214: Chapter 212 Sixth Prince’s Calculations (Extra Ninth Update) 214: Chapter 212 Sixth Prince’s Calculations (Extra Ninth Update) Seeing the little Emperor’s tiger-like demeanor, Lin Yi was immediately amused to laughter.
Unable to hold back, he stood there and laughed out loud.
And this laughter made the little Emperor so angry that he wished he could charge over and beat him up.
Moreover, the little Emperor did indeed possess such skill.
With the little Emperor’s current martial prowess, Lin Yi was no match for him.
That’s why, seeing the little Emperor’s gaze turning somewhat unfriendly, Lin Yi quickly raised his hands in a gesture of surrender and hastily said:
“Stop, stop, stop, I didn’t mention I wanted half a million taels, you’re overthinking, I just want fifty thousand taels, not one tael more!
After these words fell, the little Emperor was immediately stunned, his steps intending to move toward Lin Yi also halted in place.
For a moment, the little Emperor looked at Lin Yi with disbelief, filled with uncertainty as he spoke:
“Are you sure you’re not joking with me?
Are you certain you only want fifty thousand taels?”
In response, Lin Yi could only smile bitterly and shake his head, then said with a face full of aggrieved innocence:
“I would like to ask for more, but I’m afraid I wouldn’t live to spend it, I’m worried that in a moment you would execute me on the spot.”
This comment naturally earned Lin Yi a roll of the eyes from the little Emperor.
And what followed was just as Lin Yi said, the little Emperor didn’t hesitate at all and directly issued a decree, granting Lin Yi fifty thousand taels of silver.
Meanwhile, while there was jesting and teasing at one end, at the shop, an army of a thousand soldiers had surrounded the shop, allowing exit but no entry.
This army was the Emperor’s Personal Army, the Imperial Guards.
Then, cart after cart was seen departing from the shop’s courtyard to the outside.
Soon after, a long convoy of carts started from this shop and headed straight for the Imperial City.
This carriage train consisted of at least ten vehicles.
And each carriage was guarded by knife-wielding Soldiers on both sides.
Naturally, this scene made the surrounding people look on with great curiosity, all speculating about what indeed might be inside the carriages.
However, soon the news spread that what these carriages carried must be gold, silver, and jewels.
After all, the sale of the Glazed Tile Shop for several hundred thousand taels had already spread throughout the Capital City.
Although they didn’t know the exact amount, just the value of the two glazed glass Qilin vessels had already exceeded two hundred thousand taels.
Combining that with the amount each official had spent, it didn’t take long for bureaucrats to roughly estimate that today’s sales were at least around three hundred thousand taels.
This left everyone astounded.
Especially when the Fourth Prince and the Sixth Prince received this news, they were so angered they nearly hurled their glazed glass Qilin vessels.
However, upon remembering that these were bought with a hundred thousand taels of their silver, they reluctantly placed them down very carefully.
That was three hundred thousand taels, equivalent to two years’ revenue of their Prince Mansions.
As mentioned before, seeing the little Emperor making money was even more unbearable than them losing money.
If someone else had earned this money, they might not have said much or reacted strongly.
But this money was going into the little Emperor’s treasury, which they could not stay calm about no matter what.
With this money, it was certain to be used against them.
How could they be pleased with that?
At this moment, at the Fourth Prince Mansion, a group of ministers stood in front of the Fourth Prince, nodding and bowing.
Meanwhile, the Fourth Prince was also there, incessantly scolding these people:
“Damned fools, you bunch of damned fools, who allowed you to spend there?
I ask you, who gave you permission to buy glaze there?
And you spent so much, each of you at least twenty thousand taels of silver, what were you thinking?
I ask you, where will this money ultimately go, do you not realize?”
Listening to the Fourth Prince’s incessant tirade, these people felt extremely wronged.
At the same time, they were also secretly grumbling, wondering who was the first to lead the spending today, and who had even spent a hundred thousand taels of silver at once.
Of course, these words could be said in their hearts, but they didn’t dare to express them openly, after all, the man was a Prince.
No matter how dissatisfied they were, they could only keep it inside; whatever was done by the other party was right.
In fact, not just the Fourth Prince, the Sixth Prince was not faring much better.
Though he didn’t call his faction’s officials to his mansion for a scolding,
this man also started to smash things in his hands.
It could be said that within moments, everything in the hall except for the glazed glass Qilin had been smashed to pieces.
Some fine glazed cups brought over from the Western Regions had been fiercely smashed to the ground.
Of course, the reason for smashing these glazed cups was because the Sixth Prince no longer valued these flawed and inferior cups.
Today, in addition to buying a glazed glass Qilin, he had also bought a set of glazed cups.
These cups were crystal clear, and once filled with water, they showed no impurities or strange colors, as pure as the water itself.
Despite being extremely enraged, he was also silently calculating the price of the glazed cups he bought today, which were far cheaper than the cups he had specifically brought back from the Western Regions.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the price of a single past cup could now buy at least three cups here.
If he were to resell these cups in the Western Regions, their price could at least double.
Thus, the Sixth Prince was the first to come back to his senses, and immediately called all the Shopkeepers under his command to his mansion.
As for the matters they discussed next, those were unknown to outsiders.
In any case, they discussed until late into the night before the businessmen began to leave one after another.
And when these businessmen left, there was not the slightest sign of fatigue in their eyes, only excitement.
Not only that, after leaving the Sixth Prince Mansion, they did not return to their own mansions but headed straight for the Glazed Shop in the largest East Market.
After arriving, they found a relatively flat spot to park their carriages by the entrance of the Glazed Shop, and then they lay in the carriages to rest.