Yang Boxing brought more than a hundred people to Zhujiazhuang. Li Yuchun Yan my father-in-law personally came to the door to greet them, and Yang Boxing handed them a list.
"There are one hundred and eight people in total. They are all traitors who joined the captors and surrendered to the thieves. They all should have been killed by a thousand cuts, but the ministry is kind and now these people are handed over to you. According to the agreement, you will give the ministry a reward of one hundred thousand.
For the eight thousand taels of IOU, remember to press your fingerprints." He said expressionlessly.
Li Yuchun looked at these people, they seemed to be the same people who saved him last night.
Yan Wogong nodded to him, "They are all my relatives, friends and fellow villagers. They are loyal to our Qing Dynasty. I also ask the military to take them away."
Li Yuchun showed rare generosity, "Okay, I'll pay the IOU."
Yan Wogong took a pen and paper to write the IOU, Li Yuchun signed and stamped it with his thumbprint, and Yang Boxing took it and showed it to the deputy supervisor of his battalion.
The deputy supervisor of the battalion, who was also recruited into the camp from Kanpu, looked at it carefully, pointed at the IOU and said, "There is no interest written on it. How can there be no interest on such a large amount of debt? The ministry said it was for
If you want a discount, just give it a three-cent interest rate. It lasts for one year. If it is less than one year, you will still be charged one year. The interest is 38,888.
If it is not repaid after one year, it will be calculated as compound interest, and the interest will be four cents. If it is less than one year, it will still be calculated as one year. No matter how much is owed, interest will still be calculated on the full amount. The total annual interest is 66,600.
Sixty-two two-four.
The deputy supervisor of the military camp who was a civil servant had a very good calculation mind. He did not even need an abacus and just reported the numbers directly.
"If it is repaid within one year, the principal will be one hundred and eight hundred thousand taels, and the interest will be thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and eight hundred. If it is repaid within two years, the principal will be one hundred and eight hundred thousand, and the interest in the two years will total one hundred and five thousand five thousand."
One hundred and fifty-four taels and four cents."
Li Yuchun's face turned dark, "Isn't the interest rate too high?"
"But three points to four points, how can it be considered high? Haven't you ever understood the real usury?"
Li Yuchun gritted his teeth. Seeing that it was getting dark, he just wanted to leave this tiger's nest and dragon pool as soon as possible. "Okay, please Mr. Yan draw up another IOU and add interest. We will try our best to repay it within one year."
"My lord is easy to talk to. It doesn't matter if you can repay it within one year. Of course, if you still can't pay it off within two years, then there will be five points of compound interest in the third year."
Li Yuchun couldn't help but tremble.
Yan Wogong reminded him that according to this calculation, the interest alone in the third year would be more than 69,000 taels, plus the interest of more than 100,000 taels in the first two years, plus the principal of 100,000, it would be almost 300,000 taels.
Two, double, small, two.
Yan Wogong re-drafted the IOU, but the supervisor added another sentence.
"Don't forget to add the handling fee."
"What's the handling fee?" Li Yuchun was a little confused. He was used to leading troops to rob, but now he felt that these guys were more powerful than him in robbing.
"Li Junmen may have never borrowed private loans. Don't you usually have to go out and return at 13 taels? If you borrow 10 taels of silver, you will actually be given only 9 taels. When you finally pay it back, you will have to pay back 13 taels. Of course,
Interest is generally calculated on the basis of ten taels.”
Li Yuchun's face turned black and red. Is this one stab after another?
Three cents of interest in one year, four cents of compound interest in two years, five cents of compound interest in three years, almost twice as much in three years, what are you talking about to me now?
"One code returns to another code. Let's follow the folk custom. We will follow the old rule of nine out and thirteen returns. What we just talked about was interest. Now we talk about handling fees. The principal of this one hundred and eight hundred taels of silver
, not counting interest in the end, after the principal is returned, there will be an additional handling fee of 40,000 taels, and the 800 taels will not be counted."
