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Dongfang Haotian shook his head like a rattle drum and said: "No way, absolutely no way. It hasn't even been a year since the last talent show, so wouldn't the people think I'm some sort of monarch?"

Leng Qiyue sighed and asked, "Then can a dancer do?"

Dongfang Haotian was really angry now. He stood up and humphed: "Humph, you want me to go touch another woman that much?"

Leng Qiyue was stunned for a moment. Then, like a small beast that was baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, she roared, "Dongfang Haotian, if you dare touch another woman, I'll chop you into pieces."

Although Leng Qiyue spoke rudely, Dongfang Haotian was actually enjoying it. He smiled mischievously and said, "Then why are you still giving me a talent show?"

Leng Qiyue immediately lost all her arrogance and dejectedly said, "I can't think of any other way. I just hope that you can bring in some more women and have the empress dowager busy herself with them. That way, we can split her heart."

Dongfang Haotian held Leng Qiyue's hand and said, "You mean to recruit some women into the palace to distract the empress dowager's attention to you?"

Leng Qiyue nodded. "That's right, but you said you couldn't choose a talent show, so you had no choice but to give up."

Dongfang Haotian thought for a moment and said: "This is also a method. Why not try it?"

Leng Qiyue looked at him sideways, not knowing why he had gone back on his word.

Dongfang Haotian laughed: "Didn't you just say that you were going to dance? I shall order the dancers to enter the palace, and then I will find a few people to pet them so that Her Majesty can turn her attention to them. "

Leng Qiyue said unhappily, "Then do you want to be lucky with them? It's fine if there's an existing woman in the palace, but if there's a new woman who wants to snatch my husband, I'll really go crazy. "

Dongfang Haotian took off his boots, climbed onto the bed, hugged Leng Qiyue, and lay down. He said, "Don't worry, my heart will always be yours."

Although Leng Qiyue felt comfortable listening to it, she still refused to accept it. "No, that won't do. There are so many beauties in this world. What if some amazing woman captures your soul?"

Dong Fang Haotian let out a stifled laugh. He laughed for a long time before he said: "Could it be that there is a woman in this world who is stronger than you? Your mind and your style are not what the women here can compare with. "

Leng Qiyue felt depressed in her heart. She felt that these words were not a compliment, but rather a tease.

Leng Qiyue thought of a question and asked, "Can we not tell you the background of the empress dowager?"

Dongfang Haotian sighed, "No, we don't have any evidence."

Leng Qiyue said, "Senior Servant Lan was Jin Yue's maid before. She knows what happened, so can't she be used as a witness?"

Dongfang Haotian continued to shake his head: "No, her words alone aren't enough. I might even lose my life."

Leng Qiyue nodded. "That's true. We can't let Senior Servant Lan die in vain. Will we not be able to topple Her Majesty? "

Dongfang Haotian pondered for a long time before saying, "The rain continued to fall in Salt City in the west. The output of salt was greatly reduced and bandits were causing trouble. There was a great drought in the east, the crops were withered and the people were displaced. Right now, the people were all asking for money, and I was already in a terrible state of anxiety. I had no time to deal with the empress dowager, but I had to be on guard against her harming you. "Why don't you borrow some silver from your beloved concubine to make some money? You've made a lot of money from your wheat business, haven't you?"

Leng Qiyue asked out of curiosity, "There's no silver in the treasury?" Can't you just allocate the money? "

Dongfang Haotian suddenly stood up and said, "National treasury? Do you want to come with me to the treasury to have a look? "

Seeing how Dongfang Haotian knew that the treasury was different, Leng Qiyue said, "I don't believe that the treasury is empty."

Dongfang Haotian put on his boots, and then helped Leng Qiyue put on her clothes. The two of them left the Moon Flower Palace, sat in the imperial carriage, and rushed to the treasury.

The treasury was very big, and there were quite a few doors. After entering, the first door was a square house that was not even 100 square meters in size. On the walls, there was a huge lattice cabinet, and each cabinet was filled to the brim. There were ten eunuchs among them. Judging from the glint in their eyes, one could tell that they were quite capable. They kneeled on the ground, panic flashing across their eyes.

Dongfang Haotian said, "Stand up. I'll take Imperial Concubine out for a walk. You guys can get busy."

"Your servant obeys the decree." The ten eunuchs let out sighs of relief and went to do their own business. Actually, there was nothing to do. They were all pretending to clean the dust.

Dongfang Haotian pointed to the file on the cabinet and said, "These are all lists that record the items within the palace. The silver taels only has a small account book, it's in the room inside."

After he finished speaking, he pulled Leng Qiyue to a bronze door. Before they could reach the door, a eunuch stepped forward and pulled open the doors from the left and right. After they entered, they closed the doors again.

The room inside was like a huge parking lot. The only difference was that it wasn't a car that was parked in the parking lot, but rather a large box with seals affixed to it. Other than the boxes, there were also many shelves, on top of which was a tray filled with gold and silver. The light from the torches on top of the gold and silver ingots was really adorable, making people want to take them all for themselves.

Leng Qiyue said with dissatisfaction, "Look at this, there's so much gold and silver in the treasury, yet you're still crying about how poor you are."

Dongfang Haotian's expression was a bit strange. He casually picked up a gold ingot. It seemed to be around fifty taels. He said, "Take a look."

Leng Qiyue took the gold ingot and looked at it before biting it. "It's gold!"

"You didn't find anything wrong with it?" Dongfang Haotian pointed to the gold ingot in Leng Qiyue's hand.

Leng Qiyue looked at it again carefully, but was unable to find any clues. She weighed the gold ingot in her hand and found that it was a lot lighter than before. She said in surprise, "So light? Fake?"

Dongfang Haotian took the gold ingot and broke it in half. There was actually copper inside the gold ingot.

Leng Qiyue pointed at the shelf and said, "These are all adulterated?"

Dongfang Haotian sighed and said, "It's all adulterated."

"What if it's true? Who did it? " Leng Qiyue suppressed the surprise in her heart and asked.

Dongfang Haotian picked up an account book from the only table in the room and said, "The national treasury here should be worth around 38 million gold and silver, but right now, forget about 38 million gold, I can't even afford 3 million eight hundred thousand gold."

Leng Qiyue found a box and tore off the seal. She used her energy to break the copper lock and opened it. Inside was a box full of jewelry and jade.

"Is the treasury really empty?" Even now, Leng Qiyue could not believe what she had just seen.

Dongfang Haotian said, "It's above the ground. I was hoping for the salt to be handed over, but in the end, the natural disaster and man-made disasters have all been severely damaged."

"Then do you know who did it? Is it the Empress Dowager? " The first person Leng Qiyue thought of was the empress dowager.

However, Dongfang Haotian said: "It's not the empress dowager, there's someone else."

Leng Qiyue thought for a moment and said, "It's not the empress dowager … Could it be him? "