Huang Taiji stayed in Yongfu Palace that night, although he was quite restless, but after teasing his one-year-old son Fulin for a while, his unrest gradually dissipated.

However, when Huang Taiji got up to wash the next day, he heard the bad news that the water was walking near the central bank of the Qing Dynasty last night, because the weather was dry and the fire was difficult to contain for a while, causing half of the block to turn into white ground and dozens of families were homeless.

Huang Taiji was furious when he heard this, kicked over the first-class guard Sonny who came to report the news, and reprimanded him loudly: "Why don't you report such an important matter as soon as possible, if there is a fire in the palace next time, do you also have to wait for the fire to burn Ben Khan..."

When Huang Taiji was furious, Sony naturally didn't dare to tell the difference, but just blindly kowtowed and claimed to be a capital crime. When the skin on Sony's forehead was torn, Huang Taiji finally adjusted his mood and said to Sony: "Stop, go get 20 whips by yourself afterwards, and this matter will be here." Go and call Inordai, Bahana, and the person in charge of the fire last night, and Ben Khan will personally inquire about the matter. ”

Sonny was pardoned and was about to retreat, but before he could reach the door, he suddenly heard Huang Taiji ask him again: "How did this fire start, did it start from the bank, or did it start around the bank?" ”

Sonny immediately stopped and knelt down in the direction of Huang Taiji again, and replied without raising his head: "The minister asked the residents near the fire last night, and everyone is not very sure whether it was the fire in the bank that started first, or the water that the neighbors went first.

However, the surrounding residents said that the fire was quite strange, and it spread almost suddenly, and there was no time to rescue it. And several people smelled a pungent smell before the fire, which seemed to be the smell of pine resin water. ”

After listening to Sony's answer, Huang Taiji was speechless for a long time, and after a long time he said to him: "Okay, you go down and spread the word." ”

After Sony's departure, Huang Taiji felt a fire ignite in his heart, and he knew that last night's fire incident must not be an accident. But those who dare to openly set fire to Shengjing City and do it without flaws must not be done by lower-level officials.

Looking at it this way, Fan Yongdou's escape yesterday was also very suspicious, and he didn't want to flee because he was not willing to flee. If his guess is true, then this is a very high-profile case, otherwise Fan Yongdou would not rather flee than come to reveal himself to others.

Huang Taiji suddenly shuddered in his heart, the household department Chengzheng Ying Erdai has always been conscientious in his work, since he sealed the bank's accounts and began to count the bank's vaults, why can people easily set fire to the bank? If even Yingordai betrayed himself, then how many ministers in the DPRK and China are credible?

Huang Taiji, who was full of worries in his heart, suddenly felt that the palace maids who dressed him today were too clumsy, so he couldn't help but push away the palace maids who served him and reprimanded: "I've been in Yongfu Palace for so long, can't I even wear clothes for serving Khan?" If you don't want to serve Ben Khan, get out of here..."

Under Huang Taiji's reprimand, the palace maids of Yongfu Palace trembled and didn't even dare to breathe. They have not been in the palace for a short time, and they know that this Great Khan is quite generous on weekdays, but once the anger rises, it will be a big deal.

However, after hearing Huang Taiji reprimanding the palace maid beside her, the concubine of Yongfu Palace, Borzigit, hurriedly ran over and personally served Huang Taiji and put it on. Although Huang Taiji doesn't like Concubine Zhuang to be too clever and cares too much about the politics of the country, he can't find anything wrong with her actions at this time. It's just that before going out, there was still some anger that made him control the whole of Yongfu Palace, so that they didn't even forget how to serve people.

Seeing Huang Taiji disappear outside the palace gate, Concubine Zhuang had time to ask the steward beside her why the Great Khan was angry. The steward reported the news of Sony's visit to Concubine Zhuang 1510, although the steward said it without beginning or end, but Concubine Zhuang immediately understood.

What made Huang Taiji feel bad this morning was not last night's fire, but the bank that was burned down. Thinking of the bank, she couldn't help but chuckle in her heart, last year she heard that it was easy to make money on the stock exchange outside, but she secretly borrowed a lot of money from the bank in the name of Dolgon. After thinking of the key to this, she couldn't help but tell the steward around her to go outside to inquire about what happened to the bank.

Although the officials below tried to separate them into two separate incidents, Huang Taiji still put them together as one case and dealt with them.

Although he did not find out what was going on behind the case, Huang Taiji made up his mind at first to investigate the case and prevent these masterminds who dared to do things under his nose from escaping justice.

But he soon realized that the development of events quickly exceeded the worst predictions he had made, and even in the end, Fan Yongdou's escape and the bank's running became insignificant incidents.

It should be said that the measures taken by Ying Erdai at the beginning of the house arrest of the people of Fan Mansion and the blocking of the news of Fan Yongdou's escape are extremely correct. However, after he found out the amount of his loan in the bank accounts and had to take the initiative to release the news to Dolgon, the news of Fan Yongdou's escape quickly spread throughout Shengjing City.

