It is certain that the army will be expanded, so Lin Zhe has to consider whether to return to Zhejiang or stay in Shanghai to expand the army. YaNkuai

If you stay in Shanghai to expand the army, the benefits will naturally be many, Shanghai is located in the southern Jiangsu region, that oil and water is very large, not to mention anything else, the tax of the Jiangxi Customs alone is enough to make people covet.

But there are also many problems, first of all, Lin Zhe belongs to the Zhejiang regimental training co-organizer, his Yu Shengjun belongs to the local army of Zhejiang, and it is the nature of a guest soldier in southern Jiangsu, Yu Shengjun came to fight in southern Jiangsu this time, but was invited by Xu Naizhao, and there was no official order from the imperial court.

In addition, Lin Zhe does not have the right to directly intervene in the tax system of Jiangxi Customs and Lijin in Shanghai, and the donation in Jiangsu is a few months earlier than in Zhejiang, and now the donation in Jiangsu is the official establishment of the imperial court, and the proceeds are used to supply the needs of the Qing army in the Jiangnan camp and the Jiangbei camp, and he Lin Zhe has no right to interfere.

Even if Lin Zhe is cheeky and stays in Shanghai, he can only use extortion to collect military funds, and this kind of thing is not useful to Yu Shengjun, who has begun to take shape, after all, what Yu Shengjun needs is not tens of thousands of taels once or twice, but needs to maintain a stable military expenditure of tens of thousands of taels of silver per month.

Even if the local government of Jiangsu continues to give Yu Shengjun military expenses in the name of assisting in defense, it will be a few thousand taels of silver per month at most, which will not work at all.

If he stayed in Shanghai, if Lin Zhe did not have the power and name to officially intervene in the tax system in Shanghai, then the taxes in Shanghai and southern Jiangsu had nothing to do with Lin Zhe, then it would not make much sense to stay in Shanghai.

If you go back to Zhejiang, it will be much more convenient.

Zhejiang was the basic plate of Yu Shengjun, and the Shaoxing government supplied all the Yu Shengjun soldiers, while the military expenses given by the Zhejiang Governor Yamen and the Huzhou Donation Bureau maintained most of Yu Shengjun's military expenditure.

In addition, more importantly, Lin Zhenai is the co-organizer of the Zhejiang League Training, and he has a more suitable name for doing various things in Zhejiang, and he also learned that Xu Naizhao has already planned to start a donation in Zhejiang because he has seen the good results of the Huzhou Donation Bureau.

And most of the income obtained from these donations is used to maintain Zhejiang's military expenses, which means that if Lin Zhe works hard, it is possible for the whole of Zhejiang to provide military expenses for his Yu Shengjun in the future.

If he can do this, it means that the support he has received in Zhejiang will not be less than that of Zeng Guofan in Hunan.

With sufficient and stable military expenditures and a fixed place for recruiting soldiers, the continuous expansion of Yu Sheng's army in the future is certain.

There are many benefits to returning to Zhejiang, but if you want Lin Zhe to take a handful in Shanghai and leave, he is not reconciled!

This trip to Shanghai has harvested hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which can't help but make Lin Zhe fantasize about how much income he can bring to himself in the future if he stays in Shanghai and controls this place?

For this issue, Lin Zhe was also difficult to make a decision for a while, but this matter did not need to be decided in a day or two, and now for him, it was more important to get those loot in his hands.

With great excitement, Lin Zhe personally went to see the silver stored in the Daotai warehouse that had been sealed, and looked at the white and dangling large pile of silver nuggets, Lin Zhe also opened his eyes for the first time.

In his two lifetimes, he saw so much cash for the first time, although the Lin family's assets were millions of taels, but quite a lot of them were physical assets and goods, even if it was cash, most of them were stored in the form of silver bills and other bills, but they didn't dig a cellar at home like those Jin merchants, and then save countless silver nuggets.

After looking at the silver deposits in this warehouse, Lin Zhe immediately said: "Immediately move these silver deposits and other materials from the Daotai Yamen and the county government, and then call Pan Lixuan from the concession!" ”

Since these silver and a large amount of property have been regarded as the spoils of Yu Shengjun's war, naturally they cannot continue to stay in the Daotai Yamen and the county government, after all, now that Yu Shengjun has taken the county seat of Shanghai, it will not be long before the officials of the Qing court will enter the city and then restore the rule of the Qing court.

If these belongings are allowed to remain in the Daotai Yamen and the county government, there may be unnecessary conflicts with these officials at that time, so they must be taken away first.

As for waiting for Wu Jianzhang to find out that the silver deposits in the Shanghai Daotai Yamen were gone, he could have directly said that the silver deposits had been taken away by the people of the Little Knife Society, and it was none of his business with Lin Zhe anyway.

As for Pan Lixuan, who called Lin's firm, it was because Yu Shengjun had seized too many valuables, which were piled up in several warehouses, and they needed to be sold in time to cash out, after all, some antiques, calligraphy and paintings were waste to Yu Shengjun, and it was just a waste of waste from the warehouse that was not sold.

The next night, Bi Yutong, the military officer of Yu Sheng's military camp, finally handed over the sorted out loot account book to Lin Zhe!

