Chapter 3: Merit

"Money, money!"

"Childe, it's time for you to drink the medicine."

"Well, put it down and cool it down, I'll drink it later."

“......”

In the solid wood cabin, Green Yi watched his son-in-law turn around in front of him on the left and right, and couldn't help pursing his lips:

"Childe, the medicine won't taste good if it's cold."

"Delicious? Medicine? ”

patted his head, Lan Li picked up the ginseng soup on the table and drank it all: "Ha, green clothes, you said that if I proposed to our emperor and said to open a glass skylight for his purple and gold hall, would your son-in-law be scolded to death by the world's scholars?" ”

"Childe.... Is the task over there in Wudang really so urgent? ”

"It's okay, what can be done with money is not a problem for your son-in-law."

"Then you ....."

"The key is that your son-in-law's purse is almost empty? In the past few years, a sum of money has been put down, and the supply has not been interrupted, even if our family is a banknote printing factory, it can't withstand such a squander, right? ”

Green's eyes widened, and he began to pick up his fingers and calculate.

Seeing that she was calculating, Lan Li didn't mess around, just looked at her with a smile.

A forty-year-old woman, showing a girlish posture, still looks so natural, this is of course a rare beauty in the world.

"This year, the ministry spent 37 million dollars to develop the Yunmeng area.

Calling on the people to repair the outdated water conservancy measures in the Heze area cost another 19 million dollars.

Our Emperor Wu City supports 230,000 garrisons, and because there is no need to replace armaments this year, the military expenditure is only 17 million yuan.

From last year to this year, a total of 73 million coins have been released......

Plus the commission that Wudang needs this year......"

The more she calculated, the worse her face became, and by the time she calculated the development funds of the craftsman camp, she was already aggrieved and was about to cry.

"Childe...."

"Well, here it is."

"We have no money...."

"Of course there is no money, not only is there no money, but my Lan family also owes a debt of 40 million yuan to the Chamber of Commerce, which needs to be repaid by the fall of next year."

"Hmm.... Why don't the slaves ask someone to run to the west of Kunlun Mountain again, catch more slaves and come back to sell them for money? ”

"Ahem, cough, cough.... Don't panic, money or anything is a trivial matter. ”

Seeing that Green Yi was really worried, Lan Li smiled and comforted.

In fact, it is quite interesting to calculate it like this occasionally, as the 'creditor' and the largest debtor in the entire Nanzhan Continent, the cash in hand of the Donghai Lan clan has never exceeded 100 million.

This is an extremely unhealthy economic system!

Especially in recent years, as Wudang came forward to order Lan Li to do some deeds of 'benefiting the country and the people' to revitalize the declining economy of Nanzhan Buzhou after the rise of the Daqian Dynasty, the Lan clan of the East China Sea, a huge organization that almost dominated the flow of money in Nanzhan Buzhou, was squeezed dry to the extent of debt!

Even though the slave trading market between Nanzhan Buzhou and Chixian Shenzhou has flourished in recent years, one after another goods have been handed over, and the materials that have just arrived will be drained at a very fast speed to make up for the debts owed by various constructions on weekdays.

In other words, it is easy to understand, that is, Lan Li, a rich boy who used to spend a lot of money, suddenly found that he had no money after becoming a small half of the family in Nanzhan Buzhou!

This is really not a good family, I don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive.

In a few years, Lan Li also understood why the Southern Song Dynasty was rich to that extent, but there were still a large number of refugees who could not eat enough and needed relief.

It's a very simple principle, but you can't understand it without getting involved.

People are born unequal!

Four years ago, when the Pengze Lake flooded and 200,000 victims' property was flooded by the flooded waterways, Da Qian and the Lan family mobilized a total of 1 million yuan in finance to help the disaster.

But in reality?

Three months after the disaster, 57,000 people died of starvation!

At that time, after Lan Li saw the information brought up by Zuo Zhong, the whole person was stunned.

What about the money?

You must know that the coins of Lan's merchants are really linked to prices!

One penny is equal to one stone of grain!

One million dollars, one million stone of grain, converted into a modern unit of denomination, that is 120 million catties of wheat!

How is it enough to use 120 million catties of grain to help more than 200,000 victims?

So.... What about money?

Lan Li thought that someone had embezzled the disaster relief money, and asked someone to contact Daqian to express his dissatisfaction.

