The voice came from outside the door, Li Chaosheng was stunned when he heard this, and then he saw an old man with a crutch and an old man.

"Uncle!"

Li Chaosheng exclaimed in surprise, followed by him and immediately greeted him: "Uncle, why are you here?" ”

At this time, Li Jinli said with a crutch: "I heard in the countryside that you are going to get married, and you are also marrying the daughter of the prince's family, how can I, as an uncle, care about this kind of big thing." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Yes, yes." ”

Saying that, Li Chaosheng helped Li Jinli into the room, and was about to let Li Jinli sit in his place, but Li Jinli stopped Li Chaosheng when he saw this: "I can't sit on your chair, this is the chair of Lantian County, you can only sit on it, and others can sit on it, that is a rebellion." ”

"Dad, you sit here."

At this time, Li Chaolong moved a chair over and asked Li Jinli to sit down, and after Li Jinli sat down, the people around looked at the old man with respect.

Li Jinli is over 60 years old this year, and his body is quite tough, but he was too tired when he was young, and his legs hurt when he was old, so he found a lot of doctors, and the final result was that he slowly raised it.

Therefore, Li Jinli now needs to use a crutch to walk, and most of these people around him are Li Jinli's juniors, and at this time, he looked at the old patriarch and sighed.

Why is it the old patriarch, because the new patriarch is now Li Chaosheng.

Li Jinli sat down, followed by Li Chaosheng and said, "Chaosheng, I heard that you are only going to spend 50,000 silver dollars for your wedding?" ”

Li Chaosheng nodded when he heard this: "Yes, uncle, our Lantian is now in ruins, I will not be able to work hard when I get married, and now there are countless disaster victims in northern Shaanxi waiting for us to save it, now we can save a penny, we have to save a penny, we save a penny and it is not a problem, but northern Shaanxi may live one more person because of this." ”

Li Jinli nodded and said, "Yes, Chaosheng's words are right, the people are more important than everything." ”

"Thank you, uncle, for your understanding."

Li Chaosheng was still very polite to Li Jinli, but Li Jinli's voice changed at this time: "But Chaosheng, you are dignified Lantian County, a big wedding only costs 50,000 silver dollars, too little, they are right, you are the façade of Lantian, you only spend 50,000 silver dollars for a big wedding, this will be laughed at." ”

As he spoke, the old man took out a small red notebook from his arms, the passbook of Lantian Agricultural Bank.

Lantian Agricultural Bank is another major initiative after Li Chaosheng established the Central Mint in Lantian and the Central Bank, that is, Lantian Agricultural Bank and Lantian Commercial Bank were opened respectively.

However, because the Ming people have not yet had the habit of depositing, and many small businesses do not trust the bank very much, so they have not developed vigorously.

However, Li Chaosheng has also recently made some plans for this matter, first of all, Li Chaosheng has opened accounts in the bank for all the officers and soldiers on duty, as well as relevant government personnel, and they will have to withdraw their salaries from the bank in the future.

This has increased the bank's depositor rate to a great extent, and due to Li Chaosheng's vigorous promotion, some large merchants have also begun to try to invest some money in the bank, which means that it is really not possible, and this should be a bribe to Li Chaosheng.

Li Chaosheng also saw through it but did not say it, the emergence of a new thing must take a period of adaptation, and the people will not believe it immediately.

After all, they came to the bank with a heavy silver dollar, and when they turned their heads, they turned into a small red notebook, a pile of paper, and anyone would have a sense of insecurity.

will feel that their money has been wasted, so now the simple people still think that it is good to be safe, and this behavior also makes Li Chaosheng helpless, the common people still like to use the old landlord's old money method to bury the money in the soil, which will cause the social side of the money to circulate.

led to a shortage of currency, which is also the reason why Li Chaosheng was in a hurry to collect Li Dingguo and let him help him develop the Gansu Silver Factory, silver and copper coins are not enough.

For this reason, Li Chaosheng is also ready to take two steps, the first step is to continue to wait for Li Dingguo's self-surrender.

Another step is to vigorously develop the banking industry, if the banking industry develops and allows money to flow, then the shortage of money in Lantian will be greatly changed, but the reason that has always constrained Li Chaosheng from vigorously developing the banking industry is that the banking industry has no collateral.

