Han Zhi didn't sleep all night last night, tossing and turning until dawn, washed his face and hurriedly came to Li Jing. At the beginning of yesterday, he asked Li Jing to help him build a bridge with Cui Yunqing, but Li Jing refused directly. He was very angry at that time, and turned his head to find his aunt Xiao Han, wanting her to talk to Mother Li directly, and let Mother Li talk about Li Jing. Unexpectedly, after listening to Xiao Han's words, Mother Li just shook her head and said that he couldn't make the decision in this matter, and asked him to go directly to her son Li Jing to discuss.

Later, when the bandits attacked, he saw with his own eyes how Li Jing annihilated the hundreds of bandits with a flip of his hand, and how he quickly dealt with the thousands of homeless people. Especially after seeing that Li Jing took the opportunity to recruit dozens of craftsmen and thousands of young and strong soldiers, he was shocked. Although Li Jing was recruiting on the surface, he was talking about the names of the family members and nurses, craftsmen, etc., but anyone could see that the young men he specially recruited were definitely recruited to be soldiers. A general of the garrison dared to recruit thousands of soldiers, and his evaluation of Li Jing was already both capable and bold.

Only then did he understand the reason why Li Jing rejected him before, people with ability are always a little arrogant. At first, he just regarded Li Jing as a son of a family who was born in a poor family and only ascended to the sky when he met a nobleman, so he couldn't help but look down on Li Jing and other 'villains who were fortunate to enter', and his tone of voice inevitably carried the usual condescension. Later, after seeing the ability and ambition shown by Li Jing, he realized that Lu Dao underestimated Li Jing. finally understood why a figure like Cui Yunqing would accept Li Jing as a protégé, and recognized Li Jing's status in front of Cui Yunqing. After understanding all this, he couldn't help but regret it, judging from Li Jing's ability, he must be a person who is very appreciated by Cui Yunqing and can speak in front of him. If Li Jing is willing to help him, then the Han family's affairs are expected to be resolved as soon as possible.

In addition to regretting it, I couldn't wait to find Li Jing again, but Li Jing always made people reply that they were entangled in important affairs and it was inconvenient to see him. finally managed to survive until dawn, he had already made up his mind, this time he had to lower his posture, and find a way to move Li Jing to help. For this reason, he even planned to add chips to the conditions set for him by the head of the Han family before he came.

Before he came, the head of the Han family had told him that if things could be done, then the Han family was willing to give 20,000 guan to reward Li Jing, and 50,000 guan to reward the Cui family, the Yu family and King Zhao. 70,000 guan is a huge amount of money, even a family of tens of millions like the Han family, which can also be said to be hemorrhaging. 70,000 guan, even the entire profit of the seized batch of goods is still high, if you don't want to use this to make friends with Cui, Yu, and Zhaowang, this price is indeed very large.

Previously, Han Zhi only planned to give Li Jing 15,000 guan, but now, he had made up his mind in his heart that as long as Li Jing was willing to help, he was willing to give 40,000 guan to Li Jing. And Cui, Yu, and King Zhao are only ready to give 30,000.

The morning in the wax moon was extremely cold, and the ground was covered with a layer of white frost. Han Zhi watched Li Jing's tall housekeeper go in and report for a long time and didn't come out, and he kept stomping his feet on the hard frost ground outside the house. If Li Jing had treated him like this when he first came yesterday, he would have turned around and left. But now, he insists on staying outside the house.

After nearly a quarter of an hour, the tall leader of the family team came out and said to him coldly: "The general invites Han Gongzi in." ”

Entering the house, Han Zhi saw the big candle in the house that had burned to the end, and saw that in addition to Li Jing, there were Lin Wei and other officers in the house, and he realized that Li Jing and the others had not slept all night yesterday.

"Cousin, you haven't slept all night?" Han Zhi asked as he pretended to be surprised.

Zhang Hong nodded and sighed: "Han Gongzi also saw it, yesterday the general was merciful in his heart, and he couldn't see the pity of those homeless people, so he took the initiative to take them in." As a result, as soon as the party members in the neighboring villages saw this, they all defected, but the generals agreed to the difficulties. All of a sudden, there were thousands of mouths, and we discussed all night last night, but we still hadn't figured out how to place them, and where to get money to solve everyone's food problems. ”

Han Zhi glanced at Li Jing, but found that he was just stroking his forehead with his hand, as if he was having a headache, and then looked at the others, all of them had embarrassed expressions. At the moment, I didn't know that Li Jing and they were beating his idea. However, he also had a request for others, and immediately said without hesitation: "I see, but since they are all problems that can be solved with money, it is not a problem." Saburo and I are cousins, and Saburo's business is also my business. The Han family has nothing else, but money is not a problem. How much is the difference between you? ”

Zhang Hong was stunned, he didn't expect Han Zhi to answer like this, and he didn't know how to speak for a while. Cui Zhiyuan was still more shrewd, and when he saw that Li Jing didn't speak, he immediately said: "We calculated just now, and now the number of registered people is nearly two thousand. In a month, it takes nearly 2,000 yuan to eat food alone. ”

"In this way, my Han family is willing to fund the general to discount 12,000 yuan of grain for half a year!" Han Zhi said very boldly.

