What, Is That Considered Trouble?

The Imperial Emperor watched the Prime Minister seated below him. His calm expression made it impossible to tell what he truly thought.

Did he agree or disagree?

The Prime Minister frowned slightly. This idea was somewhat beyond his expectations.

In his view, the simplest way to resolve this turmoil was actually to "kill" a batch of merchants, then have the nobles cooperate with him. That would stabilize the situation.

The immediate benefit of dealing with a batch of disobedient merchants who had ideas of their own was that there would be ample funds and supplies in the short term, while also intimidating some opportunists.

The reason this turmoil had grown so large and spread so widely was that the merchants also bore some responsibility.

These fellows, who had nothing but profit in their eyes, never considered whether doing this or that would bring disaster upon the country. All they thought about was reaching out to grab money and stuff it into their own pockets.

They had to pay the price for what they had done. This was Gefra, not the Federation.

Solving the problems caused by these merchants would ease some of the other issues that had emerged in society because of the bank run. During this period, supplies and funds alike were extremely valuable.

This way of putting it might be somewhat unclear. Put simply, in an era when supplies were scarce and society was somewhat turbulent, people would not refuse even if they were paid in goods.

The simplest examples were towel factories paying wages with towels and lightbulb factories paying wages with lightbulbs. The workers had no complaints about this. In fact, they even felt they had profited by receiving extra goods.

As for the nobles, he was not worried. Whenever he had time recently, he went