After I killed him for 9,000 years, he was reborn.

Chapter 153 IOU from the National Treasury

Chai Liangji deliberately staged this drama. He was not impeaching himself, but all the court officials in the Golden Palace.

But for just 500 taels of silver, this iron-headed censor made such a big fuss at the court meeting. He did it for everyone to see.

The Chai family only borrowed 500 taels of silver, but they had to be so cautious in paying back the money. What about others?

If you dare not return the money to the national treasury, I am afraid that the censors led by Chai Liangji will point at your nose and scold you. In the writings of the censors, it is not even a dream that you will be infamous for thousands of years.

After having someone accept the silver note for 500 taels of silver, Emperor Jiade finally spoke.

“Cai Yushi is devoted to the country and is a truly virtuous and loyal minister of the Da Chong Dynasty.

A few days ago, the Yellow River broke its banks, causing floods and leaving tens of thousands of victims homeless. However, the national treasury could not provide much money to help the victims.

The Ministry of Revenue worked overtime to count all the accounts in the national treasury, and found that there was only more than 500,000 taels of silver in the treasury.

The treasury of the great Chong Dynasty only has more than 500,000 taels of silver. Where is the silver?

What about money?

Where did the money go?

There was not much silver left in the treasury, only a pile of IOUs.

Li Chengen, bring the things up."

Emperor Jiade waved his hand, signaling Li Chengen to bring over a large stack of IOUs.

"Look, look, all of you, come and take a look, all the princes and ministers, come and take a look at the IOUs you wrote with your own hands. The King of Huainan owes the national treasury 3 taels, the King of Hengshan owes the national treasury 4 taels, the Prime Minister owes the national treasury 56,000 taels, the General of the State owes the national treasury 68,000 taels, and the Duke of Yue owes the national treasury 20 taels.

The Minister of Rites owed the national treasury 8000 taels...

They are all the pillars of the Dachong Dynasty, ah..."

Picking up a handful of IOUs, Emperor Jiade sat on them and read them one by one. He hadn't read a few when he became so angry that he threw the IOUs in his hand to the ground.

"call……

call……

Li Chengen, have someone pick up the IOU on the ground, and you stand here and read it to me. Whoever's name is read will come up and take the IOU back.

I would like to see how many civil and military officials in this court have not yet borrowed money from the national treasury?

read……"

Sitting on the dragon throne, half-closed his eyes, and his hands habitually plucked the Hetian jade bracelet until sparks were almost coming out. Emperor Guardian just watched quietly.

Watching Li Chengen holding up the IOUs and reading them one by one, the court officials below lined up one after another and filed forward to get the IOU that belonged to them.

"The Grand Secretary owes the national treasury 2 taels..."

"The Imperial College's chief priest owes the national treasury thirty-four thousand taels..."

"The Jingzhao Yin owes the national treasury 16,000 taels..."

"........."

The chief eunuch Li Chengen read the IOUs one by one, and it took him nearly two hours.

The eunuch Li Chengen, whose throat was so dry that it was smoking, had already drunk two large pots of water. His throat was so hoarse that he could hardly speak.

He was still lucky, after all, he didn't have an IOU. Those princes and ministers in the court who were all happy to receive the IOU award were even more miserable.

All the ministers who came to attend the morning court meeting had gotten up in the dark at three o'clock in the morning. Now it was almost noon. After standing for such a long time, they were shocked and frightened, and their minds were turning dozens of bends. They had thought about many things. Many ministers who were pampered on weekdays had turned pale and their legs were trembling. Several older ministers were almost fainting.

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