The Imperial Peasant Girl is Both Enigmatic and Dashing – Chapter 141

Chapter 141: No. 1 Ronghua Street, Han Garden

Almost everyone in the alley had left.

A dilapidated carriage emerged.

Prince Ding stroked the head of a hawk: “That kid Tiankuo has changed a lot.”

The Emperor snorted coldly: “Hmph, he’s become more and more adept at swindling people!”

The Emperor felt a pang of heartache as he thought about the medicinal herbs that had been emptied from the Imperial Hospital’s pharmacy, and the two grand mansions that had been swindled from him.

That brat, every time he returned, he either fleeced him of his wealth or disrupted his plans. If Zhao were to send troops now, it would be troublesome!

Thinking of something, the Emperor asked: “How much did you bet at the Qian Family Gambling House this time?”

Prince Ding smiled upon hearing this: “A total of one hundred thousand taels!”

Remembering something, Prince Ding added, “As far as I know, that kid Tiankuo also found ten people to go, and they bet a total of one hundred thousand taels!”

“One to one thousand odds?”

One hundred thousand taels, one to one thousand odds!

Not bad!

Even if Zhao emptied its national treasury, it wouldn’t be enough to pay!

Thinking about it, their Chu national treasury now had over thirty million taels of silver deposits.

Zhao, having opened its sea territories, was wealthier than their Chu, but it was estimated to have only seventy to eighty million taels at most!

However, it was impossible to expect Zhao to compensate for all this silver in one go.

Prince Ding nodded: “That’s right! It’s a pity that the Qian Family Bank has a rule that the highest bet for one to one thousand odds is only ten thousand taels per person! Purchases are stopped after reaching two hundred thousand taels. Otherwise, if we bought more, we wouldn’t have to work for the rest of our lives!”

This rule in gambling houses was to prevent those who bought from being unable to pay, and also to prevent the gambling house from being unable to pay in case of an unlikely event, so gambling houses in all countries had this rule.

However, for so many years, no one in the Four Kingdoms had dared to bet ten thousand taels on a one to one thousand odds game!

Today, the Qian Family Gambling House broke the record!

The Emperor was already satisfied: “Go and collect the silver as soon as possible, and then allocate more silver to that side, so they can prepare more supplies.”

“Yes. This humble brother will write a letter and have Little Hawk deliver it.” Prince Ding stroked the hawk’s head.

It just so happened that he was going to enter the palace later to ask his imperial brother to find Little Hawk.

The carriage headed towards Prince Ding’s Residence. The Emperor had left the palace in secret and had to change carriages at Prince Ding’s Residence to return to the palace with Prince Ding.

The Emperor felt annoyed at the thought of having to return to the palace soon!

There was probably a bunch of people waiting to see him!

The Zhao Kingdom Princess being captured by the Crown Prince was a major event!

A major event that shook the heavens!

The matter of Prime Minister Liang’s son almost being beaten to death this morning hadn’t been resolved yet.

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Xingnong went to the Dueling Arena to collect the reward for breaking the Three Great Formations, a total of one million six hundred and fifty-seven thousand taels.

She didn’t collect the remaining few hundred taels, using it to invite the people at the Dueling Arena today to try breaking the formations.

Xingnong collected silver notes. The silver accumulated from the Three Great Formations over the years had been exchanged for silver notes for ease of safekeeping by the people at the Dueling Arena.

Each silver note had a face value of ten thousand taels, and she took all the silver notes from the Qian Family Bank.

Over one million taels of silver was equivalent to the annual fiscal revenue of Futai County, even exceeding the annual fiscal revenue of some smaller counties, a truly hefty sum!

Xingnong carried a wooden box and boarded a plain and simple carriage waiting outside.

Shen Nan was driving the carriage.

Inside the carriage, Chu Tiankuo had changed back into a set of purple clothes and was sitting upright.

Xingnong placed the box on the table and asked with a hint of excitement: “Are we going to the Qian Family Bank now?”

Chu Tiankuo nodded: “Yes, it just so happens that everyone knows about this sum of silver, so let’s withdraw it first.”

