Under the charred ruins, the abrupt gold and silver colors are naturally particularly eye-catching.

Suddenly seeing this scene, the group of Liao riders who followed behind couldn't help but stir.

Chen Wang glanced back, not leaving too much attention behind him.

Seeing so much gold and silver and not having any thoughts, then it is not a normal person.

But if you take the money, you have to have a life to spend it, and you have to have a place to spend it.

The camp of the invading army was already in ruins, and there were scenes of fire raging everywhere.

A lot of gold and silver had been melted in the fire, mixed together.

Every time a city is broken or a place is plundered, most of the harvest is collected privately, and only a small part is taken to the public.

The rogues are not completely unordered, there are transactions between them, and there are markets.

There are also basic rules between them, and it is not that they can act arbitrarily.

Gold and silver can be used to buy things, some people sell them, and some people buy them.

At that time, when Zhenning was broken, Guotianxing Hui Dengxiang was still allied with Li Zicheng.

Therefore, Hui Dengxiang took almost half of the gold and silver, so Li Zicheng did not have much gold and silver.

But even so, the gold and silver accumulated by Li Zicheng is still not a small amount.

At least for Chen Wang at this stage, it is already an extremely terrifying number.

Naturally, gold and silver are strictly counted, and the centimetres of silver in the treasury cannot be missing.

According to the information given by the Xing family, there were a total of 7,650 taels of gold and 64,725 taels of silver in the treasury.

It sounds like a lot, but it only takes four or five large cars to load it all.

Sixteen taels and one catties, converted, there are 478 catties of gold and more than 4,000 catties of silver.

"Let the ruins be cleared, and all the gold and silver that have been melted up will be dug up and loaded into trucks."

Chen Wang did not dismount, but led the war horse to lead a group of cavalry to stand on one side.

It was naturally not the Liao cavalry behind him who started cleaning up the ruins, but the battalion soldiers who came in advance and were on duty here early in the morning.

Tang Shiping received the order, and immediately led a few cavalry to jump out of the cavalry formation, and then ordered hundreds of garrison battalions to start cleaning and digging.

"After the gold and silver are loaded, there will be a reward, but if anyone dares to hide it privately, he will be killed immediately!"

Tang Shi's face was gloomy and cold, and he did not hide the killing intent on his body.

"If you want to live, if you want gold and silver, don't be clever."

Tang Shiping's cold voice reached the ears of a group of battalion soldiers who were cleaning the ruins and digging gold and silver, and they were all shocked.

Chen Wang did not open his mouth to interrupt Tang Shiping.

In troubled times, heavy canons are used, especially to govern the army.

This is the rule of this era, and he doesn't want to change these things in a hurry now.

There are priorities and priorities, and they must be implemented first.

Digging and transporting gold and silver, Chen Wang, a remnant soldier who was originally subordinate to Ai Wannian, was not transferred.

There are a total of three rounds of soldiers here, all of whom were the homeless people he recruited in Pizhou, and he was the first to train a group of soldiers.

Time passed quietly, and boxes of gold and silver were weighed and loaded into the car.

Chen Wang's mind had already shifted from the body of gold and silver to other places.

Prosperous antiques, troubled gold.

In the Shaanxi market, the gold price of gold is rising, and now the purchasing power of one tael of gold has been worth twelve taels of silver.

The purchasing power of more than 7,000 taels of gold was enough to be 90,000 taels of silver.

More than 60,000 taels of silver here, plus the silver taels for selling horses and mules, can almost make up about 80,000 taels.

In other words, in this battle, the spoils he captured had already reached 170,000 taels of silver.

This is not counting the captured armor and blades, as well as the heads captured and other bounties for meritorious deeds.

A full 170,000 taels ......

In this world, one or two halves of military salaries and two taels of silver are settling-in expenses, and most people in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces are recruited.

All 170,000 taels were used to raise soldiers, enough to raise 10,000 soldiers for almost a year.

Chen Wang now finally understands why after the Battle of Pizhou, Cao Wenzhao issued such a generous bounty.

