116 The mysterious half-tael gold
The self-deprecation of the old man Wangcai made Liuhuo a little embarrassed, and even Yang Fan's face was a little sneering. Looking at the old man's honest smiling face, Yang Fan felt that he was very rude just now.
At this time, Pang Bucket had already admired the five-body throw. I thought to myself, this is the major shareholder, this is the real big businessman, no wonder the masters say that the people in the half tael gold are dogs. I thought it was just a joke, but I really knew the meaning of this sentence when I met the major shareholders today.
We are all watchdogs, but what we guard is the world's possessions, endless money.
This is the momentum of a big businessman.
The old man smiled and waved his hand behind him, and after a while, ten wooden boxes were carried in. When the box was opened, the golden light shimmered all over the room.
"Lord Liuhuo, this time we came in a hurry, and we didn't prepare any good gifts, so we had to get this little mundane thing as a meeting gift, here are 100,000 gold coins, please smile..."
"Old man, I explained in advance, this is a meeting gift, whether our business can be negotiated or not, this is for adults..."
"Oops, I also know that this gift is a little meager, in fact, I should send some magic weapon materials or something to adults, but unfortunately the time is a little tighter, and I can only use this little thing to talk about my heart..."
Liuhuo stared at the surging wealth and smiled lightly.
"The elder gave it, and he didn't dare to resign. Now that the old gentleman has spoken, of course I have to laugh..."
When the old man Wangcai heard this, he said with a smile, "My lord is happy, he is really a disciple of Liu Lao, and this bearing is definitely the true inheritance of Liu Lao..."
Flowing Fire suddenly waved his hand at him, stood up, and stretched out his hand to ask.
"Since the old gentleman is here, then don't be polite, how about we take a look at the snow in the back garden?
Wangcai's eyes lit up suddenly, and he quickly got up and followed the flowing fire to the back garden.
The small garden in the mine is still left over from the reign of Tian Fei. Tian Fei himself is not an elegant person, and there are chaotic mines around him, and he has not designed it with much care, so this small garden is really not interesting.
However, the two of them were not thinking about the flowers, stepping on the thin snow, and chatting casually without saying a word.
Liuhuo stood beside Lamei and suddenly spoke.
"Old man, I have come from all over the world, and I admit it. However, if we want to continue this business, we still have to be open and honest..."
"I don't know, what does the old gentleman think of the reasons for borrowing that I mentioned?"
The old man smiled, "Since the adults are happy, I have nothing to say." Those excuses of adults are all nonsense, and even three-year-olds can't deceive them. But there's a big truth in the nonsense..."
"Oh, I wonder what the old gentleman has seen?"
"Just two words, recruitment... My lord borrowed money just for the 20,000 soldiers, I don't know if I'm right?"
As soon as I heard it, I was fine, half a tael of gold was really talented, and I could see at a glance that I was.
The old man Wangcai ignored Liuhuo's surprised eyes, and said to himself.
"We are half a tael of gold, and we do business all over the world, especially the business of Hehuamen. Ever since the adults came to prominence at the Hundred Flowers Fair, we've been paying attention to them..."
"So, what kind of nonsense like gold brick paving, it's better for adults to say less in the future, no one believes it at all"
"As for the development of both sides of Peishui, let alone borrowing money, with the great talent of Mr. Bai under the adult, there is no need for much money at all, and Peishui will naturally prosper..."
"The only thing that can be explained is the only way to recruit troops. 5,000,000 gold coins, in exchange for 20,000 elites. If I'm not mistaken, the soldiers you want are definitely not ordinary soldiers, so I can be sure that you definitely have a secret in your hands now, a secret that needs to devour a lot of money..."
Having said this, Liuhuo couldn't help but gasp, this is really an old man, and he can hit the heart by guessing.
But the next words made the flow of fire even more surprised.
"Your plan is big, and your plan is definitely not small. To put it mildly, through our analysis, the adult is actually a cautious person, a very introverted person, who will not open his mouth to borrow money, let alone talk about any big truths..."
"With the character of an adult, one mouth costs 5 million gold coins, and he is forced to lie. What does this mean? This means that you need at least 10 million gold coins, which means that your plan must be very large..."
"Forgive the little old man for talking too much, do you want to be self-reliant? Do you already have the capital to be self-reliant? Is that the monster that swallows gold?"
This nasty fire was completely convinced, he really couldn't imagine that these people's noses would be so smart, and he was about to touch the truth from so many clues.
Flowing Fire pondered for a moment and asked.
"You've said so much, but you haven't said what you can give me? And what do you want to get? I don't believe in the nonsense that 100,000 gold coins are just a gift..."
