Knowing that his life was in danger, Watanabe didn't seem to want to return empty-handed, but he still said this to Xiaobei.
Even though Xiaobei was a genius, he couldn't figure out what Watanabe was thinking.
He wanted to refuse, but he was afraid that Watanabe would think he was scared, so he tried to maintain the demeanor of an official and nodded. "Go ahead."
Watanabe was waiting for this effect. His psychological activity was actually very simple. He was unwilling to fail like this, and he was unwilling to fail in front of a group of children. He was afraid that once he left today, he would no longer have the courage to stay in Tang, or rather, the face.
"Come on, I have something to do." Xiaobei saw that Watanabe was not happy to speak, so he urged him.
Hearing Xiaobei's urging, Watanabe became more confident, thinking that a child was a child after all and was not calm enough.
So he suppressed his unhappiness and asked, "Lord Zhang, do you really think that your Zhang Family and Wang Family are invincible?"
Xiaobei thought it would be a difficult question. When he heard the question, he curled his lips disdainfully, reached out to ask the person next to him for a jelly, sucked it into his mouth, rubbed it between his cheeks a few times, and smacked it a few times, saying, "You were scared just now.
What do you mean that my Zhang Family and Wang Family are invincible? You should say that Uncle Emperor's Tang Empire is very powerful. I don't know whether Tang Empire is invincible or not, but I know that … it's very easy to deal with Japan. Are you done? Then you can go. "
Watanabe couldn't help but gasp. This little girl was not ordinary. She even knew this.
He didn't know that what he said was the most common thing in the Zhang Family and Wang Family. Xiaobei and the other eight people had heard their brother and sister tell them more than once that they couldn't stand out. Unless it was in business, no matter what they did, they had to think of the Emperor and Tang Empire first.
Even if they met a person on the road whose dry rations had become moldy and needed to give him something, they had to represent the Emperor and the Tang Empire. That was why Xiaoyuan said 'under the leadership of Zhang Xiaobei' so smoothly during the meeting of the Standing Committee. His sister, Wang Juan, understood this very well.
Even Xiao Yuan understood this, let alone Xiao Bei, who specialized in this kind of problem.
Watanabe Juichiro realized that he had miscalculated. He shouldn't have asked such a question at all. Thinking about how Zhang Xiaobei had just agreed to let him go, he regained his courage and asked again, "Lord Zhang, don't you worry about your family?"
As if he was afraid that Xiaobei wouldn't move, Watanabe Juichiro explained, "For example, if someone from the Inner Yard goes out to do something or buy something, they can't possibly bring hundreds of people with them like you, right?"
"We can't. Our family can't spare too many people to protect all the members of the inner courtyard. The only thing we can do is help fight back when the inner courtyard is bullied. Not to mention the inner courtyard, even the villagers are the same.
For example, a few days ago, my family's farmer had his leg broken by someone in the vicinity of Luoyang. At that time, the area under my family's control was not enough, so I only received the news when I entered the small river. Afterwards, my family dispatched the most elite people of the De Yi Medical School to receive him, and within twenty-four hours, they went to the place where he was beaten and broke many people's legs.
Then there were people who paid the price with their lives. Our family wants to tell others that they must not have any ideas about our family. Otherwise, we won't rest until we're dead. Even if it's a dog in our family, not just anyone can provoke it.
Our family's strategy is that if people don't offend us, we'll offend them first. If anyone dares to stare at us, we'll confiscate their property and exterminate their family. "
Xiaobei followed his words and waved his hand. Watanabe Juichiro heard the sound of a gunshot, and four bullet holes appeared under his feet.
Looking at the two people beside Zhang Xiaobei who were using special guns, Watanabe Juichiro understood that the two of them had each fired two shots. Because they were too fast and fired at the same time, he only heard one gunshot.
Watanabe Juichiro was startled. He took two deep breaths and calmed down. He wasn't afraid that Zhang Xiaobei would kill him. Zhang Xiaobei had already said to let him go, so he thought that Zhang Xiaobei wouldn't go back on his word.
