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Chapter 431 The County's Grand Marriage Is Not A Person's Business
The voice came from outside the door. Li Chaosheng looked towards the door in a daze when he heard the words, and immediately saw a senile old man leaning on a walking stick.

"Uncle!"

Li Chaosheng exclaimed, and immediately went up to meet him: "Uncle, why are you here?"

At this time, Li Jinli leaned on his crutches and said: "I heard people in the countryside say that you are going to get married, and you are marrying a daughter of the prince's family. How can I, as an uncle, ignore such a big event."

Li Chaosheng laughed and said, "Yes."

Speaking of which, Li Chaosheng helped Li Jinli into the room, and was about to let Li Jinli sit in his seat, but when Li Jinli saw this, he stopped Li Chaosheng and said, "I can't sit on your chair. This is the chair of Lantian County Lord. If you can sit while others sit, that is rebellion.”

"Father, sit here."

At this time, Li Chaolong moved a chair over and asked Li Jinli to sit down. After Li Jinli sat down, the people around looked at the old man respectfully.

Li Jinli is over 60 this year, and his bones are quite strong, but he was too tired when he was young, and his legs hurt when he was old. He consulted many doctors, and the final result was to take care of him slowly.

So now Li Jinli needs to use some crutches to walk, and most of the people around him are Li Jinli's descendants. Looking at the former patriarch at this time, he is also quite emotional.

Why is it the old patriarch, because now the new patriarch is Li Chaosheng.

Li Jinli sat down, looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "Chaosheng, I heard that you only plan to spend fifty thousand silver dollars for your wedding?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng nodded and said: "Yes, uncle, our Lantian is now in a state of waste, and I won't have to work hard if I get married. There are still countless disaster victims in northern Shaanxi waiting for us to rescue. Now we can save a lot of money." If you spend a penny, you have to save a penny, and it’s okay for us to save a penny, but in northern Shaanxi, one more person may live because of it.”

Li Jinli nodded and said: "Yes, Chaosheng is right, the people are more important than everything."

"Thank you, uncle, for your understanding."

Li Chaosheng was still very polite to Li Jinli, but Li Jinli changed his voice at this moment: "But Chaosheng, you are a majestic Lantian county lord, a big wedding only costs [-] silver dollars, which is too little, and what they said is right, you It's Lantian's face, you only spent [-] silver dollars for a big wedding, and people will laugh at you if you tell it."

As he spoke, the old man took out a small red book from his pocket, the passbook of Lantian Agricultural Bank.

Lantian Agricultural Bank is Li Chaosheng's second major initiative after establishing the Central Mint and the Central Bank in Lantian, that is, the establishment of two large banks, the Lantian Agricultural Bank and the Lantian Commercial Bank.

However, since people in Daming do not have the habit of depositing money, and many small businesses and households do not trust the bank very much, it has not been vigorously developed.

However, Li Chaosheng has recently made some plans for this matter. First, Li Chaosheng opened accounts in the bank for all serving officers and soldiers, as well as relevant government personnel, and they will withdraw their salaries from the bank in the future.

This has greatly increased the bank's depositor rate, and due to Li Chaosheng's vigorous promotion, some large merchants have also begun to try to invest some money in the bank. bribed.

Li Chaosheng also sees through it without saying it. The emergence of a new thing must take a period of adaptation, and the common people will not believe it immediately.

After all, when they came to the bank with heavy silver dollars, they turned into a little red book and a pile of papers. Anyone would feel insecure.

They all feel that their money has been wasted, so now the simple people still think that it is better to put it in their pockets, and this behavior also makes Li Chaosheng helpless. In this way, money in the society will not circulate.

This led to a shortage of currency, which was why Li Chaosheng was anxious to recruit Li Dingguo and asked him to help him develop the Gansu Silver Factory. There were not enough silver and copper coins.

For this reason, Li Chaosheng is also prepared to take two steps. The first step is to continue to wait for Li Dingguo to throw himself into the trap.

The other step is to vigorously develop the banking industry. If the banking industry develops and allows money to flow, then the lack of money in Lantian will be greatly changed. However, the reason why Li Chaosheng has not vigorously developed the banking industry is that the banking industry has no collateral. .

If the banking industry develops and is run on under the sabotage of those who want to, then the bank that Li Chaosheng built with great difficulty may be very fragile and collapsed. The final result is that the bank becomes synonymous with untrustworthiness in the minds of Lantian people. Then it will be a fatal blow to the future development of Lantian's financial market, and even the banking business will not be able to develop at all. This is very passive for Lantian.

