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"... Your Majesty, there are a total of 20 people who owe money in the capital. As of now, there are 15 people who have paid back their silver. In total, there are 15 million taels of silver, which have all been handed over to the national treasury.
Lu Xiangzhi gave Mo Rongzhan a detailed report of the situation in Jingdou. He also clearly described the people who returned the money.
Mo Rongzhan's lips curled up, a chill in his eyes. "Eighty million taels of silver, and South Yue owes over sixty million?"
Lu Xiangzhi replied in a low voice, "Your Imperial Majesty, these sixty-five million taels of silver were probably never sent to the national treasury. They were loaned out in Nanyue. This subject found in the account books that the Pan and Feng families of Nanyue were raided. The amount of silver that was taken back from the national treasury was not quite the same as what the two families were doing."
"Give it to me." Mo Rongzhan's face was gloomy. When he first saw the account books, he had thought that the silver might not have come from the national treasury. Just who in Nanyue would be so daring as to directly leave behind the tax money and write an IOU to the former Emperor, and the former Emperor did not even ask about it? He couldn't help but think about it carefully. Once he thought about it, he felt that it was too inconceivable.
Eunuch Fu came over and took the account book from Lu Xiangzhi's hands. Mo Rongzhan flipped through a few pages, and the anger in his heart surged. "South Yue's Pan Clan and Feng Clan were both extremely wealthy back then. Is this all they got from the confiscation?"
Lu Xiangzhi endured Mo Rongzhan's anger. "Your Majesty, according to this minister's guess, there should be a lot of things that weren't recorded. Where those things went is unknown."
Mo Rongzhan suppressed the anger in his chest. "What did the Pan Family and the Feng Family commit?"
This case should have been many years ago, and he had no impression of it at all. Later on, when he grew up and became sensible, he had never heard anyone mention this matter. If it wasn't for those account books found in the national treasury, he wouldn't have known about the Pan family and the Feng family in Nanyue.
"This …" Lu Xiangzhi revealed a troubled expression, "Your Majesty, this subject wanted to go to Tianlu Pavilion to take out the file, but I couldn't find it."
Tianlu Pavilion was a palace archive. Aside from storing laws, maps, and books, it also stored files of major cases over the years. The Pan Family and the Feng Family were such big cases of property confiscation, so there must be files in Tianlu Pavilion. However, there wasn't even a word about it.
Mo Rongzhan looked at Lu Xiangzhi. "Tianlu Pavilion didn't find the file? Then, Huang Ce Library? "
Huang Ce Ku had collected case files from all over the country. It was impossible that there were no records of the Pan and Feng families.
"This subject has also gone to look for it, but still couldn't find it." Lu Xiangzhi said.
Mo Rongzhan was so angry that he started laughing. "You don't plan on letting future generations know about the Pan and Feng Families' case."
Mo of. "Huang" Mo, he Clan and Lu Family, "Shan.
"Pan Clan and Feng Family were sentenced to confiscation. Where are their descendants now?" Mo Rongzhan asked in a low voice.
"Your Imperial Majesty …" Lu Xiangzhi's throat was a little dry as he spoke. "Back then, the sentence was to confiscate their properties and exile them to the wastelands. A total of three hundred and ten people from the Pan and Feng families encountered famine and plague in the wastelands. None of them survived.
Mo Rongzhan narrowed his eyes. His dark eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of frost. "None of them survived. They all died in the Wilderness?"
Lu Xiangzhi lowered his head. There was one more thing that he didn't dare to say. Since he couldn't find any information on the Pan family, he wanted to investigate who had dealings with the Pan family. Perhaps he could find some useful information. Since the Lu family used to have a large business, he went to look for his second uncle and Lu Zanzhi. It was only then that he found out that before the Lu family made their fortune, his grandfather had been a traveling merchant for the Pan family.
It was too important. He wouldn't involve the Lu Family in it before he found out why the Pan Clan was sentenced to confiscation.
"I found out … this is what happened," Lu Xiangzhi said in a low voice.
Mo Rongzhan lowered his eyes to look at the account books on the table. A cold glint flashed across his eyes. "Go to Nanyue and meet with Little Prince. Tell Sixth Prince about the Pan and Feng family's case and ask him to investigate the case in secret."
Lu Xiangzhi agreed in a low voice.
"Go and prepare," Mo Rongzhan said. He put the account book to one side. Now that he had collected enough silver from Jingdou, it was enough to cover Ye Chunnan's rations in Xiliang.
Xiliang was still in a stalemate. Wan Ziliang had been seriously injured. Although he hadn't fought personally, it wouldn't be easy for Ye Chunnan and Wanyan Xi to join forces and drive out the Dark North Army. After all, Wan Ziliang had 200,000 elite soldiers.
Unless there was another civil war in the Dark North Kingdom!
Mo Rongzhan leaned against the armchair and fell into deep thought. The Jin Kingdom could be said to be troubled both internally and externally. If Mo Rongyi hadn't found these account books, he wouldn't have realized that there was such a big problem between the royal family and Nanyue. The late Emperor was muddle-headed because most of the royal family's power was controlled by the royal family. Later, he relied on Ye Yisong's ability to suppress the royal family. After he ascended to the throne, he killed Ye Yisong. The royal family didn't do anything, so he overlooked it.
Before Ye Yisong, what did the royal family do to the late Emperor? Did they force the late Emperor to delegate power?
This was the internal problem. The external problem was the war in Xiliang. Every war was worse the longer it dragged on. He still had to think about whether he should go to war himself.
No, he couldn't. If he went to war himself, he wouldn't feel safe leaving Yaoyao in Jingdou unless he could be sure that there would be no problems.
"Your Majesty, Xue Lin is outside asking for an audience." Eunuch Fu walked in quietly and interrupted Mo Rongzhan's thoughts.
Mo Rongzhan immediately came back to his senses. He had asked Xue Lin to stay at Cheng De Villa. He had returned to the palace at this time. Did something happen to Yaoyao?
"Let him in." Mo Rongzhan put other matters aside for now. Yaoyao's matter was the most important.
Xue Lin walked in from outside and bowed to Mo Rongzhan. "This subordinate greets Your Majesty."
Mo Rongzhan frowned as he looked at him. Seeing that he wasn't flustered, he assumed that nothing had happened to Yaoyao. "Why did she return to the palace? Did something happen to the Empress? "
"Replying to Your Majesty, Niangniang said that she wanted to eat the beef noodles that Xiao Ran made and had this subordinate bring Xiao Ran to Cheng De Villa," Xue Lin said in a low voice.
Wanted to eat beef noodles? Mo Rongzhan's lips curled when he heard this. He said to Eunuch Fu, "Go bring this palace maid here and have Xue Lin bring her to the villa." Then he looked at Xue Lin, "How has the Empress been these days?"
"The Empress is accompanied by Lu furen and hasn't left the villa for a few days. She's just taking a walk in the villa and admiring the flowers," Xue Lin replied. As for the news about Jingdou and the palace, they guarded it very tightly. Not a single word would reach the Empress' ears.
Mo Rongzhan rubbed his chin. Wasn't Yaoyao's days too carefree …
Even if she didn't hear anything, didn't she have any suspicions?
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(Nine-headed Bird Academy)
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