Chapter 265

"Move the carriage to Chengtian Sect!"

"Yes!"

Hearing that Zhu Yuanzhang was willing to go see.

A look of joy immediately appeared on Huang Zicheng's face.

As long as you, Old Zhu, are willing to go to Chengtian Sect.

Once we arrive at Chengtian Sect.

I will have a way to make the common people outside join me in submitting a memorial to execute Su Qiao.

By that time.

Even if Your Majesty, you still wish to protect Su Qiao.

What can you do?

As Chengtian Sect drew nearer.

Seeing the surging crowd outside Chengtian Sect, and those Jin Ling common people, their faces flushed with anger, fighting at the entrance of the Currency Exchange Office.

Huang Zicheng seemed to have already seen the scene of Su Qiao's head rolling to the ground!

152, Zhu Yuanzhang: Why did you save Huang Zicheng?

Beneath Chengtian Sect.

Thousands of common people crowded at the entrance of the Currency Exchange Office of the Baochao Bureau.

Some were even shoving each other in front of the counter.

"How dare you cut in line?!"

"I'm cutting in line, so what?!"

"Silence!"

"..."

If it weren't for the Wucheng Military Police who had rushed over to keep watch here.

Outside this Currency Exchange Office, it would have long since descended into chaos.

Huang Zicheng looked at the scene before him.

He nearly laughed out loud.

"Your Majesty, you have seen it all, haven't you!"

"If you do not intervene now, the common people of Jin Ling are afraid they will rise up in rebellion!"

"Commandant Jiang, what are you still hesitating for? Act quickly and arrest Su Qiao!"

"If not now, when will you act?!"

Huang Zicheng's words echoed in the empty space outside Chengtian Sect.

The very moment Huang Zicheng's voice fell.

The previously noisy Chengtian Sect fell into a silence as dead as death itself.

The common people who had just been fighting over the queue, nearly coming to blows, no longer cared about queuing.

In an instant, everyone's gaze focused on Huang Zicheng.

And at this moment, Huang Zicheng had not yet realized that something was wrong.

"Fellow villagers! Your Majesty is right here!"

"All the grievances in your hearts can now be spoken!"

"This official, along with Lord Qi and the various lords of the Censorate, entered the Imperial Palace early this morning, risking death to advise Your Majesty to execute Su Qiao!"

Having spoken, Huang Zicheng raised his fist high.

And shouted to the common people before him:

"If Su Qiao does not die, Jin Ling will not be at peace!"

"Su..."

Huang Zicheng had only shouted halfway when he realized that the eyes of these common people before him seemed a bit off.

After a long silence.

An old man in the crowd finally walked out, trembling, holding silver coins in his hand.

Looking at Huang Zicheng, he asked:

"Is it you who wants to execute Lord Su?"

Hearing this, Huang Zicheng was stunned.

"Yes, old sir, do not be afraid, Your Majesty is right here..."

Before Huang Zicheng could even react.

The old sir took a deep breath towards Huang Zicheng.

"Heh~ Tuh!"

A mouthful of old phlegm was thrown hard right onto Huang Zicheng's face.

"Our lives were finally starting to have some hope, and now you jump out to plead for the people?!"

Back when the Baochao notes were despised by the common people.

You scholars and officials did not come out.

When the children of the common people had no money to study.

You scholars and officials did not come out.

Now that Lord Su has finally solved the problem of children studying and common people seeing doctors.

Now you scholars and officials come out to plead for the people?

"That fellow behind, the one named Qi Tai, is one of our own from Yingtian Prefecture! You of the Qi clan have ancestors too! Do you not care for your family graves?!"

Before the crowd could react.

Someone hurled a stone directly at them.

It struck Huang Zicheng square in the face.

Zhu Yuanzhang stared at the scene before him, dumbfounded.

He asked, unable to believe it,

"What on earth is going on? What has happened?"

After pulling a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard from the distant crowd and getting a rough account, Jiang Huan ran all the way to Zhu Yuanzhang's side and reported,

"Your Majesty, Lord Su intends to sell his mansion in Jin Ling. The estate comes equipped with a community school and a public welfare pharmacy."

"As long as the common people buy a house, they can send their children to school without paying tuition."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Jiang Huan with confusion and asked,

"What does this have to do with the Baochao?"

Jiang Huan lowered his head and said,

"Lord Su will only accept Baochao for the mansions he sells!"

Hearing this,

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly snapped back to his senses.

He finally realized what Su Qiao had been doing all this time.

"What is the current value of the Baochao in Jin Ling?"

Jiang Huan gave a bitter smile and said,

"Your Majesty, it has a price but no market!"

"What the court lacks now is not silver or copper coins; it is Baochao!"

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately grew tense.

"That still doesn't make sense. Wasn't all the Great Ming's Baochao burned to ashes by that brat Su Qiao?"

Only then did Jiang Huan lean close to Zhu Yuanzhang's ear and whisper,

"Your Majesty, Lord Su has not been idle these past few days; he has been buying up Baochao from merchants on the black market. Now, most of the Baochao in Jin Ling has likely already been collected by Lord Su into the Treasury."

Hearing Jiang Huan say this,

a loud "Buzz!" exploded in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind.

His previous display of weakness.

The chaos.