But here's the turning point!

The officials in charge of the disaster relief in Hongze Lake, from top to bottom, no one felt that they were corrupt, and even went to the Emperor Qianhuang to sue Lan Li for slandering good officials! It has hurt the hearts of thousands of officials who have worked hard to provide disaster relief!!

Because of this letter, which was signed by thousands of officials, Lan Li made a special trip to Hongze, but finally found that what they said was actually true!!

No one is greedy!

It's just that these officials have to eat themselves, right? It's not wrong that they have to eat meat every once in a while, right? There is nothing wrong with the need for trucks, horses, and labor to provide relief to the victims, right?

I was a third-grade member of the imperial court, and the carriage and horses traveled thousands of miles, and people ate horses and chewed along the way.....

The inn and everything are flooded, you can't let the daughter of the family nibble on the same cake as the victims, right?

But no one cares about the bills for such a pen, and one million dollars is used for disaster relief, and less than sixty percent of the money and food distributed to the victims are distributed!

That's not all!

The food received from the disaster relief is distributed to the victims, and there will be scrambles and scrambles among these extremely hungry victims, and even if you receive the food in the morning and sleep in the evening, the food you put around you will be lost the next day......

There were also people who had a bulging stomach to eat, and even more who had enough to eat and had the strength to gang up and rob.

On the contrary, it doesn't work to persuade them, as soon as you move the knife, people will shout at the government to kill people!

None of the officers and soldiers in charge of the suppression paid attention, and the group of people disappeared into the sea of victims, and it was not easy to find them.

One by one, if you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have thought that human nature would be so bad?

Why?

Because human nature is inherently evil?

Lan Li doesn't believe this!

The essence of human beings is the same as that of animals, and even animals can be domesticated to gratitude, how can people not be?

Therefore, since then, the book clubs opened by the Lan family have spread to every county in the entire Daqian territory.

Floods are easy to overflow, so cure the water!

The weather is prone to drought, so then drain the canal!

Goods are not easy to circulate, so build roads!

It's easy to freeze to death when it's cold, so plant cotton!

After a large amount of money was smashed, in the past two years, the natural disasters in Daqian have indeed eased a lot.

But if you want to say that you don't starve people to death, that's completely impossible.

This is a big project, and it cannot be done in a short period of time.

But Daqian and the Lan clan of the East China Sea have been squeezed out of their finances in just a few years.

And the harvest in exchange .....

Lying on the soft couch, Lan Li squinted her eyes, enjoying the massage in green clothes, and the whole person was about to float up.

Stoned.

The more money he spends, the happier he is!

Isn't money just for spending when you earn it?

As for the people in the world scolding him or something, is that still a matter?

Lan Li is thick-skinned enough!

Feel free to scold!

"Childe."

"Hmm...."

"Why don't we slow down the exploration of the East China Sea this year?"

"I don't need it."

"The construction of the dam on the other side of the Napei River ....."

"Keep repairing, you can't stop."

"But our money ....."

"If the money is not enough, we will print it again, but since we have done this thing for the benefit of the country and the people, we must do it to the end."

"Childe, I have to mean, the immortal slows down, prints money.... This is not child's play! ”

When the green clothes heard this, their expressions were crying and laughing, what happened to their son-in-law?

Lan's coins are attached to food and materials, and their own sons have guaranteed the Great Qiandi Emperor, if the silver money cannot be exchanged, everyone is welcome to take the coins to empty the Wudi City.....

Emperor Wu City was emptied or something, but Green Yi was not worried, and it was estimated that no one would really think about it.

But if the coins of the Lan family money village can't be exchanged for a pair, it will be a financial crisis that has swept the entire Nanzhan Buzhou, and countless people who use the Lan family's coins will suffer.

People will use your things when they believe in you, how can you disappoint those who trust you?

Although Green Yi didn't know why his son-in-law coined the term 'financial crisis', Green Yi definitely didn't want the credibility of his bank to go bankrupt.

"What's the matter?"

Lan Li, who was lying on the bed, turned over, looked at the green clothes who were staring at him with a smile, and said with a smile: "The coins issued by our Lan family are indeed not suitable for overprinting, because if they are printed too much, they will be jointly squeezed."

But do you think, at the moment, who will squeeze my Lan family's money at this juncture?

