"This money isn't anything shady; it's all hard-earned by everyone, so what's there to be embarrassed about?"
"Today is the first day of the third month, the day we agreed on before, when the Marquis's mansion would pay wages and distribute dividends."
"This is the dividend everyone will receive in February."
"Although it's only been ten days, the income has exceeded my expectations."
Upon hearing this, all the military officers beamed with joy and said one by one, "It's all thanks to the Marquis!"
"Yes, yes, if it weren't for Lord Marquis, where would we have the opportunity to make so much money?"
"That's right. From now on, my life, Pan Feng's life, is the Marquis's life; my body, Pan Feng's body, is the Marquis's body. I am willing to go through fire and water for the Marquis, even unto death."
Xing Daorong: "Me too!"
Hearing these military officers address him as "Lord Marquis" with such familiarity, as if he were speaking to his own father, Li Chang'an felt somewhat helpless.
"Alright, alright, stop flattering me. I just hope that when you get to the battlefield, you'll remember what I said today."
After saying that, he stood up, took out the account book, and continued...
"Open the chest and divide the silver."
"General Yang Wenguang, five shops, a profit of 195,402 taels!"
Upon hearing about the dividend, Yang Wenguang's mind went completely blank.
The thought of only 190,000 taels of silver kept echoing in his ears.
When he got married, his wife was a lady from a prominent family in Jiangnan West Road. When he married his wife, his father-in-law received 388,000 taels of silver from him.
He emptied his parents' savings before he could start a family and build a career.
The father-in-law's return gift consisted of only two quilts.
That night, he cried under the covers.
He felt hopeless about his life, but unexpectedly, in just ten days, he earned back half of the gift money.
This excited him so much that he began to tremble all over.
"Because it was gold that was issued, I was too lazy to bother with accounts less than ten taels of silver, so I rounded them up to whole numbers for you."
"Hey, General Yang, did you hear that?"
General Yang!
Yang Wenguang only came to his senses when he heard the shouts, and quickly replied, "Okay, okay!"
Li Chang'an looked at him and shook his head.
This is nothing; with just this little bit of silver, they've turned into this mess.
If they were to see the tens of millions of taels of gold stored in their warehouse, they would surely die on the spot.
Looking at the names in the ledger, Li Chang'an called them out one by one.
The generals who were named led their men, each carrying a box, and filled it with their own gold.
They had no objection whatsoever to the Marquis's act of distributing gold.
Gold is easy to carry, much better than silver.
Moreover, it was a hard currency; regardless of the dynasty, gold was the most precious form of currency.
They certainly had no objections.
Silver in prosperous times, gold in chaotic times.
In the Ming Dynasty, gold is more popular than silver.
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