This city is about to be undefended, and once the city is broken, he and the family of the palace will be completely finished, and the millions of family wealth looted by himself and his ancestors will all be in vain.

But at this time, even if the King of Jingjiang had promised an absolutely high reward, the heavy armor soldiers of the pseudo-Tang thief army had already climbed to the top of the city one after another, and then swept the Ming army on the head of the city like chopping melons and vegetables.

In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, and also on the walls of the narrow terrain, it is impossible for the light infantry to inflict any effective damage on the heavy infantry.

However, the long knives of the heavy infantry slashed over, and the light infantry without armor protection would lose its combat effectiveness in an instant.

This siege battle, as Chen Keqiao expected, there was no accident, after the general attack was launched, the army under his command completely controlled the two city walls in less than a quarter of an hour, and then continued to extend to other city walls, and an hour later, the city walls of the whole city, including the city gate, were completely controlled by the Tang Dynasty.

If there is any accident, it is that they captured a super big captive: King Jingjiang!

The unlucky King Jingjiang ran away with his men as soon as the city was broken, but he did not go directly to other city gates without thieves like everyone else, but returned to the palace first, and then went out of the city with a group of dozens of people and many carriages.

But by the time he tossed like this, the Tang Dynasty had already completely controlled all the city gates and stopped the fleeing team in the Jingjiang Palace.

After stopping King Jingjiang's escape convoy, a platoon commander who led the team thought that these carriages were all the family members of King Jingjiang, but at first glance, good guys, among the dozen or so cars, only one car had family members in it, and the rest were all filled with gold and silver.

When he saw the gold and silver in the more than a dozen carriages, the officers who led the team couldn't help but swallow their saliva continuously, and when they looked back, the soldiers under him were also swallowing their saliva.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Report it immediately, and say that we have seized a large amount of gold and silver and urgently need support!" ”

But before turning around, he directly swept the gold ingots on the carriage in front of him into his arms, and then walked to the dozen or so soldiers under his command, one of them stuffed one, and said at the same time: "Everyone should fight to the death to get some benefits, but if anyone dares to do more, don't complain that the people from the military law team have come to the door!" ”

Although the military discipline of the Tang Dynasty is strict, this generally refers to battlefield discipline, and the pursuit of strict compliance with orders, as for the rest, it is actually average.

Moreover, as an army born of bandits, it is their fine tradition to plunder the spoils of war, even if it has improved now, but after the war, in fact, the superior officers generally turn a blind eye to the soldiers hiding some of the spoils.

There's no way, who made the military salary of the Tang Dynasty Wangshi less.

In the early days, the Tang Dynasty did not pay military salaries, although the soldiers could eat enough, but they could not get a penny of military salaries, and they could not support their families at all.

Later, after conquering Xingquan Mansion and even Liping Mansion, the Tang Dynasty Wang Shi also controlled the land of the two provinces, and he was relatively rich, so he symbolically paid the soldiers, but this amount was still very small, and this money was basically only enough for the soldiers to spend their allowances, but it still could not meet their needs to support their families.

But most of the soldiers have families, they come to the army to eat, but they also inevitably want to earn some money for their families, they themselves have enough to eat in the army, but many of their families are hungry and cold.

Therefore, in the course of the war, while the army captured a large amount of booty, it also tacitly allowed the soldiers to hide some of the booty.

Of course, the trophies that these soldiers secretly hid were generally gold, silver, soft and other things to carry, and they categorically did not dare to carry military supplies, such as food, weapons, etc., and at the same time, there was no need to hide them privately, and they could not hide them if they hid them.

After a dozen soldiers of this platoon watched these carriages, a large number of soldiers of the Fifth Infantry Regiment soon caught up, surrounded the trophies and took them away, and in this process, the soldiers did not have the opportunity to hide the trophies, because after learning that the convoy of King Jingjiang had been intercepted, and after the convoy was found to be full of gold and silver loaded with actual cars, not only many high-ranking officers arrived, but even the military law team and the tax officials accompanying the army all ran over.

The Tang Dynasty had a fine tradition that the cabinet liked to send officials to act with the army, and to conquer a place was to directly establish local power in a place.

After the people of the tax department saw the gold and silver, their eyes lit up, so much gold and silver can greatly relieve the pressure on the tax department!

They have always been used as cash machines, whether it is the military or other departments of the cabinet, and those who have no money come to their tax department.

And the money in the tax department is never enough, and many taxes that cannot be collected have been arranged in advance to be removed.

