Witch Wind

Chapter 136: Sky-High Contract (Part )

Xing Tianqingshu was desperate and tried every possible means. He did not even ask Maso why she was in urgent need of cash but could accept various land deeds as collateral from him and his partners.

He didn't ask.

If he asked, Maso would tell him that there were many nobles in Dongyun who were crazy about setting up businesses in the fertile land of Dongguo. These land deeds could be exchanged for piles of silver from the big landlords in Dongyun in a few minutes.

In a location like Nanxun Town, there is an old house with an orderly inheritance. The ancestors have appeared in county annals and local annals, and even had friendly interactions with the royal family of the East Country - well, chopping royal family members with a knife until they were covered in blood can certainly be classified as "friendly interactions".

In short, such an old house with a wide door would be easy to sell in the Dongyun aristocratic circle.

There are too many nobles who are looking forward to getting such an old house in the East Country - such as the ancestral home of the Xingtian family's Pingyuan Hall in Nanxun Town. Some of the nobles in Dongyun who are obsessed with it can spend all their property just to get this house!

This is of course the truth.

This is, of course, not the truth.

Anyway, there was a telegraph office in Feiyun Port, and Xing Tianqingshu sent the most urgent secret telegram to the weaving office in Pinghai City.

Five days later, a high-speed frigate flying the flag of Yiduoli came spitting thick smoke and crashed into Feiyun Port. The ship had just docked and had not yet landed on the pier when a group of wealthy merchants dressed in silk and satin, with plump and plump looks, crashed into it.

These guys, who usually lived a life of luxury and even needed maids to wipe their butts when they went to the toilet, hired Yiduoli's high-speed frigate at a high price and drove it at full power. It took them only five days to get from Pinghai City to Feiyun Port, which would take half a month on a normal passenger ship.

Driving at such high speed all the way was a torture that even a serious naval sailor could not bear.

These guys...

They lined up neatly in a row, knelt on the pier, faced the sea, and spoke loudly, spewing out all the bile.

Although they were in a miserable state, these guys brought with them the ancestral home of the Xingtian clan's Pingyuan Hall in Nanxun Town, as well as a large number of shops, streets, paddy fields, tea mountains, mulberry forests, medicinal fields, and even the deeds of a large number of mines, forests, pastures and other industries distributed in Jiangdong Province and several nearby provinces.

There are more than two hundred distributors who are close to Xing Tian Qing Shu on a daily basis and are closely tied to Xing Tian in business. They are even deeply involved in the business of Jilexiang and have made huge profits from it.

They were all well-known wealthy merchants in the vicinity of Nanxun Town, and even in Jieshi County and Jiangdong Province. They were wealthy and their real estates were spread across several surrounding provinces. Their businesses and shops were spread across the Jiangnan area, and their caravans, various fleets, horse teams, etc., had a radiation area that reached most of the Great Yu Dynasty.

They also brought their own land deeds that could be used as collateral.

Caijinxuan.

A few sika deer chewed biscuits and walked slowly past the blooming cherry trees. The petals fell as softly as raindrops, landing on the deer's mottled fur. The occasional "yo yo" deer call, accompanied by the melodious sound of a flute from a tall building in the distance, immediately brought up the artistic conception.

Under an old cherry tree that was so thick that two people could hug it, a brocade as white as snow was spread out.

Marceau, wearing a cloud-like long skirt, leaned lazily on two pretty maids. Beside her stood a hookah inlaid with gold and silver. In her mouth was an ivory mouthpiece with a long latex tube attached. She slowly inhaled tobacco mixed with a lot of spices.

Dozens of slim girls with long ponytails and novel long skirts were standing quietly by, with their snow-white arms and entire calves exposed. They wore palm-wide gold and silver belts around their waists, which made their slender waists look even more striking. They held exquisitely crafted rapiers in their hands.

They were serious, but when they occasionally raised their eyebrows, twitched their eyes, or curved their lips slightly, they exuded infinite charm, causing Xing Tianqingshu and more than 200 distributors to be so overwhelmed that they completely forgot themselves.

They were also sitting on cloud-like brocade cushions, with huge wooden boxes stacked around them, filled with various land deeds.