He was surprised by Zhang Xiaobei's intelligence. She immediately understood what he was going to say. He was just about to threaten the inner courtyard of the Zhang Family and Wang Family, and she said that it was the village. And the truth was so. Didn't the Zhang Family and Wang Family dispatch their elites for a village?
It turned out that at that time, the Zhang Family and Wang Family thought about what might happen today. They told the world not to use their family's servants to open a gap.
"Bian Ichiyi." Xiaobei decided to go all out. "Bian Ichiyi, do you want to touch my family's people? You can try and see if my sister's words count. "
"What words?" Watanabe Juichiro was still thinking about the village.
"If you kill one of my people, I'll slaughter your village." Xiaoyuan said from the side.
Suddenly, Watanabe Juichiro remembered what Wang Juan said when she was killing in Tubo. Blood flowed like rivers and corpses were piled up like mountains. In that battle, all the countries around the Tang Empire were afraid. She asked if they dared, and all the men bowed their heads in fear.
Even if Watanabe Juichiro was afraid, he didn't want to admit it. He argued, "Then what if your people are in Japan?"
"Now there are already people in Japan, and they are the family of the guilty official. They have been taken in by you. After a while, you will know the result. Brother promised sister that within a month, he can mobilize the logistics of a million soldiers for sister to go on an expedition. I'm not scaring you."
Xiaobei spoke to Watanabe Juichiro with an expression that said, "I'm scaring you."
After hearing Xiaobei and Xiaoyuan's words, Watanabe Juichiro decided that when he returned, he would reformulate his strategy and put the nine children in an important position.
"Those things will be taken care of by others." Watanabe Juichiro no longer talked about topics that didn't benefit him. He changed the topic. "Lord Zhang and Zhang Family are rich and can win people's hearts more than ordinary people. However, what if a certain country can win people's hearts with the power of a country?"
"What certain country? You're talking about Japan. How much money do you have in Japan? Give each person five coins or ten coins? "Xiaobei took another jelly and stuffed it into his mouth.
"Give each person fifty thousand strings of coins. How much meat did Lord Zhang say it could buy?" Watanabe Juichiro vowed to suppress Xiaobei and regain some face.
Xiaobei stretched his neck and swallowed the jelly. "My inner courtyard doesn't need to spend money to eat meat."
"How many clothes can you buy?" Watanabe Juichiro asked again.
"My inner courtyard doesn't need to spend money to wear clothes." Xiaobei waved his hand.
"Then how many medicinal herbs can you accumulate?"
"My inner courtyard doesn't need to spend money to treat illnesses."
"How about building a house?"
"My inner courtyard has a wedding reception building."
"And …"
"Okay, don't say anymore. It's useless. You don't have anything in Japan. You're so poor. How can you treat illnesses? Do you have the medical skills of our Deyi Hospital? Our family is very good to the inner courtyard. If there's a small matter in the inner courtyard, everyone will help. You don't understand. You don't understand. You don't understand. You don't understand. When Han Xuanfeng fell ill in Tubo, our family sent people from Lingnan Road to deliver sesame oil.
We'll specially develop a food called instant noodles for an inner courtyard member who's allergic to canned food and let him eat it on the road. You can't imagine it at all. Your self-righteous small favors are useless. Xiaoyuan, you tell Bian Yi. "
Xiaobei appeared to be impatient.
"Okay." Xiaoyuan continued, "You just said that Japan can't take out much money in a year. You want to bribe my inner courtyard? Do you want to bribe the people of the Dragon with pigs? Do you want to use barley to buy meat? Do you want to use coarse hemp clothes to give brocade pouches and jade belts? Do you want to build a straw hut and give silk mattresses and satin quilts?