Li Yuchun now wants to say that he doesn't want those 108 traitorous squires anymore. Whoever wants them will have to pay a ransom of one thousand taels of silver per person. Now they are still playing with him with compound interest of three points and four points, and they still have to charge four points.
Why don't you grab the handling fee directly? That would be faster.
Yang Boxing looked at Li Yuchun's uncertain face and reminded him coldly, "You have agreed to this before. If you regret it now, all the previous agreements will be in vain."
"It's getting late. After dark, we will set up artillery to attack."
Li Yuchun couldn't even regret it now.
It was Yan Woggong who reminded him in a low voice that he had to overcome the immediate difficulties first. As for interest or handling fees, it was just money. Problems that money could solve were not problems, not to mention it was just an IOU.
As long as we leave this shoal and flat land, we are afraid that there will be no room for turning around. Even if we really want to pay back the money, we won't be able to pay it back.
Li Yuchun took a few deep breaths and felt that Mr. Yan was right. No matter how hard he worked, he would just pay it off within one year. The interest of 38,880 yuan, the handling fee of 40,000 yuan, and the principal of 100,000 yuan would only be 18,000 yuan.
Ten thousand taels, just grab more big ones.
As long as you keep your life and status, it won't be a problem.
A magistrate can make one hundred thousand taels of snowflake silver in three years. He is the dignified deputy general of a town and controls seven counties in Jiaxing, but he is afraid that he will not be able to make one hundred and eight hundred thousand taels.
"Write."
Yan Wogong re-wrote the IOU, and according to the supervisor's request, he wrote down the amount of one hundred and eight hundred taels owed, and then agreed on the interest and handling fees.
Everything was written as required by the supervisor, and Li Yuchun pressed his fingerprint again.
The supervisor looked at it and put it in his arms.
"You have also forgotten the one hundred thousand taels of silver to redeem the city. Write another one for the silver to redeem the city based on the previous redemption note. The conditions are the same."
Li Yuchun's lips were already trembling. Even if he paid off the two sums of money within a year, in addition to the principal of 208,000 taels, he would have to pay back 157,760 taels of interest plus handling fees. This is still
It can be paid off within one year, otherwise it will be four cents of compound interest in the second year, five cents of compound interest in the third year, and the compound interest will double in three years, and you will not be able to pay it off even if you sell your butt.
"I would also like to ask Mr. Li to write a letter of surrender to our ministry and a letter of allegiance to our Royal Highness."
Li Yuchun said nothing with a dark face.
"Don't worry, these won't be made public. As long as Li Junmen keeps doing things as agreed."
Yan Wogong tugged at Li Yuchun's clothes.
"Okay, please ask Mr. Yan to write it for me and I will press my fingerprints."
He put the letter of surrender into his arms again, and the supervisor nodded and said it was no problem.
One hundred and eight squires were handed over to Li Yuchun, and then Li Yuchun and the others could leave.
Li Yuchun had already selected 500 men, and tried to pick as many old brothers as possible. If there were not enough old brothers, he picked some strong ones, and finally gathered 500 men, each of whom only carried one knife.
Yang Boxing personally led a team of Yu Lin to inspect in front of Zhujiazhuang. They counted each one and searched their bodies to make sure they did not bring extra weapons or carry any gold or silver.
Fifty Yu Lin carefully searched the five hundred people, and finally found a lot of gold and silver.
Li Yuchun and Yan Wogong were allowed to bring a horse, but the others only left a sword, bow, arrow, armor, etc. behind.
The first battalion was only allowed to retain one additional green flag.
Yang Boxing led people into Zhujiazhuang and first took over the strong men, women, property, livestock, weapons, food and grass left in the village, making sure that they were not damaged before coming out and letting them go.
"Did you see the big red flag in Hujiao?"
"You can take your people in for a walk now, and then go to Jiaxing Mansion."
Li Yuchun's hands were shaking a little. He had never encountered such a ridiculous thing since he joined the army. He was very worried that the fake admiral had been playing tricks on him. Is it possible that the camp was full of archers? There were five hundred of them carrying knives and even armor.
As soon as the men and horses without them entered, they fired their bows and arrows and killed them all.
