In these years, it is the most realistic thing to have food and money to spend, so Li Wencai used it to tempt these refugees, and as a result, he quickly grew in power, and by the time he arrived in Zhaozhuang, there were almost 100 people.

Although Li Wencai, as the Minister of Logistics, does not worry about food and clothing, people like him are definitely full of private pockets, and he eats and drinks well first, so the dry food brought this time was originally enough, but because the number of people has doubled, he has already run out of food by the time he arrives in Zhaozhuang.

Standing on the ridge of the field, Li Wencai raised his eyes and looked around, only to see that in front of him was an endless sea of rice, and now the rice was already yellow, and the warm wind was blowing and hula.

Li Wencai was so happy in his heart, if there were these rice, the army would not have to worry in a short time, so Li Wencai did not stop, and took more than 100 people straight to Zhaozhuang.

Came to a vacant lot in the village, the lame old Zhang held a broken gong, when the dangdang knocked randomly, the people of Zhaozhuang ran out, staring at these refugees in amazement, I don't know if this is to sing a big play, or to play monkeys and sell martial arts, since the war, where the thieves have passed, the people have been displaced, so the people of Zhaozhuang rarely go out.

Li Wencai sat behind a table of eight immortals, on which a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone were placed, and on a piece of yellow paper were written two big black characters: Receiving grain.

Looking at the people of Zhaozhuang surrounded by three layers inside and three layers outside, Li Wencai stood up suddenly, stepped on the bench with one foot, pointed to the sky with one hand, and shouted Yang Zirong, who was learning to outwit Weihu Mountain: "Folks, now the society is in turmoil, the anti-thieves are everywhere, and the people are struggling to make a living. ”

"Seeing that you are also refugees, you can't even eat, and you still come to collect our food, I really haven't seen this thing."

When the people saw that Li Wencai had come to collect grain, they felt that it was very unreliable, and it was estimated that those refugees who had escaped had come here to defraud.

"What are you going to do?" When he saw the gray-haired old man, he walked over tremblingly and asked.

"Equal interest repayment method."

"What is the equal interest repayment method?"

"That is, we collect grain at the market price, but when we repay the loan, we will pay the corresponding interest according to the amount of the principal, and then your money will increase every month."

The old man stroked his white beard and asked, "Will you give the principal now?" ”

"That's impossible, we just use the grain you invested to make more money, so we will pay you a high interest, let's put it this way, the food you give me now is worth one hundred taels, the interest rate is five percent, then you can get one hundred and sixty taels of silver next year, you are making money continuously."

"What you mean is that you don't have to take a penny, we will give you food, isn't this an empty glove white wolf?" The old man thought about it and felt that Li Wencai's goods were too fine, and the temptation was quite great, but he couldn't get a penny, so he handed over the grain for nothing, and he couldn't do it.

The old man seemed to be the head of a village, and as soon as the old man said this, everyone waved their fists and scolded Li Wencai for being a liar.

Li Wencai was very helpless, it was not possible to move the real character at the moment, so Li Wencai took out his waist card and said: "You take a good look, I am the captain of the Qin family's army, this time the Qin family's army and the anti-thieves confronted everyone in Tongguan, the reputation of the Qin family's army, you should also have heard of it, everywhere you go to the people in autumn, and now the Qin family's army is like a bamboo, it is a matter of time before the anti-thieves are exterminated, and now the Qin family army needs the help of your fathers and villagers, the army has not eaten for three days and three nights, If I can't get food back, then this people's army will have to starve to death. ”

When Li Wencai said this, his eyes blinked vigorously, squeezed out two tears, choked up and continued: "The court is mediocre and corrupt, and there is no food to the army, and the only thing we can rely on now is our people, our relationship is the relationship between lips and teeth, and the lips and teeth are cold, if the Qin army is destroyed and the thieves occupy here, then can your food still be preserved, so don't be numb anymore, open your eyes, and look at this devastated society." ”

Everyone was moved to tears by Li Wencai's sad tone, and many women couldn't help but cry when they remembered that their husbands who had joined the army had not returned.

"Don't cry, everyone, you can think about it, if you believe in the Qin family's army, you will hand over the grain first, it is a matter of time before the Qin family's army has the grain to destroy the thieves, the battle is won, the court has issued a reward, and the Qin family's army will repay the loan one by one according to the amount of food everyone pays, and it is a lot more than now, one hundred taels can become one hundred and sixteen taels, you can sit at home and drink tea every day, don't you even have this vision?"

Li Wencai took out his seal and said, "With my captain's seal, General Qin will definitely pay back the money when the time comes, so please rest assured." ”

Li Wencai is a traverser in the end, such a transaction method has never been seen in the Ming Dynasty, and Li Wencai made a transaction with the people in the name and reputation of the Qin family, and the one who benefited the most from it was Li Wencai himself, and the five thousand taels of silver tickets were in hand, so Li Wencai was happy.

