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Chapter 1710 Making money... [Chapter Posted Upside Down]

From very remote time immemorial, people have understood how terrible wealth and the human desire for wealth can be!
They called this desire "original sin" and gave it a broader vocabulary-greed.

The desire for wealth and money does not necessarily represent all greed, but greed certainly covers all desires in this regard.

People have had this desire since ancient times, and have described it and guarded against it.

Desiring this kind of thing is intangible and qualityless.

It is not like a stone or a stick, it has a specific shape and quality, so that people can easily avoid these things.

It is intangible, massless, and it is impossible for you to be wary of a thought that suddenly arises in your mind.

Maybe you'll soon notice how scary it is and start guarding against the flood of thoughts, but you can't keep doing that.

One day, when the greedy desire reaches its peak, you can't stop it!

The middle-aged man is sitting on the edge of the flower bed, smoking a cigarette. The strong smoke of tobacco and the nicotine in it are the few sources of happiness for men.

He looked at the friends around him with some smug faces on his face.

Those people looked at him with surprise, surprise, and surprise!
Who doesn't like money?

The people of the Penteio Empire are not tool people without desires, nor are they saints, they also have desires!

The reason why they accept the arrangement of the country is because it is the law of the country, it is also their habit, and it is also a way for them to pursue more interests!
Once the war is won, everyone benefits from it, but some people get a little more—those who bought the national debt.

Some people get a little less - people who don't buy anything, don't participate, just submit to work arrangements.

People also pursue interests, and they have their own ways of pursuing interests. No one is a saint.

During the war, the Penteio Empire reduced civilian expenditures and used this part of the money in the war. After the war, the state would distribute benefits to everyone who obeyed the empire's arrangements.

It may be some money, it may be something plundered, it may even be some foreign land, or tax exemption, or other policies.

But for now, the money in everyone's hands will only be less, not more.

When the middle-aged man said that there was a way to make money, the eyes of the people around him slowly lit up.

At this time, cash works as well as bonds!
As long as you have it, you can buy things far beyond normal times!
Things that could be bought for one dollar in the past may only cost seventy cents now, or one and a half or two for one dollar.

Someone leaned closer and asked, "How to make money?"

There was a kind of longing in the voice. The person who asked the question seemed to be in his 30s, and he was also middle-aged, and even an "old man" in this small circle.

He had just had his third child and it was time to spend money.

Although Peng Jieao also has relatively complete social welfare, but... when an empire becomes very large, sometimes some welfare will become very formal, and the content of the welfare will inevitably take care of all aspects.

The younger children in most families still rely on the family's own methods to feed them, and only when they grow up will they be fed according to the welfare system.

At least then their bodies will appear healthier and less prone to illness.

The country isn't doing very well with newborns, but people are still willing to have more children.

In the Penteo Empire, a family with two children pays 20.00% less tax than a family with one child.

If they have three, four or even more, according to the number of children, the minimum tax they need to pay is 40.00% of the original tax.

The Empire encourages procreation, and they also need more warriors.

But if there are more children, it will also increase some burdens on the family. After all, one more child has one more mouth.

Usually, everyone can do more work and subsidize it. Now the money they can get is less and the work is more. If they can earn a little more money, everyone is willing to do that!

People around him also sat around him one after another, which made him feel something that he had never felt before.

He didn't say it very well, and he couldn't express it very clearly, but he liked the feeling of being surrounded by everyone and becoming the core.

He took another puff of the cigarette, and while he was puffing out the smoke, the tip of his tongue was still licking his scorched teeth, which was his habitual action, "Do you know...?"

The person he was talking about was a relatively well-known person among them. He ran a small workshop and was richer than ordinary people, but compared to those real capitalists, he was somewhat inadequate.

Everyone nodded to show that they knew this person.

"He recently plans to expand his workshop and turn it into a factory. I heard that some people are willing to order the things he makes, and they order a lot."

"Right now he's short of funds for expansion, so I'm lending him some."

After he said these words, everyone around showed disappointed expressions.

One of them frowned and said, "What does this have to do with making money, do you want to help him borrow money from us?"

