At the beginning, I became a county magistrate with greed of 500 million. The empress asked me to be

Prince Cheng was in a state of near insanity. Although he was rich, he could not withstand Xia Yun's brutal blackmail.

The crowd around looked at Prince Cheng who was about to be driven crazy by Xia Yun, and they all looked at each other in confusion.

"The world has really changed. It is really new that a prince of the imperial court has been forced to this extent!"

"It's time for someone like Lord Xia Yun to appear. These court princes are taking advantage of their seniority and status to embezzle state funds. It wouldn't be a pity to confiscate their property and exile them!"

"Who says it's not true? He spends millions of taels of silver at a time. I don't know how much he has embezzled over the years!"

"..."

Amid the whispers, almost everyone expressed their attitudes, and they all obviously supported Xia Yun.

"One price, 10 million silver coins, take Xiao Yuanhai away."

Finally, Xia Yun stopped arguing with Prince Cheng. After figuring out the other party's endurance limit, Xia Yun gave an exact number.

"Ten million taels?!"

Prince Cheng suddenly felt as if the sky was falling and his eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets.

You should know that the tax revenue of the Daliang Dynasty for the whole year was only tens of millions of taels.

With just one word from Xia Yun, he was about to take away most of his wealth!

"Xia promises His Majesty that you will not suffer any loss or be cheated with this 10 million taels."

Xia Yun patted his chest pretending to be confident.

"Of course, if Your Majesty feels that the prince's life is not worth 10 million taels, Your Majesty can also return home, and I will never stop you."

Xia Yun continued.

However, even Xia Yun himself did not expect that after he said this.

Prince Cheng was so depressed that he gushed out blood from his mouth.

"puff!"

As blood spilled on the ground, Prince Cheng's face turned extremely pale in an instant, and his breath began to fluctuate violently.

Seeing his appearance, others couldn't help but worry, as if Prince Cheng would pass away at the next moment.

"Your Majesty, don't be angry. Anger hurts your liver. Money is just a thing outside of your body. Besides, this 10 million taels of silver is not for Xia's pocket, but for military and national affairs."

"If we win this battle in the northern border, Xia will definitely make a report to His Majesty and ask for credit for His Majesty's generous donation!"

Xia Yun, who was afraid that Prince Cheng would lose his life, immediately spoke again, his words full of comfort.

Dozens of breaths passed.

Prince Cheng finally calmed down his excitement, and some color returned to his pale face.

"Ten million taels...I'll give it to you."

At this moment, Prince Cheng seemed to have aged by dozens of years.

After all, compared with ten million taels of silver, Xiao Yuanhai's life is more important.

He is now in his sixties and is approaching death. No one can guarantee what will happen in the future.

If Xiao Yuanhai died at the hands of Xia Yun, it would mean that the inheritance of Prince Cheng's Mansion would be cut off!

By then, even if he had a lot of silver in his hands, he would not be able to take it to the underworld.

"That's right! Please send someone back to the palace to get the silver. I will be waiting here. I will hand over the money and the person."

Xia Yun smiled happily.

At this moment, in the eyes of the people around him, Xia Yun no longer looked like the Governor of Jiangnan or an important official of the imperial court.

He is clearly a kidnapper, urging relatives to pay money to redeem the person!

……

After confirming that the ransom money had been paid, Prince Cheng quickly dispatched a trusted subordinate back to the palace.

In the blink of an eye, another stick of incense had passed.

When the trusted subordinate reappeared outside Fenglai Inn, he brought with him a full stack of silver bills.

"Xia Yun, this is almost all of my wealth. Please... release my son."

Prince Cheng said this and personally handed the stack of banknotes to Xia Yun.

Xia Yun looked at the numbers on the banknotes and felt very satisfied.

But he didn't hand him over directly.

"Take these banknotes and go to all the banks in the capital to withdraw silver immediately."

Xia Yun turned around and handed a stack of silver bills directly to Chong Heihu.

There was no way he would let Xiao Yuanhai go so easily before he got the 10 million taels of silver.

After all, this concerns the military pay for the army.

"General, let's do it now!"

After Chong Heihu took the silver bills, he immediately took away two thousand cavalrymen from the scene and rushed to the major banks in the capital.

Needless to say, these two thousand cavalrymen were brought by Jiang Wenzhong.

Seeing Xia Yun's serious behavior, Prince Cheng felt helpless, but he could do nothing about it.

In this way, everyone could only wait quietly in place.

However, in order to prevent Xiao Yuanhai from bleeding to death, Xia Yun asked Qin Shun to call medical staff to bandage Xiao Yuanhai.

Now that things have come to this, Prince Cheng has pledged to pay 10 million taels of silver, so there is no need for him to go back on his word.

As for whether Xiao Yuanhai and Prince Cheng would retaliate against him in the future, that was not something Xia Yun was worried about at all.

He had offended countless officials of the Liang Dynasty, not to mention those of Prince Cheng's rank. Even Xu Miao, known as the Little Prime Minister, had attacked him several times.

During this period, hundreds of assassins were sent to kill him.

If he was worried, he would never have come to the capital!

……

In a blink of an eye, another half day passed, and it was gradually getting late at night.

Chong Heihu finally returned to Xia Yun again.

"Your Excellency, I have already withdrawn 10 million taels of silver from various banks in the capital with banknotes, and it is currently on its way to the Xia Mansion."

Chong Heihu said excitedly.

"Very good, let him go."

Xia Yun nodded happily. The ten million taels of silver had been put into his pocket, and it was time for this farce to end.

After getting Xia Yun's approval, Prince Cheng immediately stepped forward with his personal soldiers and took Xiao Yuanhai, who was wrapped like a rice dumpling, to his side.

After that, Prince Cheng stopped talking to Xia Yun, and immediately took Xiao Yuanhai into the carriage and hurried back towards Prince Cheng's palace.

Only after Prince Cheng and his entourage walked away did Xia Yun let out a long breath.

"Dear guests, today's business is over. Please go away. You are all welcome to visit Fenglai Pavilion at any time in the future."

Xia Yun took the initiative to step forward and spoke to the crowd of onlookers.

The reason why he did this was to announce to the world that Fenglai Pavilion was his property and he would not tolerate anyone else doing evil here!

After a while, the crowd of onlookers who had finished eating the melons, although still reluctant to leave, had to disperse under Xia Yun's majesty.

The two groups of people coming from the Ministry of War and the Ninth Prince's Palace also returned under Xia Yun's order.

However, when most people left Fenglai Inn, there were still two figures who remained.

One of them was the barbarian woman!

At this moment, more than a dozen soldiers surrounded the barbarian woman.

Needless to say, this was naturally an order given by Xia Yun.

The other person was a little beyond Xia Yun's expectations. She was the woman with a black veil who had appeared at the auction!