In the labor camp, it was already overcrowded at this time.

After some review, a group of people who had no interest in the fallen officials were released, but there were still a lot of people. When these fallen Donglin Party officials were interrogated, they were still very tough at first. As a result, this time the factory guards are no longer immovable, but all the torture instruments.

The first to suffer was Wang Wenyan, who was almost beaten to death. also deserves Wang Wenyan's bad luck, this guy has a very bad reputation, and the factory guard naturally has no scruples when he attacks this guy, and in the end Wang Wenyan has already been recruited, but he was still beaten to death in front of a group of Donglin Party fallen officials.

It doesn't matter if they recruit or not, the factory guards already have evidence of corruption among these officials. In particular, Li Sancai's confession is enough to convict these Donglin parties.

When Ye Xianggao and these bigwigs saw Wang Wenyan being beaten to death, they were so frightened that they almost lost their souls, and they quickly recruited them. And one bite after another, madly implicated a large number of Donglin Party officials. These fallen officials collectively confessed and confessed, and the procedures were more perfect and the publicity was better. Second, it allowed the factory guard to control the crimes of many Donglin Party officials who did not fall off.

It's just that this arrest has already been implicated, so it will take some time to ease up, and other officials have not been arrested for the time being.

The "Daming Daily" immediately reported on these confessions, and almost every day these Donglin Party incriminating evidence was published. Soon, these corruption crimes of the Donglin Party spread all over the country and became the object of spurning by the common people.

In the social environment of the late Ming Dynasty, where the gap between the rich and the poor was huge, groups hating the rich were everywhere. These Donglin parties were found to have an astonishing record of corruption, and naturally became the targets of dissatisfaction.

The implication in this arrest operation is indeed extremely great.

If it weren't for Zhu Youxiao's timely introduction of the "Repeated Bill" by the cabinet, I am afraid that there would really be chaos. However, with the introduction of the Anti-Corruption Bill and the issuance of pensions. In addition, the "Daming Daily" successfully mobilized public opinion, making these corrupt officials the target of spitting by tens of thousands of people, forming a surging public opinion. Maybe those officials will have to unite and rebel.

But rebellion is not so easy, and it takes time to unite. Those officials are also afraid of being discovered by the factory guards, as long as they are not forced to die, they still have a luck mentality.

This is like the tactic of encircling three and one, if the enemy is trapped to death, the enemy will fight the trapped beast. But if you let go of one side, the enemy will lose the will to fight to the death.

This time, Zhu Youxiao obtained 13 million taels of assets, which was like a chestnut in the fire, but fortunately, under the suppression of these bureaucrats under the imperial power, no one had jumped out to be the first bird.

The assets obtained from the seizure soon began to be transported to Jingshi. Silver is minted into silver dollars, and gold is reserved. And the immovable property obtained from the seizure is also realized by the Royal Bank. Among them, the good assets are retained, and the rest of the assets are sold and auctioned.

After the previous anti-corruption, the monetization activities have been very proficient.

Most of the assets are sold at a valuation because many assets may not fetch a high price at auction. And those scarce resources can be auctioned at a good price.

There are many assets listed for sale and auctioned this time, and if private businessmen want to buy these assets, they can buy the assets that are clearly sold locally. The auction went to Beijing and Nanjing, and the Royal Bank set up auction houses in Beijing and Nanjing.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the capital had produced a certain amount of surplus, and good assets were extremely popular, and sometimes they could not be bought with money, because people regarded them as the foundation of the heirloom, as long as the life could go on, there were no major changes, and they were not sold at all.

So much so that assets such as land and mansions were quickly sold.

Those who dared to buy these lands were businessmen with a lot of capital and background, and when they got the title deeds, they were not afraid of the landlords and yeoman farmers who had invested in the names of officials. Those landlords and yeoman farmers would resort to violent resistance, and they could also use violent means to suppress them.

It was a relatively common phenomenon for the Ming Dynasty magnates to encroach on people's land, relying on a group of ruffians and hooligans and dark officialdom protected by officials. Only a small number were impeached by the imperial history, but in the end they were generally overcome.

Those antique jade or something, the auction situation is not bad. However, these antique jade objects are not auctioned at one time, and if there are too many auctions at one time, the price will not go up.

But if you don't want to suffer this loss, the natural processing speed will be slow. If you are willing to suffer a loss and sell it in bulk to antique dealers, you can sell it quickly.

When Zhu Youxiao saw this situation, he was not in a hurry. Instead, let Yang Guorui open an antique shop to sell these antique jade. The antique business itself is a business that does not open for three years.

At the same time, Zhu Youxiao found that those civil officials liked these antique jade very much, especially those ancient jades often sold for amazing prices, so he simply kept those top antique jade objects and kept them to reward diligent officials. After these antique jades were sent to the capital, Zhu Youxiao immediately rewarded a batch of antique jade, which immediately made the horses who took refuge in Zhu Youxiao very happy.

In particular, Gu Yu is extremely popular, and the literati's madness for Gu Yu is beyond imagination.

Zhu Youxiao asked someone to find out that since the Song Dynasty, it has become an extremely common phenomenon for literati to raise jade, and almost as long as they have a little money, they will buy a piece of jade to raise. Contemplating the virtues of jade every day, over time these jade artifacts will have spirituality and can even protect the Lord.

Some ancient jades have even been spiritually nourished for generations.