If the banking industry develops, under the sabotage of well-intentioned people, a run is carried out, then the bank that Li Chaosheng has built with great difficulty may be very vulnerable to collapse, and the final result is that the bank has become synonymous with untrustworthiness in the minds of Lantian people, so it will be a fatal blow to the development of the financial market in the future of Lantian, and even the banking business cannot be carried out at all, which is very passive for Lantian.

This is also the fundamental reason why Lantian Bank has not carried out large-scale credit business and introduced the concept of interest to tenants.

Because there is no collateral, if someone maliciously runs, the bank releases a large number of tenants' money, and then the tenants make a crazy exchange, then Lantian Bank will really collapse.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng is ready to carry out the most prudent plan, that is, to work steadily step by step, and when Li Dingguo helps him take the silver factory, Lantian also has his own silver mine, then Li Chaosheng can let go of the development of the bank, credit business and interest business.

As long as Li Chaosheng's bank has a foothold, then Li Chaosheng will not be as short of money as he is now, and Lantian can also enter the fast lane and use the people's money to drive the people to generate more money.

This is a virtuous circle, so Li Chaosheng is not in a hurry to promote banking business now, but has opened two banks in the most prosperous business community in Lam Tin.

I don't want to be accepted by the people quickly, I want to be familiar with it first, and now the banks are basically undertaking some internal savings business, plus some big businessmen who have the spirit of trying new things and want to bribe Li Chaosheng.

Li Jinli is a big customer of the Agricultural Bank of China, and Li Jinli is very rich now, because of his seniority, Li Chaosheng gave him the position of honorary adviser, with a fixed salary of 2,000 silver yuan a year.

plus Li Jinli's two sons, Li Chaolong and Li Chaohu, are all top teachers in Lantian, and their annual salaries are about 10,000 silver yuan.

And these two sons are very filial to their old father, and the two of them can give Li Jinli a pension of 10,000 silver dollars a year.

So in the past few years, Li Jinli is definitely a rich man in Lantian, at this time Li Jinli took out his passbook and said: "Chaosheng, uncle knows that our Lantian finances are tight, and uncle is not an unreasonable person, so uncle has a deposit of 40,000 silver dollars, and the uncle will take it out to give you a wedding." ”

"Uncle ......"

"Listen to me, Chaosheng, the uncle's family can live the current life, all because of you, otherwise Chaolong and I are still farming, the second child is estimated to have been divided by people now, there can still be this situation, now even the princes and nobles of the imperial court, when they see us, they must salute and talk on an equal footing, this is the smoke coming out of the ancestral tomb of our old Li family."

"Uncle is content, and you treat the uncle is excellent, the uncle can't treat you lightly, your father for the life of the whole family, resolutely fled to Nanyang alone, and you came back to take everyone out of poverty, with today's achievements Uncle is happy, these money are saved by the uncle over the years, you get married is the same as the uncle's own son gets married, the money for the wedding does not need financial allocation, the uncle is out."

Li Chaosheng listened to Li Jinli's words and said: "Uncle, this is all your pension money, what's the matter with you." ”

Li Jinli looked at Li Chaosheng and said, "I'm all out, I don't believe you can let me sleep on the streets." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled bitterly when he heard this: "Uncle, what are you talking about, how can I let you sleep on the streets." ”

"That's it, Chaosheng, I know you care about the people, in that case, we don't want the 50,000 silver dollars you have allocated financially, these are all left to northern Shaanxi for reconstruction, the wedding of the old Li family, the old Li family will do it themselves, Chaolong."

"Hey, Dad."

Li Chaolong stood aside respectfully, listening to Li Jinli's orders.

Li Jinli said: "Your cousin got married, you just watched?" ”

Li Chaolong heard this: "That's okay, but Dad, I don't have as much money as you, I'll pay 20,000." ”

Li Jinli said: "Okay, you give 20,000, Chaohu also pays 20,000, forget it, Chaogu has not made any money, don't count him first, as for the rest of the people at will." ”

Li Chaomeng heard this and said: "Don't, I will also give 20,000, Dezhen, Debao, 10,000 for each of them, as for the children of the clan, I will say, above the brigade commander, one person is 5,000, the regiment commander is 2,000, the battalion commander is 1,000, the company commander is 500, the platoon commander, the platoon commander is forgotten." ”

Li Jinli nodded and said, "Well, in this way, it can be about 200,000 silver dollars, which is almost enough." ”

After listening to Li Jinli's words, Guo Bao and Bai Shoumin on the side stopped doing it, this county's wedding can't be handled by your old Li family alone, we can't help but participate.

