It was another hour of drowsiness.
"get out of class is over!" Professor Han's voice woke everyone up.
Professor Han stood on the podium and was packing up his books when he saw Zhou Dagu walking straight towards him: "Zhou Dagu, what do you want?"
Zhou Dagu took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and said, "Master, this is the money you borrowed from your students!"
"I told you, you don't have to rush to give it back to me!"
"This is the interest given to you by the students!" Zhou Dagu took out two taels of silver.
Professor Han was angry: "I am the master. With this high interest rate, are you humiliating me?"
Zhou Dagu shook his head: "Sir, you misunderstood. I gave everyone one tael of interest, but the student is grateful that the master gave me an extra tael!"
"Are you so rich?"
"The student was forced to make a living and did some business. I have no way to repay the Master's kindness. I can only use the money lent by the Master as a shareholding. This will be considered as the dividend I give you."
Professor Han was puzzled: "This is too high!"
"Not high, there will be more in the future!"
"More?" Professor Han shook his head and pushed out the silver.
Zhou Dagu was confused: "You don't want it?"
Professor Han looked at the students who had not finished walking, approached Zhou Dagu and said, "Help me get in again, and remember, don't let your junior wives know!"
Zhou Dagu nodded and took back the money, showing a look that a man could understand, and walked out of the school holding his big black baggage.
The students stood at the gate, looking at his big pocket and talking about it.
"How much does this cost?"
"How much can you earn from this! Why isn't it my money!"
"I regret it. I will also invest in it tomorrow!"
"Me too!"
In the long street, Zhu Xiaowu followed, and Zhou Dagu handed the baggage to him without saying anything: "Hold it, we'll talk about it when we get home!"
Zhu Xiaowu's face was full of joy, not because he was holding money.
But because damn Zhou Dagu finally told himself what he was doing!
The Zhou family courtyard.
Zhou Dagu threw the baggage next to Zhu Xiaowu on the table in front of everyone.
The silver was revealed from inside the wolfskin bundle.
Zhou Youran looked at so much silver on the table and immediately became nervous, touching the silver with his hand: "Brother, where did you get so much silver? It must cost several hundred taels!"
Xu Dian tilted his head and took out the banknotes from the bag. As a former young master of the Xu family, he still had some discernment.
He shook his head and explained: "More than that, look at these banknotes, they should add up to more than two thousand taels!"
Zhou Dagu looked at the smiling faces of everyone and nodded proudly: "Two thousand taels!"
Zhou Youran was startled: "Brother, where did you get it? You wouldn't have snatched it away, would you?"
Bai Huahong had a strange smile on her face and looked at him with some confusion.
Zhou Dagu took out two pieces of silver from his belt: "This is the pocket money you gave me these two days, and these silvers were earned with these two taels of silver."
There were five people sitting at the table, and all four of them were curious. Only Wang An touched the silver with his hand, as if he were touching the softest cloth in the world, like a rich landlord.
Zhou Dagu took out the largest ingot of silver and put it on the table, tilting his head: "I want to tell you the secret of money making money!"
"Brother Xiaowu, please explain first, what have I been doing these past few days?"
Zhu Xiaowu said: "On the first day, you can borrow twenty taels from Zhu Jinwen and Niu Ruxian."
"I returned them a total of twenty-two taels the next day, and then borrowed another hundred taels!"
"On the third day, I paid back one hundred and ten taels, and then borrowed another two thousand taels!"
Bai Huahong knew everything. She had her own eyes and ears in Qingxue Mansion and was familiar with these things. Her only curiosity was the same as Zhu Xiaowu's. Why did Zhou Dagu do this?
Zhou Dagu nodded: "The next day, Yu Lixin."
"The third day is to establish their minds and make them believe that I really have a profitable business!"
"What about tomorrow!" Zhu Xiaowu was puzzled.
"Tomorrow, I will let them understand that I really have a profitable business, and this business is not just about making money, it is very profitable!"
Zhou Dagu handed the pocket to Zhou Youran: "Sister, keep this money, it's ours!"
Zhu Xiaowu was puzzled: "You won't pay them back?"
