Chapter 48

Yang Ling gained more from this banquet than any other banquet.He got to know a few important merchants in Qingquan Funing one after another, some from the tea ceremony, some from the salt road. He thought they were just some small merchants, but Jiang Zhuo was by his side, and a word woke him up:

"You don't know now, do you know who are the richest people in the Ming Dynasty? The first-class God of Wealth is the royal family. They expand wildly in their respective fiefs, collecting land deed taxes into their pockets, and the second-class God of Wealth is the rich and powerful. , They each have their own ways to get rich, among which the most beneficial ones are tea and salt. In the southwestern region of the Tea Horse Road, Yanyin is located along our northern border, and what you are looking at is to help these second-class gods of wealth to really make money. people, you say they have money or not.”

"Hiss..." Yang Ling took a deep breath, took two steps back and looked at the two dark and thin guys, one of them had yellow teeth. No one doubted, "You...what do you want from me?"

"Mr. Yang, to be honest, we just heard about your name, and we really want to make a friend like you. Why don't we catch up with this dinner party, eliminate the banditry and defeat the invading monsters?" Jun, Young Master Yang, you are really an idol we should worship."

"This... I don't dare to take it!" Yang Ling was polite quickly, and he couldn't figure out what the other two were so polite, so he had to back away.

But these two sandwiched Yang Ling from left to right, and said mysteriously: "Mr. Yang, we are interested in your novels, muskets, and your steelmaking and cement techniques. Can you... let us vote too. How much money?"

"What investment?" Yang Ling was taken aback by the words. He probably understood in his heart but finally waited for the other party to explain.

"That is, you can do all you want...technical research, we have money, we will fund you from now on, until you succeed, we only need [-]% return, what do you think?"

"Thirty percent return is so simple?" Yang Ling felt like being hit by a bun from the sky, "My novel has just started writing "Swordsman" and "Princess Returning to the Pearl", and I haven't prepared to write anything else yet. As for the musketeer technique, steelmaking technique, and cement technique, I haven't even thought about it, and I think it's quite difficult at the moment, and you two only want [-]% return, why do I think this is so unreal?"

"Haha, Mr. Yang is really different from ordinary people. I would be very happy to be someone else. It shows that you have unique ideas," the big yellow tooth said happily. Those who will hardly have obvious benefits for a while..."

"Then you must have misunderstood somewhere."

"No, no, no! We are looking for you, and Tang Yuanyou strongly recommended you to us. We believe that we will not choose the wrong person. In short, you can accept the money. You are welcome!"

"Investment... is fine too, how much money can you pay?"

Those two people, especially the big yellow tooth smiled enchantingly, and instead of answering Yang Ling, big yellow tooth shouted loudly to everyone in Qingquan County present:
"On behalf of Mr. Yang Xiao, I am announcing something. This time Qingquan resisted foreign enemies and many people died. Mr. Yang is willing to donate 1000 taels of pension to the officers, soldiers and villagers who died!"

"Wow!" There was warm applause on the field, 1000 taels of silver!That one tael of silver was the one-year salary of a concubine like Yang Ling's Xiao Xue'er plus pocket money, and 1000 taels was enough for Yang Ling to marry hundreds of concubines!Did you think it was a decimal?

This big yellow tooth has not finished: "Mr. Yang is not a native of Qingquan County, but he has a deep relationship here. For the long-term stability and peace of Qingquan, he is willing to donate another 1000 taels for the construction of the border defense wall!"

"Wow!" Now everyone is not only admiring, this is a big deal, 1000 taels of 1000 taels is going crazy!
"And..." Da Huangya seemed to be going on, Yang Ling tightly covered his mouth, and now he was very afraid that these two people would run away, if they were Yang Ling's enemies, then Yang Ling Ling is a dead man now, where can he get the 2 taels of silver donation?

"What do you think this is?" Da Huangya seemed to have expected Yang Ling's reaction a long time ago. He stretched out his hand in his arms, and secretly put a bank note into Yang Ling's hand with his back to everyone. Taking a peek at the light over there, I almost fainted because of the amount of money, 1 taels!

That's money!
"I think this money is enough to buy half of the land in Qingquan County." The man was unceremonious and patted Yang Ling on the shoulder, "Remember, we invested in you, and we only want 3% return in the end. As for the total investment, there are still nine tenths that can be given to you...as long as you can continue to achieve greater achievements, for example, if you can pass the exam, you can have another 1 taels, understand? And so on !"

"One hundred thousand!" Yang Ling rolled his eyes and nearly choked to death with a breath of phlegm. When he finally came back to his senses, the two businessmen had disappeared.

However, the bank note in his hand is real. The 1 taels of banknotes are only treasured by some noble families in the royal palace.This news is still known from certain legends.

"Wow, there are really 2000 taels of silver, Mr. Yang Xiao is really a good man!" Yang Ling was still fooling around, but there was a new discussion over there, someone really went to pay 2 taels of silver?
Thinking about it this way, in just a short while, Yang Ling suddenly became a rich man with tens of thousands of taels of silver, oh no, 1 taels of silver, and just donated 2 taels of silver?God!What just happened?Aren't my morals still there?

"Brother Tang!" Yang Ling strode forward to find Tang Yuanyou first. The two people said that Tang Yuanyou had introduced him, so of course he wanted to ask.

"What's the matter, brother Yang?" Tang Yuanyou was chatting with several wealthy businessmen about business matters.

