Chapter 110 Usury
"There is one more thing. After the New Year, you have to go to Shamen Town, and we have to go too." Li Huier suddenly said.
"Ah!" Li Jing suddenly looked up in surprise, looking at Li Huier's face that had already decided to make the official notification now, and couldn't help but open his mouth and didn't know what to say. He pointed at Li Huier, pointed at Yu Youniang, and then looked at Wang Yueying and Xiao Yulou, "Are you talking about you and your junior sister, or are you four together?"
Li Huier curled her lips and looked very natural and said, "Of course we are the four of us together."
"No!" Li Jing shook his head and objected. He had promised them to come to Wendeng before, because this time he came back was also a vacation. They were bored and wanted to come and have the consent of King Zhao. But going to Shamen Town is to take office. Shamen Town is a border guard, and he had offended his immediate superior Feng Zhang before he took office. That was not a place to visit. These were more expensive than the other, and he could not afford to have any problems with one.
"The workshop is going to Shamen Island, so we will go, of course." Li Huier didn't listen to Li Jing's advice at all.
Li Jing said with a headache: "Anyway, Sister Yueying is busy in this workshop, you are just making trouble with each other. The princess and junior sister have been out for so long. After the New Year, she will go back to Dengzhou honestly. After the New Year, Yu Niang has to follow her aunt back to Yangzhou. How can you just let your mind be foolish? Besides, we go to Shamen Town, which is the border guarding area. What do you think you are going with you? It's really a fun place?"
Seeing Li Jing pulling his face down, Yu Youniang stepped back and pulled Li Huier aside: "I see what Sanlang said is, that is the place where the border towns are garrisons, so we don't want to go, and King Zhao will definitely not agree to us."
Li Huier was unwilling to accept her, but she couldn't find any words, so she just sat there in anger, holding a handkerchief and not talking. However, Wang Yueying didn't say a word. She had some feelings for her daughters these days. However, when Li Jing spoke, she finally chose to obey Li Jing's arrangements. However, Xiao Yulou was very clever, with his eyes rolling around and quietly approaching Li Huier's ear and saying something.
Li Jing couldn't hear what Xiao Yulou was saying, but when he saw Li Huier's smile again, he felt something was wrong. Sure enough, Li Huier smiled very gently at Li Jing: "Sanlang, I heard that you are going to buy a batch of weapons from the governor of Song, but there is still some money missing, right?"
Li Jing immediately understood that it must be what Xiao Yulou told her just now. Li Jing would never let go of the thousand sets of equipment in Song Wen, but he only had more than 20,000 guan, and he could not take all of the money out to buy equipment at once. After all, Li Jing was at least 30,000 guan. He had a headache in order to raise this money these days. Although he had already planned to borrow from Zhendonghai, whether Zhendonghai had so much money was willing to borrow it or not. Li Jing had thought about borrowing it from others, but he couldn't find a suitable candidate at once. King Zhao and teacher Cui Yunqing must have money, but Li Jing was unwilling to borrow from them to buy equipment. Subconsciously, Li Jing had actually always wanted to keep a certain limit with them.
Not many people know about buying equipment, and they don’t know this girl.
"So what? There are tens of thousands of guan apart, don't say you can lend me." Li Jing said angrily. Although the princess made a bet last time, she won 20,000 pieces of silk at once, but she also gave half of it to herself. Li Jing didn't believe that the princess would have tens of thousands of guan apart.
"Seeing that people are not. You are so bad, just speak. No matter how many princesses are, you can take action at any time if you have 8,000 yuan."
"Fifty thousand jin!" Li Jing lion spoke up, and one mouth was 50,000.
When the princess heard such a large amount, she was stunned for a moment. Although King Zhao was just a king who was exiled from the capital, she still had a wealthy fortune. However, as the princess, Li Huier also had her own fief, but after all, she was young, and her total wealth might be 80,000 to 90,000 yuan, but it was unlikely to ask her to take out so much cash at once. "Why are you short of so much money? How much armour do you buy?"
"If you don't have it, just say it so as not to waste my saliva." When you get familiar with them, Li Jing sometimes speaks very directly.
Li Huier bit her lip, "I can lend you this money, but you have to promise me that if I lend you this money, you have to promise us to go to Shamen Town together. As for how long we stay and when we leave, it is entirely up to us to decide."
Li Jing stared at Li Huier carefully, thought for a while, and nodded at the end, "Okay, it's a matter of determination. If you can lend me 50,000 dan in three days, then I won't object to you going to Shamen Island." In order to get the weapons, Li Jing had to compromise. What's more, he didn't think that King Zhao and the others could really let them go outside for a long time. When King Zhao came forward to call them back, it would not belong to him.