He had already made arrangements, starting from today, people would be withdrawing cash from Qian Family Banks in various locations every day, in varying amounts.

Emptying the Qian Family Bank started today!

The carriage stopped outside the Qian Family Bank.

Xingnong put on her veiled hat, and Chu Tiankuo wore his mask, and the two walked in.

Upon seeing a pair dressed in purple walk in, the Qian Family Bank knew what was going on!

When the bell rang today, who didn’t know that someone had broken the Three Great Formations in half a stick of incense time!

Xingnong opened the box full of silver notes and placed it in front of the bank manager: “I want to withdraw cash, a total of one million six hundred and fifty-seven thousand taels. Please prepare it, manager. We’ll load it onto the carriage right away.”

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The bank manager’s eyelids twitched as he looked at the silver notes, each with a face value of ten thousand taels: “All of it?”

Xingnong nodded, “All of it.”

The manager smiled and said: “Miss, one million six hundred and fifty-seven thousand taels is not a small sum. It will be troublesome to transport so much silver back home, and it will also attract thieves. Why not withdraw as much as you need? Our Qian Family Bank has branches in all cities across the Four Kingdoms. You can withdraw it whenever and wherever you need it!”

“No need, I like sleeping on silver. Please prepare it, manager!”

The manager still wanted to say something, “Miss, look, so much silver, we…”

Xingnong stretched out her hand to interrupt him: “Could it be that your bank doesn’t even have this much silver? This silver was deposited in real gold and silver! Where have you taken all the silver that everyone deposited?”

At this moment, another customer happened to walk in and his face changed upon hearing Xingnong’s words: “The bank has no silver left?”

“That’s not true!” The manager’s face changed upon hearing this. If this got out, what would happen!

At that time, many customers would come running to the bank with silver notes to exchange for silver, and that would be troublesome!

After all, the bank’s silver had been lent out to earn interest!

It couldn’t be collected back in a day or half a day.

He thought about how the bank currently had about two million taels of silver and gold combined, so he smiled and said: “You’re joking, Miss! The Qian Family Bank has branches across the Four Kingdoms, safeguarding the wealth of the people under heaven. How could we not even be able to produce this little bit of silver?! I’ll go and have someone prepare it right away!”

After the manager turned and walked away, his face sank!

He went to the backyard and found a person with an ordinary appearance, someone who would be easily forgotten in a crowd, gave him some instructions, and then had people load the silver!

Not long after, a plain and simple carriage drove out of the bank’s back alley and left, followed by another one every quarter of an hour or so.

Carriages came and went in the back alley.

There were so many carriages in the capital that they were as common as ox hair, and no one noticed.

These ordinary, unremarkable carriages wouldn’t attract anyone’s attention.

It wasn’t until nightfall that the alley quieted down!

In the treasury of a certain magnificent residence.

Xingnong looked at the room full of money chests, her eyes curving into crescents: “This is what it feels like to become rich overnight!”

Chu Tiankuo chuckled softly: “Don’t worry, you’ll become richer day by day.”

“I’ll take your word for it!” With a thought, Xingnong stored all the money chests into her spirit orb.

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A man in black, hiding in the shadows, watched as all the carriages entered this residence before leaving and returning to the Qian Family Bank.

“How was it? Where was the silver delivered to?” the bank manager asked.

“No. 1 Ronghua Street, Han Garden.”

The bank manager was stunned upon hearing this: “Are you sure?”

“This humble one watched with my own eyes, every carriage entered that residence! Those boxes of silver were all carried into the treasury of that residence.”

The bank manager frowned, that wouldn’t be easy to handle!

As far as he knew, that residence belonged to a merchant from Jin Kingdom.

It was said that he had a powerful background!

He definitely had connections to the royal family.

But this also meant that the one who broke the formations today wasn’t a formation master from Chu.

Could it be that the Chu Crown Prince knew that the other party was from Jin, which was why he dared to detain their princess?

Was he trying to take this opportunity to establish good relations with Jin?

After all, a formation master so young and skilled would be highly valued in any country!

No, this matter had to be reported to the master as soon as possible.

If Chu and Jin took this opportunity to join forces, it would be troublesome!

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Good night, my dears~