"Our Tang Empire will get better and better in the future. Once a person dies, they will never see the future again. Live, do everything you can to live. I remember that in the past, our Tang Empire people's lives were much worse than now. Many people were thinking of ways to make their lives more comfortable. When they don't get what they want … "
"Brother Xu, don't say anymore. We never planned to die." A man who looked to be in his forties among the people being preached at interrupted the chattering of the talkers.
"Uh!" The person who spoke choked. He looked carefully and found that some of the people who had 'committed' did not show the slightest determination to die. He quickly said, "It's good that you don't die. It's good that you don't die. Brother Cheng, since you can think things through, my mood is also better. Haha, yes, it's better."
The other talkers also laughed. They finally breathed a sigh of relief. What they were most worried about was that the people in front of them could not think things through and would go to a dead end.
If that happened, they would be the unlucky ones. Although the talkers were not responsible for guaranteeing the life and death of both sides, it still depended on who was involved.
They knew very well that even if one of the 311 people died because of this, it would bring trouble to the nine little guys of the Zhang Family and the Wang Family.
This kind of trouble did not come from the imperial court and the people. The imperial court would not deal with Xiaobei and the others, and the people would support them. The trouble came from Xiaobei and the others. The nine little guys would definitely regret and think that they forced them to die. After all, they were still young.
The person who was called Brother Xu was called Xu Lin. His courtesy name was Maorong. It was a very nice name, but it was not given by his family. It was a name he changed last year.
Now that there were more schools, there were also more scholars. He felt uncomfortable using the cheap name he had when he was young. So he found a school and asked the teacher to help him choose a name. He paid the teacher a set of pig intestines and then went to the yamen to change his name. He had a meal with a few people who had changed their names and bragged about each other's names. He was very proud of himself.
Nowadays, he liked to let others call him by his name. Whether it was someone close to him or someone he met for the first time, he always told others what his name was and what his name was.
At this moment, the opportunity came again. He said to Brother Cheng in front of him, "Brother Cheng, please call me Maorong. My name is Lin. When it comes to choosing characters, one means opposite, and the other means compatible. As you can see, I am compatible."
Old Brother Cheng didn't have a new name. It was just casually given by his father. He was called Cheng Pingping, probably because he wanted to be mediocre, peaceful, or plain. It definitely didn't mean that he wanted to rule the world.
He did not have a Chinese character, so Xu Lin could only call him by his surname. He wanted to get closer to him as there would be another person who would call him Maorong in the future.
Cheng Pingping didn't think too much about it. What he was thinking about now was what he had to face.
Three thousand strings of cash was indeed not a small amount to him. A portion of the money he used to rent the land was borrowed. He owed a debt and had to pay it back. He could think of a way to get the money, but what would he do in the future? Without the capital, how long would it take to pay back all the money on the land that was still in his hands?
Hearing what Xu Lin said, he lowered his head and thought for a moment. He pursed his lips and the wrinkles on his face squeezed together. He discussed with the other party, "Maorong, can you give me the money? What I mean is that we have to deal with you. Anyway, we have to pay you a part of the fees. We owe a lot of people, so it's better to only owe you one. "
When Xu Lin, who was still smiling, heard this, his expression immediately changed. He revealed an embarrassed expression and said, "Brother Cheng, you think too highly of me. I'm just an ordinary person in a broker house. How could I dare to guarantee you? 100,000 strings of cash, even if I sold myself, I still wouldn't be able to get it.
But Brother Cheng, don't worry. I said before that the people you owe money to are not others, but Xiaobei and others. They won't kill you when you can't get the money. "
The other people in the broker house nodded. Did they have such a business? Yes, but it depended on who it was. Those who had ability and money could help raise money and get benefits from it.
But for the group of people in front of them, they knew that the broker house would not provide any help to them. Now they were looking at them because of Xiaobei and others.
Cheng Pingping sighed and said, "We don't owe Xiaobei and others money. We tried our best to borrow 10% of the deposit from others. We can't pay it back. I'm afraid …"
"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that others will hurt you? How dare you! Who has such a great ability? You don't take the broker house seriously. Those who can't be provoked won't use force against you. Those who can only use force to ask for money from you are not very capable.
Let's not talk about other things. Your safety is guaranteed. After we came out, the boss said that you must stay alive and wait for Xiaobei and others to come back. We will also find your family for you. You can do things under our arrangement first, or stay here and direct how to sell your food. "
Xu Lin patted his chest and guaranteed. He really had the confidence to do so.
The main problem was that Xiaobei and others did not intend to let 311 people die. In the whole Tang Empire, unless the Emperor personally ordered to kill, no one could do it, not even the Kings and Princes.
