Summary of the previous chapter: The only way to get forgiveness from the "Goddess of Fire" was to compensate for money. Zhang Tianhao chose to compensate in cash, while Wei Zhongxian and Lu Zhan offered the mining rights of copper mines and the trafficking rights of salt respectively.
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Wei Zhongxian and Lu Zhan smiled bitterly, but did not dare to say anything. They were afraid that if they talked too much, they would be burned to death or castrated by Li Qinghan.
Li Qinghan shook the two contracts in his hands and said: "Remember, if I find out that these two contracts are fake, I will chase you to your home and kill you. Do you understand?"
The two of them nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, the young one will never dare to lie. Please feel free to worry, Goddess of Fire."
Li Qinghan hummed, waved his hand, and was about to let them go. At this moment, a sharp voice came from outside the fire circle.
"What kind of evildoer is setting fire to our land of the Ming Dynasty? Why don't you come over and kowtow to the emperor?"
Li Qinghan frowned, stretched out his hand, and two blue flame ribbons rushed out of the fire ring. Then he heard a scream, and a eunuch in rich clothes was dragged in by Li Qinghan.
"Huh? Who are you?" Li Qinghan asked.
The eunuch was so frightened that he peed his pants, but he still said firmly: "The emperor is here, why don't you go and greet him quickly?"
"Your Majesty?" Li Qinghan seemed to have no feeling for these two words, but he still threw the eunuch on the ground very politely and said, "Go and inform me that I am a god and he is a mortal."
The emperor is not qualified to order me. If he wants to come, just let him in." With that said, Li Qinghan waved his hand, and the flame circle in the distance extinguished a passage.
This eunuch in gorgeous clothes didn't dare to stay, so he ran out in a hurry. After a while, he helped a young man and walked in. Behind the young man, there was an old man hiding. Li Qinghan took a closer look and saw that the old man was the first one.
She released Wang Wenyan.
Li Qinghan glanced at the young man and asked, "Are you the emperor? Well, Zhu Youxiao, right?"
The person who came was none other than Zhu Youxiao. He was brought back by Wang Wenyan, saying that something big had happened here.
"Li Qinghan? Why don't you even recognize me?" Zhu Youxiao looked at Li Qinghan and said angrily.
Wang Wenyan came out from behind Zhu Youxiao and whispered: "Your Majesty, Li Qinghan is possessed by the God of Fire. I'm afraid he doesn't know anyone now. In my humble opinion, it would be better for Your Majesty to speak more politely."
"Possessed by the god of fire?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned for a moment, "What is possessed by the god of fire?"
Wang Wenyan briefly recounted what happened before to Zhu Youxiao. Zhu Youxiao was shocked after hearing this, and then suddenly said happily: "I didn't expect that Li Qinghan turned out to be the God of Fire. If so, I
The Ming Dynasty Border Pass will be saved." After saying this, Zhu Youxiao stepped forward, cupped his hands to Li Qinghan and said, "Since you are the God of Fire, I am polite here."
Li Qinghan smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, there is no need to be polite."
Zhu Youxiao said: "Vulcan Empress, can you please help me?"
Li Qinghan asked: "What are you busy with? Your Majesty, just tell me?"
"There were foreign invaders on the border of the Ming Dynasty. I am not talented. Can you please condescend to help me, the God of Fire, and the thousands of people of the Ming Dynasty?"
Li Qinghan chuckled and said: "Since the emperor has spoken, of course I will help, but... Your Majesty, the Ma family is my spokesperson in this world, so I hope you will be kind to them."
"Yes." Zhu Youxiao nodded, remembering that he had previously allowed Wei Zhongxian and the others to do bad things to the Ma family's business gathering place, he felt guilty in his heart, "As long as I can do it, of course I will do it, but...
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Li Qinghan smiled and said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, you are the Nine-Fifth Emperor, the True Dragon Emperor. When I, the Great God, see you, I will be polite to you. The Ma family is just the Emperor's ministers, nothing more."
Zhu Youxiao listened and said happily: "Okay, now that the Vulcan Empress has said this, I feel relieved! Well, I wonder what the Vulcan Empress wants?"
Li Qinghan nodded: "Of course, please take a look at these two contracts. If there are no problems, the Ma family will take over from now on." With that, Li Qinghan handed over the copper mining contract and the salt trafficking contract.
Got Zhu Youxiao.
Zhu Youxiao took the contract and looked at its contents.
Zhu Youxiao didn't know much about literacy, so he didn't recognize many words on the two contracts, but he was embarrassed to say it because of his face.
Wang Wenyan was still eye-catching and quickly came over to help Zhu Youxiao explain it. By the way, he also saw the contents of the contract.
"So that's it, eh." After hearing Wang Wenyan's explanation, Zhu Youxiao immediately felt angry.
Zhu Youxiao actually didn't know that Wei Zhongxian obtained the copper mining rights and that the Lu Zhan family sold salt. If it weren't for these two contracts, he, the king of a country, would have been kept in the dark. Copper is strictly controlled by a country.
Precious metals, because copper is mainly needed to make copper coins, salt... are also strictly controlled by the state and private trafficking is prohibited.
"Wei Zhongxian, Lu Zhan, you two, get out of here," Zhu Youxiao roared angrily.
Wei Zhongxian and Lu Zhan were already scared to death. As soon as the emperor spoke, they climbed out quickly.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..."
Zhu Youxiao stepped forward and kicked the man on the head, cursing: "You dare to do these things behind my back, are you going to die?"
Wei Zhongxian cried and said: "Your Majesty, you promised this copper mine."
Lu Zhan also said: "Your Majesty, you also issued an imperial decree on the trafficking of salt."
"Did I promise? Did I give the imperial edict? Why didn't I know?"
Wei and Lu explained the reason for the incident. Li Qinghan listened and kept shaking his head.
It has to be said that these two people were cautious enough in their work. They took advantage of the emperor's carpentry work to report to the emperor. The emperor who was busy was definitely not willing to listen to it anymore... In general,
This is actually a manifestation of Zhu Youxiao's irresponsibility. Copper mines and salt, such important sources of the country's economy, can be handed over to others casually.
"Well, since you said so, there is nothing I can do. Okay, let's do this. You can hand over the mining rights of copper mines and the trafficking rights of salt to the Ma family."
"I, my humble servant, obey the order!" Wei Zhongxian and Lu Zhan's hearts were bleeding, but they had to do this.
Zhu Youxiao rubbed his temples and handed the two contracts back to Li Qinghan: "Then please ask the Vulcan Empress to work harder."
Li Qinghan smiled and said: "This is natural. The emperor also knows that all the money earned by the Ma family is shipped to the border for the use of the soldiers."