This storm did not cause much trouble to Li Ling and the others, because they had experienced too many dangerous moments before this. Compared with that time, this incident was nothing.

What Li Ling cares more about is the reaction of Baiyitang in the future. If they can really cooperate with him and use it for themselves, they will save much effort in doing things next. Compared with the imperial guards who are not familiar with the ground of Huguang and are more conspicuous, these people in the martial arts world have a much greater role in certain things.

But in addition to this, there is another thing he needs to solve as soon as possible, that is, to take out the 300,000 stones of grain to buy silver. That is 112,500 taels of silver, which is about 7,000 kilograms. Li Ling and the others can't bring so much cash silver with them here. As for silver notes, it is not common in various parts of Dayue now.

In other words, the silver notes in Jiangnan or Beijing cannot be exchanged directly in the money shop in Huguang. They must be guaranteed by local wealthy households or persons with status, and then exchanged for local silver notes elsewhere before they can be redeemed. Of course, for Li Ling, as long as they can exchange local silver notes, it is enough.

Fortunately, the business of Zongheng Bookstore has expanded to Huguang. Although it has not arrived in a small county like Guang'an, there is a Suizhou family. As long as the shopkeeper there brings relevant letters, everything will not be a problem. Of course, this takes time, and this is why Li Ling told the Ruyi Tower that it will take two days to pay.

By noon the next day, the shopkeeper of the Huguang bookstore finally came in a hurry. Not only did he bring relevant evidence, but he even brought thousands of silver with him. He thought that this was an urgent need for the owner, but he took time out the cash from the bookstore.

Li Ling just said a few polite words, then asked casually: "What is the situation in Suizhou now?"

"If you go back to your home, the situation in Suizhou is not optimistic after the disaster. Although some wealthy families are willing to provide porridge and relief every day, the people still cannot eat, and they are about to sell their children... Our bookstore has also taken some money to help the victims nearby, but it is not easy to buy food even if we have money."

Li Ling nodded: "Let's go, help me get things done first. By the way, from now on, I'm no longer your boss. Can you call me Manager Ling, remember?"

The shopkeeper was also a smart person. He immediately knew that his boss needed to hide his true identity. He nodded and responded: "Don't worry, storekeeper Ling, remember it."

At this moment, a few people went to the only money house here. When Li Ling took out the silver notes worth tens of thousands to exchange them here, the shopkeeper of the money house was shocked. He had never done such a big deal for many years.

"Shopkeeper, you are a little embarrassed. How can we get so much money from our small county town branch? And you are still the silver notes from the capital..." The shopkeeper looked embarrassed, but it was hard to refuse directly. After all, if someone can give such a large amount of money, his identity is obviously not ordinary.

Li Ling smiled, "You don't have to make things difficult for the shopkeeper. I didn't say I needed to come up with the money from you. I just need the silver bills. Moreover, you saw that this is the trust of Suizhou Zongheng Bookstore. With them as a guarantee, are you still worried that these silver bills will be fake?"

"Of course this is impossible. The old man has seen many bank notes for the Yutong bank in Beijing, and these are not fake. Moreover, looking at the style of the two, they are not that bad, so naturally there will be no fakes."

"That's it. Everything is done according to the rules. Just issue a silver note that can withdraw money from Suizhou. What else is there to be a dilemma?" Li Ling continued, "Even if you have cross-regional distribution rules in your bank account, I will not lose you half a penny."

Seeing that he said this, the other party was doing this business and naturally it was difficult to refuse, so he could only nod and agreed. Then he checked it carefully. Although he had just said that he could trust Li Ling and the others, he still had to check it at this time.

After more than half an hour of inspection, Li Ling's tea was renewed three times. The shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead and nodded, "Shopkeeper Ling, these silver notes are correct, but according to the rules, if such a large amount of silver is taken from us, we have to withdraw the money. There are 573 taels and 2 cents in total. We wipe the fraction of it, and it only takes 570 taels. What do you think?"

"Yes, you set the quota for each of your silver notes to be 5,000 taels, and then the last one is divided into 2,500 taels." Although Li Ling answered happily, he wondered in his heart, "Good guy, this money house has made a lot of money after changing hands like this."

