The princes held their own opinions for their own interests, but there was one thing that could be confirmed. No matter what way of sending troops, the emperor would send troops.

Because this time, we have to rely on the righteousness of the Zhou emperor. Even if we have five or six thousand soldiers, it will be the emperor who will come forward to join the princes and gather some people's hearts and have great righteousness in hand.

But Emperor Zhou is now facing an extremely embarrassing situation.

He was afraid of the Mo family's remarks. Although the princes did not accept him, they did not say that they dared to abolish him.

The Mo family wanted to choose the emperor, but they did not recognize the legitimacy of the Zhou emperor at all.

Of course, the Emperor Zhou Emperor wanted to send troops.

But...no money.

The treasury is empty, the princes do not pay tribute, there are few fiefs, and now soldiers all need weapons such as muskets and gunpowder. Where can I get money?

The Emperor of Zhou has been living a very poor life over the years, otherwise there would have been no legends such as smuggling the Nine Cauldrons and minting coins. There were even more embarrassing rumors in history that the Emperor had "stolen iron words".

Iron refers to weapons such as axes and halberds that symbolize the power of the royal power, which is a taboo by the venerable. In fact, this means that the Emperor Zhou emperor is too poor, and he also knows that he is a puppet, so he took out the things that symbolize the power of the royal power for money. Anyway, it is useless to keep it yourself.

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In Luoyi, several great merchants gathered together to discuss the emperor's borrowing money.

Of course, you can't borrow money for nothing. The emperor borrowed usury. If you win a battle, you will use spoils, slaves, land and other things to repay.

However, the big merchants in Luoyi didn't want to borrow it.

A businessman who made his fortune by wheat flour in the early years and now engaged in the business of smuggling weapons and iron tools was the first to express his opinion: "I will not borrow money. The Mo family said it clearly that if the money borrowed is not printed on Si Shang, once he wins the world in the future, he will not recognize such debts."

"The emperor will finish sooner or later. Once the Mo family wins the world, who will ask me who will go there with the money? Besides, now they buy the government bonds from Si Shang. The merchants say profit. Who will buy the emperor's national bonds in this year?"

A colleague next to him also said, "I won't borrow it either. If I can't win this battle, even if I win, what will the emperor pay back? Is there a king's land under the world... Hahaha, who can believe this now? If I lend him a debt, he can give me a marquis, and I might be able to consider it. But if the title is granted, there must be land. Does he have land to allocate me?"

The merchants had no respect for the emperor. This trend was not brought by the Mo family, but the princes had no respect for the emperor.

Merchants are not people within the patriarchal system, and they lack respect. What can the emperor do?

Just when everyone said they would not borrow money, a speculator who was quite famous in Luoyi said, "Everyone, you guys, this money is not something that cannot be borrowed, as long as it is profitable. Now there is a thing that makes ten times the profit. I wonder if you dare to do it?"

There are very few things like making ten times profit.

It is possible to speculate on the princes and princes, but they must also be a great country.

The situation on the Zhou emperor's side is complicated, and he really can't think of any investment that can make ten times more profitable.

The speculative businessman whispered: "Since the Mo family said that they would inherit the aspirations of Dayu, you can see that there is something in Luoyi that is very close to Dayu."

He just mentioned this, and the rest of the people immediately understood and said, "Are you talking about... Jiuding?"

Among Luoyi, the one with the closest relationship with Dayu was the Nine Cauldrons that collected gold from the world.

The speculative businessman smiled and said, "That's right. It's the Nine Cauldrons. It's rumored that the Yuzhou Cauldrons are in the Sanglin, and the emperor only has eight Cauldrons, but these eight Cauldrons can also make more than ten times more profits."

"Now in this year, the richest buyer is the Si Shang Mo family. We all make profits from Si Shang, overseas trade equity, the profits of Lin ceramics, and gunpowder and firearms. If you ask who in the world has the money to afford the Jiuding, I am afraid that Si Shang Mo family will not be able to do so."

"There have been rumors that the emperor lacks money to raise the cauldron and mint the cauldron. Although he doesn't know whether it is true or not, since there are such rumors, I don't think that these nine cauldrons cannot be bought."

Everyone was excited and thought that this was indeed a way to make ten times more profitable.

Even if a cauldron is five hundred kilograms, then eight cauldrons still have four or five thousand kilograms.

Just according to market experts, it is also the price of six or seven field bronze cannons. Although it is expensive, these merchants can afford it.

Besides, what the Emperor Zhou emperor lacks now is military supplies such as arms, cotton cloth, leather armor.

The troops of nearly one division of six thousand men were nearly one division. According to the mixed and matched hot and cold weapons of the Si Shang Second Line Legion, three thousand muskets, more than two thousand spears, ten bronze cannons, three thousand thick leather armor, and ten thousand cotton coats...

According to this standard, merchants cannot make up, but if they reduce it, don’t have expensive copper cannons. These merchants can make up, mainly the old combs eliminated by Si Shang.

The Emperor Zhou had to take out some things to mortgage, and it was untrue. Besides, there were some contracts on the Si Shang side that were not recognized, such as the fiefdom, but the Si Shang side did not recognize it, thinking that this thing should belong to the people, and the fiefdom was stolen by the noble emperor from the people, and it was invalid.

It is even more unrealistic to expect Emperor Zhou to win the battle. In the eyes of merchants, it is obvious that they cannot win, so this is a loss-making business.

So the best mortgage is Jiuding.

If you win, then you will recover the loan shark and you will never lose money.

If you lose, you will definitely make a profit by selling Jiuding to Si Shang.

However, it is hard to say whether the Zhou emperor can mortgage it.

