188: Chapter 188 Situation in the Capital

Linjiang Prefecture, Chen Family.

Middle courtyard study.

Chen Hu sipped his tea happily while tallying the night's gains.

First, let's talk about gold and silver.

From the Wu Family treasury, he obtained a total of 50 million taels of silver and 8 million taels of gold.

Additionally, there were 130 million taels in silver notes and 12 million taels in gold notes.

Added together, that amounts to a full 380 million taels of silver.

But in reality, the value occupied by the gold and silver in the Wu Family treasury was less than one-tenth.

Let's start with the Medicinal Pill.

The Skin Refining Realm Medicinal Pills, qi and blood pill and essence blood pill combined, totaled over three thousand boxes.

Each box contains one hundred bottles.

Each bottle contains 10 pills.

The market price for a qi and blood pill is 20 taels per bottle; therefore, one box of qi and blood pills is worth 2000 taels.

Among the three thousand-plus boxes of Skin Refining Realm Medicinal Pills, the qi and blood pill accounted for over two thousand boxes, worth over 4 million taels.

The 1000-plus boxes of essence blood pill were worth five to six million.

Next, there were over 1000 boxes of Flesh Refining Realm Medicinal Pills, over 800 boxes of Tendon Refining Realm Medicinal Pills, and over 300 boxes of Bone Refining Realm Medicinal Pills.

There were over 100 boxes of Marrow Refining Realm Medicinal Pills.

There were not many Organ Refining Realm Medicinal Pills, only a mere dozen boxes.

However, the unit price for Organ Refining Realm Medicinal Pills is expensive; a single five-organ pill is worth 5000 taels, and a bottle is worth fifty thousand.

One box of five-organ pills is worth five million.

As for Blood Refining Realm Medicinal Pills, there were none.

It is estimated that even if there were any, they were collected separately by Wu Sheng.

Secondly, the number of Spirit Medicine reached over 3000 stalks, among which there were over five hundred special Spirit Medicine.

The price of one special Spirit Medicine is at least 1 million taels or more, with the most expensive ones reaching over 10 million taels.

Even if the five hundred-plus special Spirit Medicine were calculated at the lowest price of 1 million taels, all these special Spirit Medicine combined would be worth over 500 million in silver.

Besides that, there were various divine weapons.

There were over 800 Low Grade divine weapons, over 100 Medium Grade divine weapons, and over 10 High Grade divine weapons.

The market price of a Low Grade divine weapon is around 1 million taels, Medium Grade is between 3-5 million taels, and High Grade starts at 10 million taels.

Added to that is the exotic beast meat, spirit grains, and so on.

The total value of everything in the Wu Family treasury is at least 5 billion or more.

He had already overestimated the financial power of a Blood Refining family as much as possible, but now it seems he still underestimated it.

One must know that what he took was only the wealth in the Wu Family treasury.

The Wu Family still has numerous industries within the city of Lingzhou.

Those industries added together are also an astronomical figure.

Furthermore, the Wu Family's Cultivation Technique, if sold, would also be an astronomical figure.

As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows; Chen Hu does not believe that all of the Wu Family's assets were hidden in the treasury within the manor; they must have hidden things elsewhere as well.

However, Chen Hu was already quite satisfied.

The next moment.

Chen Hu stood up and came to the study door.

Then he opened the study door.

"General Zhao Zilong, has your Organ Refining Realm reached Perfection?" Chen Hu asked.

"It is still lacking some heat!" General Zhao Zilong said.

"Then take this bottle of five-organ pills!" Chen Hu took out a bottle of five-organ pills and handed it to General Zhao Zilong, saying, "Come find me for more when you finish using these."

"Many thanks, Brother Hu!"

General Zhao Zilong said with emotion.

He knew that five-organ pills were not only expensive but also not easy to obtain.

After sending off General Zhao Zilong.

Chen Hu arrived outside Dongfang Jun's door.

"Knock, knock!"

Chen Hu raised his hand to knock on the door.

"Wait a moment!"

The voice of Dongfang Jun came from inside.

Dressed neatly, Dongfang Jun opened the door: "Brother Hu, is something the matter?"

"Delivering Cultivation resources to you!" Chen Hu took out a bottle of five-organ pills and handed it to Dongfang Jun.

"Cultivate well!"

After stuffing the five-organ pills to Dongfang Jun, Chen Hu turned and left.

