Chapter 47 A huge sum of money
“Resign?”
Zhao Xing was stunned and asked: “Do you mean you won’t go into the palace to read to your lonely companion?”
"Your Highness, I forgive you. My grandfather is old. I would like to send him back to Yangzhou and stay by his side to fulfill his filial piety." Gu Tingye said.
Zhao Xing tapped the table, pondered for a while, and said, "Have you told your grandfather about this?"
"Not yet, I plan to ask His Highness for permission first, and then inform my grandfather!" Gu Tingye said.
Zhao Xing looked at him and said, "You didn't tell the truth."
"Chen..."
"Zhonghuai!"
Zhao Xing beat After that, Gu Tingye said: "It is a serious crime to deceive me. I can forget about the past, but you have to think clearly before talking about it."
Gu Tingye was silent for a long time after hearing this, and said in a hoarse voice: "Last time when my grandfather met with His Highness, he asked Your Highness to help find out the cause of death of Ming Chen's mother. During this time, I have been secretly investigating the matter, and found... found..."
"The discovery is related to your father. You don't know how to face your father, so you want to escape?" Zhao Xing said.
Hearing this, Gu Tingye glanced at Zhao Xing in surprise and nodded.
Zhao Xing was not surprised at this time. If the original development was going according to the original development, Gu Tingye would not know that there was something wrong with his mother's death until more than a year later, when Mr. Bai passed away and went to Yangzhou to inherit the family property. .
He felt that his mother's death was related to Gu Yankai. He was his biological mother on one side and his father on the other. He didn't know how to face it, so he ran to Bailudong Academy.
Now that Gu Tingye knew about it in advance, it was normal to want to escape.
Zhao Xing was silent for a long time and asked: "Why do you think this matter is related to your father?"
"I investigated secretly and found that many servants were sold back then, including many. Some people who have been slaves to the Gu family for several generations are the only ones who can do this," Gu Tingye said.
Zhao Xing was speechless. Gu Tingye was a very smart person, but he had been deceived by women in the first half of his life, first Xiao Qin, and then Zhu Manniang.
Hasn't he ever thought that the Gu family has a little Qin who can do this?
She would rather think about her biological father than doubt Xiao Qin.
I really don’t know whether to say that Xiao Qin’s disguise is too good, or that Gu Tingye is too stupid.
"This matter has been investigated by Gu. Although there is no clue yet, according to some clues that Gu has found, it should have nothing to do with your father." Zhao Xing said.
"Your Highness, are you telling the truth?" Gu Tingye looked at Zhao Xing in surprise.
Gu Tingye has very complicated emotions towards his father, and some of his behaviors look like rebellion.
In fact, this is not the case. Gu Tingye actually longs for his father's recognition and care.
Although Gu Yankai had no feelings for Bai, he still loved Gu Tingye, his son.
Because his eldest son was frail and sick, he trained Gu Tingye as his successor and had very strict requirements on him.
No matter how well Gu Tingye did, he felt happy in his heart, but he would not show it on his face, let alone praise him.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying of a strict father and a loving mother. Gu Yankai only wanted to play the role of a strict father, but ignored that the loving mother was not Gu Tingye's biological mother, and she was just pretending to be kind.
For a long time, the contradiction and estrangement between father and son have become deeper and deeper.
The reason why Gu Tingye felt that his mother's death was related to Gu Yankai after he found out that the Gu family had sold many servants was because he thought of Gu Yankai's attitude towards him over the years.
He felt that the reason why Gu Yankai treated him like this was because he didn't like him.
But Gu Tingye still has a deep father-son affection for Gu Yankai.
So he didn’t know how to face his father and could only choose to escape.
"There's no need to lie to you. Now we can only find out that this matter has nothing to do with your father. The rest is still unclear." Zhao Xing said.
He felt that he had made it so clear. As long as Gu Tingye went back and thought about it carefully, he would have doubts about Xiao Qin.
As long as there are doubts about many things, even if they are not true, I will make up my mind in that regard. What's more, this matter was originally done by the Xiao Qin family. As long as Gu Tingye has doubts, he will definitely find clues.
"Thank you, Your Highness!" Gu Tingye didn't think much at this time and was completely caught up in the surprise that this matter had nothing to do with his father.
Subconsciously, he was unwilling to believe that his mother's death was related to his father.
But all the signs forced him to believe it.
Now Zhao Xing’s words gave him a reason not to believe it.
"Do you still want to resign now?" Zhao Xing asked.
“I am guilty!”
Gu Tingye knelt down on one knee and said: "My grandfather has been nursed back to health by the imperial doctor and is now strong. I deceived His Highness before. Please punish me!"
"Forget it this time. If you dare to deceive me again in the future, "Don't blame me for being ruthless," Zhao Xing said.
“Thank you for your magnanimity, Your Highness.” Gu Tingye thanked him.
"By the way, help me ask your grandfather and ask him to pay attention to see if the illegal salt problem has been curbed after the court thoroughly investigated the salt affairs." Zhao Xing said.
"Yes!" Gu Tingye responded.
"Okay, it's getting late, let's go back to school." Zhao Xing said.
"Your Highness, my grandfather said that he is willing to donate two hundred thousand taels of silver to Your Highness." Gu Tingye said.
“Oh?”
Zhao Xing was startled and quickly understood what Mr. Bai meant.
In this thorough investigation of the salt affairs, although the penalties for those officials were somewhat light, there was no mercy for those salt merchants who colluded with the officials.
Many salt merchants had their homes confiscated and gained a lot of money as a result.
However, the Bai family was not held accountable. After all, Mr. Bai not only revealed many secrets, but also collected a lot of evidence with his guidance, which can be considered meritorious.
This old man Bai is also a smart man, so he gave away two hundred thousand taels at once.
You must know that the Song Dynasty's annual taxes and other incomes were converted into silver, which was only a little over 100 million taels.
Among them, the government-run tea, horse, salt and iron merchants accounted for most of them.
In an ordinary small county, the tax revenue for several years may only be 200,000 taels.
But when I think about the fact that when the Bai family marries a daughter, the dowry will cost one million taels of cash, not to mention the gold and silver jewelry.
This shows how profitable the salt merchants are.
Of course, the Bai family does not only deal in salt, but also has other businesses.
Zhao Xing had no reason to refuse the money that was delivered to his door. He pondered for a while and said, "Thank you Bai Yuanwai on behalf of the orphan, and tell him to keep the money with him until he needs it. We will naturally send someone to pick it up when the time comes.”
He lives in the palace now and has no place to put such a large sum of money.
If the father knew about it, he probably wouldn’t be able to keep it, so it would be safest to put it with Mr. Bai first.
"Yes." Gu Tingye hesitated for a moment and then agreed.
The money was actually intended to be handed over to the officials through Zhao Xing, but from the look of Zhao Xing, it was obvious that he was going to keep it for himself.
Gu Tingye wanted to remind Zhao Xing, but in the end he said nothing.
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(End of this chapter)