Chapter 7 — The Emperor Trach Men Because Of Women Traveling Through Time And Discarding The Empress, Who Would Have Thought That The Whole Harem Were Fellow Countrymen

Tieu Dien Chi frowned.

“What are you guys laughing at?”

I slowly reached out my hand. Bich Lac immediately presented a notebook. It's just a thin notebook, with four words written on the outside: "Details of Internal Affairs". I opened the first page and turned to Lam Nhuoc Tinh.

“Queen Lam said that eight hundred thousand taels of silver all passed through my hands, right?”

Lam Nhuoc Tinh immediately nodded.

“The evidence is extremely solid.”

“So today I will tell you, where did these eight hundred thousand taels of silver come from?”

I slowly turned the pages of the book for her to see.

“The first year, I used my own dowry of twenty thousand taels of silver to buy three stores in the capital Dong Thi.”

“A fabric store, an oil store, a china store.”

"All profits are put into the Government's Internal Affairs revolving account, used for daily expenses in the palace."

"The second year, I used 150,000 taels of my own money to buy two royal palaces outside the city."

“Products from the mandarins are provided for the palace and the daily expenses of the palaces.”

“The third year, the total profits from the stores and royal decorations combined exceeded forty thousand taels, all of which were used for food, clothing, and travel for more than three thousand people in the palace.”

“The eight hundred thousand taels you just mentioned, every penny and penny are clearly recorded.”

“It's not like I took the silver from the palace.”

“But I took the money out of my own pocket and brought it to the palace.”

Lam Nhuoc Tinh's face instantly turned pale.

“No… no way!”

“You say it's impossible?”

I turned the detailed book to the last page.

"This place has the seal and signature of the Internal Affairs Manager Cui An, there are approvals personally reviewed by Minister Zhou that year, and there is also the original land deed of my previous store purchase."

“You just saw the numbers on the total book, so you concluded it was embezzlement?”

"You don't even understand the direction of money going in or out."

“The silver flows from me to the Internal Affairs Palace.”

“It's not from the Internal Affairs government that flows into my pocket.”

Lam Nhuoc Tinh stood there with her mouth open, but she couldn't say a word. Tieu Dien Chi's face also changed. But what changed on his face was no longer anger, but surprise.

“This… how is this possible?”

“The money from the Internal Affairs Palace… was all she put in herself?”

“It's not just about spending money.”

At this time, Dung Phi slowly spoke, her tone from beginning to end was still neither fast nor slow.

“For the past three years, all operations in the palace, from purchasing to distribution, from human resources to coordination, have all been handled single-handedly by Sister Co.”

“Does Your Majesty really think that all expenses in the palace are silver drawn directly from the national treasury?”

"The current national treasury doesn't even cover the expenses for border guards, so where will we get the money to support the harem?"

The expression on Tieu Dien Chi's face changed little by little. He turned his head to look at Lam Nhuoc Tinh. Lam Nhuoc Tinh was still frantically flipping through those books, trying to find evidence to refute it, but the more she flipped, the whiter her face became. I don't look at her. I just look at Tieu Dien Chi.

"Your Majesty wanted me to cede the throne, so I did."

“Your Majesty wanted me to enter the cold palace, so I entered.”

“But your Majesty should understand clearly…”

"There are some things that can't be delivered just by relying on a holy path."

Tieu Dien Chi was silent for a long time. Suddenly, a series of rapid footsteps rang out outside the palace. A guard whose body was covered in dust quickly rushed into the courtyard and knelt down outside the palace.

"Report! Bac Canh transmits report!"

"General Tran Bac General Co Truong Minh submitted a letter asking for instructions, saying that for the past three years, documents mobilizing food and grass of the Bac Canh army have used Queen Co's personal seal to travel!"

"Now that the late Queen has been deposed, the general would like to ask... will this food and grass route still continue?"

“Thirty thousand soldiers on the border are still waiting for a response!”

In the blink of an eye, the entire main hall was so quiet that you could clearly hear a pin drop. All eyes turned to me at the same time. Tieu Dien Chi was completely stunned and stood in place. Even the stack of books in Lam Nhuoc Tinh's hand also fell to the ground with a "pop". I slowly stood up.

“Command my command.”

“Food and herbs will continue to be distributed as before.”

My tone was as calm as usual, without any fluctuations.

"Tell Co Truong Minh, Bac Canh's food and herbs continue to follow the route of Tay Thanh's food and oil store."

"This transportation route was built by me three years ago, and did not go through the royal records."

“Regardless of whether I am now an empress or an abandoned empress…”

“This salary route will not be cut off.