Chapter 882: Hong Chengchou wants to salute first and then soldier
Chapter 882 Hong Chengchou wants to salute first and then soldier
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[Today's third shift is delivered]
Fuwang Mansion, by Wanshou Lake.
In the eyes of outsiders, the Governor of the Tiger Army, who is sitting alone in the pavilion by Wanshou Lake at the moment, watching the ripples on the surface of the lake, constantly taking deep breaths, trying to calm down his emotions.
However, some of his actions still fully showed that the Governor seemed to be a little annoyed. There is no way, he set up a fishing rod here, and waited for half an hour, but still no fish took the bait, it was indeed too bad to give the governor face, obviously saw a lot of fish swimming around in the lake, but refused to bite the hook, it really made people angry
If there were three or five beauties talking softly beside them, maybe Lord Du would not have been so easy to get angry. It's just a pity that no. Around Lord Governor are those Tiger Army snipers who don't know how to be amorous. They really had little interest in the fishing rods set up by the Governor. In their opinion, if you want to eat fish, you either use a fishing net or explosives, whichever is much more useful than a fishing rod.
Of these, the use of explosives is the fastest. If a waterproof explosive bag is packed, all the fish within a radius of several zhang will be turned up. Using explosives first, followed by fishing nets, is the perfect solution. If Zhang Zhun had followed their advice, more than half of the fish in Wanshou Lake would have been caught in one afternoon.
Even if you don't use anything, just a javelin. Veterans all know that Lord Governor has the ability to stab fish, which is quite powerful. In the choppy coast of Aoshanwei, you can stab the sea fish, and in the calm Wanshou Lake, if you want to stab a few fish, is it not easy to catch? Why bother with a fishing rod? It's just full of food and support.
Of course, they also understood that the Governor's mind was not on the fish at all, but on the pleasure of fishing. At such a busy time, Lord Du Du actually took half a day to come to Wanshou Lake to fish, and idiots know that there must be a deep meaning in this. It's just that they haven't reached the level of the Governor, and they don't understand the reasoning.
In fact, fishing is really not Zhang Zhun's hobby. This kind of slow and leisurely activity is not very suitable for him. However, in his previous life, a senior general told him that fishing can effectively calm his mind from tension, which is very good for thinking, so he came here to relax for half a day.
Indeed, the Tiger Ben army conquered Luoyang, killed King Fu, and captured so much wealth that it is absolutely impossible to say that there is no hotheadedness. The soldiers below didn't know how happy they were, and they felt as if the Tiger Ben Army had taken over the world. Subsequently, there was news of the title of king and Dingdu, which made the mood of the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army more excited and more fanatical.
Even Zhang Zhun felt a little hot-headed. took Luoyang and got so much money, he didn't sleep well all night last night. In a trance, it seems to see a large number of golden gold and shiny silver, falling from the sky one after another, and then turning into large warships, crisscrossing the four seas, invincible. What Zheng Zhilong, what Dutch, what British, all prostrate in front of him and beg for mercy
Suddenly waking up from his dream, Zhang Zhun felt as if he was sleeping on gold and silver ingots, and felt that everything had become unrealistic. Thinking that the strength of the Tiger Ben Army in the future could grow rapidly, his thoughts suddenly became fanatical, and he couldn't wait to immediately convert all the money into combat effectiveness.
It wasn't until noon that he gradually calmed down. Subsequently, he made a decision to go fishing in Wanshou Lake to completely calm down his heart. However, the fish in Wanshou Lake didn't seem to be very cooperative, and before he knew it, he felt like he was going to catch fire again. It seems that buddy is still not suitable for such an elegant activity
"My lord, the property of the Fu Wangfu Mansion has been roughly counted."
When he was depressed, Wang Shide quietly walked over from behind, stood beside Zhang Zhun, and reported to Zhang Zhun in a low voice.
"Speak."
Zhang Zhun said casually.
His eyes, always focused on the lake, with a javelin in his hand, were ready to strike. No fish took the bait. All the fish, as if they knew that he was a great demon, had long been hiding far away. In a fit of rage, he decided to still spin the fish. As a result, a fish soon fell into the hands of the Governor.
