Chapter 217 Just bet

Gao Yigong didn't understand Li Meng's anger, but instead stopped talking. Li Meng stood up, his anger was not gone, and he rubbed his hands and walked a few steps, and said coldly:

"Have these businessmen got into money's eye? They forgot who their ancestors were and actually did such a crazy thing."

Gao Yigong nodded and echoed:

"There is nothing wrong with selling it to the Tartars to make money. The Tartars are tighter and the camp is looser. But you can't just do a single business!"

With a "clang", Li Meng grabbed a tea bowl and fell to the ground. He glared at Gao Yigong, who had no idea what had happened there, and shouted angrily:

"You can actually say this kind of thing. You are Han people, they are Tartars, and animals. If you leave the beasts alone, those beasts will eat people sooner or later."

"Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the court forced everyone to survive. This is how big things get up and do. The court's weakness is, it's better to break into the camp. Besides, these Tartars outside the pass are worth something. The court's troops are useless waste. If our old camp fights, it will be easy to pacify him."

Seeing Li Meng getting angry, Gao Yigong was inexplicably confused, but he didn't think he was wrong. He still said his words in a muffled voice. Not only the Ming Dynasty court regarded the Jurchens as a disease of scabies, but even Li Zicheng's rebel army was the same. The true national identity and national consciousness were actually formed in modern times.

At this time, people felt that the Jurchens and the Tartars were "non-parents" and had a deep contempt for the Jurchens, and did not think that the other party was powerful and powerful. The so-called barbarians, in the eyes of the Chinese people in China, were just animals and could not pay much attention to them at all.

It is ridiculous to say that the land in Liao Town is lost, and several major battles have been defeated. Several robberies and robberies entering the pass are like entering a no-man. However, the literati and officials with rigid thoughts in the Ming Dynasty still did not regard each other as any threat. Instead, the rebel army that was forced by natural disasters and harsh governments was regarded as a major concern. Until the time of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, they had to use the barbarians to eliminate the rebel thieves.

Most of the officials in the court and scholars in the world were so rigid, but they never expected that even Gao Yigong and others had the same idea.

No wonder Li Zicheng occupied the city of Beijing and established the so-called Dashun, and was defeated by the Qing Dynasty within a few months and had not even entered the short-lived dynasty. Looking at Li Meng's anger, Gao Yigong was not frightened, but he just kept his head out of the city.

Li Meng stared at Gao Yigong for a while, and finally laughed out loud. What kind of darkness and misery will the barbarian conquest of China bring? It was more than ten years, decades and hundreds of years later. How can we tell people like this now? Moreover, the enemy's enemy is a friend. The Jurchen Tatars and the rebel army invisibly attacked inside and outside. It was not surprising that Gao Yigong had such an idea. Li Meng breathed a sigh of relief, calmed down, waved his hand to repel the guards who entered the house, and said in a deep voice:

"The Jurchens and Tartars are the real disaster. At that time, no matter you or the court, you will suffer great harm."

Gao Yigong said "Oh" and "Oh" twice, obviously he didn't listen. Li Meng was not ready to continue to persuade him, but just silently remembered the names of Goldman Sachs and this business in his mind.

What modern people know more about Shanxi merchants was in the Qing Dynasty. Those messy TV series described Shanxi merchants like modern capitalists, and of course they also acted as hypes for some contemporary forces for some purpose. In fact, Shanxi merchants had a large scale in the Ming Dynasty.

In the early stage, Zezhou, which produced iron and Luzhou, the center of the northern silk, and merchants who bought and sold grain, fodder, transportation and salt goods for border towns, became merchants from Taiyuan Prefecture and Fenzhou Prefecture. Why did the merchants of these two prefectures become wealthy? It is very simple, that is, trade with Mongolia and Jurchens outside the border. Mongolia and Jurchens are both short of iron, and their ability to build weapons and arm themselves is very weak.

These Shanxi merchants transported a large number of iron and salt goods to the grassland for sale, bringing back cattle, horses, fur, and various specialties, iron and salt goods sold in Mongolia and Jurchens, which was already huge profits. The trafficking of specialties outside the Ming Dynasty also made amazing profits, and after this, it naturally broke out.

However, the input of this iron tool is equivalent to turning the barbarians who originally used bone arrows and wooden spears into elite warriors armed to teeth. Moreover, the ability to build and cast in Mongolia and Jurchens is also very weak. Many people speculate that a large number of weapons were even directly input into the hands of the barbarians.

It is precisely because of this kind of favor that in real history, since the Qing Dynasty won the world, Shanxi merchants have obtained various business privileges and exclusive industries, becoming the leading business group.

Li Meng felt a little ridiculous for a moment. Every time he talked about his affairs with the Jurchens, he found that he was extremely lonely. Now it was better. It turned out that Li Chuang's power was not with him.