Xu Lin even faintly believed that even if the Emperor did it himself, if Xiao Bao and Cuckoo did not let him, the final result was that they could still save the people.
The wrinkles on Cheng Pingping's face stretched a little, but there was still a kind of sadness that could not be removed. He looked at the people in the broker house and asked, "If my three grandsons and two granddaughters change schools, I'm afraid they won't be able to adapt."
"Brother Cheng, don't worry about the children. They just won't see you for a while. No, if you want to see them, you can come and see them. They can still go to school where they used to be. Let the school know and they can live there.
As for food and drink, you don't have to worry about it. The school will take care of it. This is not a remote place, but Henan Province. There are countless merchants. How can the children in the school lack things? "
Xu Lin continued to persuade. If it really did not work, the branch of the broker house would lose a little money. Every few days, they would send the children to reunite with their parents.
"I'm afraid that they can't find us, so they will go to find …"
"Lend them a hundred guts. Not to mention hurting the children, even if they go to the school to threaten them? Then you don't have to pay back the money, because the creditor is gone, hahaha! "
Xu Lin said and couldn't help but laugh. Many people also laughed.
Indeed, as he said, if someone really did something dangerous to the children, the result would be only one word, death!
As everyone talked and laughed, the mood of more than three hundred people changed unconsciously. They all thought about it and found that they really did not have to worry too much. It was just owing money. They could find a way to pay it back.
While they were talking, in the middle of the day, the people of the broker house began to deliver food. The dishes were not bad. There was a fried eggplant, a scrambled egg with cucumber, and a bowl of mung bean water, sorghum rice, and salted beans.
However, this money had to be credited to the accounts of more than three hundred people. When there was a chance in the future, they would collect it from them.
The taste of the food was naturally not as good as that of the small pot, but the more than three hundred people who had temporarily put down some of their worries had a good appetite. They ate very happily.
Everyone ate and chatted. Xu Lin was still the most active person. He held a large bowl and squatted near Cheng Pingping. He ate a few times and asked Cheng Pingping, "Brother Cheng, I want to ask you something. They were led by you. What were you thinking at the beginning? Why did you have to pick a critical moment to find trouble? "
Cheng Pingping's hand movement paused. He simply held the chopsticks in his hand. His eyes looked over the bowl and stared at the ground in front of him for a while. Just when Xu Lin couldn't help but ask again, he finally spoke.
"I didn't want to find trouble for anyone. When Xiao Bao made the national policy, we were the first to follow. Then we found that by doing so, we could make a lot of money. So my heart became alive. Before, we didn't have the opportunity to make a lot of money. Now the opportunity was in front of us. We could reach out and touch it. Wouldn't it save us many years of work?
We got together and thought about it. We had a lot of land in our hands. The wheat was also under our control. If we worked together, we could raise the price and lower the price if we wanted. Especially now that there was a war, the army used a lot of food. Our food couldn't be directly transported to the battlefield. It was too far.
The imperial court's method was progressive transportation. The food would be transported from one place to another. Once the food was transported, our Henan Circuit would inevitably lack food. The grain merchants would raise the price. Since that was the case, why didn't we raise the price ourselves and then sell it?
You know what happened next. We came up with a plan. If it succeeded, we could make double the money. As for failure, we really didn't think about it. We have a lot of people, a lot of land, and a lot of food.
I thought about it. When doing business, whoever has the bigger capital can use this bigger capital to make more money. Those with small capital can't even qualify to join. "
As Cheng Pingping spoke, the people around him nodded. They had really thought about it this way. 311 people, if they worked together, would have a lot of power.
If the thirty thousand people who were renting land worked together, they could control the price of food in several dozen provinces.
"Big Brother Cheng said exactly what we wanted to say. Moreover, we thought about it. First, we would work together and raise the price a bit, but not too much. We knew that Xiao Bao wouldn't allow the price of the necessities of the Great Tang to fluctuate too much.
One-tenth isn't much, right? But if we did this, if we succeeded, we wouldn't be earning one-tenth, but two-tenths, or even two-tenths.
In truth, we were just testing Xiao Bao to see if he would say something and tell us to behave. If he said something, we would raise the price by five or three percent. But who knew … "
Another person chimed in, and then stopped talking. He lowered his head and ate sullenly.
"Who would have thought that Xiao Bao would act so quickly and so decisively, right? You all thought that you had a lot of money, but in the end, Xiao Bei and the others used even more money to deal with you all. "
Xu Lin also felt that the other party was unlucky. Xiao Bao wasn't like this usually, but now he didn't give them any face.
"Yes." Cheng Pingping nodded. "I figured it out. Xiao Bao doesn't care about raising the price of food a bit. He won't allow us to be distracted."
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