Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 414 A Good Example

"How can! How can!"

Even on the way to escape, the family business was completely destroyed in one day, and Fan Yongdou, who had already given himself the title of general, couldn't help crying out in grief.

The black flag and the eight banners launched an attack too suddenly.

There is no reason too.

I thought it was the right and the wrong, but who would have thought that the two sides had discussed and made a move towards them together! ?
Those filial piety, those spilled money, those smiling faces, those votes of honor and loyalty, are they actually useless at all! ?
"It's a crime to conceive a jade!"

There was a roar in the dark night, and the fleeing team of Shanxi merchants hiding in the mountains, among them all races and surnames, men, women, old and young, all wept bitterly.

Looking pathetic.

And some of our Central Plains Chinese families used to have a bad habit.

I like to keep good things hidden.

Or hide it at home.

Or simply take it to the grave.

The person ran away and took away a lot of money, but this thing has a lot of storage, how can it be possible to move it in a hurry?

So when the fan family's very dilapidated and inconspicuous underground secret room of the Yinwu Castle was opened, the black flag soldiers entered it holding a fire, and when Zhu Cijiong also entered it to see the scene inside, he almost lost his footing.

There are several large and small boxes in the whole secret room, gold and silver utensils, and some uncut jade and gemstones are everywhere, but they are also taken care of dry and tidy.

The soldiers lit up, the strong visual impact and the dull aura of wealth made Zhu Cijiong almost suffocate.

The box was opened, and inside were stacked silver ingots separated by layers of linen cloth.

never seen it.

As the prince, Zhu Cijiong had never seen so much money.

Before he got the title, he became a vassal, the capital was gone, and people were captured.

Chongzhen wanted to be diligent and thrifty, and the prince naturally had to set an example together.

Life can't be said to be bitter, but I have never seen so many gold and silver treasures.

Later, he worked as Prince Anding in Daming for a few years, but most of them were studying, and he didn't join the feudal clan, so he had no place to amass money. He received a generous salary of 2 taels of silver every year.

But how much silver is here!
Zhao Bai also came down, patted Yinzi and said, "Everyone who does business in Shuntianfu, Hebei, Shanxi and other places must make offerings to the imperial merchants, and the salt industry in these three places, these big merchants are They were divided together, and the Fan family is the biggest, and they controlled the Zhangjiakou Hushikou before, saying that it was importing and exporting some medicinal materials, but in fact it was tea, salt and iron, making huge profits."

After finishing speaking, an old man with a bloody bandage on his arm was pushed down again.

Zhao Bai pulled him to the ground and said, "Quickly tell the acting banner owner what is stored here."

"Yes, yes! This is what the servant said!"

Seeing with his own eyes that his arm was sliced ​​so that the bones could be seen, and the main blood vessels were avoided, pulsating in the flesh and blood, the old man who was originally quite stubborn was naturally willing to say anything.

"There are 99 taels of gold in this treasury, and 88 taels of silver in deposit."

Zhao Bai sneered: "It's auspicious, isn't it?"

"Yes, when the old Fan family kept their silver here, they said it was auspicious. Apart from the silver, there were 120 other gold and silver treasures. My lord! The slaves have said everything that can be said in this castle. Show kindness and save the slave's life, and the slave will treat you like a cow or a horse!"

The old house slave kowtowed and cried to Zhu Cijiong enduring the severe pain in his body, but Zhao Bai pressed his fingers hard, and he was in so much pain that he couldn't speak immediately.

At this moment, Zhu Cijiong felt a little dizzy, and with Fang Yizhi's support, he sat on the box brought by his personal eunuch.

Thinking of at least 3 to [-] taels of silver sitting under his buttocks made his heart even more confused.

"Master Fang, what was my Ming's annual income last year?"

"Hui, back to the head of the banner, last year Nanjing's annual income was about 490 million, but the actual income was only about 80 million."

Zhao Bai chimed in at the right time: "My little master, this is just one of the Fan family's several big banks, not counting the Fan family's properties in Zhangjiakou and Guan. family, with a total asset of nearly seventy-eight million taels!"

The huge number made Zhu Cijiong, who had never seen the world, couldn't help but thump in his heart.

After taking a few deep breaths, he drew his sword straight away, and said to the old house slave who was kneeling on the ground not daring to move: "You really don't know the other treasures that the Fan family has hidden?"

"I know, I know! The villain knows!"

This scene, if you don't know it, you have to know it.

Zhao Bai frowned when he heard the words, and asked with a smile: "Then why didn't you say it just now? Little master, can you let me stay alone with him for a while?"

"Ah! Ah!"

The old house slave had already had a layer of flesh sliced ​​off his hand, so he was naturally terrified.

Fang Yizhi couldn't stand it anymore.

Killing is no problem.

But if he dangles in front of Zhu Cijiong as a cripple, with broken arms and legs, bleeding, etc., it will be bad if it affects his spiritual growth.

As a teacher, you should not pay attention to this.

"On behalf of the banner owner, why don't you see what he can say first, and there are other families besides this Fan family. You, you can go and interrogate them and let them account for all their hidden properties."

Zhao Bai's paws were about to be dug into the slave meat of his hometown. Hearing this, he patted and comforted him, and then he said to Zhu Cijiong, "Little master, then I will go to another family to interrogate."

"Go."

Zhu Cijiong, who felt that he was doing big things, also seemed to be in power and decisive, and he was straightforward in commanding Zhao Bai.

Turning around and thinking about how I used to eat well, I had to be said a few words, and a group of damn merchants actually have a quarter of Ming's annual income, and they gritted their teeth: "The best thing you say can satisfy me. Otherwise, you will definitely be stripped of your skin!"

"When the time comes, little master, remember to let me come!"

Zhao Bai did not forget to turn his head and shout when he left the secret room.

The military agencies broke open the treasures of these Shanxi merchants with pure violence. Under the torture of butcher knives, it was like the capital tortured pay, and piles of silver were spit out.

After counting tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of cash, the account books were first sent to the capital, and then the family members of Shanxi merchants who survived the looting were gathered together with the silver by the Eight Banners and the Black Banners and escorted to the capital.

This scene naturally frightened the local clans in Shanxi and Hebei to tremble, and some Han officials in the Qing court were also trying their best to test the tone of the Eight Banners and the Black Banners.

Shanxi Merchants will definitely not be able to save them.

However, members of clans other than Shanxi merchants who are officials in the court need an affirmative answer.

That is, the butcher knife will not cut at them.

And Hong Chengchou is also dealing with this.

In the eyes of outsiders, he voted clear and was reused, and then decisively turned to the black flag, which is also reused.

Of course, this seems to be the reason why he was tied up to perform the legendary wildman's sorcery.

But the magic was just right, and it was determined that Hong Chengchou was from the barbarian side.

Therefore, all the middle and lower level court officials who came to get close and inquire about the movement of the black flag, the local officials had higher expectations of him.

Not only want to know the target selection of the black flag.

I also want to know why the black flag is attacking the Shanxi merchants who have fallen to the black flag.

After all, they also have the intention of falling to the stronger black flag.

Although those Shanxi merchants are still going hard to escape.

But everyone knows that it must be dead.

This is the end.

Not a good example for some who want to fall to the black flag side.

(End of this chapter)