The fighting continued until the next morning.

At nightfall that day, the Wandering Army completely defeated the guards in Gong City. These improvised family members hid back in their homes, and some well-informed people simply took off their household clothes and took refuge in people's homes.

The mansions of the eight Jin merchants were divided and surrounded by the exile army, and then uprooted one by one.

After capturing a Jin merchant mansion, Chigutai led the sergeants of the cavalry battalion to tie up all the men, women, and children in the mansion after verifying their identities, and captured them to the military camp outside Gong City. Other unrelated persons such as domestic servants, maidservants, handymen, and folk husbands were all let go and were not pursued.

Until the mansions of the eight Jin merchants were all captured, the time had come to the next day.

Under the command of Qin Zhan, the Liumin Army began to evacuate Gong City, and the sergeants of Jing Jie and Chigutai entered Gong City and began the work of confiscating family property.

Fang Yuan sat in the military tent on the high ground outside the city, listening to Qin Zhan's report on the arrest of the eight Jin merchants.

"King Dengku of Jin Shang, his parents died early, three sons (two were arrested), two women (one was arrested), eighteen distant relatives, eleven concubines, and seven maids."

"Jin Liangyu, a Jin merchant, his father died early, his mother was eighty-three, five sons (three were arrested), four women (two were arrested), twenty-nine distant relatives, seven concubines, and five maids in the room."

"Jin merchant Wang Dayu, his parents are still alive, one son (arrested), two women (arrested), thirteen distant relatives, four concubines, and three maids."

“.............”

Qin Zhan reported on the arrest of the eight Jin merchants one by one, Wang Dengku, Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang, Huang Yunfa and other seven main culprits were all arrested, and all the children and relatives in Gong City, a total of 335 people.

Only the biggest traitor Fan Yongdou is missing.

Fang Yuan was stunned and asked, "What about the Fan family?" ”

Qin Zhan said with a difficult face, "When we attacked Fan's house, we found that Fan Yongdou, Fan Sanba, and several children all slipped away by boat from the small river outside Gong City, and only captured fifteen relatives in the house. ”

"Escaped from the biggest traitor Fan's family?!"

Fang Yuan got up suddenly, pointed at Qin Zhan's door and scolded, "Why don't you chase it?" ”

Qin Zhan was stunned, and seeing that Fang Yuan was already really angry, he hurriedly said, "I will immediately send a team of brocade guards to chase along the river." ”

Fang Yuan said sharply, "Fourth, you have to see people in life and corpses in death, this biggest traitor must not escape." ”

Qin Zhan hurriedly took the order out of the military tent, ordered fifty brocade guards, and went to pursue the Fan family.

Li Zongze, the commander of the artillery battalion, entered the military tent to report the results of the battle to Fang Yuan, "Lord Fang, the artillery battalion fired three rounds of salvos this time, firing 58 rounds of artillery and two rounds of dumb fire, and none of the artillery exploded. ”

This time, Li Zongze's artillery battalion was able to successfully attack Gongshi at the smallest cost, and it was worthy of being the elite of the Tianxiong Army Firearms Battalion, Fang Yuan said happily, "Okay, Zongze, all the brothers have worked hard, go down first and take turns to rest, but don't let your guard down." ”

Li Zongze hurriedly took the order.

Fang Yuan stared at the token in his hand, secretly thinking, if he couldn't catch the people of the Fan family this time, the deterrent effect would be greatly halved, and if Fan Yongdou's old fox was allowed to escape to the Manchu realm, it would be a tricky matter.

I hope Qin Zhan's pursuit can be successful!

In the next day, Qin Zhan, who went to pursue Fan Yongdou, returned empty-handed, and reported to Fang Yuan that Fan Yongdou and his party had gone down the river and got off the boat at the ferry of Xuanfu Military Town, and followed the trail of the group to Xuanfu Military Town.

Fan Yongdou, as well as the Fan family, should have fled to Xuanfu Military Town to take refuge.

Fang Yuan secretly regretted that he couldn't die if he damned it, since the Fan family was counting on the protection of Xuanfu Military Town, they could only chase down the dignitaries of Xuanfu Military Town.

