Late Tang

"One more thing, you are going to Shamen Town after the Chinese New Year, and we are going too." Li Huier said suddenly.

"Ah!" Li Jing suddenly raised her head in surprise, seeing that Li Huier's face had already decided on the official notification, she opened her mouth involuntarily and didn't know what to say.He pointed at Li Huier, then Yu Youniang, and then looked at Wang Yueying and Xiao Yulou, "You mean you and your junior sister, or the four of you together?"

Li Huier curled her lips, and said with a very natural look: "Of course we are the four of us together."

"No!" Li Jing quickly shook his head and objected. He promised them to come to Wendeng earlier because it was also a vacation when they came back this time. They were bored and wanted to come and have fun, and King Zhao agreed.But to go to Shamen Town is to take office, and Shamen Town is a frontier garrison, and he has offended his immediate boss Feng Zhang before taking office, so it is not a place to play.These few are more delicate and fleshy than the other, and he can't afford to take care of any problems.

"The workshop will follow to Salmon Island, so naturally we will go too." Li Huier didn't listen to Li Jing's persuasion at all.

Li Jing said with a headache: "Sister Yueying is busy with this workshop anyway, you are just messing around with me. The princess and junior sister have been out for so long, and I will return to Dengzhou honestly after the New Year, and Yuniang will celebrate I have to go back to Yangzhou with my aunt after the end of the year, how can you let your temper mess around. Besides, we go to Shamen Town, which is a border guard, so what are you going to do, it's really fun?"

Seeing Li Jing's face turned down, Yu Youniang retreated first, and pulled Li Hui'er aside: "I think what Sanlang said is the same, that is the place where the frontier is guarded, we don't want to go, King Zhao will definitely They will not agree to our going."

Li Hui'er felt unwilling, but couldn't find an excuse, so she just sat there angrily holding her handkerchief and didn't speak.But Wang Yueying didn't say a word. She had some feelings for playing around with a few daughters these days, but when she spoke to Li Jing, she chose to obey Li Jing's arrangement in the end.On the contrary, Xiao Yulou was very clever, with his eyes rolling wildly, he quietly whispered something in Li Huier's ear.

Li Jing couldn't hear what Xiao Yulou was saying, but seeing the smile on Li Huier's face again, he felt something was wrong.Sure enough, Li Huier smiled very softly at Li Jing: "Sanlang, I heard that you are going to buy a batch of weapons from the governor of Song Dynasty, but you are still short of some money, right?"

Li Jing immediately understood that Xiao Yulou must have told her just now.Li Jing was absolutely unwilling to let go of the thousand sets of equipment in Song Wen's hands, but he only had more than [-] yuan in his hand, and he couldn't use all the money to buy equipment at once.After all the calculations, Li Jing was at least [-] yuan short.In order to collect the money these few days, he has been having a lot of headaches. Although he has already planned to ask Zhen Donghai to borrow it, whether Zhen Donghai has so much money to borrow or not is another matter.Li Jing thought about borrowing from other people, but he couldn't find a suitable person at once.King Zhao and teacher Cui Yunqing must be rich, but Li Jing is unwilling to borrow their money to buy equipment. Subconsciously, Li Jing still wants to keep a certain boundary with them.

Not many people knew about his purchase of equipment, and even this girl knew about it.

"So what? It's tens of thousands of pennies short, don't say you can lend me." Li Jing said a little angrily.Although the princess won [-] pieces of silk in a bet last time, he also gave half of it to himself.Li Jing didn't believe that the princess would have tens of thousands of cash in his hands.

"It's not that you underestimate people. How bad you are, just open your mouth. It doesn't matter if there are many princesses in this princess, and you can make a move at any time."

"[-] guan!" Li Jing opened his mouth loudly, and it was [-] with one mouth.

Hearing such a large amount, the Princess was stunned for a moment.Although King Zhao was only a king who had been banished from Beijing, he was still very wealthy.However, as the princess, Li Huier has her own fiefdom, but after all, she is young, and her total net worth may be worth tens of thousands, but if she is asked to take out so much cash all at once, But it is unlikely. "Why are you short of so much money? How much ordnance did you buy?"

"If you don't, just say it directly, so as not to waste my saliva." After getting acquainted with them, Li Jing sometimes speaks very directly.

Li Huier bit her lips, "I can borrow this sum of money for you, but you have to promise me that if I borrow this sum of money for you, you have to promise us to go to Shamen Town together. As for how long we will stay, what?" It is entirely up to us to decide when to go.”

Li Jing stared at Li Huier carefully, after thinking for a while, finally nodded and said: "Okay, it's a deal, if you can help me borrow [-] guan within three days, then I have no objection to you going to Shamen Island." In order to get the ordnance, Li Jing had to compromise.What's more, he didn't think Zhao Wang and the others could really let them go wild for a long time.When King Zhao came forward to call them back, it was not his business.

