Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Countless people flocked to the market.

Holding the bills in hand, he sold them to money houses and big families.

These big families had actually heard the news a long time ago.

But they also had preconceived notions, thinking that the imperial court would not fall, and would not even be unable to pay money.

So they did not give up on acquisitions, but the acquisition volume was directly reduced to 30%.

"I'll pay double the amount! Master, please take our bills!"

"I'm 10% lower than him! Take mine first!"

"I'm 20% lower than him!"

The crowd was so dense that the people of the capital gradually gathered in the market, but it was impossible to collect all their bills in a short period of time.

Qin Ming and Wan Shu had already taken advantage of the chaos to mix the bills in their hands into the crowd, and then began to throw them on a large scale to various stalls.

Soon the price dropped to the point where one tael of silver and one penny could buy one tael of bills.

"It will be soon, Your Majesty."

Wan Shu looked at everything in front of him and asked curiously.

"Yeah, almost there."

Qin Ming nodded slightly, his eyes already set on the acquisition stalls of the major families and banks.

Those who are competing now can still make money, but a group of people who will lose a lot of money will soon appear.

These stalls can also accept receipts, but where can they sell their receipts?

as predicted.

Less than half an hour later, the heads of the various stalls walked through the crowd and shouted to the educated people:

"Everyone, we will no longer accept any bills. If you want to keep your capital, go to the court to exchange it now."

After saying this, the people in charge of the stalls also came with piles of thick bills.

Rushed to the exchange office specially opened by the court.

I know that I have lost so much money now, and there is no chance to make money anymore.

The only solution now is to quickly exchange the bills in hand for money from the court.

This way they can at least keep their capital and won't lose too much.

Soon, countless common people and managers from large families appeared in the court, which had been extremely deserted.

"Master Sun, quickly change the money for us!"

The person guarding the government office was Sun Zhilin, a deputy minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

Hearing the noise outside, he pushed open the door of the government office impatiently.

But the moment the door opened and he saw the scene in front of him, he was stunned.

There are huge crowds of people in front of me!

Although it was already dark, the people were still crowded and very noisy.

"You...want to exchange it for silver?!"

He didn't know what was happening yet.

After all, the imperial court had no intention of returning the silver to the people in a short period of time.

Even Sun Zhilin who is responsible for this task.

The court only gave him a symbolic amount of several thousand taels of silver and sent him over.

Sun Zhilin originally wanted to find an opportunity to embezzle some of the several thousand taels of silver and put it into his own pocket.

But now it seems that he has no chance to be greedy at all. This money can't even cover the crowd in front of him...

"What are you doing? How can the imperial court exchange so much silver for you in such a short time? First find thirty people and I will exchange them for you. I will apply for the rest from the imperial court."

Sun Zhilin had been able to stay in the court for so many years, so he naturally had superb Tai Chi skills and directly pushed the matter to the court in front of everyone.

As for himself, after completing the exchange for these thirty people, he will run away tomorrow.

Tomorrow we'll have to find someone unlucky enough to take the blame.

If the people are dissatisfied, the worst that can happen is that they report it to Emperor Qian and let him resolve it.

"No! With so many people here, you only exchange for thirty people?"

"When did the imperial court get to this point?"

Although Sun Zhilin had a good idea, the noisy people present did not agree.

They blocked the door and wouldn't let him leave.

Seeing that the situation was getting more and more serious, Sun Zhilin quickly called his men over.

"Hurry up and report to His Majesty that the people need to exchange the silver they used to buy the bills."

"Yes!"

The officials under him hurried to the palace, while Emperor Qian was in the palace counting the wealth that he had not been able to collect recently.

Although a lot of funds have been allocated in the past few days, the court issued 20 million taels of bills, and ultimately still had more than 6 million taels of silver left.

The drought in the northwest was resolved, the salaries of the northern troops were paid, and the military funds for the second half of the year were also given.

All the overdue salaries owed to officials in the court were also paid off.

If it were not for the crazy Concubine Xiao Shufei's constant nagging, he had a very good time these days.

But just when he was thinking about how to calculate the more than 6 million taels of silver.

Wang Bao stumbled into the palace with the help of a cane.

After seeing his panic, the extremely pleased Emperor Qian was neither anxious nor annoyed. Instead, he asked him in a friendly manner, contrary to his usual behavior:

"Wang Bao, why are you so panicked?"

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened! The common people, the major families, and even the officials of the imperial court are all exchanging notes. They want to exchange all the silver they gave to the imperial court!"

Wang Bao reported loudly in a miserable voice.

"Wha...what!?"

The moment he heard these words, Emperor Qian's head exploded with a buzzing sound.

He tried to stand up by holding on to the table, but he stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

"Are they rebelling?! Why are they suddenly demanding to exchange all the notes?!"

Wang Bao quickly explained:

"Your Majesty, I don't know who took over the construction of our factory. Now many people have rushed to the factory to check it out after purchasing tickets, but they see that the factory is full of ruins and there is no sign of completion. So they feel..."

Having said that, there was no need for Wang Bao to describe the rest, as Emperor Qian had already guessed everything.

"Asshole!!"

"Call all the people from the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of Rites to me!"

"Five million taels of silver, five million taels!! Is this how they do things?!"

Emperor Qian roared loudly in anger and prepared to kill them immediately.

But things have to be prioritized.

Wang Bao quickly said:

"Your Majesty, the most urgent task is to quell the chaos among the people and give an explanation to those great families. As for the argument, we can put it aside for now..."

His words were so sincere that Emperor Qian came back to his senses from his anger.

According to Wang Bao.

Now the people have gathered in the streets.

If this continues, the entire capital will be in chaos. Thinking of this, Emperor Qian hurriedly said:

"Quick, go to the treasury and get some silver to stabilize them first."

"Your Majesty, how much...?"

Wang Bao looked at Emperor Qian hesitantly.

Emperor Qian felt a sudden pang of pain in his heart.

He didn't understand why he had to hand over the money like this before he could even warm it up.

"Take... three million taels of silver."

"Yes."

Soon, Emperor Qian and Wang Bao came to Sun Zhilin with banknotes and more than a dozen boxes of silver.

"Your Majesty is here!"

When Emperor Qian arrived, the whole scene suddenly became quiet.

Emperor Qian stood in the crowd and shouted to them:

"Everyone, don't worry about the construction of the factory. The court just hasn't delivered the building materials yet!"

"As for your silver, I can give it to you at any time!"

"Of course, if you want to wait for the factory to be completed and receive dividends next year, there's no need to be so anxious."

His sincere words immediately calmed down a large number of people.

Wan Shu, who was standing in the crowd, saw this scene and suddenly felt a little flustered. He turned his head and looked at Qin Mingdao:

"That's not right. If we let them quell the bank run so easily, our trip here will be of no use other than making some money."

Qin Ming looked indifferent.

"Is this the only way to stabilize the situation? Don't forget what I said."

At this moment, Wan Shu suddenly reacted. She remembered Qin Ming said that the price of the bill would not fall below the one-to-one exchange rate!