Chapter 231 The Rich Rival the Country

Not wanting to attract attention, Han Qian took people and took advantage of the night to spend two days quietly transporting this batch of goods to the Yudai River at the foot of Maobu Mountain, and then transported them to Yongchun Palace Manor by boat.

Four days later, Han Qian, Zhang Ping, Jiang Xu, and Yuan Guowei collected all the other three secret vaults known to the Feng brothers near Jinling City, and finally transported the goods into the Yongchun Palace Manor as much as 1.1 billion yuan in copper, totaling 1.1 million yuan.

In addition, the Feng family also hid 10,000 acres of grain fields, nine villages, more than 600 houses, six water mills, and more than 400 cattle and horses in Gyeonggi counties.

The amount of money confiscated by the three divisions and counties in the same state and county was even more staggering, and it was also summed up before the end of September, and the treasures and two or three hundred pawn shops, warehouses, etc., were discounted by more than five billion, which was almost equivalent to Da Chu's annual income this year.

This does not include the confiscation of more than 100,000 mu of grain fields, more than 5,000 slaves and maids, and more than 300 soldiers and soldiers of the Feng family.

Although the confiscated property of the Feng clan confiscated by the three divisions is amazingly huge, it can only slightly alleviate the financial crisis of the imperial court in the past two or three years, but for the county prince's mansion, it is too terrifying to unexpectedly harvest millions of dollars of wealth at once.

Before and after the preparation of the Dragon Bird Army, almost 200,000 yuan of money and grain were invested in front of the Late Red Mansion and the Marquis of Xinchang's Mansion, which almost squeezed out the Late Red Mansion and the Marquis of Xinchang's Mansion.

At this time, the power of the county king's mansion can be said to be very large, in addition to the Yongchun Palace manor, there are also five cantonment military mansions, but the military government field tax, the military funds drawn by the degree branch division and the field rent obtained from the Yongchun Palace manor, can only add up to a hundred tens of thousands of harvests a year, and after deducting the huge expenses of the Longque Army and the county king's mansion, there may not be three melons and two dates left every year.

This time, the Junwang Mansion can be said to have obtained the military expenses of the Dragon Bird Army for five or six years at once.

Yang Yuanpu stood in front of the treasury full of goods in Yongchun Palace, and his face turned red with excitement, thinking about the past two years in order to raise military funds, in addition to the robes and clothes given by the palace, he had not bought a single silk dress for more than two years after leaving the palace, and it was not easy to admit that the dirty clothes he made inside were patched.

"Your Highness, although Feng Yi, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong are the sons of criminal ministers, they have contributed to His Highness by offering their wealth and goods, and Han Qian wants to ask His Highness to agree to let them stay in the county king's mansion to serve." Han Qian stood beside the third prince and said.

Shen Yang, Zheng Hui, Wang Lin, Zhang Ping, and Xinchang Hou Li Pu and others, who had specially rushed over, all glanced at Han Qian in surprise.

Han Qian originally wanted to leave Feng Yi, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong in Yandangji, but the property confiscated by the Feng family was so huge, in order to avoid suspicion, Feng Yi, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong were sent back to the county king's mansion for solitary confinement.

People's hearts are the most difficult to guess, Han Qian thinks he is doing a fair and honest job, but who knows if Feng Yi and Feng Yi really completely confessed the location of the Feng family's secret treasures?

And even if Feng Yi and Feng Yi did not hide it in the slightest, how could Xinchang Hou Li Pu, Wang Lin, Zheng Hui and others really believe it in their hearts without a trace of suspicion?

If the Feng family's current confiscated goods did not reach a total of several million, only hundreds of thousands, and finally tens of thousands or two hundred thousand of them were left out, or even fell into the pockets of the organizers, Han Qian believed that many people would turn a blind eye, but if he thought that the Feng family was very likely to have millions or even more treasures hidden in the shadows and not excavated, Han Qian believed that the three princes trusted him, and they might not be able to be so suspicious!

In fact, the human heart is the most unbearable test.

Han Qian now handed over Feng Yi, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong to the county king's mansion for solitary confinement, at least without being suspected of his secret collusion with the Feng family brothers.

