Chapter 612: Countless treasures were seized

"Your Majesty has newly ascended to the great treasure, and you can order someone to send an edict to the local officials in various places as soon as possible and surrender to them! If the prefect of several provinces or the governor of a province surrenders to the empire, it will cause a sensation, and other provinces will follow suit. When the pen & fun & pavilion arrives www.biquge.info the empire's captive army will send troops to the Central Plains again, and they will be able to force the Central Plains provinces to surrender. In this way, the whole world, the empire will occupy seven or eight, and then reorganize the army in the northwest and Liaodong outside the Guanwai, and the world will be unified and a great cause will be achieved! Zuo Zongtang said that he was excited, his face was full of red light, and he scolded Fang Xuan.

Feng Yunshan groaned slightly, nodded and said, "What Ji Gao said is very true. I am also a little hesitant, most of these local officials are corrupt people, they can't be diligent in government and love the people, even if they surrender to the empire, how dare I use them? ”

"Your Majesty, can you settle down first, and when the empire has enough troops and controls the place, are you still afraid that they will not be able to turn the sky upside down? These people are very shrewd, and they will naturally see the situation clearly and dare not confront the empire. Zuo Zongtang said, and said: "I heard that Qinglin, the governor of Beibei, has also surrendered to the empire, and most of Hubei has been occupied by the captive army, so it is better to let him notify all places and take the lead in announcing the surrender of Hubei Province to the empire." ”

Feng Yunshan said with a smile: "Haha, Ji Gao is good, he can still come up with this idea of making a trust!" That's it, I'll make an order when I wait! In addition, yesterday I had already sent someone to inform the Nanfang Daily to publish the latest special issue to publicize the abdication of the Manchu Emperor and my accession to the throne, and on the other hand, urge the local bureaucrats of the Manchu Qing to surrender to the empire! ”

Seeing that Feng Yunshan was in a good mood, Zuo Zongtang remembered the most important thing, and hurriedly reported: "Your Majesty, the results of the capture army's dispatch this time have been basically counted. There are too many seizures, it is difficult to count them one by one, and the specific data is on the side of Director Zhou of the Logistics Department, and here in Weichen, only some big aspects have been recorded, but it also makes Weichen very shocked. ”

After speaking, Zuo Zongtang presented a thick list. Feng Yunshan took a look and was also stunned!

Since the landing at the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin, it has marched westward along the Grand Canal and the Baihe River, captured the city of Tianjin, and then captured the Xianghe, Tongzhou, and Yuanmingyuan all the way until the city of Beijing, losing more than 800 soldiers and wounding more than 2,000 people. A total of more than 15,000 Qing demons were killed and 43,000 Qing soldiers were captured.

More than 3,000 large and small artillery pieces and nearly 50,000 shotguns were seized, nearly half of which were captured in various firearms manufacturing offices and arsenals in the suburbs of Beijing, and the remaining half were directly captured from the surrendered Qing soldiers. Of course, the reliability of these weapons is too poor, Feng Yunshan can't look down on them at all, so he can only mothball them during wartime, and whether they will be sent to local garrisons or wait for the arsenal to be sent to Guangdong for modification in the future, or simply return to the furnace and remake them, it depends on the situation.

What made Feng Yunshan ecstatic the most was the rare treasures in the Old Summer Palace and all kinds of treasures in the Forbidden City.

Feng Yunshan took a look, and the bronze statues of the famous twelve zodiac signs in later generations were also listed, but if they were divided into ten levels according to their preciousness, they could only be ranked at the ninth level, and even Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Scroll" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Wu Daozi's "Heavenly King Sending His Son" in the Tang Dynasty could only be ranked in the fourth and fifth categories of treasures.

The most valuable, but in a secret room found only more than one meter high pagoda, all of them made of a whole piece of natural red gold carved with the whole body inlaid with red, yellow, blue, green and black gemstones, Feng Yunshan saw the list of seizures, listed it in the first category. Next to it, there are eighteen night pearls the size of children's heads.

As for the priceless jade cabbage ornaments, jade morning pearls, watermelon tourmalines, goose egg-sized night pearls and the like in later generations, they can only be ranked in the third or fourth level.

Feng Yunshan didn't dare to look any further, he was a little worried about his heartbeat. Although he knows that these things, in the current era, may not feel as valuable as the later generations, but they are already shocking wealth, because there are too many, just the list, according to Zuo Zongtang, there are ten thick books.

Zuo Zongtang just selected some typical ones and copied more than a dozen items on the list, in fact, there are more than 100,000 pieces of all kinds of treasures seized?

It is equivalent to that a small half of the treasures of the previous dynasties of China are gathered in the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, not only these two places, but also the princes and nobles and Manchu officials in Beijing City and the Imperial City fled one after another, because they were in a hurry, and they also hoped that Beijing City could be defended at that time, and many treasures were not packed up, and all of them were seized by the soldiers of the captive army.

Feng Yunshan didn't have the heart to look at these treasures anymore, and asked directly: "Ji Gao, you just give the truth, estimate, how much are these treasures worth in total?" ”

"Your Majesty, aren't you embarrassed?" Zuo Zongtang had a headache, Feng Yunshan's words really asked him, and he really couldn't answer: "There are so many treasures, Weichen finally understands that sentence, there are countless of them!" These treasures, which are all priceless, are still so huge. Even if it is calculated according to 100,000 pieces, even if it is calculated according to 20,000 taels per piece, it is worth 2 billion taels of silver. ”

Feng Yunshan's eyes were straight! He knew a lot, and he asked casually, but he never thought that it would be such a terrifying number! Moreover, this is still Zuo Zongtang's conservative estimate, in fact, I am afraid that there are not only 100,000 pieces, but on average, it is not only worth 20,000 taels.

