After a period of surprise, Xiao Yungui slowly calmed down, and his nouveau riche and black-bellied young master's temperament came into play again, and suddenly thought of a sentence, "Wealth should not be exposed". He asked in a low voice to Hong Yun'er hesitantly, "Four-eyed sister, do you want these things to be filled into the holy treasury?" ”

Hong Yun'er came back to her senses, glanced at Xiao Yungui, and already understood what he meant. At present, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom practiced a system of public ownership and sharing. The Sacred Treasury is the public treasury and the national treasury, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gave all the wealth and things to God, and at the beginning it was stipulated that only God could be called holy, so the public treasury was called the holy treasury, also known as the sacred treasury system. The Sacred Treasury system began at the beginning of the uprising, and at the beginning of the uprising, many members of the Worship of God brought the elderly and the children to participate. They sold their land and gave everything to the public treasury, and all their food and clothing were paid for by the public treasury. Later, this system was implemented throughout the army. Gold, silver, silk, treasures, grain, etc., captured in battle, must be handed over to the public treasury, and individuals are not allowed to hide them privately, and violators are punished with heavy fines up to beheading. The living needs of the generals and soldiers were provided by the public treasury. The types and standards of its supply, grain, oil, and salt are generally supplied in equal quantities regardless of the age or age; The supply of meat, cloth, and other daily necessities is equal to the daily share of the king, and the lower-level soldiers are not provided every day. There are also money for buying vegetables and worship money that are used as comprador offerings to the Heavenly Father, and are also used as petty use, and the amount varies equally, but the quota of various types of supplies is not fixed, and it varies according to the source of materials.

The Sacred Treasury System was based on the selflessness of people's wealth and the roughly equal distribution of wealth, and its implementation played a positive role in the early victory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It ensured the livelihood of soldiers and their families, and also attracted many poor people to participate. But in fact, the sacred treasury system was not strictly enforced. With the military victory, the number of cities and towns in the recovery of the city is increasing, the source of goods is abundant, and the soldiers have their own private property, and the so-called principle that the law does not hold the people accountable and people have no selfish wealth is increasingly unable to be adhered to, so it is stipulated that the private collection shall not exceed five taels of silver. Senior generals live in luxury, taking whatever they want from the public treasury, and the supply quota gradually loses its practical significance. In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the sacred treasury system was still nominally still implemented, and the sacred treasury provided food, money, and clothing to the kings, generals, and soldiers with their own shares, but because most of them had private wealth and did not depend on these shares, the sacred treasury system existed in name only, and transformed into a general logistics supply system.

Judging from the stage of historical development, the private system is still in its infancy, and any kind of egalitarian thinking and system that wants to change this objective trend can only be a beautiful and naïve utopian dream of the exploited. If it is required to be implemented in practice for a long time, it will undoubtedly recede into obstruction and destruction. From the perspective of people's ideology, the concept of private ownership for thousands of years is by no means something that can be changed by the prohibition of private possession of gold and silver in the "Taiping Regulations" and the edict of the Heavenly King, and the edict of the Eastern King calling for "public heart and benevolence". Although the peasants had a strong anti-feudal revolutionary character, precisely because they were peasants, the concept of private ownership and the desire to make a fortune were strong.

These treasures are roughly estimated to be no less than tens of millions of taels, and such a huge wealth has far exceeded the general holy treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Changsha, while the book of the holy treasury of the army in the west hall is only more than one million taels of silver coins, which is still obtained after conquering Yiyang and other places in northern Xiangbei. Yueyang's silver money from the Qing court treasury has not yet been accounted for, but there are millions of taels, if these Wu Sangui treasures are added, it is bound to alarm the king of heaven and the king of the east in Changsha, and a paper edict or edict will come down, and this money may only be sent to the Changsha General Treasury. When the money arrives in the holy treasury, it will not be owned by the King of the West or the West Temple, but will become the property of the entire Taiping Army, or it will become the property of the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, or it will become the squandered assets of several high-level kings, and Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er will lose the right to control this money.

