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

Li Xiang, the ancestor of the Li family, has been following the Taizu of the Great Qi Dynasty in his campaigns for 278 years!

The Li family served as generals for successive emperors for more than 270 years.

In Li Jize's imagination, the Li family's savings should be an astronomical figure.

But the fact is...

One million three hundred thousand taels!

This amount of silver surprised Li Jize. As the chief minister of the cabinet, he could get three million taels of silver through corruption, his family and his disciples.

But as the head of the noble family, the Li family only has this much?

Disappointment! The Li family really disappointed Li Jize.

Come to think of it, in order to support 5,000 soldiers, Li Jize resorted to all sorts of tricks, including kidnapping, extortion, fraud, and so on.

If nothing else! Elite troops really cost a lot of money and food.

Now on "Liangshan", the five thousand elite soldiers are not engaged in production every day, but are only responsible for training in marksmanship and assassination.

In order to ensure they are in peak condition, they not only need rice for three meals a day, but also meat!

Not to mention how much is consumed in a day, the amount of bullets and gunpowder consumed by the muskets used for training alone is exaggerated and frightening.

even though……

The eight hundred servants of the Li family may not have such high treatment, but they are the guarantee that the Li family has gone through 16 dynasties and is still the top of the nobles.

A servant is the private property of his master.

In order to support these 800 people, the old lady of the Li family has to find ways to raise pensions on her own. You can imagine how much money they spend every year.

Looking at the 1.8 million on the account, Old Lady Li was still a little nervous. She looked at Chen Anran and frowned, "Anran, how much do you think is appropriate to save? How about... we save 800,000 and keep 1 million?"

The concubine became a little anxious when she heard this. She immediately tried to persuade him, "Mother-in-law! One million and eight hundred thousand is just sitting there in the account office, but there's not a cent left! But with Boss Zhang, it generates interest every day! That's fifty-four thousand taels a month, and the interest alone! I think it's enough to pay the pension. Besides, which war doesn't last a year or two? Mother-in-law! When Brother Jin returns victorious in a year, we'll have earned nearly six hundred and fifty thousand taels for the Li family!"

You know what, she is really good at arithmetic.

When Old Lady Li heard about the annual interest rate of 65 taels, she was frightened by the horrific interest rate of three percent.

Humans are all greedy! Greed is the original sin.

How can you not be tempted by the huge amount of money?

"only……"

Old Lady Li frowned and pondered for a moment before suddenly asking, "How do I hand over this silver to Boss Zhang? Does Boss Zhang still recognize this money?"

Because of war and natural disasters, the treasury has no money left.

When the emperor asked all officials to raise funds, they all cried poor, but when faced with "loan sharking", they all secretly stuffed money into Boss Zhang's hands.

The same goes for the Li family!

When donating, although it was the largest amount among all the officials, it was still a little insufficient compared to 1.8 million.

Now that the Li family has suddenly taken out 1.8 million taels of silver, won't this cause criticism from the outside world?

Li Jize, who had been standing by without saying a word, was unwilling to refuse the money from his family!

Faced with the old lady's problem, he was about to speak up to solve it, but he didn't expect that someone was more anxious than him and wanted to close the deal even more.

"Grandma, didn't Second Mother say she had connections? Could she know Boss Zhang? In my opinion, why not invite Boss Zhang to our house? We can count the silver and sign the bill in person. The rest of the matter will have nothing to do with our Li family!"

A word from his daughter-in-law Wang Yuanya made Li Jize, who had already opened his mouth, swallow it back.

He was surprised and looked at his wife in confusion. Why did she care so much about this matter?

To put it nicely, if there really is such interest, it is Chen Anran’s credit!

To put it bluntly, all the principal and interest were lost, and that money also went secretly into Li Jize's pocket.

What does it have to do with her?

Sure enough, Chen Anran was also surprised and looked at Wang Yuanya strangely.

but……

Chen Anran agreed with her proposal!

Nodding, Chen Anran took Old Lady Li's hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Grandma! I think Boss Zhang is a good person. He often says that doing business requires integrity! You don't know, he gives a lot of interest every month, and he honors it all! I have a good relationship with him, I believe he should agree if I ask him."

Old Lady Li was also very happy. She patted the back of Chen Anran's hand, and staged a scene of "kind mother-in-law and filial daughter-in-law".

"Great! Anran, Grandma will know that you are loyal to the Li family! She will know that you can help Jin'er. As long as this is done, when Jin'er returns victorious and gets the interest, you will be the one who gets the most credit!"

Chen Anran also smiled and glanced at Huang Suqiu and Li Jize with a smug look on his face.

Huang Suqiu's face was filled with indignation and frustration, while Li Jize had an unknown sneer on his face.

First achievement?

He also wanted to see who would get the credit after the 1.8 million yuan was wasted.

As for using his own money to rebel against the empress, does Li Jize feel ashamed?

He is so ashamed!

When I think about the fact that the Li family still has so many weapons, armor, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, as well as fertile land that have not been stolen, I feel so guilty that I can't sleep at night!

Without further ado, Chen Anran immediately ran to find Boss Zhang, but what about Li Jize?

On the one hand, he was afraid that Lao Zhang would not dare to take the money from the Li family because of him. He had to go and say hello in advance!

On the other hand, he was also afraid that after the two met here, Lao Zhang’s “acting skills” would not be able to be brought into play.

and so……

Li Jize played with the iron pipe in his hand and walked away leisurely.

In the entire hall, everyone was paying attention to the huge sum of 1.8 million yuan, and no one noticed Li Jize's actions.

After waiting for about an hour, Boss Zhang finally arrived, wiping his sweat and looking anxious.

When the company was about to run away with the money, there was actually a fool who wanted to give a big order before leaving.

Old Zhang felt that the Li family must have some serious illness!

The father cheats the son, the son cheats the father, and the cheating goes on and on... The Li family is probably going to go bankrupt.

But it doesn’t matter. He is just an errand boy anyway. You can blame Li Jize.

After the two sides met, they exchanged polite greetings.

Then Boss Zhang said that the accounting office had already done the accounts and it was inconvenient to collect the cash, and he kept putting it off!

After three times!

Only then did he think of the contributions made by the Li family to Da Qi and the face of his concubine Chen Anran, and reluctantly accepted the last order of this trip.

A set of processes down...

Old Lady Li no longer doubted Boss Zhang, and Chen Anran also felt satisfied with her appearance.

After both parties signed and sealed the agreement, and then signed a receipt, Boss Zhang prepared to ask his men to take all the money away.

"Wait a minute!"

But who would have thought that just as the people brought by Boss Zhang were about to take action, a voice suddenly rang out.

Both parties, who were happy, were stunned when they heard the words. They all looked over, stunned.

Wang Yuanya?

Why did she stop people from moving the silver at the critical moment?