Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

"Do a little bit of everything." Zhao Ning smiled, "What are you doing?"

Guo Jun said: "They are borrowing money."

"Borrow money?"

"It's the season of lean harvests, and many people have no food. Our Xiangyang City official Guo is a good lord who is willing to do good. Isn't this helping the people?"

"Oh……"

Zhao Ning turned around and asked a teenager who was waiting in line: "How many acres of land does your family have?"

The young man said timidly: "My family has no land, and we are tenants of Mr. Guo."

"Then how much food can your family have in a year?"

The boy thought for a while and said, "It seems to be five hundred catties."

"How many people are there?"

"Five people."

One person eats about one hundred catties a year.

This is really too little for farmers who don't have meat and so many vegetables.

"How many acres of land do you plant?"

The young man was about to speak, when Guo Jun coughed twice, the young man quickly stopped talking, bowed his head obediently and lined up.

Everyone who received the money nodded their heads repeatedly, expressing their gratitude.

Zhao Ning asked Guo Jun: "How much is the interest?"

"At normal interest."

"What is the normal annual interest?"

"Is this the same number in Xiangyang Prefecture?" Guo Jun stretched out his finger, meaning 300%.

This is really driving people to death!

After a while, a group of people appeared in front of them.

They used mules and donkeys to carry carts loaded with grain.

"Folks, the food is here."

Guo Jun yelled, and the villagers rushed over there with their money bags.

Zhao Ning asked, "Where did those grains come from?"

Guo Jun said: "It is the reserve of Xiangyang government to promote Changping Division."

"Oh, don't Mr. Guo have any food?"

"What does Officer Zhao mean by asking this?"

"Oh, the harvest in Luoyang is not very good this year. I want to go south to buy some grain and go north. I thought you said Mr. Guo had a lot of grain. It seems that I have to find someone else."

"Didn't Luo Jing also promote Chang Pingsi?"

"No, you also know that at the end of last year there was a war in Taiyuan Prefecture, and the imperial court transferred a lot of food from Luoyang."

"Oh, how much does Officer Zhao want to buy?"

"One hundred thousand stones."

"One hundred thousand stones!" Guo Jun was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.

"Yeah, forget it, I'm in a hurry, so leave."

"Officer Zhao wait a minute!"

"how?"

"Guo Daguan has food, and what he has is food!"

Chapter 490 Da Song's Loan Usury (Part [-])

Guo Jun saw that this official Zhao was dressed gorgeously, had an extraordinary conversation, and had dozens of followers, all riding horses, and also from Luojing, so his status must be unusual.

On weekdays, in Xiangyang City, the only people who can ride horses are officials and those of the level of Mr. Guo.

Guo Jun thought in his heart that he finally met a rich man who could match him up and make some money.

People in the Song Dynasty loved business very much. Probably, among the ancient feudal dynasties, there was no other dynasty that was so interested in business.

This is the case from the princes and nobles to the ordinary people.

Guo Jun naturally wanted to make a profit from it.

Zhao Ning pretended to be puzzled: "Guo Daguan has food? Don't lie to me, I'm still in a hurry."

"really have."

"Then why didn't Mr. Guo sell it to them, but to me, a person from Luoyang? Could it be that you want to kill foreigners?"

Seeing that Officer Zhao had guessed his idea, Guo Jun quickly denied it: "No, no, absolutely no such intention."

"Why is that?"

Guo Jun said in a low voice: "Let's not hide from Officer Zhao, those grains are actually from Officer Guo."

"Well, you just said that it was Xiangyang who promoted Chang Pingsi, why did you say that it was Mr. Guo's?"

"Isn't that what Mr. Guo sold to Mr. Changping?"

As soon as he said this, Zhao Ning immediately understood.

Zhao Ning walked over and started selling grain.

The price of grain was as high as two pennies a stone!

You know, the price of grain in the capital is now 0.7 per stone.

Zhao Ning, the capitalist leader, immediately realized that the senior official Guo was jointly promoting the officials of the Changping Division, playing a game of beating drums and extorting money.

When the common people are starving and there is no food left, the landlords will lend money to the common people.

After the common people borrowed money, they promoted the Changping Secretary to buy grain in name.

But in fact, the food for Changping Division was sold to the government by the landlord.

Why not sell directly to the common people?

A few more processes will lead to more oil and water. This is the law of feudal dynasties since ancient times.

And local officials always have to play it: everyone, come quickly, our government has distributed food!

In this way, I am afraid that the people below will have no choice but to report it.

Landlords sell directly to the common people, probably at a price of one stone, or five yuan and one stone.

If there is one more official master in the middle, it becomes two strings and one stone.

Moreover, among the money lent to these ordinary people, I am afraid that not only the money of Daguan Guo, but also the money of government officials, there are special people to manage and manage money for them.

