Chapter 8 Raiding the House
"Captain, we don't have much money in the West Park Army now. Originally, there was not much money, and after you came, it cost a lot to kill cattle and sheep. And in addition, the reward money was given to the soldiers, which was a lot. So, we don't have much money now. If we don't want to find a way to get some money, then I'm afraid we will have no money to use in the future, how can we stabilize the morale of the army at that time? A civilian scribe in charge of money and food said.
And Dong Liang saw that the money was getting less and less, and then he couldn't help but feel a little helpless, this is really not very good! If there is no money, then I am afraid that the next step is to really break up. And he has just been in office for a few hours today, and he immediately gave the soldiers a raise, and then issued a reward, buying cattle, sheep, wine and meat to slaughter as a reward, and this cost is like running water. So, there's no money for the next step, and that's really not a lot of every second. In this era, don't think about how lofty the ideals of the soldiers are, once there is no salary, they will definitely betray you!
"Since there is no military salary, then go and ask for sponsorship with me!" Dong Liang said.
"Pull sponsorship?" I don't know what the money clerk means.
Dong Liang immediately came to Luoyang City with a hundred cavalry of the Xiyuan Army, and then began to look everywhere, wanting to find a family of scholars to come out, and then go to "pull sponsorship". And the so-called sponsorship is actually to rob wealth and then support the army. In this era, there is no need to pay attention to any mercy, in this era looting is the best way to feed the war with war. However, Dong Liang knows very well that the target of looting cannot be ordinary people, ordinary people are already bitter enough, if you still want to rob them, it is really unbearable.
So Dong Liang set his sights on those scholars, after all, Luoyang City is in chaos now, and there are all kinds of soldiers and ruffians harming the people. And Dong Zhuo's soldiers looted everywhere, and a lot of wealth was robbed into Dong Zhuo's hands. But all this money belongs to Dong Zhuo, and Dong Liang has no share in it. What's more, Dong Zhuoke is a super miser, he is simply a big Pixiu, and the wealth he eats has never had much chance to spit out. Later, after Dong Zhuo was killed, the wealth in Yi Wu was almost useless. And coupled with Dong Liang's understanding of Dong Zhuo during this period of time, this is definitely a miser, don't expect them to be able to come up with money for themselves as military expenses. And Dong Zhuo encouraged the soldiers to loot, so that he would not follow him too much and force him to ask for military salaries. What's more, looting is also a means of boosting morale, so Dong Zhuo encourages looting.
However, Dong Zhuo still knew some influences, and he didn't start with those particularly large scholars, after all, the scholars were the ruling class, and those big scholars were the foundation of rule, so they couldn't be looted. And then Dong Liang just wanted to rob a scholar clan and then get a lot of wealth. After all, the wealth of the Shi clan is very much, and if you don't rob it, you don't rob it, and the Shi clan is a fat pig, so how can you not take advantage of it now to eat meat?
"Whose house is this?" Dong Liang asked.
And someone immediately said: "This is the place of the Hedong Wei family, and it is the Hedong Wei family's other courtyard in Luoyang!" â
And many scholars will establish a separate courtyard in the capital, and then use it as a storage zĂ i similar to the "Beijing Office" in later generations, which is also the territory of the Hedong Wei family.
"Hedong Wei family? Wei Zhongdao? Dong Liang thought.
Dong Liang immediately shouted: "That's it, follow me in!" â
"Knock knock!" Dong Liang knocked heavily on the door, and then shouted, "Open the door for me!" â
"Who are you? This is the place of Hedong Wei's family, what do you Qiu Ba want to do? The servant of the Hedong Wei family asked.
Dong Liang laughed and said: "Our Xiyuan Army is currently underpaid, so I came to ask your Wei family to sponsor it!" Everyone follow me in and get the Wei family's sponsorship. â
"Okay, let's go in!" "Let's go, follow me in, go get all that money out!" âŚâŚ
"What? What do you do? "Don't come in!" âŚâŚ
Although those servants of the Wei family wanted to prevent them from entering, how could those untrained servants of them be the opponents of the ruffians under Dong Liang? And although the Wei family belongs to a big family and has some private armies belonging to their own families, those private armies are all in the Hedong headquarters, and there is no private army in Luoyang. After all, Luoyang is the capital of a country, and if there is a problem in Luoyang, the country will die. And this Dong Zhuo is so fierce, it is just an accidental phenomenon, and no one thought that Dong Zhuo would be so arrogant in Luoyang and let those soldiers and ruffians loot.
"Get everything out and raid it all!" Dong Liang shouted.
"Alright, Captain!" The soldiers and ruffians also shouted.
