At this time, the two were sitting in the yard and basking in the winter sun. Wang Chuan and Huang Quan had brought out a rattan chair. The chair did not have legs, as it was replaced by a curved rattan chair. When people sat on it, they could rock back and forth, and it was very comfortable.
Both of them had decent martial arts, and they both had internal energy. Even in the winter, they would not feel cold sitting in the yard for a long time. After Xuan Tianhua finished talking about the "Anti-Eight Alliance" that the citizens of the capital had spontaneously organized, as well as the commotion outside, he asked her: "Could it be that you had arranged for your own people to infiltrate the crowd and guide the citizens?"
Feng Yu Heng shook her head: "I originally wanted to do that. That day, when I had Wang Lin announce the closure of Hundred Herb Academy, I had prepared such people. Unfortunately …" She spread her hands, "There was no need for them!" As she spoke, she had a smile on her face and was very pleased with herself.
Xuan Tianhua looked at her appearance and could not help but laugh, "Look at how pleased you are." But this girl should indeed be pleased with herself! She had not arranged for people to guide the discussion, and she had not done anything behind the scenes to gather the citizens; however, the citizens had still done this on their own. They had shouted those words from the bottom of their hearts. It could be seen that over the past two years, Princess Ji An had already reached an irreplaceable position in the hearts of the citizens. He was proud of her!
"Seventh Brother, do you feel that this is inappropriate?" After all, to cause such a commotion in the capital in the first month, if Emperor Tianwu were to blame her, she would also have a certain amount of responsibility. "Say, Father Emperor won't blame me, right? What if he really gets angry? If I go out to persuade the citizens, will I be able to persuade them back? "
Xuan Tianhua, however, shook his head and told her: "Seventh Brother is proud of you! Father Emperor will also be proud of you! When I came, I met Xu Jingyuan. He was heading into the palace. Normally speaking, those officials should have been demoted and had their properties confiscated, but you know that there are too many officials that are causing trouble. Punishing one or two is not fair. If they are all punished, I fear that there will be no one to fill in the vacancies. It will cause unrest in the court. "
"Then how will Imperial Father solve it?" Feng Yu Heng thought for a while. "Fine his salary?"
"Yes." Xuan Tianhua nodded. "Forfeiting your salary is the only solution. However, this was only temporary. Imperial Father was not muddle-headed. The account in his heart was still clear! The Eighth Brother is his son, and those officials are not related to him by blood. They will be temporarily deprived of their salaries. You just have to wait and see. One after another, things will happen to those people. I can imagine how shocked they will be when they are faced with those unexpected events. I can also imagine Imperial Father being furious and throwing those people into a bottomless abyss. One by one, he will have the time to find a suitable candidate to fill those vacancies. Then, the candidate he finds will no longer form an alliance with the Eighth Brother. " As he spoke, he stopped rocking the rattan chair and looked at Feng Yu Heng. "However, I'll have to trouble you. You have to go to Ji 'an County. Only if you leave will you not be affected by the storm in the imperial court. Don't worry. Even if the Ming leaves for the southern border after the first month, there is still the Seventh Brother in this large capital. What should be, the Seventh Brother will protect you. "
Feng Yu Heng also looked at Xuan Tianhua. As she looked, she suddenly felt a bit of heartache. If possible, she really didn't want someone like Xuan Tianhua to participate in these dirty struggles. He schemed against each other all day, paid attention to the situation in the capital, and guessed the thoughts of his enemies. In her opinion, Xuan Tianhua should live his life in a carefree manner. He shouldn't care about anything, shouldn't think about anything, and should live the life he wanted to live. The current situation was definitely not what he wanted.
But what could she say? He was a prince born in the imperial family, so he couldn't escape this fate. If he didn't look for trouble, trouble would find him. Even if he fled to the ends of the earth, what should come would still come. Just like the Sixth Prince. So what if he hid in the northeast? What should come back to face would still come back to face. Although he did not fight for the throne and did not want imperial power, she still remembered that Feng Fendai had gone to find the Sixth Prince's mother, Noble Lady Li. Nothing had happened yet, but who knew what sort of trouble she would cause while she was not in the capital.
"There's no need for you to worry about me." As if he had guessed what she was thinking, Xuan Tianhua faintly said: "Do what you want to do and walk the path you want to walk. No matter how dangerous it is, as long as you want to walk forward, Seventh Brother will always protect you."
Feng Yu Heng could not stand Xuan Tianhua speaking like this the most. Every time, she would feel choked up. Xuan Tianhua was the most beautiful and pure person that she had met in this era. This sort of beauty and purity was something that even Xuan Tianming could not compare to. Unfortunately, he chose to protect her, while he had no one to protect him.
"Seventh Brother." She once again let the rattan chair sway and decided to change the topic, "Who are the people in the Eighth Prince's faction in the capital? You should know most of them, right?" Her eyes narrowed into slits, faintly revealing an excitement that was difficult to detect.
Xuan Tianhua did not pay attention to her expression. He only nodded and said: "I know."
"Then can you provide me with a list of names?" She became spirited and stopped the rattan chair from swaying. Her two hands grabbed the handle of the rattan chair and she begged with a smile: "Just give me a list of names. Then write down those people's positions and ranks. Un, for the time being, it will be the officials of the capital who live in the capital. Or there should be some who are not officials. In short, those who are related to him, you should tell me everything you know. "
Xuan Tianhua was puzzled: "What do you want to do?"
