"Count out six hundred thousand taels..."
After Xiao Lingzi received the order, he waved to the people behind him, and several people came forward to count the silver.
Zhang Ting kept her head down, but her eyes kept looking at the bags, and her lips were trembling.
Xiao Lingzi and the others opened several cloth bags filled with silver ingots, and they fell to the ground with a clatter...
The scene before them shocked everyone. That was not silver at all, but stones of various shapes.
At this moment, Leng Yu's face suddenly turned blue and purple. He pointed at the cloth bags and shouted harshly:
"Open them all, quickly..."
Millions of taels of silver in the national treasury suddenly turned into some worthless stones. This was no small matter. It was a major event that could turn the Daning Kingdom into an empty shell in an instant. It was a huge event.
As expected, in all the pockets, only the top layer contained silver ingots, and the rest were stones of varying sizes.
This scene not only shocked Leng Yu, but also the gatekeepers who had been guarding here were frightened and fell to their knees on the ground, and some of them even wet their pants.
Zhang Ting was trembling and lying on the ground, his face as pale as paper.
"Zhang Ting, what's going on?"
Leng Yu swung his sleeves in anger, walked up to Zhang Ting, grabbed his collar with one hand, and shouted with gritted teeth,
"Where's the silver? Where did it go?"
Zhang Ting shook his head vigorously, "No...I don't know."
"How could you not know? The two keys to the treasury have been in your hands the whole time, yet you claim you didn't know. Tell the truth now..."
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