Yang Yuanpu glanced back at Han Qian, nodded and said, "That's fine, then for the time being, let them stay in Jinyun Tower to atone for their sins." ”

Feng Wenlan and Kong Zhou have just been given to death, Feng Yi, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong, as the sisters-in-law of Feng Kong, it is very inappropriate to stay in the county king's mansion, who knows if they have a grudge in their hearts?

However, the few people present were all clear-minded people, and they could also know what suspicion Han Qian was avoiding by handing over the Feng family brothers at this time, and if he didn't send the Feng family brothers back to the county king's mansion at this time, where would it be appropriate to be imprisoned?

As the sun set, sending the three princes away by car to leave the Yongchun Palace Manor, Han Qian also prepared to return to Yandang Jizhuang Courtyard on the west bank by boat.

"The Feng family's downfall has solved a lot of problems in the imperial court!" Tian Cheng looked at the gallop after a rain, and was pressed out of the deep rut by the carriage, and said with great emotion.

When the three princes returned to the city, a large number of copper coins, copper ingots and other things were left in the Yongchun Palace manor, but they still transported more than 30 red gold balls and more than 300 silver cast balls back to the county palace in a carriage.

The red gold ball and the silver cast ball are each a standard sixty-four catties, totaling more than 25,000 catties of gold and silver, which looks small in size, but it uses more than 20 carriages, which makes the team of the three princes return to the city look quite magnificent.

Tian Cheng and Gao Shao participated in the whole process of the seizure of the Feng family's secret treasures, and at this moment they were still deeply shocked by the huge amount of the Feng family's private treasures.

Han Qian stood at the bow of the boat with his hands in his hands, and now the annual income of the treasury in a normal year of Great Chu is only seven or eight million, in this calculation, the property of the Feng family is worth the annual income of Great Chu for nearly a year, and it can indeed be called a rich country.

On the other hand, however, the low revenue of the state treasury not only shows that the control of the imperial court over the prefectures and counties is far from strong, but also shows that the productivity of the world is really low.

When the chariot and horse team surrounding the three princes gradually disappeared into the depths of the sunset, Han Qian took a boat back to Yandangji.

Yang Qin and Xi Chang led the fleet from Xuzhou to Jinling again yesterday, and at this time, Yang Qin and Xi Chang also stood in front of the Zhuang courtyard to welcome Han Qian back.

Even if it is getting night, on the river flood wharf in front of the village, more than 100 slaves and maids are still non-stop carrying bags of grain, cloth, paper and other goods onto the ship.

As Han Qian expected, the summer and autumn floods in Jinghu Lake were extremely serious, and the half-year war caused extremely tragic damage to agricultural production in Jingxiang area, causing grain prices in Jingxiang and Jinghu to rise day by day after the autumn began.

The flooding of Dongting Lake, coupled with the fact that 15,000 households had to be relocated to Dengzhou and Junzhou before the winter, caused a large increase in the number of fleeing households in Tanyue and other prefectures and counties, and tens of thousands of new Hakka displaced people in Xuzhou in the summer, which also caused the price of grain in Xuzhou to skyrocket.

The Xuzhou Boat Gang could transport the grain trafficked from Runyang to Tanyue and unload the ship to sell it for profit, but in order to ensure the needs of Xuzhou, they still did not hesitate to extend the voyage by more than double the voyage until they arrived in Qianyang City, Xuzhou, and unloaded the grain.

The injection of large sums of money and grain enabled the Xuzhou Shipyard to directly purchase ready-made shipbuilding timber from Jinghu, so as to save the longest time in the shipbuilding process of timber cellaring and drying, and at the same time to recruit hundreds of skilled shipbuilders from the Jinghu area to Xuzhou.

By the end of September, the number of new fast sailing boats had increased to six, ensuring that they could make a round trip between Xuzhou and Jinling every month.

In this way, Han Qian can transport tens of thousands of japonica rice to Xuzhou every month, and at the same time, he can transport a considerable amount of pig iron, tea medicine, tung oil and other materials from Xuzhou to Jinling.

Yang Qin and Xi Chang returned to Jinling again yesterday, and they also heard that the wealth confiscated from the Feng family property this time was jaw-dropping, but their feelings were not as deep as those of Tian Cheng and Gao Shao.

Even if Xi Changcai followed the boat gang three times, he also knew the links in it, and he also knew how terrifying the wealth generated by the fleet was when he made a trip back and forth to Xuzhou and Jinling every month.