Our family values loyalty, but we don't use loyalty to coerce loyalty. If our family is loyal to us, we will be loyal to them. Loyalty to one side is not loyalty. Loyalty to one side is mutual loyalty. Loyalty to one side is standing in the middle. Those who are in the middle are neither right nor left. Those who assist the master have not forgotten and have a Guo in their heart. When the Guo protects the subordinate, it is difficult for the subordinate to rebel.
Water can't cover the floating waves, but it doesn't worry about fish passing by with the wind. Silkworms can't stay in the mulberry trees, but it doesn't suffer. When the rain comes, the ants move their nest, and the swallow pecks at the clouds. How can small profits hide the moon? The stars have their own harmony. "
Xiaoyuan was finally satisfied. Her tongue-twisting words made Shuichiro Watanabe take a few steps back. He tripped and sat on the ground.
'It seems that they've already taught me. Since I was a child, I've been told to be good to the servants. In that case, the path of bribery won't work. It's better to go back quickly and think about it at length.'
Shuichiro Watanabe stood up. He didn't care about his dirty clothes and said to Xiaobei, "Lord Zhang, I still have something to do. We'll meet again in the future."
"Okay, we'll meet again. Next time, bring enough money. I'll sell you something more fun. Mm! I'll give you a 20% discount. "Xiaobei waved his hand.
Shuichiro Watanabe left with the doll he bought for 3,000 strings of cash. The only other thing he gained was that he knew that he had to pay attention to the nine children of the Zhang Family and Wang Family.
"He's leaving just like that?" The children in the village looked at Shuichiro Watanabe across the bridge and asked Xiaobei.
"I can't treat him to a meal. I'm afraid he won't be willing to pay for it. Wait a minute, I'll change my clothes." Xiaobei said to the children in the village. He asked someone to set up a temporary shed and went in to change his clothes. No one knew what happy things he thought of, but he giggled from time to time. He seemed to be very happy.
*****
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan in Hongnong County didn't know what happened in Old Willow Village. They didn't receive the news that Xiaobei sold a doll for 3,000 strings of cash.
The two of them were still dealing with the mess that the Japanese had created this time.
The entire Henan Province was under military control. The officials involved were arrested one after another. Some of the officials didn't know what was going on when they were arrested because they didn't receive timely information.
Information was constantly being gathered in Hongnong County. There were endless cases of embezzlement. Fortunately, there was no one as bold as Yan Zheng who dared to destroy the embankment. This was a consolation.
From top to bottom, they're rotten to the core. Even after so many layers of relationships, we still can't find a clean one. Only now do I realize that Li Longji is a good person. He's willing to be ruthless. He's not afraid of causing a negative impact, and he's not afraid of making a big deal out of it. At the very least, he's willing to admit his guilt. He's never shirked his responsibility. He's not the kind of person who feigns ignorance and acts innocent. He's also not the kind of person who spouts empty words to deceive his own people.
He … "Zhang Xiaobao was speaking smoothly when he was interrupted by Wang Juan." Okay, okay, stop insinuating. Even if you don't like it, you can't control that time and space. You made Li Longji sound like a flower. Is it that exaggerated? I didn't see how ruthless he was. "
"How is he not ruthless? If he wasn't ruthless, he would have sent our Xiaobei here. If we didn't come, Xiaobei would have killed her way to the seaside. If she had a boat, it wouldn't be strange for her to kill her way to Japan. Anyway, she doesn't lack people to command. With Xiaobei's personality, she doesn't care how big the situation is. She will kill anyone who dares to stop her."
Speaking of his sister, Zhang Xiaobao's mood became cheerful.
Wang Juan's lips also curled up. Of the nine children, only Xiaobei could make a fuss. With her brother and sister behind her, there was nothing she didn't dare to do.
"What about the Japanese? Do we arrest them too? "Wang Juan suddenly asked.
"This … there is no reason to arrest the Japanese, unless there is evidence to prove that the Japanese knew that their actions would cause great losses to our Tang Empire. However, I don't think they will admit to it.
