Tang Dynasty: Father, if you don't rebel, I will!

"Xiaoyu, does your brother Zhinu spend a lot of your money?"

Li Chengqian asked quietly.

Li Zhi hurriedly shook his head, but Li Chengqian didn't even glance at him.

Waiting for Murong Yu's reply.

Upon hearing this, the latter pondered for a moment.

"It didn't cost much money, and I did it all on my own volition."

Li Zhigang was about to breathe a sigh of relief.

Murong Yu: "I only gave Brother Zhinu five large houses in Taiyuan Prefecture, a horse farm in Yunzhou, three ten-year berths in Fenhe Bay, a merchant caravan of five hundred people, three escort agencies of three hundred people, oh right, there is also a residential area in Qinghai City with about two hundred new courtyards... That's all."

Everyone: "..."

Murong Yu waved her hand dismissively, her expression nonchalant: "They're all just worthless things, as long as Brother Zhinu likes them."

Everyone: "..."

In the adjacent side hall.

With a "snap," Princess Gaoyang, who had a pastry in her mouth, froze on the spot.

The snack in his mouth fell to the ground before he even realized it.

Those who had originally just been watching the show, thinking about how to ridicule Li Zhi, the Ninth Prince, Li You, as well as Li Yun and Li Zhen, had their smiles frozen on their faces.

"How much, how much?"

Li Zhen swallowed hard.

She tugged at Li Yun beside her, her voice trembling.

"Seventh Brother, did you hear that? Murong Yu gave Ninth Brother so many things! Did you hear that? Or did I hear wrong?!"

"Holy crap, holy crap... This, this Ninth Prince is so popular with Murong Yu? No... why?! Is he that much better looking than me?!" Li Zhen protested.

however.

Li You and Li Yun, who were standing to the side, turned their heads, glanced at it, and then shook their heads silently.

Li You sighed softly and patted Li Zhen's small shoulder.

"Old Eight, actually, sometimes temperament is more important than appearance."

Li Zhen was still unconvinced: "Charm? Old Ninth has no charm whatsoever! Look at him..."

Li Yun interrupted him in a gruff voice.

"Isn't stubbornness a kind of temperament?"

Li Zhen: "???"

Inside the palace.

For the first time, Li Chengqian felt that sitting on the crown prince's seat was like sitting on a hot plate.

"hiss!"

With a slight headache and disbelief, she asked Sun Yi in a low voice.

"How much silver would a large house in Taiyuan cost these days?"

"This... Your Highness, it depends on the regulations. For example, Prince Lu's real estate association, because of the privileges you granted, sells some properties specifically to high-ranking officials and nobles. A five-courtyard mansion can sell for 400,000 guan, and even a slightly smaller three-courtyard house will cost more than 150,000 guan."

"If His Highness Prince Jin really has five sets... that would be worth at least a million strings of cash."

Li Chengqian: "......"

OK!

I knew it!

Historically, you were at least someone who could have gotten an emperor by taking advantage of the situation, so why are you so different from me?

So it turns out I lack the ability to recognize a fine horse!

Li Chengqian didn't know whether to laugh or be angry.

At this moment, he stared intently into Li Zhi's eyes, causing the latter's legs to tremble uncontrollably.

He waved his hands repeatedly.

"Your Majesty, I... I didn't want it! Your Majesty, you know me. How could I possibly dare to take such a large and valuable fortune..."

Li Chengqian nodded slightly, thinking that this explanation was indeed plausible.

however.

Inside the side hall, Princess Gaoyang and Princess Chengyang, who had overheard this, suddenly exchanged a glance.

Suddenly, as if I had just thought of something.

Amidst the puzzled gazes of Li You and the others, he suddenly ran quickly outside.

The two ran wildly, leaving the eunuchs and palace maids who were following and taking care of them far behind.

Then, they found a shovel from somewhere.

Soon, they arrived at a temporary feeding area within Yangcheng Palace, which was under the control of the Imperial Kitchen.

The clucking of chickens, accompanied by the pervasive smell of sheep dung, did not affect the excitement on the faces of Princesses Gaoyang and Chengyang in the slightest.

The two arrived at a corner where a large black dog was tied up.

"Guards, take this dog away from me!"

The eunuch had no idea what these two little devils were up to, and seeing that each of them had an iron shovel, he dared not refuse them at all.

They quickly stepped forward and dragged the black dog away.

"Is this the place?" Princess Chengyang asked uncertainly.

Amidst the black dog's mournful howls, Gao Yang kicked the dog bowl away and shoveled it down into the spot where the bowl had been.

"It must be here! Quick, dig!"

Gao Yang spoke excitedly, his hands moving swiftly.

The two men dug with shovel after shovel, and in no time, amidst the puzzled and troubled gazes of the surrounding eunuchs and palace maids, they reached a considerable depth.

"Crack!"

Suddenly, a metallic clang rang out, causing the two princesses, who had been wielding shovels, to show surprise and delight on their faces.

"Found it! Hahaha!"

When Princess Gaoyang took out a bronze box covered in mud from underneath.

The surrounding palace maids and eunuchs all gasped in shock.

