Royal daughter-in-law makes money

third chapter

"Yes!" Seeing that the housekeeper's eldest daughter had no objection, Zhao Cai hurried to do it. After all, the money belonged to the Qiao family, and the master could spend it however he liked.

Anyway, the Qiao family is now so poor that they only have money left.

Even if the master spends money recklessly, the eldest daughter can earn it back.

Finally, Zhao Cai, the accountant of the Qiao family, prepared 50,000 taels of silver, 20,000 taels of gold (one tael of gold equals ten taels of silver), and 250,000 taels of silver notes for Qiao Zhencheng, which filled up ten large boxes.

Qiao Zhencheng took his servants and pulled the gold and silver towards the palace.

As soon as he reached the palace gate, he was stopped by the guards at the gate.

"Who is coming?" The guard was shocked to see that the man in front of him was carrying so many boxes.

I was afraid that the box contained some hidden weapon.

"I am Qiao Zhencheng from the imperial merchant Qiao family. I have something to ask the emperor!" Qiao Zhencheng took out the Qiao family's token and handed it to the palace gate guard.

"It turns out to be Mr. Qiao. I wonder what he is pulling behind him?" The guard saw that there was nothing wrong with the Qiao family's token, but he was a little puzzled about the large boxes behind it.

"My lords, how about you send someone to guard these things for me? I will go to see the emperor and then come back to collect them." Qiao Zhencheng thought that it might take some effort for him to bring these things in.

Might as well put it here first.

Qiao Yuan quickly took out some small change and handed it to the palace guards.

"In that case, Mr. Qiao, you should go see the emperor first. You can leave these things here." The guards at the palace gate just thought that these were some tributes sent by the Qiao family to the emperor.

"You watch here!" Qiao Zhencheng told Qiao Yuan to keep an eye on the silver, and then he walked towards the imperial study.

Qiao Zhencheng had been to the palace several times and was quite familiar with the place.

"Master Qiao, how come you have time to come to the palace today?" Eunuch Li was stunned for a long time when he saw Qiao Zhencheng coming.

Then he thought, it’s a good thing that Qiao Zhencheng is here. With Qiao Zhencheng here, maybe half of the emperor’s problems can be solved.

After all, the Qiao family is a wealthy family in Chuyuan State.

If the Qiao family is willing to give some money, half of the emperor's worries can be solved.

"Eunuch Li, I have something I want to ask the emperor for help." Qiao Yingcheng smiled and stuffed a silver note into Eunuch Li's arms, bowing and saying.

"Then please wait here for a while, Mr. Qiao. I will go and ask the emperor for instructions." Eunuch Li smiled and narrowed his eyes. He saw the silver note, which was exactly five hundred taels.

"Thank you, Eunuch Li." Qiao Zhencheng was happy to receive the banknote. After all, not everyone has the opportunity to slip a banknote to the eunuch who serves the emperor. Among all the merchants in the entire Chuyuan Kingdom, he is the only one who has this qualification.

"Your Majesty, I have something to ask you." Eunuch Li hurried into the inner hall and bowed to Chu Yuanming who was reviewing memorials.

"Who else is coming?" Chu Yuanming was feeling very irritated at this moment.

The national treasury was already in deficit, and those people kept asking him for money every few days.

Those useless people in the Ministry of Revenue haven't figured out a way to make money yet.

"Your Majesty, Qiao Zhencheng is here. He said he wants to ask for your help with something." Eunuch Li said quickly with a smile.

"Qiao Zhencheng from the Qiao family?" Chu Yuanming, who was originally depressed, raised his head in surprise.

He even thought that it might be the second brother who came to ask him for military pay, but he didn't expect that today it was the person who came to give him silver.

"Why don't you invite Mr. Qiao in?" Chu Yuanming quickly put down what he was doing and said excitedly.

"Yes, I will go and invite Master Qiao in right away." Eunuch Li thought to himself that he must go and find out if Qiao Zhencheng brought anything with him, so as not to let those blind people stop him outside.

"Well, go check again later to see if Qiao Zhencheng brought anything with him. If he did, just have someone carry it over." Chu Yuanming thought that Qiao Zhencheng never came empty-handed.

If someone is so foolish as to deduct all the things from him, he will suffer a great loss.

"Yes!" Eunuch Li thought that the emperor had the same idea as him.

"Master Qiao, the emperor wants you to come in." Eunuch Li came out quickly and said with a smile.

"Okay! Thank you, eunuch!" After saying this, Qiao Zhencheng looked up with a smile and walked into the imperial study.

Eunuch Li signaled the young eunuch beside him to pay close attention to the situation inside, and he would be back soon.

"Your humble servant Qiao Zhencheng greets the emperor. Long live the emperor!" Qiao Zhencheng quickly bowed to Chu Yuanming.

"My dear Qiao, please get up quickly. How come you have time to come to the palace to see me today?" When Chu Yuanming saw Qiao Zhencheng, it was like he saw countless silver.

Qiao Zhencheng was thinking in his heart, how should he tell the emperor to let the seventh prince be his son-in-law?

"Your Majesty, I haven't seen you for a long time. I came to the palace today because I really have something that I want to trouble you with." Qiao Zhencheng thought about it and decided that instead of hiding it, it would be better to speak frankly. Anyway, his purpose today was to ask the emperor for a prince to be his son-in-law.

"What's the big deal? As long as I can help, I will definitely help you, Mr. Qiao." Chu Yuanming thought, after I help him, I will ask him for some money, and he will definitely be embarrassed to refuse.

"I believe the emperor also knows that I have only one daughter, An An, and now An An is sixteen years old..." Qiao Zhencheng paused here and looked at Chu Yuanming's face. He didn't see any displeasure, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hmm!" Chu Yuanming nodded, thinking to himself, could it be because of the new decree he had issued?

Miss Qiao still can’t get married?

"I want to use five hundred thousand taels to ask the emperor for a prince to be my daughter's husband!" Qiao Zhencheng thought, since the emperor was not unhappy, he felt relieved to say it.

"To marry a prince!" Chu Yuanming didn't notice at first that Qiao Zhencheng said he wanted to use 500,000 taels to marry a prince. He was thinking in his heart that Qiao Zhencheng was really bold.

"What did you just say?" Chu Yuanming suddenly wondered if he had misheard something just now.

"I want to spend five hundred thousand taels to ask the emperor for a prince to be my daughter's husband!" Qiao Zhencheng thought to himself, could it be that the emperor is hard of hearing?

However, he repeated it anyway.

Chu Yuanming was not going to negotiate anymore. Qiao Zhencheng was saying that he would pay 500,000 taels in exchange for his son to be his son-in-law?

Is there such a good thing?

Five hundred thousand taels!

With these 500,000 taels, not only can the flood in the south be solved, but also the drought in the north can be solved, and the military pay problem of the second army camp can be solved.

Moreover, he now has four princes who are of marriageable age.

If one is worth 500,000 taels of silver, and four of them are worth 2 million taels of silver, right?

"How many princes do you want, my dear?" Chu Yuanming looked at Qiao Zhencheng with shining eyes. It wasn't that he was so eager to marry his son to the Qiao family.

The truth is, he is short of money and the Qiao family is short of a son-in-law. This is called mutual benefit!