The Governor was excited—uncontrollably excited. If there really were over a million taels to be made, he could pay off all his high-interest loans!
The Governor had carried the burden of these usurious loans for far too long, and they had worn him down completely. He had been carrying them for eight long years, ever since the forty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign. It was an endless cycle: every bit of silver he managed to earn was immediately snatched away by the money-lenders, forcing the Governor to suffer in silence, swallowing his own teeth and blood.
Worse still, he couldn't speak of his suffering to anyone!
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