At the same time, our Tang Empire didn't explicitly state that the Japanese were wrong. They just wanted to sell futures and buy futures warrants. Yes, it's not mature and perfect. They didn't force Yan Zheng to destroy the dikes or force the other officials to keep all kinds of money. "
Zhang Xiaobao was very distressed. He didn't want to directly accuse the Japanese of some groundless crime, and he didn't want to accuse them of criticizing him. That would make him appear too incompetent.
This time, he had used the army and official positions because it involved the officials of the Tang Empire. If there were no officials involved, he wouldn't even use the army and official positions. Wasn't it just a flawed futures and warrants? He couldn't deal with them.
Wang Juan also understood Zhang Xiaobao's thoughts. She advised, "Are you troubled? Why don't we stop and let someone else arrest them and accuse them? Speaking of which, I really admire the Japanese for coming up with such an idea. Do you think we can set up futures in the Tang Empire? "
"Absolutely not. With the current production technology and communication technology, if we really manage to produce futures, I don't have to do anything else other than collect information every day to see who is maliciously speculating and who is a farmer who has wheat soaked in the rain. Then, due to the lack of information in the process of hedging against losses in futures, I won't be able to make the delivery in time or increase the cost or be pressured into selling short.
Then what should I do? Just watch and do nothing? If they really know, I really can't do anything. I'm just afraid that they don't know much. If I teach them, they won't be able to learn and they will be used by others. Then, the stocks will appear again.
Well, at that time, I began to constantly improve the system and constantly compete with the smart people. Then, tell me, if I saw a big cake in front of me, and others were looking for delicious cream in it, would I personally take a bite? "
Even though Zhang Xiaobao often used this to make money, he also had a headache because it was impossible to have a perfect system. He didn't think that the people of Great Tang were stupid. It was just that he had gathered the wisdom of many people.
Zhang Xiaobao also knew that it wasn't the Japanese who thought of this idea. In fact, many businessmen in Great Tang also knew that they could set up futures to cheat money. They were afraid that Zhang Xiaobao wouldn't allow it, so they didn't do so.
But as more things were opened up, it would be more difficult for him. He wasn't afraid of any competition. Who was he afraid of in the past? He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to handle it. He wanted to control the entire economy of Great Tang. At the very least, it couldn't be chaotic now. Thus, the simpler the rules, the better.
Wang Juan nodded. "That's right. If that's the case, it will tire you to death. You can only manage one side and keep blocking the loopholes. I believe that the smart businessmen of Great Tang will keep taking advantage of the loopholes. The talents we need haven't been nurtured yet.
Otherwise, when there's a problem here, you come over. When there's a problem elsewhere, you go over. In the end, you can't do anything well. It's like a screen of brains appearing at the same time in a game of whack-a-mole. It's scary just thinking about it. "
"That's right. I'm not a god. You let others set the rules while I speculate. That's too simple. I can make a lot of money. But you let me set the rules and guard against others. That's impossible to guard against. Just the Great Tang Bank alone has taken up a lot of my energy, and this is because the bank has few functions."
Zhang Xiaobao was a little helpless. There were times when a person's strength was limited. After thinking about it, he said, "Let's not talk about this anymore. Capture the officials involved and hand them over to the imperial court. Let the Japanese go and speed up our plan. Let the businessmen of Jiangnan East move faster.
Vigorously develop tourism in Japan and help them find more jobs. At the same time, help them sell more raw materials in exchange for Great Tang's foreign exchange. "
Wang Juan wrote down Zhang Xiaobao's words in her notebook. After thinking for a moment, she said to Zhang Xiaobao, "If you want the businessmen of Jiangnan East to enter Japan faster and more smoothly, you can't directly say to let the Japanese go. You have to put pressure on them.
Let them feel afraid. When the time comes, let the businessmen of Jiangnan East to talk to the Japanese. They can talk to you and help you get rid of the disaster by spending money. You won't really use Beibei's money and not give it to them, right? We agreed that the Japanese would bear the losses of our country. "
"Yes, yes, in the end, we have to return the money to Beibei and the others. It's not easy for them to earn money. The New Year's money is all kowtowing during the New Year, but they can take it out for the people. They are the real descendants of the red. Compared to …"
"Stop. Don't mention things that are too far away. You can't change anything even if you scold them every day. In this absurd era where people have lost faith and morality, everything is irreversible."
