Chapter 217: Just Placing a Bet

Gao Yigong didn't understand Li Meng's anger, but he didn't speak, Li Meng stood up, his anger did not subside, he rubbed his hands and walked a few steps, and said coldly:

"Have these businessmen gotten into the eyes of money, forgetting who their ancestors were, and actually doing such a frenzied thing."

Gao Yigong nodded and echoed:

"There's nothing wrong with selling to the Tartars to make money, the Tartars are tighter, and the camps are looser, but you can't just do one business!"

With a "bang", Li Meng grabbed a tea bowl and fell to the ground, glaring at Gao Yigong, who didn't know what was going on, and shouted angrily:

"You can actually say this kind of thing, you are Han, they are Tartars, they are beasts, let the beasts go, sooner or later those beasts will eat people."

"Natural disasters and man-made disasters, everyone forced by the court can't survive, this is the reason to get up and do big things, the weakness of the court, it's better to break into the camp here, besides, what are these Tartars outside the gate worth, the court soldiers and horses are useless waste, if we go to fight in the old camp, it will be easy to pacify him."

Seeing Li Meng's anger, Gao Yigong was very inexplicable, but he didn't think he was wrong, and he still said his words in a sullen voice, not only the Ming court regarded the Jurchen as a disease of scabies, but even Li Zicheng's army was the same, the real national identity and national consciousness were actually formed in modern times.

At this time, people felt that the Jurchens and the Tatars were "not my race", and they had a kind of contempt for the Jurchens in their bones, and they didn't think that the other party was so powerful and powerful.

It's a little ridiculous to say, all the land in Liaozhen was lost, several major battles were defeated, and several looting into the customs were like entering a no-man's land, but these scholars and doctors with rigid ideas in the Ming Dynasty still did not regard the other party as a threat, but because of natural disasters and harsh political persecution, the army was regarded as a big trouble, until the time of Nanming Hongguang, but also to use the hands of barbarians to remove the rebel thieves.

The princes of the imperial court, most of the corporal in the world are so rigid, but they never thought that even Gao Yigong and these people would think like this.

No wonder Li Zicheng occupied the city of Beijing and established the so-called Dashun, he was defeated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty within a few months, and he did not even enter the short-lived dynasty of the historical chronology.

Li Meng stared at Gao Yigong for a while, and finally laughed angrily, what kind of darkness and misery will the barbarians' conquest of Huaxia bring, that is more than ten years, decades and hundreds of years later, how can you talk to people like this now, and the enemy of the enemy is a friend, the Jurchen Tartars and the Chuang army are invisibly attacking inside and outside, it is not surprising that Gao Yigong has such an idea, Li Meng exhaled, calmed down, waved his hand to rebuke the guards who entered the house, and said in a deep voice:

"The Jurchen Tartars are the real scourge, and when the time comes, both you and the court will suffer greatly."

Gao Yigong said "oh" and "oh" twice, obviously not listening, and Li Meng was not ready to continue to persuade, but silently wrote down the names of Goldman Sachs and this firm in his mind.

Modern people know more about the Jin merchants in the Qing Dynasty, and those messy TV dramas depict the Jin merchants as modern capitalists, of course, for some purpose to be drummers for some contemporary forces, in fact, the Jin merchants had a large scale in the Ming Dynasty.

In the early period, it was the two prefectures of Zezhou, which was rich in ironware, and Luzhou, the center of silk in the north, as well as the merchants who bought and sold grain and straw and transported salt goods to the border towns, and after the middle and late periods, they became merchants of Taiyuan and Fenzhou, and the merchants of these two provinces made their fortunes, which was very simple, that is, they traded with the Mongols and Jurchens outside the Saiwai Guan, and the Mongols and Jurchens were both short of iron, and their ability to build weapons and arm themselves was very weak.

These Jin merchants sent a large number of iron and salt goods to the grassland to sell, bringing back cattle and horses, furs and various special products, iron and salt goods in Mongolia and Jurchen side of the sale is already a huge profit, the Ming Dynasty other than the special products trafficked in, the same is the profit is amazing, this come and go, naturally is an outbreak.

But the import of this iron weapon is equivalent to turning the barbarians who originally used bone arrows and wooden spears into elite warriors armed to the teeth, and the Mongol and Jurchen crafting and casting capabilities are also very weak, and many people speculate that even a large number of weapons were directly imported into the hands of the barbarians.

It is precisely because of this kind of great favor to provide military supplies that in real history, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty took over the world, the Jin merchants have obtained all kinds of business privileges and exclusive industries, and have become the leading merchant group.

Li Meng felt a little ridiculous for a while, every time he talked about things with the Jurchens, he found that he was extremely lonely, and now it was good, it turned out that Li Chuang's force was not with him.