There were also some lucky ones who were very wealthy, or whose gold and silver cellars were widely distributed or too secretive, and were not found by Xing Tianli. The wooden boxes around them were filled with thick stacks of large-denomination silver bills.

It took them a huge amount of effort to convert the gold and silver hidden in their home cellars into silver notes in a very short period of time.

Marceau glanced lazily at the deeds and suddenly smiled brightly.

Her eyes fell on the large banknotes, and she curled her lips in disdain: "You guys are all out of your mind. I'm using the banknotes issued by Dayu Dynasty Bank to pay the coalition forces? Are you kidding me?"

A middle-aged man with blinking eyes, who looked quite shrewd, said in a deep voice: "Your Highness Maso, these are all silver bills issued by our Jiangdong Province's centuries-old reputable bank. They are credit-guaranteed and can be used in the East Country. What are you worried about?"

Maso coughed lightly and said, "An old bank with hundreds of years of reputation? Haha, a time-honored brand? The Kingdom of Farus has been passed down for thousands of years, but didn't it also die thirty years ago? Unless it is cash, I won't recognize it here."

Waving his hands, Maso said softly: "Actually, even if it's cash, I won't acknowledge it."

She looked at these wealthy merchants who seemed to have thorns under their buttocks and were fidgeting, and said coldly: "You bring me gold and silver, but one tael of gold can only be used as one tael of gold, and one tael of silver can only be used as one tael of silver."

"But I can exchange these land deeds and other things for ten times, or even twenty or fifty times the amount of gold and silver from those Dongyun nobles."

"I don't even need to hand over the deeds to them. I just need to sign a mortgage agreement, and these country bumpkin nobles in Dongyun will be willing to pay out all their wealth! This is finance, this is economics!" Marceau exhaled a smoke ring and laughed sarcastically, "You local rich guys, do you understand?"

Without waiting for anyone to speak, Maso looked up at the sky, and a few cherry petals fell softly on her face.

She chuckled and said, "I only need a mortgage deed. There is no need to hand over the land deeds to those country bumpkins. When this war is over, I will have a hundred times, or even a thousand times the profit. I will then directly pay them back with cash. These land deeds will still be in my hands."

"At that time, as long as you distribute the Bliss Incense and have enough cash in hand, you can redeem these deeds from me. Of course, you have to pay a little interest." Maso chuckled and said, "These deeds have always been in my hands. There will be no risk at all, and we will get what we want!"

Marceau puffed out cigarette lightly, and the rich aroma filled the air.

Xing Tianqingshu and his partners sniffed the aroma, felt the subtle smiles of the girls, and their gentle gazes that kept falling on them. They felt elated and accepted Marceau's suggestion 100%.

Reasonable.

completely fine.

What could be wrong?

By mortgaging the land deeds to Maso, they took away the mountains of Bliss Incense; they returned to Dayu Dynasty and quickly distributed the Bliss Incense in exchange for real money; and Maso mortgaged these land deeds to the Dongyun nobles, also in exchange for real money.

Marceau used this real money to participate in the war.

Whether it is the Kingdom of Farus trying to revive the dead or for some other purpose, it has nothing to do with Xing Tian, ​​Qing Shu and the others.

After they take the bliss incense and exchange it for enough real money, they can redeem their own land deeds from Maso - it is reasonable and completely no problem.

Of course, in this process, when they mortgage the land deeds, Maso will frantically lower the price; and when Maso mortgages these land deeds to those Dongyun local rich men, he will frantically raise the price... There is no doubt that Maso will do this.

With this investment and this exit, Marceau could potentially make a huge profit of more than a hundred times.

In the crowd, a wealthy businessman intentionally or unintentionally amplified his voice and muttered: "In this case, why not just mortgage these deeds to those Dongyun nobles? Maybe we don't need to bring so many deeds to exchange for enough gold and silver?"

Marceau heard the man's 'mumbling'.

All heard clearly.

In fact, everyone knew that this "mumbling" guy should represent the voice of Xing Tianqingshu and his partners.

Marceau coughed lightly and pointed at the other party.

A young girl walked over with a smile and soft dance steps, grabbed the man's neck, and dragged him out like a dead dog. During the whole process, the man's neck was restrained, and he couldn't breathe. He was red-faced and almost suffocated to death on the spot.

