Bright Sword: Stop pretending, I am the most powerful warlord

"Why are you looking at me like this, is there a problem?"

"No, no, no!" Ding Wei said hastily: "First of all, I agree with your starting point. We will give what the people lack. There is no problem."

"But I think it's best to think about it from a practical point of view."

Zhao Gang echoed: "The food we seized this time is indeed quite a lot, but the problem is that these are the rations of the soldiers. If all of them are taken out, the common people will be full, but the soldiers will be hungry."

"Don't forget, our ultimate goal of winning people's hearts is to recruit soldiers. If these people come to serve as soldiers and find that they don't have enough to eat, I'm afraid it will cause a mutiny."

"The veteran who has been following us may understand, but what are you going to do as a recruit?"

"And you still have to see a doctor for the common people. What about the money for the medicine? Even if we spend all our military expenditures, it may not be able to make up such a big hole."

"A penny is worth a man, and a penny is hard to get a hero."

Kong Jie sighed: "As you said, doing this and talking about it are two different things, IQ is not enough!"

Wu Qianli smiled and said: "Actually, things are not as complicated as you think. Isn't it just a matter of money?"

"There are so many grain merchants in Harbin, and they have a large amount of grain reserves in their hands. We just need to buy from them."

"As for the hospital, it's not a problem. It's all about seeing a doctor. It doesn't matter who you see. All the unexpected expenses are borne by us."

"Where is the money?" Kong Jie spread his hands together: "If you say ten thousand, the grain will not be donated in vain, and we can't grab it clearly, can we?"

Wu Qianli smiled and said, "Money has a solution!"

"We copied the three major families and the chamber of commerce of foreigners, and all the money can be used."

Zhao Gang quickly said: "It's impossible to use all of them!"

"Mr. Minglou said that if you want to restore Harbin's economy, you must first have capital. Most of the money from the three major families and the Foreign Chamber of Commerce will be invested in the restoration of the economy, and part of it must be used as a reserve fund. In fact, we Less than one-third of what can be taken out."

"If you follow your plan, we still have a lot of holes to fill."

Wu Qianli frowned: "Then go borrow it. Those rich businessmen in Harbin have money in their hands. They will use the shares in the factories we won from the devils as collateral. First, we will borrow from these rich businessmen. The interest will be paid up to three cents a year."

"Three points per year!" Ding Wei was surprised: "The interest rate is too high, aren't we looking for trouble for ourselves?"

Wu Qianli lit a cigarette and said with a smile: "Don't worry, they won't get the three-point profit, they can only get the capital at most!"

"Now the situation in Northwest Shanxi has stabilized. The various ores on the side of Heiyun Mountain have brought us a lot of profits. We can return all the capital within one year, and then we don't have to pay one cent of the profit."

Zhao Gang nodded: "It means you want to trick these businessmen in words?"

"Yes!" Wu Qianli nodded and said, "Businessmen are interested in profit, so I give the bait of three-year profit."

"To be honest, if it wasn't for the time issue, we could have mobilized funds from Northwest Shanxi without having to borrow money from these businessmen, but far water can't solve the near thirst, so this is a last resort."

"Then what about Feihu Ridge?" Zhao Gang asked, "Feihu Ridge still has about [-] troops. If you mobilize the funds there, you are not afraid of any problems there?"

Wu Qianli waved his hand: "That's our lair, and all our belongings are there. Isn't it easy to get money?"

"In the past, the devils controlled Northwest Shanxi, and we couldn't sell many things to the outside world. This indirectly caused us to lose a lot of sources of income. But now the situation in Northwest Shanxi has changed, and it is not difficult to get money."

"For example, penicillin, this thing is the real profiteering. I didn't let go before, but the situation is different now. We can completely sell the excess at a high price while ensuring that we have enough for ourselves."

"There are so many in the warehouse, and it takes less than half a year to sell them and the funds can be gathered immediately."

Only then did everyone suddenly realize that they all gave Wu Qianli a thumbs up.

"You are smart enough, it would be a pity if you don't become a businessman!" Li Yunlong smiled meanly.

Kong Jie nodded: "Throwing high profits let the wealthy businessman in Harbin borrow money to solve the coal burning emergency first, then mobilize funds from Northwest Shanxi to repay the businessman's money and get back the mortgaged shares, and finally use penicillin to make up for Northwest Shanxi. Generally speaking, you are only paying the price of penicillin for the hole on the other side, and there is not much loss for you!"

"I said, you kid was not a profiteer in your previous life, right?"

Wu Qianli waved his hand: "Not only that, after Harbin's economy recovers, the factory here can be put into production, which will also generate benefits, and the funds earned at that time can also be used as military expenses. That is to say, as long as this period of time is passed, we The military spending is not a problem at all."

Zhao Gang nodded: "Now there is one last question. The hospital is easy to say, as long as you give the money, but what do you do with the grain merchant?"

"We want to buy food from them, what if they take the opportunity to raise the price?"

Wu Qianli snorted coldly: "I won't allow this to happen, but we can't just take tough measures."

With that said, Wu Qianli took out a document from the drawer and handed it to Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang was taken aback for a moment, then took the information to check: "Zhao Minru? A grain merchant?"

"Yes!" Wu Qianli said: "When I first entered the city, I had someone collect information on some important tasks in Harbin. This Zhao Minru is the largest grain merchant in Harbin and the president of the entire Harbin Grain Merchants Association."

"If he can do his job well, food will not be a problem."

After checking the information, Li Yunlong said, "Is it an old man?"

"This person is a rotten Confucian at first glance. Dealing with this kind of person is not easy."

"In this way, I will bring someone over to talk to him tomorrow, and the food problem will definitely be solved."

Ding Wei rolled his eyes: "Old Li, anyone can go, but you can't go."

"You have a bad temper. If your words are wrong, and you scare the old man to death, not only will our food problem not be solved, but we will lose the hearts of the people."

"Tuan Zhang is right!" Wu Qianli pointed to the information and said, "This Zhao Minru is not an ordinary businessman. His ancestors used to be magistrates in Harbin, and he became a merchant later. He is very prestigious in Harbin."

"Whether it's those three families or the ghost foreigner, we have to give him three points. If we want to talk, we have to talk about it. It's really inappropriate to dance with knives and guns."

"Zhao Zhengwei, you spread the news that we are going to distribute relief food tomorrow morning. The time is set for the day after tomorrow. I will go to contact this Zhao Minru in person tomorrow."

"That's all I want to talk about today, including the doctor's affairs. Tomorrow, Commander Ding and Commander Kong will have to work hard."

"No problem!" Kong Jie, Ding Wei, and Zhao Gang all agreed and turned to leave!