"At present, we have 638,500 taels of cash in stock, and those treasures and paintings are difficult to estimate because of their value, so we can only take an approximate value, about 300,000 taels of silver, but these treasures will take a long time to realize, and the final valuation may drop a lot, and it would be good to be able to realize 200,000 taels of silver in the end!" Bi Yutong continued:

"In addition, we have also seized enough rice and grain for the whole army to eat in the next year and some guns and ammunition, many of which are old guns and cannons, which have little effect on us, only a batch of more than 200 foreign guns is of slight value, which can be converted into rifled guns that we are using now, and most of the artillery are also small and medium-caliber mountain splitting guns, which are of little use, only two 500-pound mountain splitting guns can be used!"

"There are a lot of swords, bows and arrows, but they are of no use to our army, and they have been sealed at present, so you still need to make up your mind about what to deal with!"

Hearing Bi Yutong say this, Lin Zhe said in his heart, seeing that he should not be short of money in a short period of time!

After pondering for a while, Lin Zhe said: "Later, I will issue a reward to the soldiers of the whole army, and you must prepare this part of the money at that time, and no one is allowed to use the rest without my warrant!" ”

Lin Zhe has always been relatively strict in controlling Yu Shengjun's financial rights, and at present, Yu Shengjun's property is managed by the camp office, which is why Bi Yutong is called Yu Shengjun's money bag.

Yu Shengjun's expenses need Lin Zhe's personal approval.

In addition, in order to prevent corruption and empty salaries of officers under his command, the Commissariat Bureau is solely responsible for the payment of salaries to the soldiers, and the salaries of each soldier are paid directly to the soldiers and their families by the officials of the Commissariat Bureau.

Company commanders and regimental commanders have no right to meddle in the payment of salaries.

This move also caused the battalion office and the food bureau to have more manpower and the reason why the institutions were becoming more and more bloated, but Lin Zhe would rather let these institutions in the military department become more and more bloated, and he was not willing to directly give the military expenses to the commanders at all levels, and then the commanders of the troops would pay the soldiers.

What Yu Shengjun's soldiers need to know is that Lin Zhe spends money to support them, but those officers pay to support them.

After hearing this, Bi Yutong said: "The ministry understands that I have prepared the reward funds in advance!" ”

Lin Zhe nodded: "That's fine!" ”

The soldiers of Yu Shengjun fought in southern Jiangsu for more than a month, and both soldiers and officers ran hundreds of kilometers back and forth, and it was appropriate to give some monetary rewards.

For ordinary soldiers, Lin Zhe decided to pay double the salary that month, and some soldiers with outstanding combat achievements were rewarded with an additional part.

As for the officers, they are also paid double the salary of the month, and in addition, they are also paid additional salaries according to each person's different military exploits, such as commanding the first step of the corps to enter Shanghai City, and then strongly controlling the county seat of Shanghai and finding a large amount of property in time Shi Langyi, Lin Zhe waved his hand and directly rewarded him with a thousand taels of silver.

In addition, Qian Niubei, the commander of the cavalry company, because he forced the enemy to retreat on a larger scale when pursuing the thief army, leaving behind a large amount of supplies, and at the same time killed and injured a large number of enemy soldiers in the process of pursuit, Lin Zhe also rewarded him with 700 taels of silver.

The rest of the officers were rewarded with tens or hundreds of taels according to their ranks, positions, and exploits, and even Hunter William, who had a weak sense of survival and did not come up with too many effective tactics in actual combat, was rewarded with three hundred taels of silver.

I have to say that Lin Zhe's reward this time is generous, basically everyone has a share in the soldiers of the Yu Shengjun who went to southern Jiangsu!

Of course, the price is also high, and this time Lin Zhe took out tens of thousands of taels of silver, but it was nothing compared to the seizure of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

When Lin Zhe swept away the belongings looted by the Knife Society in the city, Wu Jianzhang finally entered Shanghai City.

This is not because Wu Jianzhang did not want to enter the city on the first day of the break, but because on the day of the break and the next day, Yu Shengjun did not let Wu Jianzhang and any other people who were not Yu Shengjun enter the city in order to swallow the spoils of war alone.

He also said to Wu Jianzhang that the thief army in the city has not been completely cleared yet, and asked Wu Jianzhang to wait for a while before entering the city.

This waited for two days, and it was not until the third day that Wu Jianzhang was allowed to enter the city!

When Wu Jianzhang entered the city with the only remaining officials and a small number of soldiers of the Qing Army's Green Battalion, he found that the former Shanghai Daotai Yamen was empty, not to mention the silver deposits in the past, and even some porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, and furniture made of precious wood were all moved, and there was basically nothing left except the house.

Wu Jianzhang must have doubts about this, but looking at the foreign guns in Yu Shengjun's soldiers and Shen Chiyun, who completely coped with him and looked impatient, he still chose to keep his mouth shut.

Now that Shanghai has been recaptured, there is great hope that his official hat will be kept, this is the right thing, as for money or something, it is all floating clouds, not to mention, this money is not his money, it is the money of the imperial court.

Since these Yu Shengjun said that they were taken away by the thief army, then it can be regarded as taken away by the thief army!

Wu Jianzhang's entry into the city is to announce Yu Shengjun's strong control of Shanghai, and it is unknown whether Yu Shengjun can stay in Shanghai in the future, and whether Lin Zhe can intervene in Jiangsu officialdom and facilitate Yu Shengjun's future and development.

But if you ask Lin Zhe to go back to Zhejiang without doing anything, he is naturally unwilling! xh118