Phi-Fic Chapter 314 Gold
Chapter 314 Gold
"The Xie family has been peaceful recently, except that the female members have been visiting the palace more frequently." Although Old Madam Qi didn't care much about court affairs, she had heard a lot about the affairs between the families of officials in the capital.
That should be the case. In order to prevent anyone from paying attention to them, the Xie family actually let their female relatives move around in the capital. This was really too sudden.
"I didn't expect that there are smart people in the Xie family." Su Tang held her chin and looked at Qi Lingheng.
"Xie Yuzhuo, the eldest son of the second branch of the Xie family, passed the imperial examination and became the third place in the imperial examination with his own ability. Later, he recommended himself to go to the capital for training instead of choosing to gain experience in the Hanlin Academy. He has been very low-key in the past few years, and we even forgot about this person. When Your Majesty dismissed the men of the Xie family from their official positions, he was forgotten. The reason why Xie Wenjing was able to be reinstated this time is also because of the great contributions he made abroad." Qi Lingheng sat aside and added some red date tea to Madam Qi and Su Tang.
"Then what great achievements did Xie Yuzhuo make?" Su Tang asked curiously. No one had ever mentioned this to her before.
"We discovered a gold mine in the northwest. We mined the gold and refined it into gold ingots and sent them to Kyoto."
"How can we be sure that he didn't embezzle the gold mine? He handed it all over, but I don't believe it." Not reporting the discovery of a mineral vein and then privately mining the vein is a capital crime.
What's more, it was a gold mine. Su Tang didn't believe that the other party would pay it all. If it were her, she would at least steal half of it.
"The Ministry of Revenue has checked the mining situation of the gold mine and confirmed that he did not hide any gold." Qi Lingheng smiled. He knew what Su Tang meant. After all, it was a gold mine and few people could resist the temptation and hand it all over.
"Where is that batch of gold now?" Su Tang asked with raised eyebrows.
"That batch of gold ingots was quite large in number, and His Majesty was worried about leaving them in the Ministry of Revenue, so he had them all delivered to the palace."
After hearing this, Su Tang rolled her eyes.
Qi Lingheng looked at Su Tang's expression and knew what she was thinking.
Su Tang has a space and has received a lot of ill-gotten gains in the past. Now she still has a lot of money stored in her space.
Su Tang is even more of a money-grubber. Qi Lingheng knows that she loves money.
Judging from Su Tang's expression just now, she must have been eyeing the batch of gold.
"I'd better go into the palace and take a look. Queen Xie has summoned everyone there, so it would be inappropriate for me not to go and take a look." Su Tang suddenly said to Madam Qi.
"How can you do that? You're pregnant now, and it's the most important time. You can't take risks and you can't go. That person hasn't come to invite you to the palace again, so he probably doesn't dare to do anything too excessive." Old Lady Qi immediately stopped her.
"It's okay, I'll go and take a look. This doesn't count as entering the palace by imperial decree. Besides, I have the gold medal given by my father, and no one in the palace can stop me." Unless Emperor Jing was confused and trapped her in the palace himself.
But she has a lot of ways to save her life, so she will definitely be fine.
Su Tang had made up her mind, and Qi Lingheng knew that he could not stop her. Besides, Su Tang must have been interested in those gold ingots when she entered the palace this time.
"I'll go find someone to find out where the gold ingots are." Qi Lingheng said with a smile.
"What does this mean?" Old Madam Qi asked in confusion. Why were they talking about gold ingots again?
"You can go back with peace of mind, or you can stay in Prince Qi's mansion. I'll go into the palace first and come out tomorrow morning at the latest." Su Tang patted Madam Qi's hand to reassure her.
"This..." Madam Qi wanted to persuade her a few more times, and Qi Lingheng whispered a few words to her. Madam Qi then looked at the two of them with a curious expression, and told Su Tang to be careful, "I'll stay in Prince Qi's mansion for one night. You must notify me as soon as you come back."
"Okay." Su Tang smiled. It felt good to have someone care about her.
Afterwards, Su Tang changed into a princess's palace dress and entered the palace accompanied by Chunmei and Xiamei.
Qi Lingheng sent Su Tang to the gate of the palace, and said goodbye to Su Tang for a long time at the gate as if he was reluctant to let her go, so that the royal guards and some court officials who were on duty inside and outside the palace saw the two of them.
Su Tang then patted Qi Lingheng's arm and said, "Why are you still holding on to him when there are so many people outside?"
"It would be safer to let everyone see you enter the palace. Besides, I just got the news that all the people were sent to a hall next to Fengyi Palace."
"Huh? You have been with me all the time. When did you receive the news?" Su Tang blinked and asked in confusion.
"Someone spoke some code words to me at the palace gate just now." Qi Lingheng said in a low voice.
"Oh." She almost forgot that the Qi family army had its own set of code words.
I didn't expect it could be used in the palace.
She also knew how to use the secret code, but Qi Lingheng had been distracting her with all sorts of things just now, so she didn't pay attention to the situation at the palace gate.
"Okay, I'll be careful. I'll be out tomorrow morning at the latest." It's more convenient to act at night, and Su Tang thought it would be best to wait until dark.
Patting Qi Lingheng on the shoulder, Su Tang turned around and took Chunmei and the others into the palace.
Because Su Tang came suddenly, there was no sedan chair prepared for her at the palace gate in advance, so Su Tang entered the palace in an ordinary sedan chair.
"Princess, where are you going?" the eunuch serving beside the sedan asked in a flattering voice.
"Is the Emperor in the Imperial Study?"
"Well, I'm just the one in charge of these sedan chairs. I don't know where your Majesty has gone." The eunuch in charge wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied nervously.
"Then let's go to the imperial study first." After Su Tang finished speaking, the eunuch finally breathed a sigh of relief. He gave a few instructions to the other eunuchs waiting at the door, and then he personally followed Su Tang and his party into the palace.
On the way, Su Tang lifted the curtain of the sedan chair and asked, "Where did the ladies who came to the palace to take care of the sick recently live?"
This, the eunuch knew.
Many women have come to the palace to attend to the sick in recent days, and this is no longer a secret in the palace.
Then, the eunuch replied, "Those ladies who were summoned into the palace were directly sent to Fengyi Palace first, but Fengyi Palace couldn't accommodate so many people, and the Empress also wanted to rest, so most of the ladies were arranged to temporarily live in Zhaoxia Palace and Sujin Palace next to Fengyi Palace."
"That's a lot of people. Can these two palaces accommodate so many people?" Chunmei asked after getting a hint from Su Tang's eyes.
"Hehehe, if you want to live comfortably, these two palaces definitely can't accommodate you. However, there are only three palaces closest to Fengyi Palace. Now, I have to inconvenience you ladies and squeeze into those two palaces for the time being." The eunuch replied with a smile.
"Didn't you say there were three palaces? Why don't you arrange for them to live in one of them? That way there would be more space." Chunmei asked.
"I don't know about that. It is said that the palace was sealed a few days ago, and there are royal guards guarding the gate. We will speed up when passing by to avoid bumping into those adults."