Chapter 1352 Ye Mingsheng pretending to be noble!
When Wang Shun learned that the Fifth Master intended to send Murong Xinyun to the palace as a concubine, he felt like the sky was falling.

Wang Shun was from Guanzhong, which was previously the core area ruled by the Luo'an court. When Ye Mingsheng led the Fengwu Army and the Luo'an court, the Luo'an court fabricated many rumors about Ye Mingsheng and the Fengwu Army in order to seize the moral high ground and gain the advantage in public opinion.

These rumors were extremely insulting to Ye Mingsheng. The most famous one was that Ye Mingsheng had an eagle-like look and a wolf-like back, and was cold-hearted by nature. He was a born traitor and a born disaster, and no one who followed him would have a good ending.

Secondly, it is said that Ye Mingsheng has a green face and fangs, and is extremely ugly. He can scare people to death when he goes out at night.

In addition to his fate and appearance, the Luoan court also specifically spread the news that Ye Mingsheng was cruel and murderous, and liked to rape women!

In order to make the negative image of Ye Mingsheng more vivid and lifelike, they also gave examples. For example, if Ye Mingsheng was not satisfied with others, he would kill people and like to drink human semen, make human heads into wine vessels, etc., and he was like a sex-hungry ghost, sleeping with several women every day.

Under the vigorous propaganda of the Luoan court, many people who were unaware of the truth believed it firmly and thought that Ye Mingsheng was a cruel and murderous devil.

Although Wang Shun had never met Ye Mingsheng, under the propaganda of the Luoan court at that time, he also firmly believed that Ye Mingsheng was a complete bastard!

So when Wang Shun learned that his fairy, his goddess would marry such a big devil and be abused and abused by this big devil, he felt that his heart was bleeding. He absolutely did not want to see such a thing happen····················
Although Wang Shun didn't want to see this happen, the question was, who is he, Wang Shun?

You, Wang Shun, are just a servant of the Murong family!
What if you don't want to?

Who cares what you think?

So even though Wang Shun was so anxious that he couldn't sleep all night, things were still developing in a direction that he didn't want to see!

The only solution Wang Shun could think of was to elope with Murong Xinyun!

But before Wang Shun could tell Murong Xinyun about this idea, he gave up in frustration!
Let's not talk about whether Murong Xinyun is willing to elope with him, nor where he can elope with Murong Xinyun.

Take the servants of the Murong family for example. Wang Shun was very clear about the strength of the Murong family. He knew that even if Murong Xinyun was willing to elope with him, he would not be able to run far. If he was caught, Murong Xinyun would be punished, but he, Wang Shun, and his family would definitely die!

Although Wang Shun loved Murong Xinyun very much, it was obvious that his life was more important. So out of fear of death, Wang Shun immediately calmed down and gave up some crazy ideas.

There are two common sayings in this world!
The first sentence is if someone doesn’t know, then don’t do it!
The second sentence is: There is no wall that is impenetrable!

Although Wang Shun and Murong Xinyun’s underground love affair was very secretive, and Wang Shun did not dare to do anything out of line, at most he just held hands, but the matter was still discovered by the nanny, who reported it to Murong family’s fifth master, Murong Xiu...

When Murong Xiu heard that Wang Shun, this villain, actually dared to covet his precious daughter, he was immediately furious. He arrested Wang Shun directly. Not only that, Murong Xiu also arrested Wang Shun's father, Wang Xide. In his opinion, it is the father's fault if the son is not well educated!

Since Wang Shun dared to bully him, Wang Xide cannot escape the blame!
For this reason, Murong Xiu blocked the news to prevent his family's scandal from spreading, and at the same time ordered people to whip the father and son, Wang Xide and Wang Shun, to death!

Only in this way can Murong Xiu get rid of the hatred in his heart!

How could a lowly servant like you lay your hands on Murong Xiu's precious daughter?
Even though the beating happened several months ago, Wang Shun couldn't help but tremble all over when he thought of that day. In order to vent his hatred, the bastard Murong Xiu dipped the whip in salt water, and even if he was knocked unconscious, he would splash him with cold water to wake him up.

The beating made Wang Shun feel heartbroken. There was not a single good place on his body. Compared with the physical pain, what Wang Shun could not accept was that his father Wang Xide was punished with him. His father's painful wails at that time made Wang Shun feel heartbroken. He begged Murong Xiu desperately, hoping that he could let his father Wang Xide go.