But now he has no choice.
Although he could choose to defend Zhujiazhuang and wait for backup, Li Yuchun did not have the determination, nor the courage, and did not even believe in the few remaining defeated soldiers under his command.
When Zhu Yihai drew a path for him and gave him a glimmer of hope, Li Yuchun chose this path without hesitation.
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"Your Highness, let me lead people to kill all these thieves. Now that they only have a knife in their hand, we can easily wipe them all out." Zhang Mingyang requested.
Zhu Yihai watched from the boat in the lake as the puppet soldiers carefully entered the empty camp with uneasiness and high nervousness.
This is the last scene of this ridiculous drama.
"Although Li Yuchun deserves to die, he is a talent that can be made. It would be a pity to kill him with one knife. Only such a person can be found. Keep him well so that he can be of greater use in the future."
"Your Highness, aren't you afraid that this guy will immediately turn his back on him as soon as he escapes from here?"
"The possibility of this is very high, but even if it is true, we will not suffer much loss. Besides, don't we still have the surrender letter, the IOU, and the cooperation contract that he wrote to us?
If he really refuses to admit his guilt, will he still be alive if we throw these out?"
"So there is a high probability that as long as he is not crazy, he will not dare to turn his back and admit his fault. We will let him go now, but we will also hold him tightly. From now on, he will be our ant on the rope.
Grasshopper, you can't escape."
"Your Highness, this kind of person has no credibility whatsoever."
"I know, but it's worth a try, isn't it?"
Many people in the army still have some doubts about Zhu Yihai's decision.
However, people like Shen Chenquan still expressed their support. After all, Zhu Yihai's concerns were not unfounded. It was indeed difficult to deal with the Bolo army now. But leaving Li Yuchun behind, he just had his teeth pulled out.
The tiger is no longer a threat.
Keeping him in Jiaxing would actually provide him with a shield, which could fool Bolo but not pose a threat.
Jiaxing Prefecture and even the county towns may not need to fight for the time being, but they can control the countryside first like they did in Haiyan during this period, crack down on the traitors who surrendered in the countryside, as well as the ruffians and bandits, etc., and restore public order in the countryside.
, you can also base yourself in western Zhejiang, recruit troops, train and grow here.
Zhu Yihai is not sure how long this ridiculous drama can last, but it would be good to buy a little more time now.
He now hopes to base himself in Jiaxing and then develop to Huzhou and Hangzhou. At the same time, he is already contacting the anti-Qing forces in the Susong area.
We need to take a long-term view, but we have to take steady steps.
It is true that Li Yuchun, a weakling and a leader in troubled times, has no loyalty at all. However, it is precisely because of this characteristic that Zhu Yihai feels that he can cooperate for the time being. After all, he will not really sacrifice his life for the Tatars, and he can only be reduced to a general.
It is for the sake of official rank and career interests, how can one be truly loyal to the emperor and patriotic?
Would he put his own life and interests second for the sake of the Tatars? No.
All Li Yuchun wanted was to save his life, and even if he could keep his official position, and keep his troops, swords and guns, these were not unacceptable to Zhu Yihai. He could act in a few scenes with him and let this guy "do some great work in quelling the chaos", and even
Going further is not a problem, as long as he is willing to cooperate, it is indeed a win-win situation.
"Get ready, let's go to Haiyan County next."
"Haiyan County is also going to be given to Li Thief? But now it is controlled by Zheng Jiwu and Zhu Dayou's men."
"Let's go meet them and see if we can persuade them to surrender to the Tartar camp for the time being."
"What do you mean?" Several civil servants and generals didn't quite understand. How could any of them persuade their own men to surrender the thieves?
"You heard it right, I plan to persuade Zheng Jiwu, Zhu Gang and others to bring Haiyan County and Haining Guards to surrender to the Qing Dynasty."
"······"
"Of course, in reality it is just an act. On the surface, he is surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, but in reality he is still one of ours."
"Isn't this too much?"
"Try it, you won't lose anything if you try it." Zhu Yihai said with a smile.