Of course, Zhang Yi can't ask for someone to sponsor him. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but he still carefully inquired about Dai Yan's debt collection from Chu State.

Hearing Dai Yan explain the detailed situation, Zhang Yi sighed and said: "Son, you don't have to care, the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State are like this, so they don't care about Xinyi, which shows the short-sightedness of this country." Such a country must not last. ”

Dai Yan can only hope that Zhang Yi's prophecy can come true.

Immediately, he gave Dai Yan a large amount of money to help him go to the Qin State, and it was also convenient for him to ascend to the throne in the Qin State as soon as possible. Dai Yan really hoped that Zhang Yi could wantonly weaken the Chu State at this moment.

Unable to recover the debts owed by the Chu State, Dai Yan had no choice but to return to the Song State in disgrace.

Suffering such a setback this time, Dai Yan was also speechless, he was in the Song Kingdom before, and the environment in which he lived was a reputable country. He substituted the environment of the Song Kingdom into the whole world without careful thinking, and it was natural that he encountered such a setback.

From this, he realized that when it comes to the issue of interests, in the end, it is necessary to have the backing of force in order to obtain sufficient benefits. Just like this debt, the strength of the Song State is not as good as that of the Chu State, so all the interests of the Song State can definitely not be guaranteed.

This world is a real society of the jungle. Dai Yan kept this truth deep in his mind.

As soon as Dai Yan returned to the Song State, he reported to Song Junzixi that he had failed to collect debts in the Chu State, and that the marriage between the Chu State and the Song State had also collapsed.

Faced with such a situation, Zixi has no choice. Although Chu was insulting Song by doing so, Song did not have the strength or ability to retaliate. All he could do was comfort Dai Yan.

After the merchants of the Song Kingdom learned the news of the failure of the Daxing people to collect debts, they all ran to Dai Yan's residence in Suiyang. For these merchants, they had to supply military rations to the Chu State as a guarantee at the beginning, but now that something goes wrong, the losses they suffered should naturally be repaid by the big bankers.

Faced with the grim situation of the merchants in the Song Kingdom collecting debts, Dai Yan had no choice but to gather all the retainers who followed him, as well as the Mo family and the peasant family, to discuss countermeasures.

"Childe, from the villain's point of view, it is the Chu State that owes the merchant debts, and it has nothing to do with us at all, so we don't have to care about the requests of those merchants. With Gongzi's status in the Song Kingdom, I don't believe that those merchants dare to do anything to Gongzi! As soon as Tian Buli heard that the merchants dared to block his son's door, he immediately became furious. As soon as he opened his mouth, he advised Dai Yan to take a tough attitude towards those businessmen.

Dai Yan looked at his retainers. Since he won two major battles, the number of people in the Song Kingdom who came to him gradually increased. Now, in addition to the people from the peasant family and the Mo family, nearly 100 scholars have come to join him.

As soon as these scholars heard Tian Buli's suggestion, they also responded happily, in their opinion, the merchants themselves had a low status, and now they dared to force the mansion of the prince and noble, and they must teach these merchants a hard lesson!

Dai Yan didn't care about the opinions of these people, he looked at Xu Xing and Tian Jiu, and asked, "I don't know what Tian Zi and Xu Zi think about this matter?" ”

Since Xu Xing came to defect to Dai Yan, he has been working as a farmer in Fengyi. In fact, his position was also biased towards the peasants, and he never had a good impression of the merchants, and he said directly: "Those merchants who made a fortune during the war were originally people who did not practice benevolence and righteousness. Childe doesn't have to worry about them at all. ”

Hearing that Xu Xing also agreed to get rid of the debts of the merchants, Dai Yan also somewhat agreed with this opinion.

He finally set his sights on the giant Tian Jiu, in his opinion, the Mo family is biased towards low-level craftsmen, and he should not oppose the act of defaulting on debts. However, Tian Jiu's last speech directly dispelled his thoughts.

At the same time that everyone praised Tian Jiu, he reminded Dai Yan with words: "What is the difference between Gongzi and the Chu people when he does this?" ”

This sentence immediately woke up Dai Yan! Yes, it is not difficult for Dai Yan to get rid of the debts of these Song businessmen, because these debts are indeed not owed by Dai Yan. And Dai Yan relied on his domestic status to get rid of these debts, and it was impossible for these businessmen to really come to Dai Yan's trouble.