"Snort"
Zhang Zhun raised his javelin and stabbed it down.
"Snort"
The water of the lake suddenly turned a blood-red.
The javelin pierced the fish in the lake with precision. This unlucky fish, desperately struggling, trying to break free from the javelin assassination. However, the javelin penetrated its body, where did it have a chance to break free? The more you struggle, the faster you die. Sure enough, after a while, the fish that was stabbed did not move.
Zhang Zhun slowly lifted the javelin and found that it was a silver carp weighing six or seven catties. Such a large amount of silver carp is simply too common in Wanshou Lake. Before that, though, they were all admired, not assassinated. Only the new masters, who are indeed terrible scenery, will be brutal to them.
"Your Excellency, please listen."
Wang Shide opened the account book and read it out one by one.
All the property of the Fuwang Mansion needs to be classified and counted, and they can be classified one by one in order to calculate the approximate number. Why probably? Because even the most brilliant bookkeeper can't accurately calculate how much wealth the Fuwang Mansion has.
First of all, it is necessary to count the amount of gold, including the ornaments of pure gold. Whatever contains gold is counted. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 306,000 taels of gold in King Fu's mansion. This number is enough to make countless people stunned.
Among them, it is particularly worth mentioning that the 300,000 taels of gold ingots given by Emperor Wanli to King Fu at one time that year. These gold ingots, all of which were forged in one piece, each weighed fifty taels, making a total of six thousand. Inside the storeroom, a storeroom was piled up. When Wang Shide saw these gold ingots at that time, he was indeed stunned by fright. He swore that he had never seen so much gold since he was a child.
"Three hundred thousand taels?"
"So much?"
Zhang Zhun said with some surprise.
It is said that the Fuwang Mansion treasures a lot of wealth, rich in the world, rich in the country, Zhang Zhun has also been mentally prepared enough, but when he heard this number, he still felt very surprised. No way, this number is indeed too powerful. If this number was followed by silver, Zhang Zhun might not be surprised. However, following this number is the word gold, and Zhang Zhun can't be calm.
According to the exchange of thirteen taels of silver for every tael of gold, it is five million taels. The most powerful battleship in this year is about 100,000 taels of silver. In other words, if the gold were used to make warships, it would be fifty super warships. If it were used to build smaller warships, the number could exceed a hundred.
From this angle, King Fu has actually done a lot of good things, and contributing so much property to the Tiger Ben Army is his greatest good deed. If these gold ingots were taken away by Emperor Chongzhen and used to arm the imperial army, at least 100,000 elite troops could be formed. If it weren't for the fact that the Ming Dynasty's government system had been completely decayed, and all the five million taels of silver had been used, Liaodong and Shaanxi would have been completely pacified.
"That's true."
Wang Shide replied in the affirmative.
"Where's the silver?"
Zhang Zhun pondered for a moment and asked slowly.
"The silver is about six million taels."
Wang Shide said eloquently.
In addition to gold, the bulk of the wealth of the Fuwang Mansion is silver. If you want to say that in King Fu's Mansion, the most worthless precious metal may be silver. In the main activity space of the Fuwang Mansion, it is almost impossible to look at the past without seeing silver ornaments. There are so many silver ornaments that it is impossible to count them all. So, Wang Shide first counted the pure silver ingots, and even put down the broken silver temporarily.
The preliminary statistics of pure silver ingots totaled more than 6.7 million taels, and most of the silver ingots were five taels and one ingot, which should have been earned back when doing daily business. The emperor's reward has always been gold, and there is very little silver. I have to say that King Fu's ability to collect wealth is indeed very strong
Of course, he has so much land, and it is indeed twice the result with half the effort to collect money. There were rumors before that any profitable business in Luoyang City had the shadow of Fuwangfu behind it, but now it seems that it is indeed true. Otherwise, the Fu Wangfu would not have been able to accumulate so much silver. You must know that this silver only refers to silver ingots, and other silver products are not counted.