I am afraid that Cao Wenzhao also seized a large amount of gold and silver from the hands of the rogue.

And part of the reason why the generals of those battalions can afford to raise so many soldiers who have not been included in the army should be here.

Chen Wang sank his heart and recalled the history he had read in the book.

In the original history, the eleventh year of Chongzhen can be described as the darkest moment of the Guannai Liukou.

Sun Chuanting defeated Li Zicheng at Taohe, and Li Zicheng was defeated and left Minzhou.

Zuo Liangyu defeated Zhang Xianzhong in Nanyang, and Zhang Xianzhong was besieged in Gucheng.

After that, the Ming army continued to increase its troops in the pass, encircled and suppressed in many ways, and won successive battles.

Liu Guoneng, Zhang Tianlin, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others surrendered one after another, and more rogues were annihilated and broken.

It was at that time that the power of Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong swelled up like blowing up balloons.

Liu Liangzuo, who later became one of the four towns in Jiangbei, also began to grow stronger after the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong.

Especially Zuo Liangyu, in the eleventh year, he was still only the chief soldier, and in principle, the number of soldiers was only a few thousand.

But the soldiers and horses under his command have long been more than thousands, and by the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the soldiers and horses under the command of Zuo Liangyu have already passed 10,000, and most of them are surrendered rogues.

This part of the soldiers was not included in the quota, and the governor did not say much about these additional soldiers.

Zuo Liangyu has now recruited a battalion of nearly 3,000 rogues, and the Changping soldiers under his command who originally followed him into the customs have suffered many casualties in the years of battle.

The reason why the number of nearly 3,000 people can still be maintained is because Zuo Liangyu also selected some people among the soldiers, so that they can rightfully enter the camp as regular soldiers.

As more and more gold and silver were loaded into the carriages, the space gradually began to empty.

Chen Wang knew very well that these gold and silver could not be eaten.

It is the right thing to transform gold and silver into armament, into soldiers, and into power in the hands.

In the torrent of troubled times, only those with knives and guns can stand firm.

No matter how much wealth or status there is, there is no corresponding strength to protect it, and it is just a passing moment.

Chen Wang looked back at Chunhua City to the east.

Outside the city of Chunhua are all ruins and broken walls, full of devastation.

Now the opportunity to expand the army is in front of him.

Today, there are more than 3,000 prisoners in Chunhua City.

Among them, there were more than 600 elite cavalry, more than 300 horse soldiers, and the rest were infantry and hungry soldiers.

Chen Gong had sent Tangma to send news that he had already broken the rout and fled Liukou infantry and hungry soldiers, and was now pressing them back to Chunhua in batches.

However, Chen Wang is not ready to take the path of Zuo Liangyu, he is ready to take another path of army expansion.

The path Zuo Liangyu took was a dead end.

Zuo Liangyu relied on the elite soldiers of the headquarters as the backbone in the early stage, and he could also control the army well.

However, after absorbing more and more surrendered troops in the middle and late stages, it became a difficult situation to ride a tiger.

Especially after the defeat of Zhuxian Town, Zuo Liangyu's elite was slightly exhausted, and there were many rabbles who returned, and although the army was strong, they were all rabble.

And Zuo Liangyu has been difficult to control the battalions under his command, although he is still the main general, but in fact, at that time, Zuo Liangyu was already coerced by the soldiers and horses under his command, and he couldn't help himself.

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"History of the Ming Dynasty, Biography of the Ming Dynasty, Volume One Hundred and Sixty-One":

“…… Shu and the generals took the Qingjun side as an invitation, and Liangyu hesitated. ”

"Death, there is a prince from the north, Shu took this opportunity to stir up the crowd to repay his grievances, and summoned the generals of the 36th battalion to ...... with him"

“…… The general Hao Xiaoyin entered the city, set fire to the city, and left. ”

"Liangyu looked at the fire in the city and said: 'Give Yuan Gong.' vomited several liters of blood, and died in the night. ”

(The Yuan Gong in Zuo Liangyu's mouth refers to Yuan Jixian, the governor of Jiujiang at the time.) ）