Chapter 49: Silver
Capital.
King Duan was impeached by the Censor because he and the second prince fought on the street.
King Duan was dissatisfied. It was obviously the second brother who started the battle first. Besides, they were fighting in front of the door of Prince Duan’s Mansion, so where was it on the street?
Moreover, there were two people fighting, plus a Xiaoqi who was slapped, why was he the only one who was impeached?
The emperor asked in a deep voice: "If you want to defend, go back to write a defense statement; if you don't defend, go and receive the punishment."
King Duan looked around, okay, the second brother and Xiaoqi didn’t even have titles, so he was not qualified to attend court, so he was the only one who received the punishment?
As for the debate, he asked the civil servants in the mansion to write that every time the stones were sank to the sea, he still had to be punished.
After the court came, Duan Prince did not leave, and he was slow to go. When the ministers were almost gone, he went to find the prince.
"Brother, didn't my father agree before that there were three chances a month? It's only the beginning of the month, why did I ask me to receive the punishment?" King Duan felt wronged. He was really wronged. He didn't want to fight, but his second brother started the fight first.
The prince looked coldly: "The three chances a month are for Lao Er and Xiao Qi. If they have not been crowned with the king, they are still children. You have been crowned with the king. You are now a minister, which is different from them."
It’s okay if Xiaoqi is a child, but the second child is a child? A child of twenty-six or seven years old?
The prince said again: "This time you will only be fined for three months of your salary, and the punishment will not be severe."
"Three months' salary? My brother still has two debts that have not been paid off. Besides, my brother's fine was originally fined until July. Now, with three months, one year and twelve months, my brother only has two months of salary? Brother, you can't watch your brother's family starve to death, your sister-in-law is in confinement."
Princess Duan just gave birth to a daughter for him last month, and she has not yet had her confinement yet.
"The father has already drafted a title. Your youngest daughter is the father's first granddaughter. The father decided to enthrone her in advance. The enthronement will have a salary and a promising fief. In addition to the salary of Princess Duan, if there is a mother and daughter, how can your family starve to death?" the prince said lightly.
Prince Duan was both happy and sad. What was happy was that his little daughter was about to be crowned princess after her confinement period. What was sad was that he became a soft-hearted person, not only letting his wife raise him, but also to let his daughter raise him.
King Duan sighed and was about to receive the punishment. The prince stopped him: "Recently, I heard that plowing ox died in an accident in the imperial village every few days. Do you know this?"
King Duan...
"Brother, I won't dare to do it next time." Since childhood, King Duan has been a good child who is good at admitting his mistakes.
The prince glanced at him: "About the imperial village, you can report to the capital the next day. Is your head water in it?"
King Duan sniffed, stretched out his claws, and grabbed the prince's sleeve: "Brother, thank you for your reminder. Brother, I am so nice to my younger brother."
This matter was clearly suppressed by the prince.
The prince pulled over his robe sleeve in disgust and said angrily: "Remember, don't lend the second son silver."
King Duan hurriedly said, "Brother, don't worry, my brother is so poor that he has no money to lend it to my second brother. By the way, brother, you'd better remind Xiaoqi that my second brother is now living in Xiaoqi's mansion."
"Well, the Ministry of Justice has a lot of work. Xiaoqi is busy and will not return to his house for a while." said the prince.
The second prince Chai Shan has always wanted to build a temple on Lihua Mountain. For this reason, he once said that he would not want the prince’s mansion, but only Lihua Mountain.
The emperor simply exchanged Lihua Mountain for King Fu's Bailu Mountain and used Bailu Mountain to support the Empress Dowager. Lihua Mountain near the capital was considered under the name of King Fu.
In this way, the second prince not only did not have Lihua Mountain, but he also had no more prince's mansion in the capital.
This time he returned to Beijing, he lived in Chai Yan's mansion.
The prince's family lives in the Eastern Palace. Princess Duan is in confinement. Only Chai Yan has not yet married. The second prince is not polite, and he doesn't say hello, so he takes his car of scriptures and moves into the Seventh Prince's Mansion.
Chai Yan's psychological balance was finally balanced, and there was one who was even worse than him.
Although he did not have a fiefdom, he had a prince's mansion, and his second brother did not have a fiefdom, and he didn't even have a prince's mansion.
The prince still has to rely on others when he returns to the capital.
The prince was right, Chai Yan was indeed busy again. He calculated the life and Yan Xuehuai would come back again in twenty days, so he had to deal with the matter before Yan Xuehuai came back.
The day after the second prince moved into the Seventh Prince's Mansion, Chai Yan asked for an order to leave the capital.
Everyone guessed it right. The reason why the second prince returned to Beijing was that he really had no money.
He came back to receive his prince's 100-year-old silver.
Although he was not a king, as a prince, he had an annual salary of 6,000 taels, a salary of 3,000 s of rice every year, plus the New Year's money for the New Year, so he could receive at least 10,000 taels of silver.
But in fact, the second prince only received three thousand stones of rice!
The emperor said that he did not come back during the New Year, so he regarded it as unfilial and refused to pay the New Year's money, and even his poor annual salary was fined.
The rice price has been high in the past two years. It is said that 3,000 stones of Lumi can be exchanged for a lot of silver. But I don’t know if it was intentional. All the Lumi sent to him were Chen Mi. The prince could not ask the price openly. He asked someone to quietly ask a few rice shops. When the Mixing saw that it was Chen Mi, the bid was very low.
It was only agate that he sold all the three thousand stone rice to the Li Family Wine House. The price was a little higher than the rice shop. The second prince finally felt a little better.
The second prince's money and the income from selling rice were less than 2,000 taels.
This little money is not enough for him to build a temple, and he would invite monks to visit famous mountains. The most important thing is that he would save all living beings.
The second prince first entered the palace, but unexpectedly the queen just asked about her well-being, but she didn't mention any money.
He went to find the prince, and the prince said that all his money was borrowed by Lao San and Xiao Qi. As the prince, he couldn't have no money left.
As for the third brother, it’s better not to mention it, the entire capital knows the debt.
Not to mention Xiaoqi, even the shadow of the person is gone now. The account room of the Seventh Prince's Mansion brought 200 taels of silver and asked him to spend it first.
After thinking about it, the second prince couldn't borrow money from his elder sister who had already married, as that would be too embarrassing.
The only one he can count on is the emperor.
After he returned to the capital, he went to the palace to meet the emperor. The emperor only asked one question: "Are you back?"
Then he was sent away.
If it weren't for the fact that there was no way, the second prince wouldn't ask the emperor for money no matter what.
Fortunately, this time, he didn't wait long before the emperor told him to go in.
The emperor looked at his son who had not seen him for a long time. Among his four sons, Xiaoqi was the best, followed by the second. But these two were the ones who did not make him worry the most.
"What's the matter with you here to ask me?" the emperor asked.
Chapter completed!