Blood from Daming

Chapter 674 Digging for Treasures
Flying eagle flags destroyed the Zhaibao manors of merchants such as Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, and Fan Yongdou for several days in succession. This destruction extended to winter wheat, beans and other crops in the fields. In support of Feiyingqi, the treasure-digging operation organized by Feiyingqi began after the destruction of the fort manors of merchants such as Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, and Fan Yongdou.

When businessmen like Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu learned that the villagers and tenants had started digging for treasure, most of the businessmen scoffed at them. Who would be stupid enough to bury gold and silver in the Zhaibao manor outside the fort? Crazy, day in and night out on the fort in panic all day long.

On the day of July 29, merchants such as Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu got two pieces of news. On the 27th of the day before yesterday, Fan Yongdou led more than 2000 miscellaneous troops of his own. Businessmen such as Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu were so angry that they wanted to strip Fan Yongdou's skin, burn down Fan Yongdou's fort manor and shop, and dig up the ancestral graves of Fan Yongdou's family.

Another news is that the villagers and tenants outside Baozi have dug treasures. In fact, the news that villagers and tenants have dug treasures came from time to time the day before yesterday, but they were all hundreds or thousands of cellars. In business for many years, hoarding has become the first way to hide gold and silver. Thousands of people are digging outside the fort, and it is not surprising to find some gold and silver.

But today’s news is a bit special. Wang Dengku’s uncle, who is also the other house of the previous owner of Shi Datong, was dug up by villagers and tenants yesterday. Dozens of altars filled with gold and silver were dug up. According to the preliminary statistics of the flag, it is about 50 taels. According to the agreement between Feiying Banner and the villagers and tenants who signed up to participate in the treasure digging, Feiying Banner will get half of it, and the rest will be distributed to the treasure digger who digs the first hoe. 5 taels of silver , The nine treasure diggers in the same group divided the other 5 taels of silver equally, and the remaining 15 taels of silver were distributed to all the villagers and tenants who dug treasures.

When Wang Dengku heard the news, he passed out on the tower of Zhangjiakoubao, causing a mess on the tower. The people woke up Wang Dengku after rubbing and rubbing. The first thing Wang Dengku said when he woke up was: "Do you really see this?" Have you dug up so much gold and silver?"

After talking about where Wang Dengku was kicking out of breath, the Wang family's cronies who came to report the letter said: "The young one is among the treasure diggers. Where is the silver?"

The confidant of the Wang family took out a money bag from his bosom, and everyone opened the bag in a hurry, and poured out five ten taels of silver ingots, and there were more than a dozen taels of scattered silver. Everyone asked the confidant of the Wang family to find out, These more than a dozen taels of scattered silver were also a share of the Wang family's cronies from other cellars.

Jin Liangyu and his group of merchants were furious, and they couldn't go on digging like this. If they kept digging like this, if their ancestors left treasures, wouldn't they be poached by the guards? Gathered on the face of Wang Dengku who just woke up.

Wang Dengku was in a terrible heartache now, scolding Feiyingqi for being immoral and shameless, the villagers and tenants ungrateful for profit, and also scolding his dead uncle, why didn't he hand over the family's treasures, he was no longer the head of the Wang family, Dominating the ancestral property of the Wang family, now that he died in Datong City, he has no ability to take the gold and silver to the underworld, and it is for nothing that Feiyingqi and the poor in the countryside are cheap.

Wang Dengku clamored to take revenge on Feiyingqi and those villagers and tenants. Wang Dengku promised on the spot 2 taels of silver to reward the militia. The battalion, 3 taels of silver is not a small amount, but unfortunately the Zhangjiakou Fort People's Army looks down on it now.

If businessmen such as Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu were willing to bleed like this a few days ago, the Zhangjiakou Fort militia might really be greedy for money and go out of the city to gamble. I have already earned six to seventy taels of silver, and if I am lucky, I can earn tens of thousands of taels of silver. Who would want to go out of the castle with their heads and work hard for the reward of a mere few taels of silver? what.

As a result, after merchants such as Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu offered rewards, not only did not many militiamen agree to attack the Feiyingqi camp, but on the night of the 29th, dozens of militiamen and Fort people stole Zhangjiakou Fort. I ran to Feiyingqi to sign up for treasure digging.

I don’t know if these dozens of militiamen and Bao people were lucky. On the day they joined, they dug up 10 taels of gold, silver and copper coins at the homestead of the big businessman Tian’s house in Zhangjiakoubao, excluding the half agreed with Feiyingqi. , the remaining 3 taels of gold and silver were distributed to the treasure digger who dug the first hoe and the same group, and the remaining 5000 taels of gold and silver were divided equally among [-] people.

On the first day these dozens of militiamen and fort people came, Feiyingqi dug up five hidden silver deposits including the cellars of Tian's family. Yinzi, because the Flying Eagle Flag does not prohibit the people outside the fort from entering Laiyuan Fort and Zhangjiakou Fort, so the officials, soldiers, and merchants in Laiyuan Fort and Zhangjiakou Fort are very clear about the affairs outside the fort.

