Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

"Have you sold all the remaining three million taels of bills?"

Qin Ming turned and looked at Liu Yueli.

Liu Yueli has been running around these days, helping Qin Ming sell the bills.

Today, they even received the news of the market collapse in advance, and rushed to the market to sell off millions of taels of bills.

"In the past few days, I have sold bills worth 2.37 million taels, and obtained a total of 4.67 million taels of silver."

"Give them the silver contributed by the Lingnan Chamber of Commerce, and use the rest to collect the bills from the people in the market."

Qin Ming spoke calmly and arranged everything.

Liu Yueli immediately pulled out a stack of banknotes from her sleeve and said:

"Boss Wanshang, this is 500,000 taels of silver. I'll have someone deliver it to you later."

Upon seeing this, Wan Shu immediately pushed the bill to Liu Yueli, glared at Qin Ming with her hands on her hips, and said:

"Your Majesty, I don't want it. I've already earned millions of taels by following you here. This reserved amount is my contribution to you."

Qin Ming raised his eyebrows and said with a smile:

"That's not something you would say."

"The past is the past. Now that we have followed you aboard the Southern Dynasty ship, how can the Lingnan Chamber of Commerce not make use of its own value?"

Wan Shu explained seriously.

Seeing this, Qin Ming smiled and nodded.

"Well."

At this time, Emperor Qian had already started to lead people to exchange silver for the people.

Although his words have appeased some of the people.

But many people, for the sake of safety, gave up the possible dividends they might get in the future and came to exchange silver with him.

Some large families holding huge amounts of bills also exchanged some of them.

Of course, many of the large-denomination exchanges were handled by Qin Ming.

He exchanged the remaining hundreds of thousands of taels of bills.

He turned around and took Liu Yueli and others, took the silver to the pre-prepared stall in the market to start buying silver bills.

Emperor Qian saw that the exchanged bills easily broke through more than two million taels, and at this moment his forehead was sweating slightly.

He called Sun Zhilin over and whispered:

"Go tell the people that it's too late today and ask them to come back tomorrow to exchange."

"Your Majesty, this... they won't agree."

Sun Zhilin looked at Emperor Qian with hesitation, and had already cursed him eight hundred times in his heart.

Emperor Qian did not think of himself at all when he was trying to save the people and exchange bills for them in order to gain fame.

Now it is someone's turn to take the blame and urge the people and major families to leave.

He actually ran up and asked me to come over and talk.

"I'll leave this matter to Lord Sun first."

Unfortunately, Emperor Qian didn't give Sun Zhilin any chance to react. After speaking loudly to him, he asked Wang Bao to arrange someone to escort him back to the palace on the grounds that it was getting late.

Sun Zhilin gritted his teeth and came before the crowd, then began to exchange the few hundred thousand taels of silver he had.

Although Emperor Qian left this place, he did not feel relieved, but extremely depressed.

"Wang Bao, go check how much silver is left in the treasury."

He took a deep breath and sent Wang Bao to the treasury as soon as he arrived at the palace.

"Your Majesty...didn't you just check the number before you went over there?"

Wang Bao looked at Emperor Qian in surprise.

"Bring me the account book. I want to take a fresh look at how twenty million taels of silver suddenly became several million taels."

Emperor Qian took a deep breath and felt like he was dreaming.

A few days ago, he was still squandering money, allocating funds to the army, officials in the court, and construction and disaster relief in various places.

In the blink of an eye, I suddenly became poor again.

At today's exchange rate, the money in the treasury won't last more than three days.

Now Emperor Qian no longer wants to make any money.

He just wanted to prevent the people from exchanging bills again after he took the initiative to stabilize the people's hearts.

"Your Majesty, how about we stop the exchange first?"

Wang Bao already understood what Emperor Qian meant.

He was also worried that if they continued like this, they would not be able to hold on.

But the solution proposed by Wang Bao made Emperor Qian shake his head immediately.

"Don't forget we still owe 20 million taels of silver. If the imperial court acts rogue, Daqian will be finished."

If the imperial court delays paying such a huge sum of money, all the people will riot.

Emperor Qian had to appear extremely honest in front of everyone.

This is the only way to make the people feel at ease.

"But if the situation remains the same tomorrow, Your Majesty, we will have to prepare more than just several million taels of silver!"

Today, Emperor Qian brought over several million taels.

But he couldn't even hold out for a single night, and Wang Bao couldn't imagine how Emperor Qian would get through the entire day tomorrow.

Emperor Qian was silent for a long time, then suddenly spoke:

"Go call all the people from the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Works here. I want them to return all the money they took out!"

Emperor Qian was already extremely angry, although he only temporarily quelled the chaos in the capital.

But there are still countless twists and turns waiting for him, and it is the officials under his command who caused all this.

Soon, a large number of officials were escorted to Emperor Qian by guards in fear.

Although it was late at night, Emperor Qian still did not close his eyes.

Inside the brightly lit hall, Emperor Qian looked at the dozens of officials kneeling in half the hall and roared angrily:

"Where's the money?! I gave you five million taels of silver, only for you to make such a rubbish to fool people?"

"He, Qin Ming, built the factory! And he even gets dividends! Can't we even build a factory?"

"Send all the money you've embezzled here before sunrise, or your entire clan will be executed! Your heads will be hung in front of the capital's gate for half a month for public display!"

As Emperor Qian finished speaking, thousands of guards in the palace rushed towards the residences of various officials.

"Your Majesty, we are not greedy..."

"Even if you force us to pay, we can't come up with it right away..."

Everyone is still trying their best to defend themselves.

But their explanation is extremely weak.

After hearing their explanation, Emperor Qian slammed the table and yelled at them:

"Am I forcing you? It's you who are forcing me!"

"So much silver! All the people have to exchange it. Didn't they see how shabby the factory you built is? Can you even call it a factory?"

"Tomorrow during the day, a large number of civilians and wealthy families will need to exchange their silver. Should I sell the palace to compensate them?"

Emperor Qian kept scolding them.

But the officials below are also helpless.

This time they had no preparation at all, and the decision to build a factory was made on the spur of the moment.

There is a saying that goes, "If you don't plan for the future, you will have immediate worries."

Now this sentence is fully reflected in them.

Due to the lack of detailed planning, they encountered many difficulties right from the start, and officials in the court also blamed each other.

Naturally, things are done in a bad and slow manner.

But Emperor Qian was used to being domineering.

None of this can be blamed on him, the emperor who made decisions on the spur of the moment.

This ultimately led to this embarrassing situation.

As night fell, as more and more people failed to receive the money from the court, Qin Ming began to take advantage of the situation.