"What a stupid guy." Marceau said leisurely, "Does he think he's smart?"

With a sneer, Maso said in a cold voice: "We all know that your land deeds can be mortgaged for a higher price with those Dongyun nobles. But, frankly speaking, this excess profit belongs to me, not you. If you bring cash, I don't want it." "I only want your land deeds, do you understand?" Maso said coldly: "For those who are willing to cooperate, I have invited a notary. For those who are not willing to cooperate, you can get out."

"But I guarantee that those who don't cooperate with me today will never get even a ounce of blissful incense from me in the future. And I guarantee that after the Kingdom of Farus regains its glory, he will become the enemy of the Kingdom of Farus!"

"It's up to you all to choose!"

Marceau smiled brightly.

She puffed out a puff of cigarette, puff of cigarette, puff of cigarette, and continued to puff out cigarettes. Although she was dressed as a well-maintained old lady, the natural charm she had, combined with the strange effects of certain special ingredients in the cigarettes, and the mental fluctuations she released...

Lore!

Xing Tianqingshu patted the large wooden box beside him and picked up the top deed, which was more than a foot long and wide, colorful and ancient, and stamped with more than a dozen big red seals - this deed was the deed to the Xingtian family's ancestral home in Pingyuan Hall in Nanxun Town.

"Since His Highness Maso has made a plan, we are naturally happy to see it come to fruition." Xing Tianqingshu smiled warmly: "Then, shall we quickly complete the mortgage?"

"One mu of good paddy field, five cents of silver; one mu of good dry land, two cents of silver. One mu of tea mountain, one tael of silver; one mu of mulberry forest, three cents of silver." Ma Suo puffed lazily on his water pipe and slowly quoted his mortgage price: "This is the price. If you want to do it, do it. If not, get out. If not, I will support a few new distributors in Dayu Dynasty."

"There are hundreds of millions of users of the Extreme Bliss Incense now, right?"

“Am I still worried that I won’t be able to sell it?”

Marceau said it calmly.

Xing Tianqingshu and his partners were all pale with anger - an acre of good paddy field can only be mortgaged for one penny of silver with you?
You idiot, do you know what the price of paddy fields in Jieshi County is?

In the vicinity of Nanxun Town, an acre of top-quality paddy field is worth thirty taels, thirty taels!

Even in the western region of the Dayu Dynasty, in the remote western provinces where land prices are not very precious, an acre of good irrigated land can easily be sold for five or six taels of silver!
You are a cruel and shameless old woman. An acre of top-quality paddy field in Jieshi County, Jiangdong Province, which is considered the most fertile area in the Dayu Dynasty, can only be mortgaged for five cents of silver with you?

And how much money will you use these land deeds to squeeze from those Dongyun country bumpkins?
For one mu of irrigated land, would you mortgage them fifty taels? Sixty taels? Or even more?

It’s just...

Maso exhaled another puff of smoke: "The price is a little low, but it's easy for you to redeem it. Isn't that the truth? To put it bluntly, I just borrowed your land deeds to use for a while, and get more silver from those Dongyun people. Whether it's a war, a war to restore the country, silver will be spent like water!"

Marceau's words are very convincing.

Xing Tian, ​​Qing Shu and others took a deep breath of the fragrant air, gritted their teeth, and accepted Maso's offer.

Maso was right. It was just a temporary mortgage. As long as he could get enough Paradise Incense from her and sell it all, he would be able to make a fortune, which would be enough to redeem these land deeds.

This deal can even allow them to fill the big hole they made in the past few months!
Until now, the news that the secret cellars of each household had been emptied had only spread among a very small number of people - the clan elders and elders of each family did not even know the news!
How dare they let their elders know that their cellars had been emptied?
Will the elders believe it?

The elders would only think that these family heads had embezzled the clan’s public property for personal gain, which could be fatal - these family heads might even be thrown into pig cages by the angry clan members!

So, hurry up and make this deal, and then make your money back quickly!
Marceau brought with him thousands of expert accountants.

She has seduced and controlled thousands of Dongyun nobles in the western islands. Wouldn't it be easy for her to select a thousand shrewd and capable accountants from these families?
The various deeds in the big boxes were quickly distributed to the accountants. The sound of abacus beads popping could be heard, and the deeds were quickly counted.

