Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 352: Make a Fortune

Now the entire county has basically fallen into the control of the new army. Although there are still some scattered resistances from some diehards, they are all minor fights and have hardly caused any waves.

Because of the good military discipline, people's lives returned to normal the next day. Business continued as usual, brothels were open, and even the government offices began to handle official business as usual.

This efficiency is very high. In fact, the main reason is that Xia Lin had already made a plan long ago. He only needs to follow the regulations, which is a sure thing.

Du Fuwei only knew how to fight wars but not how to govern, so he was extremely impressed by Xia Lin. Apart from anything else, as long as one followed his booklet, even a dog could easily become a county magistrate.

But none of this is important. The most important thing is to search and confiscate the Dingguo Mansion and the surrounding warehouses, because Yangzhou Prefecture must be returned to the court. It would be fine to occupy Zhenhai, but if they really want to occupy the entire prefecture, it would be hard to say who is the one who is plotting a rebellion.

The next afternoon, Xia Lin leisurely came to the provincial capital. After he arrived, he first stood beside the completely destroyed city wall for a long time, carefully observing the effect of the blasting. He felt that gunpowder was really fucking awesome. To be honest... if more sophisticated explosives appeared in the future, let alone this small city wall, even the city wall of the capital would not be able to withstand such a toss.

After entering the city, it is actually quite prosperous. Although it cannot be compared with places like Fuliang and Luoyang, it is more prosperous than most counties. This shows that Duke Dingguo is still a bit of a man, not the kind of waste who only knows how to rebel except eating, drinking and sleeping.

But it's too late to say anything now. The fact that Duke Dingguo was struck to death by thunder yesterday will probably make the front page of Jinling tomorrow if there is no major problem.

"The Duke of the current dynasty rebelled against Tiangang and was punished by heaven, and the mighty army recaptured Yangzhou and showed off its power"

This title is very good, but it’s a pity that Jinling Press has to wait for Lao Zhang to make some progress. It’s just that BYD is moving too slowly.

"Sir, we searched the Duke's Mansion from top to bottom and found thirteen underworlds."

"You fucking bastard..." Xia Lin didn't know whether to laugh or cry at the messenger who came over to report: "If you don't have any education, go to night school on weekdays. Don't play cards on your day off. Is that called the underworld? That's called the underground palace."

"Hehe..." The messenger was originally a trusted aide, and he knew Xia Lin's character. He said rather embarrassedly, "The underground palace... is the underground palace."

"How's the harvest?"

"exploded!"

"It exploded?" Xia Lin was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand: "Okay, shut up, I'll go and see for myself how big it is."

After following the messenger over, they happened to see Du Fuwei himself supervising the work, and the soldiers next to him were constantly carrying things out from underground.

"You didn't keep a record?"

Xia Lin came to Du Fuwei and whispered, "These are all the money our brothers have earned. Don't let them go to waste."

"Don't worry, General. I understand this. The weapons and armor are all in the account, but the gold and silver treasures are not in the account."

"Oh! That's right."

Xia Lin clapped his hands and laughed, "Take all the gold, silver and treasures, and 70% of the food and valuables. Hmm... I see that his house is made entirely of Annan sunken wood beams? Damn it, a duke is so extravagant? Tear it down, tear it down, tear down the whole house, take away all the wood that is over three meters long, and find someone to cut the wood that is less than three meters into planks on the spot, and take them all away."

"Yes!"

It took three full days to count the spoils. Xia Lin did not dare to delay for a moment. He counted and transported the spoils in batches, and shipped them to his ship overnight.

I don't know who this old man Dou Wu traded with, but he has at least 300 tons of silver ore alone, and nearly 4 tons of crude gold ore and unrefined gold nuggets. Isn't he too rich? It is probably from years of trading with monkeys in Southeast Asia or with the Japanese. There are a lot of gold and silver mines there, and they don't know how to refine them.

And there are a total of 3.8 million taels of silver in cash. Brother... Huaxia is not a major silver producing area. Where did he get so much silver?
Oh!!! Those Persians.

Xia Lin slapped his forehead and remembered that the Persians were very shrewd in business. They must have been frantically collecting silver from Europe to exchange for things.

In addition to silver, there were also countless copper coins. The serious thing was that the ropes used to string the coins together were rotten, and some of the copper coins were rusted together and had to be pried apart.

When Xia Lin saw the pile of silver and copper coins, he finally understood why the evil dragons liked treasures. He was so shocked. If there hadn't been someone nearby, he would have rolled in there.

Duke Dingguo didn't collect many antiques and calligraphy, which showed that BYD understood the market. In troubled times, gold and silver were valuable, and antiques and calligraphy were not worth mentioning, so he hoarded a lot of physical objects. There were also some worthless colored glass crafts, which might be worth a little for takeout, but with this level of craftsmanship, they could only be used in street ring-tossing games in Fuliang.

