'The One Lord? Song Duanping secretly spoke, and said in his heart, where is His Majesty the Emperor? No wonder they didn't dare to read it in the language of the Celestial Empire.

After the prayer was over, everyone sat down, and Bai Yiju also returned to Chen Ke and the others. Song Duanping asked him curiously, what was he praying for.

Bai Yiju smiled and said, "Praise God's prayer." He did not want to go into details, so he introduced the two of them to the etiquette for a while: "According to the scriptures, our ancestor Abram was circumcised at the age of ninety-nine, at the behest of God. God also told the ancestors that men from generation to generation would be circumcised on the eighth day of their birth. The sign that a Jew has come to practice Judaism begins with the ritual of circumcision. From this day on, the newborn baby enters into a covenant with God and becomes a servant of God. ”

"So, circumcision is equivalent to the burning of Buddhist disciples?" Song Duanping suddenly said: "Then how exactly do you salute?" ”

"Just look at it." Chen Ke glanced at him and said with a smile: "If you feel good, I will also help you cut it when you go back." ”

Bai Yiju covered his mouth and snickered, Song Duanping knew that Chen Ke was playing tricks again, so he smiled and didn't speak, and watched the ceremony officially begin......

After the prayer, an ornate soft chair was carried into the church.

Another Leye brought a table, on which was covered with clean cotton cloth, and on which was placed a basin of silver boxes. The old man in the white robe, the rabbi of the Joy Man, walked up to the table and began to carefully clean his hands.

A baby boy who is about to be circumcised is wrapped in clean swaddling clothes. Bai Yaming, who was wearing a pure white prayer towel with black stripes at the bottom, held his youngest son in one hand and a scripture book in the other, with a pious face, without the cunning of a businessman.

After washing his hands, the rabbi pressed the scriptures of Bai Yaming with his left hand and spoke Hebrew.

After he finished speaking, Bai Yaming wagged the back of his hand and humbly replied in Hebrew.

Song Duanping looked at Chen Ke again, he thought that this guy could understand, but who knew that Chen Ke knew that in addition to a few daily words, he knew that the classic prayer just now couldn't understand Bai Yaming's muttering at the moment.

Fortunately, Bai Yiju acted as an interpreter: "You Jews, men from generation to generation, whether born in the family, bought from outsiders with silver from outside your descendants, will be circumcised on the eighth day of your birth. The uncircumcised man must be cut off from among his people, because he has broken my covenant. These are the words of the rabbi.

"Praise be to you, our God. Thou hast sanctified us with thy oracles, and thou hast commanded our children to enter into the covenant of my father Abraham, and to be a good Jew who keeps his promises......" These were the words of Patrick Jamin, and he stopped as he spoke, and the other Jews in the synagogue recited with him.

Then, Bai Yaming put the baby on the chair, and another old man stepped forward to pick up the baby, and then sat down. Another elderly man stood on the edge of a chair, waiting for the baby to be circumcised.

Bai Yiju said that standing was his father and the child's grandfather Lao Bai, and sitting was the child's grandfather and their patriarch Li Wei.

At this moment, the rabbi walked up to the baby wearing a prayer towel, and the swaddling clothes were opened, revealing the young body in front of everyone.

The next scene that happened stunned Xiao Song - I saw Narabi open the silver box, first use a white sè yào ointment, smear it on the child's small **, and then use a small silver sè iron tool with one hand to pick up the front end of the baby's foreskin, and with the other hand, use a shiny and sharp knife to cut off the front end of the foreskin. Then he sprinkled some yào powder on the child's wound and finally wrapped the ** with gauze...... This is almost the fastest circumcision Chen Ke has ever seen, which shows that the old gentleman has practice makes perfect.

It turns out that this is called circumcision. Song Duanping was an eye-opener. Thinking of all the men present, it is estimated that he has cut the little **, and he can't help but shudder.

After the operation, the rabbis, the priest of Judaism, began to recite the sutra with a glass of wine in hand. After a while, he turned the glass into the child's mother's hand. The child's mother, after reciting a few verses, took a small sip of wine.

At this time, the surrounding relatives and friends sang songs and stepped forward to extend their warmest congratulations to Bai Yaming's family. At this time, the circumcision was completed, the servants served sumptuous food and wine, and the feast finally began.

During the banquet, Bai Yaming, as the father of the newborn, became the protagonist, he thanked everyone for coming, and announced the baby's name, which naturally set off a wave of **.

Although the banquet of the people of Yici Le Ye is not like the Han people, there are singers singing and dancing to help the fun, but they will sing together and entertain themselves. Although he couldn't understand what they were saying or singing, Chen Ke enjoyed the intimacy. Just as he was squinting and clapping to the music, Bai Yiju whispered, "Rabi and Levi invite Brother Chen to meet in the study." ”

Chen Ke nodded, said hello to Song Duanping, and went to the study of the back house with Bai Yiju.

