The Empress came ashore and beheaded the meritorious officials, forcing me to wear the yellow robe

Li Jize left the palace and walked towards the Li family.

Before reaching home, I saw my flustered mother Huang Suqiu and her ugly daughter-in-law Wang Yuanya hurriedly following her towards me from afar.

At the same time that Li Jize saw them, they also obviously discovered Li Jize.

Huang Suqiu's worried face finally relaxed upon seeing this. She immediately rushed over, grabbed Li Jize's hand, and asked, "Hey, son! How are you? Are you okay? Let me check you out."

Li Jize was amused. "Mom, I'm fine! What could have happened?"

Wang Yuanya looked surprised and asked Li Jize, "Why? The emperor summoned you and then released you just like that?"

Li Jize shrugged, "What else can I do?"

This……

Wang Yuanya frowned, feeling that there was something fishy going on.

Huang Suqiu patted her chest and pulled Li Jize's arm again, "That's good! That's good, forget it! Hurry home, I'll stew a chicken for you! Now, after you finish eating, it's cold! Hurry up and get into bed, so I can hold my grandson soon."

Li Jize: "..."

Wang Yuanya: “…”

As a result, just as the family of three was about to rush home to kill a chicken for dinner and get into bed...

All over the street, everyone was running in panic, and some were crying and shouting.

Huang Suqiu was stunned. She grabbed a well-dressed businessman and asked, "Uncle, what happened? Are there red envelopes being distributed up ahead?"

The businessman was so angry that he spat, "What's the point of sending out red envelopes? What a lunatic! This unscrupulous scammer stole my money and now he's nowhere to be found. I've lost everything!"

As he spoke, he turned and tried to run.

Unexpectedly...

Huang Suqiu refused to give in and held him tightly, "Uncle, please explain clearly. What kind of unscrupulous liar is this? Even if he cheated you out of your money, why are there so many people running around? How many people can a liar cheat?"

"How many people? All the merchants and officials in Da Qi were deceived! That overseas businessman named Zhang, he deceived us!"

This one sentence made Huang Suqiu feel like she was struck by a bolt from the blue, and she froze on the spot.

Wang Yuanya was surprised and opened her mouth wide.

Only Li Jize touched his nose feeling a little guilty and pretended to know nothing.

He really didn't expect that the news would spread so quickly and it would explode like this?

Of course, it doesn’t matter!

Anyway, the silver is already in hand, and it is better to cheat it all by yourself than to wait for the bandits to come and rob it!

At this moment...

Huang Suqiu, the old lady, couldn't believe her ears. She patted Wang Yuanya's arm and asked in surprise, "Daughter-in-law! What did that businessman say just now?"

"Mother-in-law, he seems to be saying that Boss Zhang is a liar who has cheated all the businessmen and officials in Da Qi out of their money."

"Gudong!"

Huang Suqiu swallowed and began to panic, "How much money did our family invest?"

Wang Yuanya turned around and looked at her mother-in-law with a pale face, feeling a little sorry for her.

"It seems...it seems to be more than one million taels of silver!"

"Ah! Damn it! That's all the money of the Li family."

Huang Suqiu screamed and ran after the merchants.

Where to go?

It’s funny to say that after hearing about this, countless businessmen and officials spread the news from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. In short, almost everyone in the capital knew about it that day!

They were cheated!

The cause of this matter is also simple.

It turned out that after many officials and businessmen invested money, this group of people also engaged in ship business.

Someone discovered that this merchant ship loaded with silver could not get out of the canal at all.

No matter how you calculate the time, the ship seems to have mysteriously evaporated and never appeared again.

This is not...

Someone immediately thought that since the ship did not go out to sea, wouldn’t that be inconsistent with what the businessman surnamed Zhang said about lending money at high interest rates overseas?

Therefore, merchants who were willing to go bankrupt and lend money at high interest rates were all groping in the dark! Those who could afford it would search along the canal, while those who couldn't afford it would go directly to the capital to file a complaint.

It is conceivable that the empress became seriously ill due to the fall of Zhongjing.

The empress was shocked when she heard the eunuch's report that a large number of officials and civilians had gathered outside the palace gate.

She thought that maybe the incident in Zhongjing had caused unrest among the officials and the people, and that they would all donate money and sign up to join the army to fight the rebellion.

As a result, when I asked...

The second blow came upon her, and the empress almost vomited blood in anger!

what?

Aren't the businessmen and officials here to donate money or join the army? Are they here to file a complaint with the emperor?

What complaint are you filing?

If this businessman went to the officials to file a complaint, wouldn't the officials just judge him? Why would he file a complaint with the emperor?

What? All officials are victims?

What is going on? Do you need me to make the decision?

Ah! They say Boss Zhang is a liar and stole everyone’s money?

puff!

The empress performed a "I will die first as a sign of respect!"

That was all the money in her treasury! The last bit of money.

You have to know that the emperor does not live alone, he has a whole family to support.

Not to mention the 3,000 beauties in the harem, the eunuchs, maids, and imperial guards in the palace...

They were all the emperor's household slaves! They were supported by the emperor himself.

Damn Zhang the liar, he stole all her money!

How could the Empress feed these people when she couldn't even tell where her next meal would be? Was she going to be left alone?

The empress, so angry that her chest ached, issued a death order, "Order the East Factory! The Five Cities Military Department, and the Canal Transport Department, to conduct a joint investigation! If the silver cannot be recovered, everyone will be beheaded!"

Chase? What's the point of chasing?

The money is now on "Liangshan".

No matter what, the imperial edict cannot be disobeyed!

Eunuch Gao immediately went down to convey the imperial edict. This day was a dark day for Da Qi and the beginning of the empress's collapse.

On the military front, the rebels broke through Zhongjing, occupied the Central Plains, and killed the royal Yin King. On the economic front, the Great Qi, already depleted of both the treasury and the internal treasury, was faced with a damned "Zhang the Liar" who played a "Ponzi scheme" that had never been seen before.

Not only did he cheat the empress of all her money, he also cheated all the silver that officials had stored in the cellar after years of corruption and bribery.

as well as……

Those unlucky businessmen!

Some are happy and some are sad.

While officials and businessmen were crying, the common people were celebrating.

These days, the gap between the rich and the poor is so huge that they are almost starving to death! They have all become victims of disaster.

There was no disaster relief from the court or officials, nor was there any charity from merchants.

The rich have wine and meat while the poor freeze to death on the streets is the most true portrayal.

result……

It takes more evil to deal with evil. This group of greedy vampires met a genius "swindler".

It really indirectly helped the common people vent their anger!