Less than half an hour after Qin Zhan returned, Chigutai, who confiscated the property of the Eight Great Jin Merchants in Gong City, used ox carts to pull the wealth of the Eight Great Jin Merchants back to the military tent, which was as many as 500 ox carts.

Fang Yuan saw that he had gained a lot this time, and he was secretly happy in his heart, and he hurriedly ordered Chigutai, who had been busy all night, and the Mongolian cavalry to go to rest, and changed to Qin Zhan's Jinyi Guard to count the family wealth of five hundred taels of oxcarts.

One hundred brocade guards were busy for two whole days, and finally counted the number of confiscated fortunes of the eight major Jin merchants this time.

Confiscated the wealth of the Jin merchant Fan family: 10,000 taels of gold, 130,000 taels of silver, 40,000 stones of grain, jewelry and jade, and a number of silk cotton.

King Dengku of the Jin Shang Dynasty: 80,000 taels of gold, 530,000 taels of silver, 30,000 stones of grain, jewelry and jade, and a number of silk cotton.

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After Qin Zhan's inventory and summary, the total amount of confiscated family property this time was: 360,000 taels of gold, 5.73 million taels of silver, 220,000 stones of grain, jewelry, jade, and silk and satin. If all of them are converted into silver, it will be about 10 million taels.

According to the estimation of later scholars, the family property of the eight great Jin merchants should be between 10 million and 20 million taels of silver. Because the biggest traitor Fan family got the news and transferred the family property, only a small amount of silver was confiscated, and the family wealth left by the eight Jin merchants in their hometown has not been confiscated, and it is really a bumper harvest to be able to confiscate 10 million taels of silver.

The annual fiscal revenue of Chongzhen in the last years was only four million taels, and the income confiscated this time was the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty for two or three years.

It was the first time for Fang Yuan to see so much silver, but he was a little at a loss, the most difficult problem at the moment was how to report this silver to Chongzhen, and how to distribute it privately.

Worried that the news had leaked out, he sat alone in the military tent, clicked on his laptop, designed a table in the computer, and began to count the distribution of silver one by one.

Sun Chuanting's transfer fee of one million taels had to be paid immediately.

The 50,000 taels of silver promised to the exiled army, and the 400,000 taels of silver borrowed from Chongzhen were also among the ones that had to be paid.

The two million taels of silver promised to Cai Maode and Zhou Yuji also had to be paid.

After deducting such a payment of 7788, there were only 360,000 taels of gold and 2,300,000 taels of silver.

Because Taobao shopping, it is most cost-effective to pay with gold, and Fang Yuan is interested in the confiscated 360,000 taels of gold. Of course, this gold must not be all in the pocket, otherwise the accounts will not match at a glance, and the ministers will inevitably have another round of impeachment.

Fang Yuan thought about it and decided to demarcate the statistics of 250,000 taels of gold, which was considered to be a full-fledged pocket, and only handed over 110,000 taels of gold.

The confiscated silver, the statistics of 150,000 taels were demarcated, and only 2.15 million taels were reported to Chongzhen, which was regarded as an explanation to Chongzhen.

As for the 220,000 stone grain, it was useless for Fang Yuan to keep it, and the storage was also extremely unfavorable, leaving only 10,000 stone of grain to support the new army; 5,000 stone of grain, which was distributed to the outcasts; Give Zhou Yuji 50,000 stone of grain to be used as a supply for recruiting sergeants. The remaining more than 100,000 stone grain was brought back to the capital and handed over to Emperor Chongzhen.

Other jewels and jade, silk cotton, and Fang Yuan were divided into several parts, as private rewards for Sun Chuanting, Cai Maode, Zhou Yuji and others, as well as the father-in-law of the ceremonial supervisor in the capital, who were also among the rewards.

After Fang Yuan finished these statistical assignments and revised the reporting results, a whole night had passed.

He is not sensitive to numbers at all, this night's tossing, is simply dizzy, looking at the rows of dense numbers almost want to vomit, secretly thinking, Xiao Yuan has learned to count, accounting, at least the most basic accounting and financial personnel, and character, loyalty to himself must be undoubted, if only she was with her.

Suddenly, he found that the little girl at home who was a little cunning could really come in handy, and when he went back, he would leave the management of the accounts to Xiao Yuan to be in charge of!