"No, how could there be a buried box here? Who buried it?! Huh?!"

The eunuch in charge of this breeding area is going to be exhausted.

He anxiously questioned his eunuchs, only to be met with bewildered looks.

"Little Seventeen, hurry, hurry and open it!" Princess Chengyang urged expectantly.

Princess Gaoyang took a deep breath.

The palace maids and eunuchs around them craned their necks in curiosity.

There was a click.

He opened the bronze box in his hand.

What came into view instantly turned everyone's initial anticipation into disappointment.

Princess Chengyang's expectant face instantly fell.

“e=(′o｀*))) Sigh, that's true, Ninth Brother probably wouldn't have the guts to take those things…”

Somewhat unwilling to give up, Gao Yang opened the candy wrappers one by one in the box.

Upon seeing the pieces of nougat inside the candy wrapper, he immediately let out a cold snort of anger.

With a snap, the item was thrown back into the box.

"I don't believe it! Ninth Brother has always been full of tricks and loves to do these sneaky things. I don't believe Murong Yu didn't give him something good!"

Princess Gaoyang's eyes were full of stubbornness.

Clenching her little fists, she looked determined to dig out all of her ninth brother's wealth.

And at the same time.

Inside the main hall of the Shougong Hall, the accusations against Li Zhi were finally coming to an end.

Li Chengqian looked at the contracts in his hand, which had been brought from Murong Shun's house by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Looking at the delicate signature and fingerprint on it.

Although the name is "Li Zhi", the handwriting and signature are clearly "Murong Yu".

However, despite this, the way everyone present looked at Li Zhi, the Ninth Prince of Jin of the Tang Dynasty, had changed completely.

"There are still so many?!" Li Chengqian was shocked by Murong Yu's extravagance.

Apart from what the other party had already mentioned.

The shops in places like Datong Prefecture, Zhuque Avenue in Chang'an, as well as wineries, tea shops, cloth shops... all the properties they acquired alone were enough to crush Li Yuanchang, the Prince of Lu, who worked diligently from dawn till dusk to build the Lu Prince Real Estate Chamber of Commerce.

Li Chengqian looked at Murong Shun as if he had seen a ghost.

"You've never cared about these assets in the house?!"

however.

Murong Shun's expression at this moment was exactly the same as his.

"This, this... Your Highness, I was unaware of this!"

This sentence, "This humble subject does not know," was even tinged with a strong sense of sobbing.

Murong Shun was wealthy, and with the increasing labor shortage caused by the new policies of the Tang Dynasty over the past year, he, as a "talent intermediary" of Tuyuhun, also made a fortune from it.

If the great merchants of the Tang Dynasty still needed to personally work hard to make money and come up with various strategies...

So Murong Shun not only made money easily, but also had no competitors.

The entire population of Tuyuhun were his underlings, who could come to the Tang Dynasty to work at any time.

One-tenth of the salary was allocated to him, and the amount of cash he controlled was an astronomical figure.

However......

Murong Shun's face turned extremely ugly.

Li Chengqian's gaze brightened as he looked at his ninth brother again.

Ninth!

What a talent!

He suddenly coughed twice, his eyes burning as he looked back at the little princess of the Murong family, whose heart and eyes were only for the ninth prince.

"Ahem, my dear brother, Xiaoyu's birth mother, if I remember correctly... seems to be from the Tang Dynasty, right?"

Murong Shun nodded.

"Yes, she was my first wife, whom I met in Chang'an back then. She wasn't from a high-ranking family..."

"Hmm, although you've frequented places of pleasure over the years, you've never remarried. It seems you can't forget the one in your heart. I'm deeply moved."

Li Chengqian suddenly let out a long sigh, and somehow a few tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.

This behavior made Murong Shun's heart skip a beat.

Meanwhile, Yingguo Gong Wu Shiyue, who had been paying close attention to Li Chengqian's attitude, suddenly stroked his beard and laughed.

"Hahaha, if that's the case, Your Highness..."

He rose and cupped his hands in greeting: "This old minister believes that although Crown Prince Murong has a foreign identity, he is still the Prince of Daning of our Great Tang Dynasty, and he has made great contributions over the years. This old minister suggests that Your Highness may help the Prince of Daning to ask His Majesty for an imperial decree for the late Princess Murong."

Li Chengqian slammed his hand on the table: "That's exactly what I'm thinking!"

His face was full of smiles as he watched Murong Yu carefully inching towards his ninth son, step by step.

He suddenly spoke again.

"I misunderstood Xiaoyu before. Although she was a bit mischievous, she is also an innocent and carefree person, hmm!"

"Tomorrow, let's send her back to the First Official School and the Township School!"

He seemed to have thought of something again, and his gaze turned to Wu Zhao, the little girl who was still sulking, standing next to Wu Shiyue.

"From now on, Wu Zetian, you must keep an eye on those two. If they don't attend class properly or do anything wrong..."

Li Chengqian suddenly pulled out a rattan cane from the side.

He handed it to Wang De, who was standing to the side.

"Here you go, I'll replace the vine if you break it!"