Feng Yu Heng said: "It's nothing. I just have an idea in my heart. I need to know who is scheming behind my back. The people who caused trouble at the palace banquet that day should only be a portion, right? There should still be a portion that hasn't been exposed. Tell me and I'll think about it. "
Xuan Tianhua did not notice her and nodded: "Alright." Then he stood up, "Let's go. Let's go inside. I'll write it for you now."
The eighth prince's party had a total of twenty-three people in the capital. Fifteen of them were officials, and the rest were famous rich people in the capital. They were imperial merchants, and they were the leaders of various industries in the capital. They were very rich.
Xuan Tianhua did it very carefully. Not only did he list the officials' positions and ranks behind their names, he also listed the industries that the wealthy families operated. He also made a rough estimate of their annual profits. This made Feng Yu Heng's eyes light up. She stared at the annual profits and almost drooled. What made her the most excited was that one of the people was the boss of a private bank. It was the second-ranked Shengyuan private bank in Dashun.
She was so happy that she almost couldn't hide it. Seeing that Xuan Tianhua had finished writing, she pushed him out of the fu: "Seventh Brother, I'm tired and want to rest for a while. You go back first. I'll definitely see you before I leave."
Xuan Tianhua didn't understand what she wanted to do and was helplessly pushed out of the fu. He thought that this girl had a lot of tricks up her sleeves and repeatedly reminded her to pay attention to her safety no matter what she did. Xuan Tianming was still in the military camp. If she had anything on her side, she had to go to Chun Wang fu to discuss it with him.
Feng Yu Heng sent him off with a smile and then almost ran back to her own courtyard. She sat in the room and looked at the list of names while giggling.
Wang Chuan and Huang Quan were stunned by her laughter. Huang Quan asked her: "Miss, is there a flower on this paper?"
Feng Yu Heng shook her head, "There's no flower, but there's money!"
That's right, there was money, especially that private bank. It allowed her to see hope for Ran Ran. Her train of thought was instantly opened with this private bank. She then slapped her forehead. Stupid! Why didn't she think of this idea! She always felt that stealing real gold and silver was the most practical. She didn't touch the banknotes. After all, there was no way to take them out to exchange. It was very easy to be caught red-handed. However, wouldn't it be better if she stole the banknotes and stealthily went to the bank according to the name of the bank written on the banknotes? She would place the banknotes on the counter and take away the corresponding amount of money herself. She couldn't exchange it openly, so why didn't she think of secretly exchanging it? Once she stole it, she would exchange it. She wouldn't give the other party a chance to report the banknotes to the authorities. Right, she would do it like that!
The more Feng Yu Heng thought about it, the more she felt that this path was very bright. It was to the point that she sat in her chair and laughed foolishly for an entire afternoon. In the end, even Ban Zou laughed. The three of them all believed that their young miss had gone crazy and was going to find a doctor.
Of course, Feng Yu Heng couldn't lose face. She quickly restrained her expression and waved her hand at them as she said: "It's nothing. It's just that when Seventh Brother came, he told me a joke. The more I thought about it, the funnier it was. That's why I couldn't control myself."
Ban Zou raised his eyebrows, "His Highness the seventh prince knows how to tell jokes?" The two servant girls nodded, agreeing with Ban Zou's question.
Feng Yu Heng didn't care about that. If she said she knew, then she knew. Even if she didn't know, she knew! Thus, the three of them had no choice but to let her do as she pleased. They watched as she destroyed an entire pork shoulder by herself during dinner.
Feng Yu Heng naturally had to eat more. She had to take action tonight. Oh, no, it was not just tonight. There were so many places. No matter what, she would need to steal for three to five days, right? But thinking about it like this, it seemed that she would not be able to finish stealing before the fifteenth of the first month. Either way, money was the most important thing. Regardless of how long she stole, she would only steal until she ran out.
She got up and went to the imperial daughter's manor's storeroom. Out of fear that she would not have enough space, she placed all of the chests that she had stolen from the Sheng Palace into the storeroom. Only when she was satisfied in her space did she leave. She then returned to her room to sleep. She slept until midnight before waking up. After changing into her night clothes, she used her space to move around in her own room, escaping from Ban Zou's line of sight. The pitiful Ban Zou still believed that his master was obediently sleeping in her room the next morning. He had no idea that she had actually gone out for a night tour of the capital before returning at dawn.
Feng Yu Heng was not familiar with all of the people on the list. Tonight, she would only choose a few that she could recognize. After finding their manors, she would first head for the accounting room. The banknotes were easy to steal, and they were not easy to find. After stealing from the accounting room, she would search for the storeroom. No matter what it was, she would just take it all.
After moving through four houses like this, she compared the banknotes that she had stolen and found that they were all from the first and second largest banks in Dashun. This made things easier. Following the mark of the bank on the banknotes, she found the bank and generously placed the banknotes on the counter. She then entered the storeroom and carefully took out the money according to the amount on the banknotes.
Of course, the first bank in Dashun, Feng Hui Bank, was the eldest prince's business. She could not cheat the eldest prince. That was why she took out the correct amount for each set of money. Fortunately, the money in the storeroom was in proper weight, so it was very easy to compare. As for the bank run by the Eighth Prince's faction, she was not so polite. She did not even leave behind the banknotes and emptied the entire storeroom.
In an instant, the space in her pharmacy was filled. Even the bed in her resting room was filled with chests. Feng Yu Heng was filled with satisfaction and happily returned to the manor to sleep. However, she did not know that the rumors of the "Divine Thief of the Vanishing Shadow" had spread throughout the capital that night …
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