Night.

The moon hangs high.

The cold moonlight slanted down, illuminating Ningjiang Mansion.

In the county guard's mansion, Ding Hongguang was listening to the reports of his subordinates.

"Handsome! Except for a few of the landlords and gentry who participated in the resistance to the imperial court in Ningjiang Fucheng, almost the ninth-floor people were captured by our army.

Now that they've all been detained, I don't know what to do? ”

"Don't worry about the little fish that slip through the net, all the surrounding cities have been controlled by our group, unless they don't go all the way to Haifu County, they will definitely fall into our hands.

And that Haifujun ...... Hehe......"

Speaking of this, Ding Hongguang sneered twice, he naturally knew who was behind the reform army occupying Haifu County.

Even if these escaped gentry ran to Haifushire, they would eventually fall into their hands.

Unless they run to Xiangbei, but the road over there has been blocked for them, and these people can't get through at all.

After pondering for a while, Ding Hongguang ordered: "Distinguish these landlords and gentry who have been guarded, and distinguish them according to the family property copied from the family." Divide them into upper, middle and lower classes, and the richest must be the one who provides the most funds, and they will be directly cut off at noon tomorrow.

The medium ones were all taken into custody, and in a few days a ship came and all of them were sent to the Wa Kingdom to mine.

As for the inferior ones, they were sent to Bianjing, which had recently been renovating the city and making them slaves. ”

"No!"

The one who reported dropped back, and the next man came up.

"Among the defenders of Ningjiang Mansion captured by the marshal, in addition to their chief general Liu Biao and his personal guards, there is also Liu Biao's deputy general, it is said that we were ordered by Liu Biao to transfer troops before we attacked, but they never returned.

At least 5,000 of the defenders guarding the other gates were taken by him, and we found them ten miles east of the city. ”

Ding Hongguang frowned when he heard this, five thousand people, if they are left alone, it will leave a great threat to the entire Yanjiang County, and he ordered:

"Send five thousand donkey horsemen to pursue, and order them, even if they can't be completely annihilated, they must be broken up into small units, and so many of them can't be gathered together and escape!"

"Understood! Promise! ”

Followed by the next one, this one is amazing, it is the quartermaster in the army, the quartermaster is a fat man, and as soon as he came up, he replied with a smile on his face:

"Handsome! The brothers have just finished searching the East Side today, and the remaining areas are expected to be searched in four more days.

But just in Dongcheng, the brothers searched for nearly seven million taels of silver, and there were many antiques, calligraphy and paintings that the brothers did not understand and could not value.

However, it is understood that the gentry living in Dongcheng seem to be only the lowest in Ningjiang Mansion, which means that the other three directions may be able to search for more money.

Handsome! We're rich! ”

When it came to the harvest, all the generals in the county guard yamen also had smiles on their faces.

Before they came out, His Majesty had promised that eighty percent of the spoils of war after they sent out would be handed over to the state treasury, and the remaining two percent would be kept as rewards, and the other layer would be distributed by the victorious army itself.

This means that if they harvest enough loot, they will be able to distribute more silver!

How can this not make them happy?

Even Ding Hongguang's face couldn't help but show a smile, there are eight million in Dongcheng alone, and the other three percent are not more than Dongcheng, then there are thirty-two million!

One achievement is three million two hundred thousand!

This time they transferred 100,000 horses, and the others were guarding the city and doing other things, deducting the necessary share for them, and they could share 1.5 million taels of silver, to say the least!

That's a lot!

And that's not all.

It's hard not to think about it now!

Everyone smiled happily.

……

Compared with the happy smiles of the soldiers in the county guard's mansion, Jiang Jialin, the former county guard of Ningjiang Mansion at this moment, couldn't laugh.

Looking at the black nest head in front of him, Jiang Jialin wanted to cry without tears.

originally thought that with 70,000 soldiers, plus behind the strong walls of the city, and the support of the entire landlord class of Yanjiang County behind him, it was more than enough to block the 100,000 army of the imperial court.

As a result, the city that was repaired with great effort was not blocked for even an hour, and it was collapsed by the imperial army, and the trusted general ran away with his own troops, and only found a herald to inform him.

But he couldn't run away, and was caught by the imperial army.

As for the numerous landlord class and gentry and wealthy merchants behind him.

Jiang Jialin sighed, turned his head and looked at the dejected group of people next to him, regretting it to the extreme.

I knew that I wouldn't listen to their demagoguery and go against the court, otherwise I would still be a high-ranking county guard today, how could I end up being a prisoner now!

What a regret for not being at the beginning!

One misstep becomes a thousand hatreds!

……

In the next three days, Ding Hongguang led the army to completely turn the city of Jiangning Mansion, which had gathered the wealth of the entire Yanjiang Mansion, upside down.

In the end, according to statistics, the number of all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry found together reached a full 40 million taels!

Forty million taels!

This number made Ding Hongguang and the rest of the army like a rainbow!

The previous southern and northern Jiangsu were all destroyed, and the army did not collect much gold and silver in those places at all, and it had to be that the Yanjiang Mansion near the sea had money!

In one fell swoop, he contributed a full four million taels of booty to the army.

In the past few days, the wealthy merchants and gentry who had escaped from Ningjiang Mansion were also arrested one after another by the troops stationed in other cities, and finally all of them were sent back to Ningjiang Mansion, the place where they desperately escaped.

On the fifth day of the capture of Ningjiang Fucheng, the news came from the Wuwu Iron Cavalry who went to pursue Yu Liang's department that the border between Xiangbei and the Yangtze River found the fleeing Yu Liang and 5,000 defenders.

And Yu Liang, who fled with them, was led by Wu Jian, who led the pursuit of the Wuwu Iron Cavalry, to a knife and a sword, so far, the remnants of the 5,000 Ningjiang defenders who escaped completely became a group of dragons without a leader, and it took two days for the Wuwu Iron Cavalry to chase the prey, and only more than 1,000 people were brought back as prisoners because of their surrender.

However, what is surprising is that Liu Biao, the commander of the defenders of Ningjiang Mansion, seems to have disappeared, and no matter how much the army searched, he couldn't find his whereabouts.

In the end, Ding Hongguang saw that he had been delayed too much, so he ordered to stop the search and began to cooperate with the sea ships that sailed from the Wa Kingdom two days ago to send the medium net worth, generally the family money did not exceed 300,000 taels, and more than 100,000 taels were sent to the sea ships to sail towards the Wa Kingdom.

The rich men who were sent to the ship did not know that what awaited them next was the dark life of the miners.

Don't they love gold and silver?

Let them all go to the Wa Kingdom to dig gold and silver frames for the Great Song Dynasty, and let them dig silver and gold by themselves!

They will be very happy to see the whole process of the birth of gold and silver!

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(End of chapter)