Chapter 653
Ye Hua listened to Li Gu's complaints very carefully. From a certain perspective, what Li Gu said was right. At first, Ye Hua forced him to go to the countryside, and later forced him to implement the equalization of the land, which owed a deficit. Ye Hua helped him find a way to mint counterfeit coins and repay them. The old generation of husbands in the dynasty, Ye Hua and Li Gu had the deepest bond.
"Okay, I admit that I was the one who harmed you!"
Ye Hua simply admitted that Li Gu hesitated a little, then his eyes were naked and his hands were catching the railing, putting an old face in front of Ye Hua, and said happily: "Marty, you have harmed me, you can save me, right? As long as I keep me alive, I will do what you say, and I will listen to you!"
Ye Hua still shook his head, "Mr. Li, we are old friends. If you don't want to implicate your son or your family, you might as well just say that you can save me trouble!"
"Ye Hua!"
Li Gu shouted sternly, "You have no conscience, you will abandon it all the time, and you will lose it if you use it. You will be retribution!"
He cursed again, and Ye Hua was indifferent. After he had scolded him enough, Ye Hua gave him a glass of water.
"Drink, just say it after you finish drinking!"
At this point, Li Gu was really helpless. He was like a leaking balloon, without any energy at all. His old face was aging almost at a speed visible to the naked eye. In a daze, he became haggard and his hair seemed to be white...
Li Gu sat on the ground with his butt, his spine was seriously bent, as if he could not support the weight of his head, and he was about to fall.
An old man, from a glimmer of hope to complete despair, Li Gu looked very pitiful, but thinking of his greedy wealth seemed insignificant again.
"Mr. Li, I came to talk to you for the sake of my friends. If you don't want to say it, then invite Mr. Wei or Han Zhongcheng to come!"
"don't want!"
Li Gu was at a loss, Wei Renpu's old man had always been unwilling, and Han Xizai and him were friends. At this moment, the more friends they were, the less polite they were. Instead of falling into the hands of these two people, it would be better to let Ye Hua come for interrogation, and at least he could suffer less.
Li Gu accepted his fate, "Oh, I say everything, I just want the champion Hou Gao to give up his hands and not to implicate my family."
"That depends on whether they are implicated by you!" Ye Hua said coldly.
"No, absolutely not!" Li Gu said immediately: "What I did was done was done secretly, and they didn't know at all. To be honest, I didn't dare to let them know!"
Ye Hua did not comment, and Li Gu had to continue talking... "Marty, who guessed that I took me into the water?" Li Gu asked and answered himself, "Is it Han Derang! It was more than three years ago when the prince went out of the city to play. I was ordered to protect the prince with Han Derang. At dusk that day, Han Derang invited me to the riverside. There were only two of us, and he took out a basket of golden leaves."
"Then you were bribed?" Ye Hua chuckled, "Then you are too worthless!"
Li Gu snorted and said disdainfully: "You underestimate me, I am not that kind of vulgar person!" Li Gu narrowed his eyes and recalled the situation at that time. There was a faint smile on his face. It was a very beautiful memory... Han Derang's golden leaves were made very thin, and he scattered them out casually, just like a goddess scattering flowers.
The golden leaves fall on the tumultuous river surface, and the turbid waves roll. The golden leaves will not sink immediately, but will tumbling with the waves for a few times, and then sink into the water.
The sunset is setting, and the afterglow is spreading all over the river. The waves raise gold leaves and reflect the sunshine. The river is golden, the sky is red, and wherever you see, the fire is cooking oil, and the white waves float gold.
Who has ever seen such a scene?
A box of gold leaves, and a cup of tea, was sprinkled cleanly.
This way of playing is definitely much more exciting than setting off fireworks.
Han Derang wanted to win over Li Gu and let him stand with him. At that time, Han Derang had already been involved with Concubine Fu. If Li Gu was pulled over and his princely master, Guo Zongxun would be really deposed. The prince was deposed and the queen could not hold on. In and outside the palace, Concubine Fu, Han Derang, and Li Gu formed an iron triangle. Even Ye Hua might not be able to fight with them!
This is Han Derang's wishful thinking, but Li Gu is cunning, so he will not tie his wealth and life to the hands of a spy leader.
Li Gu rejected Han Derang, but he could not forget the scene of Bai Lang floating gold for a long time... It turns out that after he has money, he can still play like this!
Li Gu was still in charge of minting money at that time. He learned about Ye Hua for a while and had learned all the tricks of how to make money. Jiangnan was extremely rich and could squeeze out a lot of oil and water.
The wealth of Bashu is not inferior to Jiangnan, and has also experienced decades of development. It is a piece of fat meat that is rich and prosperous!
Han Delang wanted to calm me down after taking a box of gold. It was so funny.
If I want to get rich, do I have to join forces with you? I, Li Gu, alone, is enough!
As a top bureaucrat in the old era, he learned a lot of methods from Ye Hua, and Li Gu was too easy to find projects to make money.