"Repay, I must pay it back, but it won't be with my money!" Zhou Dagu picked up the tea cup: "When it comes to cultivation, I really don't understand, but when it comes to doing business, no one is my opponent in the whole big win."
Zhu Xiaowu was so anxious that his heart was scratching his head.
"What do you mean? Is there still someone rushing to give you money?" Zhu Xiaowu seemed to want to understand something. He sat on the stool and looked at Zhou Dagu's proud face.
He suddenly realized: "Yes! If it were me, I would rush to give you money!"
"You have proven that even if you don't rely on your name as Zhou Mingzhou, you still have credibility and can make everyone believe in you. You really have a business like a cornucopia in your hands."
"If you invest ten taels, you can really get one more tael of silver. Even if you don't bring any money tomorrow, someone will take the initiative to bring money to settle your account!"
Zhu Xiaowu stood up and took a few steps forward to the table. He picked up the black bag and poured it down with both hands.
What came out at first was indeed silver, but as the contents of the bag were completely poured out, everyone's expressions changed completely.
"This...isn't this the stone I picked up yesterday?" Wang An pointed at the dark stone on the table in surprise.
Zhou Dagu casually picked up a stone and threw it against the wall of the small courtyard.
There is a cat meowing outside the wall.
He smiled and said: "This is an opportunity to make money, two taels for twenty taels, ten taels for a hundred taels."
Zhu Xiaowu shook his head: "What about the end! What if no one invests money in your business!"
"No!" Zhou Dagu shook his head: "My goal is not just to make money, I won't be able to do this business for a long time, don't worry!"
"This is why I want to tell you our business experience!"
The Ponzi scheme is really terrible, especially in this feudal society where people see no way to survive.
This kind of thing is equivalent to a glimmer of hope. When it falls on people, it will not only warm the poor, but also burn them to death.
Under the fire, it was not just the poor who were burned to death.
Zhou Dagu, who mastered this method, would inevitably not be noticed by the court.
And when he lives with a prince and uses this method, it is difficult for others to guess their true purpose.
In this society, you can get involved with anything, and you can even discuss the rights and wrongs of saints' words with others, but you cannot participate in imperial power.
This is the bottom line for a big win in officialdom.
Zhou Dagu looked at him: "Now you know what I am doing! You can think carefully about whether you want to live in my house or not?"
Bai Huahong looked at Zhu Xiaowu doubtfully. When she came, Zhu Xiaowu had already moved in. Zhou Dagu said that on weekdays, don't tell others Zhu Xiaowu's true identity.
In the small courtyard, she was the only one who didn't know Zhu Xiaowu's identity.
Zhu Xiaowu said suspiciously: "How involved are you in this matter?"
"You have always known my purpose!" Zhou Dagu replied sincerely.
This time it was Zhu Xiaowu's turn to feel unsure.
"You are just for the Yang family to come up with such a murderous weapon? To kill a fly, you need to use a national poem?"
Zhou Dagu nodded: "I don't have the strength now. The Yang family can easily crush me to death. To deal with a big family like them, I must use all my strength!"
"I have no chance of trial and error! I don't like to take my own life as a joke!"
"I don't like standing in front of others and being a target, so I can only use this move!"
Zhu Xiaowu was even more confused: "But, what does this have to do with the Yang family? You earn your money, and they don't suffer from their sins! Do you want to use this to accumulate power? Then deal with them?"
"This method can accumulate wealth in a short time. To be honest, if you were in troubled times, if you relied on this method to recruit hundreds of thousands of troops, you would be enough to become a prince and emperor!" Zhu Xiaowu looked at Zhou Dagu seriously.
When Bai Huahong heard about becoming emperor, her first reaction was different from others. She was not afraid but rather looking forward to it.
Zhou Dagu was still very sincere: "Don't test me, I'm just a scholar. I just want to be a civil servant and live my life well. I don't have so many talents and ambitions."
He lowered his head and looked around: "Everything I did was just to protect my family!"
Zhu Xiaowu nodded: "I believe you, I will not leave. You have completely aroused my curiosity with such a lively thing. You have told me so much, what do you need me to do?"
Zhou Dagu shook his head: "Don't do anything, just watch quietly!"
"What are you looking at?"
"Look at his high rise, look at his banquets with guests and friends, look at his couch in the building!"