"You finally admit it. I'm very happy because I feel that I'm not a criminal. At least I have a trace of nobility."
"I'm not a judge, but I won't allow you to continue. Otherwise, I'll make you look at the moon."
*****
Xiao Bei and the others didn't know that the money they had taken out would be recovered, but they didn't care. Money was only useful when they were doing what they wanted to do. It wasn't usually useful. How could they not eat when their pocket money was gone? They still played when they wanted to play and have fun when they wanted to.
After changing their clothes, Beibei and the others once again joined the work of making dolls.
After solving the problem of the cost of the cement road in Old Willow Village, Beibei began to discuss with others how to spend the rest of the money.
"Three thousand strings of coins. It's not enough to build the road. One thousand strings of coins is enough. Think about it, what should we use it for?" At this moment, Beibei's pierced hand didn't hurt anymore. He pressed the grass seeds into the dolls one by one and asked for others' opinions.
"You're the one who sold it. You can keep it for yourself." The little girl who helped Beibei with the dolls earlier suggested. This time, she was completely relieved. Beibei didn't put on the airs of an official anymore. He was still the same Beibei who said that the fried mushrooms were delicious and took out oil. When he ate the fried mushrooms together, his mouth was covered in oil.
Beibei, who was pressing the grass seeds, pressed a few more. "Let the hair grow longer. That money doesn't belong to me alone. It belongs to our Old Willow Village International Development Group. Besides, two thousand strings of coins is useless to me. It's not enough for me to renovate the house."
"Sister Beibei, they all said that you have a big house and it's very beautiful. They can even follow you, right?" The little girl was curious.
Beibei didn't know how to seal the dolls, so he passed them to others and nodded. "Yes, there are two. One is small, and the other is big. The small one can't enter. The small one is actually better than the big one. It has a matching dynamic balance. This time, we came out in a hurry and didn't bring the house. I have to think of a way to go back and ask Uncle Emperor for 1.3 million strings of coins."
"Will he give it to you?"
"If he doesn't give it to me, I'll stay in the capital every day. If there's a court session, I'll attend it and scare the officials to death." Beibei waved her fist.
The other children only knew that there was a morning court session in the capital, but they didn't know the specific situation. They felt that it was very strange, so a little boy came over and asked, "Morning court session? I heard that they are all high-ranking officials. Who is afraid of you?"
"It should be said that who is not afraid of us? We are also high-ranking officials. We patrol the Tang Empire and can impeach all the officials. Last time, when I went against my father, I was almost beaten when I went home. Fortunately, I avoided it quickly.
The nine of us together can even remonstrate with Uncle Emperor. It's just that we don't have the chance. Uncle Emperor is actually very easy to talk to. All the officials that the nine of us arrested have all been heavily sentenced. We can't embarrass Uncle Emperor in front of so many officials in the court, right? "
Beibei still didn't understand the cruelty of the struggle in the court. None of the officials in the court would do anything to her. First of all, they didn't dare. It was easy to bully children. No matter how smart Beibei was, when they thought of the consequences of bullying Beibei's nine children, all the officials would remain silent.
The officials believed that whoever bullied Beibei and the others would definitely face the overwhelming attacks of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan. First, the benefits would be withdrawn. Then, there would be people gathering comprehensive evidence. It would definitely be a situation where they wouldn't rest until one of them was dead.
Second … of course, it was a crime to bully such cute children. If one thought that they were capable, then they could directly deal with Zhang Zhong, Zhang Xiaobao, and Wang Juan. In the end, they vented their anger on the children and made Beibei speechless. No one would think that they were capable. Even the Emperor would 'look at them differently'. The consequences would be very serious.
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