readx;??? Seeing the door of this private vault belonging to Ruan Phuc Yuan slowly opening, the hearts of all the people present jumped. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Although the country of Annan is not very big, there is still some income no matter what, even if the southern barbarians and the northern invaders have plundered a large amount of treasures, grain and people in the past few years, the annual income of the national treasury of Annan is still tens of thousands of taels, if it is not for the bureaucrats of various ministries of Annan to strip it layer by layer, there is still a surplus of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in the treasury. Nguyen Phuc Yuan is not a poor and extravagant emperor, he has always lived in a simple house, and he can be regarded as a diligent ruler, and he will not spend money lavishly, so everyone is calculating how much silver Ruan Phuc Yuan should have in his treasury.

When the door was fully opened, Russell rushed in with the people next to him, although he was wearing heavier armor, but his tall stature as a Medenor took advantage of him, and he rushed to the front with long legs and long legs. A few Annan bureaucrats who ran a little faster were gently pushed by him and rolled aside, and unlucky kowtowed on the bluestone steps and broke their heads, but these bureaucrats didn't even snort, just got up with their heads stuffed and continued to rush inside, the most important thing at this time was to rush to the vault to grab some silver in their hands.

When he arrived at the gate, Russell hurriedly turned around gorgeously, spread his hands and shouted: "This is the silver of the Li Dynasty!" Anyone is waiting outside the vault. ”

But no one paid attention to him, and several old-looking bureaucrats rushed forward and pushed Russell aside, and then a group of bureaucrats rushed into the vault.

There was no light in the vault, and suddenly rushed from the bright exterior into the lightless room, and everyone was dark in front of them, and they couldn't see anything, but their noses were filled with a musty smell, not even a bit of silver metallic smell. It was only when everyone's eyesight gradually recovered that they could see the box used to put the silver around them. Some of the boxes were opened and thrown aside, and a few rats were stunned to look at the people who suddenly rushed in, probably not expecting how so many people could suddenly rush in. The shelves for the silver were empty, and occasionally a few chests were lying on the side, as if they had been swept away.

Now all the people who rushed in were stunned, what about the silver? It took so much energy, and even the ancestors were sold to have a chance to come to the emperor's treasury, how could it be empty when it was opened?

Russell was still sitting on the ground, although he was overthrown to the ground and stepped on several times, but he didn't care at all about the several footprints on his body, just stared blankly at the vault that could be regarded as a family with four walls.

"Where's the money?" He jumped up and yelled outside, "Don't let those eunuchs run away!" "He doesn't have any recognition of these thin monkeys in Annan, even if Ruan Fuyuan is standing here, as long as he doesn't wear the imperial robe, he still can't recognize it, if he lets these eunuchs run away, I'm afraid he won't be able to find them in this life.

"Got it! Caught it! Don't move, I'll kill you if you do! I could only hear a roar outside, and several eunuchs in charge of the keys to the vault were pressed to the ground by a group of dragoons beside them, and they were tied up like rice dumplings in three or two strokes.

"Where did the money go?" Carlos Russell rushed out of the vault, drew his slender cavalry knife from his waist, ran to the first eunuch and shouted, "Such a large vault! It's all iron-claded! What about the silver in it? Where did it go? ”

The first eunuch was speechless with trembling ropes, and when he was hesitating, he was already stabbed in the back of the heart by Russell, and he was killed immediately. Russell drew his knife, walked straight to the second eunuch, and continued to roar: "Say, where is the silver? ”

"Silver...... Silver...... Yinzi ...... "The second eunuch was so frightened that he slurred his speech and stammered, and before he could straighten out his words, Russell stabbed the eunuch to death on the spot.

When he turned to the third eunuch, the two lessons from the past suddenly made him understand that it was impossible to fool the past, and if he wanted to live, he had to tell the truth, and hurriedly shouted: "It was appropriated by a few of them!" ”

The officials and Medeno people present all gasped and were misappropriated? How fat are these eunuchs? "What? Embezzle?? Russell was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly shouted: "Where did the misappropriation go?" How much silver was misappropriated? ”

"The total is 320,000 taels of silver, and last year it was 350,000 taels...... Ah no, Ruan Yi borrowed some money from there, so he borrowed a few opportunities to borrow some money before and after......"

