World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 958 - 444: Suo Lun’s Slaughter Command! Corpses everywhere!_3

Chapter 958: 444: Suo Lun’s Slaughter Command! Corpses everywhere!_3

Black Dragon Platform Minor Minister Yin Du bowed with a smile and said, "Yes, I have seen such cases many times before. He will break within three days at most."

Suo Lun said, "No need for three days. I will find Princess Zhen Yan and have her suppress him with the Mental Skill, crushing his will!"

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Suo Lun was racing against time!

Yin Zhou would definitely retaliate, and it would be extremely fierce and deadly!

However, Suo Lun persisted with one principle: you fight your battles, I’ll fight mine.

We absolutely cannot become passive and go on the defensive just because Yin Zhou is attacking. Absolutely not!

Right now, he needed to do two things.

First, to completely take control of the capital’s Gold Coin depot, to prevent the situation from worsening.

Second, to acquire a large sum of Gold Coins in the shortest time possible to cope with the impending great crisis!

As Yin Zhou’s counterattack began, the finances of the Rage Wave Kingdom would be abruptly cut off.

At that time, let alone repaying debts, there wouldn’t even be money to maintain the operation of the kingdom. Millions of soldiers without their military pay, countless officials without their salaries, the whole national machinery could stop at any moment.

Once it reached that point, the consequences would be utterly disastrous!

Suo Lun was formidable, but he couldn’t just order people around without money.

Moreover, with the scandal of the capital’s Gold Coin depot bursting out, a bank run crisis was inevitable.

If the lords and nobles came to withdraw money, Suo Lun could still refuse them, even threaten them with swords, because their money was tainted.

But a large portion of the capital’s Gold Coin depot also belonged to the wealthy class and the middle class of the kingdom, as well as ordinary citizens.

Suo Lun absolutely had to pay out the money to these people.

Because their money was clean and essential for living. If they also couldn’t withdraw their money, the entire Rage Wave Kingdom’s credibility would be destroyed in an instant, plunging the entire nation into utter chaos.

In Suo Lun’s view, this crisis could see nobles and lords in disarray, but the commoners must not be!

People are like water, and their movements are like smoke!

The hearts of people often do not matter much, but at critical moments, they are the most deadly.

At this critical juncture, if the commoners descended into chaos, the entire kingdom would almost completely collapse.

Because this was a nation post-civil war, where the ruling class has not yet smoothly transitioned!

On the surface, the treasury was only short by over seven million Gold Coins, but once the crisis broke out, it would become a massive hole exceeding ten million Gold Coins.

At this moment, there were still a large number of Gold Coins inside the capital’s Gold Coin depot. As long as he completely took control of the capital’s Gold Coin depot, the foundation would be half stabilized. Because according to Suofu’s previous description, Zhi Li had only misappropriated about thirty percent of the capital’s Gold Coin depot.

A few days ago, after Zhi Li’s failure, Suo Lun immediately sent people to take over the capital’s Gold Coin depot.

But the Hidden Yuan Association was the largest shareholder of the capital’s Gold Coin depot, and at that time Suo Lun had not completely turned against Yin Zhou yet, so he could not resort to military force.

But now that the face-off had occurred, Suo Lun decisively sent troops to blockade and take over the capital’s Gold Coin depot.

Controlling the Gold Coin depot was not enough, Suo Lun also needed a sum of Gold Coins to cope with the impending bank run crisis and to maintain the operation of the national machinery.

This amount of Gold Coins didn’t need to be too much, three or four million would be enough.

But even three or four million were not something he could afford to fill. He only had a few hundred thousand Gold Coins at hand.

Thus, the only option was to confiscate wealth, but specifically whose property to confiscate?

It depended entirely on Suofu’s ledger, as only he knew which nobles and officials in the capital had received how much dirty money, how much corrupt and ill-gotten wealth.

Suo Lun couldn’t just confiscate properties recklessly as that would be a deadly blow to the nation’s credibility.

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Suo Lun went to the princess’ mansion to find Zhi Yan, asking her to use the Mental Skill to break Suofu’s will and have him reveal that ledger.

This ledger must exist; it was Suofu’s leverage over the kingdom’s elites, his most lethal weapon, and he must treasure it, hiding it somewhere.

Before Suo Lun even arrived at the princess’ mansion, a fatal message arrived!

The Deputy Commander of the Forbidden Army, who was sent to take over the capital’s Gold Coin depot, galloped there and knelt on the ground.

"Duke, the capital’s Gold Coin depot has been burnt down. All the ledgers and archives inside have been turned to ashes."

Deputy Commander Li Ruofei knelt trembling on the ground.

This news was like a bolt from the blue for Suo Lun!

Li Ruofei said, "When our forces surrounded the capital’s Gold Coin depot, they burned down the entire place at the fastest speed. Every part of it was doused with oil! Once the fire started, it was impossible to extinguish."

The capital’s Gold Coin depot was Suo Lun’s foundation for stabilizing the situation and coping with the impending great crisis!

Now it had been completely obliterated!

Knowing that Fang Qingyi would fiercely retaliate, Suo Lun had not expected such a resolute action to completely destroy the entire Gold Coin depot. It should be noted that this would also result in huge losses to the reputation of the Hidden Yuan Association.

At this moment, Suo Lun could almost feel the fierce sneer of Fang Qingyi, the young master of Yin Zhou.

The destruction of the Gold Coin depot had almost pushed Suo Lun into a dead end.

When the deficit broke out, it wouldn’t be just a few million Gold Coins but ten to twenty million.

What’s more horrifying was the overwhelming crowd’s bank run, the complete collapse of the kingdom’s finances, the total breakdown of the national machinery.

Suo Lun closed his eyes!

The most dangerous, most fatal moment had arrived!

Moments later, Suo Lun opened his eyes and calmly ordered: "Send a command down, have the Forbidden Army surrounding the Gold Coin depot charge in, and massacre all the members of the Hidden Yuan Association inside! Hei Ningqi, immediately lead the army to completely surround the Headquarters of the Yin Yuan Society!"

Hei Ningqi shuddered violently; the headquarters of the Hidden Yuan Society was truly a lawless land.

It was akin to an embassy of Yin Zhou in the Rage Wave Kingdom, truly within the jurisdiction of the Dragon Temple, and once troops were sent to surround the Headquarters of the Yin Yuan Society, it would stir up a tremendous upheaval.

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