A group of old and weak women and children who stayed behind, although they had the heart to resist, but the guards who were supported by long-range fire support from tigers and cannons, guns and birds, and bows and arrows also changed their previous obscenity and timidity, and actually broke out to beat the water dogs.

The gate of the village was broken, and the soldiers of the guard station shouted and shouted with knives and guns and rushed into the cottage under the leadership of the family.

When the soldier's Zhao Cheng's order to kill was conveyed to the battlefield, the guards killed more energetically.

Liu Jun did not let the Hydra team members join in this kind of revenge and killing, such a post-war massacre will not benefit the team members at all, but will cause some bad changes in the psychology of the team members.

At this time, the families and military households of the Huangzhou Guard Station were frantically cutting people, and even their own people were fighting for heads, robbing the thieves of their money, clothing, and a few of them had even dragged a few bandits and their daughters who were at least forty years old into the corner.

Liu Jun didn't let the team members participate in this bloody scene, but he didn't dissuade him.

Killing people on the battlefield is different from this kind of post-war killing, and Liu Jun hopes that the team members can figure it out. Killing an enemy on the battlefield is called bravery, but killing people after a war has nothing to do with bravery at all, just killing.

However, since he was the first to attack the cottage, Liu Jun didn't plan to just watch from the sidelines.

He led the team past these families and military households in Huangzhouwei and rushed towards the center of the stockade.

Along the way, there were still some old and weak thieves who had collapsed and were fleeing in all directions, Liu Jun didn't pay attention to those women and children, and just asked the team members to arrest some old men, especially a few old men with better clothes.

"Where's the storeroom?" Liu Jun shouted and questioned the few old men he had captured, and then he didn't wait for them to turn back, he directly raised the knife in his hand, and first cut down an old man whose eyes had been rolling around. "You can leave it alone, but that's how it ends."

Several old thieves were immediately shocked by Liu Jun.

"Over there!" Several old thieves unanimously pointed to a wooden house not far away.

It was the largest house in the stockade, all made of wood, and it seemed that it was either the place where the thieves usually gathered, or the residence of the thief leader. The old thieves scrambled to tell Liu Jun about the situation, in order to escape death. The wooden house was originally not only a meeting hall, but also the residence of the three masters, and at the same time, the looted property was also stored in this large wooden house.

Several old thieves are considered to be the old brothers among the bandits, some identities, but limited to age and no longer go outside to rob, but responsible for managing some affairs in the village, such as money and food, family members and the like, there is a most gorgeously dressed old man or the three masters of the cottage, he also wants to hide his identity, but he was sold by several other accounts, masters and other old men.

"How much food is there in the cottage?" Liu Jun asked.

The identity of the third master was revealed, and his face was gray, "There are about more than 10,000 taels of silver." ”

Liu Jun was very surprised when he heard this number, he didn't expect the thieves to rob so much money. "More than 10,000 taels, how much is 10,000?" He still had a cold look on his face.

"Eighteen thousand taels!" The three masters replied honestly. "It's all in the storeroom over there."

Liu Jun asked the three masters to lead the way to open the warehouse, and as soon as he entered the warehouse, there were many things stored inside. Among them were several large boxes of silver, all of which were melted down and recast into large silver ingots of fifty taels and one ingots, which were filled with several chests. It adds up to eighteen thousand taels, and there are also a few boxes of scattered silver, which is estimated to be several hundred taels.

Of course, in addition to silver, there are actually a lot of things in the treasury.

There were a lot of gold, silver and jade stolen from all kinds, and they were packed in several boxes. These things are not like gold and silver, which can be directly used or melted and recast, and jewelry and the like are obviously not so valuable when they are melted, and they are thieves who are even more inconvenient to sell and sell dirty, so they have been thrown in the treasury, and they have been accumulated for a long time, and there are a lot of them.

In addition, there is a lot of silk cloth. There are even a lot of various goods, all kinds of goods, it is estimated that they are caravans robbed on the road or directly robbed some shops and warehouses.

Liu Jun glanced at it and knew that this thief's den was really oily, but he was not happy, but rolled his eyes and shouted, "Come on, drag this old thief down and cut it down." ”

The third master is half a head of white hair, but he had a good relationship with the second master of the big boss, and he also had a life-saving grace for the ** son, and he can read and write, so he sat in the position of the three masters, usually in charge of money and food, but in fact he was very timid, as soon as he heard that he was going to kill him, his legs immediately became weak and he knelt on the ground.

"My lord, spare your life, I know everything."

Liu Jun sneered twice, "Are you really stupid or stupid?" Thou hast silver and jewellery and filthy things here, but thou hast not half a tael of gold or brass? Since you take me for a fool, then I don't need to keep you. ”

The third master hurriedly said, "It's a small one I forgot for a while, there is gold and gold, but in the cellar on the other side, there are copper coins, and they are put together with grain, and they are worthless things, so I forgot to say." The small one really didn't mean it, I really forgot it for a while. ”

"Lead the way!" Liu Jun coldly spit out two words.

The cellar where the gold was hidden was just below the floor of the council chamber, and there was a secret cellar dug that only the three masters knew, and the others did not. Hidden inside is the most valuable gold, and there are some antique calligraphy and paintings.

When Xiang Yong opened the cellar and took out eight large boxes from inside, Liu Jun's eyes couldn't help but shine.

