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

Perhaps the only way is to fill it with human lives.

If a thousand men are not enough, use ten thousand, a hundred thousand, or a million!

But the cost would be too high.

She couldn't bear it, and neither could the Daliang Dynasty.

"That bastard Xia Yun deserves to die!" The empress cursed viciously in her heart.

Once the last layer of window paper between him and Xia Yun is broken, Xia Yun, knowing that he has already committed a serious crime, will definitely choose to rebel!

By then, it will be too late to regret when the country collapses.

After much thought, the empress made up her mind.

At least before the imperial court has the power to take action against Xia Yun, Xia Yun must not be allowed to know her true identity!

"Your Majesty, I heard that Xia Yun has arrived in the capital. Do you want to meet him?"

At this moment, a gentle voice suddenly came from the maid beside her.

Upon hearing this, the empress raised her eyebrows.

"Why, you miss her a lot?"

There was no sign of anger in the empress's voice, but it was clearly not a good thing.

"Your Majesty misunderstood. I didn't."

The maid shook her head repeatedly, a look of panic on her face.

"It's just that the things I brought back from Dai County last time sold very well in the capital. In total, they sold for almost one million taels of silver."

The maid quickly found an excuse.

Hearing this, the empress remembered that she had indeed asked people to sell the little gadgets brought back from Dai County in the capital.

Now it seems that the business made her a lot of profit!

Her trip to Dai County cost her a total of about 500,000 taels of silver, which even included the money spent on purchasing disaster relief grain in Dai County.

In the end, the sale of those things not only allowed her to recoup the cost of 500,000 taels of silver, but also made her more than 500,000 taels of silver!

Those old guys in the Ministry of Revenue stopped making trouble for her because of this.

"Your Majesty, how about we buy some more things from Dai County?"

When the empress fell into deep thought, the maid suddenly suggested something.

This is not a bad idea!

The empress's thoughts were brought back to reality. The court was currently short of money.

Although the famine in Zhejiang has been alleviated a lot, looking at the entire Jiangnan region, Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, there are still tens of millions of victims who have not been properly dealt with.

If you want to completely quell the famine, the most indispensable thing is silver!

But how to buy those luxury goods from Dai County?

Thinking of this, the empress couldn't help but frowned slightly.

She remembered the eunuch who had been sent to Dai County to convey the imperial edict, and who was ambushed and killed by horse bandits on his way back to the capital.

The eunuch who delivered the imperial edict was robbed completely.

If she had not been to Dai County herself, she would certainly not have suspected this matter.

But she had been to Dai County in person and witnessed Xia Yun's brutal treatment of officials and businessmen.

When the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict returned to the capital and reported the situation in Dai County to her, she immediately realized that he was lying.

After being severely tortured, the eunuch finally told the truth. It turned out that Xia Yun bribed the eunuch with 100,000 taels of silver to keep the secret of Dai County.

Others may not understand this, but the empress knows it clearly.

Judging from Xia Yun's temper, he must have deliberately bribed the eunuch with 100,000 taels of silver, and then sent people to disguise as horse bandits to intercept and kill him halfway, and then snatch back the 100,000 taels of bribe silver.

After going through the whole process, only the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict was kept in the dark.

Thinking of this, the empress couldn't help but shook her head.

If we send people directly to Dai County to buy those luxury goods, they might end up being robbed.

Xia Yun is currently in the capital, so if the transaction is conducted directly with him, the deal will obviously be safer.

After the empress pondered for a moment, she finally made a decision.

Anyway, Xia Yun doesn't know her true identity now, so he might as well leave the palace and meet with people below to finalize a big deal directly!

"Come here, change your clothes!"

They did what they said. The sky was not yet completely dark when a voice came out of the empress's mouth.

......

In the capital, in a mansion without a plaque, nearly ten men in fancy clothes were gathered in the lobby.

One of them sat at the head seat in the hall, and the others were on the left and right sides. At this moment, everyone had a gloomy look on their faces.

The atmosphere in the lobby was very depressing, so quiet that one could even hear everyone's breathing.

Until a burly middle-aged man in a dragon robe finally lost his patience and slammed the table.

"If it doesn't work, just do it! That kid has already made it to the capital alive. If someone finds out what happened in Zhili, we will all be in trouble!"

The man in the python robe had murderous intent in his eyes, and his right hand unconsciously clenched into a fist.

As soon as his words came out, someone in the lobby echoed him, and the depressing atmosphere in the lobby was completely broken!

"The young prince is right! As long as that boy is alive, he will always be a hidden danger. Moreover, he has a solid foundation in Hangzhou."

"If we let him go back to Zhejiang, it will be even harder for us to take action!"

A man wearing armor, with a ferocious look and a scar on his face, stood up from his seat.

"In the final analysis, it's all because of that old man Lei Zhenning who is wavering! What on earth does he want to do?"

Immediately afterwards, someone else spoke in the audience, and there was anger in his voice, directed at the Governor-General of Zhejiang, Lei Zhenning.

"That old fellow is always thinking that the grass is greener on the other side. He probably wants to change his allegiance after seeing Your Majesty's increasing maturity!"

At the front of the lobby, a man in a black robe suddenly snorted, his words full of disdain.

"We must come up with a solution today. Zhao Gongming is a venomous snake. Now the entire Zhili province has been under martial law. I'm afraid he can't hold back any longer!"

"Yes, there must be a solution!"

"..."

All of a sudden, in the lobby, which was originally filled with a depressing atmosphere, people were vying to speak and talk, and the scene became extremely noisy.

After dozens of breaths, the middle-aged man sitting in the first seat suddenly let out a dry cough.

Upon seeing this, the others stopped talking and all looked at the middle-aged man in the first seat.

"I have long told you to be careful in your work, but how did you do it?"

"Not only did they not hurt Xia Yun at all, but they were killed cleanly! Zhao Gongming also captured more than a dozen people and locked them up in the dungeon!"

The middle-aged man spoke in a deep voice, looking at the scarred man.

Although his voice was not high, everyone seemed to feel a bone-chilling chill at this moment.

Especially the scarred man, after hearing the voice of the first middle-aged man, he, who had just been angry, now had a look of fear on his face.

"Young Lord...I...I will admit my mistake."

The scarred man's voice trembled a little, and then he faced the middle-aged man at the first seat in the lobby and fell to his knees with a plop.