Travel through space and help the prince’s husband in construction

Chapter 18 4 walks around, 1 treats everyone equally

There were many people in the study room in the main courtyard of the Grand Prince's Mansion, and it seemed that the aides were plotting something.

Xiao Yunyan originally wanted to look for secret letters and the like, but unexpectedly, she stumbled upon a conspiracy. Then listen reluctantly!

Xiao Yunyan did not want to disturb the people inside. She slowly walked five meters behind the eldest prince in the space. She leaned against the bookcase and looked at the books on the bookcase while listening to what they were talking about?

At the beginning, the staff reported to them the expansion of industries in various state capitals sent by their subordinates.

Xiao Yunyan carefully wrote down some key situations. For example, where was the mine opened? Which water transport terminal is monopolized by them? Which water transport line has a few more ships? Wherever the brothel has snatched a few new girls from the prison officials' families to be the top names, how business is booming...

The most important thing is that the money earned will be sent to a secret warehouse outside the city tonight.

In order to gain more benefits and power chips in this border chaos, they must also be fully prepared. Once the border town is captured, they will use their strength to fight for the highest throne.

The eldest prince's staff carefully deduced and studied the specific arrangements, and finally made a decision. Xiao Yunyan was afraid of forgetting the important point. I bought a mobile phone from the space and recorded the video directly.

Xiao Yunyan felt that her biggest gain from this visit to the eldest prince's mansion was to learn about their conspiracy.

When Xiao Yunyan was recording the video, her eyes wandered everywhere, and the portrait on the wall behind her attracted her attention.

It turned out to be a portrait of herself. However, it should be said that it is a portrait of the original owner when he was thirteen years old. Innocent and innocent, she has just transformed from a girl to an adolescent, like a lotus flower in bud, so beautiful that it is immature and unbearable to be blasphemed.

Xiao Yunyan looked at this portrait for a long time. She noticed that the center of the scroll under the portrait was very bright. The color is also different from other places. That's the maroon patina that appears when the wood is often played with.

This secret was discovered by Xiao Yunyan. In other words, someone often touches the wooden scroll with their hands. She decided to wait until the men left the study before studying the portrait.

After another two-quarters of an hour, they ended their plot and each took their own tasks to carry out.

Xiao Yunyan finally waited until they all left the study. She walked over to the portrait. He reached out and pulled the bright scroll. As expected, it was indeed a trap.

The scroll moved downwards, revealing a bump on it, and Xiao Yunyan pressed it with her hand. The bookcase against the wall turned inward, revealing a step downwards.

She went inside. Inside is a secret room. There is a row of bookshelves with several small boxes on them.

Xiao Yunyan opened one and found letters inside. However, it was not normal Chinese characters, but words she didn't recognize.

I looked through six boxes in a row. Three boxes contained letters, two boxes contained land deeds, and one box contained a store deed. There were also six boxes. She opened them casually and saw that they were banknotes. The face value is one thousand taels of silver.

Xiao Yunyan was not polite and took everything into the space. I looked through the notebooks on the bookshelf and found that they were account books for businesses from various places. Xiao Yunyan felt that this was not an ordinary business account book, but should be useful evidence, so she took it all away.

Apart from the empty bookshelves, tables and chairs, there was nothing of value in the secret room. Although the tables and chairs were all made from Huanghuali, she felt that taking out such objects would be a clue and would be useless in the space, so she left them with the eldest prince.

Xiao Yunyan quickly left the secret room and restored the portrait to its original state. The bookshelf was also restored to its original position. She left the First Prince's Mansion in a swaggering manner and came to the Second Prince's Mansion.

There are not as many things in the large warehouse of the Second Prince's Mansion as there are in the First Prince's Mansion.

Because the eldest prince’s mother-in-law, Concubine Xian’s natal family is an imperial merchant, and overseas transportation is too profitable. The second prince's mother-in-law, Concubine De, came from a Qingliu family and had little money. Therefore, the second prince's large warehouse contained nothing of value.