Is it the people who are building the project, or the merchants, families, military households, and royal families who are eager to deposit those pieces of paper in the bank? ”

"The slave is stupid, I can't talk about you!"

"Rest assured, if the big ship of the Lan family capsizes, the entire economic system of Nanzhan Buzhou will be blown up, and everyone will not allow such a thing to happen."

"But Childe, you said that there are only so many things produced in this world, and our money is printed a lot, but can the materials be conjured out of thin air......

"So, this is to consume the credibility of my Lan family again to those who have materials left at home..... Oh, as long as your son-in-law and I don't make the world angry, no one will come to ask for debts. ”

"It's good if you know it in your heart, and the slave family won't fight you anymore."

"Uh-huh....."

"What about Wudang Mountain this year?"

"When I go back, I'll take a trip to Wudang in person."

"Oh."

Hearing this, Green Yi nodded stupidly, and when she saw Lan Li staring at her with a funny look, she couldn't help but push Lan Li.

"Son, you have become bad, you obviously know it in your heart, and you still say it to scare people."

"Hahaha....."

Lan Li only laughed when he heard this.

Finance or something, if it were the world in his memory, then he would definitely not be able to understand it.

But the current world?

I'm sorry! He's the one who makes the rules!

How to play this game, and how to play it, can only be said in the land of Nanzhan Buzhou!

In this regard, not to mention the opponents, even those positions on Wudang Mountain, and the many 'pavilion elders' in the Zijin Palace, can only be silent in the face of the Lan family's money village that is blooming everywhere.

It's not that no one wants to build their own money bank like the Lan family, but in the face of the Lan family's money bank, which almost completely benefits the people of the world, how can they target it?

Learn from the Lan family and give benefits to the people?

I can't afford to play!!

This emerging kingdom itself is a dynasty that was established with great difficulty with the support of the Immortal Cultivation Sect, and the reason why the system of the dynasty was able to be established was that seventy percent of the help came from Wudang Mountain.... Or the East China Sea Lan Clan?

For the Great Song Dynasty of the previous dynasty, apart from inheriting some land, county officials, and officials, there was nothing left.

The Northern Expeditionary Army, the Central Forbidden Army, and the troops stationed on the Yangtze River Defense Line have all become real warlords, or the kind of rebels who neither listen to tunes nor listen to propaganda!

These people are not so much the army as the local forces.

Or to put it simply, the subordinate forces of those martial arts remnants!

There is no way to eradicate it.

Even those 'immortal masters' from Chixian Shenzhou were unwilling to provoke this group of people, and Daqian was naturally powerless.

Even these big cadres can't deal with it, let alone the almost blatant 'buying people's hearts' Donghai Bo!

As for the fact that Donghai Bo obviously had no intention of taking the throne, why he would buy the hearts of the people in the world, the immortal masters of Chixian Shenzhou gave the answer.

Because of merit!

It is said that the Count of the East China Sea has gone wrong in his cultivation, and if he wants to go further, he can only accumulate merit by doing more good deeds, so that he can continue to improve in his cultivation.

It is precisely because of this that he will spend a huge amount of money to do these things that 'work the people and hurt the money'.

Everyone knows this statement, but it is just to add some blockage to the heart of Donghai Bo.

People have really done good deeds.

Except for the 'toilet paper' that makes everyone in the world feel insulting, the rest of the things are all for the benefit of the country and the people.

Can doing good deeds accumulate merit?

Doesn't it mean that merit can only be accumulated by doing good deeds without intention?

If you don't succeed, you have to create a word, a book, a medical system, or something, and contribute to the world, right?

Faced with the problems of the officials of the Great Qian Dynasty, the immortal masters were speechless.

Merit is a new type of thing that comes out after the merger of the worlds because the world has been promoted.

They cultivators themselves haven't figured it out yet, and they can only learn from some news passed down from the Light Spirit Immortal Realm that merit is beneficial to cultivation, and as for how to obtain something, it is a cloud of people.

Anyway, on the side of the Light Spirit Immortal Realm, that is, you can get merit by doing good deeds, and as for the amount of merit obtained, the Light Spirit Immortal Realm did not give an accurate word.

But there is one point, the Light Spirit Immortal Realm has given a clear answer.

That is, you can't kill people with great merit, otherwise you will be punished by heaven, and you will also affect your family and sect!