Chapter 343 The Emperor Ordered Her to Make Money
Xuanyuan Qing's face turned extremely pale.
He also didn't expect Feng Ji to do this.
There is no doubt that Gu Chan is a talented person. As a member of the royal family, if he can have such a talented person around him, he will definitely be of great use in the future and will be of great benefit to him.
As a member of the royal family, Feng Ji naturally wanted to recruit Gu Chan for her own use.
Otherwise, she would not have proposed to adopt Gu Chan as her godson at this moment.
Thinking of all this, Xuanyuan Qing immediately stood up and said with a fake smile, "Cousin, at your age, it's probably not appropriate for you to take Gu Chan as your godson!"
"Yes, Sect Master, I have already recognized Mr. Shen Sanfeng as my godfather. If I were to recognize you as my godmother, it would not sound good if it got out! Let's just forget it!" Gu Chan also quickly followed suit.
Feng Ji laughed and said, "It doesn't matter. We can discuss our own affairs and not interfere with each other. Besides, if you become my godson, I can become a relative of Mr. Shen in the future, which is not bad."
"No, no, I always feel that this is weird, and it will not be good for your reputation, Sect Master." Gu Chan waved her hands hurriedly.
Feng Ji pretended to be angry and said, "Why, the leader wants to take you as his godson, but you are not happy about it, right?"
"No! I...this..." Gu Chan was so embarrassed that she couldn't speak.
Xuanyuan Qing wanted to smooth things over for Gu Chan, but before he could open his mouth, Feng Ji stopped him with a wave of her hand and said, "Don't say anything. What does it have to do with you if I adopt Gu Chan as my godson? I am your royal cousin, and it is not time for me to listen to you."
"..."Xuanyuan Qing.
No matter how powerful he is, he has to call Feng Ji his imperial cousin. This identity alone is enough to suppress him, not to mention that she is the leader of Renzong.
So at this moment, he could only shut his mouth wisely.
After Feng Ji blocked Xuanyuan Qing, she rolled her eyes and said, "How about this, Gu Chan, if you think it's not good to recognize me as your godmother, then we can both take a step back and you can recognize me as your god sister. Isn't that reasonable?"
Gu Chan was stunned when she heard this and could not help but stare at Feng Ji with wide eyes.
After a long time, she finally understood that this woman was indeed extremely shrewd. What about taking her in as a godson? This was all nonsense. Her original intention was probably to take her in as a brothers.
But in order to achieve her goal, she deliberately raised the difficulty of the question, and then directly stated her purpose, pretending to be giving people a way out.
If Gu Chan didn't agree at this time, she would be seen as an ignorant person in everyone's eyes. Everyone would blame her for the mistakes and think that Feng Ji had done a good job and given her face.
So Gu Chan had no choice but to stand up, bow her head, clasp her fists and say, "Sister, please accept my humble respect."
"That's right. Everyone has witnessed it tonight. From now on, you and I are siblings. Don't worry, if anyone dares to bully you in the future, I, your sister, will be the first to say no." Feng Ji patted Gu Chan's shoulder and said.
Gu Chan thanked him with a bitter face, feeling very unhappy.
Feng Ji didn't care about her and said to everyone, "Okay, everyone, go away! The generals will receive the official documents tomorrow and go to the various places to take up their posts. There is no need to stay at the border any longer."
"Yes, Master." All the generals responded in unison.
Afterwards, all the generals took their leave and went back to pack their luggage.
Feng Ji called Gu Chan and others to the study room in the backyard. Xuanyuan Qing followed with Qingluan Huofeng. At this time, he had to keep an eye on Feng Ji the whole time, otherwise if she played any tricks and threatened his interests, he would suffer a great loss.
After everyone arrived at the study, Feng Ji took out the emperor's secret decree and read it out.
After the secret decree was read out, Gu Chan finally understood that the emperor had rewarded her with 50,000 taels of gold this time. As for how she would divide it among her subordinates, that was her business and the emperor would not interfere.
Then she was given a mansion in Kyoto so that she could move her family to Kyoto at any time.
Of course, this is nothing. The most important thing is that the emperor also gave Gu Chan a yellow jacket, appointed her as the imperial envoy of Tiancang Kingdom, granted her the official rank of third grade, and gave her the official uniform and seal of the imperial envoy.
In this way, coupled with the imperial sword bestowed upon her by the emperor before.
Gu Chan collected the three sets of the imperial envoy's set and became a genuine imperial envoy of Tiancang country.
As for the six people under her, Wei Xing, Ren Yin, Ren Nanshan, Xue Lihua, Cheng Yu, and Ma Zheng, they were all given the official position of imperial guards, with the rank of fifth grade, which meant they were able to receive royal salaries from the court.
Several of her mysterious beasts that had made military achievements also received corresponding rewards.
After receiving the secret order, Gu Chan stood up from the ground and looked at Feng Ji and said, "Master, didn't you let me be the leader of Renzong's tenth team before, and let me recruit people into my tenth team? Then these six people are the ones I want to recruit into the tenth team. Please let them join Renzong and become Renzong's spies."
"No problem, I approve." Feng Ji agreed without even thinking.
"Thank you, Sect Master." Gu Chan clasped his fists and bowed to express his gratitude.
The six people including Wei Xing who were standing behind her were all so happy that they couldn't stop smiling.
But compared with them, Gu Chan couldn't laugh at all at this moment.
This time, the emperor's secret decree did not tell her to immediately bring her family and move to Kyoto to take up the post. This meant that she might not be able to go to Kyoto for a while, and she should have other things to do.
Thinking of this, Gu Chan asked with a stiff face, "Master, does the emperor have any other instructions?"
"The emperor said that repairing such a large border will require a large amount of money. Now the treasury is empty and there is no money to rescue the border. Therefore, the matter of raising money has to be handed over to you, the imperial envoy, and you are required to raise enough money to rescue the border within half a year. Otherwise, you will be charged with dereliction of duty and your entire family will be executed." Feng Ji said.
"Ah? Is the emperor kidding me? Sect Master! The Ninth Prince and I did a rough calculation that night. The losses caused to the border by this war are too great. To restore the border, we will need at least 5 billion taels of silver! Where can I get so much silver in just half a year?" Gu Chan almost cried.
She knew that the old emperor had been holding back his fart, and now it was over! He actually asked her to get money to help the border. Isn't this torturing her to death?
Wei Xing and the other six people who had just been standing behind her with happy faces now all had their smiles gone, and they were so upset that they were almost going crazy.
Five billion taels of silver?
For whom isn’t this an astronomical figure?
The emperor is not asking for money, he is planning to take their lives!
Xuanyuan Qing sat aside with a stiff face and said nothing, but he was silently worried about Gu Chan.
Not to mention Gu Chan, even if he, the ninth prince of Tiancang Kingdom, were to take action, it would probably not be easy for him to get such a large sum of money in just half a year!
(End of this chapter)
