Chapter 23: Harvesting Rags Across Time and Space
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With the completion of the "New Tokyo" and the "Second New Tokyo", the question of how to collect the debts has been put on the agenda.
Well, although the cost of these two legendary projects is actually not very high--the "New Tokyo" in the sky uses the surplus equipment used by Nobita to build the "Cloud Country", and the total cost is only 30,000 yen; As for the "Second New Tokyo" underground, it took less than half an hour from the start of construction to the completion of the "Second New Tokyo", where the "Explosive Basement" was buried, and the initiator was gently pressed and a layer of special light moss was sprayed on the roof of the cave...... But it still did not prevent the now poor and crazy Doraemon from offering a sky-high price of 3o billion yen, and Emperor Zhao Huan of Qinzong also nodded in approval.
Alas, this is the difference in the level of technology and productivity more than a thousand years apart!
The biggest question at the moment is how to cash out the sky-high cost of 300 million yen?
-- Obviously, in the more than a year of fierce fighting between the Song and Jin dynasties, the Song Dynasty has suffered one defeat after another, suffered great defeats and losses, and its military expenditures have been unprecedentedly huge. Therefore, Emperor Zhao Huan of Qinzong really couldn't take out too many copper coins or gold, silver and silk silk to pay the bills.
But the emperor didn't eat the overlord's meal in the vernacular, and let the immortals do white work - didn't Guo Zhenren say it before, as long as it is valuable, what gems, beautiful jade, and high-quality flowers and trees, he is willing to accept it. On the contrary, it seems that mundane things such as copper coins and silver ingots are not very eye-catching (mainly because they have no antique attributes and cannot be sold for a large price). Although there is not much money in the court at the moment, in my palace, there are a lot of miscellaneous bits and pieces, and they seem to be quite valuable, but unfortunately they are not easy to realize...... Now please take it all to offset the account!
-- In the more than 160 years since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, there has been an endless stream of tributes sent by foreign envoys, local prefectures and counties, and the Tibetan ministries attached to the country. Most of the so-called tributes were not of practical use, and because of the etiquette system, it was difficult to deal with them at will without the emperor's words, so these messy things accumulated in the palace day by day, piled up, and now they are crammed into a whole row of warehouses. Now is the time to clear the warehouse at one time!
Well, after deducting those candied fruits with green hair, dried flowers with insects, dried mushrooms mixed with mouse feces, yellow moldy rice paper, and Jinhua ham that has been stacked for many years, dry and hard like mahogany, can be polished into a statue of Guanyin sitting lotus and placed in the shrine for worship...... After a series of disgusting strange things, among the remaining tributes, a lot of valuable things can still be turned out.
Moreover, some of the emperors of the past dynasties worshiped the Buddha and some cultivated the Tao, and according to their different hobbies, they collected a lot of strange things such as the Buddha of Joy, the copper leaky pot, the coins of the Western Regions, the ancient sword and the famous sword, and the hydraulic astronomical instruments. Due to the changing interests of the emperors and the hobbies of the emperors in the past, these things were collected in the palace and played with for a while, and then they were thrown into the corner and dusted. However, for the sake of the dignity of the heavenly family, those royal things are not easy to litter, so they have to find a warehouse to stack them...... Over the years, there has been a considerable backlog.
At this moment, Emperor Zhao Huan of Qinzong simply ordered the eunuchs to open all the warehouses and let Doraemon and Wang Qiu and others carry them.
-- Looking at these barren and desolate warehouses that have not been tended for a long time, the courtyards that have long been overgrown with weeds and infested with rats, and the rows of baskets and wooden shelves that are covered with dust...... Wang Qiu felt as if he had become a tricycle pedaling all over the street in a trance.
Of course, even if it is a royal "rag", compared with ordinary people's homes, it is absolutely extraordinary.