Cui Zhiyuan saw that he agreed so happily, and regretted that the number he just said was too small. While regretting it, Zhang Hong said with a smile: "Two thousand a month is just food consumption, and these people's monthly food and salary is still a regular expense, and four thousand yuan a month." We discussed it all night last night, and we haven't figured out where to get this big sum of money. ”

"My Han family is willing to subsidize the general's food and salary of 24,000 yuan for half a year, and I will have someone send the money when I go back." Han Zhi only paused, and immediately patted his chest and put down half a year's salary.

The two items are 36,000 yuan, and even Zhang Hong looked at Li Jing in surprise. The Han family was willing to pay 36,000 yuan, which was not expected in advance. However, Li Jing was not willing to let Han Zhi go like this, since Han Zhi was so happy to pay 36,000 yuan, it means that he has not reached the bottom limit in Han Zhi's heart. Thirty-six thousand are out, and he definitely doesn't care about more.

The Han family has no less than 10 million family assets, Yang Guozhong had a family fortune of 30 million pieces of silk, Yang Guozhong is just an explosive household, and the Han family is a big family for hundreds of years. Li Jing quietly gave Wang Chong a look, and Wang Chong immediately felt embarrassed on the side: "Brother Zhang and Brother Cui are not complete, although the monthly demand for food and salary is very large, but after all, it is a matter of the future, now we need a large amount of cash to wait for the expenditure, nearly 2,000 people settle in, this is a big expenditure." ”

Han Zhi was also a little surprised by the appetite of Li Jing and the others at this time, but at this point, he had to continue to ask: "I don't know how much Lu Dao needs to settle in?" ”

"Ten horses of silk for one person, one stone for rice." The old part of the left capital is 20 horses of silk per person, two stones of rice, and the settling-in fee for the new recruits this time is halved, and the convertible money is still 12 per person. Han Zhi calculated in his heart, one person has twelve guan, according to the two thousand people Wang Zhong said, that is twenty-four thousand. He had promised 36,000 before, and another 24,000, adding up to 60,000, which was beyond the bottom line of 50,000 yuan in his heart.

Han Zhi was in a dilemma and agreed, there was too much money, and it was beyond the scope of what he could call the shots. If you don't agree, you have already promised 36,000 before, if you don't agree, will Li Jing promise to help him solve the Han family's affairs?

Li Jing saw that Han Zhi's face was swollen and he couldn't speak, and it was estimated that the request just now had exceeded his bottom line. At this time, he smiled and said to Wang Chong: "Third brother, I will find a way to raise the money needed for the settlement fee." Han Gongzi can generously explain and take out tens of thousands of dollars to help us and others at once, how can we be insatiable? If it weren't for the fact that there was no way, I would never be embarrassed to accept Han Gongzi's money. It's better to borrow this money even if Han Gongzi borrows it temporarily, and when he arrives, we will return it together with the principal and interest? ”

As soon as these words came out, Han Zhi didn't know how to answer. Borrow? Although Li Jing offered to borrow it, how would he answer? Does Li Jing really want to borrow, or pretend to borrow?

Li Jing saw that Han Zhi didn't speak, and estimated that he had gone too far just now. At this time, he didn't want to scare Han Zhi away, the Han family was now an oversized fat pig in his opinion, no, it should be said that it was a money bank. It's okay to ask for it directly, but it's really unrealistic to ask for more. Think about it, or borrow it. Anyway, lend the money first, and as for when to pay it back, it's better to solve the current problem first.

"I also want to thank Han Gongzi for his righteous help yesterday, although it was just a group of rabble, but Han Gongzi stepped forward and admired his pride in helping. Brother Han helped me so much, and I was really ashamed to remember that I had hesitated again and again before, and I was unwilling to help Brother Han because I had a lot of concerns. I have been reflecting for a long time, if Han Gongzi does not dislike me as just a small military commander with a meager strength, I am willing to do my best to connect the Han family with my mentor and help solve the troubles encountered by the Han family together. ”

Han Zhi looked at Li Jing in surprise and exclaimed, "Is Brother Li really willing to help with all his might?" ”

"Of course, just because Brother Han helped so much yesterday, this is how it should be. What's more, Brother Han just promised to be willing to fund our money and food, which is a big problem for us. It's just that I don't know if it's feasible to temporarily borrow the settling-in fee from the Han family that I just proposed? Li Jing took Han Zhi's hand and asked with a smile and expectation on his face.

