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One second to remember [Brushstroke Pavilion] [Free of charge, read the wonderful novel!]

Zhao Kun cupped his hands together and reported, "Your majesty, our Great An's income is only 20 million taels a year. Chu Junyi has just been promoted to a first rank official, yet she earns almost 2 million taels of silver. This is truly shocking."

"That's right, your majesty. How did you get so much silver?" "How could it possibly have come out of nowhere? Who knows how many commoners were extorted clean because of this? They had to endure the hunger. How could they be qualified to serve as a first rank official? Please make the decision, Your Majesty."

When Shen Ninghua heard this, she lowered her head to hide the mockery in her eyes. It was truly a noble words. When Jiangnan was affected by the disaster, these people had accepted bribes worth hundreds of thousands of silver taels. At this moment, they started to speak righteously by accusing others.

"Chu Junyi, how do you explain yourself?"

"Reporting to your majesty, this humble subject is very puzzled. Since Lord Zhao said just now that I was promoted to the rank of a first rank official, unlike Lord Lin and Lord Zhao, I have been a new official for many years. How could I, a newly appointed person, have the ability to plunder money from Jiangnan?"

Lin Yue sneered coldly, "This is all thanks to Lord Chu's good methods. I'm sure you've threatened a lot of Jiangnan officials. You dare to say that your family doesn't have a large amount of silver? "

Chu Junyi looked straight ahead, not even sparing Lin Yue a glance. "I do have some silver taels in my mansion."

"Then how should Lord Chu explain the origin of these silver taels?"

"From Jiangnan."

"Heh, then are you still not going to admit it? "Your majesty, Chu Junyi and the officials of Jiangnan colluded with each other and plundered the people's fat and cream. They've plagued the people with fire and water. I request your majesty to uphold justice for the people."

The corners of Lin Yue's eyes were twitching. His heart was as tense as a string. Things had gone too smoothly for him, but he felt uneasy. Chu Junyi didn't refute him at all? Could it be that he was that confident that the Emperor would trust him?

Chu Junyi turned to look at Lin Yue. "Sir Lin, are you not done yet?"

"What?"

"Shouldn't you also bite into Princess Radiant?" After all, I am a Prince Consort, and am related to the princess. What if the princess uses her revenge on you because of your framing me? "

Lin Yue's brows twitched, "Lord Chu, you are an imperial court official, you should not be so frivolous. Princess Zhao Hua has contributed the medicinal formula to the nation many times, and is a person who has done great things in the country and among the people."

Chu Junyi was taken aback. "Oh? Does Sir Lin mean that the princess doesn't know about this matter?"

"This official doesn't know."

Lin Yue did not say anything, but Zhao Kun popped out, "Your majesty, Lord Lin does not know much, but this humble subject does know a bit. According to this humble subject's knowledge, Princess Zhao Hua's estate also has a large amount of silver and silver."

Shen Ninghua looked at Lin Yue and Zhao Kun with a mocking smile on his face, "Looks like Lord Lin and Lord Zhao split up their work early. Lord Lin was in charge of knocking out Chu Junyi, and Lord Zhao was in charge of lifting me into the water. Otherwise, why would the two of you work together like this?"

"Princess, your status is honorable, but you can't frame a government official like this!" Some of the officials could not bear to watch this any longer and indignantly voiced their criticism.

Shen Ninghua raised her gaze. "Then, this princess shall ask this lord, what is the crime of framing a government official?"

"Those who are slightly demoted will be exiled for a thousand miles while those who are heavy will be exiled for a thousand miles. If the situation is serious, we will behead them and show them to the public!"

"Oh? So the crime is this big. Then, let me ask this lord, what is the crime of framing a Royal Princess? "

What … "What?"

Shen Ninghua said coldly, "You don't know?" Let me tell you, for framing the imperial princess, the light ones will behead the public and the heavy ones will behead the nine clans! "

"Princess, what do you mean by that? Are you implying that this humble subject and the rest have framed you?" Zhao Kun looked at Shen Ninghua with a pair of bright and shining eyes.

Shen Ninghua turned to look at Chu Junyi. "Sir Chu, you're still not going to tell me the truth?"

Chu Junyi paused for a moment before raising her head, "Reporting to the emperor, this humble subject is guilty. Please punish me."

Baili Qingfeng frowned, "In that case, you admit that you've embezzled a large amount of silvers?"

"No, this humble subject has not embezzled any treasures, but it is true that I have a large amount of silver taels in my possession."

"Then where does the silver come from?"

"Your majesty should have heard of the Hua Jun Medicinal Store that rose after the plague? That is your humble servant's property. "

"What?" Lin Yue and Zhao Kun cried out in disbelief at the same time. Who didn't know of the Hua Jun Medicine Store, it was the biggest drug store in the whole of Jiangnan and almost monopolized all the transactions in Jiangnan, where the money flowed for no less than a few hundred thousand taels of silver a day. Such a huge business, and it was actually Chu Junyi's?

Baili Qingfeng was also stunned. He turned to Shen Ninghua and asked, "Ninghua, you know about this as well?"

"Reporting to royal father, this son knows this as well."

"In other words, those silver taels were earned by the Hua Jun Medicine Store?"

"Yes and no." Shen Ninghua answered.

Baili Qingfeng frowned, "What do you mean by that?"

