Chapter 462

The price of grain has been raised, which has caused people's fear. Beating, smashing and selling grain stores can be big or small. If this accusation is recognized now, Xiao TIANYAO will never want to clean it up in his life.

Although the Emperor didn't punish Xiao TIANYAO severely this time, he only punished 200000 taels. But in the future, similar things will happen. The whole Dongwen people will think that Xiao TIANYAO is behind the scenes, making a fortune by using the war.

Therefore, after reading the imperial edict, Lin Chujiu knelt there and did not move. He did not mean to accept the edict at all.

The official of the Ministry of rites held the imperial edict in front of Lin Chujiu. Seeing that Lin Chujiu didn't move, he had to remind Lin Chujiu: "Princess Xiao, please accept the edict!"

"Take orders?" Lin Chu Jiu raised his eyes and asked.

"Yes, please take the order from Princess Xiao." The official who announced the decree was respectful on the face, but disdained in his heart. He was only fined 200000 Liang. With King Xiao's wealth, he still cares about 200000 liang?

Princess Xiao is not as serious as he is.

"No, I can't take it." Lin Chujiu didn't care what the official thought. He shook his head firmly. "I can accept the penalty, but I can't accept the accusation on the edict. Wang Ye disappeared in the battlefield because of an accident. He didn't deliberately hide his trace. It wasn't Wang Ye who sent the news back to the capital. What does it have to do with the rising price of food in the capital? "

When the official heard this, he was happy. "Princess Xiao, you can tell the emperor about this. It's useless to tell the next official."

With that, he handed the imperial edict to Lin Chunjiu again. If it wasn't for the defense of men and women, the officials who declared the imperial edict wanted to put it in Lin Chunjiu's arms. "Princess Xiao, you'd better take the imperial edict quickly. If you take the imperial edict, you can go back to the palace." He doesn't care whether the accusation in the imperial edict is true or false. He is responsible for declaring the Edict and finding the emperor if there is any problem.

"I'm sorry, I can't take the edict." Lin Chu Jiu put his hands behind his back, not to give each other strong cold imperial edict on the possibility of running, "imperial edict listed in the crime, our Lord did not commit, I can't accept the edict."

"Princess Xiao, are you resisting the order?" Repeatedly rejected, the official who declared the order was angry.

Since he took office in the Ministry of rites, the imperial edict of rewards and punishments has been publicized. No one dares not to accept the edict like Lin Chujiu.

"Thunder and rain are all king's grace, Princess Xiao. You are a wise man. If you accept the order, I will take it as if nothing has happened. This is how it goes. Otherwise, when things come to the emperor's face, it's you who suffer. " The propaganda officials are half selling well and half threatening.

Although Lin Chujiu refused to accept the edict, he was not much better than the one who declared it. Now Lin Chujiu has received the order. Hello, everyone. I'm so much better. I'm not

"I can't afford the hat of disobeying the imperial edict. I'll send it to the Ministry of accounts, but I can't accept the imperial edict." Still is that sentence, Lin Chujiu not tired of repeating again.

Without waiting for the propaganda officials to speak, Lin Chujiu turned to Cao Guanjia who knelt behind her and said, "steward Cao, go to open my warehouse, clear all the valuable things in my dowry, and collect 200000 Liang to go to the household department."

"Wang, Princess..." steward Cao was silly. "Want to sell your dowry?" They don't have to sell Lin's dowry. It's only 200000 Liang. They can take it out with their eyes closed.

"Well, let's go... Sell the dowry first, so as to solve the problem. After that, you can redeem the money. " Lin Chujiu is awe inspiring, but only a few jade pearls know it. Lin Chujiu has been looking at the dowry for a long time, and now he has the opportunity to deal with it openly, how can Lin Chujiu live.

What's more, he sold his dowry instead of using the money of King Xiao's house. In the eyes of outsiders, King Xiao was very incorruptible. He couldn't bring out only 200000 Liang, and he had to be the housewife to sell his dowry.

Chamberlain Cao is not a fool. He understands Lin Chujiu's intention, but even if he understands, he is still very sympathetic to selling Lin Chujiu's dowry. He wants to persuade him, but feicui and Pearl move to Chamberlain Cao cleverly and whisper: "chamberlain Cao, you just listen to the princess. The princess must be reasonable."

While talking, the two women helped steward Cao up, "princess, maidservant, accompany steward Cao to count the dowry."

"Go ahead." With emerald and pearl, Lin Chujiu has nothing to worry about.

When the official saw the people in Xiao's mansion, he went to count the dowry and said, "Princess Xiao, you don't have to sell the dowry." To let outsiders know, the emperor ordered to punish the silver of the palace, but forced Princess Xiao to sell dowry. What do others think of the emperor?

Do you want to be a poor official?

"What if you don't sell dowry?" Lin Chu Jiu looked up at the imperial edict officer and asked, "don't you have to pay the 200000 taels of silver in the imperial edict?" If the other party dares to say no, she dares to fight with the imperial edict.

Doesn't it mean she's not wrong if she doesn't have to pay the penalty?

That's right. What's the purpose of that!

"No, no, of course I have to pay it. It's the money that King Xiao enticed the peddlers to drive up prices, causing the loss of the people." The official who announced the edict repeatedly repeated the accusation of King Xiao. Unfortunately, as if he had not heard it, Lin Chujiu said to himself, "our Lord didn't induce the merchants to raise their prices. Everything is the spontaneous behavior of those unscrupulous merchants. As for 200000 taels of silver, that's the request of the emperor, and we can only do it. "

It's the merchants who drive up prices. The emperor is not ashamed to ask those grain merchants to spit out the profits they have eaten.

"Princess Xiao, the truth is in front of you. It's either what you say or what you think." The announcement official saw Lin Chujiu's appearance that oil and salt didn't enter, and he was a little annoyed immediately.

Is it so troublesome to announce a decree?

It's no wonder that no one in the ministry came forward to take the post as soon as they heard that it was the will of King Xiao's house. If he hadn't stepped back a step slower, the unfortunate task would not have fallen on him.

"My Lord said that the truth is not distorted by a few words." Lin Chujiu echoed, but then he said, "our prince is in the front line. He is fighting for the protection of Dongwen. How can he mind the mess in Beijing. More than half of those grain merchants who have made a lot of money are from the family of Prince Wen and the family of emperor Xue. What does it have to do with our Lord? I don't know how much money they have earned this time. Can they make up for the loss of the common people with a mere 200000 liang? "

"Xiao, Princess Xiao, I don't understand what you're talking about." The official in charge of the declaration is sweating. At this time, where does he still have high toes.

Although he hasn't been in the officialdom for a few years, he has a clear idea of what's at stake. He thought Princess Xiao was just making a little fuss, but he didn't want to