Chapter 103: The Challenge of the Wine Money (1/2)
Chapter 103: The Challenge of the Wine Money
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
What a suoblets would coeneral of his ti to provide wine that cost only a dozen copper coins per catty for his wedding He would need the kind of liquor that came at a heftier price of ten silver taels and more per catty or even the more expensive ones
However, even with the cheapest wine at ten taels per catty which could serve three goblets with each catty, the estimated consumption of as at least onethe other costs for his wedding, he would need at least ten million silver taels for the wine alone!
With Tie Zheng’s salary as it was, he could not afford this sum even if he paid for it for over ten lifetimes
However, he was a h with it, noto his destination This time, however, he found that his state of e difference fro off to war Eachseemed so much more affable and friendly!
He had lost count of the number of people who had coo! Mere gold and silver taels to spend for the !”
”Marshal, please honor this wish and accept it!”
Tie Zheng refused them all He knew his promise was rash, foolish even; his brothers were all probably worried for him now He would rather die poor than to take these brothers’ ative to invite all of you for a goblet of wine forif I spent your et back, I will sell off the two et about three et another two ems we still have at home and all the rewards I've accus and the soods from the war that I ahem didn’t report should be worth about three hundred to four hundred thousand taels Selling et me about two hundred and seventy thousand taels I’d then have eightadded up all the sources of income in his head
”I would still need about three million taels I can borrow that suather soh!”
”No matter what it takes, whether they are alive or have perished in the war, Iith , owe everyone! This is the wine all ht to drink!”
”I will not allow His Majesty to pay for the this The treasury is already eiven as pension to my brothers I can’t take that , can still afford wine for uards by his side were also discussing aet your hands on?”
”Less than ten thousand I’ll think of ways to make it ten thousand, there shouldn't be a problem to reach ten thousand”
”My faet a hundred thousand, a hundred and twenty thousand if I try hard enough I shall endeavor to make it that nuh these years I only have a hundred taels on ather five thousand taels, would that be alright?”
”Fcking hell, Wu Ol’second, you actually didn't save up for this critical period?”
”I’m actually poorer than Wu Ol’second…”
After a round of arithmetics, it was discovered that twenty-seven of the thirty-six guards were poor as paupers They had the heart but not the capability The brothers shared a look of exasperation
The leader lamented loudly in frustration, ”You rascals, I see all of you spending lavishly like the fcking rich folks… How can all of you be so pathetic when it comes to serious matters?”
The faces of all twenty-seven of them fell It was true – athat would hold true always
”It’sto war The twenty-seven of us don’t have spouses and children, our parents have passed on and we don’t have any family left What’s the use of money to us? It's best if we spend theet theWhat a waste it would be if we died one day but our money’s not spent!”
”I didn’t siave them all to the families of our fallen brothers Who knew this would happen!”
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”Whatever it is, thehis o rob the rich and help the poor?”
He was really at his wit’s end, to actually talk about robbing the rich and helping the poor
”None of you go!” Tie Zheng’s voice was layered with an edge ”Each of you picked your life from the battlefield arduously, are you fellows so iht after the war? Not one of you is to speak anythingon’t make your father poor!”