But after getting married, Li Meng's mentality is different, his power has been constantly developing and growing, which has added a lot of self-confidence to him, and he feels that no one is in the same stream, but it has aroused a sense of pride in Li Meng's heart. Thinking about the elite soldiers and horses in the barracks, and thinking about the upper-class people in Shandong who were respectful and flattering before and after the wedding, Li Meng had already made up his mind in his heart: "Since the sky does not cooperate, then let it go and do it yourself, people will win the sky, and what the philosopher said is always good." ”

In a calm mood, he still said that he was down to business, Li Meng sat down with a golden knife, and asked directly:

"Why do you want to borrow money from me, after all, I am an official of the imperial court, so you are not afraid that I will cut off your head."

Gao Yigong laughed a few times, but at this time he reacted quickly, and there was nothing to hide when he answered, and said with a smile:

"All over the world, the people in the government who dare to do green salt trading with us are you, General Li, originally went to Jining Prefecture this time for this, who would have thought to catch up with the adults to get married......"

Li Meng grinned and didn't say anything, 50,000 taels of silver is a lot of money for the current Jiaozhou battalion, but it doesn't affect the fundamentals, and it will be taken out.

"But how do you want to repay this silver, Shandong and Shaanxi, almost thousands of miles apart, and the official doesn't know how to ask for the account at that time."

This sentence completely asked Gao Yigong, and he was embarrassed for a long time before he spoke:

"When the camp was circulating in the five provinces, I also accumulated some antiques and rare items in my hands, and after calculation, these things can still be worth some silver, but after a few shots, no one dared to buy them, and they almost showed their traces, if the adults wanted, these could be transported."

Antiques in the prosperous era, gold in troubled times, in this chaotic season, those antiques and other things are useless at all, and Li Meng is not a person who likes this kind of elegance, let alone interested. Since entering this inner study, Li Meng and Gao Yigong's conversation, although Gao Yigong is not good at words, but he has not fallen a little bit between words, and now seeing Gao Yigong pay back the money for this, Li Meng is also a lot happier in his heart.

Gao Yigong felt that Li Meng could borrow money here, but it was nothing more than because of the business of Qingyan, and he didn't think too deeply at all, he felt that to borrow money was to treat Li Meng as a business partner, although this kind of interaction can be coerced, but Li Meng is a military attaché, and if he is in a hurry, he will use a knife to kill people, and he can only communicate according to the rules of business.

Gao Yigong is in the camp, because he is the brother-in-law of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, and he is cautious and kind, everyone is very new to him, and he has always been in charge of the logistics and military affairs.

Speaking of which, this is also a projection of the mentality of the people in the world, so far only the thief army has been appeased by the official army and surrendered to the imperial court, but no one has heard of surrendering to the thief army or taking the initiative to submit. Moreover, Shandong is located in the east, and there is a large army stationed, even if the army wanders in Henan, it has never entered Shandong.

All kinds of circumstances made Gao Yigong feel that he came to borrow money this time, and his side was completely asking for someone else's position, and there was no place to take the initiative at all, and when he heard the other party raise the question of how to repay the money, he suddenly became embarrassed.

"Fifty thousand taels of silver is a lot, and Li has to peel off his skin even if he takes it out."

Speaking of this, Li Meng inexplicably remembered one thing, that Eunuch Liu borrowed money that day was also this amount, and the number of five or ten is more commonly used by everyone, which is prone to coincidence.

Hearing Li Meng say this, Gao Yigong was keenly aware that there was a follow-up, and there was no interface, and sure enough, Li Meng continued to speak:

"It's so far away, and the camp is not permanent in one place, it's hard to have a return date for this silver, but you don't have to worry, this silver is given to you."

Hundreds of thousands of horses broke into the camp, and they were embarrassed by these tens of thousands of taels of silver, which can be regarded as embarrassing to a certain extent, Gao Yigong had already made ideological preparations for this in advance, but he didn't expect to agree so happily, and he was courteous and committed to stealing, and the current situation is somewhat similar.

"How does this work!?"

Even though Gao Yigong needed the silver very much, he couldn't help but ask out loud, Li Meng smiled and asked in a deep voice:

"Brother Gao, this silver is given to you, and the camp will remember my Li Meng's favor."

"Where does General Li say, such a move to send charcoal in the snow, everyone who broke into the camp is grateful for great virtue and will never forget it."

"Feng Shui takes turns, you and I will inevitably see each other again in the future, I just hope that when the time comes, it will be enough for Brother Gao and Chuang Ying to remember Li's favor."

Gao Yigong's words for no reason made Gao Yigong sit on the chair and be stunned for a while, and it took a long time to stand up and solemnly bow to Li Meng.

Li Meng smiled, Gao Yigong was speechless......