Quick Transmigration: Underdog Turns out to be Untouchable Chapter 1265 - 1174: The Female Prime Minister (113)

The gold and silver items confiscated from the hos of Chai Pengfei, Xu Huirong, and Hu Bingchen amounted to approximately thirty million taels of silver. With so much money, Shuangshuang naturally couldn’t manage it alone.

Shuangshuang verified, recorded, and sealed all the confiscated gold, silver, and jewelry, making copies of the account records to prevent any mishaps on the way to delivering the ssage.

These account books, along with those confiscated from the carriage shop, were handed over to the Hidden Guard. Shuangshuang wrote a morial detailing the origins of the case and specially instructed Ying Yi to send several Hidden Guards to escort the books and morial to the Capital City.

The Emperor had specifically instructed that Shuangshuang’s morial could bypass any official and be delivered directly to him, and the Hidden Guard had unique ways to report to the Emperor.

Therefore, once Shuangshuang’s morial was sent to the Capital City by the Hidden Guard riding swiftly, it was brought to the Emperor’s desk in the fastest ti possible.

Upon seeing Shuangshuang’s morial, the Emperor naturally prioritized reviewing it. After reading the contents, the Emperor imdiately beca furious.

These aristocratic families were unbelievably bold, daring to privately buy iron mines. And Hu Bingchen, Chai Feipeng, Xu Huirong, and others, despite being officials, caused harm to the common people!

The Emperor was so angry that he even overturned the table and imdiately wrote on the morial, essentially instructing Shuangshuang to execute them all. However, after finishing the morial, the Emperor’s anger gradually dissipated, and a sense of joy arose in his heart.

These aristocratic families were always careful not to leave any evidence, making it impossible to find any misconduct. If they were truly abiding by the law, why would he bother to eradicate them?

The reason they couldn’t be caught was due to mutual protection among officials within aristocratic families, helping each other cover up any scandals, leaving even the Emperor powerless.

Now, he had caught a major case against them, with the Zhou Family leading among many aristocratic families. Eliminating the Zhou Family would severely weaken these families.

Moreover, many families were allied with the Zhou Family, and the Emperor did not believe that these families had nothing to hide from investigation.

He could use this as an excuse to clean up those families allied with the Zhou Family, possibly even eliminating a few more aristocratic families in the process.

The Emperor’s thoughts quickly turned, and he had already formulated a series of follow-up plans to use this incident to eradicate nurous aristocratic families.

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At Qinglin County’s county governnt, as soon as the morial was sent out, Shuangshuang collapsed onto the bed, feeling so exhausted she couldn’t get up, falling into a confused state of illness.

Previously, she spent a day struggling in the deep mountains and forests and caught a cold, then stayed up all night and half the day to handle everything, worsening her condition.

After finally completing all the tasks, when she relaxed, she fell asleep deeply, and soon after, people noticed she had developed a high fever.

This ti, Shuangshuang was genuinely in danger. She underestimated the situation, thinking her Spiritual Power would prevent any significant issues. But unexpectedly, she fell unconscious, unable to absorb Spiritual Energy.

Heng Yue and Ying Chang’an, with reddened eyes from exhaustion, checked her pulse constantly. The two exhausted all their efforts and managed to stabilize Shuangshuang’s condition, preventing it from deteriorating further.

Three days later, under Heng Yue and Ying Chang’an’s combined care, Shuangshuang finally regained consciousness.

Though Shuangshuang woke up, the two were already too tired to reprimand her for not taking care of her health. While Shuangshuang was staying up late, they stayed with her to treat her.

Although both were skilled in dicine and had taken preventative asures, Shuangshuang’s body was too weak and eventually succumbed.

These two continued staying up late to treat Shuangshuang, only resting for brief monts, constantly worried, not daring to take a proper rest.

Now that Shuangshuang had awakened, the two seized the opportunity to take turns resting, but Shuangshuang was only conscious; her illness had not yet healed, and they could not let down their guard.

Fortunately, after Shuangshuang regained clarity, she imdiately began absorbing Spiritual Energy herself, nourishing her body, and finally escaping the danger of potentially passing away.

By the ti the person sent by the Emperor to inspect the iron and gold mines, and also deliver the Holy Decree, arrived, Shuangshuang was sitting under the porch at the back of the county governnt, wrapped in a mantle with white fur edges, holding a large bowl of dicine.

She sniffed the scent from the bowl lightly, and with a gentle smile, whispered to Ying Chang’an, who was staring intensely at her, "From the sll in this bowl, I gather there’s at least two jin of Huanglian boiled in it."

With crossed arms, Ying Chang’an coldly snorted, "Just drink it. Huanglian extinguishes fire; you’re overwheld with heart fire and need to reduce it. Any objections to my dical skills?"

Shuangshuang smiled helplessly, "Doctor Ying’s dical skills are unparalleled. How could I have any objections? But drinking this bowl of dicine might an I won’t eat anything for the next three days."

In the end, Ying Chang’an grudgingly exchanged the dicine bowl in Shuangshuang’s hand, and Shuangshuang drank the dicine heartily just as the person sent by the Emperor to deliver the Holy Decree arrived.

The Emperor was no longer the impoverished ruler he once was. With Shuangshuang’s advisent, and with the Bai Family and Chu Family’s comrcial roads, the wealth already began flowing like water into the Emperor’s private vault.

The reason it wasn’t placed in the National Treasury was that there were too many aristocratic officials on the court; placing it there would inevitably lead to them scheming to spend it.

It’s more convenient to use his private vault. The silver for the soldiers’ winter clothing, which was just supplented for General Feng’s benefit, ca from this vault.

Although the Emperor’s wealth wasn’t a lot now, it was bound to increase significantly in the future, so he didn’t mind the thirty million taels of silver.

He knew that Qinglin County was too remote for Shuangshuang to achieve political rit easily, so he instructed that the silver remain there for Shuangshuang to use.

As for the gold and iron mines, the Emperor sent specialists to take over, along with a group of criminals recruited nearby, tasked with mining, freeing Shuangshuang from managing them.

The thirty million taels of silver were stored in the county governnt’s silver vault. Shuangshuang’s first thought was to provide for those common people who had their tongues cut and bodies almost destroyed, needing care to restore their health.

Their household registrations had been canceled by Chai Pengfei and others, turning them into undocunted individuals. They now needed re-registration, and since their land was seized, this also required reassessnt and redistribution.

Regarding accommodation, these common people were temporarily housed at confiscated properties of the carriage shop and the hos of Chai Pengfei, Xu Huirong, and Hu Bingchen. Though reluctantly housed, it was not a permanent solution.

However, the weather was still cold, unsuitable for constructing houses. They had to wait a while before arranging building projects.

For construction manpower, county soldiers would have to lend a hand as the common people’s health was too compromised for a quick recovery.

While Shuangshuang was contemplating this, a bowl of dicine suddenly appeared before her. Looking up, she found Heng Yue standing discontentedly in front of her, "Can’t your mind rest for a mont? I reckon you truly want to drink three jin of Huanglian to extinguish your fire."