Soon, under the "long drive" of these soldiers and ruffians, a large amount of wealth of the Wei family was also moved out in the same way, and then counted in the same way. Then these riches were very much, and Dong Liang immediately found that a large number of copper coins had been moved out, and these copper coins were obviously some five-baht coins. These copper coins are full of hundreds of boxes, this makes Dong Liang's eyes green, this is obviously a high-quality five-baht coin, the absolute copper content is very high, compared to Dong Zhuo's later issued inferior small five-baht coins are not a grade at all.
"Move it all out and move back in!" Dong Liang shouted.
"Captain, we have seized one hundred and twenty-one boxes of five baht coins this time, and fifty pieces of gold and silver artifacts from all kinds of previous ones, thirty-two pieces of jade calligraphy and paintings, and ......."
Dong Liang looked at these wealth, and couldn't help but sigh that this is really ruthless enough, these scholars really concentrated too much wealth, during the Han Dynasty, land annexation was very strict, and a lot of wealth was concentrated in the scholars, and these scholars accounted for less than one percent of the population, but they accounted for more than ninety percent of the social wealth, why don't you take advantage of this time to kill pigs? And this is just the Wei family's other courtyard in Luoyang, which actually has such a huge wealth, and how much wealth the Wei family's headquarters in Hedong has, this simply makes him not know how to calculate, or can't calculate it at all.
"Oh, you gang of ruffians, you bastards, our Hedong Wei family will not let you go!" The housekeeper of the Wei family's courtyard cried.
Dong Liangcai didn't care if the Wei family would let him go, after all, as Dong Zhuo's nephew, he had been tied to a boat with Dong Zhuo and couldn't get off the boat. Therefore, no matter how they treat these scholars, they will not recognize themselves as members of the Dong family. Dong Zhuo has already offended too many people, so why bother so much if this is so? It's like a piece of paper that has been completely blackened, do you care about adding some ink to it? So Dong Liang grabbed it directly, anyway, if he didn't rob it, he wouldn't rob it.
"Why did you choose our Wei family? Our Wei family doesn't have a sin, right? The housekeeper of the Wei Family Courtyard asked.
"Hahahaha, I see that Wei Zhongdao of your Hedong Wei family is very unhappy." Dong Liang said.
And the housekeeper of the Wei family's courtyard felt a little speechless, Dong Liang has always been in the northwest, and the Dong family is a strong man in Guanxi, and he usually doesn't have much friendship with the Hedong Wei family. But now Dong Liang actually said that it was because Wei Zhongdao offended him, so he came to raid this Wei family's courtyard. And now they don't know why Wei Zhongdao offended this killing star.
"Hmph, Cai Yan's first husband, how can I let him go? Cai Yan: I've been staring at it for a long time! Dong Liang smiled sinisterly, which made the housekeeper of the Wei family very frightened in his heart.
And the housekeeper of the Wei family also knows that Wei Zhongdao is not lightly ill now, he just married Cai Yan two months ago, hoping to be happy and make his condition better. But now everyone in the Wei family knows that Wei Zhongdao is very ill, and he just got married on the day of the wedding, and he fell into a coma before the conjugal ceremony. And this Wei Zhongdao has been a sick ghost since he was a child, how can he offend that Dong Liang?
"Wei Zhongdao, hurry up and burp! Your wife, I raise it! Hee-hee-hee-hee......-hee
"Go hire some wagons and ox carts and get these things back!" Dong Liang said.
With so much wealth, it is impossible for Dong Liang and their soldiers to have the strength to carry it back, so it is to let these soldiers hire horse-drawn carts and ox-carts to transport these things back. And today is really making a lot of money, so this time I made a fortune, I'm afraid Dong Liang won't be able to make so much money in his previous life! Now that all this money belongs to him, he will use it to buy the hearts of the army, and then it is necessary to expand his power. Dong Liang is not a miser like Dong Zhuo, and only investment is the sustainable way to continue to make progress with money. And if you are a miser, there is no future.
With this money, that is, there is capital for expansion, so that you can continuously expand the army in the future, and then go to conquer the world!
"Captain, we found something, this is the Wei family's land lease IOU near Luoyang! These IOUs are the money that the tenant peasants owe them and then write down, and these profits are very great wealth! And many of these are the deeds of sale of the servants of the people, what should we do? Someone asked.
And Dong Liang saw these things, and couldn't help but start to have some ideas in his mind, these things can be said to be an important basis for those scholars to exploit the people, and these things were also used to attack in the later revolutionary period, so now that he has obtained these things, Dong Liang immediately has his own ideas, that is, to maximize the use of these things, so that he can get the maximum benefits!
"Bring it to me, take me to the Wei family's land in Luoyang, I have something to do!" Dong Liang said.