Father, I am back to fight!

Chapter 105

"Haha! Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so confident, then I will wait and see!"

Hu Yanqing said with a sneer.

"Sixth Brother! You're completely wasting your time. If the sour figure is just a few hundred thousand kilograms of grain, and Beiliang thinks it's too little and suddenly changes its mind, do you know how much Daliang will lose?"

Qin Mang said coldly.

Civil and military officials also nodded. Some wanted to stop Qin Yu, but Qin Yu had already started calculating, and the numbers he used were ones they had never seen before.

Ah!

When Hu Yanqing saw the words Qin Yu used, his brows furrowed instantly, because he was too familiar with these words!

He had found a booklet with this kind of writing on it from the merchant who had cheated him, but no one in Beiliang knew this kind of writing, so he didn't know what it meant.

But he didn't expect that Qin Yu could also know this kind of writing!

"On the first day it's one jin, on the second day it's double, so we multiply it by two, on the third day it's three, and so on!"

"By the 24th day, it had reached a staggering figure of 8,388,608 kilograms. On the 25th day, it doubled again, reaching over 16 million kilograms. And this was just the amount given on the 25th day. If you add up the amounts given on the previous days, it would be nearly 30 million kilograms!"

Qin Yu said in a deep voice while calculating.

hiss!

After hearing the data calculated by Qin Yu, the officials present all gasped in shock. On the 25th day, Daliang would need to provide Beiliang with 16 million kilograms of grain, and the total amount would be close to 30 million kilograms, which was far more than the value of the pure gold tower!

"This! How can there be so many! This Hu Yanqing actually cheated us!"

"That's 30 million kilograms in total! We'd have to have at least ten of these little gold towers to be worth that much grain!"

......

The officials looked at each other with anger when they looked at Hu Yanqing!

"Don't worry, this is only the 25th day. On the 26th day, that's over 33 million catties! On the 27th day, it's over 67 million catties. On the 28th day, it's over 134 million catties! On the 29th day, it's 264,840,000 catties!"

"On the 30th day, that's over 530 million kilograms!"

"At this point, the total amount of food produced is close to 1 billion catties. If we calculate based on a 31-day month, then on the 31st day, it would be 1,073,741,824 catties!"

"Even if Beiliang doesn't want the first thirty days' worth of food, how long will it take for Daliang to pay back the thirty-first day's worth of food? Even if the people have to tighten their belts every day, it will take at least fifty years!"

Qin Yu said coldly.

All the officials opened their mouths in shock, unable to believe that all this was true!

Daliang's annual tax revenue is only over 10 million taels of silver. If converted into grain, that would be more than 30 million kilograms. If all of it were given to Beiliang, it would take more than 30 years to pay back the grain!

With so much food being obtained every year, Beiliang's national strength will continue to grow, and sooner or later, it will swallow up Daliang!

This Hu Yanqing is really vicious and ambitious!

Emperor Liang frowned, looked at Hu Yanqing coldly, and said in a cold voice: "Hu Yanqing! You actually want me, Daliang, to give you 2 billion catties of grain! How vicious!"

Hu Yanqing still had a smile on his face as he said, "Haha! Emperor Liang, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is making a scene here. Do you think the officials of Daliang are going to follow suit? Do you, the Emperor, also want to be unreasonable?"

Ah!

Hearing what Hu Yanqing said, the officials shouted angrily, "Hu Yanqing! How dare you insult His Majesty! You're courting death!"

"Hmph! How did I insult your Majesty? Do you recognize the symbols written by the Daliang Crown Prince? And he's talking about addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division! I've never heard of them before. Do you think the people of Daliang have heard of them?"

"The prince of Daliang invented a language we've never seen before, and then he wrote and drew whatever he wanted. We have no choice but to listen to whatever he said!"

"One jin, in 31 days, becomes 1 billion jin. This sounds like a fairy tale. If you believe it, then what is it but nonsense?"

Hu Yanqing said coldly.

"Haha! Hu Yanqing! Do you think that just because I used a new language to calculate, you can confuse right and wrong and frame me?"

"I'm telling you, you're completely overthinking it. The numbers I use are called Arabic numerals, and they're very simple to learn. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are also based on arithmetic that everyone knows. I only need to explain it briefly, and everyone will understand!"

Qin Yu looked at Hu Yanqing and said with a sneer.