1711 Making Money... [The Chapter Is Reversed]

From very remote ancient times, people have understood how terrible wealth and the human desire for wealth are!

They called this desire "original sin" and gave it a broader term: greed.

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

People have had this desire since ancient times, and they have described it and been on guard against it.

But desire is something that is intangible and without quality.

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

It is intangible and massless, and you cannot be wary of an idea that suddenly arises in your mind.

Maybe you will soon notice how scary it is and start to be wary of the proliferation of this kind of thinking, but you can't always do that.

One day, when greed reaches its peak, you can't stop it!

The middle-aged man is sitting by the flower bed, smoking. 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 a somewhat proud look on his face.

Those people looked at him with a little surprise, a little surprise, and a little surprise!

Who doesn't like money?

The people of the Pengeo Empire are not just tool people with no desires, nor are they saints. They also have desires!

The reason why they accept the country's arrangements is because this is the country's law, their habit, and a way for them to pursue more interests!

Once the war is won, everyone will benefit from it, but some will get more than those who bought the national debt.

Some people got less and did not buy anything, did not participate, and just obeyed the work arrangements.

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

During the war, the Pengeo Empire reduced private expenditure and spent this money on the war. After the war, the country would give some benefits to everyone who obeyed the empire's arrangements in the form of welfare payments.

It might be some money, it might be some plundered things, it might even be some foreign land, tax exemptions, or other policies.

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

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

At this time, cash works just as well as bonds!

As long as you have it, you can buy far more than usual!

In the past, you could buy one thing for one dollar, but now you may only need seventy cents, or you can buy one and a half, or two, for one dollar.

Someone leaned in and asked, "How do you make money?"

There was a kind of longing in his voice. The person who asked the question seemed to be in his thirties, 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 Penjiao 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.

Most of the younger children in the family still rely on the family's own methods to feed them. Only when they grow older will they be fed according to the welfare system.

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

This country's response to newborns is not very good, but people are still willing to have more children.

In the Penteo Empire, a family with two children paid 20 percent less tax than a family with one child.

If they have three, four or even more, depending on the number of children, the tax they need to pay is at least 40% of the original amount.

The empire encouraged procreation, and they also needed more warriors.

But having more children will also increase some burdens on the family. After all, one more child means another mouth.

In normal times, everyone can work more and receive subsidies, but now the money they can get is relatively small and there is a lot of work. If they can make a little more money, everyone is willing to do that!

People around him were also sitting around him, which made him feel something he had never felt before.

He said it wasn't very good and he couldn't express it clearly, but he liked the feeling of being surrounded by everyone and becoming the core.

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

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

Everyone nodded, indicating that they knew this person.

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

"Now he lacks the funds to expand, so I loaned him some."

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

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

The middle-aged man felt that he had been questioned by these people. He felt a little angry suddenly, took another puff of cigarette, and threw the butt of the cigarette with two puffs left on the ground, hard!

The butt of the cigarette shot out numerous sparks the moment it hit the ground, and then extinguished quickly. He stared at these people, "What do you know?"

"He counts me as a shareholder and is willing to pay me interest, do you understand?"

The crowd that had just dispersed gathered back together, and someone asked, "What do you mean?"

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

The well-known local workshop mainly expanded the factory and added assembly lines, but he was short of money.

Pentio's banks were mostly owned by the Empire, and now during the war most of the money was spent on the war effort.

Many people want to borrow money from banks, but they can't, no one is exception!

So the slightly famous workshop owner took the idea to the neighbors.

He is willing to borrow money from them at an interest rate of 5% per month, or convert the money into shares in the factory, become his partners, and then share the money together.

The middle-aged man doesn't understand much about business and doesn't dare to mess around, but he can calculate one account clearly, which is the five percent interest every month!

If you lend out one hundred yuan, you can get five yuan every month, and this one hundred yuan is still your own and still exists!

If he borrows it for a year, he will get sixty dollars, and then he will give his money back to himself!

You can get sixty yuan in interest in one year, which is not a small amount!

He tried to lend the 500 yuan in his hand to the guy. The guy also wrote the loan note very seriously, signed and fingerprinted it, and there were other people present.

He got twenty-five yuan in interest a few days ago, and he couldn't bear it anymore. He directly lent most of the money, together with the bonds he bought, to that famous businessman!

There are more than six thousand yuan, and according to their agreement, he will get three hundred yuan next month.

Now he only hates that he was too conservative before. If he hadn't been so conservative before and invested all the money from the beginning, he would have already received more than 300 yuan in interest!

But it doesn’t matter, it’s not too late!

Three hundred yuan a month is actually not a small amount of money, a little more than his salary.

Now the money is even more precious!

The businessman told him that there was still a big gap, and if he could bring in more "loans" or "investments," the other party would give him some benefits.

Although it is not stated explicitly, the middle-aged man knows what money that means!

He never thought that he was greedy, because greed often corresponds to criminal or immoral behavior. What happened to making money based on his own ability?

He told others what happened to him, and even told them with some pride that he told them because of their good relationship.

Otherwise, such good things will not happen to these people.

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

There are many who do not believe, but few who believe.

Someone asked at the time, "How can there be such a good thing? If you give 5% every month, wouldn't he be at a loss?"

The middle-aged man felt that his dignity had been challenged, his blood pressure suddenly increased, and his voice became louder!

"What do you know?"

"I'm a businessman. I've seen those orders. People from abroad ordered hundreds of thousands of goods!"

"How big is the profit here?"

"And the documents we signed were witnessed by someone. If you don't worry, just call the people from the security team..."

After hearing what he said, some people who didn't believe it at first started to believe it.

In this relatively simple era, people believed that criminals would be afraid of people from the security forces. Some people couldn't help but ask, "Can you really give 5% 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, how could I lie to you?!"

His voice rose unknowingly.

This is the case with everything. Some people believe it, and some people don't believe it. But even those who don't believe it will be concerned about the subsequent 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.

Five percent interest per month is not bad!

In fact, most people cannot tell that annual interest rate and monthly interest rate are not the same thing at all, and they have never borrowed money from banks or other places.

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

The next evening, after work, the middle-aged man took these people to find the businessman who was said to be taking everyone to make a fortune...