"What? Borrow money from the Xiao family?" After Li Jing agreed to Li Huier's conditions, she immediately told her plan to borrow money. It turned out that what she said about helping Li Jing borrow money was to borrow money from Han Qiniang.
"What's wrong? The Xiao family is the largest genius in Jiangnan. The hairs are thicker than your waist. Just 50,000 jin is simply insignificant." Li Huier smiled all over her face, and she smiled a little treacherously.
In fact, as Li Huier said, when Li Jing found Xiao Han, who was chatting with his mother Han, and tactfully proposed to borrow some money temporarily, the graceful lady with silver silk agreed without even moving her eyebrows.
"How much do you want to borrow?"
Li Jing thought about it and now he had more than 20,000 guan in his hand, and he was still 30,000 guan short of buying this batch of weapons. Now that he has thousands of people to support, he has to pay at least 5,000 guan a month. Borrowing once is borrowed, and borrowing twice is also borrowing. Now that he has this opportunity, he might as well borrow more, so he said, "I want to borrow 50,000 guan, but I have a batch of treasures on hand that are worth more than 20,000. I am willing to use these treasures as collateral. When the turnover begins, the principal and profit will be returned together."
Xiao Han raised his eyelids, turned his head to look at Li Jing, and said calmly: "Yes. However, I also have a requirement. That day, you should reject bandits and deal with refugees who are forced to do so, and have the style of a prime minister and general. My Xiao family is the largest gentry in Jiangnan, but now most of the children in the clan are playboys. They don't know how difficult it is for their ancestors to start their own businesses, nor do they know how to cultivate themselves and manage their families. I want to select ten children from the younger generation of the Xiao family to join your army and fight and fight, how about it?"
Hearing this condition, Li Jing couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He had known that this money was not so easy to borrow. He didn't want to borrow from Cui Yunqing and Li Xian, but he didn't want to be too bound by them. Although it was because of the support of Cui Yunqing and Li Xian that Li Jing could have today's status so quickly, Li Jing also knew that the methods of controlling people by the high-ranking gentry were very powerful. The more you rely on now, the more you will be controlled in the future. Li Jing did not want his forces to work hard to make wedding dresses for others in the future.
Unexpectedly, the Xiao family had such a plan. The old lady said in name that she would send ten young Xiao family members into the army to train, but Li Jing had to doubt the old lady's true intention. Ten Xiao family members would definitely not start with small soldiers. These ten Xiao family members were trapped in his army. Who knows how they would infiltrate, and who can guarantee that this army would be controlled by him by Li Jing? Compared to the Xiao family, the first gentry in Jiangnan, Li Jing's conditions are really too different.
Li Jing could not determine whether the condition proposed by Xiao Han really had any thoughts about him or his team, or was it just the way these top high schools have always dealt with things. But no matter what, this condition has touched Li Jing's most sensitive part.
Li Jing did not answer immediately, but Xiao Han did not urge him, but just sat there calmly. After a while, Li Jing said: "How long will those disciples' wives plan to let them experience?"
"It lasts for three years."
"What if they can't adapt to the rules in our army?"
"If you violate the military rules, you will use the military rules to govern him. If they are not doing anything, they can do it, and then you will drive them out of the military camp and you will not blame you." Han Qiniang said lightly.
Li Jing was already very satisfied with this result. He didn't believe that he would not be able to deal with a group of gentry playboys at that time. In order to borrow this money, he had to accept this additional condition. Although there was a great risk for this condition, just like financing, if one was not good, the controlling rights would be lost, but Li Jing had to take this risk. Li Jing nodded and accepted this condition and agreed that the Xiao family would send ten young children to Li Jing's army to receive training after the New Year. At the same time, the Xiao family lent Li Jing 50,000 guan, which was a time limit of three years. Li Jing would have to return 100,000 guan in three years.
This is the power of the Xiao family. Although there has been a condition added before, it is only an additional condition. Borrowing money is borrowing money. The interest is not only not less, but it is also a real high interest rate. The principal doubles in three years, and 50,000 will become 100,000. At this point, the old lady is very strong and has no room for negotiation at all. If she is willing to borrow, she will borrow and not lose money.
Although I was full of resentment about usury, which was even more powerful than vampires, Li Jing had to sign and put his handprint on the IOU. However, in my heart, I already had the plan to be able to rely on it if I had the opportunity in the future. Now that the money is borrowed, it will not be paid back in the future, so why is it a different matter? At least I have traveled from later generations, and the one who owe money is the old man. Li Jing still understands this sentence.
Li Jing sighed in his heart and came out of the house, but Li Huier and others followed him immediately.
"Sanlang, you have borrowed the money now. You have to count the things you promised me."
Li Jing smiled and said, "If you do whatever you want, you are the princess anyway, I can't control you."
Chapter completed!