Chapter 51: Raising Money
So this is a difficult problem for Fan Li, the richest man in Huizhou, to be honest, when Fan Li heard this request, he also scolded 10,000 times in his heart, you This is an impossible task!
Why? Because there was a precedent before, at that time, a Beijing official from Huizhou handed a letter to the emperor and told the emperor: Can the former governor of Beizhou be allowed to enter the Xiangxian Temple in his hometown.
At that time, he gave the emperor a meal and said: Do you want to be shameless? How could that person, that embezzler, enter the Xiangxian Temple! I scolded this official one by one, but I didn't agree!
Fan Li knew that he couldn't do this, and the emperor couldn't agree, so he thought that the richest man in Huizhou was making it difficult for him.
But Fan Liang can't help it, but if he can get money from other means, will he be entangled with the richest man who is the descendant of an embezzler?
So Fan Li has to bargain with him! But the richest man is pinching money, and he is an uncle, if you want to borrow money, you have to do what I say, can you? If you can't do it, find someone else, anyway, you begged me to borrow money, not me!
But Fan Li was itchy in his heart, and after thinking about it, he still made a decision: I admit it! Regardless of whether the emperor can understand my difficulties or not, in order to be able to smoothly lead the troops out to make meritorious contributions and save the people from fire and water, this is over my back!
The military situation is urgent, raising money is the biggest thing, the emperor may be able to understand me in the future, if the emperor can't understand, then I can't help it!
After making a decision, the next step was for the two to bargain, and Fan Li asked: How much can you get me?
The richest man said: Borrow 20,000 taels of silver from you!
Fan Liang said: That's not good, your family is the richest man, and the silver hidden in the family is at least 200,000 taels, so you can take out 20,000 yuan, which is too little! Moreover, you have conditional borrowing money, so you can't borrow it, you have to donate it to me!
The richest man said: No problem! Isn't it just tens of thousands of taels of silver, I don't care! I'll give you another 10,000 taels of silver!" In this way, my lord, as long as you report to the court, if the court allows, I will donate you another 50,000 taels of silver!
That's 80,000 taels, and it's by no means a few! But Fan Liang is like a mirror in his heart, I can't agree to this book, so I won't come to the 50,000 taels later!
Okay, the richest man said his own conditions, are you on this book or not? Fan Li slapped his thigh: Up! I'll give you a book right away!
Write it with a click, and hand it over when you're done! The richest man looks: I'll go! Did you really write it? I'm not afraid of death! Okay, this money is for you! This took 30,000 taels of silver and gave it to Fan Li!
For these 30,000 taels, the book that Fan Liang handed to the emperor is a book that is very likely to be reprimanded by the emperor in the future, why did Fan Liang take such a big risk, is it worth it? 30,000 taels is not a lot!
Because Fan Li knows very well that once the richest man is done, as long as he pays the money, those rich people will also have to pay, or they will be put in small shoes in the future, and no one will dare to take this responsibility! So these rich people donated one after another, you 10,000 and I 5,000, and they made up 90,000 taels of silver for Fan Li!
So Fan Liang asked for a corrupt official to let this corrupt official enter the Xiangxian Temple after his death, and after this fold went up, he got 90,000 taels of silver, and the 90,000 taels of silver were not hot? Fan Li couldn't think of that.
After getting the money, Fan Li allocated funds to reward the three armies and stabilize the morale of the army! These soldiers who are going to fight look at this, my lord is really capable, we will give you your life, don't you just want this? The money is in hand, come and come, everyone is working hard, and the pre-war preparations are in full swing and in full swing!
Fan Li saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart! Because the Chinese New Year is approaching at this time, he has to do all the preparations before the year, and at this time when he is making pre-war preparations, Fan Li's heart is full of excitement and nervousness! I'm excited because I can finally go out and make a big difference; Nervousness, Mom, I really haven't been to a fight!
Fortunately, it can be slowed down at this time, seeing that the New Year is coming, the ship is also continuing to be built, and the cannon I bought has not yet arrived. Fan Li gave an explanation of his work and went home for the New Year!
This year, Fan Li has lived an extremely unusual, or special. Because of his complicated feelings before the war, he went home for the New Year with both the mentality of enjoying life with his family and the restless mood.
Anyway, after the New Year, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Fan Li came out of his home and went to Huizhou, while continuing to urge shipbuilders to build ships, urge recruiters to continue to recruit, and train quickly!
As a result, at this time, Fan Liang received the emperor's decree again, urging Fan Liang to hurry up and leave to fight for me, and the emperor was also anxious, and told you again and again, why don't you go?
Fan Li is also anxious, you see that I have put in so much effort, it's not that I don't want to go, it's that I really haven't arrived! Finally, on the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month, the cannons that were bought also arrived, and the boats were built, forty of them were made of fast machinery, fifty of them were made of Changlong, and one hundred and fifty of them were made of mountain boards, and then there were dozens of civilian ships left, and finally more than 100 civilian ships were hired, all of which were loaded with things!
Why hire a civilian ship to load things? You can't transport things, you can transport 18,000 quintals of coal, 30,000 catties of oil, 40,000 catties of salt, needless to say, people can't bring anything that eats and chews, think about it: 40,000 catties of salt, how many other things do you have to bring? So fighting a war is not a particularly simple thing at all. Fan Li has prepared all these things and is about to set off.
On the day of departure, all the 5,000 brave soldiers put on new clothes, the officers were equipped with horses and swords, and everyone gathered on the drill ground to wait for the cannon to sound!
These brave soldiers, to tell the truth, were farmers a few months ago, they were all boat people, they were all fishers, and they didn't eat the last meal. Now the spirit and spirit are standing there with their heads held high, all of them are heroes, all of them are warriors!
After Fan Li made a simple pre-war mobilization speech, he began to fire artillery! "Bang bang bang" three cannon sounds, the military attaches set off with their soldiers, in the place where they boarded, there was a pole seven or eight meters high, on which hung a flag, the flag was embroidered with yellow thread with a big fan character, was blown by the river wind to hunt!
Those brave soldiers stepped on the new boat, and thousands of ordinary people around watched the excitement, everyone felt very curious about these things, and they were very envious and full of blessings for their partners who had followed them to farm and fish, they were wearing brand new uniforms and standing in the boat with big knives and spears in their hands!
But there has to be a ceremony before departure, on the one hand, the prefect of Huizhou brought his own team to practice for Fan Li! On the other hand, it is also necessary to engage in sacrificial activities!