"Drag him down and immediately cut him down!”
Facing Zhou Kui's plea, Ye Xin did not show any mercy. He immediately waved his hand and had Cao Huachun and Wang Chaoen drag him out.
"Your Majesty! This lowly subject is willing to contribute three million taels of property to the national treasury!”
Originally, Cao Huachun and Wang Chaoen had already dragged Zhou Kui to the door. After Zhou Kui shouted this, Ye Xin immediately waved his hand and stopped them.
Zhou Kui heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that Ye Xin had finally stopped him. At this moment, in order to survive, Zhou Kui couldn't care less. In his heart, he thought that it was fine as long as he kept his life.
"Country Father, perhaps you don't understand one thing. Even if you don't donate your family property, when this one takes care of you, your family property will still be this one's!”
"Men, drag Zhou Kui down and behead him! Go and raid his house!”
"Yes, sir!"
F * ck!
When the officials in the court heard Ye Xin's words, they were instantly dumbfounded. When everyone heard that Zhou Kui had taken out three million taels, they thought to themselves that Zhou Kui had already spent a lot of money this time. The Emperor should be satisfied, right?
This emperor was really too vicious to be able to kill his own father-in-law!
Thud…Thud…
After Zhou Kui was dragged out, the officials in the court finally realized that the Emperor in front of them had changed. He was no longer the weak and incompetent Emperor Chongzhen. The current Emperor was wise and decisive. He was definitely not that easy to fool.
"Emperor, this lowly official is willing to donate two million taels of silver!”
"This lowly official is willing to donate 1.5 million taels of silver!”
"I only have one million taels of silver in my family now, but I'm willing to sell my family assets to gather two million taels of silver to hand over to the country!”
"Yes!"
Seeing the civil and military officials kneeling below, Ye Xin's heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment. Now, Ye Xin's first achievement as the Emperor was to completely intimidate the officials in the court, making them not dare to act presumptuously in front of him.
"Emperor, we calculated the amount of silver that was paid this time. It was a total of fifty million taels of silver!”
"Yes!"
With this sum of money, not to mention paying the army, even rebuilding an elite army of the Ming Empire was not a problem at all!
The current emperor was too awesome! There was a bright future in following him!
However, Ye Xin was very calm at this moment. He did not have any fluctuations in his heart when faced with so much money because all of this was within his expectations.
"Thank you for sparing my life, thank you for sparing my life!”
Just as the officials were trembling with fear as they took out the money, Zhou Kui, this old fellow, rushed in with disheveled hair. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Ye Xin.
"Lord…Lord Zhou, haven't you already been beheaded?”
"Behead? Oh, no, no. Before I died, the emperor still saved my life!”
"What? I'll go? Then wouldn't we be tricked by the emperor?”
When the ministers saw that Zhou Kui was still alive, they were furious. In their opinion, the Emperor had lied to them. However, when they raised their heads and saw Ye Xin with a dignified expression, they were afraid and swallowed the words that they wanted to scold him.
"Dear ministers, what do you have to say?”
"Hmph, I know what you want to say!”
As Ye Xin spoke, he stood up and pointed at the officials below him as he scolded them.
"Zhou Kui! This time, this one will let you off on account of the Empress, but if you dare to do it again in the future, this one will immediately cut you into pieces, do you hear me?”
After Ye Xin stood up and threw a tantrum, he flung his sleeves and left, leaving behind the trembling ministers.
This time, they had obtained fifty million taels of silver. This amount of money was not small, and Ye Xin was very satisfied. Moreover, through this matter, Ye Xin had established his prestige among the officials. From now on, the officials would not dare to dawdle on Ye Xin.
"System, do you have any other good things? Do you have any flowers or pastries? I want to see the Empress!"
"What? Of course! Host, I'm a very powerful system. I have all the things you want!”
Soon, the system gave Ye Xin a big bouquet of blue roses and a big box of love cake.
Ye Xin took the roses and cake and walked towards Zhou Mei 'er's palace. Ye Xin pondered. It had been hard on his empress during this period of time. This time, he had already successfully raised the money, so he had to reward his empress.
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