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Fu Hanwen chuckled and said, "The Cao Family should be considered one of the top wealthy families in Feng Zhao Country, but in Xilin Country they might not even make the list."
His wife had never seen true wealth comparable to a nation, and it was said that during the previous dynasty's prince's struggle for the throne, each faction had wealthy merchants who funded their rebellion, amounts that couldn't be estimated at mere millions of silver taels.
Qin Xiaoruo thought for a moment and agreed, "Hide your wealth, if we hadn't discovered these gold bricks, we wouldn't have known that the Cao Family is so rich."
Fu Hanwen dispatched a messenger to secretly deliver the news of the gold bricks to the Capital City. Upon receiving the news, the Emperor was elated and praised the soldiers in Qingping City, deciding to convert some gold bricks to silver taels to supplement their military pay, with the remainder to be sent to the Capital City.
