Chapter 445: Recovering the Official Silver

The 50,000 taels of silver were indeed robbed by the people.

It's just that the scene is tragic.

Who can not love the silver of white flowers?

It was because they wanted it too much, that all the people stepped forward to hold the silver as if they were crazy, but they were soon coaxed forward by the people behind them, and those who grabbed the silver were robbed by others, and a bunch of people were in a mess, and there were countless injuries.

There are many people who are missing arms and legs.

Some people, even if they took only one ingot, were pushed, crowded, trampled, and finally injured.

Many people were dying, and there were rivers of blood next to them, but some people only had money in their eyes, and many people began to panic, and they tried to escape with the money, but they couldn't escape.

Only a few people were about to return to the city with the money they had so hard to grab, but they found that the city gate was under martial law and they were not allowed to enter.

The people outside began to scold, they were not convinced, why couldn't they enter the city.

The soldiers told them that if they wanted to enter the city, they could, but they had to hand over all the money they had.

Those people even quit their work, how could they hand over the money they had worked so hard to rob at the risk of death! So they scolded even more fiercely outside the city gate.

The soldiers didn't want to pay attention to it, and let them stay outside for more than two hours, and finally they didn't lose their strength, and the scolding just now turned into a pleading.

After all, they are still injured, and it is not easy to return to Qianzhou City, if they let them leave, even if they go to the nearest town in Qianzhou City, they will have to spend a lot of effort.

But no matter what, they refused to let go of their money.

It wasn't until someone died at the gate of the city with the silver in his arms that they began to be afraid.

There were also dead people just now, but they were only thinking about the silver, and they could not take care of so much, and now seeing some of them holding the silver and dying of the pain made them feel panicked.

"The silver that I have stolen so hard will not die before I have spent a penny, right?" a man began to murmur.

As soon as his words came out, the hearts of the others were tugging.

"My daughter is still waiting for me at home. The other man looked down at the hundreds of taels of silver he was holding, and his voice trembled a little.

A man with a broken arm cried, "Let me in, I want to see a doctor!"

"I knew I was going to Arm Town just now, and I'll talk about it after a while. "Some people began to regret it.

But what they didn't know was that even if they went to the surrounding towns and county seats, they couldn't find a medical center or pharmacy that could treat them.

Those who have already arrived in the town, because they were injured, went directly to the infirmary, but all the infirmaries were closed, and even if they were still open, no one dared to treat them, after all, the yamen had an order, if they treated these people privately, they could only wait to be in prison!

Only when they go to the yamen and hand over all the money on them can the yamen agree to let the doctor treat them.

The cost of diagnosis and treatment and the cost of medicine are calculated separately, and the IOU is issued.

By the evening, many people couldn't bear it anymore, so Rong Che asked people to open the city gate, but there was only one condition for entering the city gate, that is, to hand over all the money on their bodies.

Some people really couldn't stand it, so they could only give up in pain, let the officers and soldiers search their bodies, give up the silver, and then enter the city.

If one person gives up, there will be a second person who gives up, and gradually, they also understand that money is really something outside the body.

Many people in the city were still thinking about going out to grab money, and when they saw that these people were seriously injured and came back, they were dumbfounded for a while.

The people, who had been looking forward to their families bringing back a lot of silver, finally calmed down when they saw them come back with missing arms and legs, and some people bluntly said that "there are also many deaths".

After three days, they had recovered nearly 40,000 taels of silver.

Rong Che was already very satisfied with this result, after all, not all the silver could be recovered.

When He Zhang saw the official silver that had been recovered, he was so excited that he wanted to cry bitterly.

He had thought that he would not be able to catch up with the silver, but that day his horse went mad and ran a long way, and then he fell directly, and now he even limped when he walked.

"Lord Wang, you are so wise!" He Zhang said to Rong Che, moved to almost tears.

Rong Che glanced at him and said, "But now there are quite a few casualties in Qianzhou City, you can handle these things yourself." ”

He Zhang nodded, Rong Che knew what he meant, although these people went to rob the official silver, most of them were bewitched and instigated, and their crimes were not to death.

So he still has to keep an eye on the doctors and infirmaries in the city.

He Zhang said: "Lord Wang, what should I do with the remaining batch of silver on the Zhuangzi?"

Rong Che's eyes moved slightly, and he said: "In two days, Governor Yang of Guizhou will return from Nanzhao, and when the time comes, he will be protected by his soldiers and horses, so he will naturally be fine." ”

The soldiers under Governor Yang were well-trained, and naturally they were not comparable to these stragglers in Qianzhou City.

The officers and soldiers in the Qianzhou Yamen actually followed those people to rob the official silver, which was really eye-opening.

Because of this incident, He Zhang was so angry that he beat all the officers and soldiers who robbed the official money with 20 strokes and fined him half a year's monthly money.

Hearing Rong Che say that Governor Yang would come, He Zhang was finally relieved, if he didn't have strong enough soldiers and horses, he was really afraid that the same thing would happen again.

Qianzhou is remote and not rich, so many people have never seen so much money, most of the people work to the death, and there are only a few taels of silver all year round.

If he robbed it again, he would have to really apologize with death.

But it's not that there are no good things, and what makes He Zhang happiest is that Xin Yuan, the mastermind behind this, is dead.

As long as Xin Yuan is dead, the theft of the official silver in Qianzhou City will be completely solved, and there will naturally be no such cases in the future, and he, the prefect, can also be a good one.

Seeing He Zhang's happy face, Rong Che didn't speak.

Two days later, Governor Yang returned from Nanzhao.

Hearing about the events in Qianzhou City, Governor Yang was also surprised, he didn't expect Xin Yuan to really escape from the Mu family and his men from Nanzhao, and also make such a big move.

With Governor Yang and his soldiers and horses present, all the official silver that had been hidden in the Zhuangzi was finally removed and put into the treasury in the yamen.

In order to reassure He Zhang, Governor Yang also specially left a team in Qianzhou City.

After the matter here is completely rectified, we will have to wait for the imperial court to send back how to deal with this official money.

So naturally there are no surprises.