The second lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion is the future princess consort of Prince Chen. Even if the grain is handed over to Prince Chen, I believe Zhu Lei would not dare to embezzle it.
But just because he was willing to have the grain taken away didn't mean he didn't want the money.
He bought all these grains from Li Mengyue on behalf of the village. Even if it was only two cents per pound, it still cost money.
What's more, the village now needs money to build reservoirs and dig rivers. The key is that the money spent will not be less every day. He dare not even think about how much money it will cost when the reservoir is built.
But now every penny spent in the village is borrowed from Li Mengyue.
Another point is that in addition to Xinghua Village borrowing money, the same is true for Lianhua Village, Taohua Village, Shitou Village, Guihua Village, Meihua Village, and Zhoujia Village.
Ever since the other seven villages began catching locusts every day and selling them to the Li family, and later joined the other counties in exterminating locusts, the relationship between the seven villages has become increasingly close.
Even the construction of the reservoir and the digging of the river were done by the joint efforts of the seven villages, so all the money spent by the seven villages was paid by Li Mengyue.
Although the money for building the reservoir and digging the canal was lent to everyone by Li Mengyue, it still needs to be repaid in the future.
None of them is stupid. The village is so poor that they have no idea when they can earn enough money to return to Li Mengyue.
Even though Li Mengyue said that the village income would increase after the market was built, there was no need to worry about not being able to pay back the money.
But the seven village heads all believed that Li Mengyue said this to comfort them. Even if a market was built in the village, it would not make money if no one traded.
Besides, if the villagers want to make money from the market, the only way is to charge stall fees.
But which businessman would be willing to rent a stall in a village market? Even if he rents it for a month and can't sell his goods, how could he continue to rent it?
If no one renews the lease, there will naturally be no income. Without income, the village will have no other way to make money.
After all, it was difficult for everyone to even have enough to eat, let alone earn extra money to pay off their debts.
In other words, Li Mengyue paid for everyone to build a reservoir. He believed that Li Mengyue must have known about this, but she still did it without hesitation, which moved him beyond words.
But now, if Li Mengyue sells the grain to the villagers at a low price, it will be taken away by the people of Zhulin Village. Although the grain is for the soldiers under King Chen to eat, he has never thought of not asking for money.
Even if we can't keep the food, we can't let Li Mengyue lose more money.
"Village Chief Zhu, you took all the food away and said it was for Prince Chen. We accepted it, but you can't refuse to pay."
"Here, who said we wouldn't give it to you? Here's fifty taels of silver. Take it."
Liu Quan took out a bag of silver from his pocket and threw it directly to Village Chief Li.
It was just that Village Chief Li was caught off guard and failed to catch the silver, so it fell to the ground. Village Chief Li bent down to pick up the silver, and then spoke seriously.
"There are 20,000 catties of grain in the warehouse. At two cents a catty, 40 taels of silver will suffice."
After saying that, he took out ten taels of silver and handed it to Liu Quan, but Liu Quan did not take it.
He didn't even care about the mere ten taels of silver. Since he got so much food from Xinghua Village, he would regard the ten taels of silver as a reward.
"Take it, Master Liu, I'll give it to you as a reward."
Village chief Li insisted on not taking it, and Zhu Lei grabbed the silver.
"Master Liu, even though Village Chief Li doesn't want it, you don't have to give him face. You can give these ten taels of silver to Xiaoye."
"Okay, you can use it to handle your grandson's funeral."
"Okay, okay, thank you, Master Liu. If Si Jin knew about this in the afterlife, he would definitely thank you, Master Liu."
"No, don't thank me."
Liu Quan always liked to hear flattery, but he felt uncomfortable with Zhu Lei's flattery. He didn't want the dead man's thanks.
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