The old man laughed all at once.
"Haha, adults really underestimate us, 100,000 gold coins are really nothing to us, if you say it's a meeting gift, that's a meeting gift..."
"As for the first question of my lordship, I can answer you unequivocally. We won't lend you 5 million, we'll give you 10 million, and with the strength of the adults, I can increase the amount to 20 million or even higher..."
"As for what we want?"
Speaking of this, Wangcai suddenly knelt in the snow with a pop.
"We just want that the big ship, my lord, can have a place for us for half a tael of gold..."
Liuhuo dragged him two or three times, but he didn't pull the old man up, and finally Liuhuo scolded angrily
"You hurry up and get out of here, if you do this again, you get out of here, and don't talk about the rest of the matter..."
When Wangcai heard that he wanted to talk about the rest of the matter, he jumped up like a spring, and said with a smile on his face.
"Listen to the adults, listen to the adults..."
Liuhuo led him into his study, and after letting the servant serve hot tea, he asked.
"You keep saying that you want to get on my boat, but although my boat is small, it's not so good, you'd better tell the truth and give me a thorough understanding, or you will go back with your money..."
Wangcai took a sip of hot tea, drove away the cold in his body a little, and opened his mouth to make sense.
"The history of our half-tael gold existence in the Zhongzhou Continent is no longer examinable. People in the world say that we have a lot of wealth, but in fact, their views are one-sided. It's not like we're singing a high note, I can tell you the truth, we haven't made a profit for three years, and we have to lose more than 5 million gold coins every year..."
"But we, the shareholders, have never been worried about losing money, and we are even proud of losing money. Maybe adults don't understand, but it's really not easy to understand. Let me put it more in layman's terms, what we are pursuing is not an increase in wealth, what we are pursuing is a kind of control over the world business field..."
"Yes, it's control. As long as the control is still in our hands, no matter how much we lose, we will always be the boss and the master..."
"The money we lose will not disappear in a vacuum, it will exist in various forms in the commercial system, although the ownership is written in the name of other merchants, but we have control of the entire commercial system, then these are not our money, it is no different from ours..."
"It's a mouthful, but the truth is very simple..."
"Half a tael of gold actually exists for this kind of control, and with us, the business system in this world will not collapse. If we are too prosperous, we will beat it, and if we are too weak, we will support it, so that the world will be balanced a little, and the money we make is actually just hard money..."
"But in the past few decades, we have felt a trace of unease, we suddenly found that there are many unstable factors in this social order, maybe adults don't know, just last year, there were no less than 30 riots of thousands of people in Chu State, many of which were suppressed with the help of the Creation Gate, and the royal family of Chu State looked majestic, but in fact, it had already leaked on all sides..."
"You are an awakened person from above, and your understanding of the secular world may not be deep. And we, the merchants in half a tael of gold, have seen countless changes of dynasties, countless prosperous times, and countless declines in thousands of years. To put it mildly, in grasping the general trend of the rise and fall of the world, none of us can compare..."
"The current Zhongzhou Continent is already sitting on the crater, in fact, it should have erupted a long time ago, but there was a Creation Gate that forcibly suppressed it, and this controlled the situation..."
"But now, the situation in the Creation Gate is not optimistic, he is about to become a powder keg, how can he control this big volcano in the world?"
"Don't argue with me, you know better than anyone else the intrigue in the Creation Gate, and from a pessimistic point of view, splitting is only a matter of time."
"As for the mortal world, not to mention, the annexation of land and wealth has reached a heinous level, and if it weren't for the suppression of the Creation Gate, the revolution would have come a long time ago..."
"Don't blame us for being ruthless, we really hope that the revolution will come sooner, the sooner this big volcano erupts, the less destructive it will be, and the more it suppresses the future, the more ferocious it will be..."
"In fact, the world is like this, everything is just reincarnation. When a new dynasty is born, there can always be a glorious prosperity on thousands of corpses, the reason is very simple, the previous violent revolution has reshuffled the wealth of the world, everyone has a bargaining chip, since everyone has to play, there is not so much envy, jealousy and hatred, in this social environment, if there is no prosperous world, it is hell..."
"But when a dynasty grows old, people suddenly find that the chips in people's hands are suddenly not so fair, some people play more, some people lose less and less, and the balance has been broken. The more this phenomenon develops, the more serious it becomes, until eventually, the contradiction between the destitute and the extravagant becomes irreconcilable, and then the tipping point arises again. The flames of revolution began to burn brightly..."
"Repeat the cycle, never stop..."