What to do if you have too many golden fingers? Walk sideways!

Chapter 289: On a dark and windy night, robbing corrupt officials

Gu Xi said:

"If I can't grow it, I'll pay for it myself, and I won't let the government treasury spend a single grain of rice!"

The ministers were speechless after hearing his retort.

Cai Li still insists on arguing without knowing whether to live or die:

"The Imperial Master is just talking nonsense. Can he really turn out 10 million shi of grain?"

Gu Xi was amused by him and said with a smile:

"Master Cai, how about our national teacher conjure up 10 million dan of grain and throw it at you?"

Cai Li shrank his neck in fear and dared not say a word.

Let alone ten million dan of grain, even if one dan of grain fell on him out of nowhere, his life would be in danger!

They had all seen with their own eyes the Imperial Master's ability to take objects out of thin air.

All the ministers looked at their noses with their eyes and their hearts with their noses.

The national teacher paid out of his own pocket to solve the problem that had troubled them for a long time. What else could they say?

Seeing that all the ministers were defeated, Emperor Jichang could not help but ask:

"Could it be that the Imperial Master has taken a fancy to the Princess of Northern Yan? He is willing to bear the betrothal gift by himself. Isn't it forbidden for the Imperial Master to marry?"

He was already afraid of the Imperial Master. If the Imperial Master joined forces with Beiyan again, then he...

Gu Xi said disdainfully:

"I am only responsible for paying the betrothal gift. As for the princess, whoever wants to marry her can do so. I don't want her."

Now even Emperor Jichang was speechless.

The three princes next to him had gleaming eyes.

Now that the issue of the betrothal gifts has been resolved, do they have to fight over the ownership of that beauty?

Gu Xi doesn't care who Pan Rongrong is going to marry. Her goal is that piece of black land.

With such favorable conditions, she believed that Beiyan would agree to rent it to her. The policy she planned to adopt towards Beiyan was to infiltrate it bit by bit.

The world is in great need of recuperation. Farming and working require people, and war will cost lives.

Of course, she just didn't want to hurt the people of Beiyan. As for the Beiyan royal family and those corrupt officials in the court, they still had to be beaten!

Are you afraid that the people of Northern Yan will not listen to the Han people?

Well, she and Chu Zhao have experience in impersonating the emperor and empress.

At worst, the two countries can be governed by one.

Beiyan Kingdom is still Beiyan Kingdom, and Anning Kingdom is still Anning Kingdom, but as long as she is governing them, there is no difference.

After the court session, Gu Xi had just returned to the Imperial Master's Mansion when he received a telegram from Lin Xiaoxuan.

Pretty fast.

The telegram said that Geng Renmian used to pretend to be a humble gentleman every day, but his true nature was completely exposed since his father became the prefect.

The son bullies boys and girls, and the father lists projects and levies heavy taxes.

They also demanded bribes from merchants, and the people of Huizhou suffered terribly.

It was also discovered that Geng Renmian worked hard to make money in order to marry the concubine's daughter of a high-ranking official in the capital, because a huge dowry would have to be provided.

Lin Xiaoxuan really worked hard to find so much information in just one day.

Gu Xi asked the signalman to send a telegram back, asking him to check who the high-ranking official in Beijing was, but not to act rashly.

Although Gu Xi gave them guns, they were outnumbered after all.

In the evening, Lin Xiaoxuan replied. Gu Xi took a look and found out that it was from the concubine's daughter of the Minister of Revenue Cai Li. Wasn't this the old man who had argued with him in the morning?

Chu Zhao had written down all the people who criticized Gu Xi in the morning in his little notebook. He was just about to go out and put on a sack when he had nothing to do in the evening. When he saw the smile on Gu Xi's face, he felt that something was going to happen tonight.

"Ah Zhao, let's eat. Let's go to Cai's house tonight."

Chu Zhao happily ate a whole roast duck.

