Qin Jiyan heard it right. The secret guard repeated this sentence ten thousand times, but it was still the same sentence.
The treasury of Da Qin was empty, and all the money in it was gone.
No matter how calm Qin Jiyan was, he could not help showing his emotions at this moment. He took a deep breath, suppressed the tumbling emotions in his heart, and squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Details?"
It is not an easy task to empty the treasury under the eyes of the emperor.
The secret guard knew that this matter was serious and did not dare to delay. He quickly said: "The fifth prince has been embezzling silver from the treasury to make up for the bank's shortfall. It was not until the emperor wanted to use the money not long ago that he ordered someone to open the treasury to take the money.
All my savings are gone.”
"Fifth prince? How can he empty out the treasury?" It's not that Qin Jiyan looks down on the fifth prince. In fact, the fifth prince is just a pile of mud. He originally put up the entire framework of Da Qin Bank, and the fifth prince followed the plan.
, were unable to set up a bank, which shows his strength.
"The Minister of Household Affairs intervened. He joined forces with the bankers, deceived the superiors and deceived the subordinates, and withdrew money from the treasury in the name of the fifth prince." The secret guard presented a piece of information sent by the leader of the Jinyiwei with both hands. "Before, in order to allow the Daqin Bank to be established
Get up, your Majesty has promised the Fifth Prince to act expediently, and you can withdraw money of less than 100,000 taels by yourself without notification."
The leader of the Jinyiwei did not write down the details of the matter in the brochure. What was written in the brochure was the record of the fifth prince transferring money from the treasury. Each transaction was more than 50,000 taels.
I wrote a whole book densely, with hundreds of pages.
"Sure enough, I have the ability." Qin Jiyan did not look at each transaction in detail, but looked at a total, which read six million taels of gold and three hundred million taels of silver.
This is the entire silver deposited in the treasury of Da Qin in recent years, and now it is all gone.
"He can actually take out so much money. He is really capable." Without money in the treasury, the entire Qin Dynasty cannot operate.
The Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Personnel, as well as the large armies in the government and far away on the frontiers, which one does not need money to support?
"Your Highness, all the silver and gold in the treasury are withdrawn through banknotes issued by Daqin Bank. Daqin Bank has dozens of boxes of banknotes." After the secret guard found out the cause and effect of the matter, he also wanted to scold the fifth prince.
stupid.
There was a run on the bank, and the fifth prince wanted to cover it up, but if he couldn't, it would break out and let capable people clean up the aftermath. Now that it's like this, the whole Qin Dynasty is in trouble.
Qin Jiyan closed his eyes and said, "I want to know the details?"
Things have already happened, and getting angry is of no use.
"Not long after the Daqin Bank was established, many people came in to deposit money. The bank successively issued many large-denomination banknotes, and there were even banknotes worth one million taels. These large-denomination banknotes were all privately issued by the Fifth Prince.
The Fifth Prince doesn't remember the exact number of the ones that were driven out, but it was at least more than ten million taels."
"These tens of millions of taels of silver were deposited in the bank, but the fifth prince did not hand it over to the treasury, and did not even tell the Ministry of Household Affairs. The court did not know that the fifth prince had received so much silver. This money was used by the fifth prince for bribery
Enter officials and training privates."
"Training private soldiers and bribing officials were all done by a man named Xiaoyao, who arranged for people to help the fifth prince. The fifth prince had no idea how much silver was used. The fifth prince only knew that Xiaoyao helped him train a hundred thousand troops, and Xiaoyao also promised him
, as soon as something happens to the emperor, Xiaoyao will lead troops to attack the city to protect the fifth prince."
"The fifth prince was stunned by the throne. Xiaoyao said that the army needs weapons and weapons. He can get good swords and guns from Northern Qi, but the price will be relatively high and a large sum of money will be needed. Just at this time, there are some big merchants offering money.
Come and deposit it. After the fifth prince issued the banknote, he secretly transported the money to Xiaoyao so that Xiaoyao could buy weapons and train soldiers and horses."
"Everything was going smoothly at first, but a month and a half ago, there was a sudden bank run on the bank. At first, it was just a small exchange, and the fifth prince could still get the money. But later, the amount became larger and larger, and the fifth prince could not get enough money.
I can’t get the money out.”
"The fifth prince was afraid that the emperor would know about this matter. He found out about his private military training, so he asked Xiaoyao for help. Xiaoyao came up with an idea for him and asked him to get silver from the treasury."
"At first, the fifth prince was still hesitant. After all, taking money from the treasury is a big deal and can easily be discovered, but the people in Xiaoyao promised that they could help the fifth prince settle the matter."
"The fifth prince is already riding a tiger at this time. Even if he doesn't believe in Xiaoyao, he still has to believe it, unless he wants the emperor to know that he has evil intentions and trains troops in private."
"Xiaoyao's people are really powerful. They calmed down the minister of household affairs and the people who were guarding the treasury, and moved the money from the treasury out bit by bit. Using the money from the treasury, the fifth prince calmed down the storm without being discovered by the emperor. He became more and more convinced
Carefree."
"The fifth prince himself couldn't remember how many million-tael silver notes he printed. Later, more and more people came to redeem them with huge amounts of silver notes, and every one of them was genuine.
The fifth prince, who has already spent a huge amount of money, has no choice but to continue to use money to fill the hole."
"The fifth prince said that the Xiaoyao people deceived the superiors and deceived the subordinates. Later, he did not know how much money was taken from the treasury. Whenever someone came to collect the money with a banknote, he asked the Xiaoyao people to go to the treasury to get it."
The secret guard almost kept it intact, relaying Jin Yiwei's words without any personal feelings.
After Qin Jiyan listened, he took a long breath and asked: "Did not a single person of Xiaoyao be caught? Did the whole family of the Minister of the Ministry of Finance disappear with them?"
"Yes, only the fifth prince and his cronies did not run away, and until he was caught, the fifth prince still didn't know that the treasury had been emptied." The secret guard lowered his head, not knowing what he was going to do.
Although the nine sons of Longsheng are all different, it is really rare for the fifth prince to be as stupid as he is.
"Idiot." Qin Jiyan couldn't help but cursed.
Falling into such a low-level trap for the sake of the throne, what else is there but a fool?
To say that he is a descendant of the royal family is to disgrace the Qin royal family!
The secret guard lowered his head, pretending that he did not hear, and continued: "Your Highness, the Emperor also chose to cover up this matter and did not dare to let it be exposed."
"Jinyiwei has been busy tracking down the whereabouts of the silver coins during this period. The emperor wants to solve the matter quietly, but Jinyiwei has been investigating for several days and there is no news. Seeing that this season's military pay is about to
The emperor is afraid that if the matter is exposed, the court will be in chaos, so he urgently orders you to return to Beijing privately, asking you to recover the lost money from the treasury and find out the mastermind behind the scenes."
These words were re-edited by the secret guard. The original words sent by the Jin Yiwei were: The emperor said that the emperor's grandson is the future prince, and it is time to get involved in major national affairs. This matter is fully left to the emperor's grandson to resolve. He believes that the emperor's grandson is the future prince.
Sun will definitely do it successfully.
Yes, the emperor tried to save things when something happened, but if he couldn't save everything, he would blame everything on Qin Jiyan. When the court is in turmoil and the people are uneasy, it will all be the fault of Qin Jiyan, the emperor's grandson...