But Murong Xiu was so hard-hearted that he insisted on beating Wang’s father and son to death as a warning to others! Just when Wang’s father and son were beaten to the point of being unconscious and thought they were dead, Murong Xiu suddenly let them go. Wang Shun initially thought that Murong Xiu had a kind heart and let them go...

But later Wang Shun found out that the reason Murong Xiu spared the lives of him and his son was entirely because the imprisoned Murong Xinyun threatened to kill herself. She took out a three-foot white silk and was about to hang herself, which forced Murong Xiu to take a step back.

In order to prevent her father from taking revenge on Wang Xide and Wang Shun, and to let the father and son return to their hometown in Guanzhong, Murong Xinyun agreed to her father's condition of entering the palace!
When he learned all this, although Wang Shun was very depressed and sad, he also felt a little relieved!
Although he loved Murong Xinyun, that day he was tied to a wooden stake and beaten to a pulp by the Murong family. At the moment when he became unconscious, he had to admit that he regretted falling in love with Murong Xinyun and regretted pursuing Murong Xinyun!
If time could go back and God could give him another chance, he would definitely not pursue Murong Xinyun!
And now that Murong Xinyun has entered the palace to serve the green-faced and fang-toothed Ye Mingsheng, his return to his hometown in Guanzhong may be the best way out for both of them!
Wang Shun originally thought that the matter would end here, and he could return to Guanzhong with his father and become an ordinary person, but he underestimated Murong Xiu's cruelty and his hatred for this lowly servant who almost defiled his precious daughter. As soon as Wang Shun and Wang Xide left Youyan, the people of the Murong family took action.

With his father Wang Xide's life-threatening protection, Wang Shuncai escaped in the dark and hid in this abandoned house.

He knew that the killers from the Murong family were looking for him again, so Wang Shun didn't dare to come out at all. He didn't know how long he would hide here, but the only thing he could do now was to hide here, drink some rain water when he was thirsty, and find some scattered food in the farmland when he was hungry.

Although Wang Shun felt heartbroken when he thought of his father's tragic death at the hands of the Murong family, at this moment he was more filled with fear of death and regret. He once dreamed of becoming the son-in-law of the Murong family through Murong Xinyun, and rising to the top with the help of the Murong family's political resources!

But unfortunately, the reality is that because of his greed, he and his family suffered a devastating disaster...

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In the Daqian Palace, An Miaoyi sat on a chair and carefully looked through the treasury account book.

As the master of the harem, An Miaoyi not only needs to manage some things in the palace, but also manage some industries under the name of the palace.

Because at Ye Mingsheng's request, the Ministry of Revenue would not support the palace's consumption unless under necessary and special circumstances. This meant that all the palace's consumption had to rely on the silver provided by the industries under the name of the palace.

In the past, when the imperial palace was still called the Ye Mansion, the Ye Mansion owned a lot of properties, including fertile fields, prosperous shops, warehouses, and shares in some businesses with exclusive privileges. These things ensured that Ye Mingsheng's entire family, as well as a group of guards, servants, maids and nannies in the Ye Mansion could live a prosperous life without relying on the finances of the Ministry of Revenue.

But as the Ye Mansion became a palace, the number of maids and guards increased, the area of ​​the palace increased, and the expenses and grandeur of the entire family increased, but the properties under the name of the palace did not increase, and remained the same!
Although the silver provided by these industries can still cover the various expenses of the palace, this has also caused the originally wealthy and decent life of the Ye Mansion to become a little tight, and it is difficult to save too much silver in the treasury.

As the mistress of the harem, An Miaoyi was also troubled by this problem. She knew that although the money provided by the industry could still cover the expenses of the palace, the problem was that the expenses of the palace were still increasing. According to the current trend, she was afraid that the income would not be enough to cover the expenses next year...
Therefore, she must solve this problem and improve the financial situation of the treasury while the problem is not serious yet!
But when she thought about how to solve this problem, An Miaoyi frowned slightly. An Miaoyi was very clear about financial problems, which can be summed up in four words: increase revenue and reduce expenditure. She wanted to solve the problem of the imperial treasury being unable to make ends meet. She could either increase the income from the industries under the name of the palace, or reduce the expenditure of the palace to save some costs!
Compared with saving the palace's expenses, An Miaoyi wanted to solve this problem by increasing the income from the palace's industries!