Now it's the turn of the Tian Shenglan family to beat their chests and feet. When the Tian family was fighting for land in Zhangjiakou Fort, they were digging treasures outside the fort. The white money dazzled the eyes of the officials and soldiers in the city. After returning home, everyone in the neighborhood was shocked. Looking at the person who went out boldly yesterday, he earned eight taels of silver in a day. Everyone tempted.

The next day, more Zhangjiakou Fort residents ran out of the fort. It is roughly estimated that there are about 600 people, including dozens of officers and soldiers. With the addition of nearby villagers, the number has reached more than 6000. , Now the entire Laiyuan Fort and Zhangjiakou Fort are full of treasure hunters.

In the next two days, no large hoard was dug out. A treasure digger got three taels of silver and two taels of silver successively. As the income from digging treasures decreased, the number of fortresses who went out to dig treasures began to decrease. However, in the past three days In time, it still reached a thousand people from Yuanbao and Zhangjiakoubao to go out to dig gold and silver.

On the fourth day when the population of Laiyuanbao and Zhangjiakoubao decreased, a treasure was found in the depths of the dry well behind Fan Yongdou's ancestral house, which was worth more than 20 taels of silver. Fortunately, Zhangjiakoubao Two of the Fort people participated in this treasure hunt. The one who led the way got more than 4000 taels of silver, and the other got 5000 taels of silver.

When Flying Eagle Banner distributed the money to everyone, the people and militiamen who came to Yuanbao and Zhangjiakoubao looked at their former companions lying on the boxes full of gold and silver, and their blood boiled for a while. Like the two lucky people, they became rich overnight, but these two nouveau riche, knowing that wealth is touching, bought a carriage from Feiyingqi, took the gold and silver they got, and disappeared overnight. In the dark of night.

The people of Zhangjiakoubao got more than 4000 silver alone, which not only stimulated the villagers digging treasures, but also stimulated the people and militiamen who came to Yuanbao and Zhangjiakoubao. Who doesn’t want to get rich? Please, now you only need to use a hoe to make a fortune.

So on the third day of August, more than 3000 people came to Yuanbao and Zhangjiakoubao to dig treasures, including more than 500 officers and soldiers. They are all treasure diggers, and the number of treasure diggers exceeded 1 people on this day.

Xue Yun has been mixing oil with Aruna for the past few days, secretly controlling the treasure-digging operations of the Zhangjiakou villagers. It is the treasure of Fan Yongdou's ancestral house, which was first discovered by Xue's army. Adding it in and making them rich will arouse the desire for gold and silver treasures of the Fort residents of Yuanbao and Zhangjiakou, split the relationship between the Fort people and the merchants in the Fort, and gradually push this contradiction to a new level.

Although Shanxi people like to pit gold and silver, and Zhangjiakou area is very rich, but if tens of thousands of people come to dig treasures, how much treasure can be dug in the underground? Judging from the treasure digging in the past few days, the income is getting more and more There are fewer people, but more and more people are participating in the treasure digging. Thinking about it, it is the eighth day since the large-scale treasure digging started on July 26. In the first seven days, more than 1708 million taels of gold and silver were dug out. The Flying Eagle Banner led by Xue Yun got close to 90 taels of gold and silver, plus the harvest before July 26 and the income from Wanquan City, Flying Eagle Flag still got millions of gold and silver properties.

With these millions of gold and silver properties in hand, Xue Yun is more than enough to deal with Lin Danhan's blackmail and Feiyingqi's compensation, and the remaining property Xue Jiajun, Hari Zhula, Na Muzhong and Mierliang's ministries have a share, Now that Xue Yun's demand for gold and silver has temporarily decreased, he began to make bad moves against the merchants who ambushed Feiyingqi.

Under the shadow of the Flying Eagle Flag, at noon on the third day of August, a group of villagers opened up the ancestral tomb of Wang Dengku's family, and snatched a large number of funerary gold and silver wares, jade pottery, and whole altars from the tomb of Wang Dengku's uncle. Gold ingots, silver ingots and copper coins are estimated to be worth no less than 15 silver.

After Feiyingqi got the news of the villagers digging the grave, he quickly rushed to the scene of the accident, sealed off the grave of Wang Dengku's uncle, and temporarily detained the funeral belongings dug by the villagers. An hour later, the leader of Feiyingqi came to Miise Go to the scene and show that Flying Eagle Flag will not collect gold and silver treasures from the grave.

Qi Miesai then told the treasure-digging villagers that the flying eagle flag protected all the tombs except the ambush flying eagle flag. The treasure will be distributed equally to the young master digging treasure villagers according to the principle of fairness and contribution.

His words of destroying the fortress not only did not quell the grave-digging activities, but injected stimulants into the villagers of Laiyuanbao and Zhangjiakoubao. They all agreed to dig the ancestral graves of the traitors, and they were overjoyed, so they ordered the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Banner to paint the land in pieces, and let the treasure-digging villagers start digging the graves in order.

(End of this chapter)