The burning of bank accounts was a relief to many people, but soon the news of the burning of the central bank of the Qing Dynasty caused panic in the market. The cause of the incident was that the firm of the Four Seas Trading Company in Shenyang wanted to exchange the Daqing Yuan in its hands for gold and silver or Daming Yuan on the second day after the bank was burned.

However, officials from the Daqing Household Department, who had taken over the bank, rejected the other party's request, claiming that they would suspend the exchange business with the Four Seas Trading Company indefinitely because the bank's books had been burned.

Naturally, the representative of the Sihai Trading Company did not do anything, so he asked Fan Yongdou, the governor of the Central Bank of the Qing Dynasty, to ask why he could not fulfill the agreement. However, the household official who took over the bank did not realize the significance of Fan Yongdou's disappearance, so he told the other party in such a way that Fan Yongdou was involved in a major case and fled, and even if he was found, it would be impossible for him to fulfill any agreement.

The Four Seas Trading Company naturally knew that it was impossible for Fan Yongdou to come back, so they just came over to make a fuss in order to find a reason for refusing to accept Daqing Yuan. The remarks of this household official obviously gave them the best excuse.

Sihai Trading Company was not only the largest buyer of materials in the Manchu Dynasty, but also the largest supplier of daily materials in the Manchu Dynasty. After the news of Sihai Trading Company's refusal to accept Daqing Yuan spread, it immediately caused merchants in the market to follow suit.

In fact, even the principals of the Four Seas Trading Company could not have predicted that market confidence would have such a lethal effect on the value of banknotes. They originally thought that if they wanted to suppress the Great Qing Yuan, it was estimated that it would take a month, but in fact, in less than seven days, their goal was almost achieved.

After the central bank of the Qing Dynasty refused to exchange the banknotes issued by itself, it became difficult for the Qing Yuan to carry the monetary functions imposed on it by the Qing government. All families or merchants who have the Great Qing Yuan in their hands are desperately looking for a channel to turn it into physical objects.

Even worse than those who have a large amount of money in their hands are those who have a lot of stocks in their hands. The stock market, which has been booming for two consecutive years, has made the smart people who were least optimistic about the stock market rush in with their family savings.

Except for the real fools, the biggest receivers in the stock market are these smart people, although they feel that the rise of the stock is unjustified and that sooner or later it will collapse. But these smart people have the confidence that they can jump out of the trap and go ashore the moment they fall into it, so they try to get into the stock market and make a fortune from fools.

This gambler's mentality, when encountering a financial war at the national level, became the first target to be harvested. They watched their property shrink sharply from hundreds or thousands of taels to a dozen taels in a day or even a few hours, and even these tens of taels were just paper data.

The funds that escaped from the stock market by luck were also the Qing Yuan, which depreciated sharply, which at this time exacerbated the soaring prices in the market. The Manchu and Han ministers, including Huang Taiji, watched helplessly as the wealth accumulated by the Qing Dynasty over the past few years was wiped out, and they didn't know where to save it.

At this time, the Qing treasury was said to be empty, but it was not true. According to the inventory of the officials of the Ministry of Households, there are at least nearly 9 million yuan worth of property in the bank's vault, but this money cannot be spent at all. After all, the real money, including the Da Ming Yuan, is only a hundred thousand taels of silver, while the Da Qing Yuan and various stocks and bonds printed by the Da Qing Dynasty themselves are about millions of taels.

In the past few years, Huang Taiji has been committed to the development of domestic wasteland, and the grain treasury is also quite full. However, a series of reforms under the guidance of Fan Yongdou had made Shenyang and other places enter the era of paper money in advance, which was also the reason why Huang Taiji was able to mobilize a large amount of domestic wealth to rectify the army and pioneer.

Now the rapid depreciation of the Qing Yuan has suddenly affected the livelihood of ordinary families in Baqi. This livelihood problem is not caused by the lack of food, but by the many social problems caused by debt.

The economic prosperity of the Qing Dynasty in the first two years made it easy to recover the principal and interest as long as the Qing civilians had the money to invest and do something, so everyone was willing to take out their family savings and invest.

Especially when Fan Yongdou suggested that Huang Taiji confiscate all the domestic gold and silver, because he was worried about the depreciation of the paper money in his hand, these Eight Banners disciples were even more keen to invest in the stock business that would make sure they would not lose money.

Some people even feel that it is better to go to the stock market and make a lot of money easily, and there is no need to be controlled in the army.

But when they encountered the depreciation of paper money and the collapse of the stock market, many Eight Banners families suddenly became heavily indebted and difficult to make ends meet. In particular, as a nation that is moving from slavery to feudalism, many people have lost not only their own property, but more likely the public property within the clan, which makes the originally close relatives and brothers now do not know each other.

Natural disasters hit the poorest strata at the bottom, and the upper strata were able to co-opt the middle strata to suppress or pacify the lower strata in order to survive the crisis.

But the financial crisis hit the middle and upper classes, and within a few days, these families who had struggled for decades were relegated to the bottom class, and some people were discouraged and "committed suicide", while others pointed the finger at the culprits at the top, believing it to be a conspiracy.