Indeed, in all the stories about coups and treason, money was indispensable.Whether it was used to reward the soldiers who sacrificed their lives or to bribe the generals, money was the most effective and useful thing.Therefore, in those stories, once people wanted to stage a coup, for the start, the first thing they do was find someone with a lot of money.There were many wealthy people in Huaiyang City.But their wealth was all a far cry from that in the national treasury.The only person who could draw silver ingots from the treasury in a short period was the old His Excellency Xun Fang, the Minister of Revenue.Therefore, if Prince of Liang wanted to stage a coup, for a start, he needed His Excellency Xun to draw some money from the treasury.In the year of Chenghua, one vice minister of the Ministry of Revenue did so by chance. He embezzled 300,000 taels of silver ingots from tho
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