As for before the Song Dynasty, it was popular to raise swords, for example, Li Bai was known as a sword immortal, of course, not a real immortal, but that Li Bai also raised swords. Some ancient swords have undergone continuous spiritual recuperation, and they can even hurt people with swords, and it is very exaggerated to take people's heads thousands of miles away, but it is still possible to throw them out dozens of meters.

In ancient China, the understanding of spiritual power was very deep and widely applied. Some use spiritual power to change their own bearing, which is called 'poetry and calligraphy in the belly', some use spiritual power to worship ancestors and yin gods, and some use spiritual power to bless jade and so on.

It is also the in-depth understanding of spiritual power in ancient China, so China is one of the few countries in the world that has not been controlled by religion, unlike Westerners who are fooled by the pope and rely on these spiritual energies to find the north.

The spirit sword of the Tang Dynasty is gone, but there are very many scholars in the Song Dynasty, and the number of spirit jade left is still very large.

As the saying goes, gold has a price, jade is priceless, jade is actually still priced, even if the grade is good, it is still priced. What is really priceless is the spiritual jade that has been warmed by the literati day after day, year after year, and it is really not sold by rich people.

As for how many of these ancient jades of the Song Dynasty are spiritual jade, it is unknown. Anyway, those officials like it very much, even if it is not a spirit jade, it is not bad to take these good ancient jades home and raise them.

After some realization, the silver in the inner money was quickly transferred to Guò This raiding activity, tens of millions of taels of silver were recorded in the account, and after all the silver dollars were minted, it became about 12 million.

As the so-called partial wealth is the wealth of the people, it comes and goes quickly.

Zhu Youxiao made a partial fortune, and soon allocated the money to the Royal Infrastructure Company to build the road in Beizhili.

If you want to build roads first, Zhu Youxiao wants to fully tax Beizhili at this time, and naturally develop the economy. In particular, the steel smelting in Beizhili has become an advantageous industry, and coal mining has also become a good industry.

The cost of sea freight is very low, and the cost of land transportation should be reduced at this time.

The cost of land transportation is also relatively easy to reduce, that is, the large-scale use of heavy carriages, the so-called heavy carriages, that is, the use of 5 horses to pull large carriages, the carrying capacity of more than 5 tons. Although the number of horses used has increased, labor costs have decreased.

One horse is a rush, and five horses are also a drive. But the efficiency of one person and five people is completely different.

The so-called transportation cost, in fact, the main expenditure is labor cost. How much does a posthome horse cost a day? Even if you feed more forage, soybeans and eggs, how much money can you eat? In fact, post horses don't need such good treatment at all, and even if they are given such good treatment, the cost of a day cannot exceed ten cents.

If one person drives a carriage with a capacity of 5 tons, then the 4 people saved can completely raise horses or something, and the price of horses will also be reduced. There are still a lot of post horses in the north, and there is no shortage of this thing, such as Shaanxi and other places, basically farmers have horses at home.

If the horses are prepared by the transportation company itself, then the groom will pay 50 wen a day, plus the cost of 5 horses, each horse consumes 10 wen a day to calculate (including the cost of breeding), and the transportation cost is only 100 wen a day. As long as the roads are good, there is no problem at all to walk 100 kilometers a day.

Then a thousand kilometers of distance, the transportation cost is only 1,000 Wen, and a car of goods is 5,000 kilograms, the average cost per kilogram is only 0.2 Wen, 5,000 kilometers of transportation cost, each kilogram is only 1 Wen.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, 1 penny was equivalent to 1 yuan in later generations.

Of course, the cost cannot be calculated in this way, and the money for road construction must be counted. Even if the money for road construction is included in the cost of transportation, as well as the cost of horse-drawn carriages, the cost of each kilogram of goods for a thousand kilometers will not exceed 0.5 Wen, and the more prosperous the transportation, the more goods are transported, and the cost will also decrease.

The key to the development of heavy carriages is the road, and without a good road, it is all in vain.

At present, the civilian production department of the Royal Military Factory is already able to manufacture heavy carriages, and with the growth of steel production, as well as the emergence of high-quality steel and the full-fledged design of carriages, heavy carriages carrying 5 tons can already be mass-produced.

"Building roads is definitely going to drive job growth in the chain. Road construction can increase jobs, transportation can increase jobs, horse breeding can also increase jobs, the most important thing is to drive economic development, mining, metallurgy, manufacturing can be developed with the advantage of low transportation costs. As long as we do a good job in policy guidance, and then use the Royal Institute of Science and Technology to develop production technology, the economy of Beizhili will be able to develop in a few years, and people's livelihood will be able to develop. Zhu Youxiao planned in his heart, and suddenly found that in fact, there was no need to be in such a hurry to fully collect commercial taxes in other provinces.

There is great resistance to the full collection of commercial taxes, which is likely to cause a rebound of the southern chaebols' full exemption. If the commercial tax is only fully levied in Beizhili, then the rebound will be low.

The development of the consortium in Beizhili is not to monopolize a qiē, but also to develop a lot of small and medium-sized private capital to supplement. At that time, the consortium and small and medium-sized private capital will thrive in Beizhili, and the economy will soon be able to surpass other provinces, and the local small and easy to manage, and when the system is thoroughly improved, it will be easy to expand to other provinces.

Before the expansion, it was a big deal to operate Beizhili as a country within a country, and when the goods were sold to other provinces, they would not have to pay taxes! (To be continued.) )