In addition to gold and silver, there are also a large number of precious items such as pearls, jade, agate, precious stones, jade, and medicinal herbs. The value of these precious items has not yet been estimated. With the current professionals of the Tiger Benjun in Luoyang, I am afraid that it is impossible to estimate its value, and it must be sent back and handed over to Shen Lingfei and them in order to effectively calculate its value.
In addition to these very valuable gold and silver jewelry, in the Fuwang Mansion, there is another piece of wealth, which is also quite large, that is, copper coins. Wang Shide said that there were 20 warehouses used to hold copper coins in the Fu Wangfu, and all of them were full. According to rough estimates, there may be hundreds of millions of copper coins, that is, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Twenty storehouses, that's two million taels of silver.
Because these copper coins have been stacked for too long, the ropes that string the coins have all rotted. Most of the copper coins have been scattered in the shape of pyramids. Even a lot of copper coins have grown patina, and when the door of the storeroom is opened, it emits a suffocating smell. However, it was such a copper coin, and King Fu was reluctant to take it out and pay a little military expenses to boost the morale of the defenders of Luoyang. He was indeed too deserved to be killed.
In short, the wealth of the Fu Wangfu, if all of them were converted into silver, would definitely not be less than 20 million taels. The Ming treasury and internal funds, the annual income, that is, six or seven million taels of silver. The wealth of the Fu Wangfu family is equivalent to three times the financial income of the Ming Dynasty. No wonder Zhang Zhun had to come to the lake to fish, otherwise, he was afraid that he would not be able to control himself.
"It's all loaded on the ship and taken away."
Zhang Zhun said with a solemn expression.
"The ship hasn't arrived yet."
Wang Shide said a little worriedly.
Because the current of the Yellow River is a little small, the ships that the Tiger Ben Army prepared to use to transfer supplies have not yet reached Luoyang. I thought that the relationship between the water flow, even if the Cangshan boat wanted to come to Luoyang from Shandong, it was a little difficult, and it had not come for the time being.
"It's coming."
Zhang Zhun said quietly.
The Cangshan boat came early and late, and it didn't have much impact. As long as the Tiger Ben Army is still in Luoyang, it is impossible for the official army to counterattack. Even if all the troops of the imperial court gathered around Luoyang, Zhang Zhun was not afraid. Relying on a fortified city like Luoyang, even if 300,000 Tartars kill them violently, Zhang Zhun is sure to cripple them, let alone 300,000 officers and soldiers whose combat effectiveness is not good?
In fact, Zhang Zhun has always been skeptical about the speed of the official army's counterattack. If the Tiger Ben Army hadn't taken Luoyang quickly and hadn't killed King Fu, perhaps the official army would have come to the rescue desperately to prevent King Fu from being killed. However, now that the facts have been created and the raw rice has been cooked, even if the officials and troops fight back frantically, there is no possibility of changing the facts. Therefore, they are more concerned about how to deal with the aftermath than fighting with themselves.
To be honest, Zhang Zhun doesn't think that the current official army still has the qualifications to fight hard with the Tiger Ben Army. If the Tiger Army does not start a full-scale war in the southeast, northwest and northwest, if the Tiger Ben Army does not have so many opponents, if the focus of the Tiger Army is not to eliminate the Tartars, but to concentrate the main force and deal with the imperial court first, it will be a month at most. Entering Shaanxi, it will take half a year at most. Desperate with the Tiger Army? Just kidding
I believe that at this time, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting, Yang Sichang, Shi Kefa and others are more concerned about how to report the bad news that King Fu was killed. Deceiving superiors and subordinates, reporting good news but not bad news, has always been the only way for officialdom, and this is especially true of the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty. There was such a big thing on the battlefield in the Central Plains, and a few of them couldn't escape the relationship. In order to save themselves, they must think carefully about how to report it, so that Chongzhen's anger can be controlled within a controllable range.