For a while, the whole office was noisy, Li Chaosheng looked at the noisy crowd and smiled bitterly: "Okay, don't quarrel, uncle, you take back this money, and don't be busy donating, I have a big wedding in Lantian County, so that you are all about to become a fund-raising wedding." ”

"I understand everyone's feelings, but I can't ask for any of everyone's money, this wedding is still according to the original plan, the total cost is 50,000 silver dollars, not a penny, this matter Guo Bao is still handled by you, if the cost is over, for you to ask."

Li Chaosheng made a final decision, followed by looking at the time and said: "It's almost time to the hotel, go back to your own department to eat, uncle, it's rare for you to come today, I'll accompany you to have a meal." ”

Li Jinli was mixed by Li Chaosheng and walked to the canteen, and on the way, Li Chaosheng seriously analyzed the reason why his wedding only cost 50,000 silver dollars to carry out a 'simple operation'.

"Uncle, I understand your kindness, in fact, if we really talk about pomp and circumstance, it is not impossible to spend hundreds of thousands of silver dollars to hold a wedding, but Uncle This has a bad impact, our Lantian is in ruins, the great cause has not yet been completed, and it is not yet time to enjoy it, my big wedding is not only my personal matter, but also a major event in Lantian."

"Now our Lantian officials are very young, most of them have not started a family, my wedding is more like a benchmark, if I have a wedding extraordinarily big, spend hundreds of thousands of silver dollars, then the upward and downward effects, the following people will take me as a benchmark, I spend 300,000 yuan, that level of officials, such as Chaohu brother, Guo Bao, Cao Meng, Dezhen, Debao, Da Lei Xiao Lei, they spend 200,000 silver dollars on marriage is not too much."

"Then wait again, the brigade commanders of each division, the commanders of the counties, it is not too much for them to spend 100,000 silver dollars on a wedding."

"And so on, when it comes to the people, the people see that the officials are so big, then they are also doing a big job, once the atmosphere is formed, the cost of civil marriage is too high, and then the whole family has worked hard to save half a lifetime of money, and an extravagant and wasteful wedding will be all set up in it."

"Uncle, we are all digging in the land, we all know how difficult the life of the people is, can we take the lead?"

Li Jinli touched his head when he heard this: "There is still such a university question here, hey, it is the uncle who has not thought it through, it is true that the people can have a few dollars, when you married Brother Chaolong's daughter-in-law, our family was scraped together to get together enough for ten catties of wheat, and married your sister-in-law, even so, our family has been relieved for a long time, and it is not easy for the people." ”

Li Chaosheng nodded and said: "It's this reason, so uncle, I, the county lord takes the lead, I only cost 50,000 silver dollars to marry the county lord of Daming, then I will spend 30,000 yuan for the next level, and I will spend 10,000 or 5,000 again, and the price of this wedding will be even lower when it comes to the people. ”

"Such an atmosphere will change, so as not to develop an atmosphere of extravagance and waste, just to our Lantian court, I lead by example, eat in the canteen every day, you look at the official who dares to eat and drink extravagantly and wastefully, so that you can save money and do something meaningful to Lantian, so that Lantian can develop sustainably, and create a fairyland for the people in this chaotic world to live and work in peace and contentment."

Li Jinli heard this and said: "Oh, it's the uncle who is confused, and he almost ruined the big thing that gave birth to you, you have to get it, I, I'll go home after eating this meal, I still raise some chickens, ducks and geese at home, and when it's the New Year, I'll send you some fresh meat." ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "Don't, uncle, it's not easy for you to come here, tomorrow I will ask someone to take you around our Lantian County, you can also take a look at how the nephew governs Lantian, wait until the fifth day of the next month, when I get married, you still have to officiate the wedding for me, my father died early, uncle, you are my only elder, when the time comes, you will drink a cup of wedding tea for my father." ”

"Ah, okay, Uncle is willing to do this, then I will live in the county seat for a few days."

"Okay, you can live in peace, I will ask the eldest aunt to come over when I go back, it just so happens that I have an empty house in this county, and your second elder will live there first."

"No, I'll just live with the old family."

Li Chaosheng smiled: "That's also done." ”