If the financial chaos in Jiangnan is the consequence of Li Hongji's blind reform, then the deflation in Bashu is a chronic disease for hundreds of years.
Li Gu quickly formulated a strategy. He stopped playing bad coins, but instead purchased low-priced products from Bashu with high-quality good coins. Li Gu also discovered that Bashu lacked currency, interest rates remained high.
In Kaifeng, because Daxiangguo Temple was eliminated and interest was strongly suppressed, the annual profit in the Great Zhou Dynasty was generally around 15%, or even lower.
However, in Bashu, the monthly profit is as high as 10%, and folk pawn shops generally adopt the "nine outs and thirteen return" method.
Take the ten-min coins as an example. If a customer borrows ten-min coins, he can only get nine-min coins. The monthly profit is always the same. After three months, the interest is three-min coins, but the principal and interest are thirteen-min coins!
If you can't afford to pay it back three months later, the profit will rise and the donkey will roll, and the interest will rise to the sky.
Many ordinary people know that it is a fire pit, but they have to borrow it because of helplessness. After borrowing money, they most likely cannot afford to exploit the heavy profits and can only hope that God can break the people who lend, so they have another name, called "Lei Gong Bo".
This situation occurred in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Chai Rong did not hesitate to destroy Buddhism, increase the supply of money, and promoted equal land to the common people. He also got gold and silver from Japan and other places day and night to fill the gap.
With the efforts of many parties, the interest was finally suppressed and the Central Plains was restored to life.
Li Gu participated in all government affairs and knew what was going on. He took out the copper coins with the minted coins and sent them to Bashu for loans... Of course, he was not familiar with the place and could not rely on himself.
Li Gu took his idea to Fei Zhen, and he sent his confidant to Fei Zhen as a accountant, gradually seducing Fei Zhen to be fooled.
Using the power of this father-in-law, he first smuggled Shu Jin, and then began to lend.
After the business started, Li Gu was stunned.
Due to long-term division and division, Bashu's business was suppressed to an incredible level. After re-entry, its power burst out with hundreds of times thousands of times!
The momentum of the situation made Li Gu dumbfounded.
He mainly makes three yuan of money. One is the good and cheap Shujin. When transported to Kaifeng, he can get twice the profit. The other is to lend money. He doesn't have to work hard. He gives up 10,000 yuan and does nothing. He can recover 30,000 yuan in a year. It's easier than grabbing money.
But although these two things make money, they are not worth mentioning compared to the third one.
"Mr. Marquis, have you ever made flying money and issued bonds? I thought that Bashu is far away and it is too dangerous to travel through mountains and rivers with a large sum of copper coins. I instructed them to issue new flying money in Bashu, and gave them a name called Jiaozi! Do you know, a colorful piece of paper can't cost a penny, and I want to write as much as I want to write on it! There are more interesting things..."
When talking about his own history of making a fortune, Li Gu was full of energy and proud.
He was so stifled that he had made countless money in just a short time. Li Gu wanted to erect a monument for himself so that everyone could understand his power.
Li Gu once felt that there was no chance, but now he fell into Ye Hua's hands and was able to express his feelings without restraint.
"After Bashu accepted Jiaozi, I used Jiaozi to lend money and made a piece of paper out of nothing. Do you know, how much money I make!"
Li Gu actually stood up, crossed his waist and asked, "Ye Hua, guess how much money I have now?"
Ye Hua rolled his eyelids, "It should be much more than me!"
"you?"
Li Gu curled his lips disdainfully, pointed at Ye Hua's nose, and said bluntly: "Are you considered a rich man? Don't look at your many industries, but whether it is steel workshops, military factories, coal mines, machinery factories, textile workshops... these earned hard money, and each workshop has debts. If you calculate carefully, you may still owe money!"
Ye Hua accepted it calmly, "That's right, I might be a traitor!"
"I'm different!" Li Gu said: "My money is piled up like a mountain, and I can't even spend it. Let me tell you, at least these!" He stretched out three fingers!
"Thirty million! How about it, are you scared?" Li Gu laughed wildly, like a madman, and he was indeed crazy. He cried for a while and laughed for a while.
Ye Hua waited for Li Gu to have no strength and sat down again, and then he asked: "Mr. Li, you can't get so much money by relying on Fei Zhen alone, right? What's more, Fei Zhen doesn't know that you are the person behind the scenes!"
"Hahaha!" Li Gu said disdainfully: "What is a village man who sells his daughter? The Jiang Qing family in Bashu is much smarter than him! I just used him to reach in, and then Jiang Qing stood by me. With the wealthy merchants in Bashu, they had long seen that sooner or later, the Great Zhou would unify the world and be in a hurry to set up a fortune!"
When Li Gu said this, he suddenly shouted again, "Marty, I beg you, go and tell Your Majesty quickly that I will still be the heroes of Bashu. Without my troubles, how could Meng Chang be separated from his army and his army have no fighting spirit! I have made merits for the Great Zhou Dynasty. Your Majesty may have mercy on me and let me go... I will let me go!"
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Chapter completed!