The middle-aged man felt that he was being questioned by these people. He felt a little suddenly annoyed, took another puff of cigarette, and threw the butt of the cigarette with two puffs on the ground, the kind of ruthless!
The moment the cigarette butt landed on the ground, a lot of sparks shot out, and then quickly extinguished. He stared at these people, "What do you know?"

"He counts me as a shareholder, and is willing to give me interest, understand?"

The crowd who were about to disperse gathered back again, and someone asked, "What do you mean?"

The middle-aged man took out another cigarette and rolled his eyes. Others took out their lighters and lit their cigarettes for him. Only then did he slowly talk about it.

The well-known local workshop mainly expanded the factory and increased the assembly line, but was short of money.

Most of Penteo's banks are owned by the Empire, and now during the war most of the money goes to the war.

Many people want to find a bank to borrow money, but they can't borrow money, no one can be an exception!
So the well-known workshop owner took his idea to the neighbors.

He is willing to borrow money from them at an interest rate of 5.00% per month, or convert the money into shares in the factory, become his partner, and share the money together at that time.

The middle-aged man doesn't understand much about business, and he doesn't dare to mess around, but he can figure out one thing, that is, the monthly interest of 5.00%!

If you lend out 100 yuan, you can get five yuan a month, and the 100 yuan is still your own, and it still exists!
If he wants to borrow it for a year, then he can get 60 yuan, and then he will return his money to himself!
You can get 60 yuan in interest in one year, which is not a small amount!

He tried to lend the 500 yuan in his hand to that guy, and that guy also wrote down the IOU for the loan very carefully, signed it and pressed his fingerprint, and there were other people present.

A few days ago, he received an interest of 25 yuan, and he couldn't bear it anymore, and directly lent most of the money, together with the bonds he bought, to that well-known businessman!

There are more than 6000 yuan. According to their agreement, he will get 300 yuan next month.

Now he only hates himself for being too conservative before. If he hadn't been so conservative before and had put all the money in from the beginning, he would have already received more than 300 yuan in interest once!
But it's okay, it's not too late!
300 yuan per month is actually not a small amount, a little more than his salary.

Now the money is even more precious!

The businessman told him that there is still a big gap, if he can get more "borrowing" or "investment", the other party will give him some benefits.

Although he didn't say it explicitly, the middle-aged man knew what that meant - money!

He never felt that he was greedy, because greed often corresponds to crime or immoral behavior, what's wrong with earning money based on ability?
He told others what had happened to him, and even told them with some pride that he told them precisely because everyone had a good relationship.

Otherwise, such a good thing would not be in the turn of these people.

The pie in the sky...some people believe it, some people don't.

There are many unbelievers and few believers.

Someone asked at the time, "How can there be such a good thing, if you give 5.00% every month, wouldn't he pay it back?"

The middle-aged man felt that his majesty had been provoked, his blood pressure rose sharply, and his voice became louder!
"What do you know?"

"They are in business. I have seen those orders. They come from abroad and ordered hundreds of thousands of goods!"

"How big is the profit here?"

"Besides, we have people witnessing the signing of those documents. If you don't worry, you can call people from the security team..."

Hearing what he said, some people who didn't believe it at first became a little bit convinced.

In this era when people are relatively simple, people believe that criminals are afraid of members of the security forces, and some people can't help but ask, "Can you really give 5.00% every month?"

The middle-aged man gritted his teeth, "If you don't believe that person, how can you not believe me?"

"After so many years of relationship, can I lie to you?!"

Unknowingly, his voice rose again.

Everything is like this, some people believe it, some people don't believe it, but even those who don't believe it will care about the follow-up development.

Before the show ended, some people made an appointment with the middle-aged man to visit the businessman's factory the next day.

If what he said was true and what the businessman said was true, they wouldn't mind making a little more money.

5.00% interest per month, not bad!
In fact, most people can't tell the difference between annual interest rate and monthly interest rate, and they have never borrowed money from banks or other places.

They often talk about the interest rate of a few percent, but they don't really realize that this is a very high interest rate!

In the evening of the next day, after work, the middle-aged man took these people to find the businessman who was said to lead everyone to make a fortune...

(End of this chapter)