Chapter 78: Looting the Imperial Palace and the Ministry of Revenue

Chapter 78 Looting the Palace and the Ministry of Revenue

After Hao Shuai flew out of Oboi's residence, he flew directly to the Imperial Household Department in the palace.

Relying on his familiarity with the palace from these days of going in and out of the palace, Hao Shuai soon arrived at the Imperial Household Department's treasury located inside the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City. Knowing that the palace was about to be in chaos, he didn't care about being discovered. He directly killed the guard with his telekinesis, broke open the door, and walked in.

Looking at the dazzling array of rare treasures, boxes of gold, silver, jewelry, and silk and satin in the treasury, Hao Shuai put all the things into the space without any disdain.

After a while, the entire treasury was so empty that even a mouse would cry when he saw it. I hope Oboi won't be angry when he knows about it.

After coming out of the treasury. Hao Shuai flew towards the Qianqing Palace. In mid-air, Hao Shuai had heard a sound of soldiers and horses coming from outside the palace, followed by bursts of shouting and killing. It seems that the people loyal to the royal family have already known the news of Kangxi's death and are now starting to resist.

It is said that Oboi is indeed a general who can command troops well. It has only been a short time since he was able to integrate thousands of soldiers and generals to break into the palace. At this time, the palace was in complete chaos with soldiers shouting and generals roaring, war horses neighing, and accompanied by the sound of swords and weapons fighting.

Seeing that the soldiers and horses could not reach the rear court for a while, Princess Jianning and the fake queen mother were still safe for the time being, Hao Shuai hurried to the Qianqing Palace and swept away all the books in it except for the boring gossip books such as the secret history of the royal family, so as to avoid being harmed by the soldiers and bandits later.

After doing all this, Hao Shuai, who was satisfied, came to Huining Palace. At this time, the palace maids and guards in Huining Palace had already run away. He entered the palace, woke up Princess Jianning who was still sleeping because of fatigue, and told her about Oboi killing Kangxi and rebelling.

After hearing that Kangxi was killed, Princess Jianning burst into tears and grumbled about seeking revenge on Oboi. Hao Shuai could not stop her no matter how hard he tried. He could only knock her unconscious with one palm and then carried her to the Cining Palace.

When Hao Shuai arrived at the Cining Palace, he saw that the fake queen mother was trying to break out with several maids in the Cining Palace. However, because the Cining Palace was the place that Oboi had focused on, there were the most soldiers and horses surrounding it. Although the fake queen mother was a strong martial artist, her maids were a little useless. Facing the soldiers who formed a battle formation, they were killed and retreated step by step.

If it was only the fake queen mother, she would have broken out long ago, but she couldn't bear to abandon her subordinates, and she had to rescue her subordinates who were in danger from time to time, which led to her own danger.

Seeing that they had not been able to capture the fake queen mother, the officers and soldiers were afraid that the night would be long and there would be more trouble. An officer immediately ordered: "Shoot!"

The archers who were ready immediately drew their bows and arrows and shot arrows at the fake queen mother and her men.

Faced with the overwhelming arrows, even though the fake queen mother was a martial arts master, her face changed drastically. She kept waving her long sleeves to knock down the arrows in front of her and retreated back to the palace, but her men were not so lucky. They were shot into hedgehogs in a short while.

Just when the officer was about to order to continue shooting arrows, he saw Hao Shuai falling from the sky and Princess Jianning in his arms. He knew that Hao Shuai was an enemy and immediately ordered to shoot at Hao Shuai.

Facing the rain of arrows, Hao Shuai used his telekinesis to fix all the arrows and turned them around, shooting them back along the original path. For a while, the archers were shot one after another. After dealing with the archers, Hao Shuai cleaned up the remaining dozens of officers and soldiers before entering the Cining Palace.

"Long'er, are you not injured?" Hao Shuai asked the fake queen mother concernedly.

"I'm fine, but all my men died. Why are there so many soldiers besieging the Cining Palace? Did the emperor know that I was pretending to be the queen mother?" The fake queen mother said sadly.

"It's not your problem. It's Aobai who killed the little emperor and prepared to rebel!" Hao Shuai told the truth.

"Aobai rebelled?" The fake queen mother Long'er was shocked.

"Yes, now you take your things and I will take you out of the palace, otherwise it will be troublesome if Aobai personally brings the army here!" Hao Shuai urged.

"Okay! Thank you for saving me!" After thanking her, the fake queen mother Long'er walked to the bed, took out two copies of the Forty-two Chapter Sutra from under the bed board, put them away, and packed some personal belongings and returned to Hao Shuai.

