The Empress came ashore and beheaded the meritorious officials, forcing me to wear the yellow robe

"Ugh!"

Li Jize sighed deliberately, and then looked at Chen Anran in front of him with a determined expression. "Auntie! I know I was wrong before, but I really want to do something good now. How about this... consider this money as a loan from me?"

Ok?

Huang Suqiu and Wang Yuanya both widened their eyes in disbelief.

Borrowing money from yourself? Borrowing money to help disaster victims?

Is Li Jize crazy?

Wang Yuanya couldn't bear to see him continue being so foolish and naive, so she pulled him from behind and whispered, "Hey, idiot! Are you serious?"

Chen Anran crossed his arms over his chest, a look of disdain on his face. He pursed his lips and said, "Borrow? That sounds good, but what are you going to give back when the time comes?"

Li Jize was waiting for this sentence. He looked at Chen Anran and patted his chest: "I can use my own land as collateral!"

Chen Anran: “…”

Huang Suqiu: “???”

Wang Yuanya: “???”

Li Jin: "..."

Crazy! Li Jize must be crazy.

The lands the Empress had bestowed upon her were all excellent and fine, and she was just mortgaging them like that? Or was she mortgaging them to her own father?

If you say he doesn't have any serious mental problems, no one will believe you!

That's it...

When Li Jize wanted to use the excellent farmland and borrow money from his own father, Chen Anran had no reason to refuse.

The best thing would be that Li Jize would fail and the land would be taken back. As a fool, he has no right to inherit anything from the Li family!

With just one move, these things would become her son Li Jihuan's.

Li Jize wrote a receipt and signed it with his own hands, cashing out 300,000 taels from the Li family.

Although it's not much, it's safer than kidnapping and ransom.

If you don't handle that thing properly, you'll lose your head!

As for when the money cannot be paid back, will the land be given to someone else?

Does Li Jize care?

There is a saying that goes, "If you save the people but lose the land, both the people and the land will survive; if you save the land but lose the people, both the people and the land will be lost."

To put it bluntly, it means "My neighbor stores food, so I store guns. My neighbor is my granary!"

As long as he has money, can build weapons, recruit disaster victims and train the army, why would Li Jize be afraid of having no land in the future?

After figuring this out...

As a person from later generations, Li Jize has made up his mind!

We need to teach the ancients some of the "technology and hard work" of later generations! Let them know what a "Ponzi scheme" is.

This is not...

The next morning, when Wang Yuanya woke up and found herself fallen to the ground again...

As soon as I looked at the bed, my husband Li Jize ran away again.

At the manor, Chen Xiaodao and his team have not received the ransom yet, but the victims are already so poor that they can barely make ends meet.

So, Li Jize hurried back with 300,000 taels.

Those who need to buy food should buy food, and those who need to buy iron should continue to make weapons.

After the disaster victims have had enough to eat and drink...

Li Jize found a man named "Zhang Hualin" from the crowd.

Zhang Hualin is not an ordinary person. His ancestors were rich in the past and were considered businessmen.

However, his father's generation later squandered the family fortune on drinking, gambling, whoring and smoking. By the time of Zhang Hualin, he had nothing to show for it except for a few days of private schooling!

During the famine years, he was not even as good as other victims. Others had a lot of strength, but what did he have?

but……

Li Jize just took him in!

For no other reason than that he can read and his ancestors were in business.

Li Jize quickly found Zhang Hualin and asked him to go to his room to discuss something.

As for what they talked about in there?

No one knows!

Zhang Hualin ran away with 30,000 taels of capital.

In Li Jize's manor, there is no longer any Zhang Hualin. Instead, there is...

A strange businessman named Boss Zhang, who had studied abroad, came to the royal capital.

This Boss Zhang is very strange. He seems to be very rich. In the royal capital, he treats dignitaries to food and drinks every day, and never asks anyone for help.

As long as you come! As long as you recognize me as your friend, I will open a buffet, eat as much as you want, order as much as you want.

He only eats and drinks but does nothing, so of course all the dignitaries, rich second generation and official second generation in the capital are willing to make friends with Boss Zhang.

After a long time...

Everyone must be curious about what exactly does Boss Zhang do? Where does the money come from to eat and drink so much?

Then, Boss Zhang looked embarrassed, hesitating and mysterious.

Finally, I couldn't stand being pestered any more, and after getting drunk...

He told the truth!!

It turned out that he was lending money at high interest rates overseas.

As long as you have money, lend it out and the money will make money and interest will come quickly.

I can’t finish it even if I break my legs!!

Upon hearing this, those friends were tempted and asked how much interest they could get.

Boss Zhang drunkenly raised his hand. "Three percent interest! Monthly interest!"

This is really scary.

If you lend out 10,000 taels of silver, you can earn 300 taels a month, which is enough to live a leisurely life.

Of course, there are two things to be afraid of.

First, are you, Mr. Zhang, reliable? Second, how big is the market and how many people are looking to borrow money from you?

Regarding the first point, Boss Zhang only told you this because we are brothers. If you don’t believe it, there is nothing I can do.

As for the second point, he patted his chest and guaranteed that he could get two points of profit and only take one point.

The above all refer to monthly interest, not annual interest. Just think how terrifying that is!

People are greedy. Who wouldn't be tempted to see Boss Zhang doing nothing but eating and drinking all day? Wouldn't they want to live that kind of life?

Don’t even say it!

When the common people were almost starving to death, the silver hidden in the cellars of these dignitaries was almost going moldy.

Two percent interest per month is really tempting!

At the beginning, they naturally didn't dare to invest all, so they just took a few thousand taels of silver, or at most ten thousand taels to test the waters.

Just like that, after a few days of hard work...

By constantly treating people to meals and building relationships, Boss Zhang raised more than 100,000 taels of silver.

Of course, Li Jize was not in a hurry. He knew that the leeks had just been planted and it was not time yet.

As for the cabinet's chief minister, I heard that he is trying to raise money everywhere. How difficult would it be to get three million taels in cash?

and so……

Their family collected some antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and gold and silver jewelry, and on a dark and windy night, they secretly sent them to the land temple at the foot of Niutou Mountain.

After receiving the ransom, Chen Xiaodao immediately sent someone back to tell Li Jize whether to kill the Prime Minister or release him.

After all, a cabinet minister embezzled a huge amount of money, reaching three million! It was simply shocking.

As the King of Qin of the Great Qi, he knew how he would deal with this "number one civil servant", and Chen Xiaodao had no confidence at all.

Of course, if it was his predecessor Li Jize, he would probably really kill Ye Xianggao after getting this news.

But what about Li Jize now?

His response was simple: "We have to make our business sustainable, and keep our word! Otherwise, if we kill someone, who will trust us when we reopen the business?"