nycdaug Chapter 121 Divide Money
Chapter 121 Divide Money
But how can the emperor's order be changed easily?
Although Zhong Ning refused, Emperor Yong still granted the land of Luoyi to Zhong Ning as a fiefdom, but imposed restrictions that Zhong Ning could only take 50% of the taxes here!
The other 50% will be automatically deposited into the national treasury.
This alone is not enough. Emperor Yong feels that he still owes Zhong Ning a lot.
So he sent batches of good things from his private storehouse to the princess's mansion, determined to make Zhong Ning's princess's mansion more luxurious and brighter!
In addition, two imperial farms, three shops, and a hot spring villa were all delivered to Zhong Ning.
In response to this, Zhong Ning said that it would be inappropriate to refuse again and he could only accept it all.
After all, these things are nothing compared to the 50% tax revenue of the entire Luoyi area.
In addition, Emperor Yong also bestowed a 100-man imperial guard on Zhong Ning for his command.
This imperial guard still receives salary from the palace, but they can be used as Zhong Ning's private soldiers to protect her personal safety!
In addition to the private soldiers, there were four head maids responsible for personal service, eight second-class maids in the courtyard, six maids, and about twenty servants responsible for sweeping, lighting, washing, embroidery, etc., as well as four gardeners, craftsmen, and royal chefs.
Zhong Ning looked at the list in his hand and felt confused!
She is alone, does she need so many people to serve her?
"Can we remove some people?" Zhong Ning asked. The head maid Su Xin stepped forward and carefully explained, "This is the standard allowance for princesses. This has always been the palace rule!"
So that’s the palace rule!
forget about it!
"Is the Princess's Mansion ready?"
"Everything is ready, just waiting for His Highness to move into the palace!"
"Okay, you take the people and deliver the things first, sort them into the warehouse, and I'll go pay my respects to His Majesty and His Majesty, and then I'll be back!"
After saying that, Zhong Ning slowly stood up and was about to walk out of the hall!
But before she could even leave the palace, she saw the palace maid Jingxin hurried over, saluted Zhong Ning and said, "Your Highness, the Black Dragon Guards wish to see you regarding something important!"
"Let them in!" Zhong Ning gave the order and turned to walk towards the stone table under the osmanthus tree in the yard.
The sweet fragrance of osmanthus fills the air, and sitting under it is a unique experience.
The palace maids served tea and cakes, and Zhong Ning sat down under the osmanthus tree.
Black Seventeen and Black Eighteen came together and bowed to Zhong Ning, saying, "Your subordinate greets Princess Zhaohua!"
"Get up!" Zhong Ning took a light bite of a piece of dessert and saw the two people standing there like wooden stakes. She couldn't help but ask, "What do you want from me?"
"Oh!" Hei Shiqi suddenly came back to his senses and quickly handed over a brocade box, placing it on the stone table. "This is the winnings from the bet the princess had me place at Wangyue Tower. The principal was 10,000 taels, and the payout was 100%, so this is 100,000 taels!"
Oops, I almost forgot about that!
Zhong Ning flicked the pastry foam off his fingertips and wiped it clean with a brocade handkerchief. Then he took the brocade box and opened it. He saw that it was filled with banknotes.
The top one is a small note of one hundred taels, about half a finger thick, and below it are notes of one thousand two taels.
Hei Shiqi then explained, "We were worried that Her Royal Highness would have trouble using money, so we privately exchanged some small denominations of 100 taels each, but the total was only around 10,000 taels. The rest were all large denominations of 1,000 taels each."
"Well, you did a great job!" Zhong Ning nodded, feeling pleased that the Black Dragon Guards were so attentive.
"How's the investigation into the dungeon robbery going?" Zhong Ning asked while happily counting the banknotes.
"The dungeon was robbed this time because there was a spies inside the Black Dragon Guards. They took advantage of our presence in the palace to protect His Majesty and collaborated with external enemies. That's why the prisoners were silenced." Hei Shiqi said in a difficult tone.
In this battle, they lost many brothers.
The problems within the Black Dragon Guards were caused by their failure to investigate in time. We are very fortunate that His Majesty did not blame us.
Thinking of this, both of them felt unusually gloomy.
This kind of thing must never happen a second time, otherwise, no one will be able to escape responsibility.
Zhong Ning was silent for a moment. Yang Ying was quite wronged.
He actually died like that?
Perhaps it was because the biggest turning point after her rebirth was interrupted by Zhong Ning, so her luck went downhill all the way and she was directly stripped of the halo of the heroine?
That’s all I can think of now.
Otherwise, she couldn't think of any other good reason.
Zhong Ning sensitively felt that the two people opposite him were not in a good mood at the moment, probably because several Black Dragon Guards had been killed this time.
Zhong Ning thought for a moment, then pulled out ten silver notes each worth one thousand taels from the brocade box and placed them on the stone table.
He took out two of them and handed them to Black Sixteen and Black Seventeen, "These are for you, each of you take one!"
The two of them widened their eyes and took it with trembling hands.
Before coming, they probably thought that Zhong Ning would definitely reward them, but they thought that the maximum reward would be only one hundred taels. After all, it was always like this when superiors rewarded their subordinates.
If I can use a small one, I will never use a big one.
Even if it's just a reward of one hundred taels, it's still a lot of money for them!
But unexpectedly, Princess Zhaohua would directly draw out one thousand taels from the middle of the box, not to let them divide it equally, but to give each of them one thousand taels.
Hei Shiliu and Hei Shiqi could not help but look at each other in bewilderment. For ordinary Black Dragon Guards like them, the salary was actually not low. One month's salary was equivalent to 100g of rice, which was at least six taels of silver.
Of course, this does not include other merits or festival rewards, or travel allowances.
Adding these, I can earn an average of ten taels per month.
That’s one hundred and twenty taels a year.
For them, this one thousand taels was almost equivalent to eight years' salary.
"Thank you, Princess Zhaohua!" Hei Shiliu and Hei Shiqi immediately accepted it and expressed their gratitude. No one would dare to refuse such a large sum of money if they suddenly received it as a reward from their master.
Since the master has given it as a reward, they naturally dare to accept it!
"Please give these two thousand taels to Lord Qi and the two deputy directors, one thousand taels each." Zhong Ning pushed the four silver notes over again.
"I still have four thousand taels left. Please exchange them for silver, count the number of people, and give them to the Black Dragon Guard brothers who escorted me to the capital this time, and who accompanied me to the Sifang Guild Hall a few days ago to confiscate the Nanzhao envoys!"
"This is a small gift from me, please don't refuse it!"
Zhong Ning smiled and pushed the remaining four banknotes over!
Hei Shiliu and Hei Shiqi quickly took it and became more grateful to Zhong Ning.
The Black Dragon Guards who took part in escorting the princess to the capital and searching the Nanzhao envoys had about a hundred people in total, ignoring the thirty or so overlapping people.
Calculating at four thousand taels, each person can get about thirty taels!
This is also a considerable income!
It’s even higher than previous travel allowances!
Princess Zhaohua is worthy of being Princess Zhaohua, she is really generous!
Hei Shiliu and Hei Shiqi thanked him again and again, took the banknotes excitedly, and put them in their arms carefully, with smiles on their faces, as if they could already imagine how excited their brothers would be after returning to the garrison!
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