However, if Dai Yan really did this, then first of all, his reputation would be completely ruined in the entire Song Kingdom! ruined his reputation, how is he different from those Chu people who like to play tricks? Is he still the son of the Song Kingdom?

Dai Yan immediately thought of a more serious problem: today he could break his promise to these insignificant businessmen at the expense of their interests. These retainers, peasants, and Mo families who are attached to themselves may not have any objections now, but won't they have a stalk in their hearts in the future? In the future, if it were possible, Dai Yan would break his promise to them and sacrifice their interests?

This thought came to Dai Yan's mind, and then he couldn't suppress it anymore. What is your favorite thing about coming to this era? Isn't it the environment of the Song Kingdom where everyone keeps their promises? Do you really want to destroy your favorite environment with your own hands, and make yourself the one you least like?

Then he made a decision and said to all those who followed him: "Since these merchants provided a guarantee when they supplied food to the Chu army, then I am responsible. Now that the people of Chu do not repay their debts, then the merchants find me as a guarantor, and I will naturally repay this debt. ”

After making such a decision, he invited all the merchants who were collecting debts into the mansion and said to all the merchants whose debts were in arrears: "Ladies and gentlemen, when you supplied food to the Chu army, I once provided a guarantee. However, now the king of Chu relies on strength and refuses to repay his debts. However, I want to tell you: Ziyan is not a faithless person like the King of Chu, and the debts owed to you by the people of Chu will definitely be repaid in full! Even if Ziyan is unable to pay it off now, please believe that I will not let you suffer such a huge loss! ”

When the merchants heard that someone had come to pay their debts, the merchants rejoiced. They no longer have the aggressive momentum outside the mansion before, and they all praise Dai Yan as a true gentleman who keeps his promises.

Dai Yan didn't care about the praise of these businessmen at all, he just asked people to silently count how much money he would pay to pay off this huge debt this time.

Soon Tian Buli began to count the results, and the results made Dai Yan very shocked, and the debt owed by the Chu State reached 200,000 gold! This is already equivalent to the fiscal and tax revenue of the Song Kingdom in the past two years.

It is no wonder that the king of Chu will rely on this debt.

During the war of various countries, Dai Yan also made a windfall when he helped the country store grain, but that amount did not exceed 100,000 gold. Now he will lose all the money he earned during the war at once, and he will continue to be heavily indebted in the future. Even though Dai Yan had promised to repay his debts, he still had the urge to give up the matter directly!

But as soon as he thought of his credibility, he immediately made up his mind! Money can always be earned, and if the credibility is lost, there is really no more!

Dai Yanlingken's willingness to repay the debt himself and refused to let the Song Kingdom bear the reputation of dishonesty and breach of contract shocked the entire Song Kingdom, and the prince of the country also sighed after hearing about his younger brother's practice. Thinking that Dai Yan also helped him earn an unexpected income during the entire war, he also took out 100,000 gold from the treasury to pay off half of his debts.

After this debt incident, all the wealth that Dai Yan had earned from the war was gone.

Although Dai Yan did not gain any benefits personally, the Song State sought a lot of benefits throughout the war. Thinking of this, Dai Yan finally felt a little better in his heart.

Although Dai Yan suffered extremely heavy losses at the moment, at this moment of decay, Dai Yan's behavior was as eye-catching as a light in the night. The merchants who recovered their losses from this incident began to spread the deeds of the prince of the Song Kingdom, and thus Dai Yanzun's reputation for keeping his promises began to spread all over the world.

When the news of Yinuo billion gold reached the Qi State, Xue Gongtianying, who had finally kept his fiefdom for nearly two years, became more and more unhappy. In his opinion, the more beautiful the newly rising prince of the Song Kingdom, the more incompetent he seemed to be the prince of the Qi Kingdom, which made him extremely annoying, and soon his disciple Qi Xiangbi gave him an idea.

After the wars of Wei, Qi, Chu, and Zhao ceased, peace was restored to the world. However, Qi Wang Tian no longer dared to take it lightly because Qi personally handled domestic affairs after suffering such a big setback. After the wars with Zhao and Chu, he also had an understanding of the strength of Qi.

When King Qi was dealing with government affairs, Tian Ying came in to meet him. As soon as he saw the king of Qi, he persuaded the king of Qi: "Father, good news! Erchen heard that the state of Chu and the state of Song had a falling out. During the Great War of Qi and Chu, if it weren't for the Song State supplying the Chu State with military rations, how could we have lost so badly! Now we can teach Song a good lesson and avenge the defeat of Qi State! ”