Although this is because I exchanged too much silver, the proportion of the increase is still abnormal. Just think about it and you will know that ordinary businessmen cannot withdraw silver notes from other places like themselves for convenience, so that the cost will be too high.

In this way, they have only two choices, either carry the money with them, but there will inevitably be problems in terms of safety; or they have money everywhere and get silver notes, but this is still extremely inconvenient. This will hinder the entire business.

"Maybe I should start from here to make Dayue truly have his own financial system. But this matter is obviously not done by myself, and it must be promoted by the court, such as the Ministry of Revenue and Transport Department..." Li Ling, while the other party was busy preparing silver notes for him, actually planned to create a modern financial system in the territory of Yue.

Of course, this is just a sudden idea, but there is not even a specific strategy to implement. However, one thing he can be sure of is that once things are done, it will inevitably lead to a qualitative leap in the economy of Vietnam.

When they came out of the silver bank, it was already evening. Li Ling, who was carrying a huge silver bill, was naturally extremely careful and went to the inn under the protection of Li Moyun and Yang Zhen. But when he arrived in front of the inn, two people suddenly stepped in front of them, which made the guards secretly alert and pressed their hands on their waists.

Fortunately, soon, one person flashed out from the side and clasped his fists at Li Ling. It was Xue Jiong: "Boss Ling, my third brother wants to talk to you."

The slightly gentle man in front of him also clasped his fists at them and said, "Baiyitang Fan Chao has met several of you. How many of us brothers have offended you before, I hope you don't get used to it."

Seeing that he was polite, Li Ling smiled: "It turns out to be Brother Fan, I'm disrespectful. If you have anything to say, let's go in and say it." Since the person has been found, he obviously intends to cooperate, so his attitude is quite close.

A few people immediately entered the inn and then moved to the cross-yard inside.

In Li Ling's room, only the four of them sat down. Then Fan Chao looked at him carefully and said, "Boss Ling, can you count what you said the day before yesterday?"

This is worthy of being a hero in the world, quick-witted and without any implicitness. Li Ling just smiled when he heard this: "Of course, what I said is true. This time I came to Guang'an to help the people here overcome the famine."

"Is that true?" Fan Chao asked again thoughtfully, obviously still having doubts.

At this time, Li Ling took out the large stack of silver notes in his arms: "This is my sincerity!"

Even a man like Fan Chao who claims to be not greedy for money was still stunned when he saw these many large silver notes, and then he heard Li Ling say again: "I will buy the 300,000 stone of grain with silver next time. If you really want to cooperate with me, then you will be in charge after they hand over the silver. What about?"

This expression was indeed sincere enough that Xue Jiong couldn't help but say, "Are you telling the truth? Are you not afraid that we will embezzle your food?"

"You are definitely not like this, I can trust you!"

Li Ling's words made Fan Chao's eyes flash: "Okay! Just based on your words, Boss Ling, I will make you a friend!"

"So you promised that both of us should cooperate?" Li Ling took the opportunity to ask again.

"Cooperation is naturally not a problem, but we still have questions in our hearts. I wonder what plans does Boss Ling have? You can't really plan to use these hundreds of thousands of stones of grain to help the victims, right?"

Li Ling shook his head: "Of course this is impossible. Even if I buy more food, with the current situation in Huguang, I can't save all those who are suffering from disasters. This little food is just a drop in the bucket."

"What do you want to do?" Fan Chao asked hurriedly.

Li Ling did not answer directly, but asked back: "What are the ideas do you think those guys holding food in their hands are making?"

Xue Jiong immediately replied: "It goes without saying that they are waiting for an opportunity to take advantage of this disaster to embezzle the land industry of the victims! This has happened in some other small counties. In order to survive with a stutter, many people have sold their own fields, houses, and all the things they can sell at a low price. Now there are many such people among the victims outside Guang'an City..."

"Yes, this is the ultimate goal of those greedy people, and it is also their most hateful thing!" Li Ling said with anger flashed in his eyes, "As local gentry, they even have official positions, but for their own selfishness, they still ignore the lives and deaths of countless people. They want to take advantage of this disaster to bring land, houses and other industries to their own hands at the lowest price. In this way, when the disaster passes, the people who have lost their homes and land will have to rely on them and become their slaves and tenants, and it will be difficult for them to turn over again!
Chapter completed!