Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 622 - 555 Encirclement from All Sides, The Great Path is Expected_3

Chapter 622: Chapter 555 Encirclement from All Sides, The Great Path is Expected_3

His face twisted and flushed with excitement:

"Beauties, whoever of you can please me today, I shall gift her ten bolts of the finest silk newly traded from Great Yan!"

As the saying goes: Observe one’s words and deeds, and therein good and evil are revealed.

This Yanshan Monarch clearly was not a wise ruler, not even the kind of self-proclaimed wise ruler like Emperor Jianming.

The man had an insatiable appetite for beauty. During his twelve years on the throne, he sent out his "Red Horse Collection Envoy" annually to select beautiful women from across the country to fill his harem.

His taste was so unique that he did not distinguish between women of good families and lowly women (including prostitutes).

After numerous rounds of selection, the number of women in the harem had exploded from a few hundred at the start to several thousand now.

It was necessary to establish the Seven Institutes, Zhonghong, Leiying, Chenxiang, Hanfang, and Cuichun, along with the Three Pavilions, Huisi, Qinghuan, and Caixia, to accommodate these palace women.

Innumerable absurdities had been committed.

Once, he even barged into the Jingye Temple, a place within the palace where palace attendants conducted Buddhist rituals, with five or six eunuchs.

They drove away the uglier and older nuns and insulted the remaining seven or eight bald nuns who possessed some beauty.

In short, there was nothing a tyrant wouldn’t do.

However, no sooner had the lust-driven words of Yanshan Monarch fallen,

than an elderly eunuch dashed over the threshold, and with a "thud," knelt on the ground to bow in respect.

Trembling with terror under his master’s murderous gaze, he said:

"Your... Your Majesty, an urgent report has just arrived from the trade market.

After completing the last batch of silk transactions, the national treasury’s reserves of silver coins have run out.

Even the small change we urgently minted is not enough now.

If we cannot promptly pay for the batch of munitions that arrived with the Great Yan Treasure Ship, they are going to haul it all back.

Military supplies are no trifling matter. The trade market dares not make its own decisions and awaits Your Majesty’s wise judgment!"

After uttering these words with great effort, the eunuch’s whole body was shaking.

As an intimate servant, he knew all too well that his lord was more than just lustful.

Domestically, he had invented cruel tortures like Pierce Palm, Branding, Chop Chest, Scraping Bone, Inch-Cut, Ku Fu, Bone Shattering, and Floating Wind,

striking fear into the hearts of the court officials and all the significant powers within the country.

Internationally, he had turned Chengjun Hall, which worshipped the Scholar Saint of Confucianism, and Yuanjue Temple, a site of Han Buddhism, into brothels, frequently visiting them for pleasure.

Previous dynasties of the Central Plains had expended great effort to claim the legitimacy of the Human Clan by attempting to replicate the "Dragon Qi Prohibition" in Tanhuan.

Yet, this Yanshan Monarch seemed intent on fully assimilating to the culture of Great Yan and trampling all the cultural influences that came from there underfoot.

Even though Great Yan had fallen and Divine Land was in chaos, many in the court, including this eunuch, believed Yanshan Monarch must be mad.

In truth, he, of course, was not mad.

It was merely that the "Innate Evil" within him had awakened.

Now, he barely suppressed the urge to crush this eunuch, who dared to disrupt his enjoyment, underfoot as he impatiently declared:

"Issue my order immediately, circulate the Treasure Banknotes within the nation, and forcibly exchange them for the silver coins hoarded by the common folk.

Particularly those wealthy families, who are surely hiding their life savings underground.

Give them half a month to exchange for Treasure Banknotes. If they dare not comply, exile their entire families from the city, letting the Weird that are scattered everywhere become intimately acquainted with them.

Those Great Yan fools who don’t recognize the value of treasures and insist on exchanging their invaluable treasures for mere coins want copper coins, then exchange we shall, to the very end.

Just hope that when I trample the Central Plains underfoot, they won’t regret it!"

At this moment, not only Tanhuan but also the two unclaimed islands of Moluo, the five tribes of Naiman, the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, the Xiangxiong Kingdom, and the six states of Langqiong.

The situation was more or less the same.

After depleting their currency reserves, those in power gradually shifted their gaze to the Treasure Banknotes, which were inherently worthless beyond the trust placed in them.

Little did they know they were about to dig themselves into an immense Heavenly Pit!

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