mesbooks Chapter 257: Collecting Protection Fees to Make More Money
Chapter 257: Collecting Protection Fees to Make More Money
Hearing this, Zhang Xiaolan was dumbfounded. She really wanted to ask, "What's wrong with you?"
"Do you think Li Jize's palace is the same as this place? How can you take it down alone? You'll just die if you go there!"
"I'd rather die than save my junior sister!"
After saying that, Yan Anxun stopped talking nonsense and turned around to go.
Seeing his back, Zhang Xiaolan was so angry that her teeth were itching. "Go away, go away, who cares about your life or death! Really!"
Zhang Xiaolan turned around angrily and wanted to leave. Let him die. What does it have to do with her if this fool wants to die?
……
Inside the Prince of Qin's Palace...
The entire palace was in a state of chaos. Not only was Li Jin dumbfounded, but Huang Suqiu was also confused.
Looking at the servants coming and going, she reached out and grabbed one of them. "Hey, what's going on? What's going on now? What are you all so busy doing?"
The maid smiled awkwardly and replied directly, "Your Highness wants to peel garlic!"
"Pickled garlic?"
Huang Suqiu looked around in confusion. Wow! Is this a bit exaggerated?
"Even if he wants to eat garlic, is it necessary for so many people to pick it? How much garlic would he need to eat?"
"I don't know. Your Highness wants to take out all the garlic in the palace, and even go out to buy more. He wants as much as he can get!"
Ah this...
After the servant said this, he hurried downstairs to do his work, but he deceived Huang Suqiu.
What's going on? What's wrong with my son?
Why do I want to eat garlic for no reason, and eat so much garlic? What the hell is going on?
At this time, her husband Li Jin also came over, and he also had a puzzled look on his face, "What on earth is that rebellious son doing?"
Huang Suqiu smiled awkwardly, especially the word "rebellious son" was too harsh. It must have been embarrassing for everyone who heard it, right?
"I don't know. I don't know either. Why don't we go and take a look?"
Huang Suqiu's words made Li Jin skeptical, and the couple followed her to take a look.
At this moment in the Qin Palace, a group of servants and maids were kneeling there, crying their hearts out.
Wuuwuwu… Wuuwuwu…
"Your Highness, I really can't stand it anymore!"
"Your Highness, can you please let me change?"
Garlic isn't as scary as onions, which can make you cry the first time you eat it. But when you have enough garlic and you have to crush it, it can be really deadly.
Li Jize didn't care about that. He spat, "This is just peeling garlic. I didn't ask you to purify the wine. Why are you crying? If you keep crying, you will burn coal for me!"
As expected, everyone shut up, but what was the other side doing?
Purified alcohol, of course!
How to purify alcohol?
There is no need to go around in circles. Just buy the liquor and then use it to distill and purify it!
Moreover, this purification is not done once, but three times!
After purification three times, we will get a strong alcohol with a concentration of 95%, but generally speaking, the purity of medicinal alcohol is 75%.
What should I do?
Add distilled water to dilute it, and dilute it to 75% to get medicinal alcohol.
Under the couple's surprised gaze, Li Jize's activities became more and more ambitious. Even the servants and maids in the palace were not enough. He directly took out his token and asked the palace guards to mobilize troops to help.
On the one hand, the army came to help, and on the other hand, of course, the entire palace was sealed off. The things here are all rare and precious, and the news cannot be leaked out.
Allicin and medicinal alcohol are simply epoch-making masterpieces. How many lives have been saved by their emergence?
Dad Li Jin's eyes were rolling around. At the beginning, he was very disgusted and disliked his son, and it's the same now!
but now……
He had been in Qingzhou for such a long time, so naturally he knew the changes in Qingzhou and understood why the people of Qingzhou loved the "rebellious son".
Because in addition to being a war organization and a civil affairs organization, the Qin Palace was also the birthplace of "strange skills and tricks".
In this era, craftsmen are the most despised people!
If life didn't require it, who would be willing to become a craftsman?
But the strange thing is that Li Jize, perhaps because he had become addicted to playing dumb and playing with "strange tricks" before, actually developed this thing vigorously in Qingzhou.
Originally, everyone looked down on it, but now look at it again...
People played with these things and made guns and cannons, as well as "stone roads" and four-wheeled carriages everywhere.
Is it possible that...
Li Jin's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought that these things in front of him might be another new invention of his rebellious son?
If that's the case, it might be something extraordinary!
Thinking of this, he kept moving forward to see what was going on.
Hmm! He smelled the aroma of wine, and this smell...
Good guy! Good guy!
He had never smelled such a strong and mellow scent. What was his rebellious son trying to do?
Could it be that he was going to sell some wine? Could it be that he had no more money?
Thinking about this, my father couldn't help but feel ecstatic in his heart, Ha! Great! Great!
The rebellious son was not satisfied with having 50,000 Qin troops, and he actually wanted to expand his army. What was most exaggerated was that he captured so many prisoners but he didn't want any of them, and captured them all.
It was such a cruel thing. Why do you think people in ancient times killed prisoners so often? The highest record was that 400,000 people were buried alive in a single battle.
To put it bluntly, we simply don't have the money or food to support them!
Didn’t the ancients think about labor reform, didn’t they think that these prisoners of war could create value?
But food production was scarce during that period, and it was not enough for themselves to eat, so how could it be enough for the prisoners of war?
If you let them go, these guys will go back and pick up weapons and come back to beat you up again, and it will never end.
There is no other way. Killing by trapping is the safest, most direct and economical way.
Only Li Jize was an exception. He neither recruited them nor killed them. He even kept these people.
Hey! Li Jin thought it was funny. He was overestimating his own abilities. He must have no money left, so this unfilial son had to generate income again.
I wonder if selling wine and garlic can make up for his huge loss?
How could he afford to support so many soldiers and prisoners in just Qingzhou?
Obviously, Li Jin was driven crazy by poverty and afraid of hardship. His thinking and vision were still stuck in the era of the empress...
What he could never have imagined was how profitable Tianjiang could make by collecting "protection fees"!
He didn't know how much money he could earn from selling arms. Not to mention 50,000 troops! Even if he had another 100,000 or 150,000, Li Jize could still support them.