Fake Eunuch: Discovering the Emperor is a Woman!-Chapter 146: A Fool with Abundant Wealth (Second Update)

Chapter 146: Chapter 146: A Fool with Abundant Wealth (Second Update)

"Is it also with this intention that you chose to take over the Ministry of Industry?"

After hearing Lin Yi’s words, the young Emperor immediately asked this question.

It seemed that she had also figured out what Lin Yi had been planning earlier.

If not for this, he really couldn’t understand why Lin Yi wanted to take over the Ministry of Industry, the one with the least power.

Now, thinking about his intention to produce glass, everything made sense.

Sure enough, upon hearing this, Lin Yi nodded directly:

"The Ministry of Industry can do a lot more than just this glazed glass, and there are many other tasks that need to done by the Ministry.

And the most basic point is agriculture, which is also under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry.

Aren’t all kinds of agricultural tools used by the farmers developed by the Ministry?

And more importantly, the Ministry of Industry is an absolute money-maker.

Your Majesty must have known by now that in just a few days’ time, the Ministry has already earned no less than a hundred thousand taels of silver.

For the entire Ministry of Industry, this is just trifling. If used properly, the Ministry could become the most profitable place.

In the future, its revenue and expenditure could even rival the agricultural tax!"

Hearing this, the young Emperor couldn’t help but take a sharp intake of breath.

You have to know that the current National Treasury relies on agricultural tax.

But now, what was Lin Yi saying? He was actually suggesting that the income of a Ministry could rival the agricultural tax; how could this be possible?

Obviously, the current young Emperor couldn’t understand where the benefits lay, no matter what.

However, seeing Lin Yi’s confident appearance, she couldn’t help but believe him.

"Of course, all of these are for the future, and such huge profits won’t be realized in a short time; these things take time to build up.

Moreover, the personnel within the Ministry of Industry must be absolutely loyal.

Therefore, there may be significant actions in the future, I’m just giving Your Majesty a heads-up in advance."

To this, the young Emperor simply waved her hand:

"Just go ahead and do what you need to do. Your current identity is not very suited for the position of Minister of Ministry of Industry.

With a bit more experience and time, the position will officially be handed to you."

As the young Emperor mentioned, Lin Yi’s identity at best was nothing more than a great eunuch.

And although the position of Minister of Ministry of Industry wasn’t that crucial, it was still one of the Ministers of the Six Ministries.

In any case, it was still a First Grade official position.

To place a eunuch directly in a First Grade official position was out of the question, and for sure there would be objections.

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Regarding this, Lin Yi himself didn’t really care and casually waved his hand.

As far as he was concerned, whether or not he sat in the Minister’s position didn’t matter.

As long as he could truly control the Ministry of Industry, that was enough.

So, the two discussed this matter at length.

Meanwhile, a young eunuch brought in a Petition.

This Petition had come from the Honglu Temple.

Looking at the twisted characters on it, the young Emperor’s brows furrowed again, and she shook her head in amusement before passing it to Lin Yi.

"Take a look, it’s written by those guys again."

After Lin Yi took it, he only glanced over it briefly before placing it back on the desk:

"It’s nothing important, they just wish to meet with Your Majesty.

The gist is that they have been here for two days but have yet to meet with the Emperor of You Country.

They are thinking about your summon."

Hearing this, the young Emperor finally nodded. She didn’t want to avoid meeting them; it was just that she couldn’t understand their language.

Even if they were summoned, it would be an awkward situation.

But now with Lin Yi present, she didn’t have to worry about being unable to communicate with them.

"Actually, if you can understand what they’re saying, then let’s summon them tomorrow morning.

Do you have a way to convey this message to them?"

Lin Yi, upon hearing this, didn’t hesitate at all, and directly picked up the Imperial Pen and began to write several strange symbols on the Petition that had been delivered.

Moreover, he wrote these symbols very smoothly and elegantly, and the characters even had continuous grooves connecting them.

In short, the strange characters that Lin Yi wrote looked even more comfortable and beautiful than those written by the foreign envoys.

This made the young Emperor next to him couldn’t help but voice her doubts:

"Are the characters you wrote the same as theirs?

Why is there a gap between each of their symbols, whereas yours doesn’t have any?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi blew the ink dry on the bamboo slip in his hand and cheerfully responded:

"This is just like our writing; their writing is done stroke by stroke, very methodically, while mine is a different style of writing.

It’s just like how we have small script and cursive in our writing."

To this, the young Emperor also nodded, indicating that she understood.

Then she instructed the young eunuch to deliver the responded Petition to the Honglu Temple.

Let’s just talk about the Honglu Temple at this moment.

Inside a very clean and spacious room, several golden-haired, blue-eyed foreigners wearing strange clothes were sitting together and muttering something.

If Lin Yi were here, he would definitely understand what they were saying.

"Charles, do you think that there’s really not a single person in this country who understands our language?"

"Oh, I believe that’s probably the case, we’ve been in this country for over a month now. No one has been able to communicate with us.

And now we’re in their royal palace, and even here, there’s no one who speaks our language.

This also shows that they probably adopt a closed-door policy.

However, this is also a good thing for us."

The person who had initially spoken also nodded in agreement after hearing these words:

"Based on my observation for quite some time, the people here seem to be quite wealthy.

At the very least, much wealthier than our country.

Additionally, judging by their reactions to our glazed products, it’s clear that they do not know the manufacturing process of this glass.

If that’s the case, perhaps we can complete our mission ahead of schedule and return to our great England."

As he said this, his face could not help but show a very smug expression.

In their eyes, everyone in You Country was a rich fool.

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