“…… A box of pure natural dragon incense, priced at 6 million yen; two Damascus knives for 1 million yen; a Malaysian serpentine sword, priced at 400,000 yen; eight ivory for 6,000,000 yen; a box of Burmese gemstones, valued at 100 million yen; Ten bundles of mink skins from Liaodong, valued at four million yen; Ten sets of black glazed Tianmu oil drop bucket hat tea set for the imperial kiln, priced at 80,000 yen...... a bag of saffron in the Western Regions, priced at 200,000 yen; Eighty stone of aged pepper for ...... Only 30,000 yen? Hey, the discount degree of this [automatic pawn machine] is really dark enough!
20 bronze hollow alchemy furnaces, priced at 5 million yen; Three boxes of Tibetan yak horns and yak hides, due to insect and rat bites, fading and hair loss, are priced at 100,000 yen; 10 boxes of dragon and phoenix group tea, priced at 300,000 yen; Six buffalo horns, falsely known as rhinoceros horns, were priced at 3,000 yen...... Tsk, it turns out that the Song Dynasty already had such fake and shoddy products! There is also this 'Hehuan chair' made of Huanghuali, which is simply a torture bed! But it was so beautifully done, even the handcuffs and shackles were gilded, and a row of wooden awls and leather whips were hung...... Could it be that the Song Dynasty also had SM lovers? ”
Standing in the courtyard, which was as messy as a garbage heap, Wang Qiu muttered while following everyone to throw things into the automatic pawn machine.
However, although the number of tributes piled up in the palace was large, the quality was uneven, and although there were some good things of great value, there were also many worthless tattered rubbish, and the overall value was not as high as originally thought—many of the most precious things were taken away by the favorite concubines and great eunuchs, and all that was left was something inferior and unsightly.
Therefore, after emptying all the accumulated tributes, Wang Qiu and the others collected the old clothes of the prince, concubine, eunuch and palace maid, the emperor's old dragon robe, the old curtains replaced in the palace, and the precious ingredients in the imperial dining room...... But even with this scraping of the ground, it still couldn't make up the astronomical amount of 3 billion yen, so I had to tear down the dressers, bogu shelves, and fragrant wood screens of those idle cold palaces...... There were even carved window frames and doors, and in the end, the main hall was simply demolished, and the beams and pillars made of high-quality wood were removed to settle the account! Such a simple and crude handling method made Wang Qiu and others feel as if they had become a violent demolition team, and like Japanese devils going to the countryside to sweep ......
It wasn't until the Longde Palace, where Song Huizong was originally under house arrest, that the emperor was now locked up underground in the "Second New Tokyo" to "cultivate immortals", and the original place of house arrest was naturally temporarily useless - after removing the rosewood beams and gilded glazed tiles and stuffing them into the [automatic pawn machine], the three billion huge funds for the construction of the Heavenly Palace were collected...... Yes? You say there's a "Second New Tokyo" that Doraemon has made up underground with an explosive basement? Oh, that shoddy thing is basically an addition and a giveaway, so you don't have to charge extra money......
On the other hand, just as Wang Qiu and the others swept away the palaces everywhere, and then squatted in the demolished palaces, panting with exhaustion, the doctors of the Great Song Dynasty were discussing the heavy issue of sending troops to the Northern Expedition and recovering the lost land.
-- Ever since the "artifact" refined by Guo Daxian's sacrifice was eroded for dozens of miles with one shot, burning all the more than 100,000 fierce siege Jin troops to ashes, the lord and the doctor of the court had to stop fighting, while the doctor of the main battle was ecstatic and had the absolute upper hand.
No matter what kind of opinion Guo Jing has on the real person who protects the country, the current Manchu Dynasty civil and military forces all agree that at present, the main force of the Jin army is wiped out, and there is no strength to suppress all ethnic groups in the territory.
But the problem is that when they really start planning a counterattack, an extremely embarrassing and cruel reality emerges:
This huge Song Empire has no soldiers available at this time!