Chapter 169: An Opportunity
The heads of these bandits can be brought back, and it must be a great achievement to kill so many people, but I didn't expect that among the brothers who came out, I was the first to work alone. ”
"But everyone is also tired, and it is really hard to run all night. Sun Baihu wiped his face and said with a smile.
Su Ziji nodded: "This is, everyone has worked hard." ”
"Why don't you count the corpses first and pack up the goods? We can't delay burying the pot and cooking, and after eating, we will go back." ”
Su Ziji's words were immediately approved by Sun Baihu.
"After a busy night, I just felt hungry! You guys went to the neighborhood to pick up some firewood and came back. Sun Baihu ordered a few people casually and asked them to go quickly.
He sat directly on a stone, although in winter, the stone was cold, but as soon as he sat down, Sun Baihu subconsciously squinted his eyes and felt immediately comfortable.
The other soldiers stubbornly counted the corpses and gathered the goods, but before they could settle the number, they were already staggering and many people sat down.
"Come and help! Don't let this sheep run away!" shouted a few people who left about a tea time.
"Actually pulled back a wild sheep? Good luck!" Sun Baihu turned his head to look and found that a wild sheep that had been pulled back was struggling with several people and wanted to escape.
Unlike domestic sheep, this wild sheep is fierce at first glance, and its horns are also very sharp, and if it is poked, it is afraid that there will be many holes in its body.
It wasn't until someone ran over with the cans that the person who pulled the sheep over stabbed the wild sheep's neck.
"Pick it up! Don't waste this goat blood!" It should be someone who likes this thing, and the person who pulls the sheep back does not forget to tell his comrades who use the jar to receive blood.
Sun Baihu has already found a way to eat the sheep: "Roast it directly, and divide it evenly then!"
Because in the wild, there is no food except dry food, and this wild sheep has indeed solved the problem.
Sizzling roast sheep, Su Ziji and Sun Baihu continued to "share the spoils".
The four horse teams, not counting the land and residences, copied a total of 84,000 taels, including cash silver, silver tickets, and light silk cloth, which shows that in the past two years, the southwest horse team has been rich in smuggling.
Eighty-four thousand taels of snowflake silver is enough to feed the southwest army for a period of time, you know, this time the imperial court to the southwest military salary is only 800,000 taels, these two days and three nights copied out of the silver, is one-tenth of the army's salary.
How not to be shocked?
Of course, this is also due to the fact that the six horse teams know that this money is full of blood, so most of them have exchanged silver tickets, minted private money, and spent not much on land and residences, so as to prepare for the rapid transfer of things once something happens.
The normal big households are the opposite, with a lot of land and very little cash.
That is, half of the 84,000 taels were handed over to the imperial court, and another 21,000 taels were handed over to Zhao Gonggong, maybe Zhao Gonggong would also give part of it to the emperor.
Of the remaining 21,000 taels, another 5,000 taels are for the hardship and bereavement of the county soldiers, 30 taels for each person who is less, and 100 taels for those who have more.
Only 16,000 taels were left in Sun Baihu's hands, so that he still felt that he could bear it, otherwise such a large amount, with his caution, he was afraid that he would feel that he would burn his hands and dare not take it.
"Su Gongzi, yours is eight thousand five hundred taels, you are afraid that it is not good to bring the silver back to Beijing, and there are some silver tickets that can be exchanged in the capital, I will calculate it, it is just enough for you." ”
As he spoke, he took out a stack of silver tickets, both large and small, and handed them to Su Ziji.
Su Ziji didn't even count, so he put it away.
Seeing this, Sun Baihu was naturally more comfortable, and listened to Su Ziji asking: "I heard that the housing price in Jingshi is expensive, isn't that the case?"
"Master Su, sooner or later you have to settle in the capital, in fact, if you have a house, there is a small courtyard of 150 taels cheap, but you are an official, you can't be the same as ordinary people, this is a loss of the imperial court system, at least you have to buy a courtyard, or you need 1000 taels!"
"The life of a Beijing official is leisurely, but the work is a banquet, and he does not go to the banquet, does not feast, and is not listed in the officialdom, so it is lighter, not to mention one or two hundred taels a year. ”
"Beijing officials often need to go in and out of the palace and important yamen, and they pay a lot of attention to their appearance, and they will be laughed at if they always wear a few old sets, which will cost at least a few hundred taels. ”
"There are also carriages and horses, ox carts, and servants, and on many occasions they are not allowed to participate on foot, and they may add up to seven or eight hundred taels a year. ”
Therefore, there is no fifteen hundred taels a year, which is not decent. ”
"It's also a debt to you to get this money, otherwise, if you get into the Jinshi and enter the Hanlin, you will have to endure for five or six years. Sun Baihu got a lot of silver, he was in a good mood, he introduced, and Su Ziji was thoughtful.
Waiting for Sun Baihu to go to his cronies to divide the money, Su Ziji also called the Yedao people, took out the silver tickets, counted thirty directly, and stuffed them to the Yedao people.
"These silver tickets, the maximum amount is one hundred taels, thirty in all, all for you. ”
"If you can wipe out four horse teams this time, you have the first credit, not you, and you can't get this amount of silver. ”
"I can't ask for credit for you openly for the time being, but you can't work hard in vain, three thousand taels, it's your wine money, and take it!"
"Childe, this ......" The wine of three thousand taels is inevitably too expensive, and the wild Taoist who was dazzled by the amount of money was still in the mood to complain in his heart.
"I can't accept this silver, it's my internal business, since it's an internal matter, how can I collect this money?"
Su Ziji pushed back again: "This money is nothing, if you don't accept it, how can the rewards and punishments be clear?" Besides, it's not easy to live in the capital, how can you live in the capital?"
The wild Taoist looked at Su Ziji, saw a smile and seriousness in his eyes, and after hesitating, he laughed.
"Gongzi Xie, then I'll take it!" Ye Daoren took it and stuffed it into his arms this time.
The two were talking, and seeing that the wild sheep still had to wait for a while before it was roasted, the wild Taoist took the opportunity to remind Su Ziji: "By the way, Childe, this horse team is smuggling, to say that Qian Zhidong doesn't know about it at all, I think it's unlikely." ”
"The six horse teams have all had a business of selling weapons to enemy chieftains, this is not a small business, it is a big business that costs thousands of taels every time, where did so many weapons come from?"
"Check the checkpoints along the way, how do these horse teams pass?"
"I think there must be something wrong here, Qian Zhidong either took a benefit, or wanted to play with the enemy chieftain, so that he could always get benefits from the court. ”
"There are still a few letters, I found them before, I have read the content of the letters, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but there should be a code word. ”
As he spoke, the wild man handed over a few letters.
Su Ziji opened it, read it one by one, and frowned: "This letter doesn't look abnormal, but it's really just a daily greeting, why write so many letters and keep them all?"
"Looking at the handle that was left, I knew that I wouldn't kill them all. ”
But when I think about it, even if I leave a living mouth and really see the secret of these letters, these letters alone will not be able to bring down the building of money.
What he was waiting for was an opportunity.
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