This number is really staggering.

Of course, Feng Yunshan also knows that this can't be counted like this, if all these treasures are put outside, it will inevitably cause the collapse of the entire market, but no matter what, this is undoubtedly a huge wealth, rich and rivaling the country, not an empty word.

The loss of Manqing has always said that they are short of money, because they refuse to sell their money. But I didn't expect that I ended up cheapening myself.

Feng Yunshan explained: "We must watch this batch of treasures, and we can't let one of them be lost." This is not my alone, it is the treasure of the entire empire and the entire Huaxia clan. In addition, let the people in the logistics department keep an eye on it, and you can't let the soldiers handle it alone. ”

Zuo Zongtang agreed, as for the other silver taels, grain, war horses, etc., it was too much, but compared with the treasures, there was no need to mention it at all. He then talked about another thing: "Your Majesty, the empire is newly established, and according to the custom, your majesty's ancestors should be canonized, as well as the queen, the crown prince, etc. Wechen is worried that after a long time, people's hearts will fluctuate. ”

When Feng Yunshan heard this, he sighed, he had actually thought of this matter for a long time, but this matter, he wanted to delay it for a while, it seemed that it was difficult to drag it over. It is estimated that Zuo Zongtang mentioned this matter, and he was also entrusted by the soldiers who followed, once the royal family was canonized, he would naturally reward the officials.

"After a while, my mentality has not yet changed, and besides, this time I ascended the throne too hastily, and there is a lack of staff officers around me except for Ji Gao." Feng Yunshan smiled bitterly: "I originally wanted to wait for a month or two to postpone it for a while, wait for the war in the south to end, and then reward all the soldiers according to their merits. I'll think about that later. ”

After Zuo Zongtang left, Minister of Justice Huang Yukun came to meet again. He mentioned the matter of a kind of captured Qing soldiers, especially the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Lang Baojun, the former political envoy of Shanxi, Guo Mengling, and more than 20 other captured Manchu princes and ministers, all of whom had a tough attitude, kept scolding, and kept muttering when they were gagged, and they came to report to Feng Yunshan, how to deal with it!

According to Huang Yukun's meaning, such a clear demon is directly beheaded to show the public. But along the way, seeing that Feng Yunshan seemed to be more and more tolerant of the Qing Demon, for those captured Qing Demons, he tried his best to persuade them to surrender, and those who did not surrender were also temporarily imprisoned, so Huang Yukun was also a little uncertain.

Feng Yunshan was shocked, really, unconsciously, he had forgotten the original intention of the Taiping Holy Kingdom uprising. Although "Killing the Qing Demon" is a slogan, it is a sacred mission for the vast number of soldiers and soldiers who are being captured. It is necessary for him to tell the soldiers what they think through Huang Yukun: "Brother Huang, you are the old man of Jintian, I might as well tell you directly." After the capture of the city of Beijing, I was much more lenient to these Manchu bannermen, especially the Manchu princes and nobles, and the reason for this was nothing more than to urge the other Qing demons to surrender more and unify the world as soon as possible. And these Manchu aristocrats, when we occupy the world, how do we want to clean it up, isn't it still a matter of one sentence? ”

Speaking of this, Feng Yunshan remembered the various movements in later generations, isn't it just that after the autumn, he will settle the account? You can learn by yourself.

Huang Yukun was a little ashamed and said, "I see! Wechen is guilty, and Wechen dares to speculate on His Majesty's intentions. ”

Feng Yunshan waved his hand and said, "Brother Huang is an old man, so you don't have to be so angry with me!" By the way, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, Lang Baojun, the former political envoy of Shanxi, Guo Mengling, and the twenty or thirty stubborn Manchu and Mongolian nobles you just said, will be handed over to you to enforce the law and deal with them, and according to the method of dealing with the Qing demon when we were in Daozhou: if you don't surrender, you will die! ”

Huang Yukun retired with excitement on his face.

At noon on the same day, Prince Mianyu of Heshuohui, as well as Lang Bulinqin, the elder brother of Seng Lingqin, and more than a dozen princes and nobles such as Beile Beizi, plus more than a dozen Manchu ministers such as Lang Baojun, the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites, and Guo Mengling, the former political envoy of Shanxi, were escorted to the Caishikou execution ground outside the Xuanwu Gate with gongs and drums.

Huang Yukun stood on the side of the prisoner car and made a speech, announcing that these unrepentant Qing demons had committed a heinous crime of bullying men and women, and emphasized that they were loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, refused to surrender to the empire, and were all executed according to His Majesty's will.

Listening to only a few cannon shots, more than 40 card knife hands, up and down with knives, more than 40 Manchu princes, nobles and ministers, all beheaded, their heads were hung in the Xuanwu Gate City Tower to show the public, the pigtail on the top of the head, just came in handy.

For a time, the entire city of Beijing was shocked, and the people who surrendered in the entire city of Beijing were trembling, frightened, and frightened.