Chapter 67: Be My Eyes and Ears
In the small village outside the post station, the Jinyi Guard captains under Gao Han have been stationed here.
After sending Su Tianyang away, Gao Han went here directly, and the big stone in his heart fell to the ground, and now, it was finally time to take stock of the harvest.
The lieutenants were not stationed here alone, with them, there were several carriages. Wei Zhongxian's henchmen had already been handed over to Jinyiwei in Tianjin, but when Wei Zhongxian had already left Beijing with his henchmen, everything he carried was detained by Gao Han, and several carriages were loaded with these things.
When he got off the ship, these things had been packed and sealed, but although Gao Han had an approximate idea in his heart about how much money there was, the specific number was still uncertain.
Among the fine and soft goods that he carried, gold and silver goods accounted for most of them, plus some jade and jewelry that were easy to realize, although it sounded like a few carriages were not much, but Gao Han knew that this was already a very large fortune.
Since Su Tianyang said that his group of shrimp soldiers and crabs will not look down on him, then it means that in the future, these Jinyi Wei captains will have to rely on Gao Han to raise them themselves, of course, since Gao Han has the title of Jinyi Guard's commander, these people can also be regarded as Jinyi Wei's people, and their identity is still no problem, but they can only be regarded as Gao Han's guards in the future.
It doesn't matter, Gao Han really doesn't matter at all, as long as you can afford it, why don't you raise more, as long as the emperor doesn't suspect it.
Will the emperor be suspicious? He felt that the emperor would not be for the time being, and the emperor now wanted the strength of his loyal courtiers to be as strong as possible, although Gao Han could not be on the stage in the civil officials, and he could not be listed in the military attachΓ©s, but the emperor was willing to see that there were some available people in the Jinyi Guard.
"More than 40,000 taels of silver, more than 3,000 taels of gold, and other fine and soft, probably equivalent to silver, should be about 100,000 taels!"
Zhang Chunyan handed Gao Han a list, which was the approximate inventory of the goods in the past few days, and it was also all Gao Han's harvest.
"So little silver?" Gao Han frowned.
"Wei Gelding fled, carrying more gold than silver, but his subordinates heard that in Wei Gelding's hometown, he had sent a lot of goods in advance, and with Wei Gelding's ability to loot goods, this amount of money is also amazing!"
Zhang Chunyan's eyes flashed, from beginning to end, he has been following Gao Han, such a big thing happened, the emperor actually didn't have any punishment, not even a word of blame, just the new commander came over and took Gao Han's errand, he is now a little blind worship of Gao Han.
Looking at Zhang Chunyan's eyes, Gao Han smiled and shook his head: "Those are not things we can decide, maybe someone from the inner court has gone to check them now!" β
"Oh!" Zhang Chunyan sighed with some disappointment.
"We can't just swallow this money!" Gao Han nodded: "Leave the silver and soft and the like, give a copy to the commander, and pack the rest of the gold into a box, and when you enter the city, let Sun Yulin send it to the commander, and say that you are asking the commander to give it to the inner court!" β
"Understood!" Zhang Chunyan nodded.
Gao Han thought for a while: "Find a house in the capital, it doesn't matter if the place is biased, it's good if the place is big, wait until you find it, settle the brothers over, you can do it!" β
Gao Han looked at her, and a hint of brilliance flashed in his eyes: "You have worked hard these days, pick out some jewelry you like in these soft and soft, and which ones you like, just cross them out of the inventory, don't ask me!" β
"Thank you, sir!" The corners of Zhang Chunyan's mouth turned up slightly, revealing a hint of a smile, she knew, knew that at this time, Gao Han really accepted her as a close person by his side.
With Sun Yulin's help, the matter of finding a house was quickly completed, there was a Yangzhou salt merchant's house in Xicheng, covering an area of more than 60 acres, imitating the Jiangnan courtyard to build, and later the salt merchant seemed to have encountered a bottleneck in his business, and he had been trying to sell it without selling.
Gao Han went over and took a look, even if the price of this house was 8,000 taels, Gao Han made a decision directly, and completed all the formalities on the same day, and moved all his subordinates into it.
Wu Yanran followed Gao Han to see this house, and she also liked this house very much, but she had been used to living with Liu Ru in the small courtyard, and she suddenly wanted to live with Gao Han and be separated from Liu Ru, she was a little reluctant in her heart.
