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Chapter 751 The Saint is Cruel and Merciless (6)

Chapter 751: The Saint is Cruel and Merciless (VI)

When Shen Tiaotiao learned that Duan Jingwu had returned with the treasure, she was very excited and wanted to rush to find her father. Unfortunately, Duan Jingwu had already left, and Shen Kang was summoning ministers.

She wanted to leave the palace immediately to find Duan Jingwu, but she also wanted to go and congratulate her father so that she would be rewarded.

She stood at the intersection hesitantly, and the movement inside made her a little confused. Soon she saw many ministers coming out, all sighing.

She quickly sent her servants to ask familiar eunuchs for information. She knew these ministers knew the treasury had been found and wanted to get a piece of the action. Based on her understanding of Shen Kang, even if her father didn't want to give more, he would at least give these ministers some. Disaster relief was necessary, and if these noble families didn't want to pay, they could only take money from the treasury. Could it be that her father was a stingy person who really didn't want to spend a penny?

"Princess, it seems His Majesty is furious and has even killed two ministers. We should go back first. His Majesty is probably still furious."

When Shen Tiaotiao heard that someone had died, she didn't dare to join in the fun. If she went to congratulate her father now, Shen Kang might just marry her off to someone random.

Shen Tiaotiao was walking away very quickly. Crown Prince Shen Hechang looked at Shen Tiaotiao's back and asked the eunuch beside him, "Why is your sister walking so fast? Did your father reprimand her?"

His personal eunuch was also puzzled: "The princess shouldn't have seen His Majesty so quickly. Is she in a hurry to leave the palace? She seems so flustered."

Shen Hechang thought about it and turned back. He felt that going to see his father now would not bring good things. When he returned to the Prince's Mansion, he heard that two ministers had died. His people had not yet found out the reason for his father's anger.

Shen Kang was in a dilemma and furious in the hall. He wanted to arrest Duan Jingwu and torture him to force him to reveal the true whereabouts of the treasure.

But he thought that his daughter was in love with Duan Jingwu and had asked him for an imperial decree to grant her marriage. If he really arrested Duan Jingwu, his daughter would probably come to him to plead for mercy.

He also felt that Duan Jingwu was not so stupid as to dare to send fake treasures into the palace. That meant that maybe the treasures had been swapped, or maybe Duan Jingwu didn't realize that the treasures he was transporting were fake. After all, officials from the treasury said that those treasures could be mistaken for real ones.

Shen Kang felt that Duan Jingwu would not have the courage to deceive the emperor, and that someone might have deliberately harmed Duan Jingwu.

Not blaming Duan Jingwu would make him look like a fool.

Punishing Duan Jingwu might not only displease Duan Jingwu's father Duan Yingsheng, but also make the people behind him laugh at him.

But he was unwilling to let Duan Jingwu go and suffer the loss. Shen Kang racked his brains and came up with a plan. He would use courtesy first and then force. After all, few of the generals and nobles who broke into the capital back then had made a fortune. The Duan family could not be as clean as they seemed.

When Shen Tiao Tiao was still in Duan's mansion, the imperial edict had already arrived. The emperor first appointed Duan Jingwu as a third-rank military general, and then granted Shen Tiao Tiao and Duan Jingwu a marriage, ordering the two to get married next year. Finally, the emperor returned the twenty boxes of treasure that Duan Jingwu brought back to Duan Jingwu, asking him to use these treasures to provide disaster relief, including floods in the east, droughts and locust plagues in the central region, and to be responsible for the food and grass in the northwest of General Duan.

Everyone in the Duan Mansion was naturally delighted, and the eunuch who delivered the imperial edict even received double rewards from the princess and Old Madam Duan.

After the messenger left, the smile disappeared from Duan Jingwu's face. He had to take care of three things with just twenty boxes of treasure. With layers of corrupt officials exploiting him, he estimated that he would not be able to do any of them.

Why didn't the emperor let the prince do it? Could Duan Jingwu, a future imperial consort, do it?

"Duan Lang, the Emperor has granted us a marriage! You are my consort!"

"Yeah." Shen Tiaotiao saw that he seemed unhappy, so she asked him what was wrong.

Duan Jingwu expressed his doubts as to why the emperor put him in charge of disaster relief and food supplies.

"Maybe the emperor thinks highly of you. Don't think about it, let's go and see the treasure."

Shen Tiaotiao happily pulled Duan Jingwu towards the warehouse.

After a while, Shen Tiaotiao could no longer laugh.

"You said these are fake? How is that possible! It looks like everything in these treasure chests is real! How could Father give me fakes?"