Hong Yun'er gritted her silver teeth and said: "If we are sure to hide it from Changsha, we had better find some trusted people again, and build a treasurer to manage the money." Xiao Yungui nodded heavily and said with a smile: "Okay, our two adulterers and adulteresses will join forces to swallow this money!" Hong Yun'er couldn't cry or laugh, her pretty face turned red and whispered: "It's like-minded, what an adulterer and adulteress, it's so ugly, you can find a way to do it." ”

Xiao Yungui touched his chin and groaned for a moment, then looked back at Tang Erniu and the four West Hall brand swordsmen who were still in a daze on the other side of the stone room, the five of them came down first, and Li Zuoche and the others were guarding outside, and they didn't know what was underneath.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Yungui summoned Tang Erniu and the five people to come over, and ordered: "Tang Erniu, you take a brother out, go to the mansion and invite Mr. Zuo, remember that on the way, the two of you are not allowed to talk to anyone about what you see here, just invite Mr. Zuo to come, and only let Mr. Zuo come down when you get here." Then Xiao Yungui said coldly: "You two remember, this matter is related to the lives of all the soldiers and brothers in my West Temple, and you can't reveal half a word, otherwise Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother will bring a catastrophe!" ”

Tang Erniu and the other five people were startled, and they didn't understand how these treasures could bring disaster, but seeing that King Xi's face was serious, as if he was facing a great enemy, he didn't dare to ask anything more, Tang Erniu turned around and beckoned one person to follow. Xiao Yungui ordered the other three to guard the door of the stone room, and could only let Zuo Zongtang in.

After a tea hour, Zuo Zongtang gasped and followed Tang Erniu and the two down to the stone room, it seemed that they were trotting all the way down, and when Zuo Zongtang saw the treasures in the stone room, he was also stunned, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

After a while, Xiao Yungui coughed and said to Zuo Zongtang how to find the treasure, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The world says that Wu Sangui was defeated after being the emperor in Hengzhou, and the treasure should be in the boundary of Hengzhou, and there are more delusional people who have been looking for many years but have not found it, it turns out that Wu Sangui's treasure is hidden in the inconspicuous place of Yuezhou, presumably after Wu Sangui's soldiers went to Xianghu, they wanted to continue to go east to restore Jinling, so they hoarded money, grain, and firearms in Yuezhou, but unfortunately the army was defeated later, and these things were too late to be transported away, so they could only be buried on the spot. ”

Xiao Yungui said in a low voice: "Sir, now is not the time to sigh, if these treasures are filled into the West Temple Holy Treasury, sooner or later they will be taken away by the Changsha General Holy Treasury, then our West Hall will lose a lot, give me an idea." ”

Zuo Zongtang touched his beard and said: "This matter is easy, among the generals of the West Palace, who does the King of the West think is the most trustworthy?" ”

Xiao Yungui pondered for a moment, looked at Hong Yun'er, and the four-eyed girl blurted out: "Lin Fengxiang!" ”

Zuo Zongtang nodded with a smile and said: "General Lin is loyal and benevolent, he is taciturn, and he is even more loyal to the King of the West, so he can be entrusted with the matter of betting on the treasure." Zuo will let Li Shourong and Wang Minyun be responsible for the new treasurer, General Lin selected henchmen and horses to guard the periphery, and the treasurer was guarded by the two generals Li Zuoche and Tang Erniu, who led the old brothers of the West King to guard. The daily use of the treasurer must be ordered by the king of the west, and the generals Li and Tang can be released, and at the same time, the queen of the west sends Li Xuanji and Yang Dongqing as supervisors, which can ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

Speaking of this, Zuo Zongtang looked at the four soldiers behind Tang Erniu, and said: "These four old brothers will follow General Tang to guard the inner treasury, and when carrying the treasure, the box must be heavily sealed so that no one can see what is inside. When the West King is full-fledged, even if Changsha knows about it, there will be nothing to be done. ”