So Xia Lin had all these junk handicrafts recorded in the account, intending to give them to the prince to open his eyes.

Anyway, the things taken out from these underground palaces alone are worth about 7 million taels. Those worthless things that are not recorded are probably worth something, but they are not important. People can't be too greedy and have to leave some for the higher-ups.

Duke Dingguo must have hidden his money in more than one place, and the total amount is less than 10 million taels. He is just rebelling. The best outcome of the rebellion is that the two bandits will join forces to establish an independent country, but the worst outcome is that they will be isolated and helpless and have to struggle to survive. Therefore, if he wants to rebel, he must at least have enough money to support the food expenses of an area for at least ten years.

Otherwise, if we fight for three months and then look back and find that people are almost starving to death, that wouldn't be called a rebellion but a peasant uprising.

As expected, later on, according to tips, a lot of well-hidden treasures were found in manors outside the city and some other hidden places. Although most of them were weapons and the like, there were also boxes of silver ingots. Judging from their quality, they were most likely silver ingots cast by themselves, and their quality was generally estimated to be for circulation in the world after the uprising.

The value here is probably about three million, but this thing needs secondary smelting, and the final value may be about 1:0.6, which is about two million taels.

Another big harvest was the secretly stored grain. The nine large warehouses were filled with all kinds of grain. Now Xia Lin knew who the mysterious buyer was who had suddenly appeared during the famine two years ago and helped to snipe Gao Shilian.

It turns out that each of these warlords is holding back on their own energies.

Naturally, Xia Lin accepted all this food with a smile. He recorded 30 kilograms out of the 100 kilograms and took the remaining 70 kilograms away.

Wow, the grain convoy alone was four miles long, and even war horses were temporarily transferred to pull the carts. You can imagine how wealthy the Duke Dingguo was.

Finally, the entire rebellion fund of Duke Dingguo was almost emptied. Xia Lin estimated the time and it was almost time for the court to send someone to verify it.

This doesn't matter. It's just a few auditors coming over. No matter how they check, they won't find anything. Besides, the armor and weapons have been delivered to him. It's enough to have the things. Why does he need a bicycle?

But Xia Lin was really ruthless. Not to mention the gold, silver and treasures, he even pulled the koi in the pond in front of Duke Dingguo's mansion and the giant cherry tree in the garden back to Fuliang.

There are also many Taihu stones with peculiar shapes. It seems that they are either the hobby of the Duke's wife or the Duke's daughter. It doesn't matter. Their biggest hobby from now on can only be playing the jade flute. The Taihu stones will belong to the aquatic and terrestrial botanical garden that Fuliang is planning to build.

There were probably about 300 people in the Dou Wu family, and they were basically all captured in one fell swoop. No one could escape. Xia Lin did not show up, as he certainly could not be a saint but he could not bear to see those pitiful looks, so he had no choice but to stay out of the show.

After all, the master is kind-hearted and can't bear to see people suffering.

But the people below him were really capable of doing things. They even sent Dou Wu's granddaughter to Xia Lin, a little girl of thirteen or fourteen years old. Of course Xia Lin couldn't do this, but the problem was that he didn't know how to deal with this pitiful child.

Finally, after thinking about it, he sent her and the koi to Tingyun. Anyway, it would be good for her to follow Tingyun and learn from him.

At this moment, the court was already in an uproar. Duke Dingguo's rebellion was a foregone conclusion, but this also triggered a confrontation between the civil and military officials in the court.

The civil officials believed that the repeated rebellions in recent years were all caused by military officers and powerful people in various places. They suggested that the court take back the military power in various places. Otherwise, it would be impossible to govern and something big would happen.

But the nobles and military officers naturally refused to agree. They also presented facts and reasoned with each other. Anyway, each side had its own pros and cons.

The Crown Prince had never experienced such an intense debate and was actually a little dizzy. It was not his fault, as anyone would have been in the same situation. After all, he had been regent for too short a time and the country was peaceful and stable most of the time. So at this time he could only turn to his uncle for help.

Prince Teng received his gaze at this moment and took a step forward gently: "My fellow ministers, please do not stir up trouble. The rebellion has nothing to do with the civil and military officials. Please do not confuse the matter. The most urgent task is to investigate the guilt and reward the good and punish the evil."

The prince is now almost the same as the regent. Although Emperor Hongbao is still in power, he no longer cares about government affairs. In addition, his health is getting worse day by day, so everyone dares to talk about things that could not be said before in the Golden Palace.

It was just that the usually silent regent spoke up. Even if they didn't give some face to the prince, they should at least give face to the 70,000 Po Lu troops stationed in the capital, right?

So the storm died down quickly. Even though they were at loggerheads with each other, they kept it to themselves.

"The most urgent thing is to send someone to investigate first." The prince finally breathed a sigh of relief: "If there is nothing else, let's go today."

(End of this chapter)