"One hundred and thirty thousand strings of cash! Even if the Mo Family Village lives in luxury every day, they can't spend that much money! "
In the Pan Family Restaurant, Shopkeeper Pan looked at the financial deficit of the Mo Family Village exposed in the Confucian magazine and then looked at his own restaurant. He couldn't help but sigh.
His Pan Family Restaurant was considered a long-established restaurant in Chang 'an City, but after working hard every day, his annual income was not even a fraction of the financial deficit of the Mo Family Village!
"I thought Mo Jiazi was a prodigal. Now it seems that not only Mo Jiazi, but also the whole Mo Family Village is a prodigal!" A leisure man said wittily, which caused the crowd to burst into laughter.
"Frugality and frugality have been passed down in the Mo Family for thousands of years, but now it's all gone. It seems that under Mo Jiazi's reform, the Mo Family Village has changed. Mo Jiazi thought that he could revive the Mo Family, but he doesn't know that he has gradually lost the essence of the Mo Family!" A scholar in white snorted.
"That's right. In my opinion, the Mo Family has changed." The crowd echoed.
"That's right. In my opinion, not only the Mo Family Village, even Mo Jiazi is just fishing for fame." The scholar in white snorted.
The leisure man tactfully said, "Why do you say that?"
The scholar in white snorted, "Where do you think the money went? It must have been used by Mo Jiazi!"
After the scholar in white finished speaking, everyone was shocked. They exclaimed in disbelief, "How is that possible? Mo Jiazi was not moved at all by Tubo's words. How could he use the money of the Mo Family Village? "
The crowd shook their heads. They didn't believe the scholar in white's words. The Mo Family Village didn't take the money of outsiders, but instead used the money of the Mo Family Village. This didn't make sense. Besides, how could Mo Jiazi use so much money?
"This is the reason why this young scholar says that the son of the Mohist Clan is fishing for fame. According to my sources, the son of the Mohist Clan has promised to marry Princess Changle. With Qiancheng as the matchmaker and ten thousand taels of gold as the betrothal gift, it is likely that this is the ultimate use of this money," the white-clothed Confucian coldly stated.
"What a load of nonsense! If that's the case, why didn't Mo Jiazi take out the money when the Mo Family Village was in danger? "A skinny merchant sneered.
Many people nodded in agreement. If Mo Jiazi really had the money, the crisis of the Mo Village would not have happened.
The white-clothed Confucian scholar was already prepared for this. He said, "So, do you see Mo Jiazi panicking in the face of this crisis? Obviously, Mo Jiazi is confident?"
Everyone was silent for a moment, and soon they were divided into several factions. Some believed that Mo Jiazi must have broken his promise and misappropriated the money, while others believed that Mo Jiazi did not care about the money.
There were even some people who speculated that the Mo Village must have used the money to do something secret and had ulterior motives.
Seeing this, the white-clothed Confucian scholar could not help but smile proudly. He did not like the Mo Family, so he spared no effort to smear the Mo Family's reputation. As long as there was one person who suspected Mo Jiazi, Mo Jiazi's reputation would be tarnished.
With the spread of the Confucian magazine, everyone was shocked and discussed the whereabouts of such a huge sum of money. For a moment, the Mo Family Village was in the limelight again.
Just as the people in Chang 'an were discussing, a special issue of the Mo Family Village was released. It was as if a bucket of cold water had been poured into a pot of oil.
"Pan's Restaurant, 20 copies of the Mo Family Village!" A newsboy put 20 copies of the Mo Family Village in front of Shopkeeper Pan and immediately rushed to the next restaurant.
"Little Pan, go to each table and distribute a copy of the Mo Family Village!" Shopkeeper Pan picked up a copy and ordered his nephew.
The nephew of the Pan Family went forward and was about to distribute the Mo Family Village when he accidentally saw the headline on the front page. He immediately exclaimed, "The expansion of the Mo Family Village cost 130,000 strings of cash!"
"130,000 strings of cash!" All the diners were stunned and could not wait to snatch a copy of the Mo Family Village from the hands of the nephew of the Pan Family. However, when they saw the news, they were all stunned. They did not expect that this was the ultimate use of such a huge sum of money.
"This is impossible. How could a village spend so much money?" Shopkeeper Pan was stunned.
The scholar in white snorted again, "The more you try to hide it, the more conspicuous it is! It must be Mo Jiazi's trick. "
"In my opinion, this might be true. I have been running along the official road in the south of the city. Everyone knows that except for the commercial area, the rest of the Mo Family Village was closed for expansion until the crisis of the Mo Family Village broke out." The merchant who supported the Mo Family Village just now said.
"The expansion of the Mo Family Village cost 130,000 strings of cash. Could it be that the Mo Family Village is going to build a city?" The scholar in white snorted.
The other diners also could not believe that the expansion of a village could cost so much money.
"It is impossible under normal circumstances. However, have you forgotten that Mo Jiazi set up the future plan of the Mo Family Village in the Mo Skills Exhibition last year?" The merchant could not help but snort.
The crowd could not help but be stunned. Suddenly, a beautiful city picture appeared in their minds. If the Mo Family Village was expanded according to Mo Jiazi's plan, the 130,000 strings of cash was just the beginning.
"In fact, the reason why the Mo Family Village is in deficit is easy to verify. The Mo Family Village has already stated that the expansion of the Mo Family Village will be completed before the New Year. At that time, it will be open to the outside world. Naturally, the whereabouts of the money of the Mo Family Village will be clear at a glance." Shopkeeper Pan pointed at the report of the Mo Family Village and said expectantly.
As soon as the special issue of the Mo Family Village Village was published, the whole Chang 'an City was in an uproar again. Almost everyone was looking forward to seeing how the village that cost 130,000 strings of cash to expand would look like.
The New Year was approaching.
In the Mo Family Village, most of the big workshops had stopped working. Most of the workers who worked in other places had already settled their wages and returned to their hometown happily. Even when the Mo Family Village was in the most critical period, the workers' wages were still not delayed. Moreover, in Chang 'an City, the treatment of the workers in the Mo Family Village was second to none. Their annual salary was much higher than that of the farmers.
With the departure of the workers, the Mo Family Village, which used to be very lively, began to become a little deserted. On the deserted street, a thin old man walked to the street with tools and began to work silently on the unfinished expansion of the Mo Family Village.
"Village head!"
A villager walked to the old man and said respectfully. He consciously followed Li Yi and joined in the work.
Then, one by one, the villagers consciously walked to the front of the village. The expansion team gradually increased. In addition to the young and strong men, some women also began to join in the expansion team.
Even some children came forward to help and did some work as much as they could. Even if the north wind was bitterly cold and it was the twelfth lunar month, everyone still worked in full swing. No one complained, and the expansion work of the entire Village Mo's Village immediately sped up.
Li Yi had not worked so hard for two years. However, this familiar scene reminded him of the time when Meton led the Mo Family Village to establish the village. At that time, the Mo Family Village was as united as today.
"This is the real Mo Family Village!" Li Yi couldn't help sighing.
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