Zhao Xiaole explained with a smile: "Actually, to put it simply, I want to buy some property. If you are interested, you can invest in my property."
"I will give you a certain proportion of shares based on how much you invest. With these shares, you can pay dividends to my industry every year, that is, share money."
"The proportion of dividends is divided according to the proportion of your investment."
"How's it going? Are you interested in this?"
After listening to his explanation, everyone present suddenly understood.
They looked at each other, and then said to Zhao Xiaole: "Your Excellency wants to buy some properties, how can we not support it? My Li family is willing to invest a thousand taels of gold!"
"That's right, Mr. Zhao has worked so hard for us, the people of Chuzhou, and now if he wants to buy some property, we will naturally help him. My Wang family is also willing to invest a thousand taels of gold!"
"My Liu family is also willing to pay a thousand taels!"
"...."
"We, Shengxuan Winery, are also willing to invest one hundred taels of gold!"
Shopkeeper Wu Mingcheng of Shengxuan Winery gritted his teeth and said.
Those who run the winery business naturally cannot compare with the wealth of these famous families.
But he still gritted his teeth and invested one hundred taels of gold.
There is no other reason than wanting to buy some peace of mind.
Others, Zhao Xiaole, are talking so nicely now, saying what investment is, and will give them dividends in the future.
But these people don’t believe a word of it!
As ordinary people, they have long understood the character of these court officials.
It's nothing more than cleverly setting up some names to collect money for myself.
If you believe his lies and really ask for dividends next year, you will definitely be targeted to death by this adult.
So once the investment was revealed, they would just treat the money as a tribute to Zhao Xiaole and spend it to buy peace.
And after receiving this money, it will be easier for Zhao Xiaole to do things in the future, right?
So even though their hearts were bleeding, the wine shop owners still handed over the money one by one.
Zhao Xiaole naturally understood what they were thinking, but he saw through it without saying anything. Instead, he said to Xie Junhao on the side: "General Xie, why don't you hurry up and write down all the investments of the family heads?"
However, Xie Junhao remained motionless and froze on the spot.
At this time, his mind went blank, and the words of the residents vying to contribute funds kept echoing in his ears.
He did a simple calculation, and in just a few breaths, Zhao Xiaole raised tens of thousands of taels of gold!
You know, this is gold! Not bricks!
And even bricks worth tens of thousands of taels can be sold for a lot of money, right?
Xie Junhao's head was a little dazed.
No wonder Zhao Xiaole said that their military expenditures have been secured. This is true.
With these tens of thousands of taels of gold, what do they want from their army?
But at this moment, he was trembling with excitement and shook his head violently: "No, this is absolutely not possible!"
"Um?"
Suddenly, a series of surprised eyes looked at him.
I don't understand why he was so excited all of a sudden.
However, Xie Junhao completely ignored their looks, but looked at Zhao Xiaole with great excitement and said: "No, you absolutely cannot accept this money!"
Zhao Xiaole was stunned for a moment, then immediately smiled, and his eyes when looking at Xie Junhao became softer, "Brother Xie, it's not what you imagined. Please listen to my explanation..."
Xie Junhao interrupted Zhao Xiaole, looked at him with sharp eyes and said: "I know you want to solve the problem of the army's poverty as soon as possible, but you shouldn't use this method!"
"Once you start taking bribes, officials and people throughout Chuzhou will imitate you and pay you bribes. What will you do then? Don't accept it? I'm afraid it's impossible, right?"
"But if you accept it, you will be held responsible by the court when the time comes!"
"So you must not accept this money! We can find other ways to solve the military affairs instead of relying on bribes!"
His expression and tone were full of urgency and worry.
After these days of getting along, he was really worried about Zhao Xiaole's future situation before he spoke out.
He didn't persuade Sun Fu before, but now he doesn't want Zhao Xiaole to fall into the abyss again!
The heads of the surrounding families looked at Xie Junhao with very strange eyes, wondering if he was stupid.
Isn't this a clear offense?
Who among the people present doesn’t know that this is Zhao Xiaole taking bribes in disguise, but who dares not to give it?
Only the stupid guy in front of me not only refused to give it, but even stopped Zhao Xiaole from receiving the money.
And he bluntly pointed out that this matter was bribery!
Everyone immediately took a few steps back, away from Xie Junhao.
He was afraid that Zhao Xiaole would get angry with him and get himself involved.
However, there was no sign of anger on Zhao Xiaole's face. Instead, he said with a bitter smile: "Brother Xie, have you really misunderstood me? Am I like the kind of person who likes to take bribes?"
"Huh? Doesn't it look like it?"
Hearing these words, the surrounding family heads all looked at Zhao Xiaole, as if they were saying in their hearts, "You took away a lot of treasures from our family the day you took office, and you just forgot about it?"
Xie Junhao was stunned.
Based on his understanding of Zhao Xiaole during this period, he felt that Zhao Xiaole was indeed not such a person.
If he wanted to accept bribes, the state government's finances would be almost unsustainable.
He won't have to dig into his own pocket to buy military supplies for the military camp.
He would not risk being killed to overthrow the Huang family in Gao County.
But Zhao Xiaole did all these things that were not very smart in the eyes of those wealthy families, and he did them very thoroughly.
Would such a person be a corrupt official with no bottom line?
Seeing Xie Junhao calm down, Zhao Xiaole turned around with a smile and said to all the masters: "Actually, everyone misunderstood just now. I don't want to take the opportunity to collect your 'protection money', but I really want to buy a house that can improve the people of Chuzhou."
Living standard industry.”
"Forehead?"
His words made all the family heads and bosses even more stunned.
I thought to myself, doesn’t he really want to take bribes?
But how can it be easy to buy a property?
Their family has worked hard for generations to achieve such a small fortune, and now Zhao Xiaole alone wants to achieve this?
Although Zhao Xiaole is an official and it is much easier to do things, they are not optimistic about it.
If they don't use some underhanded tactics to gain privileges, they will definitely not be able to compare with Zhao Xiaole, who has been a businessman for generations.
So everyone was silent about it.
Zhao Xiaole also knew that this was indeed not convincing enough, so he shouted: "Hongni, bring in the things outside!"
"yes!"
A sound like red mud and silver bells rang outside.
Immediately afterwards, everyone saw Hong Ni walking in from outside holding a wine jar.
As soon as they came in, the rich aroma of wine became stronger, twitching their taste buds, making the group of people swallow their saliva and want to taste it.
Seeing this, Zhao Xiaole immediately smiled and said: "This is the property I want to buy!"