This is also the fundamental reason why Lantian Bank has not carried out large-scale credit business and promoted the concept of interest to tenants.

Because there is no collateral, if someone runs maliciously, the bank releases a large number of tenants' money, and then the tenants make a crazy exchange, then Lantian Bank will really collapse.

So Li Chaosheng is going to carry out the safest plan, which is to go steadily and step by step. When Li Dingguo helps him win the silver factory and Lantian has its own silver mine, then Li Chaosheng can let go of the development of the bank and conduct credit business and interest business up.

As long as Li Chaosheng's bank is established, then Li Chaosheng will not be short of money as he is now, and Lantian can also enter the fast lane, using the money of the people to drive the people to generate more money.

This is a virtuous circle, so Li Chaosheng is not in a hurry to promote the banking business now, but opened two banks in the most prosperous business circle in Lantian in a tepid manner.

Don't want to be accepted by the people quickly, get acquainted first, and now the bank basically undertakes some internal savings business, plus some big businessmen who have the spirit of trying new things and want to bribe Li Chaosheng.

Li Jinli is a major customer of the Agricultural Bank of China. Li Jinli is very rich now. Due to his seniority, Li Chaosheng gave him a position as an honorary consultant with a fixed salary of [-] silver dollars per year.

In addition, Li Jinli's two sons, Li Chaolong and Li Chaohu, are both top teachers in Lantian, and their annual salary is around [-] silver dollars.

And these two sons are very filial to their old father, and the two of them can pay Li Jin [-] silver yuan in pension expenses a year.

So in the past few years, Li Jinli is definitely a rich man in Lantian. At this time, Li Jinli took out his passbook and said: "Chaosheng, uncle knows that our finances are tight in Lantian, and uncle is not unreasonable, so uncle has four things. The deposit of ten thousand silver dollars, uncle will give you all the wedding ceremony."

"Uncle..."

"Listen to me, Chaosheng, it's all because of you that the uncle's family can live today, otherwise Chaolong and I would still be farming, and the second child has probably been chopped up by someone. With the current situation, even the princes and nobles of the imperial court should salute and talk to us as equals when they see us, this is the smoke from the grave of our old Li family ancestors."

"Uncle is content, and you treat uncle very well, and uncle can't treat you poorly. Your father resolutely fled to Nanyang alone for the life of the whole family, and you came back to take everyone out of poverty. With today's Uncle Fan Cheng is very happy, the money has been saved by the uncle over the years, and when you get married, it is the same as getting married to the uncle's own son, the money for the wedding does not need to be appropriation from the financial department, the uncle will pay for it."

After hearing Li Jinli's words, Li Chaosheng said, "Uncle, this is all your pension money, so you don't know what's going on."

Li Jinli looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "I'm out now, I don't believe you let me sleep on the street."

Li Chaosheng smiled wryly after hearing this, "Uncle, what are you talking about? How could I let you sleep on the street?"

"That's it, Zhao Sheng, I know that you care about the common people. In this case, we don't want the [-] silver dollars allocated by your finance. Let's leave it to the reconstruction of northern Shaanxi. The old Li's wedding, the old Li's own. , Chaolong."

"Hey, Dad."

Li Chaolong stood aside obediently, listening to Li Jinli's orders.

Li Jinli said: "Your cousin is married, why are you watching?"

Li Chaolong heard the words and said: "That's possible, but Dad, I don't have as much money as you, so I will pay [-]."

Li Jin said: "Okay, you pay [-], Chao Hu also pays [-], Chao Dolphin forget it, if you haven't made any money, don't count him first, as for the rest, you can do whatever you want."

After hearing this, Li Chaomeng said: "Don't worry, I'll pay [-] yuan, Dezhen and Debao, each of them is [-] yuan. As for the children of the clan, let me tell you, the brigade commander and above, each person is [-] yuan, and the regiment leader is [-] yuan." , the battalion commander is one thousand, the company commander is five hundred, the platoon leader, the platoon leader is fine."

Li Jinli nodded and said: "Well, in this way, I can make up about 20 silver dollars, which is almost enough."

After hearing Li Jinli's words, Guo Bao and Bai Shoumin stopped doing it. The wedding of the county lord cannot be organized by your old Li family alone. We have to participate.

