At this moment, Su Lin was no longer in a cheerful mood, a cruel light appeared in his eyes, and a terrifying killing intent emanated, covering the entire throne room with a dense blood-red aura.
Su Lin looked at Song Jing from above and said in a cold tone, "I don't care about the past and I won't pursue the past."
"But from now on, if I find that even a single piece of copper is missing from the vault for no apparent reason."
"I will hold you responsible and make you wish for death but can't get it."
"Understood?" When Su Lin said the last sentence, the pressure of the golden core carried it, causing all the officials to bend their backs, a mountain pressing down on them.
Song Jing's body, which was directly exposed to Su Lin's aura, trembled like a small boat under a violent storm, he knelt down with great difficulty and thanked Su Lin without stopping.
"Yes, Your Majesty, understood, understood, thank you for your mercy, Your Majesty the Emperor."
"Thank you very much, Your Majesty…"
"Um," Su Lin nodded indifferently and withdrew his aura again.
The next moment, Su Lin's expression changed and he smiled back gently and asked Jing Song in a gentle tone.
"Tell me the details of the National Treasury."
"Yes, Your Majesty, right away," Song Jing quickly replied with a smile that was uglier than crying, while at the same time cursing Su Lin's mood swings inside him.
What is this? One moment he is laughing and the next moment he is different, it is really abnormal.
Terrifying.
"That's the case, Your Majesty…," Song Jing explained fearfully and unwillingly, in fact he didn't want to explain.
Because he knew that the situation of the Ministry of Finance was not good.
Su Lin listened to his explanation calmly.
As it turned out, although this piece of desolate land was poor in spiritual energy, it was not completely devoid of resources.
As it was rich in low-grade spiritual mines, of various kinds of resources.
Thanks to the trading of these low-grade spiritual resources with the Song Kingdom and the Xin Kingdom which were located at a rather strange distance from the Shu Kingdom.
The national treasury was filled with low-grade spiritual stones as well as large piles of gold coins.
Well. At least that's what it should be, but the reality was different.
At this time, the entire amount of wealth available in the national treasury was…
100 million low-grade spiritual stones, and not even a single medium-grade or higher spiritual stone.
In addition to 10 billion gold coins, and a large collection of silver and copper coins.
And also some low-grade earthly and medicinal treasures.
In the collection, all of this didn't even amount to 300 million low-grade spiritual stones.
After Su Lin searched through the memories of the previous person, he found that 100 gold coins equaled a low-grade spiritual stone.
The ratio of gold to silver was the same, 100:1, and copper to silver was the same.
Although Su Lin did not understand the value of gold and silver in this world, he could estimate the value of low-grade spiritual stones.
Since the previous person had used them daily to cultivate immortality.
So 250 million low-grade spiritual stones might seem like a lot to an ordinary person.
But you need to know that this was the wealth of the entire Shu Kingdom, and it was not a wealth belonging to one person.
The Shu Kingdom had over 30 million citizens, the ratio of immortality cultivators to ordinary people might be small, but there were over a million immortality cultivators.
Even if it was just from tax collection, there might be over 300 million low-grade spiritual stones in the royal treasury no matter how you looked at it.
Even an idiot could tell that something was wrong here.
After giving Su Lin Song Jing a casual glance, the latter sold out all of his associates involved in the embezzlement without a moment's hesitation.
After listening to him, Su Lin knew the truth in detail.
It was nothing more than that the emperor was corrupt and did not care about the people's affairs at all. He lived all his days in debauchery and debauchery, leaving the affairs of state in the hands of the ministers.
Of course, the head was corrupt and the rest would be no different.
All the ministers from all over the Shu Kingdom took advantage of this opportunity without hesitation, pressuring the people and exploiting them in every way.
Until that incident happened, which would cause the entire Shu Dynasty to fall into turmoil.
The ministers even stopped directly oppressing the people, but they did not stop completely, but they found other ways and policies to exploit the people in a covert manner.
Of course, the amount that reached the royal treasury from these policies did not even reach a small percentage.
"Tsk, trash deserves to be killed all of them," Su Lin cursed under his breath.
At this moment, Su Lin felt angry and upset, and wanted to kill everyone present without exception.
But holding his nerves tightly, Su Lin rested his head on the soft back cushion of the throne and closed his eyes and no longer looked at them, fearing that he would not be able to control himself.
After resting for a while and taking a few deep breaths, Su Lin regained his calm.
But the killing desire in his heart did not diminish at all, on the contrary, it increased.
Deep down, Su Lin had already decided to kill them.
But this was not the time to rush, he still needed them to take care of trivial matters for him.
But...
Su Lin opened his eyes and a red light appeared in the depths of his eyes, and he swore to himself, "The time I find a way to dispense with them, is the date of their death."
Su Lin looked at them and noticed that they were looking at him anxiously, Su Lin snorted with a, "Humph," and shot out a thread of spiritual energy towards them.
When the officials saw the attack coming towards them, the expression on their faces changed to horror.
They tried to quickly move away, but before they could move a finger, Su Lin's attack had already reached them.
Under this violent spiritual attack, all the officials flew like a kite with a broken string and crashed into the wall.
Pfft!
All the officials spit out a large mouthful of blood.
Some of them even had their bodies shattered into pieces directly and lost all signs of life.
But Su Lin did not give them an extra glance, he calmly got up from his throne and no longer cared about performing the meeting.