For example, the taxes on the Guilin Mansion have not yet been collected, but the Ministry of Taxation has already made the relevant budgets, and the Guilin Mansion will collect at least 100,000 taels of silver in the first half of the year, regardless of whether it is goods or cash.

But 100,000 taels of silver is the lower limit!

Even the taxes of places like Guilin Mansion that have not yet been beaten have been calculated, so you can imagine how much pressure there is on the part of the Ministry of Taxation.

The two most difficult institutions of the huge Tang Dynasty are the Ministry of Taxation and the Ministry of Industry, one has to desperately make money to supply all kinds of expenses of the Tang Dynasty, and the other has to constantly make weapons for the army.

After seeing so much gold and silver, the officials of the Ministry of Taxation, who have been working hard to expand more financial resources, did not think about making money from it, but: With such a batch of gold and silver on the top, our tax department will be able to live in peace for at least a few days!

After a preliminary inventory by the officials of the Ministry of Taxation, these carriages were worth at least more than 60,000 taels of silver in gold and silver alone, but there were also many jewels, silk and satin, and even precious playthings such as calligraphy and paintings.

And the value of these things is even more incalculable, if you have to put a price, it will start at least 500,000 taels of silver!

What made the officials of the Ministry of Taxation even more excited was that after a brief interrogation, they learned that the King of Jingjiang fled in a hurry this time, and only brought gold and silver that were easy to carry, and in fact, there were still many messy and previous things in the treasury of the palace.

Immediately, the officials of the Ministry of Taxation demanded to the military on the spot, any prefect's yamen, government warehouse, etc., can be put aside, and it is the right thing to occupy and protect the King of Jingjiang first, if this operation is done well, at least it can provide the Tang Dynasty with more than one million taels of silver in the treasury revenue.

And what is the silver in the treasury used for, and the bulk of it is naturally used for military expenses!

Therefore, the military naturally supported this incomparably, and immediately sent an entire battalion of nearly 500 people to kill the Jingjiang Wangwangfu, and this battalion was also one of the only three regular army infantry battalions under Chen Keqiao: the 13th Infantry Battalion.

Although the King of Jingjiang fled, there are still many people in the palace, after all, the huge Jingjiang Palace, there is not only one King Jingjiang and his princess, children and other immediate family members, in fact, after more than 100 years of reproduction, the Jingjiang Palace has already developed into a super family with many people.

As everyone knows, Zhu Yuanzhang is particularly capable of giving birth, and his descendants are also super stallions, and they are kept in captivity in the palace except for making people, and they have nothing else to do, so this has caused the number of clans in the Ming Dynasty to be particularly large.

To put it mildly, Zhu Yuanzhang alone created a nation!

Although the first King of Jingjiang was only the nephew of Zhu Yuanzhang, he still had the excellent fertility genes of the Zhu family, and there were many descendants of this child.

Let's not talk about those side relatives or anything, just say that there are hundreds of close relatives in the palace, plus thousands of slaves and the like.

The 13th Infantry Battalion also encountered resistance when it attacked King Jingjiang, but this resistance did not pose any threat to the 13th Infantry Battalion, a battle-hardened force.

Then the great King of Jingjiang became the spoils of the Tang Dynasty!

Then the people of the military cleaned up the other people in the palace, and the people of the tax department counted all kinds of seizures!

The more this was counted, the happier the people in the tax department became, so that the director of the Guilin Prefecture Taxation Bureau who led the team couldn't close their mouths with a smile.

These seizures in the convoy and in the palace alone amounted to more than 100,000 taels of silver in cash alone, not counting gold and silver jewelry, calligraphy and painting treasures, and the bigger ones were all kinds of granges and shops, whose industries spread throughout the two Guangzhou, and even in the Jiangnan region.

If these industries, calligraphy, paintings, and curiosities are sold and exchanged for cash, even in this era of war and turmoil, at least at least two million taels of silver can be recovered.

What does this mean?

It means getting rich!

These officials of the Ministry of Taxation are already in a good mood as if they are beckoning to them when they see their promotion and fortune!

And the people in the military are also happy, the silver recovered by the tax department is naturally used for military expenses, and most of the credit for the seizure of this silver belongs to their military.

In addition, in the process of capturing the King of Jingjiang, although there were officials of the Ministry of Taxation who followed all the way and strictly guarded them, it was impossible to see all of them strictly, and many soldiers and officers hid a lot of things privately.

Of course, they naturally don't dare to take things that are too conspicuous, but it is still possible to take some inconspicuous small things, such as a jade bracelet, a gold earring, etc.

It can be said that the mouth is full of oil, so happy!