Not to mention the others, each stone of japonica rice in Xuzhou soared to 1,000 yuan after entering the summer, while in Runyang Erdi, each stone of japonica rice is only 600 yuan, and 14,500 stone japonica rice is transported to Xuzhou every month, and after deducting expenses, you can get nearly 3,000 yuan.

And the pig iron, tea medicine, and tung oil from Xuzhou were transported to Jinling, and they could get 2,000 yuan.

In other words, the boat gang can make a profit of nearly 5,000 yuan once a month.

If this market continues for a year, the boat gang will make a profit of 50,000 or 60,000 yuan a year.

The Jun Wangfu obtained millions of dollars from the raid of the Feng family this time, which looked extremely terrifying, but it was only worth the benefits of the Boat Gang for twenty years, and it was not a wealth that could not be expected in this life.

If the scale of the boat gang continues to expand in the future, and as the power of the Han family father and son grows, the boat gang can open up more business routes, and the wealth will inevitably grow faster.

The accumulation of wealth of the boat gang does not seem to be so fast, and it even gives people a feeling of being stretched, in fact, at this time, one or two hundred Xi clan people have to be redeemed every month, and at the same time, a large amount of money and grain is consumed on the expansion of the two plantations mainly in Yangtan Water Village and Xi Village.

In addition to the shipyard and weaving yard, Xuzhou opened a new coal yard and iron ore yard in Heilongshan in the north of Qianyang City at this time, and an iron yard will be built in the future, and it will also build a water dam and water mill, crushed coal and other facilities according to the model of the Qiuhu Mountain craftsman, which are bottomless pits that need to consume a lot of money and grain.

In addition to the route between Xuzhou and Jinling, the Xuzhou Boat Gang also organized six other ordinary sailing boats into a team to travel between Junzhou and Jinling.

Even if the speed of the fleet of these six ordinary sailing ships is much slower than that of the new fast sailing ships, after the initial transformation, it only takes one and a half months to travel between Junzhou and Xuzhou and Jinling - but at present, it is not a big profit to transport supplies for the garrison of Junzhou.

Of course, there is another key reason why the fleet can go back and forth so quickly, that is, Han Qian has sorted out and rectified the entire shipping process.

Yang Qin was originally from Shuizhai, and his feelings were even more profound.

Taking grain transportation as an example, when the world transported grain, it was all in bulk, that is to say, rice, corn, japonica rice, and polished rice were all directly loaded into the cabin, going back and forth to various places, and the loading and unloading of the ship were weighed with a large bucket, which is the tradition formed by shipping grain for thousands of years.

However, Han Qian purchased bulk grain at the warehouses set up in Yandangji, Runzhou and Yangzhou at this time, and then weighed and bagged, this process may use more hemp woven bags and some labor, but the speed of loading and unloading ships has been greatly improved, six or seven ships, as long as there are enough strong laborers, it may only take one day at the earliest to load and unload.

Otherwise, no matter how fast the new fast sailing ship runs, the loading and unloading process will waste half a month, and you will have to get lucky not to encounter rainy weather.

I didn't see the Feng family brothers come back with Han Qian, and when they learned that they would be confined to the Junwang Mansion in the future, there were many people in the Zhuang Yuan who secretly regretted it.

There are still many people who think that the Feng family must still have hidden goods, and whoever can control the Feng brothers may become extremely rich.

And Yang Qin and Xi Chang can understand Han Qian's state of mind, the Han family is really not uncommon with these three melons and two dates, and they still leave a stigma that cannot be washed away.

Feng Wenlan's case is now temporarily over, Han Qian also came back from this matter, called Yang Qin and Xi Chang to the official residence, asked about the situation in Xuzhou in the past month, and finally decided to order six Han craftsmen to return to Xuzhou with Yang Qin and Xi Chang with the preliminary method of crude steel smelting, and support the Xuzhou iron field.

The Xi clan has gathered 700 people, and the early redemption is mainly young and strong laborers, which also makes up for the lack of manpower in the recent expansion of the Boat Gang.

The plantations, as well as the coal and iron ore yards, as well as the iron foundries to be built in the future, require more manpower, which is mainly hired from the influx of Hakka refugees into Xuzhou.

Do everything possible to lure people over, and do everything possible to create conditions to keep them.