Xiao Yunyan picked up the cloth and porcelain and put them into the space. If she hadn't known that the second prince also arranged for someone to assassinate the fourth prince, she wouldn't have had the heart to take this thing away.

However, Xiao Yunyan made a mistake. The gold and silver she found in the second prince's small storehouse was no less than that of the eldest prince.

There are just no top-quality jewelry, jewelry and jade. These things must be obtained through channels. The second prince did not have this advantage.

But where does his money come from? Such a large amount of gold and silver definitely requires a large industry to gather together.

On the surface, the second prince is just a scholar who is accustomed to playing chess, calligraphy, painting, and reciting poems. He never pays attention to business and disdains the smell of copper!

Now it seems that those are all appearances, for the emperor to see and for outsiders to see. We don’t fight for fame or profit. In fact, we don’t give up either fame or fortune.

Out of curiosity, Xiao Yunyan walked around the courtyard of the second prince, the principal concubine, the concubines on both sides, and the four ladies.

On the surface, there is more than enough elegance but not enough nobility. It’s an elegant way to play without money.

However, in the small treasury of the principal concubine and the two concubines, there are quite a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, and head and face jewelry, all of which are fine products. Compared with the eldest prince's main concubine, the side concubines are no less good.

Among the four ladies, two were favored, and they also filled several small boxes with gold and silver. Two people who are not favored have much less.

Xiao Yunyan took away all the valuable things. On the contrary, he left the gold and silver to the two unfavored ladies, and only took two pieces of dark-colored and old silk and satin. They also messed up the house to symbolize that they had also been robbed, so they were treated equally!

The kitchens of the First Prince's Mansion and the Second Prince's Mansion were also emptied. Take away all the stored grain, oil and salt, high-end dry food ingredients, fresh chicken, duck, fish, cattle, sheep, pigs, fish, shrimp, crab, etc.

Xiao Yunyan planned not to move to the Third Prince's Mansion, but she was also afraid that the Third Prince's Mansion would become a target of suspicion. As a result, a lot of cotton cloth was lost in the large warehouse of the Third Prince's Mansion, and a batch of cotton-padded clothes, trousers, cotton shoes, and gloves that had been prepared for the servants in the mansion were all taken away.

The third prince's private treasury is really poor, with only more than a thousand taels of silver and a small box of gold, only a hundred taels.

Xiao Yunyan almost gave him more gold and silver to support such a poor prince. However, she still held back, as doing so would harm the third prince.

Some of the food and ingredients stored in the kitchen of the Third Prince's Mansion were also stolen. However, some of the rice, flour, oil and salt were left, and the fresh ingredients were not touched, so the theft seemed a bit perfunctory. A discerning person will show mercy at first glance.

As for the Fourth Prince's Mansion, everyone must be treated equally! I walked around the large warehouse, and all the cotton cloth, cotton clothes, cotton shoes, and quilts that could be used in the border areas were stored in the space.

Xiao Yunyan also went to take care of the fourth prince's private warehouse. Her prince also had no money, with more than three thousand taels of silver and more than two hundred taels of gold.

She always felt that her prince should not be that poor. What went wrong?

Xiao Yunyan was reluctant to touch her prince's small treasury. There was no need for her to go into the big kitchen, there were too many people, and the fire had been going on for the past two days. The fragrance also filled the entire house. The food was brought to the border for them. There is no need to steal it.

After finishing her work, she leisurely went to the eldest prince and second prince's maternal homes, as well as the homes of officials who supported the eldest prince and second prince in the court.

But it wasn't too much, I just emptied out the secret little warehouse. What kind of banknotes, gold and silver, house deeds, land deeds, jewelry, jade... Xiao Yunyan took them all into the space.

At the end of the early morning, Xiao Yunyan returned to her yard. I don’t know how much shock it will cause in the court tomorrow!

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