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"Account? What account?" Zhang Xian said with a dark face, "You captured my people today. Do you want me to pay to redeem them?"

"That's not mentioned in the contract!"

The last time he redeemed people, it was because he needed these five hundred men to attack the city wall.

Now he has admitted defeat and has lost all his face. He has made up his mind not to let Zhuge Tian make a penny again.

"Who said that you have to redeem people?" Zhuge Tian smiled slightly and took out the contract that the two had signed at the beginning.

"Look, Envoy Zhang, this is the contract we signed, right?"

Zhang Xian took a look and pulled out a copy from his pocket: "If it's the same as mine, then it's real."

The contract was signed in three copies, with each of them holding one copy and the other copy given to Liu Biao.

Zhuge Tian took the contract from Zhang Xian and said, "Then we'll take the one in Envoy Zhang's hand as the standard. Is that ok?"

Zhang Xian had no idea what tricks Zhuge Tian was playing, so he snorted coldly and nodded.

He always carries the contract with him, so there is naturally no problem.

"Then please look at VC... Oh, please look here!" Zhuge Tian spread out the contract and pointed to the small words in the middle.

"Envoy Zhang is very knowledgeable, so he should know these characters, right?"

"Humph, of course I know it!"

"Then, Mr. Zhang, take a closer look at this. What does it say?"

Zhang Xian took a look and said, "The loser of this siege will bear all expenses incurred."

"What are the fees?" Zhang Xian said impatiently.

“This is our Wolong Village payroll.”

Zhuge Tian took a scroll from Liao Hua's hand, and as soon as he let go, the scroll opened with a swish.

"We in Wolong Village have set thirteen salary levels based on various factors such as ability, contribution, and qualifications."

"This is the detailed daily wage for each level!" Zhuge Tian pointed to the back of the scroll and said, "Also, you see, we in Wolong Village strictly adhere to the eight-hour work system. Any overtime will be treated as overtime."

"We only work five days out of seven. If we work more than that, it will be treated as overtime!"

Seeing Zhang Xian's incredulous expression, Zhuge Tian smiled and said, "Envoy Zhang, don't think I'm doing this to trick you."

"If you ask the people of Wolong Village, you'll know we've been using this salary system for over six months."

Zhuge Tian took out a calculator, pressed it twice to reset it to zero, then quickly pressed it again, while reciting along with his mouth.

"Sixty fourth-level salaries, twenty-two third-level salaries..."

"The total overtime is forty-three hours..."

"During the eight-day siege, three of those days are Wolong Village's rest days..."

After a series of clicks and the sound of electronic synthesized counting, Zhuge Tian finally turned the computer towards Zhang Xian: "The cost of our Wolong Village soldiers alone is... 8973 strings of cash and 278 coins!"

"Since we're all so familiar with each other, I won't take the change. Let's just call it 8973 strings of cash and 270 coins!"

Zhang Xian's forehead was throbbing with veins when he heard this.

Just give yourself 8 cents?

You'd better not apply it.

Zhuge Tian asked Xu Shu to write it down on a piece of white paper, and then he calculated, "The cost of renting 25 catapults, wear and tear, and other expenses..."

"Wait!" Zhang Xian called out, "What does this have to do with the trebuchet?"

"Hey, how fresh!" Zhuge Tian said with a smile, "This catapult was borrowed from Xiangyang City. It's been used for so many days, so naturally there are expenses involved."

"That's right!"

Although Liu Biao did not come, his two sons were among the spectators.

Liu Qi immediately agreed with Zhuge Tian and said, "Father asked me to come here just to see what the expenses are..."

Zhang Xian's face darkened: "Okay, I'll give it to you!"

Seeing Xu Shu write down another ten thousand guan of debt, Zhang Xian said with a bit of pain, "Is it gone now?"

"How is that possible!" Zhuge Tian shook his head: "We're just getting started now."

Zhuge Tian turned around and pointed at the city wall of Wolong Village. "Envoy Zhang scratched the exterior of my city wall like this. I'm repainting it... No, I'm renovating it. It's going to cost a lot of money, right?"

The blood vessels in Zhang Xian's temples began to throb when he heard this.

But what Zhuge Tian said seemed to make some sense.

"And look, outside our Wolong Village are green mountains and clear waters. What a beautiful environment!"

"Once you set up camp, our villagers will be responsible for cleaning up the garbage you leave behind after you leave. This is extra work. Shouldn't we be charged for it?"

At this moment, Zhang Xian finally felt that the word shameless had become concrete.

It turns out that a person can be so shameless just to make money!

What the cost of turf restoration has come out.

But one by one, although what Zhuge Tian said seemed nonsense, when you think about it carefully, it seems that it really does cost some money.

In this way, the list of expenses written by Xu Shu became longer and longer.

"Adding in the impact of the siege noise on the livestock raised in Wolong Village, the cost is 792 guan. A total of... yuanzhi, how many guan in total?"

As Xu Shu wrote, there was a total amount that kept increasing next to him.

He handed the manuscript in his hand to Zhuge Tian. He was really... a little embarrassed to read it.

black!

It's so damn dark!

Even if Xu Shu and Zhuge Tian were in the same group, it did not affect his feeling that Zhuge Tian was completely black from head to toe.

"Let me take a look!"

Zhuge Tian had no such awareness. He took the manuscript paper and looked at the last row: "The total is... 462983 strings of cash and 496 coins."

"Among them, the fee payable to Xiangyang City is... 74398 strings of cash and 290 coins... Will Brother Qi round off the amount for them?"

Seeing Liu Qi nod, he wrote on the paper: "74398 strings of cash."

"Then we in Wolong Village should be more generous. You should have given us 388585 strings of coins and 206 coins. Just give us 388585 strings of coins and 200 coins!"

The Xiangyang officials standing nearby almost fainted from trying to hold back their laughter.

Zhuge Tian spoke in a serious and generous manner, but in the end the cost of hundreds of thousands of strings of cash was rounded off to just six cents.

"Hmph!" Zhang Xian snorted coldly. "Alright, I won't default on my debt, but the people in the three counties are in dire straits right now, so I don't have that much cash to give you..."

Zhang Xian was planning to use the people of the three counties to occupy the moral high ground, but he forgot that Zhuge Tian would not buy it at all.

"Nothing!" Zhuge Tian pulled out another piece of manuscript paper. "The cloth stand in the third lane of Xiangyang East Market belongs to Envoy Zhang's family. It's worth 8500 strings of cash."

"The rice shop in the fourth lane also belongs to Envoy Zhang, and that property also belongs to Envoy Zhang. It's worth 23000 strings of cash."

"And the tavern at the city gate..."

Listening to Zhuge Tian listing all the Zhang family's assets in Xiangyang, Zhang Xian finally felt dizzy and passed out.

"Hey, don't try to scam me!" Zhuge Tian took a step back to avoid the limp Zhang Xian. "Ask Mr. Yuanhua to examine the injuries. I'll charge you based on a house call!"