With the help of Li Tian and others, who were familiar with the situation of the displaced people, the matter of recruiting soldiers was much simpler, and it took seven or eight days to select 5,000 people who met the requirements.

According to the Northern Song Dynasty's "Military Defense Order", the soldiers of the Shenwei Army should select a man with a height standard of 5.75 Song feet (1.82 meters today) and a strong physique, but more than 100 years have passed, and no one still remembers those articles now.

Although in this era of empty salaries, Li Nan recruited a lot of soldiers on the right wing of the Divine Guard, but everyone thought that he was just a pedantic attack of the literati, so that he did not cause any trouble.

After having enough soldiers in his hands, Li Nan suddenly became busy, not only to buy equipment for them, but also to buy a large amount of meat to supplement the nutrition of these long-term homeless people.

It is not difficult to buy armaments, after all, the Divine Guard is a regular forbidden army, and as long as you take money, you can buy it from the Ordnance Supervisor, but this time, the gold and silver are spent like flowing water.

Li Nan's money now comes from the bandits, but after coming to Tokyo, he can only go in and out, and since he came to the Song Dynasty, he finally began to worry about making money.

The Divine Guard Army defended Tokyo City, and it was easy to leave Beijing, so I am afraid that it would not work to use the old method of suppressing bandits in the past to make money, but apart from this method, Li Nan really couldn't think of any other way to get money for a while.

Suddenly remembering that the fat man under his command was all waiting, Li Nan ordered someone to call Qian Guangyuan.

After seeing Li Nan, the fat man Qian smiled on his face and said, "My lord, I don't know what you are looking for your subordinates?" ”

"I'm going to find some ways to make money in Tokyo City, and you seem to know more about it, so I don't know if you have anything to introduce?" Li Nan asked straight to the point.

"Well, it's a bit of a problem." Qian Fatzi explained with a difficult face: "Now that the Japanese army controls the transportation of cars and horses in Tokyo, the Tianwu Army makes a fuss from the waterway, and the Dragon Guard Army takes over the tap of the shops in the city, and our Shenwei Army is the weakest, so the subordinates usually take their subordinates to earn some hard-earned money such as escorting goods and helping Qian people to ask for debts." ”

What Qian Fatzi said, Li Nan probably guessed, after all, these four forbidden armies have been stationed in Tokyo for many years, and they must have already divided the territory, and it may be difficult for them to get a piece of the pie.

Seeing that Li Nan's face was not very good-looking, the fat man Qian proposed: "My lord, in fact, if you have enough money, the income from being a money maker is very good." ”

Li Nan still has a lot of money in his hand now, and immediately asked with interest: "Oh, what is Qianmin, and what is the income?" ”

Qian Guangyuan explained a little, and Li Nan understood that Qian Min was the name of private lending.

In the Song Dynasty, the usury industry flourished, most of them were officials and wealthy businessmen with spare money in their hands, and temples and Taoist temples lent money to the outside world, because of the high interest rate, so this kind of industry was very profitable.

It stands to reason that with Li Nan's current military status, it can be said that it is very suitable to really get usury to make money, because what this industry is most afraid of is people who do not repay or evade debts, but Li Nan, who has thousands of soldiers in hand, is naturally not afraid of this.

Li Nan, who was originally very interested, immediately extinguished this idea after hearing Qian Guangyuan introduce some details of the industry, and he really had little interest in forcing ordinary gamblers to go bankrupt and sell their fields, real estate, wives and daughters.

After Qian Fatzi left, Li Nan, who had something to do, came to the high platform on the side of the school field and saw the newly recruited 5,000 soldiers rehearsing the formation.

Ancient battles required arrays, and the Song Dynasty had as many as eight formations, but they generally used geese and cones, watching the soldiers gather together with the password, Li Nan suddenly thought of a good idea to make money.

Li Nan, who didn't know the economy and people's livelihood of the Song Dynasty, really couldn't think of any way to make money, but it was very feasible to use some well-known crooked ways in later generations.