"By the way! Release the real queen mother, and we will take her away, otherwise she will starve to death." Hao Shuai remembered the real queen mother who was locked up by the fake queen mother Long'er.

"Just let her out, why take her away?" Long Er asked curiously while pressing the mechanism.

"Just think about what kind of punishment a woman like her would suffer if she fell into the hands of those officers and soldiers, right!" Hao Shuai said seriously.

Of course, Hao Shuai would not say that he was attracted by the face that looked like Zhang Min. Thinking about her identity, Hao Shuai was excited.

At this time, the fake queen mother Long Er had already opened the door of the secret room. Hao Shuai looked at the real queen mother who was dressed in red and shivering in a ball. Looking at her face that looked like the fake queen mother Long Er, he couldn't help but have an idea in his mind: I wonder what it feels like to play Landlord with the two of them?

Unfortunately, Hao Shuai could only think about this idea in his mind. When the fake queen mother Long Er returned to the Shenlong Sect, she would be transformed, and then it would not be this feeling.

The fake queen mother Long Er entered the secret room and brought the real queen mother out. Hao Shuai directly told her about the death of Kangxi and the rebellion of Oboi, and then knocked her out with a palm without waiting for her to digest this thrilling news.

After knocking out the real queen mother, Hao Shuai held the real queen mother in one hand and Princess Jianning in the other, and came to the yard with the two and the fake queen mother Long'er in his arms. While the officers and soldiers had not arrived yet, he directly wrapped them with telekinesis and flew out of the capital.

It took more than half an hour for Hao Shuai to bring a few people to a small village outside the capital. After finding an inn to settle Princess Jianning and the real queen mother, Hao Shuai asked the saint Long'er to take care of the two women first, and he would go back to the capital to help her find the Forty-two Chapters Sutra.

Hearing that Hao Shuai was going to risk his life to go back to the capital to help her find the scriptures, the saint Long'er was moved to tears. Looking at her expression, it is estimated that when Hao Shuai really gave her the scriptures, she would probably be willing to marry him.

After bidding farewell to the Saint Long'er, Hao Shuai flew back to the capital. This time he went straight to the Zhengyang Gate of the Imperial City, on the east side of the Qianbu Corridor, where the Ministry of Clan Affairs, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Works, the Honglu Temple, the Imperial Observatory, the Imperial Hospital and other departments were mostly concentrated.

Hao Shuai first came to the Shou Pharmacy and the Imperial Pharmacy in the Imperial Hospital, and looted all the various precious medicinal materials, pills, powders and plasters stored in these two places, such as ginseng, deer antlers, tiger bones, gems, cinnabar, pearls, stone swallows, crystals, Taishan litmus, Langya mica, Emei gastrodia, Lushan cloud tea, etc.

Then we came to the Ministry of Revenue not far away. In the Qing Dynasty, the Ministry of Revenue managed the country's territory, fields, household registration, taxes, salaries, finances and other matters. It had three treasuries under it, namely the silver treasury, the forging treasury and the pigment treasury, which stored the tax silver, silk cloth, copper, iron, lead, tin, pigments, medicinal materials and other items paid by each province each year. The silver treasury was divided into the inner and outer treasuries. The silver money in the outer treasury was mobilized to a large extent. The fiscal revenue of the Qing Dynasty was generally stored in the outer treasury, and the outer treasury was also responsible for the daily expenses of the central government of the Qing Dynasty. The inner treasury refers to the fixed reserve silver of the Qing Dynasty for emergency use, which was not used on a daily basis.

As the money bag of the Qing Dynasty, the guards of the three treasuries of the Ministry of Revenue were naturally very strict. Unfortunately, facing Hao Shuai, a big hacker holding two AKs, no matter how many people there were, they could only deliver food. After solving the guards neatly, Hao Shuai, based on the idea that he could not use it or help the enemy, cleaned the three treasuries of the Ministry of Revenue more cleanly than Hao Shuai's face.

This season is just the time when tax silver is deposited into the treasury every year, which is really a good deal for Hao Shuai. I wonder what method he will use to pay salaries and military pay after Aobai stabilizes the situation and sees the three treasuries of the Ministry of Revenue, which are cleaner than rat holes!

After being a thief who robbed the rich to help himself, Hao Shuai ignored the chaotic capital and took out the 42-chapter Sutra from the Zhengbai Banner and put it in his arms, ready to give it to the Saint Long'er later.

However, when he saw the sutra, Hao Shuai suddenly remembered something he had overlooked before.

42-chapter Sutra!

Dongjiao Imperial Tomb!

Qing Dynasty Treasure!

Dragon Vein!