"What? Borrow money from the Xiao family?" After Li Jing agreed to Li Huier's conditions, she immediately revealed her plan to borrow money. It turned out that what she said to borrow money for Li Jing was to borrow money from Han Qiniang.

"What's wrong? The Xiao family is the largest gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and even a hair uprooted is thicker than your waist. Fifty thousand guan is nothing at all." Li Huier smiled treacherously.

In fact, as Li Huier said, when Li Jing found Xiao Han who was chatting with his mother Han in the house, and euphemistically offered to borrow a sum of money temporarily, the silver-haired graceful The woman, without even moving her brow, agreed directly.

"How much do you want to borrow?"

Li Jing thought for a while, he now has more than [-] guan in his hand, and he is still short of [-] guan to buy this batch of ordnance.But now he has thousands of people to support, and he needs at least [-] yuan a month.Borrowing once is borrowing, and borrowing twice is also borrowing. Now that I have this opportunity, I simply borrow more, so I said: "My nephew wants to borrow [-] yuan, but I have a batch of treasures on hand that are worth more than [-] yuan. I am willing." Take this batch of treasures as collateral. When the turnover is opened, the principal and interest will be returned together."

Xiao Han raised his eyelids, turned his head to look at Li Jing, and said very calmly: "Yes. However, I also have a request. It was very appropriate to watch you reject the bandits and deal with the refugees that day, and you have the demeanor of a famous prime minister. My Xiao family is the largest noble family in the south of the Yangtze River, but now most of the children in the family are dudes. I don’t know how difficult it is for my ancestors to start a business, and I don’t know how to cultivate myself. I want to select ten children from the younger generation of the Xiao family to join your army. , How about some hard work?"

Hearing this condition, Li Jing couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He knew that the money was not so easy to borrow.He didn't want to borrow from Cui Yunqing and Li Rui, because he didn't want to be too tied down by them.Although it was with the support of Cui Yunqing and Li Rui that Li Jing was able to achieve his status so quickly, but Li Jing also knew that the means of controlling people by those high-ranking nobles were very powerful, and the more he relied on now The more you have, the more you will be controlled in the future.Li Jing doesn't want her hard-working power to make wedding dresses for others in the future.

Unexpectedly, the Xiao family actually had such a plan.The old lady nominally said that she sent ten young children of the Xiao family to train in the army, but Li Jing had to doubt the old lady's true intentions.When ten Xiao family children join the army, they will definitely not start as soldiers.Who knows how these ten Xiao clan disciples will infiltrate his army, and who can guarantee that Li Jing will control this army by then?Compared with the Xiao family, the number one gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, Li Jing's conditions are really quite different.

Li Jing couldn't be sure whether Xiao Hanshi's condition raised by him really had any thoughts about him or his team, or whether it was just the way these top masters always deal with things.But anyway, this condition has touched Li Jing's most sensitive place.

Li Jing didn't answer right away, but Xiao Hanshi didn't rush, just sat there calmly.After a while, Li Jing said: "How long do those disciples' wives plan to let them practice?"

"Just three years."

"What if they can't adapt to the rules in our army?"

"If you violate the military regulations, you will punish him according to the military regulations. If they are not responsible, you can do one thing and the other will not do the same. When you drive them out of the barracks, I will not blame you." Han Qiniang said lightly.

Hearing this result, Li Jing was already very satisfied.He didn't believe that he wouldn't even be able to deal with a group of gentry dudes.In order to borrow this money, he had to accept this additional condition.Although there is a lot of risk for this condition, just like financing, if one is not good, the controlling interest will be lost, but Li Jing has to take this risk.Li Jing nodded and accepted this condition, agreeing that the Xiao family would send ten young children to Li Jing's army to receive training after the year.At the same time, the Xiao family lent Li Jing [-] guan, with a time limit of three years. After three years, Li Jing had to return [-] guan.

This is the strength of the Xiao family. Although a condition has been added before, it is only an additional condition.Borrowing money is borrowing money, and the interest is not only indispensable, but also a real usury. After three years, the principal will double, and fifty thousand will become one hundred thousand.On this point, the old lady was very strong, and there was no room for negotiation at all.If you want to borrow, you can borrow, and if you don't borrow, you will fall down.

Although he was full of resentment towards this usury that was worse than vampires, Li Jing finally had to sign and press his fingerprint on the IOU.But in my heart, I already have a plan to rely on it if I have a chance in the future.The money has been borrowed now, but if it is not repaid in the future, how can it be another matter, at least it is from a later life, the one who owes the money is the old man, Li Jing still understands this sentence.

Li Jing sighed in his heart and came out of the room, but Li Hui'er and the others followed immediately.

"Sanlang, now that you have borrowed the money, you have to do what you promised me."

Li Jing smiled: "Follow you, anyway, you are the princess, I can't control you."

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