Chapter 23 The Landlord Jia Fu
The imperial palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty is similar to the palace attractions that Mo Zizai had seen in his previous life, and it is not only majestic but also great.
Mo Zizai walked in the palace for a long time, and after passing two palace walls, he finally arrived at the Imperial Bridge.
The so-called imperial bridge is what people often call the Xiama Bridge, which means that after crossing this bridge, the area behind it is the area of the palace, and everyone has to walk across the bridge.
Of course, Mo Zizai is not included in everyone, because when he came yesterday, he just sat on the frame and didn't get off until Shangyang Palace.
And it seems that it was because the empress had given an order that when he was wandering around the palace just now, no one came out to disturb him without opening his eyes.
After crossing Xiamaqiao, further east is his former residence, which used to be the East Palace, but now the plaque has been changed to the Zizai Palace, and there is no change in anything else.
Seeing Mo Zizai standing at the door, the two guards at the door quickly came up and said, "I have met the prince."
"The Palace of Freedom."
Mo Zizai ignored them and looked at the three words "Zizai Wang" on the plaque and was slightly stunned.
He named him Mo Zizai back then, and his original intention was to warn him not to be too free, because as an emperor, there is no way to be free.
It’s just that because he was in poor health, he was busy with national affairs for a little while, and he even rarely saw him, let alone taught him personally, which allowed him to develop the same personality as before.
When he found out that his son had grown crooked, it was too late because his personality had already been established, and even if he wanted to teach, he couldn't teach him anymore.
After sacrificing some precious time and making several efforts, he found that it was useless and had to give up.
When Mo Congyi passed away, he probably felt that Mo Zizai might not be saved, so he asked Tang Weiyi to succeed to the throne and by the way he named Mo Zizai a King.
Perhaps, when he was dying, he was thinking of letting his son be free for the rest of his life?
"I will be at ease, and I will also see if I can save Da Zhou back."
Mo Zizai murmured a few words in his heart, and then said freely: "But I don't guarantee that I can do it. I can only say, do my best."
After making a promise to the deceased man in front of the plaque, Mo Zizai stepped back to the palace.
When Mo Zizai returned to the main courtyard, dozens of people stood neatly in the courtyard and saluted Mo Zizai in unison.
"I've seen the prince."
"No gift."
Seeing these people in his mansion, Mo Zizai inexplicably felt like he was back home. He saw a chubby middle-aged eunuch kneeling in the front and went over and pulled him up.
"Jia Fu, I've been missing for three years. Do you miss me?"
“Of course there is.”
Jia Fu, who was helped up by Mo Zizai, smiled and said flatteringly to Mo Zizai: "I am always worried about Your Highness. If I hadn't been to the imperial tomb, I would have been to see you long ago."
"You guy, your father has long abolished his bad family. You still call yourself a slave. You are slapping my father in the face."
Looking at Jia Fu, Mo Zizai felt a burst of joy from the bottom of his heart.
Jia Fu is the eunuch in charge of the Eastern Palace. Seeing Mo Zizai grow up little by little, he will always respond to Mo Zizai's requests. If he was in the Ming Dynasty, he would be Mo Zizai's great companion.
It is no exaggeration to say that half of Mo Zizai's previous domineering personality was Jia Fu's responsibility.
"Your Highness is joking, how dare I disrespect the late emperor?"
Jia Fu, who knew that Mo Zizai was joking, said with a smile: "I have only been shouting for more than ten years. I am used to calling it, and it is hard to change it if I want to."
"Your Highness doesn't have to care about these things anymore. It's a title. Nothing can affect my servant's attitude towards Youth Highness is not."
"You are a good move to make such a rude statement."
Mo Zizai was speechless when he said it, so he had to shake his head helplessly and no longer care about the question of title. He just looked around and found something wrong, "Where is Chen Ying? I just gave him a sum of money, he would not abscond with the money."
"Don't worry, your highness, he dare not run away if he has a servant here."
Although Jia Fu looked chubby, just like a harmless Maitreya Buddha, in fact, he was extremely powerful. Even Zhou Qi, who had learned the Seventh Style of Emperor Emperor, dared not say that he could beat him easily.
"I just knew what he did in the imperial tomb, so I rewarded him with twenty whips, giving him a long memory. Now I am probably recovering from my injuries."
"Didn't I say I won't care?"
Mo Zizai shook his head helplessly. The whip is not easy to get. The so-called whip means that the entire whip is covered with fine barbs, just like thorns.
Such a whip can carry a layer of flesh if he whips down. Chen Ying was beaten twenty times at once. Even if he is a Qihai warrior, his physical fitness is far beyond ordinary people, he probably will have to lose half his life.
"Your Highness, you are magnanimous, and it is a blessing for your servants, but the rules in the mansion cannot be abolished."
Jia Fu still looked like a smile, but his tone was a little cold, "Stolen Your Highness's property and betray Your Highness, and you dare to slander your orders. If it weren't for your magnanimity and disregard for your mercy, I would definitely use a whip to slaughter this slave who is scattered."
"You..."
Mo Zizai shook his head and didn't say much. In the mansion, the person who was most loyal to him was Jia Fu. If he was assassinated before, no matter where Chen Ying ran, he would be caught and teared alive by Jia Fu.
So Mo Zizai did not interfere too much in his implementation of the rules of the mansion. He just reminded him, "He is useful to me. Be careful, don't let him die."
"Don't worry, your highness, after I beat him, I sent someone to send Heihu Skin Producing Ointment. It would be no problem to save his life."
"Well, that's good."
Mo Zizai nodded and said, "Take the 200,000 taels he brought back yesterday to my room, and then call Zhou Qi too."
"Oh, by the way."
Mo Zizai suddenly remembered something and asked casually, "How much silver is left in the mansion now?"
"If you go back to Your Highness, if you have silver in your mansion, you will have about 70,000 taels."
Jia Fu was in charge of the entire royal palace and knew a lot about money, so he gave the answer without hesitation.
"Seventy thousand taels, how could it be so much?"
Mo Zizai was surprised. Seventy thousand taels were not a small amount. Although Chen Ying stole his things before and sold them for 300,000 taels easily, all of them were rewarded by the palace or some precious objects given to him by princes and ministers, which were all his wealth, so it is not surprising that he could be sold at this price.
In fact, when he was the prince, his monthly salary was only 200 taels of silver per month.
As for how purchasing power of these 200 taels of silver is, Mo Zizai once roughly converted the currency of the Great Zhou with the currency of his previous life. About one tael of silver is equal to one hundred yuan, which means that these two hundred taels are equal to two thousand yuan in his previous life.
And he remembered that when he went to the imperial tomb, the entire Eastern Palace was only about 10,000 taels, so why did it suddenly increase so much?
"When you go back to Your Highness, disasters have occurred frequently in recent years. Sometimes some refugees who can't eat will be trapped in the capital. The servants are soft-hearted and can't stand them starving to death, so they hired them all."
Seeing Mo Zizai's surprised look, Jia Fu hurriedly explained with a smile: "When there are more people here, more people will eat, so I bought all the land in the suburbs of the city in the name of the East Palace."
"It is also thanks to His Highness Hong Fu. The capital has not suffered any disasters in the past two years, so the harvest is pretty good, so the money in the mansion has been a little more."
Chapter completed!