As early as in the morning, Song Nan went to see Zhengde, and he needed to ask Zhengde's consent about fundraising. Gritting his teeth and having a showdown, it is not too difficult to spend millions of taels of silver on the expedition. But Song Nan understands that if everyone is forced to take private money and throw it into this bottomless pit, there may be variables.

In the final analysis, the marquis who is standing with him now is still tied up in interests, they care about their own interests far more than any national plan, when this court officially becomes a force of two factions, Song Nan never wants discordant voices in his camp.

The only way to solve this problem is to raise funds on a large scale, and the purchase of so-called war bonds is actually a kind of financing in disguise.

The advantage of this is to completely separate this matter from the imperial court, so that Yang Tinghe and others completely lose the ability to meddle in this matter. But the disadvantage of this is that if there is a mistake in the issuance of bonds in Song Nan's private name in the future, Song Nan's reputation among the people will be ruined, unless Song Nan can earn all the principal and interest raised in this year, otherwise this big hole debt will completely make Song Nan the object of scolding by tens of millions of people.

In view of this, in addition to Zhengde allowing Song Nan to raise war bonds, Song Nan also asked Zhengde to agree to a condition for himself. The condition is that since the imperial court in the war to recapture the Hetao is unable to pay the military salaries and it is resolved by Song Nan himself, then if the battle is won, all the spoils should belong to Song Nan, and the captured weapons, armor, and war horses need to be paid by the imperial court if they are to be put into storage, otherwise Song Nan will have to contact Goryeo or other subject countries in the west and south to sell these equipment and materials at a large price.

In the face of Song Nan's request, Zhengde could not refuse, in the final analysis, Song Nan did this qiē for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, although in the depths of Zhengde's heart, he did not want to continue to fight, but if Song Nan can succeed in seizing the Hetao, it will be a great initiative for him to surpass the emperors of the previous dynasties. Even if you are mediocre and virtuous, you also have the heart to win and be strong.

After getting Zhengde's permission, Song Nan carefully prepared this play, and sent people to quickly print a large number of blank bonds in the format he designed, and set up a high platform in the white paper workshop, making it look like the scene of the township in later generations. In order to increase trust, Song Nan had to go out in person, and he personally signed and stamped his fingerprints on each bond, which was to make this ritual thing to the extreme. In these days, everyone believes in this, and the big seal and mudra are a kind of promise, which has the force of law, so as to dispel the concerns of the people.

In order to make things go smoothly, Song Nan had to shamelessly ask for childcare, the old man and the young man were the childcare arranged by himself, the old man was the father-in-law of Zhao Dapeng of the Jinyi Wei Guard's Battalion, and the young scholar was Zhu Changping, who enlisted in the army from Lingzhou and rewarded the flag officer.

After the method worked, the people flocked to buy bonds, and from the evening to the second watch, Song Nan's hands kept signing and pressing the handprints to stamp the big seal, and he was so busy that he didn't even drink a sip of water, until the guards around him reminded Song Nan: "It's dark at night, it's time for Grandpa Guo to rest, and it's not too late to come back tomorrow to do things." ”

Song Nan realized that it was late at night before he knew it. Hundreds of wind lanterns were hung in the whole square, illuminating as if it were daytime, and I was so busy with affairs that I didn't even notice it.

A master walked to the front of the stage and said to the hundreds of people in the audience: "Grandpa Guo has ordered, today is the end, tomorrow is early." Due to the urgency of the war, the sale of bonds will be stopped after two days tomorrow, because the grandfather of the country wants to purchase materials, grain and grass to rush to the battlefield, and please tell each other. ”

Only then did the people slowly disperse, and the guards who were on guard around the square also gathered on the left side of the high platform to be on guard.

Song Nan stretched his waist, saw the food box beside him, and suddenly felt hungry and growled, picked it up and looked, the food was already cold, and he vaguely remembered that this was a meal sent by someone in the house, and he was so busy that he even forgot to eat.

"The result?" Song Nan asked with a sour arm.

"Look, grandpa." After a master opened it. The curtain of the stage, the situation inside is smacking.

A large basket of scattered silver is piled together like turnips and cabbages, and there are all kinds of shapes, some are large ingots, some are small black broken silver, roughly counting, there are dozens of baskets. There was also a small iron box with five or six stacks of silver tickets neatly stacked, neatly arranged according to the size of the amount.

