Chapter 442 Hard Work

Everyone understands Ning Chen's finger-rubbing action.

Fan Taihe was so angry, this was clearly blackmail, but he didn't have any temper at all.

He gritted his teeth, took out a hundred-liang silver note from his pocket, and forced a smile on his face, "My Lord, please be gracious and forgive me for a few days."

Ning Chen looked at the silver note in his hand with disdain.

"What is Lord Fan doing?"

Fan Taihe was a little confused. Wasn't Ning Chen rubbing his fingers just asking for money?

Ning Chen continued, "Do you think that with my status as a Lord, I would be short of these three melons and two dates?"

Fan Taihe realized that Ning Chen was complaining about the small amount.

He gritted his teeth and took out a few more silver notes from his pocket, a total of five hundred liang.

This time, Ning Chen was not disgusted, but his face darkened, sneered, and said: "Since Lord Fan is not sincere, don't blame Ning for being ruthless."

"Let's bring Fan Xiuxiu out quickly? By the way, you have to pick a grandson."

Fan Taihe was cold.

But the situation was stronger than the person, so he could only smile, "Lord, tell me the number?"

Ning Chen was not polite, and said directly: "Five thousand taels per person."

Fan Taihe's eyes widened suddenly.

Ning Chen smiled and said: "I know that five thousand taels can buy a lot of livestock, but they are Lord Fan's children, how can they be compared with livestock?"

"Lord Fan is a senior official of the court, five thousand taels is not much for you, right?"

"Of course, Lord Fan can refuse...but I will take your children back to train etiquette, and it is inevitable to beat and scold them during the training, Lord Fan, don't feel sorry."

Fan Taihe's back teeth are about to break!

He knows very well that Ning Chen has him in his arms this time.

"My Lord, please wait!"

Ning Chen nodded with a smile, "Master Fan, please hurry up. I have no patience. The key is that I have important matters to attend to. I have to go to the next house to get money, no, to pick someone up."

Fan Taihe's old face was so gloomy that water was about to drip out. He ran away all the way.

Gao Ziping and Chen Chong looked at Ning Chen. Good man, this is naked blackmail?

Gao Ziping said: "Ning Chen, if you do this, aren't you afraid that they will impeach you in front of His Majesty?"

Ning Chen shook his head, "No."

Chen Chong said: "Fan Taihe is the Imperial Censor. Those censors are all his people. Their main job is to impeach. Can they bear this?"

Ning Chen said with a smile: "First, bribery and bribery are the same crime. Impeaching me is impeaching themselves."

"Second, not everyone can have 5,000 taels. This one has 5,000 taels, and that one has 3,000 taels... The main goal is a psychological balance."

Gao Ziping and Chen Chong were puzzled.

Ning Chen explained, "Old Gao, you went to the Jiaofangsi to find a girl, and she charged you 1,000 taels of silver... Then you found out that this girl only charged 500 taels to accompany someone else, what would you think?"

Gao Ziping said, "Of course I would be very angry, isn't this taking me for a fool?"

Ning Chen laughed, "Then if you knew that Old Chen also found this girl, and this girl charged him 2,000 taels, twice as much as you, what would you think?"

Gao Ziping couldn't help laughing, "Old Chen is a fool."

Ning Chen asked, "Does it make you feel more balanced?"

Gao Ziping nodded.

Chen Chong suddenly realized, "I understand, some people charge more, some people charge less, so they can't unite, and they can't join forces to impeach you?"

Ning Chen nodded, "That's the truth... This is what it means to worry about inequality rather than lack."

There is one more thing he didn't say, he would give part of this silver to Emperor Xuan... Anyway, everyone's price is different, it's difficult to count the total.

If these people really don't fear death and join forces to impeach him, he will say that he gave all the silver to Emperor Xuan... If they have the guts, go and impeach Emperor Xuan.

Of course, he didn't say this.

After all, it was a plot against His Majesty, which is a serious crime.

It's not that I don't trust Gao Ziping and Chen Chong, but it's better to have less trouble than more.

Gao Ziping and Chen Chong gave a thumbs up.

Just then, Fan Taihe came back jogging, panting and sweating on his forehead.

"My Lord, please forgive me for waiting so long!"

Fan Taihe smiled and stepped forward to give Ning Chen a silver note worth 10,000 taels.

Of course, only he knew how disgusted he felt.

Being blackmailed by Ning Chen, and having to smile, he felt so aggrieved.

Ning Chen put the banknotes in his arms openly, "Lord Fan, in fact, there is still room for this matter to turn around. I believe you can see that His Majesty does not want to marry the Ninth Princess to Nanyue."

"You can unite all the officials to plead for mercy, maybe there will be a turnaround."

"This Marquis has important matters to attend to, so I won't bother you anymore... But you should exercise. You are panting like a pig after running a few steps. Without a good body, how can you share the worries of His Majesty in the future, don't you think?"

Fan Taihe's stomach churned and he almost vomited. He was really disgusted.

But he still had to smile and admit that he was a pig, "The Marquis is right!"

Ning Chen waved his hand, "Then we'll leave, Lord Fan, please stay, no need to see you off!"

Fan Taihe cursed in his heart, who the hell wants to see you off?

Ning Chen left with his men.

Fan Taihe's stomach churned, Ning Chen was too disgusting.

He knew that all this was Ning Chen's calculation.

Blackmail them for money, and they will have to ask His Majesty to revoke his order.

He really wanted to abandon his two children and fight Ning Chen to the death.

But after thinking about it, he gave up this idea... They were his own flesh and blood, and he couldn't bear to give them up.

......

On the other side, Ning Chen led the people from the Supervisory Department to visit the officials of the peace faction one by one.

They were busy until the evening and only collected half of it.

Collecting money is also a hard job.

He threw a silver note to Gao Ziping and others and asked them to go to the Jiaofang Department to have fun.

He went home to rest and get enough energy to continue tomorrow.

The next day, Ning Chen led people to start the hard work of collecting money again.

Another hard day!

Finally, it was all collected.

He calculated that a total of about 500,000 taels were collected.

Ning Chen gave Gao Ziping 100,000 taels and let them divide it among themselves.

He planned to give the remaining 200,000 taels to Emperor Xuan and keep 200,000 taels for himself.

......

The next day, in the morning.

Ning Chen went to the palace to meet the emperor.

In the imperial study, Ning Chen leaned forward and said, "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!"

Emperor Xuan put down the memorial and looked at him, "I heard that you have been very busy these two days?"

Ning Chen smiled very flatteringly, "I am helping your Majesty!"

Emperor Xuan snorted, "I heard that you have brought people from the Supervisory Department to visit those spineless people one by one and asked them for people... You are not really planning to let me marry Huai'an to Nanyue?"

"Of course not! How can I bear to let the ninth princess marry to Nanyue?"

Ning Chen took out a stack of banknotes from his arms and smiled flatteringly, "Your Majesty, please look!"

Emperor Xuan leaned forward and could not see clearly... He motioned to Eunuch Quan to present it.

Eunuch Quan handed the things to Emperor Xuan.

"Banknotes?"

Emperor Xuan looked at Ning Chen, a little puzzled.

Ning Chen smiled and said, "Your Majesty, those strong men had to give me money to save their children. Please be tolerant for a few days."

"I feel sorry for the parents in the world. I can't bear it. In order to make them feel at ease, I accepted their money. A total of 200,000 taels, I didn't touch a penny, all of it is here."