Xiao Yungui nodded, and immediately ordered Tang Erniu and others to go out to find some coarse cloth straw mats and come back, wrapped the boxes, and found some carts to transport the boxes back to the backyard of the government, and sent Lin Fengxiang to lead the troops to guard the periphery, Tang Erniu and Li Zuoche led the West Hall to lead a hundred henchmen and swordsmen to guard the inner perimeter, and Wang Minyun and Li Shourong began to count this batch of treasures under the leadership of Zuo Zongtang.

After three days of counting, this batch of treasures of gold bars and silver ingots was converted into more than 8 million taels of silver, and the rest of the pearls, jade, jade, etc. were worth about 6 million taels, totaling about 14 million taels. It must be known that the Qing court's current annual tax payment in the country is only 20 million taels, and the tariff on centijin will only reach 40 or 50 million taels, and after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established the capital Tianjing, Shi Dakai was in charge of the holy treasury, and under the good operation of food and clothing, the assets of the holy treasury were only 18 million taels, and it can be said that this money made the Western King rich for a while.

After calming down, Xiao Yungui allocated a part of pearls, jade, jade and other things to Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and others, planning to let them sell them when they went to the Qing court to do business.

On the fourth day after finding the treasure, He Yuanlun, He Bin, Zhou Zhaoyao and other merchant ships from Sichuan came to Yuezhou, and after they arrived in Yiyang, they heard that the king of the West had captured Yuezhou, so they traveled all the way to gather.

On the dock, Xiao Yungui met He Yuanlun of the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce, this old man was still in general spirit, looked at Xiao Yungui and said: "What a king of the West, he has really led the troops to the north, and the little old man is not wrong this time." ”

Xiao Yungui said with a smile: "He old hero has worked hard this time, and the next army will go to Hankou, Hanyang, Wuchang and other places, and rely on the old hero a lot." ”

He Yuanlun said with a smile: "As long as the King of the West agrees to help me clear the other chambers of commerce in Hankou, Hanyang and other places, my Baoqing Chamber of Commerce will definitely take the king of the West as the leader." ”

Xiao Yungui knew that this old man had a lot of ambitions and wanted to dominate the business of the three towns of Wuhan, but when he entered the army, he also needed to sweep away the chambers of commerce that were vassal to the Qing court, and the two naturally hit it off.

At that moment, He Yuanlun handed over more than 100,000 catties of sulfur, saltpeter and other materials bought from Sichuan, and Xiao Yungui ordered the firearms craftsmen in the army to accept the materials and began to readjust the ratio of gunpowder. Although Xiao Yungui didn't remember the best ratio of black powder, he vaguely remembered that the proportion of nitrate was the largest, and the proportion of sulfur and carbon was about the same, so he asked the firearms craftsmen in the army to try out the production in this general direction, hoping to find the most powerful **.

He Yuanlun stayed in Yuezhou for a few days, and after purchasing a batch of goods, he left Yuezhou and returned to Hankou first. Xiao Yungui ordered Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and others to set off with the fleet, and He Bin and Zhou Zhaoyao brought a group of Bai Zetang's men to follow Zhu Changlin and Wei Helin to set off, which was regarded as the helper of the two, and also had the intention of monitoring the two.

After the fleet of the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce set off, the Qing army in Xiangyin also moved, Yuezhou was captured, Zhang Liangji and Peng Yulin were afraid that they would fall into the encirclement of the Taiping army, and began to redeploy their troops, but what Xiao Yungui and Zuo Zongtang did not expect was that Zhang Liangji, Peng Yulin, Hu Linyi and others led the Qing army not to go north directly to attack Yuezhou, but unexpectedly suddenly crossed the Xiangjiang River to the west, went directly to Yiyang, and attacked Wei Changhui's department in Yiyang.