Princess Medical Doctor - 462. Chapter 462

Raising food prices has caused panic among the people. Such things as beatings, smashing, and grain shops can be big or small. If this crime is now confessed, Xiao Tianyao will never want to clean it up in his life.

Although the emperor did not severely punish Xiao Tianyao this time, he only fined two hundred thousand taels, but similar things will happen in the future, and the entire Dongwen people will think that Xiao Tianyao is behind the scenes and used the war to make a fortune.

Therefore, after the imperial edict was finished, Lin Chujiu knelt there motionless, without any intention of accepting the edict.

The officials from the Ministry of Rites held the imperial edict in front of Lin Chujiu. Seeing that Lin Chujiu hadn’t moved for a long time, he had to remind him: “Princess Xiao, please accept the edict!”

“Accept the order?” Lin Chujiu raised his eyes and asked back.

“Yes, please take Princess Xiao to accept the decree.” The official who proclaimed the decree was respectful, but he was very disdainful in his heart. It was only a fine of 200,000 taels. With King Xiao’s wealth, he still cares about 200,000 taels of silver?

Concubine Xiao was also indifferent, worse than him.

“No, I can’t accept this imperial decree.” Lin Chujiu didn’t care what the official declaring the decree thought, and shook his head firmly, “I can admit the fine, but I can’t admit the charge on the imperial decree on behalf of the prince. The prince was accidentally missing on the battlefield. It was not deliberately concealing the trace. It was not the prince who sent the news back to the capital. The price of grain in the capital is rising, so what is it to do with the prince?”

The declaratory official was pleased when he heard this, “Princess Xiao, you can tell the emperor about this. It is useless to tell the lower official.”

After finishing speaking, he delivered the imperial decree to Lin Chujiu again. If it were not for the protection of men and women, the officials who declared the imperial decree wanted to put the imperial decree in his arms. You can go back to the palace to return to the palace.” He doesn’t care whether the charges on the imperial decree are true or false.

“I’m sorry, I can’t accept this imperial decree.” Lin Chujiu put his hands behind his back, without giving the other party the possibility of running away from the strong cold imperial decree, “Our prince has not committed the crimes listed in the imperial decree, and I cannot accept the decree.”

“Princess Xiao, are you resisting the decree?” The official who announced the decree was also angry.

Since he took office in the Ministry of Rites, the imperial decree of rewards and punishments has never been proclaimed. No one has ever dared not accept the decree like Lin Chujiu.

“Thunder and rain are all good graces, Princess Xiao, you are a wise man. If you accept the decree, you will assume that nothing has happened, and this will just pass. Otherwise, if the matter is brought to the emperor, you will suffer.” The decree officials are half selling well and half threatening.

Lin Chujiu’s refusal to accept the order would certainly not please him, but he was not much better than the person who declared the order. Now Lin Chujiu has taken the order, hello everyone, I’m so good, isn’t it…

“I can’t carry the hat of resisting the decree and not complying with it. I will send the silver penalty for the imperial decree to the household department, but I can’t accept the imperial decree.” Lin Chujiu repeated the words tirelessly.

Without waiting for the propaganda officials to speak, Lin Chujiu turned his head and said to Steward Cao who was kneeling behind her: “Steward Cao, go and open my warehouse, clear out all the valuables in my dowry, and collect 200,000 taels to go to the household. .”

“Wang, Princess…” Steward Cao was dumbfounded, “Yes, you want to sell your dowry?” Their Xiao Palace is not that poor, a mere 200,000 taels, can be taken out with closed eyes, there is no need to sell Lin Chu Nine’s dowry.

“Well, hurry up…sell the dowry first to solve the current urgency. You can redeem it later if you have the silver.” Lin Chujiu’s awe-inspiring appearance, but only a few of jade pearls know about it. Seeing that those dowries are not pleasing to the eye, now there is a chance to deal with it openly, how could Lin Chujiu pass it.

Moreover, instead of using the money of Prince Xiao’s mansion, but selling his own dowry, it also appeared to outsiders that Prince Xiao was very incorruptible. He could not get it out of a mere 200,000 taels, and he had to be the mistress of the house to sell the dowry.

Steward Cao is not a stupid person. He understands Lin Chujiu’s intentions, but even if he understands it, he is still very responsive to selling Lin Chujiu’s dowry. He deliberately wants to persuade him, but the jade and pearl cleverly moved to Steward Cao’s side. , Whispered: “Steward Cao, you just listen to the princess, the princess must make sense to do so.”

While they were talking, the two women helped steward Cao up and said, “The princess, slave servants accompany Steward Cao to count the dowry.”

“Go.” Lin Chujiu had nothing to worry about with Jade and Pearl.

The officials who announced the decree saw the people in the Xiao Palace and went to count the dowry or something on their own. They were immediately dumbfounded, “Princess Xiao, just fined the silver, you don’t have to sell the dowry.” To let outsiders know, the emperor decree fines the Xiao Palace’s silver. , But forced Princess Xiao to sell the dowry, how do others think of the emperor?

He is a small official who declares a bad job, should he do it?

“What should I do if I don’t sell dowry?” Lin Chujiu raised his head to look at the decree proclaimer, and asked in a puzzled manner: “Don’t you need to pay the two hundred thousand taels of fines on the imperial decree?” People take the imperial decree and fight together.

Doesn’t she need to pay a fine to show that she is not at fault?

That’s right, what’s the decree?

“No, no, of course I have to pay it. It was the fine that King Xiao induced the merchants to drive up prices and caused the people to lose.” The officials who announced the decree repeatedly complained about King Xiao’s charges, but Lin Chujiu seemed to have not heard it. Self-consciously said: “Our prince did not induce the merchants to raise the price, everything is the spontaneous behavior of those unscrupulous merchants. As for the two hundred thousand taels of fines, that is the request of the sage, and we can only do so in the Palace of Xiao.”

It was the merchants who were driving up prices. The emperor asked those grain merchants to spit out the profits they had eaten. It was to find the trouble of Xiao Tianyao, and the emperor was not ashamed.

“Princess Xiao, the truth of the matter is in front of you, it doesn’t matter what you say it is.” Seeing that Lin Chujiu’s oil and salt were not coming in, the propaganda official was immediately a little annoyed.

Is it so troublesome to declare a decree?

No wonder the people in the ministry, as soon as it heard that it was the will of Prince Xiao’s Mansion, no one came forward to lead the escort. If he hadn’t been a step slower when he retreated, this unlucky task would not fall to him.

“What the lord said is that the truth is in front of you, and it can’t be distorted by a few words.” Lin Chujiu echoed the sentence, but then changed his tone and said: “Our prince is on the front line. Fighting to protect Dongwen, no one cares about these messy things in Beijing. Those grain merchants who make a lot of money are more than half of the prince and the people of the king of Wen. No matter how bad they are, they are also the royal merchant Xue family, and our prince. What does it matter? I don’t know how much money they have made this time. Can a mere two hundred thousand taels make up for the loss of the people?”

“Xiao, Concubine Xiao, what are you talking about, the officials don’t understand.” The official proclaiming the decree was sweating profusely. At this time, there is nowhere for him to be arrogant.

Although he has not been in officialdom for a few years, he has a clear sense of what is at stake. He thought that Concubine Xiao was a little messy, but he didn’t want to…