"Three hundred and twenty thousand taels of silver? Or some silver? Do you know how much silver is in the treasury of Annam? Hube Shangshu roared bitterly, tears flowed out, he was full of at least 200,000 taels of silver in this vault, who knew that it was empty when he opened it.

"Where are the books? Where are the books? Russell did not believe the eunuchs' confessions and asked. You must know that no matter what you say, you can say it, these dead eunuchs who don't even have Xiao Ding Ding don't want anything, and they don't want to deceive people like playing?

It wasn't until a few eunuchs brought the account books that a group of bureaucrats read them with pain that they realized that this group of eunuchs in charge of the treasury had already begun digging into the corners of Ruan Phuc Yuan's wall five or six years ago. At the beginning, the amount was not large, but it was about one or two hundred taels, and it was returned immediately after it was used up, but it was slowly discovered that Ruan Fuyuan basically did not need to use this mountain of silver. Therefore, at the beginning of the second year, these eunuchs became more and more bold, and they directly embezzled 3,000 taels of silver to buy a piece of land outside Wenshan Port, which turned out to be just in time for the first southern and northern invasions. The ferocious Nanban succeeded in sweeping away the crops on the land along with the farmers who cultivated it, so that the eunuchs' otherwise profitable investment was suddenly lost. When the inventory was in the warehouse, a few eunuchs totaled, and simply made fake accounts, anyway, they were the ones who were in charge of the money, and the emperor would not come down to check the accounts in person, and sure enough, as they thought, the three thousand taels passed away like this.

As long as the embezzlement of public funds is started, it will become worse, and these eunuchs rely on this silver mountain every day but take only a few taels of money every month, and they are originally unhappy. After the success of this successful embezzlement of the emperor's huge sum, they suddenly discovered a huge opportunity, and in a blink of an eye, they suddenly became the richest people in the entire Annan. So they began to transport the silver in batches in the palace in the name of dung, in the name of dung, and although it smelled bad, the contents were liked by everyone. These actions did not arouse the slightest vigilance in the palace, at most the guards complained, complaining about how so much dung had to be taken out during this time, which made the palace stink.

But investment is not a serious matter that anyone can wipe their hands and get started immediately, even successful businessmen often have investment failures, let alone these eunuchs who can't even leave the palace a few times. These rich eunuchs soon became professional households who were pitted, just kidding, this kind of rich and uninformed sharp voice is stupid, and anyone who sees it wants to be pitted. So in a few years, the silver in the hands of these eunuchs was more than 400,000 taels. Although there is occasionally a receipt of tens of thousands of taels, it is always a loss of more than a profit, and after a few years, these brave eunuchs actually lost all the silver in the inner treasury.

After the emperor ordered the transfer of silver from the inner treasury to fund Zhancheng Port some time ago, these eunuchs were dumbfounded, and hurriedly went to check the accounts, and saw that the emperor's 320,000 taels of silver had been lost in the past few years. The household department has also spent a lot of effort to adjust this silver during this time, but who would have thought that the emperor would become a poor egg now?

It is a myth that all the officials and Medeno people are stupid at the moment, and no one counts that there is not a single copper in the emperor's coffers. Whether it is the Maidno dragoons who came all the way overnight or the officials of Annam who dared to pull the emperor off his horse, this is definitely no less than a thunderbolt from the sky. Even if the Li prince returns to the throne, he has to worry about the Anbei Dynasty in the north, and he has to launch a military operation against Dongfang Port, which is simply powerless. As for the Medeno people, they played for a long time in vain, and in the end they didn't get a single copper, Russell was angry and ordered the dragoons to go out and capture the families of these eunuchs, and obtained about two thousand taels of silver from their homes and some items that were inconvenient to estimate the value of the temporary military expenses, and then beheaded all the eunuchs involved and their families.

The dragoons who had cleared the passage also came to report back, and they found the exit to the passage, outside the outer city, by the bushes next to a mountain temple. Due to the mines set up by the new army at the exit, the pursuing soldiers were bombed again after finding the exit, killing six and wounding eight, but fortunately all of them were Annamite. However, the scene was completely destroyed by the rescuers, and it is unknown where Nguyen Phuc Yuan's group fled.

At the same time, however, on the official road leading to the port of Champang, a group of men dressed in civilian clothes were hurrying eastward, guarding a two-wheeled ox cart. This is the princess and Nguyen Phuc Yuan's party, Nguyen Phuc Nguyen has not woken up until now after being injured, several palace guards once tried to go to the post station to find horses, but the post station has been looted by the rebels, whether it is cattle or horses, they have been taken away and slaughtered for meat. They could not, so they could only continue eastward along the official road, and walked twenty miles in one night, and when they reached the next post station, they found the horses, but these horses were all emaciated and weak because they had no funds to feed them for a long time, so they could only continue to move eastward. Not long ago, a large family was finally found, and an ox cart and cattle were purchased, so that there was no longer a need for soldiers to carry Nguyen Phuc Yuan on foot, and the princess and the female officials finally did not need to walk anymore. In order to hide their identities, the rifles of the recruits and the guards were hidden under the cars, tied with ropes, and carried only pistols. In fact, after this battle, most people fell in love with the pistol, which was easy to carry and no less powerful, and the rifle was only used in case of a break in the battle.

The princess's face was gloomy at this time, and several female officials were on the side to comfort her, and what she was most worried about now was Ruan Fuyuan's safety. You must know that Ruan Fuyuan has been hit by an arrow for more than six hours, and they have no idea what kind of poison Ruan Phuc Yuan has, and the medical soldiers are also at a loss, so they can only clean the wound many times to solve it. Ruan Fuyuan has been asleep, if it weren't for the fact that she was still breathing relatively steadily, the princess would even have the heart to die.

"It's really unthinkable that the forbidden army is in turmoil this time." A female official said angrily, "The forbidden army is to protect the important land of Hue, and it should be the most loyal guard force in Annam, but it is too impossible to take the lead in rebellion." ”

"What's impossible? You didn't see the situation last night, the forbidden army directly attacked the palace, and the palace guards could be killed, if we didn't retreat in time, I am afraid that it would be difficult to escape the poison. The other female officer had a worried expression. I carry a pistol with me anyway, and if I do get surrounded by them, I'll shoot five shots, and keep the last bullet for myself. ”

"Yes, even if you die, you can't let yourself fall into the hands of that group of rebels, if it falls into their hands, our women will be finished for the rest of our lives."

The princess raised her eyes and said softly, "This trip to Dongfang Port is actually a blessing and a curse. ”

"How so?" A female official hurriedly said, "The Chinese in Dongfang Port are all true to their word, not to mention that the elder surnamed Qian seems to have a soft spot for Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

"Yes, yes, you see, last time they helped Her Royal Highness the princess transport away all the money and people in Champa Port, and they didn't take advantage of those bastards at all."

"In fact, if they had taken advantage of this, maybe there would have been no today." Princess Ji shook her head gently, "Now that my Annan Kingdom is no longer a country, I, Ruan Ji, have no money and no power, and I took my unconscious father to Dongfang Port, if the Senate does not accept us, I am afraid that I will have nothing to say." ”

"Doesn't Her Royal Highness have hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in Dongfang Harbor? Can't you get a place to stand on the cone? The female officer on the side almost jumped.

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"It's hard to say," a female official next to him also nodded quietly, "People die for money, birds die for food, at this time the country of Annan has been destroyed, His Majesty the Emperor is already the king of the country at this time, and Her Royal Highness the princess is the same." If the Chinese in the Senate want to embezzle the princess's hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, wouldn't it be a matter of one sentence? As long as the princess doesn't give the money to the Senate, then we can't tell even if we are full of mouths. ”

The princess sighed, and Qian Longzhou's appearance of Mount Tai collapsing without being shocked suddenly appeared in front of her, and she sighed in her heart: Mr. Qian, the little girl depends on you......