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Chapter 569: King Xian is under house arrest

Zhou Chang stood up and prepared to go out.

Fan Ye didn't say anything, but stood up and was about to see him out.

"By the way, are those people who came back from Jincaosi okay? Have all the people who were recruited temporarily been sent out?" Zhou Chang turned around and asked again.

After returning to Jindu, she sent a message to Fan Ye, asking Jin Caosi to keep those who were temporarily recruited, especially those who were efficient and efficient. After a few days of rest, they would be sent out again to the north to investigate the situation in various places and expand the area. They also did not forget to increase their salaries, and tripling them was the minimum.

"Yes, I did everything according to your instructions." Fan Ye lowered his head and looked submissive. This answer was really ambiguous.

He also had his own difficulties. Prince Yi's order meant that the extra expenses would have to come from the Jin Cao Si, and he would have to squeeze it out from his own pocket.

Zhou Chang didn't hear it, and was quite satisfied with the answer, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay, then you continue to follow up. If there is anything special, report to the palace immediately. You don't have to send me off."

"Yes, yes..." How could Fan Ye not dare to see him off?

Zhou Chang went out to the front hall of the Council of State and said, "We still have to go to the Ministry of Revenue."

The skinny monkey was already waiting outside with a big bag in his arms. Hearing this, he immediately said with regret: "What a pity! What I have brought is not enough. I was waiting for the prince to come out with me..."

"Goodbye, I'll go to the Ministry of Revenue first." Many days have passed and there has been no news from the Jin Caosi.

Zhou Chang was really anxious, and he had already left the council hall while he was talking.

"Your Highness, this is the road to the inner palace. Do you want to go and see the twelfth prince first?" Seeing that Zhou Chang was going in the wrong direction, the skinny monkey had to follow him with his bag. "But that's right. We haven't seen each other for such a long time. We should go and see him. It won't take much time."

Before Zhou Chang came back, he had been thinking about whether he should persuade Emperor Lin to cancel the "Three Immoral Taxes". After returning to Jindu, he should have reported his "business trip" to the emperor, but Prince Yi gained nothing, so there was really nothing to say.

Zhou Chang simply asked Zhong Yu to write a simple memorial with a few official words and send it to the palace. Anyway, Prince Yi and Emperor Lin had always disliked each other, so it was better to turn a blind eye.

Then he plunged headfirst into the matter of "giving gifts" to Prince Duan and Prince Xian behind their backs, trying to "do good deeds" without leaving a name, so he didn't think of Feng Suo at all.

"No, let's forget about it today." Zhou Chang realized that he was going in the wrong direction and turned around to walk out of the palace.

If he were to meet him, Feng Suo would definitely ask about Yuan Jie. Yuan Jie might still be on his way back to Danlu at this time, so he doesn't know what the situation is?

The two of them walked out of the palace and went to the Ministry of Revenue. Zhou Chang directly asked the Minister of Revenue Song Ming.

Song Ming's smiling Buddha's head shook like a rattle, and just like Fan Ye, he knew nothing about anything.

Zhou Chang couldn't give up easily: "Since Lord Song doesn't know, then take out all the account records for the past six months and search them."

Song Ming was very cooperative: "Haha, no problem."

"There are so many accounts. Please assign a few more people to me to check them one by one." Zhou Chang requested again.

"Okay, okay. I will obey your orders, His Royal Highness Prince Yi." Song Ming smiled happily.

Zhou Chang was puzzled by Song Ming's overly cooperative attitude.

The skinny monkey waited until Song Ming left before he whispered, "Your Highness, although you didn't find the person you were looking for, and you didn't keep the silver you wanted to keep, we followed the people from the Ministry of Revenue during our trip, and they weren't idle either."

"Oh..." Zhou Chang suddenly realized it, but he had no time to pay attention to it and buried his head in the account book.

After searching for two hours, I was dizzy and still found nothing.

The skinny monkey was not idle either. He ate everything that he "stolen" from the palace until there was nothing left.

Zhou Chang had no choice but to take the skinny monkey away.

Zhou Chang got into the carriage and picked up a piece of peach-shaped pastry that Shouhou had specially left for her, but she had no appetite at all.

Is it true that after so much preparation, there is really no effect at all?

The skinny monkey was in no hurry to drive, but lifted the carriage curtain and gossiped: "Your Majesty, just now I heard from the people in the Ministry of Revenue that many people have reported Prince Duan. It seems that they said he embezzled the funds for building the imperial mausoleum and passed inferior goods off as good ones. Tsk tsk, Prince Duan also made a big fuss to find 500-year-old golden nanmu as coffin for Your Majesty, but I'm afraid it's all fake."

"The golden nanmu coffin is not fake, but the age is diluted. As for how much it is actually worth in silver... it's really hard to say." When mentioning the golden nanmu coffin, all Zhou Chang could remember now was the birthday Yuan Qi gave him, and the golden nanmu brocade box that was still placed on the bedside.

The skinny monkey stuffed a mouthful of something into his mouth and said as he ate, "Whether it's true or not, Prince Duan is in big trouble this time. That's the imperial mausoleum..."

This was expected, so Zhou Chang was not surprised. Instead, he thought of King Xian again and asked, "Have you not heard about any movement from King Xian?"

"The situation with Prince Xian is a bit strange. Just now when I was getting food in the Council Hall, I seemed to hear someone talking about how Prince Xian was under house arrest." The skinny monkey was very puzzled. "Those two people also said that no one knew why he was under house arrest for no reason."

It was almost the same, and although others didn't know, Zhou Chang knew it very well. Of course, the fewer people who knew about it, the better, so he didn't tell Shouhou from the beginning.

This is just the beginning.

"Let's go, let's talk about it when we get back to the palace." Zhou Chang didn't want to continue the discussion at the door of the household department, so he told the skinny monkey to set off.

The skinny monkey stuffed the last bite of food into his mouth, lowered the curtain, jumped onto the carriage, and drove the carriage back to the palace.

When we returned to Prince Yi's Mansion, it was time for dinner.

Zhou Chang did not get the sweet-scented osmanthus wine meatballs he had promised in the morning, but instead received Aunt Jing and a bowl of noodle soup.

Aunt Jing came empty-handed and explained, "Mother Wang is not feeling well today, so I have not taken care of anything else and have been busy in the kitchen with Xinxian and Xinmu. If the prince goes to the princess at this time, he should be able to catch up with the delicious food."

Yuan Yun was just like Yuan Qi before. She built her own kitchenette after eating Wang Mama's cooking for less than two days.

Zhou Chang only asked: "What happened to Madam Wang? Is it serious? Do you want to call a doctor?"

"No, no, Mr. Zhong is just half a doctor. She will be fine after resting for most of the day." Aunt Jing replied.

"Aunt Jing, don't get too tired. Your arms can't do much." Looking at Aunt Jing's expression, Zhou Chang seemed to be not worried about Mother Wang.

Aunt Jing didn't care about her arm: "This old slave's arm is worse than expected, but it's still not as dexterous as before, so I need Xinxian and Xinmu to help me make dumplings. So Your Majesty, why don't you go to the princess's place? I heard that the princess's small kitchen cooks very delicate dishes."

Zhou Chang still didn't respond: "Then bring me some of what you guys are eating. As for the skinny monkey, he's already eaten so much that his stomach is about to burst, so he doesn't need to eat dinner at all."