Shen Ninghua walked to the center of the hall and knelt beside Chu Junyi. "Reporting to royal father, when your son went to Jiangnan to relieve the disaster, he saw the people being displaced, unable to eat or drink, waiting for the medicinal herbs to save their lives. However, there are many medicine stores that store up medicinal herbs and raise prices."

"So you're saying that you're the one who founded the Hua Jun Medicine Store, then how did you get involved with Chu Junyi?"

This son is after all still a woman from a pavilion, and there are many things that are inconvenient for me to do. At that time, Old General Xiao was also helping out in Jiangnan, and this son felt that the Old General's intentions were to inform the common people about the medicinal shop, but since Old General Xiao is already an extremely important person, many people would look down on his business, so I did not say anything. Then, coincidentally, I got to know you, so I told him about the medicine shop's plans.

Shen Ninghua turned to look at Chu Junyi.

Chu Junyi nodded and continued, "Initially, they were here to help the common folk. They never wanted to make a fortune, so the cost of the ingredients in the store was only one tier higher than normal. The purpose was to maintain the operations of the store."

Lin Yue frowned and sneered, "What Lord Chu said is not right. Since the medicinal plants of the Hua Jun Medicine Store are so cheap, how can we earn several million silver taels?"

Sir Lin, I don't understand, the Jiangnan Medicinal Store is not just limited to the Hua Jun Medicine Store, the herbs sold here are so cheap, the other merchants were unable to continue to operate it, and started causing trouble at the Hua Jun Medicine Store. Although it was settled later, I discovered that a lot of the herb farmers were unwilling to plant more herbs because they bought the herbs too cheaply, so I have no choice but to increase the price of the herbs.

"Heh, no matter what, didn't I still manage to earn some silver in your pocket?" To be able to earn the blood and sweat of the common people and even find an excuse to act in such a noble manner, you are truly blacker than the heart! "

"Not at all," Chu Feng said with a smile in his eyes, preparing to deal a heavy blow to his enemy.

"Lord Lin, you can go to Jiangnan and ask any commoner there. See if there is anyone who would say that the Hua Jun Medicinal Store is unscrupulous!" I did earn a lot of money, but I gave almost all of that money back to the citizens. From the time I started making money in the Hua Jun Medicine Store, I took out nine layers of profits to help the people of Jiangnan build roads, build dams, and provide relief and relief to the refugees. As for the money you found in my house, it was because you heard that there was a drought in the Northwest, I specially transferred some silver from Jiangnan to send it to the Northwest! "

"What?" To the northwest? "

Shen Ninghua spoke up, "That's right, because I know medicine, Lord Chu specially sent me a portion of silver, asking me to purchase the herbs in the vicinity and deliver them to the northwest. I didn't expect that the two of you would be well-informed and investigate so quickly, and the silver just entered my mansion, and you already knew about it."

At this point in time, Lin Yue, Zhao Kun, and the rest were all puzzled. This was a trap that had been set up by Chu Junyi and Shen Ninghua to deal with them!

Not only did they not see through it, they even jumped in with glee. Now, it was absolutely impossible for them to jump out!

Baili Qingyuan was stunned, "Ninghua, you're saying that the mysterious appearance of the Jiangnan officials and the people who helped rebuild the cities and towns that were affected by the disaster were you and Chu Junyi?"

"Imperial Father, the purpose of opening the Hua Jun Medicinal Store was to make profits for the people, but due to the pressure, I had no choice but to balance the prices of the medicinal ingredients and thus became no different from an ordinary merchant. As a princess and Chu Junyi are officials of the Imperial Court, continuing to run the Hua Jun Medicine Store like this would only benefit the people, which is why I was able to think of a way to benefit the people."

Baili Qingfeng felt complex emotions, "Child, why didn't you tell royal father earlier? Hurry up and get up. If you kneel for too long, your knees will hurt. Your body hasn't recovered yet. You being considerate is a good thing, you should've told royal father earlier. "

"This son has been hiding this from royal father for a long time. I hope that you do not blame me."

Chu Junyi also confessed, "Your Majesty, although the princess came up with this idea, the person who executed it was this humble subject. This humble subject has done things that would benefit the people, and I'm ashamed to say that if the emperor wishes to punish me, then I'll do it. The princess is weak, and this humble subject is willing to accept the punishment for the princess."

Lin Yue and Zhao Kun were kneeling on the ground, their teeth almost shattered.

Zhao Kun had interacted with Shen Ninghua before, so his endurance was slightly better. However, Lin Yue was different. His face swelled purple, and he almost couldn't hold back his roar.

Chu Junyi and Shen Ninghua were really shameless. They wanted to take both fame and fortune!

All of you have handled this matter flawlessly. It's no wonder that the Emperor was able to punish you. Do you blame yourselves for being in the interest of, and for doing things for, the people?

However, these two men spoke as if they were the sinners. Such shamelessness was truly unparalleled!

Seeing Lin Yue's expression, the corner of Chu Feng's lips curled up into a sneer.

The Hua Jun Medicinal Store had developed so quickly that even if the emperor was unable to detect it now, he would still be fearful of it later on. If he wanted to investigate it thoroughly, how could he not prepare in advance?

He had purposely revealed his huge sum of silver taels in front of the Emperor. This was the true beginning of the true making of money! … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …