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The establishment of Nanyang Company was handed over by Feng Yunshan to Wu Chongyao. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On the one hand, Wu Chongyao does have the desire to get rid of his status as a comprador businessman and want to get things done; On the other hand, the family members of the Wu family have to be supervised and accompanied by the Holy Army wherever they go out, and they are in control at any time, and they are not afraid that Wu Chongyao will have bad intentions.

Of course, Feng Yunshan still attaches great importance to Wu Chongyao.

When chatting, I accidentally heard Wu Chongyao mention that there was a foreigner's machine called a steam engine in the backyard of the Wu family, which was Wu Chongyao's foreigner's godbrother John, the owner of the American Qichang Foreign Company? Forbes gave it to the Wu family, and it has been many years, and no one in the Wu family will use it.

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he immediately became interested.

Wu Chongyao was imprisoned for a few days, and Feng Yunshan decided to send Wu Chongyao home with Zuo Zongtang with dignity. The main thing, of course, is to look at that steam engine.

Wu Chongyao's house has many houses, and the old house is on the south bank of the river outside the city, leaving only some family members to guard it.

Usually, he and his family live in the prosperous place of Xiguan. However, it was already seized by the Holy Army the day before yesterday. Just now, Zuo Zongtang had already sent someone to take the Wu family's family back to Xiguan's residence.

The Wu family was worthy of being the richest man at that time, and they found a secluded and elegant place in the bustling city.

From the outside courtyard wall alone, it occupies nearly 100 acres in size, and it is in the downtown area, but it only builds a fence and does not open a storefront. It can be seen that the Wu family doesn't care about this money.

The head on the door of the Wu family has been torn off, but there are still some faint traces on it.

The vermilion gate was opened, and the furnishings in the courtyard were not damaged at all, but Feng Yunshan and Zuo Zongtang knew that the Wu family's silver, silver tickets, and valuable antique calligraphy and paintings had all been confiscated by the Holy Army.

There was no one in the Wu family's yard. Zuo Zongtang quietly told him that the Wu family's family had not yet arrived, so they still arrived at the Wu family first.

Sure enough, two holy soldiers were found in the courtyard, guarding the Wu family.

In this regard, Feng Yunshan had to smile awkwardly.

Wu Chongyao didn't care, he diligently led Feng Yunshan to the pavilion in the back garden of the Wu family to rest and chat.

After a while, the Wu family's family members and family members all came back, and they were all happy to see Wu Chongyao come back safely.

Wu Chongyao hurriedly asked everyone to come over and pay homage to Feng Yunshan.

Feng Yunshan coped with it, and urged to see the steam engine. So, the two Wu family members led everyone, accompanied by more than ten personal guards, to the backyard wing of the Wu family.

This is supposed to be a small steam-powered spinning machine. Feng Yunshan saw it at a glance.

As a refining engineer of later generations, this old-fashioned machine is still easy to understand.

For a long time, the spinning machine has rotten. But the steam engine, except for the piston and the valve of the inlet and outlet gas, which has rust, resulting in poor sealing, is still intact, Feng Yunshan judged, it should be able to use, but the efficiency will be much lower.

Seeing this most important power machine of the modern industrial revolution, Feng Yunshan immediately thought of imitating it. He was going to have someone take it back and study it. Even if it cannot be imitated, it can be used as a teaching material.

This kind of slightly more complicated machine, although he can tell the principle and structure, but he can't draw accurate drawings, and even if there are drawings, no one can understand them. Therefore, it is best to have a physical object and let the craftsmen in the Taiping Holy Army study it by themselves.

Wu Chongyao organized the family members, lifted a rockery in the backyard, dug up the floating soil on it, and entered a cellar. In order to avoid suspicion, Wu Chongyao sent away his family members, let the holy soldiers go down, and took out the belongings hidden inside.

Then, what stunned Feng Yunshan was that after moving out of the cellar hundreds of uniformly made wooden boxes, more than a dozen holy soldiers were too tired to move. Zuo Zongtang summoned more holy soldiers and continued to transport the wooden boxes out of the cellar.

Two hours later, the soldiers who went down said that the cellar was empty. Thousands of wooden boxes, in three styles, are stacked there.

Wu Chongyao suddenly knelt down in front of Feng Yunshan with a bang: "Holy King, all the money buried by the Wu family is here, and Chongyao is willing to dedicate all of it to the Holy Treasury of the Holy Country to show his heart." ”

When Feng Yunshan saw Wu Chongyao open the cellar, he faintly guessed. Still, he was taken aback.

If there are so many chests, all of which are silver, how much wealth must there be? Wu Chongyao is really willing to donate, presumably he has made up his mind and sincerely surrendered.

With so much wealth, it is impossible not to accept it. Money will never be too much, not to mention that in the future, hundreds of thousands of holy soldiers will have to be fed, and it will definitely not work without money. Feng Yunshan immediately decided to accept it.

However, in this way, it is a bit unsympathetic to restrict the Wu family's family members all the time. Anyway, even if it's a buy of people's hearts, it's a deal, you have to show it a little.

Thinking of this, Feng Yunshan hurriedly helped Wu Chongyao up, and said with a face full of relief: "Chongyao's intentions, this king understands!" I will treat your Wu family well. ”

He turned his head to Zuo Zongtang and said, "Ji Gao, pass the order, from now on, the restrictions on the Wu family's family will be lifted." The people of the Wu family are also my brothers and sisters in the Holy Kingdom! ”

Zuo Zongtang hurriedly agreed.

Wu Chongyao was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.

Zuo Zongtang couldn't help but let the holy soldiers open a few of each of the three styles of wooden boxes.

The smallest wooden box contains yellow, orange, and orange gold bars and gold bricks, the medium wooden box contains white and flowery silver ingots, and the slightly larger wooden box contains all Western silver dollars.

Oh my God, how much does that cost? Especially that gold. Feng Yunshan knew that with the current Manchu gold and silver exchange ratio, it was as high as one to fifteen.

Wu Chongyao on the side explained: "Holy King, Mr. Zuo. There are 1,000 chests of gold, 3,500 boxes of silver ingots, and 4,300 boxes of Western silver coins. The total value is 8,540,000 taels of silver. ”

Rao is Zuo Zongtang, who has always been calm, was also taken aback by the number Wu Chongyao said, with a shocked and excited look.

Feng Yunshan was also intimidated. So many? He knew the value of a tael of silver in this era.

One tael of silver is equivalent to nearly two thousand dollars. A pound of flour costs 30 Wen, and a pound of pork is about 70 Wen, and at this time, one pound is equivalent to 1.2 pounds in later generations.

In this way, according to the grain conversion, one tael of silver is equivalent to 200 yuan of RMB in later generations, and if it is converted according to the price of meat, it is as high as 420 yuan RMB.

Even if it is converted according to grain, the money that Wu Chongyao gave to the holy treasury is equivalent to 1.7 billion yuan in later generations. You must know that the annual income of the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty at this time is equivalent to 8 billion yuan in later generations.

The money that Wu Chongyao donated was too huge.

Feng Yunshan groaned, Wu Ruxiao, who served as the comprador of the deputy general of the Holy Army, had lost contact with him since he went to Guangxi to find the Ling Eighteen Righteous Army, and he didn't know if he was killed, after thinking about it, Feng Yunshan said: "In view of Chongyao's intentions for the Holy Kingdom, this king has granted you the post of deputy general comprador of the Holy Army, and the position is the same as that of the general system. ”

Wu Chongyao was overjoyed, although he didn't know what level the general system of the Holy Army was, but the name of the deputy general comprador of the Holy Army was not small, so he hurriedly knelt down to thank him. The heart is the right move.

Feng Yunshan comforted Wu Chongyao again, and saw that it was not early, so he left the Wu family with Zuo Zongtang.

Halfway through, Feng Yunshan and Zuo Zongtang talked about asking the Holy Treasury to send more holy soldiers to move the Wu family's money to the Governor's Yamen's Sacred Treasury overnight.

Surrounded by several guards and holy soldiers, the two of them had just passed by the courtyard gate of a large family, but they suddenly heard someone in the courtyard shouting: "Catch that female thief!" ”