I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 100 Slander
Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling were speechless, but were very unwilling to give up this piece of fat meat.

Zhang Heling's eyes rolled and an idea came to his mind.

"Nephew, how about this? Let's organize another lottery. The uncles will pay for it, and you can help figure out how to do it. The uncles will give you 30% of the shares. What do you think of this?" Zhang Heling looked at Zhu Houxuan expectantly.

Zhu Houxuan almost vomited blood. He thought I was a fool! How stupid must someone be to have such an idea?
These two people are so shameless that they made such a request. Zhu Houxuan was angry.

However, he still did not break up with the two people. Instead, he smiled and practiced Tai Chi for a long time, and finally coaxed the two people away with great effort.
At the court meeting the next day, Zhu Houzhao was shocked when he heard the Minister of Revenue come out and say that Zhu Houxuan was going to donate the lottery profits. He had no idea about this, but he couldn't refuse, so he agreed to let the Ministry of Revenue accept the donation.

After the court meeting, Zhu Houzhao returned to the Leopard Room with a gloomy face. Qian Ning, who had been following him, naturally knew why Zhu Houzhao was angry, so he said something provocative:
"Uncle Jing is so generous. He gave out 500,000 taels of silver every year without hesitation."

"That is the property he created himself. He can give it to whoever he wants!" Zhu Houzhao said with a sullen face and a stiff tone.

Qian Ning felt that there was even more hope when he heard this. Based on his understanding of Zhu Houzhao, he knew that Zhu Houzhao was already very angry.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Qian Ning said repeatedly, "A while ago, the uncle of the King of Jing organized a Cuju League. I heard that the profit was not small. The nobles in charge of the Beijing Camp all got a lot of profit. I heard that it was Zhang Yong who helped to connect them. The uncle of the King of Jing has a very good relationship with people. Civil officials, military officials, and eunuchs all like him."

These words were extremely heartbreaking, and Zhu Houzhao could naturally hear the hidden meaning behind them.
Zhu Houzhao's expression became even uglier. He stared at Qian Ning and said, "Don't think I don't know what you mean. Can you talk nonsense about my brother?"

Qian Ning knelt down with a plop and said in a plaintive voice, "Father, I am doing this for your sake!"

"Uncle Jing has always said that he would help my father fight against Mongolia. He even said that he was willing to donate all the wealth in Jing Palace to help my father. Now it seems that he was just talking. He earned so much money in the capital, and he gave it to everyone except my father."

"Enough!" Zhu Houzhao said sternly. He smashed a teacup. The guards outside the house heard the noise and rushed in. Seeing that everything was fine inside the house, they breathed a sigh of relief and slowly retreated.

"He is my younger brother, your uncle, and your elder. How can you say this about your elder? This is extremely unfilial!" Zhu Houzhao scolded him.

"I've just said that, that was his own property, he can give it to whoever he wants! I'm rich and the whole world belongs to me, do I still need him to give me money?" Zhu Houzhao slammed the table hard.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! I was overthinking it. Your Majesty, please forgive me! I was overthinking it." Qian Ning said repeatedly with a look of panic on his face, but he was very proud in his heart, because he knew that Zhu Houzhao was venting his anger towards King Jing on him. The harsher Zhu Houzhao's words, the angrier he was towards King Jing.

Zhu Houzhao snorted coldly and stopped talking.

At this moment, someone outside suddenly reported that Prince Jing and Zhang Yong had come to the Leopard Room.

Zhu Houzhao hesitated for a moment, but still summoned them.

Zhu Houxuan walked into the room with a smile on his face and said affectionately, "Greetings, my brother!"

Zhang Yong also saluted.

Although Zhu Houzhao had calmed down for a while, his face still looked bad. He looked at Zhu Houxun, who was smiling. He liked this face before, but now he found it a bit hateful. When Zhu Houxun saw that Zhu Houzhao did not respond to him, he looked at Zhu Houzhao's face and Qian Ning's irrepressible pride, and he roughly understood what was going on.

"Why does my brother look so bad?"

"Nothing, I was just angry about something that happened at the court meeting." Although Zhu Houzhao tried his best to control himself, his voice was still a little stiff.

"Is that so——" Zhu Houxun stretched out his voice.

"My younger brother brought some things today. I believe that your brother will feel better after reading them." Zhu Houxuan said as he took out a few booklets from his arms.

"What is this?" Zhu Houzhao felt a little expectant after seeing the booklet, but his tone was still stiff.

"These are the account books of the Cuju League and the lottery. Please take a look, my royal brother." Zhu Houxun introduced the income, expenditure and profits of the two industries to Zhu Houzhao in detail without any reservation.

"Why are you telling me this, brother?" Zhu Houzhao had already guessed Zhu Houxuan's intention. The anger in his heart had been thrown away. Looking at the profits in the account book, Zhu Houzhao's heartbeat quickened.

"I am going to present these two properties to my royal brother. I hope you will accept them." Zhu Houxuan looked at Zhu Houzhao with a smile.

Zhu Houzhao was speechless when he looked at Zhu Houxun.
"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Prince of Jing came to me two months ago and said that he saw Your Majesty was worried all day about not being able to save enough money to fight Mongolia. He was anxious, so he wanted to set up two profitable businesses for Your Majesty. At that time, he said he wanted to give Your Majesty a surprise, but we never told Your Majesty," Zhang Yong also came out to help.

"Is it so?" Zhu Houzhao said in surprise. He still trusted Zhang Yong very much.

"Yes, I was mainly afraid that I was young and inexperienced, and I was afraid that I would lose money in these two businesses, so I never dared to say anything. Now that these two businesses have made some small achievements, I hurried to show off to my brother."

Looking at the cheerful smile on Zhu Houxuan's face, Zhu Houzhao felt warm in his heart, and was moved and ashamed. He had just doubted such a good brother.
Qian Ning, who was standing by, watched the originally good situation suddenly turn for the worse, and he became anxious. He had just said so many slanderous things to Zhu Houzhao, and if Zhu Houzhao remembered it, he would not have a good ending! So he had to hold on at this time.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty's Father, Your Majesty's Uncle, Ning'er has one thing that I don't understand. Since Your Majesty's Uncle said that this was an industry prepared for Your Majesty, why did he give so much of the lottery profit to the Ministry of Revenue? Wouldn't it be enough to just give it all to Your Majesty?" Qian Ning continued to fan the flames with an innocent look on his face.

Everyone present could understand the implicit meaning of this statement. This accusation was serious. It was a serious crime for a vassal king to make friends with the imperial court!

Zhu Houzhao's expression did change a little.

Zhu Houxuan was disgusted by Qian Ning's "Ning'er". He couldn't imagine that a man in his thirties would call himself that.
But he quickly adjusted his mood and laughed:
"Hahaha, this is a little trick of mine, and all the officials in the court fell into it."

Everyone has been waiting for a long time. I am not in a good state today. I just finished writing at this time. In addition, I prefer to post all the chapters I have written at once, because if I post two chapters a day separately, friends who have enabled push notifications will be disturbed twice. I am a bad writer, and disturbing you once a day is enough.

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