For a while, the whole office was noisy, Li Chaosheng looked at the noisy people and smiled wryly: "Okay, stop arguing, uncle, you take back the money, and you all don't rush to donate, I am a dignified Lantian County Zun's big wedding, you guys almost turned it into a fund-raising wedding."

"I understand everyone's feelings, but I can't take a penny of everyone's money. This wedding will still go according to the original plan, and the total cost will be [-] silver dollars, not a penny more. Guo Bao is still in charge of this matter. If you spend more than Yes, I am asking for you."

Li Chaosheng made a final decision, followed by checking the time and said: "It's almost time to arrive at the restaurant, go back to your own department for dinner, uncle, it's rare for you to come here today, I'll accompany you for a meal."

Li Jinli was escorted by Li Chaosheng to the dining hall. On the way, Li Chaosheng carefully analyzed the reason why he only spent [-] silver dollars on his wedding and went to a 'simplified arrangement'.

"Uncle, I appreciate your kindness. In fact, if we really talk about ostentation and spend hundreds of thousands of silver dollars to hold a wedding, it is not impossible, but the influence of uncle is not good. Our Lantian has a lot of waste to do, and the great cause has not been accomplished. It's not time to enjoy it, my wedding is not only my personal matter, but also Lantian's major event."

"Now our officials in Lantian are very young. Most of them have no family and business. My wedding is more like a benchmark. If my wedding is extraordinarily grand and costs hundreds of thousands of silver dollars, then everyone below will take me as a benchmark. , I’ll spend 30, that first-level officials, such as Brother Chaohu, Guo Bao, Cao Meng, Dezhen, Debao, Dalei and Xiaolei, it’s not too much for them to spend 20 silver dollars for their wedding.”

"Then again, the brigade commanders of the divisions and the chiefs of the counties, it's not too much for them to spend a hundred thousand silver dollars for their marriage."

"By analogy, when it comes to the folks, when the common people see that the officials are so big, they will do it too. Once the atmosphere is formed, the cost of folk marriage will be too high. At that time, the whole family will work hard to save money. Half a lifetime of money, a wasteful wedding is all set in it."

"Uncle, we are all planers in the land, and we all know how difficult life is for the common people. Can we take the lead?"

Li Jinli patted his head when he heard this and said: "There is still such a big question in it. Hey, uncle didn't think carefully. It is true how much money the common people have. When we married Brother Chaolong for you, we The family had to make up ten catties of wheat, and married your sister-in-law, even so, it took a long time for our family to get over it, it’s not easy for the common people.”

Li Chaosheng nodded and said: "That's the reason, so uncle, I, the county lord, took the lead. The wedding of the princess I married Daming only cost [-] silver dollars, so my second-level one will cost [-] silver dollars. [-], [-], and the wedding price is even lower when it comes to private weddings. If anyone refuses to accept it, there is still something to say to them. If someone with such a noble status as a county lord marries the princess of Daming, it is only [-] silver dollars. Your daughter is inlaid. It’s gold, it costs so much money, life will be difficult in the future.”

"This kind of atmosphere will change, and will not develop the atmosphere of extravagance and waste. Just like our court in Lantian, I set an example and eat in the cafeteria every day. Look at that official who dares to eat and drink extravagantly and wastefully, so that we can save money." Save the money and do something meaningful to Lantian, so that Lantian can develop sustainably and create a fairyland on earth where people can live and work in peace and contentment in this chaotic world."

Li Jinli heard this and said: "Oh, uncle is confused, and almost ruined your big event. It's okay, I, I will go home after this meal. I'd better raise some chickens and ducks at home." Big Goose, after the Chinese New Year, I will bring you some fresh meat."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng said: "Don't, uncle, it's not easy for you to come here. Tomorrow, I will have someone take you around our Lantian County. You can also take a look at the Lantian managed by my nephew. Wait until the fifth day of next month." , When I get married, you still have to officiate the wedding for me. My father died early, and you are my only elder, uncle. When the time comes, you will drink a cup of wedding tea for my new wife for my father."

"Ah, good, uncle is willing to do this, then I will live in the county for a few days."

"Okay, you can live in peace of mind. I'll ask someone to invite my aunt over later. It happens that I have an empty house in this county, and your two elders will live there first."

"No, I'll just live with my boss."

Li Chaosheng smiled and said, "That's okay."

(End of this chapter)