The back house is very quiet, and the front is like two worlds.

Levi and Rabbi...... The two old men named Li Wei and Lan Bi in Han were sitting in Confucian robes and sitting on chairs at the moment, burning incense and drinking tea, completely in the style of the Han family.

After the ceremony, the two beckoned Chen Ke to sit down, and let Bai Yiju go out.

There were only three of them left in the study, and Li Wei hugged his fist towards Chen Ke with a smile and said: "Listen to Yaming, thanks to San Lang's guidance, we have been spared huge losses, and the old man represents the whole family, thank you San Lang." ”

"It's a trivial matter, but it's not enough to worry about." Chen Ke shook his head and smiled.

The avoidance of losses mentioned by Li Wei is related to the mén way of earning wealth by a person who is happy to work...... These business-minded geniuses never run the industry, but use their keen business sense to capture the most rewarding business opportunities, and then spend a lot of money to make huge profits.

What is the most profitable at this time? The north is the return of the army, and the south is the sea trade. Needless to say, as for the return of the border army, to put it simply, the army engaged in business and production, and the Song Dynasty implemented the monopoly of key materials such as salt, iron, and wine at home to ensure fiscal revenue. Externally, an embargo on trade in strategic goods was imposed in order to weaken the strength of the enemy.

It is difficult for ordinary people to disobey the king's law, but if the army is engaged in business, it is difficult for the court to manage. In addition, in the highly commercialized society of the Song Dynasty, the officers had no future at all, and they had only one mind to make money. So nearly a hundred years after the founding of the country, the army of the Great Song Dynasty ...... In particular, the border guards of Emperor Tiangao began to sell salt, brew wine, open mines, and go to Si, specializing in business that ordinary people could not do.

Ordinary people can't imagine how lucrative this industry is. For example, when Jia Kui, the governor of Linfu Lu, was in office, he ordered the forbidden army of five people to form a guarantee, and issued a capital of 100,000 wen, 50 days for a trade cycle, allowing soldiers to go out to do business, and after 50 days, the five soldiers were responsible for paying interest to the government Jiāo 400,000 wen.

Fifty days, 400 percent of the profit, no wonder the annual income of the family army is more than 500,000 yuan.

In the most profitable business in the world, how can there be no figure of a person who gives pleasure, who provides loans to the army with abundant financial resources and makes a lot of money, which is the way to make money for a person who is happy.

However, when Chun Tianshi, Chen Ke told Bai Yaming that the imperial court was about to ban Hui Yi!

Bai Yaming didn't believe it, Chen Ke said again, this news is worth 50,000 guan, let's make a bet, if I say it right, you give me 50,000 guan, if I say it wrong, I don't want the 50,000 guan I have with you.

Bai Yaming finally believed a little, but he didn't hesitate to spend a lot of money to investigate, but he didn't get any news, and he even wondered if this was a false signal released by a competitor who wanted to seize the share and let Chen Ke release?

In the end, prudence prevailed over everything, and Bai Yaming temporarily shrank the scale of credit and cut the number of loans by half. As a result, on the first day of the eighth month, the official issued an edict that from now on, it is forbidden to send forbidden troops to participate in the return to the Yi activity! Although it is not known how long this ban will last, it is a mortal threat to the security of lenders' loans...... Many armies began to pay their debts, and lenders, large and small, suffered heavy losses.

Although the people of Yici Joy have also suffered a lot of losses, they have a lot of money, and the scale of the loan has been reduced by half, so they should be able to survive.

Bai Yaming regretted very much that he didn't listen to Chen Ke's words, and naturally he also threw himself into the five bodies that he admired, so he recommended Chen Ke to the patriarch and priests with all his might.

"I heard that Saburo has a way to be rich and rival the country?" After thanking him, Levi smiled and said, "The old man listens. ”

"I don't have the only way." Chen Ke smiled: "And there are three ways, but they are all a bit expensive." ”

"The last message was worth 50,000." Li Wei said lightly: "I will do it this time, as long as San Lang says it, the old man will pay fairly." ”

Chen Ke nodded and said: "I'll talk about the first way first, monopolize a country's finance!" ”

Li Wei's expression moved, but he didn't respond, and continued to listen to Chen Ke: "The word finance may not be incomprehensible to ordinary people. But a gift to the music industry, for the establishment of the Great Song Dynasty paper money system, you must have already experienced. ”

"I don't really understand." Levi shook his head.

"Finance in a broad sense refers to all aspects of financial integration." I only heard Chen Ke say slowly: "Finance in the narrow sense refers to the financing of credit money......"

"What is credit money?" Levi asked.

"Jiāozi is." Chen Ke said lightly.

"Hehe......" Li Wei shook his head and smiled: "San Lang is exaggerating, we have been taking care of the imperial court for thirty years, and in the end, we don't have to rely on other businesses to make money?" ”――

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Tomorrow to continue......