Chapter 638: Old Li’s Story

"That's right." Seeing Zhang Zhao standing there in a daze, Zhang Yu said, "Borrow from the people in Jiangdong. You know, they are rich."

Now Jiangdong has a large population, some 30 to 40 million people, Zhang Yu can't count the exact number.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been added every month, and the population size has been expanding, which is really difficult to count.

With such a large population, it would take a while for each person to borrow one copper coin. Although it is impossible for everyone to borrow, as long as one tenth of the people are willing to borrow, Zhang Yu will be able to help Zhang Yu tide over the difficulties.

Zhang Yu's idea was not conceived out of thin air. There are too many national debts in later generations, and the common people actively subscribe for them.

Today, Zhang Yu is learning this set.

Zhang Zhao was still not confident, and then said a little weakly: "My lord, you have a lot of face. If you can lend me ten million dollars, I will feel comfortable for a few days."

Seeing Zhang Zhao's appearance, Zhang Yu couldn't help laughing.

"Okay, I'll borrow it, don't worry, I'll give you a few tens of millions anyway." Zhang Yu said.

Zhang Yu asked Zhang Zhao to go back first, and he locked himself in the study to study.

The decree of borrowing was issued in his hands.

1. Loan from the private sector in the name of the General's Mansion, based on the certificate issued by the General's Mansion, with an interest of 10%, promised to repay within one year, and tax as collateral.

Second, entrust the handling to county-level governments at all levels.

3. Governments at all levels are not allowed to force borrowing, and the principle is voluntary.

4. Corruption is a felony.

five,......

A series of government orders were promulgated, and Zhang Yu borrowed money not in the name of the prefects of Jiangdong counties, but in the name of the general's mansion.

Zhang Yu is a second-rank general, of course he has his own general's mansion, but it is used together with his own prefect's mansion.

Zhang Yu also wanted to use the status of the state shepherd, but in terms of official position, he was just a prefect.

If you want to borrow money from all the sites you own, you can only use the name of the General's Mansion, that is, in his own name.

As for whether he can repay the borrowed money, I am still very confident.

He has so many sites, so many workshops, and overseas is also very profitable, so he is not worried at all that he will not be able to make it.

If it weren't for the fact that the gap was too big this time, he would not be short of money, and there was no need to borrow money from the people.

Zhang Yu issued a decree, and quickly radiated to all levels of government.

Directly issue orders to the counties, and the counties quickly organize people to go to the villages and towns, and each village and town also organizes people to promote it.

"Oh, Mr. Zhang is short of money, Cuihua, please help me quickly and take out the money in the cellar."

"I still have more than 30 copper coins here, and I don't know if Mr. Zhang thinks there are too few."

"Master Zhang is all for us, if you can help, you must help."

"Our family's ten mu of land was given by Mr. Zhang. Now he is short of money, so of course he has to help."

"I'll sell a few chickens to make more money."

"It's just over one hundred and twenty copper coins, which is too little. I'll go to the town to sell some things tomorrow."

"Old man, take out all the family's pension, we won't need it if the tiger is dead."

When the decree was issued to a village, the villagers responded positively.

Some people who were under Zhang Yu's rule a few years ago have accumulated thousands to hundreds of copper coins in a few years, and they are considered very rich.

They heard that Zhang Yu wanted to borrow money, and many of them took out their family savings.

In their view, there was no concept of borrowing at all, and they never thought that Zhang Yu would pay back the money.

They are proud to help Zhang Yu.

This is the common people, simple common people, Zhang Yu fought the enemy to death for them, so why not lend Zhang Yu the money.

No one thought that this policy would have such great support from the people.

Many people took out the money and took it to the county government.

Many county governments are not prepared at all. They have made a lot of preparations, but they did not expect this to happen. The preparations are seriously insufficient.

There is such a story, Lao Litou is from Xuzhou,

Back then, he fled with his family of seven, and Zhang Yu happened to be the prefect of Kuaiji County that year.

Old Li Tou was almost desperate, but when he arrived in Kuaiji County, Zhang Yu arranged houses for them, gave them food, land, and farm tools, so that their lives were guaranteed at once, and their whole family survived. down.

In the past few years, under the hard work of their family, life is getting better day by day.

Every year during the festival, Lao Li would bring his whole family to pray for Zhang Yu and the others.

Now, he received news from the village chief that Zhang Yu had no money for the war and needed to borrow money from them.

Upon hearing this, Old Li sat in the yard in a daze.

His family is rich, a family of seven, working hard every year, building a new house, and there are more than 3,000 copper coins.

This is no small fortune.

Old Li sat there and sighed. The whole family saw that something was wrong with him, but they didn't dare to go up and ask.

After sitting for about an hour, Lao Li entered the room with his hands behind his back, and went to call the whole family back.

"Father, why did you ask us to come back? There is still something to do in the field."

"Third Brother, listen to Dad. Don't interrupt."

Old Li looked at his wife, three sons, two daughters-in-law, and three grandchildren, this is much better than when they fled famine.

After the whole family arrived, Lao Li suddenly bent down and cried to his third son, "Third, I'm sorry."

"Father, what's the matter?"

"Yeah, what happened to Dad."

"Father, what's the matter?"

Old Li's sudden move stunned the whole family.

Everyone looked at Old Li nervously.

"Three, I'm sorry, Dad decided to use all the family's money to help Mr. Zhang. Back then, our family couldn't survive without Mr. Zhang." Old Li said.

Old Li went on to say: "San, your marriage with the daughter of Lao Niu's family is probably going to be ruined. Our family has no money to pay a betrothal gift, and we have no money to hold banquets. If you want to blame, you can blame dad. Dad has been thinking about it for a long time. Take out the money to help Mr. Zhang, I can’t rest in peace even if I die.”

When everyone heard that there was no objection, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Old Litou's third son struggled for a while, then looked firm, and then said: "Father, I think you did the right thing. I remember that the first time I had a full meal, I came to Jiangdong to eat. They gave us some big cakes on the way. It's delicious, it's the best I've ever eaten in my life."

"Yes, Father, Mr. Zhang is fond of us. If I hadn't injured my leg while fleeing, I would have served as a soldier in the early years to serve Mr. Zhang." The second child also said.

The boss sighed and said, "Father, there are three brothers in our family, but none of them are qualified to serve as soldiers. They really can't hold up their heads in this village. This time Mr. Zhang needs it. If we don't take out all the money, how can we pay for it in the future?" Feel free to go out."

The eldest continued: "Our family has land, a lot of food, and a cow. The third child's affairs will be slowed down, and we will marry him next year."