mtlumby2d Chapter 379: 3 Shocking the Court 1
Chapter 379: 3 Shocking the Court 1
Bai Zhaozhao said impatiently: "Okay, Helian Mingtang, I don't want to listen to your empty promises. Just tell me what you can give me now, okay?"
Helian Mingtang took a deep breath and said, "Bai Zhaozhao, don't push your luck. I've given you my money and my status symbol! Even the Yue clan will listen to you! What else do you want?"
Bai Zhaozhao raised his eyebrows: "It seems that Yue clan has always been mine, right?"
Helian Mingtang: ...
"Don't worry, after a while, I can give you everything you want! Including helping the Bai family rise to prominence!"
A dark light flashed in Bai Zhaozhao's eyes: "Oh, you are quite arrogant! Do you think I don't know? Zhenguogong is suppressing the Bai family."
Helian Mingtang's breathing stagnated. "The Duke of Zhenguo has private soldiers in Mangshan, set up a meat farm in Yanshan County, and opened five secret prostitutes in the capital. I will no longer cooperate with him in the future! Is this sincere enough?"
Bai Zhaozhao's eyes were sharp, as if he saw through him, and he suddenly sneered: "It's so easy to abandon someone who tried so hard to protect you... It's not like you!"
Helian Mingtang asked back: "What do you mean?"
Bai Zhaozhao snorted coldly: "What do you mean? You can be on guard against me, you can doubt me, but don't treat me as a fool! The only person you can easily abandon is a discarded pawn!
I guess your real partner is Chang Chuanbo? Wei Ming looks like Du Chengyi's follower, but in fact he is just a jerk and stupid!
But when I went to pick a fight with you, Du Chengyi's men didn't come, but Wei Ming did. The person you actually wanted to notify was Chang Chuanbo! Right?"
Helian Mingtang was surprised. He didn't expect Bai Zhaozhao to guess the truth just by his words! This woman is so scary!
It seems that the Liao Kingdom in the previous life was not defeated unjustly! Fortunately, this woman will soon be his true partner!
"Okay, Bai Zhaozhao, once I succeed in my sacrifice, I will tell you all my plans for Tianyuan!"
Bai Zhaozhao lowered his eyes, his face showing no emotion. He was silent for a while and said, "Okay, then you come out with me first."
"Why? Isn't it for sacrifice?"
"Because I didn't know you had six awesome secret guards! Go out and tell them that you want to retreat in my backyard."
"Retreat?"
"Yes, sacrifice means that the system will absorb your jade slips. This is a very long process. I stayed in the room for 49 days! For you, it may be shorter, or even longer!"
Helian Mingtang was stunned: "Forty-nine days?"
Bai Zhaozhao said with disdain: "Why, do you think that opportunities can be easily obtained? Don't you have this much patience?"
Helian Mingtang frowned slightly: "I just didn't expect it to take so long. This request is quite strange."
Bai Zhaozhao knew that he was still a little skeptical, so he secretly contacted Tietie. Tietie was very helpful and an explanation appeared on the screen:
"The sacrificer needs to remain alone within a certain range until the authentication is successful. If a second person appears within this range, it is assumed that there are two masters!"
Helian Mingtang: So that’s it!
Bai Zhaozhao: "Don't worry, I will have someone bring you water and food every day! Of course, you can regret it at any time, and I will find someone else."
Helian Mingtang: ...
After the two of them left the small space, Helian Mingtang looked at everything in the room in a daze, with an expression of wanting more. He couldn't believe that he had actually encountered such a miraculous opportunity!
Under Bai Zhaozhao's impatient urging, he finally walked out of the house and made a gesture. Suddenly, six figures appeared, including Zhu Hanyan.
The two sides were in a stalemate for a while.
Helian Mingtang was slightly surprised. Bai Zhaozhao's secret guard seemed very powerful.
Bai Zhaozhao signaled Zhu Hanyan to step back. Helian Mingtang was also decisive. He gave instructions to the six people and pointed at Bai Zhaozhao, saying that this was his collaborator and he must protect her when he was in seclusion.
Bai Zhaozhao: ...The deception was so successful.
That night, Helian Mingtang stayed in the small house, and Bai Zhaozhao's space also received his jade slip.
Tietie told Bai Zhaozhao that after absorbing the jade slip, the space had returned to its original best state and the energy had also become much purer!
Another piece of information was stripped out from the jade slip and turned into a ray of golden light floating in space.
Bai Zhaozhao: "Can this thing be deciphered?"
Tietie: "Master, this requires consuming space energy, so we have to do it slowly."
Bai Zhaozhao: "Okay."
It was great. He no longer had to go to the mountains to collect species, nor did he have to spend money on shopping. So Bai Zhaozhao stayed in the palace and ate and drank peacefully, and he really lived a comfortable life.
On the other hand, Bai Lin and Li Rongyue finally returned to Beijing, which caused a storm in the court. During the entire court meeting, there were three scenes that shocked all the officials.
The first one to stand up was Bai Lin. Not only did he reorganize the salt quota in Jiangnan and sweep away Chen Ke, he also brought back more than one million taels of silver along the way!
Cartloads of silver were brought into the national treasury. The Minister of Revenue was overjoyed and kept saying that these were the pillars of the country!
The ministers were shocked and asked Bai Lin if he had taken the opportunity to make money.
Bai Zhaozhao explained slowly that before he left, he asked the emperor to write him a handwritten letter, which contained some words ordering him to lecture, and it was also stamped with the emperor's seal.
So he just used chicken feathers as a token of authority, and whenever he passed through a place, he would use his reputation as the top scholar to give a lecture. Of course, he charged a fee, one hundred coins per person.
As the Spring Examination was approaching, a lot of students came to attend his lectures, so he made almost a fortune and even kept an account book.
As time went on, some officials along the way questioned whether he was taking the opportunity to make money, so he took out the emperor's handwritten letter and said that he was giving lectures on the emperor's orders!
As a result, more students came to attend his classes. Miraculously, he also took the opportunity to catch several corrupt officials, handed them over to the local prefect, and also kept an account of them.
At this time, someone raised a question: Bai Lin carried such a huge fortune, so why didn't anyone rob him along the way?
Bai Lin calmly said that it was probably because of his good character that many people from the martial arts world escorted him for free along the way.
Officials: ...
The emperor was secretly delighted and thought, please give him a dozen of such a great scholar who can make money!
Finally, Bai Lin said that he also escorted back several smuggling gangs involved in the canal transport.
The emperor was puzzled, as these matters seemed to have nothing to do with Bai Lin, but Bai Lin said that these gangs were all smuggling the same medicinal herbs, and most of them were poisonous, and they were continuously shipped to the capital, which was really unsettling.
The mastermind behind this is directly pointed at the Duke of Zhenguo and the Earl of Changchuan!
The two men retorted that medicine is partially poisonous, and they were just getting some medicinal materials for the family business and were completely unaware of the smuggling.
The emperor didn't take it too seriously and just fined him his salary and put him under house arrest.
In addition, Bai Lin was promoted to the position of Zhongshu Shilang, a perfect candidate for the cabinet! At the same time, Zhong Ge Lao also secured the position of the cabinet's chief assistant.