On July 16, the twentieth year of Hongwei, the fourth day of the start of the business war, the King of Liao had completely lost the capital of stubborn resistance, and could no longer snipe the industrial raw materials needed by Xu Rui, and the last position in Changxing Shopping Mall was completely taken by Xu Rui.

However, the economic situation of Changxing City did not change with the defeat of the Liao King, and inflation was like a snowball that was getting bigger and bigger, completely out of control.

On the one hand, when the silver ticket was completely reduced to waste paper, the cash silver transaction was naturally carried out of the coffin by the people.

But even now, as long as Jinyiwei finds that he uses cash, he will be confiscated and severely fined, so that the policy of the Ministry of Commerce and the panic and demand of the people have formed a greater and greater contradiction.

On the other hand, in order to continue to promote tension and make the mess made by Xu Rui worse, the King of Liao still insisted that the Zhili garrison intercept all kinds of commodities and continue to push up the prices in Changxing City.

Changxing City is like an isolated city surrounded by thousands of troops, and it has lost contact with the outside world, so that the relationship between supply and demand is completely unbalanced, which makes the situation even worse.

In this way, finance showed its terrifying power in this world for the first time, and in just four days, the economy of the Great Wei Dynasty, which had been stabilizing, was completely disrupted, and even came to the brink of collapse.

Oppression inevitably brings revolt, and angry people, as well as dignitaries who have lost a lot of property for no reason, have fought back in their own way.

In addition to the impeachment of Xu Rui in the court, which flew to the south study like snowflakes, dozens of people's riots occurred on the 16th day of Changxing City, and the Liao Wangfu alone was attacked four or five times, and finally Wang Yi had to transfer a forbidden army to guard the gate of the palace to deal with the rapidly deteriorating situation.

Behind all this, of course, the Liaowang Group is indispensable.

However, unlike the court, "Changxing Daily" has achieved absolute right to speak among the people after several years of subtle development.

The King of Liao wanted to add fuel to the fire, but he had to acquiesce in the riot he arranged, and he had to play the banner of taking him as the culprit, and even called him the prince of peeling, I don't know how the King of Liao would feel when he listened to the people he arranged scolding him in the palace?

The situation is sliding into the abyss of spiraling out of control, and no one knows what tomorrow will look like.

At this moment, almost everyone's eyes were focused on Xu Rui, because the turmoil he was brewing had developed into a tsunami, and if he couldn't control it, then this tsunami would also engulf him.

On the same day, the 16th, the day the State Audit Office was established, an audit team was sent to the household department to check the accounts.

To say that Du Ruo is indeed a cadre, he has been in the six departments for most of his life, especially in the household department for the longest time, at least in terms of accounting, the means are stacked, tight, even the senior old officials who have dealt with accounts all their lives can not see the slightest flaw.

But Du Ruo didn't expect that he was not facing traditional officials, but a group of professional teams who were proficient in modern financial and auditing systems and knew all kinds of tricks of deception.

In just half a day, Du Ruo's account book that he thought was "solid" was found by the audit team, and what was even more terrifying was that the means used by the audit team were still unheard of and unseen by Du Ruo, and it was not an exaggeration to say that he was shocked.

In fact, in addition to using modern financial and auditing methods to check accounts, the audit team can find out problems so quickly, which is inseparable from Xu Rui.

Since returning to Changxing City, Xu Rui has understood that Hubu is the strongest base camp of Liaowang Group, and he has already done a lot of work against it, and has already mastered the weaknesses that may go wrong.

It can be said that the audit team stationed in the household department is with a task, the goal is very clear, and the efficiency is naturally frighteningly high.

By the afternoon of the 16th, the more than 100 million taels of loans that Du Ruoqian had hidden had been dug up by the audit team that was frantically attacking the city and plundering the land.

At first, Du Ruo was not very worried about this huge loan whose whereabouts were unknown, because he had already thought of an excuse to lend money to the private sector to do his part to fill the treasury.

Although since the establishment of the Imperial Central Bank, Emperor Hongwei has issued a decree requiring the Ministry of Households to deposit all silver in the central bank as a reserve, and all loan business to be carried out by the central bank, Du Ruo's reason itself is in violation.

However, the holy decree did not strictly prohibit the household department from borrowing from the people, and Du Ruo played the banner of filling the treasury, although it violated the law, but it was also out of public intentions and for the benefit of the country.

What's more, now the paper money has become a pile of waste paper, just like he said to the King of Liao, the hole of more than 100 million taels of silver tickets, he wants to fill it is just a matter of hand.

The reason why the hole was not filled in time was that the audit team was too fast, and on the other hand, it was also because the inflow and outflow of funds would inevitably leave traces.

As Du Ruo expected, the loan was found out, and immediately a large number of civil officials wrote to the Ministry of Household Affairs to cry out for injustice, saying that the current economic chaos in Changxing was all a basket poked out by the newly established Ministry of Commerce, and that the Audit Office did not check the Ministry of Commerce, but checked the Ministry of Households, which really chilled people's hearts.

What's more, he took advantage of this matter to directly ask Emperor Hongwei to ban the Ministry of Commerce and return the Great Wei to a bright future.