The Tiger Ben Army killed King Fu, and Chongzhen must be going crazy. If a few of them want to save their lives, they must collude in advance and not add fuel to the fire in Chongzhen. The law does not hold the people accountable, and only by sharing everyone's responsibilities can it be possible to avoid this catastrophe. If you attack each other, I'm afraid that no one will end well.
In the next two days, the situation in Luoyang has been in full swing. There is no official celebration of the Tiger Army, but the spontaneous celebration of the people is becoming more and more lively. In order to win the leniency of the Tiger Army, and in order to win the favor of the Tiger Army, some large families also actively organized some celebrations to create a happy and peaceful atmosphere.
The people of Luoyang, in the past few days, are most concerned about two things. The first, of course, is the implementation of the Junda Order. Relevant announcements and documents have been posted everywhere in the streets and alleys of Luoyang City. They are eagerly waiting for when they will be able to get their own fields.
The second is about the audition of the prefect of Luoyang. Luoyang is indeed a large number of capable people, and there are indeed many people who are qualified to serve as prefects. Many of them are officials with a good reputation, but it is only because they are excluded by corrupt officials that they have to stand aside. Now, it's their turn to turn over and call the shots. In addition, there are several elders who have been retired to the mountains and forests for a long time, and they have also been pulled out by the people around them to participate in the competition.
Serving as the prefect under the banner of the Tiger Ben Army may not be able to obtain any benefits, but fame is indispensable. After all, this is the first prefect to be drafted, isn't it? Moreover, looking at the appearance of the Tiger Ben Army, it will win the world in the future. Even at this time, if you can't serve as the prefect and enter the eyes of the Governor of the Tiger Ben Army, that's good. In the future, after the Tiger Ben Army wins the world, he will never forget himself, right?
"My lord, the scouts of the official army were found outside the city, and after interrogation, it was found that the troops belonging to Yang Sichang were found. After further reconnaissance, it was found that the main force of the Huguang Army led by Yang Sichang, about 30,000 people, had reached the area of Longmen Pass. ”
At noon on October 13, the scout captain suddenly arrived and reported to Zhang Zhun.
"Yang Sichang is nearby?"
Zhang Zhun said a little strangely.
"Yes, it is indeed Yang Sichang, he arrived from Ruzhou."
The Scout Captain replied in the affirmative.
Zhang Zhun couldn't help but smile slightly.
I thought that the first person to react would be Hong Chengchou, but I didn't expect it to be this Yang Sichang.
In fact, Yang Sichang's reaction is also reasonable. Emperor Chongzhen did trust Yang Sichang very much, and he put Yang Sichang on the front line of the Central Plains, just to let Yang Sichang be gilded, and then worship the prime minister and become his right-hand man.
I believe that Yang Sichang also understood what Emperor Chongzhen meant, so after arriving at the front line, Yang Sichang still worked very hard, led the troops, worked tirelessly, followed the ass of the Shaanxi rebel army, and chased and beat fiercely. He was bent on exterminating the Shaanxi rebel army, giving Emperor Chongzhen a satisfactory answer, and at the same time proving his strength to others.
However, now, I am afraid that Yang Sichang's good days are almost over. The Tiger Ben Army attacked Luoyang and gave him a blow to the head, making all his ambitions come to naught. At this time, don't say anything about entering the cabinet, that is, whether you can keep your current official position, it is a huge unknown. If you don't get it, there is still the possibility of being arrested and imprisoned.
"Monitor closely."
Zhang Zhun said quietly.
"Understood"
The scout captain turned and went.
"My lord, Hong Chengchou's messenger is here."
In the afternoon, Wang Shide came in to report.
"Please."
Zhang Zhun said quietly.
He had already guessed that Hong Chengchou would salute first and then soldier. He will definitely send someone to find out his true purpose first, and then make a decision to act. Then, he generously told him that King Fu was indeed dead, and it would be up to him to see how he was going to end. Put all one’s eggs in one basket? Flustered and exasperated? Looking for another way?
[There are only three more today, a total of 17,000 words. The task was not completed, I'm sorry to ask for a few monthly passes......]
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