Chapter 756: A Lonely Man
“Lynch… is it?”
The Finance Minister sat in his chair, reviewing the reports from his subordinates. He already understood what had happened.
The nobles around the Prime Minister had begun frantically borrowing money from the banks. At first, the Finance Minister didn’t grasp their intention. It wasn’t until he started calculating how much capital he’d need to stabilize the stock market that he realized—their real goal in borrowing was to cut off his financial lifeline.
There was no way he could use the state treasury for this. It wasn’t yet time to make the empire take the hit, and His Majesty wouldn’t approve such action.
So he had to find a way to handle it on his own.
He was already in talks with executives from major listed companies. But the results… weren’t promising.
Those executives were just figureheads. The real power lay with the shareholders and nobles behind the scenes, and few of them were willing to take on losses for the sake of the Finance Minister.
They claimed to respect the market’s freedom to fluctuate—words that meant nothing.
Aside from one or two companies agreeing to buy back shares to reduce circulation and support prices, the others had shown little cooperation. His only option now was to find another way to halt the market’s decline.