Gao Han didn't have the courage to let Liu Ru live with him, and there was no way to borrow and live in such a small courtyard, but if he bought a house and then took Liu Ru to live, then I really don't know what the emperor thinks.
Fortunately, this little problem that bothered him was directly bothered by the will from the palace less than a week after he moved into the new house.
"The Emperor summons!"
The feeling of entering the palace last time, and the feeling of entering the palace this time, Gao Han obviously felt different, the guards in the palace gave him the impression that even if the emperor had not yet fully controlled the court situation, but in the palace, he had already gained a firm foothold, and he no longer had to worry about what small means others used to threaten him.
Zhu Youzhen did not meet him in the Qianqing Palace, which handled political affairs, but in a warm pavilion in the imperial garden.
When he was led here by the guards, Zhu Youzhen was receiving a few courtiers, and Gao Han stayed aside honestly, not daring to speak.
Until Zhu Youzhen glanced at him and motioned for him to walk over.
"In short, this military expenditure matter, the imperial court has a custom every year, these saliva accounts of yours, I don't want to listen to it anymore, if the household department moves out of the silver taels, and buys Xiyi cannons to Liaodong, I support it, as for how much silver taels to take, how much to buy, whether to discount from next year's military spending, you can just take out a charter to the cabinet!"
"But I have just been in power, and I believe that you old courtiers do not mean that you old courtiers are indulged, so that no one will bully me when I am young and follow the example of Wei Zhongxian!"
"Don't dare!" Several ministers in the warm cabinet expressed their positions one after another.
"This is Gao Han, the former commander of the guard!" Zhu Youzhen beckoned to Gao Han: "I plan to send him to the southeast to be a wind watcher, after I ascend the throne, I can't have a black eye, this matter of buying cannons, you two departments discuss it, I want the result, but also the process, the southeast side, the sky is high and the earth is far away, if there is anything that can't make up your mind, maybe he, the wind watcher, may help you staff and staff!" β
The two ministers of the household department and the military department in the warm pavilion felt a greasy feeling in their hearts, didn't this mean that the emperor made it clear that he didn't believe them, but they didn't dare to say anything about this.
"Your Majesty is thoughtful, such a military matter, no matter how cautious you are!"
"Okay, that's it, in a few days, hand over a note, and the cabinet can do it after approval, you can step down!"
When the ministers stepped back, and Gao Han didn't know whether he should step down or not, Zhu Youzhen spoke: "I sent you to watch the wind because I want you to be my eyes and ears, do you understand?" β
"The minister understands!" Gao Han nodded, saying that he understood, but he really didn't understand what this Zhu Youzhen wanted to do by himself.
"You commanded the property offered to the inner court, and I received it!" A smile appeared on Zhu Youzhen's face: "I don't care about this, the use of the inner court is just my expense, I don't need to worry about it, if you really want me to worry about it, think about how to enrich the treasury, that's the right way!" β
"That's just the minister's heart!"
"It's still the same sentence, Gao Qing, the pattern, the pattern, the vision determines the pattern, your vision, you have to zoom in on it! Go farther! β
When he came back from the palace, Gao Han didn't know what the emperor wanted him to do, except for the errand of a southeast wind watcher.
said that he wanted to be the emperor's eyes and ears, then, he just went to the southeast to take a look, but the emperor mentioned the problem of his vision pattern, and also mentioned the problem of the fullness of the treasury, and by the way, he also took him to show his face in front of the two bigwigs in the Ministry of War, he really didn't know what the emperor was going to do by himself.
The only thing that is certain is that at least I will go to the southeast, this matter is decided, and besides, if I go to the southeast to do other things, I must be looking at it for the emperor.
Other than that, it's gone.
Even he expected the emperor to mention Liu Ruyi's placement a little, his family came to Beijing and lived with Liu Ruyi, he didn't believe that Su Tianyang didn't tell the emperor about that old thing, but the emperor didn't mention Liu Ruyi, what kind of thing is this!
Perhaps, the emperor is too young, and Liu Ru is older than him and has a bad background, so the emperor has never thought about including her in the harem?
Compared to his own future, Gao Han felt that this matter was more nerve-wracking.