Chapter 547: Begging for Ten Thousand Dollars
Outside the city, after Xu Beiyou broke the formation composed of hundreds of monks with a line of momentum, his body followed the sword qi, and he had already crossed the battlefield and came to the front of the moat.
At this time, the moat has been evaporated by Zhao Qing's mighty atmosphere, and naturally there is no scene of water crossing the river and causing ripples.
He just jumped slightly, and then crossed the moat, and even crossed the ruins of the city gate, when he came to the city, Zhao Qing and Liumian had already gone all the way out of the city, leaving only the mess and a section of the city wall that had been knocked down alive, Xu Beiyou only glanced at it slightly, and then continued to walk forward.
As he said, there was only one target for his trip, and that was Xiao Jin, the king of Wei.
As for the life and death of other people, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, and he does not care about it.
At this time, Xu Beiyou had already sensed Xiao Jin's existence, in the Li family's mansion, which made him a little inexplicably surprised, what he was afraid of was that Xiao Jin would leave hundreds of thousands of troops and flee regardless of it, with all kinds of secret magic powers, he could not escape from Xu Beiyou's hands, once he was allowed to escape, he would inevitably become a confidant again in the future.
Fortunately, Xiao Jin has no intention of escaping, maybe he thinks that he still has the possibility of turning the tables, maybe he has lost the heart to make a comeback, no matter what, this is a good thing after all.
In today's Jiangling City, no one can stop Xu Beiyou, so Xu Beiyou went all the way unimpeded, and soon came to the Li family's mansion, and then saw Xiao Jin standing alone at the door of the main hall.
Xiao Jin was like a host who had been waiting for a guest to come to the door for a long time, and finally saw the late guest, and said with a smile: "Nangui, you have finally arrived." ”
The tone is gentle, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.
It's like how Xu Beiyou felt when he first saw Chen Gongyu.
Xu Beiyou stopped, and also did not rush to make a move, but asked, "Should I call you His Royal Highness King Wei or Mr. Chen?"
Xiao Jin, whose face didn't look like he was confused about his age, smiled: "Xiao Jin or Xiao Huaiyu, it's okay." ”
Xu Beiyou still didn't call Xiao Jin by his name, but said: "When it comes to seniority, King Wei, you are my elder, and I should also call you uncle, although this is the first time we have met each other, but if you talk about it in detail, it has been a long-term friendship." ”
Speaking of this, Xu Beiyou paused slightly, "The last time I saw Chen Gongyu, I asked me to lose all the ancestral property passed down by my ancestors, I don't know if there are tens of millions of taels of silver?"
"Tens of millions of taels of silver?" Xiao Jin said with a smile: "Nangui is inevitably too underestimated by your Sword Sect, that is a full 20,000 taels of silver, which is almost the sum of taxes and silver in the four years of the Great Qi Imperial Court, and it is precisely because of this silver that Lone has the confidence to start an all-out war with Great Qi." There is a good saying, when the cannon goes off, there are ten thousand taels of gold, this has two meanings, the first meaning is to say that after the war, change to get countless silver and silver money, but this must be based on the premise of winning, if defeated, then you can only lose money. The second meaning is that fighting a war costs the most money, that is, a mountain of gold and silver, and there are times when it is exhausted. ”
Xu Beiyou asked, "I don't know how much it has been spent?"
Xiao Jin said calmly: "No more, no less, just half, and half of them were left alone in the treasury of Wei for his future use." ”
Xu Beiyou smiled and asked, "King Wei is planning to use it for the comeback?"
Xiao Jin asked rhetorically: "I have never been defeated, how can I say that I will make a comeback?"
Xu Beiyou was noncommittal, but took off the sheathed sword from his waist, put it horizontally in front of him, and said slowly: "Anyway, this silver money was lost from my Xu Beiyou hand after all, if it wasn't for the fact that he couldn't get it back, Xu would inevitably be uneasy, and he was even more afraid that he would not be able to see the ancestors of the Sword Sect in the future." ”
"The money, Gu has already spent it, I don't know how Nangui plans to ask for it?" Xiao Jin asked with a smile.
Xu Beiyou said: "I have heard that the borrower has nine out of thirteen returns, saying that if you borrow ten yuan, you will only give you nine yuan, but you have to repay as much as thirteen yuan, once you come and go, it is a quarter of the interest, my sword sect's silver money, even if it is lent to the king of Wei, do not want four points of interest, Xu only needs one cent, it is 20,000 plus 20 million taels of silver." ”
Xiao Jin still said unhurriedly: " Don't hide it from the south, if you have silver in your hand, you won't take painstaking steps to snatch your sword sect's silver, after all, the sword sect also has a Shangqing Daojun who lives in the 33rd day, and the Daomen can bully the Sword Sect, but others can't do it easily, so the sword sect's silver money is really hot, but the Wei country is narrow and poor, and the annual tax is only 8.5 million taels of silver, which is considered to be other miscellaneous income, and the total income of Chengping in the 22nd year is only about 14 million taels of silver, excluding various necessary expenses, the balance of the year is only 4 million taels of silver, even if you add the 10,000 taels of silver stored in the treasury of Wei, you want to repay the amount required to return to the south, it will be thirty years long, I wonder if Nangui can wait for thirty years?"
Xu Beiyou said expressionlessly: "In this way, the king of Wei can't repay this silver?"
Xiao Jin spread his hands and said: "There is a slang saying in the market, it is called if you don't have money, you want a life, and if you can't pay the money, you will use your life to pay off the debt, isn't this trip to Nangui to take the life of the orphan?"
Xu Beiyou finally grasped the hilt of the sword in the chaos, drew the sword out of its sheath little by little, and said: "How can such a large amount of silver be offset by a single life? ”
As the sword edge continued to unsheath, the wind between heaven and earth became more and more violent, like crying and complaining, and like ten thousand ghosts coming out of the mountain, gloomy and angry, making people shudder.
Xiao Jin, as the master of the Ghost King's Palace, has cultivated to the supernatural power even more than Xiao Lin, who has stood in front of the stage for many years, and at this time, it is not that he has no power to fight back against Xu Beiyou, the great sword immortal.
Xiao Jin stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and he really grabbed a wisp of real grievances from the wind, and his face was vaguely visible, but when Xiao Jin pinched it gently, it turned into a trace of black gas and dissipated, wrapping around his fingers.
Xu Beiyou was not surprised, and said calmly: "I once heard Zhinan say that when Emperor Taizu built a nine-story mausoleum, King Wei was the one who supervised the work. And the reason why the nine-story mausoleum can go straight to the underworld seems to be inseparable from the King of Wei. ”
Xiao Jin's eyes were dark and deep, like two deep wells with no bottom visible, wanting to absorb the souls of others, and slowly spoke: "What is the Ghost King's Palace? What is the Ghost King? The reason why Gu would take this as a name naturally has the corresponding confidence. ”
He paused slightly, and said: "As for the Wei State you mentioned, it is there, just like Lone's life, it is here, whether it can be taken away depends on your means." ”