"Brother Jiang Fan, I don't quite understand why Qian Sihai has to pay such a high price. The Qian family is already so rich, what else is there to gamble on?"
After exiting the Qian's house, Lin Wanqing asked curiously.
"Do you know Shen Wansan?"
Jiang Fan said a little confused.
"Shen Wansan? What is it?"
Lin Wanqing was a little confused.
"It's not a thing... No, it makes sense. As for Shen Wansan... it's a name. Since you haven't heard of him, just think of him as a character in a story. In short, this person is very rich and very rich. Rich, the richest in the world."
Jiang Fan thought for a while and then told it in a way that Lin Wanqing could understand.
"Very rich? Richer than the Qian family?"
Lin Wanqing asked curiously.
Jiang Fan was startled, and then said with some uncertainty: "This... should be richer than the Qian family, right? But I don't know how much money the Qian family has, so you can just treat Shen Wansan as if he is almost as rich as the Qian family. ”
"Oh, what then?"
Lin Wanqing nodded as if she understood, and then asked.
"Then, please listen to me slowly. This Shen Wansan has a fortune of tens of millions, but he happened to be born in troubled times. So in order to protect his wealth, he funded some separatist forces. He used countless money to help some separatist forces. Power recruits troops."
"However, this kind of life did not last long. The troubled times came to an end. All the separatist forces were defeated by a king. A new country was established, and Shen Wansan became the richest person in the new country. .”
Jiang Fan shook his head as he walked on the street and continued: "The new country has just been established, and everything is waiting to be revitalized. Shen Wansan considered that he had funded some separatist forces in the previous troubled times, so he wanted to perform well in front of the emperor of the new country. Fan, so he took the initiative to help the new emperor build the outer city of the capital."
"Think about it, how much would it cost to build the capital city of a country? As a result, in order to express his sincerity, Shen Wansan not only built the outer city, but also spent more time than the emperor himself to find people to build the palace. The time is much shorter, and even the materials used to build the city are better than those used in the palace."
"Later, Shen Wansan was dissatisfied and felt that he had too much money. He just built a city. Where was that? Now that he had made a decision, he wanted to please the emperor of the new country. Then it would be better to do it more thoroughly, so I reported to the emperor of the new country and said that I was willing to spend a huge amount of gold and silver to reward the millions of troops when the new country was founded."
"Wow?! After building a city, you still need to reward millions of troops?! How rich is that?"
Lin Wanqing looked shocked.
"Isn't it? Moreover, even such a huge expense is only a very small part of Shen Wansan's wealth."
Jiang Fan chuckled.
"Then what?"
Lin Wanqing asked impatiently.
"Then he died."
Jiang Fan said with a smile.
Lin Wanqing: "???"
Seeing Jiang Fan looking like he needed a beating, Lin Wanqing couldn't help gritting his teeth and said bitterly: "What? Is this Shen Wansan also your friend? It seems that many of your friends have died? I don't have Xiao Nuan. If you annoy me with that good temper, I will beat you up!"
"Ahem, I'm not joking. This Shen Wansan is really dead. The emperor of the new country confiscated his house."
Jiang Fan coughed twice and said.
"Really dead? Why? He built the capital for the new emperor and rewarded millions of troops. Why did the new emperor still want to kill him?"
Lin Wanqing was stunned for a moment and asked with a look of confusion.
"The outer city he built used better materials than the imperial palace and took less time than the imperial palace. This made the emperor of the new country very dissatisfied. As for the huge amount of gold and silver used to reward millions of troops, this made the emperor even more dissatisfied. I'm so happy. You are a civilian, but you actually want to reward the army? What do you want? Do you want to win over the morale of the army?"
Jiang Fan said.
"This... this is obviously not true. This is obviously just to spend money to make the new emperor happy."
Lin Wanqing said in a daze.
"Yes, everyone knows that Shen Wansan just wants to make the new emperor happy. The new emperor himself knows it, but the new emperor pretends not to know. If you want to accuse him, why bother? Even if there is no such thing Of course, other excuses can be easily found. In short, Shen Wansan must die, and the massive wealth must belong to the emperor of the new country."
Jiang Fan spread his hands and continued: "Since we want to reward the army, instead of asking you to donate money and materials to reward them, why not return all this wealth to the treasury and let me, the emperor, personally distribute it? You think so?"
Lin Wanqing blinked and thought for a long time before finally understanding what Jiang Fan wanted to say.
But he still asked in disbelief: "Brother Jiang Fan, do you mean that the reason why Qian Sihai wanted to make a big gamble was because the emperor of Zhou Dynasty might want to kill him?"
"It's not a possibility, it's a certainty. The only difference is sooner or later. I believe Qian Sihai made the same judgment as me. So what he used to tempt me was food, not his wealth, which is incomparable to the country."
Jiang Fan said with a smile.
"I...still don't understand."
Lin Wanqing said with a confused look.
"If Wan Ru told me about your Lin family, I wouldn't have understood it. But now that I know about your Lin family, I might understand a little bit. Businessmen are often the people who know the most secrets in the world, so money It is normal for Sihai to have doubts. However, this can only be at the stage of mutual understanding for the time being, and it is impossible to truly clarify."
Jiang Fan said ambiguously.
Lin Wanqing still didn't understand, but just when she was about to get to the bottom of it, something unexpected happened in front of her.
A young scholar wearing a robe was suddenly thrown out of the main entrance of a teahouse in front of her and Jiang Fan.
He fell to the ground sprawled out, throwing up a cloud of dust.
The two strong men who had brought the young scholar out were standing outside the main entrance of the teahouse with their arms folded, their faces full of playful smiles.
"Why are you southerners so arrogant? Are you bullying us, Heyang Renren? This is simply unreasonable!"
The young scholar fell to the ground, looking embarrassed, and shouted loudly full of anger.
"As we have agreed before, we are all competing on the ability to compose poems and lyrics. The one who loses will be thrown out of the teahouse. Since we have agreed, then the loser must be punished. This is a matter of course. What? You Beibei Are all people so unable to afford to lose?"
From the window on the second floor of the tea house, an equally young head poked out and said with a smile.