"Big yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, so many." Liu Jun sighed in surprise, this gang of thieves often goes out to rob, and they also specialize in robbing on the important trade route of Guanghuang Avenue, and they have not missed a crime for a long time, so they have robbed a lot of property. The thieves recast all the gold they had stolen and hid it in the cellar in the shape of one by one, the big one ten taels, and the small one one tael. Packed several boxes.

"Jiye said, these large and small gold bars really look like yellow croaker, how much gold is there here?" Li Chunjiang also smiled a little from ear to ear.

It is said that antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times. Since the opening of the sea in the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of silver has flowed in, and silver has become the most important currency in circulation. But by this time, the official copper coins were getting worse and worse, and more privately minted inferior copper coins were also flooding the market.

It turned out that the good money of the gold-backed copper coins minted by the imperial court were collected by the people at home and not used, and the market gradually became inferior copper coins, one or two silver coins for copper coins five or six thousand wen, and even some poor copper coins could only be exchanged for one or two silver.

Copper coins continued to depreciate, and silver continued to appreciate, but during the Chongzhen period, gold rose more than silver.

Nowadays, only a dozen or so low-quality copper coins can be exchanged for one tael of silver, while one tael of gold can be exchanged for thirteen taels of silver, which is a lot higher than the relatively stable ratio of one tael of gold to eight taels of silver a few decades ago.

It is precisely because of this that all the gold looted by the ** gang was melted into gold bars and hid well, and even when they kidnapped the tickets, they only needed gold as a ransom, and at the same time, they occasionally sold dirty, and tried to exchange them for gold and hoarded them.

These thieves only enter and cannot leave the gold, and they hide it tightly, and now they are served by Liu Jun all at once.

The third master looked at the boxes of gold bars and said helplessly, "There are a total of one hundred large gold bars, and one hundred and sixty small gold bars." "I've been saving for so long, and now I've made wedding clothes for people.

Liu Jun quickly converted it in his heart, a large gold bar is ten taels, and a small gold bar is one tael, so there are a total of one thousand one hundred and sixty taels of gold here. If it were exchanged for silver at the rate of one to thirteen, the total value of the gold would be fifteen thousand and eighty taels of silver. And in today's world, gold is only going to get more and more valuable.

It's a lot of money, no less than the silver outside.

"Is there anything else you haven't told me?" Liu Jun looked at the three masters.

The third master pointed to a few other boxes, "There are some calligraphy and paintings there, and they are also worth a lot of money." ”

"Nothing else?"

"It's gone, it's gone." The three masters are honest.

Liu Jun nodded, "Very good, since you have finished what you should say, then you can go on the road with peace of mind, your other two brothers have been waiting for you over there for a long time." After speaking, Liu Jun stabbed him in the chest.

The three masters looked surprised and painful, and slowly fell, "You don't keep your promises." ”

"I just said that you won't kill you if you don't tell the truth, but I didn't say that I won't kill you if you tell the truth, in the next life, remember not to be a thief."

"Hide all the gold and antique calligraphy and paintings back in the cellar, and we'll send someone to fetch them in a few days." Liu Jun said to Li Chunjiang, who was surprised, this is a sum of money that only the three masters know, and now that the three masters are dead, Liu Jun has no reason to let it go.

"Take dozens of gold bars and put them in the storeroom, and bring some silver." Liu Jun instructed Zhang Shan to do things carefully, not to take some gold bars and put them outside, and when the loot is collected, wouldn't it be the same as he did just now. Moreover, Liu Jun has a great appetite, not only plans to swallow most of the more than 1,000 taels of gold privately, but also plans to swallow part of the more than 10,000 taels of silver, and most of it.

In the end, Liu Jun took the fraction of 1,160 taels of gold to the outside warehouse, and then left only more than 3,000 taels of more than 18,000 taels of silver, and then carried 15,000 taels of silver directly into the cellar.

"Isn't that okay?" Li Chunjiang hesitated.

"It's all thieves, let's swallow it just to feed the nine-headed bird, we can't always rely on your money to raise it in the future, how much money can you have, and how much money is not used like this." Anyway, what we take from the people will be used by the people. Liu Jun explained to Li Chunjiang.

Li Chunjiang didn't want to swallow the money privately, but Liu Jun was right about some things, most of the expenses of the nine-headed bird were paid by him, and he took out all the private money of 10,000 taels before, although he got a few thousand taels of money before and after, so that he still had a lot of 10,000 taels of silver left. But at the current cost, that little money won't last long.

When the private money runs out, where will he raise the money? The Li family is rich, but it is impossible to easily use it for him to run a township regiment horse team. If you swallow this thousand taels of gold and 15,000 taels of silver now, it will be equivalent to getting 28,000 taels of silver, which is a lot of money, so that the nine-headed bird will not have to worry about money and food for a long time in the future.

Especially Liu Jun's words taken from the people for the use of the people made him more relaxed.

"Gongji, if we don't take this money, it will just fall into the hands of the government in the end, but in the end, do you think this money will be used by the people? In the event of a bandit, in the end, the money used by the troops above will still be apportioned to the people. ”

"Okay, but it has to be kept secret." Li Chunjiang finally agreed to swallow the money.

"Don't worry, it's just a few of us who know, and everyone is not stupid." Liu Jun said with a smile, "But everyone move quickly, the meat that doesn't reach your mouth will eventually fly again." ”

Although the cellar is in the council hall, it is very secret, if you don't know, even if you search, it will be difficult to find out, Liu Jun plans to hide the money in it first, and then come to collect it secretly later, so that you don't know it.

"Let's go, let's go outside and decorate ourselves, and wait for Zhao Bingxian and Mei Gong to come over."