Ancestral homes, shops, paddy fields, dry fields, fish ponds, mulberry forests, tea mountains, mines... incalculable wealth!
Xing Tian Qingshu and more than 200 partners showed such strong foundation that Xing Tianli, who was sitting cross-legged on the clouds and paying close attention to the movements below, was dumbfounded.

There are more than 200 households, and they have a total of 120 million mu of good paddy fields.

This number shocked Xing Tianli.

This is just the area around Nanxun Town. There are more than 200 wealthy businessmen who are on good terms with Xing Tianqingshu and have deep ties with him. They are not specialized "big landlords" but mostly wealthy families engaged in business and commerce. How could they piece together more than 100 million acres of paddy fields?
Horrible, terrible.

It's terrible.

However, think about it, the Jieshi County alone is as big as a province in Xing Tianli's previous life in Shenzhou, or even larger. There are more than a dozen counties of this size in the Jiangdong Province. "Just over 100 million acres of paddy fields" does not seem unacceptable.

After all, they are all big families that have been multiplying for hundreds of years. What does this little bit of foundation mean to them?

A quarter of an hour later, the title deed to the ancestral home of the Xingtian clan in Pingyuan Hall in Nanxun Town, which was located next to Baihe Pond and covered an area of ​​several miles and was as big as a city, fell into the hands of Xing Tianli.

Xing Tianli shook the light deed gently, smiled calmly, and carefully put it into his purple-ribbon Taoist robe.

One day later, in the former garrison of Feiyun Port.

Renov's adjutant, as well as the adjutants of the commanders of various countries in the coalition forces, and more than a hundred Dongyun nobles from the western islands, all returned from the front line of Yunxiang Island and gathered here.

They brought the seals of their own chief officials and their written authorization.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, Maso and Xing Tianqingshu signed a mortgage contract in public. Xing Tianqingshu and a group of partners mortgaged their ancestral homes and a large number of real estate deeds to Maso in exchange for a batch of Ji Le Xiang.

I will not go into the details of the contract.

In short, it is very beneficial to Maso, but for Xing Tian, ​​Qing Shu and others, various restrictive clauses are like a knife cutting them one by one, leaving them covered with wounds.

Take the redemption period of many land deeds for example. Maso stipulated that Xing Tian, ​​Qing Shu and others must raise enough funds to redeem the land deeds within one month after the "Dongyun War" is officially declared over.

If the deadline is exceeded, even just by one hour, then all the real estate represented by the deeds will belong to Marceau.

Officials from the Holy Ross Empire, the Farus Federation, the Idoli Kingdom, the North Sea Seven Alliance, and hundreds of small countries affiliated with them all stamped the contract with their own seals.

More than a hundred Dongyun nobles present also signed and stamped the contract.

This contract has been officially endorsed by more than a hundred countries. Any party that violates its terms will be subject to joint sanctions from more than a hundred countries.

To be honest, this kind of joint sanctions has little binding force on Marceau.

But for Xing Tian, ​​Qing Shu and others, who have the "big boss Dayu Dynasty" behind them, the joint sanctions from a hundred or so "friendly countries" are enough to make them suffer eternal damnation.

In today's Dayu Dynasty, 'surprise of friendly nations' is still extremely important.

Not to mention the joint sanctions from more than a hundred countries, even if a small friendly country expressed a little surprise, it would shake the court and trigger unpredictable storms.

In short, the contract is signed.

Xing Tian, ​​Qing Shu and others organized dozens of cargo ships, loaded the mountains of Ji Le Xiang onto the cargo ships in the warehouse area of ​​Feiyun Port, and rushed towards Dayu Dynasty impatiently.

God knows how long this Dongyun War will last?
What if they just returned to Dayu Dynasty and had no time to distribute these bliss incense, and the war suddenly ended, wouldn't they lose all their money? Even their ancestral home was lost, wouldn't they be thrown into a pig cage by the elders?

So, hurry up and sell these bliss incense as soon as possible!

High in the sky, Xing Tianli smiled slightly, rode on the clouds, and slowly followed the fleet of Xing Tianqingshu and others.

(End of this chapter)