In the era in which Li Nan originally lived, the most harmful thing to the people was pyramid schemes, which were evil tricks that gathered sand into a tower, and usually defrauded a large amount of money in a short period of time.

Of course, Li Nan didn't plan to sell any useless cosmetics and health products in a small fight, he planned to make a Ponzi scheme in the Great Song Dynasty to deceive high-ranking officials and nobles.

Ponzi scheme is the name given to investment fraud in the financial sector, the ancestor of pyramid schemes, and many illegal pyramid schemes use this trick to accumulate money, this kind of fraud is "invented" by a speculative businessman named Charles Ponzi.

This kind of scam is also known in China as "tearing down the east wall to make up the west wall" and "empty gloves white wolf". In short, it is to use the money of new investors to pay interest and short-term returns to old investors, in order to create the illusion of making money and then defraud more investment.

After using this kind of scam, you can quickly earn a lot of money, the only disadvantage is that in the snowball, you have to pay more and more interest to investors, but this is not a big deal for Li Nan, who has not wanted to stay in Da Song for a long time, not to mention that he is not ready to show up in person.

What Li Nan wanted to deceive was the officials and landlord class who had a lot of spare money in their hands, so he needed an agent who could go in and out of the upper class.

After thinking about it, it seems that among the people I know, only those Oiran in Tokyo City are more qualified.

The first choice is of course Master Li, who has the best relationship with Li Nan, because of her identity, she often deals with various dignitaries and nobles, and she is a good candidate, and the only difficulty now is how to persuade her to use it for herself.

Without further ado, after thinking about it, Li Nan immediately rushed to the quiet courtyard where Master Li lived with a heavily armed escort.

Li Nan still has some thoughts about this young and beautiful little lover of Song Huizong, Master Li, but because he was in the palace some time ago, he was busy with many concubines every day, so he didn't go to her for the time being.

Thinking of Master Li's delicate appearance, Li Nan, who was riding on the horse, couldn't help but laugh evilly, today's trip is just killing two birds with one stone, if you can win her body and mind and let her help her do things, it would be great.

Unexpectedly, Li Nan had just come to the gate of the small courtyard where Master Li lived, but he saw more than a dozen splashes with slingshots and sticks gathered here.

Li Nan reined in his war horse and asked loudly: "This is the mansion of Master Li of the Oiran, who are you waiting for?" ”

Originally, these pranksters were afraid when they saw the power of Li Nan and the others, but when they thought of the identity of their master, they suddenly had confidence.

The leader in a silk shirt was called Fu'an, and he pointed at Li Nan and the others and scolded: "My family is playing here, you dogs get out of here!" ”

Hearing the word Yanei, Li Nan knew that the person inside must be an official eunuch, otherwise he would not dare to be so arrogant, but in his eyes, there was no one who could not be offended, and when he heard the other party's foul language and insult himself, he said coldly: "Call me!" ”

Li Nan gave an order, and these guards under him naturally would not be soft, and the sound of crackling leather whips whipping flesh suddenly sounded at the gate of this small courtyard, and there were bursts of screams like ghosts crying wolves.

These splashes were obviously gatekeepers, and Li Nan was afraid that Master Li would be wronged, so he hurriedly dismounted and kicked the door open, and walked straight inside.

Li Shishi's small courtyard is not big, only three entrances, Li Nan was too violent when he entered the door, and the two wooden doors kicked away by the huge force knocked out the two splashes who were guarding inside, and the other splashes in the courtyard also heard the sound and greeted them.

In his heart, he already regarded Master Li as his own woman, so Li Nan, who was slightly angry, made a heavy shot, and more than a dozen splashes with sticks were beaten hard by him and vomited blood to the end.

As soon as Li Nan came to the backyard bedroom where Master Li lived, he heard a man's lewd words coming from inside: "Little beauty, since you came out to sell, then obey me obediently, not to mention that this yaman is here, no one dares to save you even if you cut your throat!" ”

Then there was the sorrowful cry of Master Li inside, and there were several sounds of tears in his clothes......