But after getting married, Li Meng's mentality was different. His power continued to grow and grow, which had added a lot of confidence to him. He felt that no one was with him. Instead, it aroused a sense of pride in Li Meng's heart. When he came to this era alone, he had a fight and kicking. Thinking about the elite soldiers in the military camp, and those Shandong upper-class people who were respectful and pleased before and after the wedding, Li Meng had already made up his mind: "Since God does not cooperate, let it go and do it yourself. Man conquers nature. What the philosopher said is always good."

After calming down, he still said that he would go to work hard. Li Meng sat down with a big golden sword and asked directly:

"Why do you want to borrow money from me? After all, I am a court official. You are not afraid that I will chop you up."

Gao Yigong laughed a few times, but at this time he reacted very quickly, and his answer was not covered. He said with a smile:

"The whole world is full of people in the government who dares to trade with us in Qingyan, that is, you General Li. I originally came to Jiningzhou for this purpose, but who would have thought that I would catch up with the adults to get married..."

Li Meng grinned and said nothing. The 50,000 taels of silver is a big sum of money for the current Jiaozhou Camp, but it does not affect the fundamentals. If you take it out, you will take it out.

"But how do you want to pay back the money? Shandong and Shaanxi are almost thousands of miles apart. At that time, I will not know how to ask for the account."

This sentence completely asked Gao Yigong, and after being embarrassed for a long time, he spoke:

"When the camp was circulating in the five provinces, I also accumulated some antiques and rare items in my hands. After all, these things were worth some money, but no one dared to buy them several times, and they almost showed signs. If adults wanted them, these would be transported."

Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times, in this chaotic season, those antiques and other things are useless at all, and Li Meng doesn't like this kind of elegant person, and he has no interest. Since entering this inner study, Li Meng's conversation with Gao Yigong, although Gao Yigong is not good at speaking, he has not fallen at all in his words. Now, seeing Gao Yigong losing money for this, Li Meng is also much more happy.

Gao Yigong felt that Li Meng could borrow money, but it was just because Qingyan's transactions were not too deep. He thought that borrowing money was to treat Li Meng as a business partner. Although such dating could be threatened, Li Meng was a military officer. If he was forced to do something urgent, he would have to kill people, and he could only interact according to business rules.

Gao Yigong was in the camp because he was the brother-in-law of Li Zicheng, the king of the Chuangye King, and he was cautious and honest. Everyone was very new to him and always was in charge of the logistics and military supplies. He was inevitably a businessman's mentality. At this time, he was thinking about how to pay back the money, but he didn't want to go deeper.

Speaking of which, this is also a projection of the mentality of the people of the world. To this day, only the bandit army was recruited by the official army and surrendered to the court, but no one heard of surrendering to the bandit army or taking the initiative to surrender. Moreover, Shandong is located in the eastern part of the country, and there are large troops stationed. Even if the rebel army wanders in Henan, it has never entered Shandong.

All the situations made Gao Yigong feel that he was asking for other people's position to borrow money this time, and he had no initiative at all. When he heard the other party's question of how to repay the money, he suddenly became embarrassed.

"There is a lot of money for 50,000 taels of silver. Even if Li takes it out, he will have to peel off the skin."

Speaking of this, Li Meng inexplicably remembered something, that Eunuch Liu borrowed this amount that day. The amount of five or ten is more commonly used, and coincidences are likely to occur.

After hearing Li Meng say this, Gao Yigong keenly realized that there was still a text afterwards, and there was no interface. Sure enough, Li Meng continued to speak:

"It's so far apart, and the camp is not always in the same place. This silver is hard to return, but you don't have to worry. This silver is given to you."

Hundreds of thousands of people in the camp were in a difficult situation for the tens of thousands of taels of silver. It was a certain embarrassment. Gao Yigong had already prepared for this in advance, but he did not expect to agree so happily. He was either a traitor or a thief when he had nothing to do. The situation is somewhat similar at the moment.

“How does this make!?”

Even though Gao Yigong needed all this money, he couldn't help but ask in a voice. Li Meng smiled and asked in a deep voice:

"Brother Gao, I will give this money to you. You will remember a favor from me, Li Meng, when you go to the camp."

"What does General Li say? Such a timely helping hand will make everyone feel the great virtues of the camp, and I will never forget them."

"The feng shui turns around, and you and I will inevitably have a good time to meet you in the future. I just hope that Brother Gao and Chuangying will remember this favor, which is enough."

These words for no reason made Gao Yigong sit on the chair for a while, and after a long time, he stood up and bowed deeply to Li Meng solemnly.

Li Meng smiled, Gao Yigong was speechless...
Chapter completed!