Minshen waved his hand, and Cui Liu and Yang Liu bowed and left.

Xiao Minshen walked forward and personally took off the hairpins on Shen Yunjin's head.

Then he reached for the comb on the dressing table.

"My Lord, I will do it myself."

Shen Yunjin grabbed the comb and combed her long hair.

Xiao Minshen stood aside, admiring Shen Yunjin's every move.

The candlelight shone on Shen Yunjin's face, casting a layer of soft light.

Shen Yunjin raised her hand to comb her long hair, her sleeves slipped down, revealing her white wrists.

Xiao Minshen's Adam's apple moved.