What's more, on this mountain, there are relatively few roads up and down the mountain, as long as there are special people guarding it, no matter how many people come to the imperial court, it will be difficult to attack the mountain.

If it weren't for Yuan Yao taking the thieves in the cottage as an internal response this time, he directly entered the cottage, and it would be extremely difficult to forcibly attack the mountain.

Now that I think about it, I'm glad.

However, after entering the cottage, everything here can be changed without changes, and Yuan Yao can directly train soldiers and horses here and take over Chen Ce's men.

Although he has the heart to strengthen himself, after all, he is only a county magistrate of Qianxian County, and at the same time he is still the son of Yuan Shu in Shouchun, if he does not directly announce his departure from Yuan Shu, he wants to expand his troops and horses privately, and he will inevitably be jealous of Yuan Shu.

Therefore, he can only secretly cultivate his own forces, and placing his forces in this heavenly canyon is an excellent choice.

After recruiting these bandits, at least Yuan Yao can get 2,000 usable soldiers, plus the men and horses under Tai Shici, and at the same time recruit some homeless people and ordinary people, Yuan Yao can train 5,000 soldiers and horses in this line of heavenly canyons.

As long as the 5,000 elite soldiers are well trained and equipped with enough sharp weapons and armor with good defensive power, then they can be relied on to sweep Jiangdong.

When Yuan Yao was still imagining his bright future, Ji Ling had already walked out of the back treasury.

With a smile on his face, he said excitedly when he saw Yuan Yao.

"Childe, Childe, we are rich, we are rich!"

Ji Ling ran in front of Yuan Yao excitedly.

He shouted as he ran.

At this moment, Yuan Yao was also attracted by Ji Ling's voice.

Hurriedly followed Ji Ling in the direction of the treasury.

"General Ji Ling, is there a lot of gold and silver treasures hidden in the treasury of this cottage?"

Ji Ling nodded hurriedly.

"Childe, there are more gold and silver treasures hidden in this treasury than we thought at the beginning!"

Ji Ling said as he led Yuan Yao and ran in the direction of the treasury.

Yuan Yao also soon came to the door of the treasury.

It was already guarded by some of his men.

The door opened.

Yuan Yao hurriedly walked in, and what caught his eye was dozens of huge boxes.

The wooden lids of some of these boxes have been lifted.

The golden, shining treasures inside were revealed.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Yao's face was also surprised.

The boxes in the room were not ordinary five-baht coins, but valuable items such as gold, silver, pearls, and jade.

After all, the purchasing power of this kind of copper plate is not large enough, but it takes up a lot of space, and most of the five baht coins should be distributed to those bandits, leaving only some valuable things to treasure.

In this treasury, there are valuable things left over from Chen Ce's business for several years, and they are all cheap Yuan Yao at this time.

Yuan Yao looked at the gold and silver in the room, and hurriedly began to call people to come and count these things.

At the same time, he began to check what other valuable things were in this cottage, and after working for two hours and inspecting the entire cottage, Yuan Yao finally counted all the gains this time.

In the treasury of this cottage, there are two thousand taels of gold, five thousand taels of silver, dozens of treasures of various colors, and some boxes of five-baht coins.

According to preliminary estimates, gold and silver alone are worth more than 40 million yuan, and those treasures cannot be estimated for the time being, but no matter how you look at it, it will not be less than 20 million yuan.

The gold and silver obtained from the treasury alone are worth sixty or seventy million yuan, which is richer than some high-ranking officials in the capital.

A few years ago, when Yuan Shu was still an official in the capital, Yuan Yao also followed Yuan Shu in the capital, it was still the era of Emperor Han Ling, Emperor Han Ling had good money, and he could directly sell the official in his hands, and the positions of the three princes above the court were all clearly marked.

If you want to serve as the third prince, as long as you make money, you can hold it, and a position of the third prince is only worth tens of millions of dollars.

Yuan Yao didn't expect that he was just in the treasury of a little thief, and he copied out tens of millions of money.

When you think about it, it's really scary.

In this era, a large amount of wealth has accumulated into the hands of those big families, and the people not only have little money to spare, but even the land on which they depend for survival is estimated to have mostly fallen into the hands of the gentry.

This is why, at the end of each dynasty, there will be a large number of displaced people.

Because a little famine disaster will cause a large number of people to be unable to live, and they will not even have a mouthful of food to eat, and finally they will be forced to stand up in order to have a full meal.

In the cottage on this line of heavenly canyons, in addition to copying out sixty or seventy million dollars, there are also more than a dozen barns in the center, hiding twenty or thirty thousand stones of grain.

There are thousands of people in this cottage, if Chen Ce didn't have some food in the cottage, he would have been wiped out by the people of the imperial court by cutting off water and food, and it is because of this experience that there are 20,000 or 30,000 stones of grain in this cottage all year round.

Twenty or thirty thousand stone of grain may seem like a lot, but in fact it is only enough for 5,000 people to eat for five or six months.

However, this time, it was all cheaper than Yuan Yao.

After counting the money, Yuan Yao was not ambiguous, and directly took out half of it, that is, 30 million yuan, to reward these soldiers under his command.

The soldiers under Yuan Yao's command, plus Tai Shici's men, totaled less than 3,000 people, of which more than 600 were killed because of this battle, and Yuan Yao took out 18 million from them and allocated a pension of 30,000 yuan to each soldier who died in battle.

The remaining 12 million were given to the soldiers who participated in the attack.

According to these soldiers, they will be rewarded for their military exploits on the battlefield.

For each enemy killed or captured, they received some additional rewards, and the 2,000 people shared the 12 million yuan together, and some of them who had made more meritorious contributions on the battlefield were directly rewarded with 20,000 or 30,000 yuan.

Even if there is no meritorious service, but the soldiers who participated in this crackdown on bandits have been rewarded with a thousand dollars.

And Yuan Yao was not stingy with the two leaders of Ji Ling and Tai Shici, and directly took out 500,000 yuan and gave them to Tai Shici and Ji Ling respectively.

Ji Ling already knew Yuan Yao's character, so he didn't refuse.

On the contrary, it was Tai Shici, watching Yuan Yao directly throw him dozens of gold cakes, he was a little stunned for a while, and he didn't understand what Yuan Yao was doing.

"Brother Yuan, what are you?"

"What you gave it, as a trophy for attacking Chen Ce, this is what you deserve, you have all the soldiers under you, and as the main general, you will naturally not be less."

Listening to Yuan Yao's words, Tai Shici was shocked, and he was a little surprised for a while.