Royal daughter-in-law makes money

Chapter 63

After hearing this, Chu Yuanming staggered and almost fell.

I thought to myself, monster, what kind of daughter-in-law did you marry?

It's only been a few days since he moved in, but he already wants to tear down his son's house.

After such a long time, wouldn't she want to demolish the palace as well?

"An An, stop talking nonsense." Upon hearing this, Empress Xian quickly spoke out to stop him.

There has never been a prince who demolished the prince's palace. Qiao Anan is really bold in thinking this.

The prince’s mansion has been demolished, where will they live in the future?

Even if they want to live in the Qiao family, the prince's mansion cannot be demolished.

"Father, mother, my daughter-in-law is not talking nonsense." Qiao Anan was very puzzled. Why keep such a dilapidated prince's mansion? Wouldn't it be better for her to tear it down and rebuild it?

"An'an, if you and the second prince want to live in the Qiao family in the future, I have no objection, but the prince's mansion should not be demolished." Chu Yuanming just thought that Qiao An'an didn't want to move back to the second prince's mansion, so he wanted to demolish the prince's mansion to put an end to this idea.

But this prince's mansion was given to the second son by him after all, and it was a symbol of his status.

"Your Majesty, your daughter-in-law just thinks that the prince's mansion is too dilapidated. Repairing it would be a huge undertaking, so it would be better to tear it down and rebuild it." Qiao Anan thought to herself, if she said this, the emperor should agree, right?

Qiao Anan's words made Chu Yuanming fall into deep thought.

The mansion he gave to Chu Haojue was indeed quite large.

But the larger the mansion, the more money is needed to repair and maintain it.

Chu Yuanming thought about how the second son had spent all his money on the army over the years and how he had neglected the management of the mansion.

Today, there are only a few houses in the mansion that are truly well preserved.

However, Chu Yuanming was still hesitant. Should the Prince's Mansion be demolished and rebuilt?

I have never heard of any prince's palace being demolished and rebuilt.

The most important thing is that the cost of reconstruction is not a small amount.

Judging from the current situation of the national treasury, there is not enough money to rebuild a prince's palace.

If the Second Prince's Palace is rebuilt, the other princes' palaces will also need to be rebuilt, and the national treasury will not be able to afford it.

But Qiao Anan's words made sense. The Prince's Mansion had indeed fallen into disrepair over the years. The money needed to repair it and rebuild it was probably almost the same.

If so, why not rebuild it?

"What do you think about this, Second Brother?" Chu Yuanming did not answer Qiao Anan's question, but instead threw the question to Chu Yuanjue.

Chu Haojue didn't expect that the emperor would actually throw the question to him.

"Your Majesty, I will listen to you and the princess!" Chu Haojue said after thinking for a while.

Chu Yuanming glared at his slippery second son.

What's the difference between answering and not answering?

Originally, Chu Yuanming thought that Chu Haojue would agree with him and ask Qiao Anan not to demolish the Second Prince's Mansion first.

At this moment, if he directly refused, he was afraid that Qiao Anan would be disappointed, but if he answered yes, he would have more than one son.

Chu Yuanming looked embarrassed.

Empress Xian was thinking about the condition of the Second Prince's mansion, which had indeed fallen into disrepair.

It certainly needs to be repaired, but nowadays, the cost of repairing and rebuilding is about the same, so why not rebuild?

"Your Majesty, I feel that Jue'er has contributed a lot to our Chu Yuan Kingdom over the years. This is why the mansion has fallen into such a state. Now that An'an wants to rebuild it, it is great." Concubine Xian said while kneeling in front of Chu Yuanming.

In fact, Empress Xian was thinking that if the Second Prince’s mansion was newly built one day, would she be able to go out of the palace and live there occasionally?

"Forget it, I'll just agree to this, right? I'll ask the Ministry of Revenue to gather manpower to replan and rebuild the Second Prince's Mansion." Chu Yuanming sighed, thinking that most of the silver and money in the national treasury came from the Qiao family anyway.

It wouldn't be a waste to use it in the Second Prince's Mansion. If the other sons have objections, then just ask their princesses to hand over some silver to the national treasury.

"Your Majesty, there's no need to bother the Ministry of Revenue with this matter. Your daughter-in-law has some ideas about the new Second Prince's Mansion. When our mansion is built, we will invite Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, and My Consort to come over. I'm sure we will give you a surprise." Qiao Anan thought of building a castle in the Second Prince's Mansion with cement and glass.

By then, this will definitely be a unique building in the Chu Yuan Kingdom.

By the way, you can also promote her glass.

Of course, she didn't think that glass would be the exclusive industry of the Qiao family.

These days, no thighs are as solid as the emperor's.

"Oh? Then I'm looking forward to the surprise that An An will give me." Chu Yuanming was not dissatisfied at all when he heard that he didn't need to pay for it himself.

When he heard Qiao Anan say there was a surprise, he felt that their treasury would definitely make a lot of money again.

The queen beside her was also looking forward to it, but she couldn't say anything. After all, these were someone else's son and daughter-in-law, and had nothing to do with her.

At this time, people outside were still talking about it. Everyone felt that Qiao Anan's return visit was too shabby, and there was not even a hint of a return gift.

But they didn't dare to go to the prince's mansion or to the Qiao family to discuss this matter.

"Have you noticed? Why does this Miss Qiao seem to have never returned to the Second Prince's Mansion since she returned to the Qiao family?"

Soon someone discovered that Qiao Anan seemed to have been living in the Qiao family for nearly half a month.

"I noticed that not only Miss Qiao didn't return to the Second Prince's Mansion, but it seems that the Second Prince is also living in the Qiao family?" Everyone quickly told what they knew.

"How can it look like for a prince to live in a merchant's house every day?" Soon, some officials felt that Chu Haojue's actions were really damaging to the reputation of the royal family.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Even the emperor is not in a hurry about this matter." Soon, another official grabbed the angry official and said.

"But what if the emperor doesn't know about this?" the official said with some concern.

"Go to the Second Prince's Mansion and take a look." This person didn't believe that the Emperor didn't know that the Second Prince now lived in the Qiao family every day.

"What happened in the Second Prince's Mansion?" an official asked in confusion.

"I passed by there early this morning and seemed to see the Second Prince's mansion being demolished." The man said uncertainly.

"Tear down the house. Tear down the house in the Second Prince's Mansion? But I haven't heard recently that the Second Prince's Mansion needs to be demolished." The official frowned and said with some confusion.

"Could it be that the Second Prince and his wife wanted to demolish it privately?" another official said uncertainly.

"Oh, this is a big deal. Let's go to the palace and talk to the emperor." The officials became anxious when they heard this. Which prince and princess are so bold that they even want to demolish the prince's mansion.

"Don't talk nonsense without evidence." The older official led everyone to the Second Prince's Mansion first.

Everything requires evidence. If you don't have evidence and go to the emperor to complain, the emperor will punish you.