Gao Ming's alcohol consumption is not too good, so there is no doubt that he was drunk again, but this time Cheng Yanjin was already experienced, and when Gao Ming got drunk, he encouraged him to sing.

For a pure man, how can he refuse the request of a drunken karaoke?

So, after a month, a song full of hoarse voices "Big Man" sounded in Cheng's courtyard again.

"There is a spirit of the sea in my life......"

This night, Gao Ming didn't know how much he had drunk or how he had returned to the palace, but these were no longer important, the important thing was that his goal had basically been achieved.

This time, Gao Ming raised a total of 13,000 guan from Cheng Yanjin, Li Ji, and Li Jing, plus the 10,000 guan he obtained from Li Shimin before, the total number has reached 23,000 guan, and it can be said that the task has been preliminarily completed.

"The rest is left to Changsun Wuji, but his son is ......"

Speaking of the eldest grandson Wuji, Gao Ming immediately remembered Li Tai's hateful fat face.

"Looks like beating him!"

At this time, Gao Ming still thought that Li Tai was the son of the eldest grandson Wuji, so he immediately changed his mind.

"No, I can't borrow money from the eldest grandson Wuji, otherwise I won't be able to be justified when I clean up his son in the future, I'll find another way!"

Thinking of this, Gao Ming immediately looked for Zhang Sizheng over.

"Ah Zheng, how much money is left for you to bring back last time?"

As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, Zhang Sizheng bowed his hand to Gao Ming.

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the money you handed over to your subordinates last time was a total of 4,657 yuan, and when you went to Qizhou, your subordinates took 30 yuan, and the rest of the money was handed over to trustworthy people to do business, according to the return of the previous people, now there are more than 5,300 yuan!"

Hearing Zhang Sizheng's words, Gao Ming immediately laughed.

"Yo, yes, I've made a few hundred dollars in just a month, well, these people have the ability to write them down, and in the future, our hundred cavalry guards will rely on them for their money bags."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Looking at Zhang Sizheng's respectful appearance, Gao Ming nodded again.

"Well, okay, now I have a task to give you, now I have 23,000 guan of money here, and you take out 4,000 guan from the hundred cavalry guards, a total of 27,000 kan, I want you to escort this money to Jinju and hand it over to a person named Zhou Zheng."

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Zhang Sizheng immediately raised his head.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is talking about the former assassin of Jinzhou, that is, Zhou Fengyi's father?"

"Yes, that's right!"

Speaking of this, Gao Ming suddenly smiled and nodded.

"It's Zhou Hong's father, after you hand over the money to him, you don't have to be busy coming back, help me keep an eye on it, this money was finally obtained by the prince of Ben, and it was used to build the academy, I don't want this money to be swallowed, I can trust Zhou Zheng, but others ......"

Gao Ming didn't say the rest of the words, but Zhang Sizheng already understood, and he nodded immediately.

"Your Highness, rest assured, no matter who it is, as long as he dares to touch His Highness's money, his subordinates will chop off his claws."

Looking at Zhang Sizheng's murderous look, Gao Ming nodded with satisfaction again.

"Well, I believe you, go ahead!"

"Yes!"

After receiving Gao Ming's orders, Zhang Sizheng immediately took someone to escort 27,000 yuan to Jinzhou, and Gao Ming went to Li Shimin's imperial study.

Gao Ming's arrival did not surprise Li Shimin, as soon as he walked in, Li Shimin raised his head and glanced at him.

"Got drunk last night?"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, Gao Ming suddenly nodded with a wry smile.

"I said I wouldn't drink, Lu Guogong pulled me to drink, and I drank high, but fortunately, the money has been borrowed, and now I have asked people to send the money to Jinju, and I am here to tell you about it."

As soon as Gao Ming's words fell, Li Shimin nodded with a smile.

"I know, tomorrow I will send someone from the Ministry of Industry to Jinju, by the way, how much money did Cheng Yanjin lend you?"

Looking at Li Shimin's curious eyes, Gao Ming told the truth.

"Not much, five thousand!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Shimin suddenly blinked in surprise.

"Originally, I thought it would be good if you could borrow one or two thousand from him, but I didn't expect to borrow five thousand, which is good."

Looking at Li Shimin's surprised look, Gao Ming smiled bitterly again.

"You guessed it right, originally he was only willing to borrow 2,000 guan, but then I said that I would repay the money in the autumn and give 20% more interest, so he borrowed 5,000 guan, and then I borrowed 5,000 guan from the British Duke and 3,000 from the Duke of Weiguo."

After speaking, Gao Ming immediately shook his head.

"But Wei Guogong won't charge me interest."

Hearing Gao Ming say this, Li Shimin also laughed.

"The pharmacist is different from Cheng Biting Jin, he has a pimple in his heart, it is Hou Junji, so he is repaying you the favor, but even if the pharmacist doesn't want your interest, you have to come up with 15,000 yuan after the autumn, what are you going to do?"

As soon as Li Shimin's words fell, Gao Ming immediately raised his eyebrows at him.

"Isn't that still you?"

