Lord Moyu was forced to open

into the night.

The bright moon hangs high.

The cold moonlight slanted down and illuminated Ningjiang Mansion.

In the governor's house, Ding Hongguang was listening to the reports of his subordinates.

"Commander! Except for a few of the landowners and gentry who participated in the resistance against the imperial court in Ningjiang Fucheng, nearly all the people on the ninth floor were captured by our army.

Now that they are all in custody, I don’t know what to do? "

"Don't worry about some fish that have slipped through the net. All the surrounding cities have been controlled by our group. Unless they go straight to Haifu County without entering the city, they will definitely fall into our hands.

And Haifu County...hehe..."

Having said this, Ding Hongguang sneered twice. He naturally knew who was behind the revolutionary army occupying Haifu County.

Even if these escaped gentry went to Haiford County, they would eventually fall into their hands.

Unless they run to Xiangbei, the road there has been blocked by them, and these people can't get through at all.

After pondering for a moment, Ding Hongguang ordered: "Divide these imprisoned landlords and gentry according to the property taken from their homes. Divide them into upper, middle and lower grades. The richest will definitely be the one with the most funding. This will happen tomorrow. Killed directly at noon.

The medium ones will all be taken into custody, and a ship will arrive in a few days to send them all to the Japanese country for mining.

As for the inferior ones, they are sent to Bianjing. Bianjing has recently renovated the city and let them work as slaves. "

"promise!"

The person who reported the report walked away, and the next person came up immediately.

"Among the Ningjiang Mansion defenders captured by the commander-in-chief, in addition to their general Liu Biao and his bodyguard who have disappeared, there is also Liu Biao's deputy general. It is said that Liu Biao ordered him to mobilize troops before we invaded. The results are gone and never come back.

At least 5,000 of the defenders guarding other city gates were taken away by them. Our Ye Bushou found their traces ten miles away from the east of the city. Do we need to go after them? "

Ding Hongguang frowned when he heard this. Five thousand people, if left alone, would leave a great threat to the entire Jianjiang County, so he immediately ordered:

"Assemble five thousand Zuowu cavalry to pursue them, and give them an order. Even if they cannot annihilate them all, they must be broken into small groups. We cannot let so many of them gather together and escape!"

"Understood! No!"

Then came the next one, and this one was amazing. He was the quartermaster in the army. The quartermaster was a fat man. As soon as he came up, he raised his hands and reported back with a smile on his face:

"Commander! Our brothers have just finished searching Dongcheng today, and it is expected that it will take four days to complete the search of the remaining areas.

But just in Dongcheng, the brothers searched for money worth nearly seven million taels of silver, including many antiques, calligraphy and paintings that the brothers did not understand and could not value.

However, it is understood that the gentry living in Dongcheng seem to be only the lowest ones in Ningjiang Mansion, which means that more money may be found in the other three directions.

Handsome! We are rich! "

Mentioning the harvest, all the generals in the county guard's office also had smiles on their faces.

Before they came out, His Majesty had promised that 80% of the spoils after they sent out troops would be handed over to the treasury, and the remaining 20% ​​would be reserved as rewards in one layer, and the other layer would be distributed among the victorious armies themselves.

This means that as long as they harvest enough loot, they can distribute more money!

How could they not be happy?

Even Ding Hongguang couldn't help but smile on his face. Dongcheng alone has eight million, and the other three achievements are still 32 million, even if they are more than Dongcheng!

One achievement is 3.2 million! This time they mobilized 100,000 horses, and the rest were guarding the city and doing other things. After deducting the necessary share for them, the 100,000 of them could get at least 1.5 million taels of silver!

That’s a lot to divide!

And it is expected to be more than this.

It’s hard not to think about it now!

Everyone showed a happy smile.

……

Compared with the happy smiles of the officers and soldiers in the governor's mansion, Jiang Jialin, the former governor of Ningjiang Prefecture, could not smile at this moment.

Looking at the dark Wowotou Jiang Jialin in front of him, he felt like crying without tears.

I originally thought that with 70,000 troops, plus the support of the entire Jianjiang County landlord class behind the city wall, it would be more than enough to stop the imperial court's 100,000-strong army.

As a result, the city that he had built so hard could not be blocked for even an hour before it was collapsed by the imperial army. The trusted general led his troops and ran away, only to find a messenger to inform him.

However, he failed to escape and was captured by the imperial army.

As for the numerous landlords, gentry and wealthy businessmen behind him.

Jiang Jialin sighed and turned around to look at the dejected people beside him, feeling extremely regretful.

If I had known that I would not listen to their instigation and go against the court, otherwise I would still be a high-ranking military and county guard today, how could I have ended up as a prisoner now!

I really regret it!

A single mistake becomes an eternal hatred!

……

In the next three days, Ding Hongguang led his army to completely turn Jiangning Prefecture, which contained the wealth of the entire Jianjiang Prefecture, upside down.

At the last count, the total number of gold, silver and jewelry found reached a full 40 million taels!

Forty million taels!

This number made Ding Hongguang and the rest of the army extremely powerful!

The southern part of Jiangsu and the northern part of Jiangsu were all destroyed before. The army did not collect much gold and silver in those places. The Jianjiang Mansion, which is close to the sea, must be rich!

In one fell swoop, he contributed a total of four million taels of loot to the army.

In the past few days, the wealthy merchants and gentry who had escaped from Ningjiang Prefecture during the chaos were successively arrested by troops stationed in other cities, and finally all were sent back to Ningjiang Prefecture, the place where they had fought so hard to escape. A place to go out.

On the fifth day after Ningjiang Fucheng was captured, news came from the Zuowu cavalry who went to pursue the Yuliang tribe. The fleeing Yuliang and 5,000 defenders were found on the border between Xiangbei and Jianjiang. After the fight, the cavalry attacked the infantry, but the exhausted infantry, who had been running away for many days, were washed into a pool of loose sand in just two strokes.

Yu Liang, who led them to escape, was killed by Wu Jian, who led the pursuit of the Zuowu cavalry. At this point, the remaining 5,000 Ningjiang defenders who escaped were completely turned into leaderless sand, and were used by the Zuowu cavalry for two days. The time was as clear as chasing prey. Only more than a thousand people had been brought back as prisoners because they had surrendered.

However, what is surprising is that Liu Biao, the commander-in-chief of the Ningjiang Prefecture garrison, seemed to have disappeared. No matter how hard the army searched, he could not find his whereabouts.

In the end, Ding Hongguang saw that too much time had been wasted for him, so he ordered to stop the search and began to cooperate with the ships that sailed from the Japanese country two days ago. This batch of more than 100,000 taels was sent to the sea ship and sailed towards the Japanese country.

These wealthy people who were sent aboard did not know that what awaited them next was the dark life of mining slaves.

Don’t they like gold and silver?

Let them all go to the Japanese country to dig gold and silver frames for the Song Dynasty, and let them dig out silver and gold by themselves!

They will definitely be very happy to see the whole process of gold and silver birth with their own eyes!

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(End of this chapter)