Otherwise, how could a senior Guo official be so bold as to steal his skin and drink his blood in the Xiangyang prefecture?

In the Song Dynasty, a dynasty that used the monk's "duti" as a stock speculation, the emperor (Zhao Ji) and the prime minister (Cai Jing) took the lead in playing capital games, and the Dutch who were crazy about tulips had to call their ancestors when they saw it.

It is not surprising that local officials and businessmen collude to play such tricks.

Zhao Ning looked at Guo Jun who was smiling, and asked, "Does Mr. Guo have so much food?"

"Guo Daguan is a big man in Xiangyang Mansion. If you think it's not enough, he has plenty of ways."

Zhao Ning asked again: "Are you from the Guo family?"

Guo Jun said: "The villain is a steward of the Guo family, and he is in charge of the Guo family's loan business. Why don't Mr. Zhao go to the Guo family with the villain first? Mr. Guo is a well-known benevolent person, and he is very happy to share with the heroes of the Quartet. Drink and talk."

"Where is the Guo family?"

Guo Jun pointed to the south and said, "Ten miles away, the Guo family's big manor is right in front of you."

"Why don't you go back and report first, saying that someone from Zhao came to visit and wanted to buy [-] shi of grain from him." After speaking, Zhao Ning asked Jing Chao to take out a bulging bag and throw it to Guo Jun.

Guo Jun was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly opened it to see that it was a copper coin. After weighing it again, there were at least dozens of coins.

"I will trouble you, here is the money for your death... Oh no, the money for drinking tea."

Guo Jun was even more joyful, and nodded again and again: "Okay! I'll go back and report, and wait for Officer Zhao to drive."

Guo Jun rode on a donkey, explained to his subordinates around him, and then went back by himself.

Zhao Ning returned to the place where the imperial guards were stationed.

Hu Quan asked: "Officer, it sounds like the Guo family is not a good person, or I should take someone there."

"Don't worry, the duck is in the pot, it can't fly." Zhao Ning rushed forward with his people.

Along the way, he passed several village entrances, and they were all borrowing money.

Suddenly, he saw a group of people gathered in front of him, and there was noise.

"Let's go and have a look!"

At the gate of the village in front, a large group of people were surrounded, and they didn't know what they were doing. When they saw Zhao Ning bringing someone over, they all looked over with curiosity and surprise.

"Beat it to death! You don't pay back the money you owe! How dare you run away!" A fat man said viciously.

"Stop!" Hu Quan shouted angrily.

Everyone looked around one after another, and seeing a lot of people coming, and all of them were riding horses, those beating people stopped immediately.

The fat man ran over, cupped his fists and said, "I'm next to Guo Chang, the Guo family is in charge, may I ask which hero it is?"

Hu Quan asked, "Why did you beat people?"

Guo Chang said: "These people don't pay back the money they owe, and they want to run away!"

"We've paid off."

“放屁！你去年借了10贯钱，今年要还30贯的利息，加本金一共40贯！你才还了20贯！还欠20贯！”

"We paid it back in advance, and it's already been paid off!" It was a young man who spoke, his head was beaten to the point of blood, and he was holding the child in his arms.

The women on one side were crying, apparently they were family.

The luggage was scattered on the ground, and some cakes fell out of it. The little boy stared at the cakes and broke away from his father, wanting to pick them up.

Suddenly, someone stepped on him with his foot.

The little boy said: "Mother said this is our dry food, please return it to us, otherwise we won't have anything to eat on the way."

Guo Chang slapped him across the face: "Fuck you! Stay here honestly!"

The woman hurried over, hugged her child, and cried, "Don't hit him, he's still young."

Zhao Ning pointed to Guo Chang and said to Jing Chao: "Bring that person here."

"Yes!"

Several imperial guards immediately went over and grabbed Guo Chang.

Before Guo Chang could react, he was dragged over. He suddenly yelled, "What are you doing!"

The complexions of the people around changed drastically.

Guo Chang was brought in front of Zhao Ning, Zhao Ning got off his horse, looked at Guo Chang carefully, and said indifferently: "You look fat and fat, don't you usually eat less?"

"This official, I am from the Guo family, you are sure to offend the Guo family..."

He didn't say a word, Zhao Ning slapped, and with a slap, five finger marks were left on Guo Chang's face.

Guo Chang was stunned.

People around saw that Zhao Ning had brought so many people, but they didn't dare to do anything.

"You...you dare to disturb..."

"Believe it or not, I dare to kill you!"

Guo Chang covered his face, glanced at the people around Zhao Ning, immediately shrank back, and muttered: "This official, I also follow the rules. This family wants to escape. How can we escape if we don't pay back the money? If you didn’t report it to the official, you already wanted to make a big deal into a small one.”

Chapter 491 A lawsuit with the Zhao official family? (Second more)

Hu Quan scolded angrily: "Nonsense! Who allowed you to borrow at three times the interest!"