In An Miaoyi's opinion, although the current expenditures of the imperial palace have increased significantly compared to the previous Ye Mansion period, these revenues are necessary to maintain the dignity and majesty of the royal family!
Now that the Daqian Palace has invested in expansion and renovation, the daily expenses alone are not even half of the daily expenses of the Dazhou Palace. At your request, Ye Mingsheng, she, An Miaoyi, is already very frugal in running the palace. If she wants to lower the cost, she can only do so by deducting the wages of maids and guards, or by cutting down on the expenses of concubines and the empress dowager!
Especially for the old empress dowager Ye Cui, although she doesn't spend much money on vegetarian food, but every month she burns incense and worships Buddha, and gives rewards to enlightened monks, which can be as much as five or six thousand taels of silver, or as little as two or three thousand taels of silver. In addition, she also has a special opera troupe and a royal chef who specializes in making vegetarian food, which also costs at least a thousand taels of silver every month...
If all these were cancelled, the palace's expenses would immediately decrease, but the question is, can these things be cancelled?
Thinking of this, An Miaoyi felt a little aggrieved. Although she seemed to be a glorious queen on the surface, sometimes she had to be caught between Ye Mingsheng and Ye Cui.

Now that the palace’s expenses cannot be reduced, the only option is to increase the income from the industries under the palace’s name!
An Miaoyi is not a business genius, and she can't think of any brilliant ideas to significantly increase industrial income. The only way she can think of to increase industrial income is to ask Ye Mingsheng to approve a few more industries, or to let the Ministry of Revenue bear part of the expenses of the imperial palace!
An Miaoyi was very resentful of Ye Mingsheng's practice of not allowing the Ministry of Revenue to bear the burden of the imperial palace. In her eyes, Ye Mingsheng was just pretending to be noble!
It's clearly a family empire, yet you still insist on financial separation? Does this make you, Ye Mingsheng, a wise and virtuous ruler?
If the Ministry of Revenue had helped her, An Miaoyi wouldn't have to worry about money here. She could just give the bill to the Ministry of Revenue and she would be able to relax.

Although she thought so, An Miaoyi also dared to think about it in her heart. She knew that the financial separation between the imperial palace and the Ministry of Revenue was a red line set by Ye Mingsheng.

Even if she proposed to Ye Mingsheng the idea of ​​letting the Ministry of Revenue bear part of the burden, she would certainly be flatly rejected by Ye Mingsheng.

So since it is impossible, An Miaoyi will not consider the idea of ​​letting the Ministry of Revenue bear part of the palace expenses. She now has two ideas. Either Ye Mingsheng transfers some other industries to the name of the palace, or simply gives the palace a banknote license.

Currently, Ye Mingsheng is considering relaxing the review of ticket numbers. Although this is a secret in the court, only a few people know about it.

But this secret is kept secret from others, not from her, An Miaoyi!
An Miaoyi had been coveting the ticket number for a long time, but she had always been troubled by the fact that the ticket number review was too strict, so she had never been able to make a move!
And now that Ye Mingsheng is considering relaxing the ticket number review standards, An Miaoyi also sees hope!
An Miaoyi believed that Jiang Yuyan, that vixen, could manage Rishengchang Bank very well, with a turnover of one million taels of silver in Hebei and Henan. So there would be no problem for her, An Miaoyi. She would definitely be able to do better than Jiang Yuyan and increase the turnover of the bank to two or three million taels of silver.

Even if he couldn't take the silver for himself at that time, such a large amount of silver would be enough to solve the financial difficulties of the palace with 300,000 to 500,000 taels of silver as long as he thought of some ways.

Although An Miaoyi had this idea, she was still unsure whether Ye Mingsheng would approve it...
(I saw some of your thoughts on Murong Xinyun. My inspiration for this writing style comes from Qiao Yindi and Yongzheng in Yongzheng Dynasty. I saw that Yongzheng Dynasty is very popular recently, so I also want to give it a try to see if you like it. I don’t know whether you like this idea now, but I want to say that although Tongming is a flop, he has written millions of words after all, and he still knows some poisonous points, so please feel free to consume it!)
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