"Two people came to me and insisted that they were introduced by you and wanted to invest in me for a long time. Didn't they just hand in a donation of 2 taels for me, and they also gave me another 1 taels of silver bills all at once? You see Look!" Yang Ling thought he had a heart, but he had nothing to hide from Tang Yuanyou's money, so he handed him the bank note.

"I keep mentioning you to my friends, but I can't remember which one." Tang Yuanyou handed back the 1 taels, "Since they insist on giving you the money, there's no reason to rush out for good things, you just Take it, didn't you say you want to do some development, if you have money, spend it."

"But I..." Yang Ling wanted to say, but I was not mentally prepared for such money, and I didn't know how to spend it, but I couldn't say it.

As for how to spend the money, Yang Ling's first thought was that the matchlock guns in their hands were quite powerful and had been approved by the magistrate. Under the command of Tang Yuanyou, this private "township guard" was also responsible for Patrol the security of the border, if there is a wartime situation, prepare as a reserve force and go to battle at any time.

But what Yang Ling was anxious about was this. The shooting distance of this musket is not as far as that of a bow and arrow. From Yang Ling's point of view, this thing is black powder after all. It would be better if more powerful explosives could be developed, but It is very likely that the research cannot be done, and the process path is too complicated. Yang Ling has no choice but to study the development of firearms. How to develop and research black powder weapons to the extreme will indeed cost a lot of money.

But it's definitely worth the money.Should be useful in the future.But this is the future, what about the present?

At this time, the Qingquan county government office was extremely peaceful and joyful. Although it was a farewell banquet, it was also a celebration banquet. The magistrate had just commended and rewarded those who had done meritorious service. One is Jiang Bin, and the other is the monk Ma Binghuang.

"I don't agree!"

Ma Binghuang jumped out with a cry. He is now on the table closest to the outside. He strode towards the magistrate to argue, but many soldiers stopped him. Speak up to him:
"You seem to be the Ma Binghuang who has made military exploits, right? Our father-in-law mentioned you, and he asked us to tell you, pay 500 taels of silver to exchange for a centurion, and 2000 taels of silver to exchange for a thousand households. How about it? It's cheap, right?"

"I have no money."

"I don't have any money, so I'm sorry. See off the guests."

Ma Binghuang felt cold in his heart.To be honest, he surrendered to the government, so he was a little cautious. Who wouldn't want to rely on his ability to make a living after he has the ability?But where to find so much money?At this time, he heard that Yang Ling had donated 2000 taels!
"In this world, he is the only one who can adopt a person like me who can eat and fight," the monk Ma Binghuang thought to himself, "In fact, I only regarded him as a good friend in the world at the beginning. I spent my whole life making it, but now look, damn it, what qualifications do I have to be friends with someone, I should be his bodyguard, and it’s probably the easiest way to make money from him!”

"Hurry up, hurry up!" A group of soldiers and eunuchs kept bombarding him.

"Let's go!" Ma Binghuang shook his shoulders, "I don't care about breaking hundreds of households. I like golden knives and iron horses. I heard that in the future, Mr. Yang will take the exam. If I win Juren and become a high official, I will be his bodyguard, maybe he can put down the stronghold again, and I will go to the front line, yes, maybe in the future we may even go on an expedition to the desert, that would be great!"

At this moment, Yang Ling also heard the commendation order from the magistrate. It is good to have him, but it seems that Ma Binghuang and Jiang Bin were not mentioned in it. I deliberately gave the magistrate a serious hand over and boldly mentioned this matter.

"The students want to ask Ma Binghuang, and Mr. Jiang Bin, why were they not mentioned in the award notice?"

"This notice was personally reviewed by His Royal Highness, and the names of these two people were deliberately ticked off. You ask me why I didn't? Do you want me to ask the prince again? The little prince is sleepy tonight because of being too tired for days. Going to rest, His Highness will leave tomorrow, I said you have searched too much for this matter, right? Go on down!"

"My lord!" Yang Ling still wanted to insist on asking who checked the name of the person on the list, but Zheng Zhifu tossed his sleeves and ignored him, which made him very depressed.

In fact, the magistrate just saw that Yang Ling was quite popular with the locals, so he didn't blame him deeply. Naturally, Liu Jin was the leader of the "Eight Tigers".

While Yang Ling was full of anger, suddenly a most beautiful little maid invited her, saying that my young lady is welcome.

"Your lady?"

Yang Ling looked at this little girl by the light, she was a little lost in thought, she looks quite pretty, this girl is similar to a girl in my impression, by the way, Xue Yingying, both have the iconic long long long long hair The eyelashes, those eyes are extraordinarily bright, and it is the same movement at this moment, the big eyes are inexplicably flickering, flickering, and the small shovel-shaped eyelashes dig Yang Ling's heart one after another.

Yang Ling's hair was dug out by others: "Did Miss Yingying invite me? I'll go, where is she?"

"He's upstairs in the west building, in the Chunnuan Pavilion. He just wrote a manuscript and I want you to read it."

"Okay, I'll go, can you please lead the way?"

"Oh, you are being polite. Those of us who are today, why are you being polite, please walk slowly with me. The ground is a bit uneven when walking at night."

Saying that, the little maid directly hooked Yang Ling's arm with her left hand, and her fragrant and soft body was already leaning over.

 God, I can't stop this chapter
  
 
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