Han Zhi was already completely excited about Li Jing's full help just now, as long as Li Jing was really willing to do his best, invite Cui Yunqing, and even add Zhao Wang Li Xiao and Yu Xuan, then the dispute between the Han family and the Feng family would definitely be resolved. As long as this major matter can be solved, not only will the Han family avoid a disaster, but even he, Han Zhi, will definitely be able to rise in status among the seven brothers of the Han family because of this incident.

As for the borrowing of money mentioned by Li Jing, it is not a matter at all.

"Brother Li, your business is the Han family's business, and the old lady is also from my Han family. It's just tens of thousands of dollars, talk about what to borrow or not. In this way, the 60,000 yuan before and after will be funded by my Han family, and my Han family will come up with another 40,000 yuan, even if it is the cost of asking Brother Li to help mediate and the reward for Brother Li's several teachers. ”

Looking at Han Zhi, who had completely recovered the state of the flying family all of a sudden, Li Jing suddenly felt a little regretful, knowing that Lu Dao should have asked more just now. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but say to Han Zhi: "Brother Han, I heard that the Han family has a huge shipyard in Haizhou, I wonder if I can place an order with the Han family shipyard for a few warships?" ”

"Order a battleship?" Han Zhi suddenly shuddered in his heart.

Li Jing smiled brightly and said: "Of course, I also know that the cost of the battleship is not bad, and the price is negotiable, how about we temporarily owe credit?" ”

Han Zhi gritted his teeth ruthlessly, and said with a stiff face: "Okay, this matter is on the junior brother, and I will send a craftsman to talk to Brother Li in detail when he is a day." "This time, Han Zhi refused to let go anymore, if he owed on credit, he owed on credit, and it was impossible to give it away for nothing. Seeing this, Li Jing felt a little disappointed in his heart, and he also knew that the cost of the Dao battleship was high, and Han Zhi refused to give it away easily. But after thinking about it, he had squeezed a huge sum of 60,000 yuan from Han Zhi today, and he couldn't help but get excited.

When I talked about it just now, I didn't feel this huge amount of money carefully, but now that I think about it, 60,000 guan is enough for the consumption of this army of more than 1,000 people he recruited for a year. Although it is definitely not so easy to really get this large amount of money, the Han family will definitely find a way to let Li Jing help first before giving him all the money, but this money still makes Li Jing excited. It's not okay to raise an army without money, and he was thinking about whether he had to go to Zhang Yingying and use his old love to raise money. Now it seems that there is no crisis of desperate need for money for the time being.

After breakfast that day, Han Zhi took the guards and the officials and gentry of Wendeng County to say goodbye and left the village, and went back to Dengzhou and Qingzhou with Li Jing's letter to Cui Yunqing and Li Xiao, the king of Zhao, and on the other hand, he also went back to prepare the huge public relations fee of 100,000 yuan for Li Jing. Xiao Hanshi and Xiao Yulou didn't leave, they both planned to stay in Wangli Village for the New Year and then return to Qingzhou.

After sending everyone away, Li Jing asked Zhang Hong to go to Dengzhou again with a large sum of money and his letter to Song Wen the next day, and asked him to find a way to buy the ordnance and armor needed by the new recruits. In addition, Du Zhongwu and Cui Zhiyuan were sent to various coastal ports in Dengzhou to be responsible for purchasing a large amount of grain.

On the military generals' side, Lin Wei and Wang Chong were left to conduct preliminary training for the newly recruited thousands of recruits, and he took Lin Wu, Zhang Chengzong and Liu Shouqian to Chishanpu to receive the sea ship with the shark jade pendant given to him by Zhang Yingying.

For Zhang Hong, Li Jing's explanation was to buy as much ordnance as possible from Song Wen, as much as he wanted, even if he bought it at a high price, it didn't matter. Bows and arrows, in particular, are the most needed. For the equipment of more than 1,000 people, Li Jing didn't plan to rely on Song Wen to solve it. He had already mentioned the ordnance in his letter to Cui Yunqing, and asked the teacher to find a way to pull out a batch of ordnance for him. He also knew that it was difficult to get the ordnance, so he also proposed to Cui Yunqing to spend money to order it in the workshop. Li Jing doesn't care about going directly to the blacksmith shop to build ordnance now, and he doesn't dare to build it himself, but if Cui Yunqing, the festival marching Sima, comes forward to order, it will be another matter.

And he asked Cui Zhiyuan and them to buy food, not only because there are nearly 2,000 people under his command now, and the food consumption is huge. It is even more because Li Jing knows that although this year's famine is serious, it is only a famine in the north. After the New Year, the disaster will be more serious next year, and the price of grain will rise by then, so from now on, Li Jing has made up his mind that as long as he has money, he will desperately buy grain and hoard it.

For a period of time after the end of the year, Li Jing and others traveled all over the country to make the most difficult preparations for the upcoming trip to Salmon Island!

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