I've been busy recently and haven't visited other people's warehouses for a long time. I hope I don't become unfamiliar with the business.

On a dark and windy night, it is time to rob corrupt officials.

The experienced night walk duo, wearing night clothes, easily avoided all guards and sneaked into Cai's mansion.

The visibility in the air was good, and the two of them flew between the rooftops and treetops.

Finally, I saw a courtyard, which was guarded by three layers of guards inside and outside. There were only a few big words written on it: Warehouse is a restricted area, no entry for unauthorized persons.

As soon as the two men came over and hid in a tree, they saw several carriages coming.

Cai Li walked in front and headed straight for the warehouse.

"What is this old man doing here in the warehouse so late at night instead of sleeping?" Chu Zhao asked in a low voice in confusion.

Gu Xi said: "It is definitely not a good thing to come out and do things at night."

Chu Zhao glanced at Gu Xi.

"Hey, hey, we don't count. We rob the rich to help the poor and eliminate harm for the people." Gu Xi said.

Cai Li came to the warehouse, opened the heavy door locks, and began to ask the servants to load things onto the carriage.

Gu Xi said to Chu Zhao:

"Come on, don't make any noise, I'll take you to have some fun."

Chu Zhao's eyes lit up when he heard there was something fun to do.

Gu Xi held Chu Zhao's hand and used invisibility.

She took out a small mirror from the space with her other hand, looked at herself, and found that both herself and Chu Zhao had disappeared.

This means that whatever Gu Xi holds, whether it is a person or an object, will disappear.

Gu Xi put away the mirror, grinned at Chu Zhao, and pulled her off the tree.

Chu Zhao was shocked. Is A Xi planning to rob it by force?

It's not impossible. He was just about to prepare for a fight, but his right hand was held tightly by A Xi.

Chu Zhao was delighted. Ah Xi didn't want to separate from him even in a fight. It didn't matter. He could handle this group of people with one hand. He also held Gu Xi's hand tightly.

But he saw Gu Xi pulling him and walking towards the warehouse in a swagger.

And those guards—

Are we all blind?

How can we turn a blind eye to them?

Chu Zhao looked at Gu Xi in surprise.

Gu Xi gave him a reassuring look and continued walking inside.

When he arrived in front of Cai Li, he saw Cai Li looking up and looking at Gu Xi and Chu Zhao. Chu Zhao was frightened and was about to take action, but was stopped by Gu Xi.

Gu Xi mouthed to Chu Zhao: Be good and don’t move.

Then he looked into Cai Li's eyes and said silently: Use mind reading.

Cai Li stroked his beard and thought proudly, "Fortunately, I took in many concubines in my early years, and I have more than a dozen concubines. If I send the betrothal gifts of these concubines, it will be 1.8 million taels."

He turned his head and instructed the servant again:

"Be careful, there are jade artifacts in this box, don't drop it!"

He turned his head, and Gu Xi had no choice but to pull Chu Zhao around and still stand opposite him.

Chu Zhao was shocked beyond words.

Why? Even Cai Li is blind?

That shouldn't be the case. He looks very good!

Gu Xi listened to Cai Li's thoughts with great interest.

Cai Li continued to stroke his beard, thinking, "That bastard Zhu Dingshu is destined to lose to me. Although he is in charge of the Ministry of Personnel, it has only been a few months. Even if his wife's family is a merchant, they can only raise one million taels at best."

"He must have thought he could win, hahahaha...How could he know that the one million taels of tax silver from Huizhou fell into my hands."

Gu Xi frowned.

Lin Chezhi, the former prefect of Huizhou, had his property confiscated and his family exterminated because he embezzled taxes. The Lin family was indeed wronged. It must have been Geng Shouxin who colluded with Cai Li to embezzle taxes and then put the blame on Lin Chezhi.

The four-minute invisibility time was about to end. Gu Xi pulled Chu Zhao into the space, and their figures appeared. After Gu Xi used the invisibility technique again, he flashed out from the space.