It is extremely difficult, but after thinking about it, it is just such an item worthy of mortgage. If you don’t agree, you won’t borrow money.

A few days later, the emperor's envoy came again. This time the merchants gave the emperor enough face and set up a banquet to entertain the angels.

While drinking and having fun, the topic was directed to the matter of mortgageing Jiuding to borrow usury.

Although the envoy of the Emperor was filled with some wine, he heard such shocking things and suddenly woke up, slapped the table and shouted angrily: "Absurd! How can the weight of the cauldron be measured by money?"

"Yu collected the gold of the Nine Patriarchs and cast the nine tripods. They all once reaped the gods and ghosts. When they were saints, they were prosperous. The tripods moved to Xia and Shang. The Shang Dynasty had no virtue, and the tripods followed Zhou. This was the weapon of the emperor and the sacrifice of God and ghosts. How could they allow defilement?"

When the merchants heard this, they thought it was impossible, and they all said, "Since that's the case, it's difficult to borrow."

The envoy of the emperor was furious and said, "The people said that the merchants knew profit but did not know righteousness. As expected, this was true. This attack on Mo was a great righteousness in the world. It was really a gentleman who spoke of righteousness, while a villain said of profit. The disaster of the Mo family had no virtue to come to this."

The businessman who proposed to mortgage the Nine Cauldrons snorted coldly: "What is great righteousness? The great righteousness of scholars and nobles is always noble, and the common people, farmers, industry and commerce are both inferior. Why do we have to be righteous from now on?"

"We lend money to the emperor, so that we can continue to be inferior to others? Isn't this ridiculous? How could this be different from lending swords to thieves, who have let the thieves kill themselves?"

"If everyone is equal and only considers wealth, if I have money, I can live in the residence of the emperor and usurp the dance of the eight mortals... In this world's drastic changes, all we and the merchants lost were shackles, and what we got would be the whole world. How can we say we don't give a lecture?"

"It's just that in our opinion, righteousness is profit. The righteousness of our merchants is not the righteousness of your gentlemen."

These traits were said at the banquet, and at the banquet in Luoyi where the emperor lived. If it were decades ago, it would have been horrifying, but now it is just ordinary words.

The envoy of the emperor sneered: "The Mo family said profit, but they said that they would benefit each other, but they did not follow the righteousness. The merchants seek profit, no wonder you should be humble. When the two countries fight, as long as they are profitable, I am afraid that you can invest in the enemy country."

The merchants were not afraid. Those who were qualified to be borrowed by the Emperor of Zhou were all simple kings. Although they had no fiefdom, they had a lot of wealth, and at worst they could go to Si, so they were naturally not afraid.

After hearing what the emperor envoy said, the merchant smiled and said, "A gentleman is righteous, but a villain seeks profit. Since we are humble, we should ask the gentleman to raise military expenses by himself."

"Today we will express our opinion. Now, in Luoyi, we can borrow only a few of us to collect the army needed by the emperor in the first division. However, if we want to borrow a few of us, we will not be able to use Nine Dings as collateral, otherwise we will be exempted from negotiations."

"A gentleman is righteous, and he also asks all gentlemen in the world to pay military expenses for the emperor. We villains only know how to seek profit, but we will not do it without profit."

The envoy of the emperor was so choked by these words that he couldn't speak. What a bullshit thing is to suppress these businessmen who have always had low status.

If there is great righteousness in the world, why would the emperor be so compatible? If there is great righteousness, where would the three families divide the Jintian clan into Qi?

If today's conquest, I can't even raise the military expenses. How many gentlemen have destroyed their families and sold their property to join the army of the emperor?

After all, you have to borrow usury from the merchants to gather an army, and the emperor has authority.

Otherwise, the emperor would only be regarded as a despicable by the princes. This is the time when the emperor could use the threat of the Mo family to revive justice. How could he miss it?

The princes were unwilling to borrow money and were poor. If they could arm the 6,000 army, they would naturally increase their troops in the vassals first. How could they lend the money to the Emperor Zhou?

Even if these merchants say so arrogantly, the envoy of the emperor will have no choice. Even if they cannot borrow money from these merchants, the emperor will have to rely on these merchants to buy arms and weapons from Si, etc. in the future.

When the merchants saw that the emperor's envoy was defeated, they said seriously: "It's not that we are unwilling to borrow, but this battle will inevitably be unprofitable. If we win, we may be able to repay the money; if we lose, what can we pay us back? Even if we make a fortune for a year, can the emperor afford it again?"

The envoy of the emperor was helpless. Zhou Li Dayi had nothing to do with the merchants. On the contrary, the merchants were still shackles. It was impossible to rely on Dayi to make these merchants pay.

Moreover, merchants are all villains, and villains can only be used to benefit, but the emperor really has no interests to mortgage.

The merchant asked for nine tripods when he asked for nine tripods. If he hadn’t borrowed nine tripods, how could he agree?

Finally, the envoy of the emperor tempted, "If you donate money, the emperor can make you a soldier..."

When the merchant heard this, he laughed and said, "All scholars have land. Where is the fief of ours? Besides, the money we wait for is enough to be a simple king. Even if we don't have a fief, we can still eat the cauldron. What's the use of this sage?"

Aside from speaking, the merchant thought to himself that the Mo family was about to choose the emperor, and the emperor was about to be finished. He wanted to borrow money even if he even appointed us as scholars. If you dream, whoever wants to be the noble now is, we are not good at all. Then the Mo family will come over and settle us again. That would be a bad thing.

The banquet ended up in disagreement, and the messenger returned to the emperor.
Chapter completed!