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Originally Posted by plok
Actually why u all wanna lend strangers money leh? Even friends or relatives also will run road. What more a stranger? So if really decide to lend den u must be prepared to not be able to get it back. So the best is dun lend lah
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At the outset, I do not want to say who was right and who was wrong. The borrower and lender did what they did on their free will. But let me relate a scenario after watching a CCTV serial on "YongZhen Emperor". He was the 4th Emperor of Qing Dynasty. When he was the Prince, his father, Emperor Kangxi, asked him to collect loans from high-ranking Qing officials. These officials had borrowed money from the Treasury. Emperor Kangxi had to do this as the Treasury was going broke. So Prince YongZhen went around to collect. Yes, you guessed correctly - it was not easy. I think you all will like this statement he made to one official with whom collection was difficult. He said, "When you wanted to borrow money from my father, you knelt before him and pleaded. Now when I want to collect the money, I have to kneel before you. And even then, I cannot collect......"