"Thank you, Brother Hu!"

Dongfang Jun shouted at Chen Hu's back before closing the door and returning to her room.

Curiously opening the jade bottle, she found that there were a full 10 five-organ pills inside.

Although she had received five-organ pills from Chen Hu before, receiving a whole bottle directly now still left her feeling shocked and moved.

Time passed.

Unknowingly, it reached the early morning.

It was time to open the cards again.

Chen Hu first opened the good luck card.

He obtained 2x good luck.

The items from the resource card and item card were both quite good.

Next, Chen Hu opened the connection card, which was still a Ding-grade connection.

He directly gave up using it.

Next, he opened the intelligence card.

Today's intelligence: Zhao Wuji returned to Mingjian Villa and had a conversation with Zhao Jiansheng, which made Zhao Jiansheng somewhat furious and ashamed. Originally, he wanted to teach the host—this unfilial son—a lesson, but because nine important industries in the city had been destroyed, he was overwhelmed and temporarily gave up on the plan to deal with the host.

"Heh!"

Seeing this intelligence, Chen Hu gave a disdainful smile, thinking to himself: "It seems I need to cause more trouble for Mingjian Villa."

The next moment, Chen Hu took out the identity card.

He silently recited to activate it.

He obtained the identity of a Bone Refining Martial Artist in the Royal Capital.

Chen Hu chose to use it directly, and then he transformed into that Royal Capital Martial Artist.

He chose to read the other party's identity.

Through this identity of a Bone Refining Martial Artist in the Royal Capital, Chen Hu also gained a better understanding of the current imperial court of the Great Yong Kingdom.

The title of the current emperor is Emperor Jingren.

He is already 93 years old.

Do not let the age of this emperor fool you; in fact, he has only been on the throne for 30-plus years.

The main reason is that this world is a Xuanhuan world; after practicing martial arts, people tend to live longer.

When he first ascended the throne, Emperor Jingren was quite competent and attempted reforms.

Unfortunately, the Great Yong Kingdom had already entered its twilight years.

How could it be reformed just by saying so?

Therefore, after the failure of the reforms, this Emperor Jingren became somewhat disheartened.

He became increasingly focused on enjoyment.

After overworking himself, his health also deteriorated, and he does not have many years left to live.

As for the Crown Prince, he is already over seventy.

He probably knows that he likely won't live to see the day of his succession, so he has started to let himself go.

Primarily, he was once assassinated, which destroyed his martial arts Foundation; therefore, his cultivation stopped at the Bone Refining Realm.

Consequently, at over seventy years old, his body is even frailer than Emperor Jingren's.

Some even suspect that the Crown Prince will pass away before Emperor Jingren.

Therefore, the power of this Crown Prince is not even comparable to that of an ordinary prince.

Those other princes still have a slim chance of succession, but he, the Crown Prince, has absolutely no chance at all.

And among the many princes.

The Second Prince has the highest prestige.

The Second Prince is only fifty-plus years old this year.

But his martial arts cultivation is high; he has already reached Late-stage Refining Viscera.

Second only to the Second Prince is the Fifth Prince.

The Fifth Prince is forty-plus years old and also possesses cultivation in the Marrow Refining Realm.

Next is the Eighth Prince; this prince is even younger, only thirty-plus years old, and his cultivation has also stepped into the Marrow Refining Realm.

This Eighth Prince prefers the military.

He started joining the army at eighteen, and after more than ten years, he is already a figure who commands an army, serving as the Governor in the Central Province.

And the Central Province is the province closest to the Royal Capital.

As for the Third Prince, he is already dead.

The Fourth Prince was enfeoffed to Xuanzhou.

The remaining princes are not very promising and are not worth mentioning.

As for the imperial court.

It is mainly divided into five factions: the civil official group led by Prime Minister Xie, the military general group led by Marquis Weiwu.

The supervision group led by the Inspectorate.

And the eunuch group led by the Great Eunuch Zhou Bing.

Besides that, the Zhenwu Division forms a separate lineage.

Among them, Prime Minister Xie, Marquis Weiwu, and the Great Eunuch Zhou Bing fight quite fiercely.

The Inspectorate does not participate, but as long as they catch hold of the handles of the three major factions, the Inspectorate will pounce like a mad dog.

As for the Zhenwu Division, it only manages Jianghu factions and rebel forces.