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Chapter 480: foreclosure
Chapter 480: foreclosure
Chapter 480: foreclosure
Chapter 480 Debt Settlement
Zhao Chengan's heart skipped a beat, they were only slightly better than the Zhenbei Army. Could it be that the food that Brother Chu sold to the Zhenbei King was cheaper?
Because there was no military salaries for half a year, their Zhao family not only took out all the food they had stored, but also emptied their wealth to buy fabrics at high prices to make clothes.
They have 500,000 people, not only to eat but also to wear clothes every day! If it can be a little cheaper.
"We are really poor, very poor." Zhao Chengan once again emphasized loudly that he was poor.
For fear that if he speaks too slowly, Brother Chu will slaughter him. He looks at Brother Chu and his wife dressed up, and no matter how they look, they don't look like a sad exile.
Zhao Cheng'an's western border also has exiled prisoners, all of whom are squeezed by the officials of the county government to work as coolies. I don't know how sad it is!
There are young and strong people like Chu Lixuan who are picked by their Zhenxi Army into the barracks to do the hardest work, and women are the lowest soldiers in the barracks...
Chu Lixuan looked at Zhao Chengan with all his time, Chu Lixuan was very clear about his inner thoughts.
He is not in a hurry to express his position, Zhao Chengan doesn't have silver, but they have it in the Dingxihou Mansion!
Chu Lixuan thought that his daughter-in-law liked silver, so he would sell it to Zhao Chengan at the market price. He also wanted to sell it to the King of Zhenbei at the market price.
Unfortunately, the King of Zhenbei is really too poor, and his palace in the capital can't transfer any money. King Zhenbei's family is the emperor's family.
The relationship between the royal family and the King of Zhenbei is just average, no one will lend him money, not to mention the Emperor Dongchen is even more poor.
"Brother Chu, tell me a price! As long as it is reasonable, we will all have the grain you produce." Zhao Chengan still wanted to negotiate the price first.
He is the character of a promise of gold. He can buy as much food as he has money. He said that he would have it, but he thought that Chu Lixuan and their food were not much!
"Wow! All of them? My God! General Zhao still said he was poor? Is this the rhythm of being poor?" Jiang Xinyan's surprised mouth opened wide.
Zhao Chengan snorted, mother! Lao Tzu said something wrong again. He is also a very flexible person, and he immediately made amends.
He asked even more exaggeratedly: "Mrs. Chu, do you have a lot of food? I thought you would be no more than a few hundred thousand catties at most!"
Jiang Xinyan patted her chest: "..." So General Zhao thought so! No wonder the honorifics are said.
"Hundreds of thousands of catties? How could General Zhao think so? Five hundred thousand catties is not enough for your barracks to eat for a day, right?"
"We are saving grain now. 500,000 catties are enough for one day's food. When our potatoes are not ripe, we will eat 200,000 catties of grain for one day."
"Oh! My mother! Your soldiers are so pitiful? When we sell grain to the King of Zhenbei, we sell them half a catty of potatoes and half a catty of pork for one meal per person, and sell them to them for two months at a time. food."
Zhao Chengan and the lieutenants: "..." That's a lot of money! The King of Zhenbei is indeed the King of Zhenbei, how proud! Rich people!
"Didn't King Zhenbei suffer a defeat a few years ago? They still have time to pack up their family property in a hurry?" Zhao Chengan was extremely surprised.
Jiang Xinyan: "That's it... No wonder, the king of Zhenbei is poor and white, and he doesn't have a single copper plate. We have been selling food to the king of Zhenbei since the Chinese New Year, and we haven't received a penny!"
"What? He's penniless, he didn't receive a single penny, and the Marquis of Zhennan actually gave him five months of rations for free?" A lieutenant couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Who said we gave it away for nothing? We used to write an IOU, but now it has been paid off, and we owe nothing to each other." Jiang Xinyan deliberately teased them.
This is indeed a fact. King Zhenbei doesnt owe them money now, and I dont know if he will owe money in the future, haha~
Zhao Chengan and his lieutenants: "..." Pay off? Is it the money given by the emperor? How did they hear that the emperor even went to King Zhenbei to collect hundreds of thousands of stone grains!
"Where did King Zhenbei get the money? Does Brother Chu know?" Zhao Chengan asked anxiously, he wanted to know too much.
The emperor cannot favor one over another! Everyone is struggling to guard the border, why should our Zhenxi Army rely on our own family to support it!
"Silver? King Zhenbei doesn't have any money! Last time, he squeezed hundreds of thousands of stone grains for His Majesty the Emperor! Oh! King Zhenbei is also a poor master!"
"If there is no money, then what will he use to repay the debt? Did Brother Chu give them food for nothing?" Zhao Chengan was balanced, as long as the sage did not give it to the King of Zhenbei privately.
"Cut! Our husband and wife are not a charity organization, so naturally they will not give it away in vain. The King of Zhenbei sold ten counties in Youzhou Prefecture to our husband and wife.
However, it is not enough, because their Zhenbei Army has to eat every day! That's why they also sold over 100,000 hectares of forest in Daling Mountain to us.
The was almost paid off, and the King of Zhenbei borrowed again. There was no land to sell, so he sold 20,000 disabled soldiers to us to farm.
King Zhenbei and the others have leftover food, and they haven't had time to be happy. The so-called joy produces sadness, it's the King of Zhenbei!
pity! The grain exchanged by the King of Zhenbei was confiscated by the old emperor, when their Zhenbei Army wanted to drink the northwest wind again.
The North Vietnamese Army was still taking advantage of the situation. We and my husband were afraid that they would be too hungry to fight the North Vietnamese Army, so we sent them food for another two months.
The King of Zhenbei was also a strong man, and he was unwilling to owe debts, saying that he had no debts, so he put them against the disabled soldiers in the battle of North Vietnam.
Those who were injured were missing their arms and legs, and the more than 10,000 disabled soldiers who were injured and unable to move were given to our couple to pay off their debts. "
Jiang Xinyan said lightly that her voice was clear and sweet, and she was beautiful. People in the hall were intoxicated and more shocked.
Zhao Chengan and the lieutenants were stunned! Every mouth is open enough to stuff an egg, is it okay for King Zhenbei to be so shameless?
"This... this... so... will... pay off?" After a long time, Zhao Chengan stammered.
Chu Lixuan looked at Zhao Chengan, the old fox, and fought with his daughter-in-law. He originally thought that as long as she was happy, nothing else mattered.
I didn't expect that the old fox and the crowd would be surprised by the teasing. Chu Lixuan looked at the little wife dotingly, with tender and affectionate eyes.
His big hand clasped her small hand tightly, and everyone else was in shock, no one saw Chu Lixuan's small movements.
"Hey! What can we do! King Zhenbei wants to buy and sell strongly, so we can only accept it passively!
Therefore, our husband and wife have a lot of food, so we reclaimed 100,000 hectares of wasteland in Daxueshan to grow potatoes.
Our husband and wife, with exiles and disabled soldiers, worked day and night because we had no experience in farming.
The yield of potatoes in wasteland is only about 3,000 catties per mu, and the yield per mu of the best black land is less than 6,000! Why! "
"What? Your worst wasteland yields 3,000 catties per mu?" Our yield per mu is less than 1,000 catties! Still the best land!