Such a voice quickly formed a wave, and Xu Rui was already drowned out by the spitting stars before he could speak, even if he really wanted to make a fuss about it, he had no chance.

However, Du Ruo still underestimated Xu Rui.

Xu Rui didn't want to make a fuss about this matter at all, and the reason why he sent the Audit Office to investigate had only one purpose, that is, to let the household department pay back the money!

It is natural to repay debts, and Du Ruo has to pay it back even if he has a reason, and there is no objection from the household department.

Xu Rui was waiting for this opportunity, because although the household department lent out the silver bills, the Audit Office required the household department to repay the cash money.

The reason is very simple, the reason given by Du Ruo is to fill the treasury, so if you use the silver bills that have become waste paper to repay the money, wouldn't it be a loss of the treasury?

If Du Ruo insisted on repaying the silver bills instead of the cash, he would have slapped himself in the face, and the reasonableness of the loan would no longer be tenable, and if Emperor Hongwei pursued it, he would not be able to escape the great crime of embezzling the treasury.

But more than 100 million taels of cash is simply an astronomical amount, where can Du Ruo find it?

Xu Rui grabbed Du Ruo's death hole at this moment, and Rao was a little at a loss for a while.

It wasn't until this moment that he realized that he had guessed Xu Rui's killer weapon again, and the real picture was not that the audit team was stationed in the household department, let alone find out the deficit of more than 100 million taels of silver, but that he was asked to repay the money within a time limit.

Although the audit team is Xu Rui's person, it is a holy decree directly issued by Emperor Hongwei, and the real big boss behind it is not Xu Rui, but Emperor Hongwei.

Du Ruo had already felt that Emperor Hongwei was very angry at them for using the large sum of silver from the treasury without authorization, so he would cooperate with Xu Rui to put pressure on the household department.

At this time, if Du Ruo wants to protect himself, there is only one way, then he will pay off the arrears for a penny, but the Liaowang Group has suffered a lot of vitality in the business war with Xu Rui, and it is very rare to be able to barely hold on until now, how can it be possible to pay back the money?

As the sun sets, Du Ruo seems to have a premonition of his next fate, and his political career may have come to an end.

He sat in the signing room and stared out the window at the end of the day, recalling his life like a movie.

From the twenty-four-year-old high school gentleman in his prime, to decades of climbing and rolling in the officialdom, and finally entering the twilight of his life, his power has also reached its peak.

He originally thought that with his talent and superior officialdom talent, he would be able to call for wind and rain in this world and give what he wanted, but he didn't expect that he would lose so badly this time.

Yes, he was defeated, defeated by Xu Rui.

Xu Rui's every step counted him to death, and every move seemed to be a killing move, which overwhelmed him, but it wasn't until Xu Rui made the next move that he would find out that the previous ones were just foreshadowing.

Du Ruo was even thinking at this time that Xu Rui was probably not the ultimate goal of pushing himself to a dead end now, because he was too important to the Liaowang Group, and once he fell, the Liaowang Group would fall by half.

But if you forcibly save yourself, the Liaowang Group will gradually be dragged down by Xu Rui, and finally completely disintegrate, maybe this is Xu Rui's ultimate goal, right?

Xu Rui was obviously at a disadvantage, but he was able to seize a breakthrough and launch a powerful counterattack, and then step by step, wanting to destroy the enemy in one fell swoop, it was really terrifying and desperate.

"It's really sad to be an enemy of Xu Rui, maybe it's a greater sorrow to be in the same era as him, but it's destined to be their own master, right?"

Thinking about it, Du Ruo didn't find any way to solve it, because Xu Rui used a yang scheme, and didn't give him a chance, only the choice of either he died first, or he held the entire Liaowang Group to die together.

"That's it......"

Du Ruo sighed in his heart, he has been an official for decades, he still has this bit of courage, just a moment, he chose to sacrifice himself in such a desperate situation to protect the overall situation.

"My lord, someone wants to see you."

Just when Du Ruo had just made up his mind, his cronies suddenly walked into the signing room and said in a deep voice.

At this time, he has reached a dead end, who still wants to come to see him?

Du Ruo was upset and didn't want to see anyone, but when he saw that the cronie's face was different, he forgot to ask who the person was, so he waved his hand and said, "Let him in." ”

As soon as the words fell, the door of the signing room was pushed open with a "creak".

"Lord Shangshu has a lot of opportunities, but it really makes the grass people wait for a while."

An Ge walked into the signing room with a smile.

"It's you?!"

Du Ruo didn't expect it to be him anyway, he frowned, and sneered: "What, when does Master Hou like to come and see people?" ”

An Ge shook his head with a smile and said, "The adults misunderstood, my young master heard that the adults couldn't turn around for a while, so he sent the grass people to solve the urgent needs of the adults." ”

Du Ruo didn't believe in the weasel's New Year's greeting to the chicken, shook his head and wanted to send off the guest.

An Ge said without changing his face: "Lord Shangshu, my young master said, as long as you can get the King of Liao to promise to give away all the raw materials he has hoarded, then this 100 million taels of silver, my young master will pay it back for you!" ”

"What did you say?!"

Du Ruo's face suddenly changed when he heard this, he couldn't believe his ears, and looked at An Ge with wide eyes and a stunned look.