The terminal illness of the Empire is not just this piece of bread!

When the prince heard this, he was stunned, as if the previous twenty years of life in the clouds were pushed down and he fell directly into hell.

The senior officials of the Ministry of Finance also wanted to save their lives. They had just seen the resentment of the prince. If they were to confess honestly, they would be really out of their lives today.

Those who are involved in politics understand this unspoken rule. They would rather offend the old fried dough stick than offend the young, because even if the old fried dough stick is cruel, he at least understands the rules, and even if he offends them, he can save them with money or interests.

To put it bluntly, the old fried dough won’t close the door to negotiations while fighting with you. As long as there is a exchange of interests, you won’t do anything.

The young man doesn't understand these rules, especially young people like the crown prince of the empire, who are as high as the crown prince and the future emperor of the empire, and are still pretending to be ideal.

The worst thing is that this empire belongs to others, and you can't buy such people yet!

Faced with the anger of such a person, you cannot go forward and get out of trouble. As the saying goes, "Do not die if you die, I will sell others at the critical moment and share the prince's anger."

The filth under the Imperial Red Velvet Carpet was fully exposed today!

The whole of France was rampant with corruption, and all kinds of incompetent people were entrenched in important positions. They weaved a protection network together to absorb the blood of the empire together.

There are corruption in countless government expenses, and there are senior officials who take kickbacks behind almost all arms orders!

The largest group of usury loan maker in Paris does not have the support of the nobles!

The empire's finances were in chaos. If there was a little fiscal surplus, someone would find a way to dismantle it. The funds were still in the treasury on the surface, but in fact they had been secretly raised by those in power and put them in the capital market to earn interest.

This is a game where you make money from nothing. As long as you can borrow hundreds of millions of gold francs for ten days, the final interest will be as high as tens of millions!

Ten days are just a matter of no real knowledge, and the interest will naturally be divided up by multiple real power figures in the end.

Human beings are always insatiable. They start to dismantle for ten days, and then they will dismantle for one month or even half a year. In the end, they will even dismantle forever without returning.

The prince couldn't help but become confused. He would never return the funds after dismantling them. Aren't they afraid of being discovered?

The corrupt officials from the Ministry of Finance, who were trying to save their lives, said in tears, "Your Highness! Governing the country is not as simple as textbooks!"

"The water here is too deep! The empire was not short of money, and the taxes received from the colonies every year were enough for the empire's expenses!"

"The financial surplus of the empire is the fat that those people like! They boldly borrowed it to eat interest, and then the emperor didn't know it at all!"

"Anyway, those people will check the accounts at that time. I will naturally hide the truth from the truth!"

"But! But what if the empire needs to use that capital? For example, a big war will occur, such as the current preparations!"

"Financial surplus is always used! Can you still deceive by making fake accounts at that time?" the prince roared angrily.

"Of course not! Your Highness the Prince! Of course they cannot deceive! But you cannot underestimate the greed of these people!"

"This is a game of tearing down the east and restoring the west. When the empire needs to spend these surpluses on the books, they will quickly recycle them from the capital market!"

"Look for those borrowers to force debts and try every means to collect the funds back! If there is not enough time, they can also go to the capital market to dismantle funds and temporarily block the deficit in the treasury!"

"As long as the treasury spends money is not too big and not all the surplus is used up at once, then they can keep tearing down the east wall and repairing the west wall!"

Two war officials in the crowd choked and said, "Why is it so difficult to dismantle funds in the entire France this year, and money shortages are starting to occur everywhere?"

"It's not because of this war! Because the war is imminent, the empire began to use a large amount of treasury funds, and those fiscal surpluses are simply not enough!"

"We force them to pay debts every day, and those people are also afraid, and they force debts to borrowers every day! Just this year, how many factory owners are forced to death? There are countless!"

"Why are workers making trouble so fiercely in the past two years? It's not that their boss has also been under tremendous pressure. How can factory owners do not borrow money to operate these days?"

"Now the creditors have no choice but to collect debts from them. These people are almost committing suicide. Who can raise wages for workers? If you don't deduct it, God will bless you!"

"If factory owners want to survive, they can't afford to offend those big guys who lend money. Then they can only compress workers' income. Whether laying off employees or working overtime indefinitely, or even directly deducting wages!"

"Your Highness! This is the stubborn disease of the empire, a terminal illness... Why are you still entangled with such a few pieces of bread? This empire cannot be saved by just a few pieces of bread!"

The prince was completely stunned. He never expected that what he would take over in the future would be such a mess!

"My God! Is the situation so serious? Is the whole country doing fake accounts, and is it tearing down the east and west walls?"

"Is the military the same? Tell me, will the army also have a phenomenon of empty salary? Will there be deviations in the actual number of troops and statistical numbers?"

When it comes to the military, all the senior officials of the Ministry of Finance dare not speak, and they are all silent!

"Speak! Are you mute? Speak! Speak..."

The prince scolded loudly with red eyes, and the military officer who grew up with him since he was a child came forward to smooth things over.

"Your Highness...it's useless to ask them, the water in the military is deeper!"

"I just heard below that I didn't really see... Why is the overseas troops so slow this time? Do you know where the crux of the problem lies?"

"Since this is a peaceful time to dispatch troops, the Navy will not send warships! And the Empire does not have too many troop transport ships, so this kind of task is outsourced to civilian merchant ships!"

"You have just heard that there are still no IOUs from Marseille Military Port in 1864, and there are indeed situations where logistics officials and some ship owners colluded to make fake accounts and cheat freight fees!"

"Now I finally have this opportunity. Those corrupt criminals must first use the chaos to settle their fake accounts! God knows how many non-existent merchant ships are riding the wind and waves on our account books at this moment!"

"And the other side is in the colony! My Highness! As far as I know, there is no situation of empty salary, but the equipment in the hands of the colonial soldiers can be different from what is displayed in the account!"

"You transferred back a regiment from North Africa, but what you transferred back is not the troops of a regiment, but also the weapons and equipment of a regiment!"

"Damn it, God knows if the officials in the colonies still have so much equipment. You should know that a rifle issued by our military headquarters will be a 20 or 30 times the profit in the colonies!"

Note: There will be another update later!
Chapter completed!