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"Making a lot of money, making a lot of money."

Inside the mansion, Prince Ling was moving the beads on the abacus, calculating without blinking, with the smile on his face never fading.

"Father really shouldn't have let you be the Minister of War, but let you go to the Ministry of Revenue. With your economic acumen, how could the Ministry of Revenue still have a deficit?"

After finishing the calculation, Prince Ling took a pen and wrote down the final number, with a smile on his lips becoming even brighter.

"When you asked me to find someone to make fireworks, I thought you just wanted to please our father. I didn't expect your real purpose was this."

Prince Ling poured himself a cup of tea and tried to calm his excitement.

"Your Highness, the secret shipbuilding costs are huge. In order to go to sea as soon as possible, I must find a way to raise funds." Yun Yi said with a faint smile.

Prince Ling nodded in agreement and looked at Yun Yi with bright eyes. He finally found a soulmate.

"My second brother has always disapproved of my going to sea and would never support me. How could I possibly build a ship with my salary and the reward from my father? It was my uncle who bought the shipyard for me."

Now, Yun Yi asked someone to make a new style of fireworks. His second brother presented it to the emperor and won his father's favor. He also made money by selling it outside. It was the best of both worlds.

"Your Highness, Uncle Zhong's craftsmanship is extraordinary. For the sake of long-term planning, please give him more preferential treatment so that the business can be maintained for a long time."

Uncle Zhong was the person in charge of producing many types of fireworks during this period, and was introduced to King Ling by Yun Yi.

"Don't worry about that. This king has always cherished talents."

Are you kidding? With such a big cash cow, of course he has to take good care of it. If the prince finds a loophole and poaches her away, he will have nowhere to cry.

After his joy, Prince Ling suddenly remembered something.

"Today I went to the palace to pay my respects to my mother. I heard that your cousin is going to marry into the East Palace. Did you know about this?"

Ok?

Shen Jiaojiao is going to marry Lu Chengchuan?

“I haven’t heard of it.”

Didn’t Shen Jiaojiao say that they wanted to be together for the rest of their lives?

There are so many women in the Prince's Eastern Palace who have not yet been dealt with, why would she be willing to marry?

"It is said that the engagement has been made and she will be married as a concubine." Prince Ling said.

The Shen family was just an ordinary merchant family, not an official family. Shen Jiaojiao married the prince as a concubine, which was considered a high-ranking marriage.

But Shen Jiaojiao herself would not be willing to be just a concubine, so why is she willing to get married?

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"Although I don't like her behavior, I am still her aunt after all. Your uncle wrote to me saying that the Shen family has no mansion in Beijing, and he wants me to help buy one so that Shen Jiaojiao can get married in the new mansion."

After returning to the Marquis' Mansion, Madam Shen called Yun Yi over and said with a sigh:

"It happened in a hurry. The couple didn't have time to rush to the capital. I have to take care of Shen Jiaojiao's wedding."

"Why are you in such a hurry? It only takes a dozen days at most to get here from Qingzhou. What's wrong with waiting a while?" Yun Yi asked.

The marriage process in ancient times was complicated, not to mention a prince marrying a concubine, which required countless preparations. Was there another reason for being so anxious?

When Mrs. Shen mentioned this, her face suddenly darkened. "She did something shameless. Now that she can't hide it anymore, she has to get married quickly."

Yun Yi understood.

Shen Jiaojiao came from later times and had never liked the constraints of ancient feudal rules. Getting pregnant before marriage was in line with what she called "freedom".

But these have nothing to do with him. His Majesty has ordered him to rectify the military discipline of the Xishan military camp after the first month of the year, and it will take at least two or three months for him to come back.

Even if Mrs. Shen was reluctant, she still prepared everything for the sake of the Shen family.

"Aunt, is my cousin still busy these days?"

That day, when Mrs. Shen was about to leave, Shen Jiaojiao stopped her and asked.

"Of course he is busy." Mrs. Shen's eyes fell on Shen Jiaojiao's frowning brows and asked, "What do you want to see him for?"

"I...have something I want to say to him."

"You are about to marry into the Eastern Palace, and there is a difference between him and you as a man. Don't look for him again in the future, so as not to cause trouble to both of you." Mrs. Shen said coldly.

Shen Jiaojiao wanted to say something else, but Mrs. Shen had already walked out.

In the dream described in the time sequence, Yun Yi was killed by their joint plan.

But the reality is that Yun Yi did not stand on Lu Chengchuan's side.

So she guessed, maybe... Yun Yi was also reborn.

Now that she was going to marry Lu Chengchuan, and Yun Yi had never come to see her, this further confirmed her guess.

After being reborn, he no longer liked her, no longer followed Lu Chengchuan, but chose Prince Ling, chose to draw a clear line between them, and even... hated her.

He hated her for killing him. If that was true, she had no choice but to marry Lu Chengchuan and seek protection from the Eastern Palace.

Yun Yi didn’t know what Shen Jiaojiao was thinking. If he knew, he would just chuckle.

He wanted to take revenge on Shi Xu, Jiang Rang and Lu Chengchuan. As for Shen Jiaojiao, who treated the original owner as a backup, he really had never thought about what to do with her.

After all, she had never taken the initiative to harm the original owner.

When the time came and Jiang Rang and Lu Chengchuan were gone, Shen Jiaojiao had no one to rely on and naturally could not show off.

Until she got on the bridal sedan to the Eastern Palace, Shen Jiaojiao still hadn't seen Yun Yi.

After marrying into the Eastern Palace, although she was a concubine, because of Lu Chengchuan's preference, the Crown Princess and other concubines did not make things difficult for her, and she could rest and take care of her pregnancy in her own small courtyard.

But since she couldn’t leave the palace, news about Shen Jiaojiao was a little delayed.

After not seeing Lu Chengchuan for half a month and asking people to invite him but he didn't come, Shen Jiaojiao keenly realized that something was wrong.

I asked Cui'er to inquire about it, and after some twists and turns I finally found out.

The merchant ship that Jiang Rang brought back from the sea brought back a lot of contraband. Not only was the ship seized, but Jiang Rang, the person in charge, was also imprisoned.

The people in the caravan claimed that those contraband items were purchased and shipped back at Jiang Rang's order. There were witnesses and evidence, and the evidence was conclusive and could not be denied.

Naturally, Lu Chengchuan could no longer have any contact with Jiang Rang at this time. Cutting off the tail to survive and sacrificing the pawn to save the king were instincts cultivated by these people.

He hated Jiang for making him commit suicide and losing his money for nothing, so naturally, he didn't want to see Shen Jiaojiao.

Shen Jiaojiao once again realized that Lu Chengchuan was not a gentle and humble gentleman at all, but a heartless, selfish villain.

When Yun Yi returned from the Xishan military camp, the Ministry of Justice had already made a verdict on Jiang Rang's case.

Jiang Rang and the head of the caravan were exiled, and all his property was confiscated into the national treasury, including the Lanqingfang that he and Shen Jiaojiao opened together.

After it was banned according to law, the Ministry of Revenue began to check and settle accounts, and the national treasury immediately became much fuller.

It can be said that 'Jiang Rang fell and the national treasury was well fed'.

"Everything in the world is the land of the king, and the shores of the land are all the ministers of the king."

"How could the emperor allow that this richest businessman is someone employed by the crown prince? I am only providing an excuse for the emperor."