As soon as Gao Ming's words came out, Li Shimin's face immediately changed.

"Don't even think about this, it's already good if I don't want you with the 10,000 yuan, as for the 15,000 yuan, you can figure it out yourself, go out!"

“……”

Seeing that Li Shimin was driving people away again, Gao Ming had no choice but to walk out of the imperial study, and then returned to the East Palace.

"I don't have money to think about borrowing money, borrowing money and thinking about repaying it, it's really troublesome!"

Thinking of these debts, Gao Ming suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

"This is 15,000 yuan, now it's April, and it's only more than five months before the beginning of autumn, how can I get 15,000 yuan in this half a year?"

Gao Ming was a house in his previous life, he could neither make glass, nor make soap and soap, and he didn't know anything about business.

The process of distilling liquor is nothing more than using the boiling point of alcohol to purify the liquor, but now that the Tang Dynasty is in the recovery period of the founding of the country, the people can't even afford to drink ordinary wine, let alone distilled wine.

The most important thing is that doing business requires capital, and now Gao Ming does not have this capital at all, so at this time he sighed a little distressed.

"If only there was a deal, uh......"

Thinking of this, Gao Ming's eyes suddenly lit up.

"No capital to buy?"

In Gao Ming's cognition, there are five kinds of capitalless trading in this world, that is, "pit", "blind", "abduction", "cheating", and "stealing", no matter which one is not a legitimate business, so these Gao Ming do not plan to choose.

Gao Ming wants to choose a kind of no-capital trading in a different way, and the name of this no-capital business is - protection fee!

When Gao Ming took Li Mingda to shop on Chang'an Street before, he found out that although there are many Wuhou patrolling the streets on Chang'an Street now, there are still many idle gangsters wandering around the street.

These guys, eating without giving money is a trivial matter, many times they directly ask the vendors for money, if they meet the street patrol martial marquis, they will naturally turn around and run, if they don't meet, in order to calm the matter, most of the small vendors will still choose to break the fortune and avoid disasters.

"Now there are more than 300,000 people in Chang'an City, and all the vendors in the city add up to probably no less than 10,000 people, if I can receive protection money from them, even if each person only collects two cents, I can also receive 20 yuan a day in Chang'an City, which is 3,600 yuan in half a year, plus thousands of large and small shops, this money is estimated to be less than 10,000 yuan......

Thinking of this, Gao Ming's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Instead of letting these gangsters sit back and enjoy their success, it is better for Lao Tzu to collect it, not only Chang'an City, but also Jingzhao Mansion and Luoyang, a large city with a large population, must be collected!"

Gao Ming's character has always been to do what he thinks, so he immediately called Li Goudan.

"Li Goudan, I have an important task for you!"

Hearing Gao Ming say an important task, Li Goudan suddenly shrank his head.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the officials are only shallow in learning......"

Seeing that he showed signs of prevarication, Gao Ming suddenly grinned, and then sighed, pretending to have a very regretful expression.

"Alas, originally for the sake of your little lady, I also planned to hand over this errand of fishing for oil and water to you, but since you don't want it, I don't force it, anyway, it's just a job in Chang'an City, I'd better let Su Gan Chengji come, come on......"

Before Gao Ming finished speaking, Li Goudan suddenly knelt down with a "poof".

"His Royal Highness the Prince, you misunderstood me, what the lower official means is that although the lower official is only sparsely educated, as long as it is the task assigned by His Royal Highness the Prince, the lower official will do his best to complete it!"

Seeing that he looked like "loyalty is the main", Gao Ming immediately raised his eyebrows.

"Really?"

"Really!"

"Not reluctantly?"

"Not at all!"

Seeing that Li Goudan was so resolute, Gao Ming nodded with satisfaction.

"Okay, then I'll tell you about this mission, this time I want you to collect protection money in Chang'an City, and the object of the fee is all the vendors in Chang'an City, as for the cost, it will be calculated according to the size of the business, I'll give you an example."

Speaking of this, Gao Ming immediately raised a finger towards Li Goudan.

"First of all, let me talk about those who do small businesses, such as those who sell baked cakes or mash soup, their small profits are small, and every bowl of mash or two or three baked cakes is sold, they can only earn a penny, and vendors like this, we can only charge a penny for their protection money!"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Goudan's face suddenly collapsed.

"It's only a penny?"

As soon as his words fell, Gao Ming immediately slapped him on the head, and then scolded with a smile: "What's wrong with a penny? A penny is not money? Where is the consistent money without a penny? ”

was scolded by Gao Ming like this, Li Goudan immediately stopped talking, but Gao Ming knew that he was not convinced, so he had to explain to him.

"You know, what I asked you to collect is the protection fee of the entire Chang'an City, think about it, there are tens of thousands of traders in this Chang'an City, and one penny per person is ten yuan, and you think about those who sell meat, fish, jewelry and jade, how can these people have to charge them more than ten cents, and now you still think that the money is less?"

Hearing Gao Ming's words, Li Goudan's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Not a few...... Not a lot at all, hehehehehe......"