"One hundred and thirty-six thousand eight hundred and thirty-two taels of silver. The silver ticket is 397,000 taels, a total of 533,832 taels, this is the account book, please take a look at it. The chief master with leaky teeth crackled the abacus beads, and then handed over the running account and the summary amount.

Song Nan hurriedly glanced at it, and secretly smacked his tongue in his heart, he had already raised more than 500,000 taels in just three or four hours, and it was really not a lie that the people in the capital were rich, at this rate, at least more than three million taels could be raised in the next two days, which would be enough for the expenses of this march. Song Nan had already settled accounts with Yang Yi, if he marched with 50,000 soldiers and horses, and if he marched with one qiē shun lì, the cost of silver by the end of the war would only be two million, and the excess would be counted as an occasional need.

"Grandpa is really in good shape, and the old man can't move anymore. The grandfather has to sign and press his handprints again, if he is old, I am afraid that all the bones of his body will be scattered. The chief master complimented inadvertently.

Song Nan smiled: "How many bonds have you subscribed for?" ”

The master flipped through the account books to find them, and said with a smile: "Three thousand one hundred and nineteen." ”

Song Nan nodded slightly, the average amount of each bond is more than 100 taels, it is quite good, if all of them are bonds of one or two taels, then I am afraid that I will be exhausted. There are dozens of thousands of taels of bonds in his memory, these guys are not good-looking on weekdays, and they are just ordinary people walking on the street, if he doesn't take out so many silver tickets, how can he know that he has such a net worth?

"Everyone, I have worked hard, today I am the east, you go to the restaurant to use wine and food, these silver and silver tickets, Zhao Dapeng took all the people to Yang Yiqing's mansion to pay with him, he will purchase food and materials tomorrow, tell him, tomorrow night please take Miss Yang to my mansion for a banquet to discuss things."

Song Nan spoke, walked down the wooden ladder on the right, walked slowly in a messy clearing, raised his head, looked at the bright moon in the sky, and breathed a long sigh of relief, his mood was very calm. Originally, I was worried that this matter might not succeed, but now it seems that most of it has been successful, and as soon as the problem of money and food is solved, the army will soon be able to open up and recover the Hetao, which is exactly what I have been trying to accomplish in my heart for several months.

"Grandpa Guo, a girl sent a note just now. Son, you are busy running errands, and the humble duty does not dare to disturb you. Zhao Dapeng suddenly remembered this, jumped down directly from the stage and came to Song Nan's side, and handed over the note.

Song Nan took it and unfolded it, and there was a line of words written lightly on it: "Prepare a little thin wine tonight, please come to the cottage for a few drinks, I don't know if it is abrupt?" Concubine Fengtong characters. ”

Song Nan smiled dumbly, it turned out to be a small note from Zhu Fengtong inviting him to her house to drink, and Zhu Fengtong's noble and beautiful face appeared in front of him, and his heart couldn't help but feel hot.

"When was it delivered?" Song Nan said.

Zhao Dapeng scratched his head and said: "The sun has not yet set and it was sent, damn it, it's bad for the adult?" ”

Song Nan chirped: "This is an invitation to invite me to drink, it is useful to give me before dinner, but now that it is the second watch, people must have missed the appointment because I missed the appointment, and I didn't send a letter to others." You have fallen me into injustice. ”

Zhao Dapeng boldly whispered: "If the master's family is sincere, it is not too late to go now." ”

Song Nan thought about it, suddenly smiled, nodded and said, "It's very true, the host doesn't know if he is sincere, maybe he will eat a closed door." But what you said makes sense, I'd better go to the appointment anyway. You take someone to clean up here, arrange things, don't go on a business trip, I'm going to drink. ”

Zhao Dapeng arched his hand and said: "The adults are at their own convenience, and they will be ordered to escort the adults." ”

Song Nan waved his hand and said, "No need, what else do you have to escort in the capital, take me on a horse, and I'll go by myself." By the way, when you go back to my house to deliver a letter, you will say...... He said that I had not finished my official business, and I was afraid that I would not return home until very late. ”

Zhao Dapeng nodded yes, someone had already led the horse, Song Nan turned over and got on the horse, the sound of hooves was crisp, and disappeared into the streets and alleys.

Zhao Dapeng turned his head and said in a low voice: "It's quite similar, who doesn't know that it was Miss Zhu who invited you to go, can you still hide those things from our brothers?" ”