"We'll go back and talk about it." Although Li Wencai's words were very moving, rice is something that the people rely on for survival, and no one can have the final say in this matter, so the old man took the people of Zhaozhuang towards the village.

"Damn, you dead old pig brain, my brother has said this, what are you hesitating about, can this work, I will pay a certain deposit first, this is my bottom line." Li Wencai climbed onto the table of the Eight Immortals and shouted at the old man.

None of the people in Zhaozhuang took care of Li Wencai, which made Li Wencai a little disappointed, these hillbillies didn't know what a good investment was in front of them, they all missed it, it was too visionless.

Li Wencai was angry, and the lame old Zhang came over with a group of minions in the barracks, and asked cautiously: "Captain Li, we want to invest, if I invest fifty copper plates, will I be able to get eighty next year?" ”

Li Wencai glanced at everyone with disdain and shouted, "Get out of here." ”

A group of minions scattered in a hurry, scolding and scolding in their mouths, Captain Li has such an opportunity to make a fortune to others and not to his subordinates, it is really too cold-blooded.

Just when there was no result in the grain collection, the scout 'Jade-faced Flying Fish' Bai Wuchang ran back, Bai Wuchang was a scout carefully selected by Li Wencai, the young man's 100-meter score was less than ten seconds, which was not comparable to ordinary people, I saw Bai Wuchang panting and said: "A troop of anti-thieves has come towards Zhaozhuang, and it seems that there are almost more than 200 people." ”

Li Wencai sat down on the table of the Eight Immortals in a dejected manner, now he is angry, anxious and afraid, with mixed tastes, whether to leave or stay This is a question worth pondering.

"Tell the people of Zhaozhuang the news, and the rest of the people will all follow me, and the women will stay where they are." Of the more than 100 people, all but 20 women, old and young, did not go.

After the reorganization of the logistics troops, although the force is stronger, but the overall combat effectiveness is not strong, Li Wencai climbed in the grass and looked down on the outskirts of Zhaozhuang, a large area of black pressure, not to mention more than 200 people, and it should be the enemy's elite troops, the first few tall horses sat on the leader wearing silver armor, and behind were the soldiers pulling the carriage, judging from the equipment of these people, they were directly grabbing grain.

"It's so shameless, I actually robbed the people's food, I knew this, I just grabbed it first." After Li Wencai crawled in the grass and observed, he said angrily.

"Their direction is the rice fields of Zhaozhuang, if the grain is robbed by them, aren't we here in vain?" The lame old Zhang said worriedly.

"Sharpen the knife and don't cut the wood, let's not be in a hurry, let the brothers prepare some flammable oil, as well as bows and crossbows and arrows, and listen to my arrangement at that time." Li Wenai was not nervous at all, lying on the grass, still holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth, closing his eyes and recuperating.

The old village chief ran over, yes, it was the one who ran over, Li Wencai was also very surprised, an old man who was too old could run so fast, the old village chief was really anxious, and came to Li Wencai and knelt down and said: "Your lord's army is a brave army, these thieves are going to rob us of our food, you can help us quickly." ”

"It's not a shame to cry like this, I have something to say." Li Wencai helped the old man up.

Li Wencai was very nervous now, and said to the old man on tiptoe: "I told you a long time ago that these anti-thieves would come to rob them, and you coaxed them to think about it again, but now it's okay, the anti-thieves won't give you time to think about it." ”

"We've all decided to sell it to you, as long as you can get the food back from the thieves." The old man was sweating profusely.

"How can the grain we snatch from the thieves be yours, and when the time comes, don't we suffer a big loss if we spend money to buy this food?" Li Wencai rolled his eyes and said.

When the old man heard this, he almost didn't have a heart attack while holding his heart, it was too shameless, and this surname Li was not a good thing.

Li Wencai saw that the old man was not convinced, so he sat cross-legged with the old man and said: "We have something to discuss, don't be angry, otherwise who will be responsible for hurting the body, what I said is not bad, let me make an analogy, I went to a store and asked for a bowl of hot noodles, and the boss brought a bowl of hot noodles, but I said that I wanted cold noodles instead, so the boss changed to cold noodles, I left after eating, do you say that the boss should ask me for money?" ”

"Of course, you ate other people's noodles."

"You're not right, first of all, I didn't eat the hot noodles, and I exchanged the cold noodles for the hot noodles, so I shouldn't have paid for them, right?"

The old man was a little confused, scratching his head and couldn't think of a reason, according to Li Wencai's statement, he really shouldn't pay, but this product ate other people's noodles for nothing, what's going on. Li Wencai smiled proudly, you see our IQ, so he patted the old man's shoulder and said, "As long as your people from Zhaozhuang can fully cooperate with us to fight the thieves this time, our previous agreement will still take effect." ”

The old man was overjoyed, stood up and said, "I, the people of Zhaozhuang, completely obey the dispatch of Captain Li. ”

This book was first published in Reading Book Worm