As one of Cai Jing's godsons, he was considered a criminal in the imperial court. Although Emperor Zhao Ji had not officially started to implicate his entire family, the situation was already turbulent.
The information obtained through various channels indicated that Zhao Ji wanted to uproot Cai Jing, and this was partly due to Huang Jing and Tong Guan's constant persuasion.
After the house was raided, most of the property fell into the hands of Tong Guan and Huang Jing. Zhao Ji only received a few million taels of silver symbolically, which made him puzzled.
According to Cai Jing's years as an official and his greedy nature, he was a conscientious official with a few million taels of silver in savings.
Zhao Ji thought that Cai Jing might have transferred his assets. The reason why he didn't implicate them was because he was still waiting. Waiting for those people to obediently send the silver over would be much more stable than implicating his entire family.
Ever since Zhao Kuangyin had founded the Song Dynasty, he had not killed any scholar-bureaucrats, and he had to abide by it.
Not killing scholar-bureaucrats was something that Song Taizu had erected on a monument. Only every new emperor who ascended the throne could see it. It could be considered an ancestral instruction!
If they didn't kill him, then they wouldn't be punished. Exile was a good alternative. Cai Jing's family was exiled for 3,000 miles.
Zhao Ji was prepared to send Cai Jing's godsons to exile if they didn't send the money over.
All of this was within Ximen Qiao's control. He had learned from the intelligence that Huang Jing's personal eunuch, Lan Shuikong, was also a money-grubber. He dared to accept any silver and did anything out of line, so he took out ten thousand taels of silver and gave it to Lan Shuikong.
Under Lan Shuikong's recommendation, Ximen Qiao, Cai Jing's godson, finally bought an invitation to Huang Jing's birthday.
When the housekeeper told Huang Jing that Ximen Qing had sent two million silver notes, Huang Jing's entire body floated up. He had seen money before, but he had never seen so much money. Ever since he had been favored by the Emperor, he had been trying to fish for money, but he had never managed to get a million silver.
He decided to have a private conversation with Ximen Qiao.
When Ximen Qiao was invited into the secret chamber, Huang Jing came out to welcome him warmly." Brother Ximen, you have an extraordinary bearing. Thank you, Huang Jing."”
"Eunuch Huang is too polite. I only wanted to befriend you, so I gave you the silver as a gift. Secondly, I wanted to ask you to put in a good word for me in front of His Majesty.”Ximen Qiao cupped his hands.
"Brother Ximen, don't worry. Although I, Huang Jing, am of low status, my words carry little weight, but I can still speak with His Majesty. Not only will Brother Ximen be fine, but you will also be promoted. I can guarantee that you will be promoted from guerrilla general to tiger general.”Huang Jing sat down and said.
The table was already filled with all kinds of dried fruits and seasonal fruits. To the two beauties sent by Ximen Qing, Huang Jing showed an unprecedented rejection.
Ximen Qiao threw a Mind-Reading Spell at him.
Huang Jing: " This person is so generous. He must be very rich and have the ability to earn money. Hmph, I'll just treat him as a money tree in the future. As for those two beauties, could they be spies sent over? Although they're extremely beautiful, they're still untouchable."”
After knowing Huang Jing's inner world, Ximen Qiao no longer insisted. He thought to himself,'I spent 40,000 taels of silver to buy these two beauties of the Immortal Seeking Tower. It's better for me to enjoy myself.'
"Please go out for a drink! Brother Ximen, please take a seat." Huang Jing kept the huge amount of silver notes in her pocket and pulled Ximen Qiao's hand out of the secret room.
As the Emperor's trusted eunuch, Huang Jing's guests could only participate in the banquet by rank. Only those of the Third Rank and above could participate. Those of the Fourth Rank could only have a seat at the remote banquet at the gate. Those below the Fourth Rank were not qualified to participate unless they gave ten thousand taels of silver as a congratulatory gift.
Ximen Qiao was arranged to sit beside Huang Jing, which was already an extremely honorable treatment. The one sitting next to him was Imperial Uncle Zhao Huo, and the others were all first-grade officials, either princes or ministers.
Those nobles didn't know who Ximen Qiao was and thought that he was sitting in the wrong seat. They all looked at him.
"Sirs, this is Ximen Qing, my sworn brother. In the past, he was the godson of that old thief, Cai Jing, and I sent him in to monitor that old thief. Fortunately, Brother Ximen's undercover work was successful this time and he captured this old thief who had connections with foreign countries in one fell swoop.”Huang Jing raised her wine glass and said.
That was the original price! Only then did the officials and nobles have a whole new level of respect for Ximen Qiao. They didn't expect this young man to have such a powerful background. Even Huang Jing was very polite to him.
"Brother Ximen is truly a genius of the Imperial Court!”
"A toast to you. Brother Ximen is a talented person and is a pillar of the Great Song. Eunuch Huang is truly discerning.”
"Brother Ximen, please take care of me in the future.”
Ximen Qiao was overwhelmed. This two million taels of silver seemed to be worth ten years of hardship and a name on the Golden Roll, stepping into the circle of friends with the highest authority.
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