Two hundred and seven five-toothed ships were escorted by more than a hundred monk pirates on the sea route.
The people on board were all the family members of the most prominent officials and dignitaries in China, and a quarter of them were direct descendants of the royal family.
The higher the status of a person, the more precious his life is.
On the contrary, the lower the status, the lower the life.
These noble people grew up in a greenhouse. They don’t understand the hardships of the people at the bottom, and they don’t have the courage of the people at the bottom to risk everything and save everything.
After the casual cultivators in the South China Sea sank the three leading ships, the dignitaries on board behind them were as honest as big quails.
Dayangui is a large island with an area of dozens of miles, located between Fuzhou and Yizhou in Central China.
After only about four hours of sailing, the huge fleet arrived at the coastal waters where the wild geese were returning.
Because the fleet was huge and the ships were large five-toothed ships with relatively deep water, the huge fleet dropped anchor in the offshore waters where the wild geese returned.
At this time, reinforcements from the Nanhai cultivators also arrived.
After some inspections, the casual cultivator from Nanhai, who had been poor for eight lifetimes, took a breath when he looked at the statistics.
There are two hundred and seven five-toothed ships, fifty-seven of which are used to transport the families of dignitaries, and the remaining one hundred and fifty ships, all of which carry gold and silver treasures.
The catalog of statistics is really eye-opening.
Ninety-four million taels of silver and 1,530,000 taels of gold.
More than 500 kilograms of large oyster pearls from the East China Sea.
There are more than 13,300 top-quality furs.
More than 7,600 kilograms of various high-quality jadeite and luminous pearls.
There are more than 1,600 ivory tusks.
One hundred and twenty rhino horns.
There are more than 500 calligraphy and paintings of celebrities from ancient times to the present.
There are more than 800 pieces of various bronzes with extremely high collection value, large and small.
There are so many exquisite antique porcelains and precious utensils that it is difficult to record them.
These treasures filled tens of thousands of wooden boxes.
Chen Xiaofei looked at the statistical catalog and cursed.
If it really comes to the point of annihilation of the country and the extinction of the species, dozens of them can be hung on the side of the ship and escape.
But these guys organized such a huge fleet mainly to transport treasures.
The total value transported by this fleet, equivalent to silver, exceeds sixty million taels.
You must know that more than ten years before the catastrophe, the imperial court's annual taxes, including commercial taxes, land taxes, poll taxes, customs duties, salt taxes, copper and iron taxes, all added up to only thirty million taels.
This group of greedy and fearless worms took away the national tax revenue of two years during the peak period of the imperial court in just one sea trip.
What is the war about?
Of course it’s silver!
Nowadays, the outflow of national funds has made this group of cultivators who have already transcended the secular world feel extremely angry.
Of course, the structure of these poor monks is still a bit small.
This fleet transports mostly noble family property.
There may seem to be a lot of jewels, jade objects, and antiques, but there are not many national treasure-level cultural relics, and there are even fewer cultural relics that represent the splendid civilization of China.
As early as ten years ago when the catastrophe began, Yu Jizi and His Majesty the Emperor had secretly moved the true national treasures of Chinese civilization to a safe area in order to prevent the worst consequences.
Those treasures living outside the royal family are just shrimps and nothing.
However, for cultivators of the Nanhai Sect who have never seen much of the world, this is a huge wealth that subverts their three views.
The message Ye Xiaochuan conveyed to Zhou Wu was very vague, just to let the Nanhai cultivators disperse to stop the escaping fleet.
As for how to stop it and how to deal with the intercepted property, Ye Xiaochuan did not elaborate.
Ye Xiaochuan did not explain in detail, so Chen Xiaofei had room to operate.
Aren't you trying to escape for your lives?
Okay, you can escape.
But of the tens of thousands of wooden boxes you are carrying, you cannot take away any of them.
All treasures, all left behind.
Someone resisted.
The knife lifts and the head falls.
When a few heads were raised, no one dared to raise any objections.
Wang Keke only learned the news half an hour after all the property statistics were compiled. His information was already relatively well-informed. It was delivered by the Nanhai Sect through the secret contact point with Gui Xuan Sect.
Now, the entire world does not know that such a huge fleet has been robbed.
It was noon at that time, and Wang Keke was having lunch with Old Master Xu in Qiming Mountain.
Wang Keke recently wanted to pretend to be a scholar. It happened that Ye Xiaochuan vacated the library in Pianmiao Pavilion and built a library belonging to Guixuan Sect in Qiming Mountain. Wang Keke squeezed in among the learned people when he had something to do.
While eating, the old naughty boy discussed poetry with Old Master Xu.
He stood in the valley at dusk yesterday, looking at the dark clouds above his head, and became very poetic. He composed a poem that he believed to be a masterpiece of ancient times and today.
oh my god,
What a big cloud.
When it comes, it covers the sun and moon,
It rained heavily when I left.
I came here specifically to ask Old Master Xu for advice. In fact, it was just to show off.
Old Master Xu and the great scholars from China hired by Gui Xuanzong with high salaries were shocked when they heard this poem.
They were not shocked by the poem, but because Wang Keke actually showed off such a bad poem with a proud look on his face. They were surprised that Wang Keke's cultural attainments were completely out of proportion to his thickness of face.
When Wang Keke was playing the game, Yan Feng came in and whispered a few words in his ear.
The lean old man's eyes immediately lit up.
He shouted: "Is there still this matter? I have always felt that our Guixuan Sect has some shortcomings. Now I understand that we have millions of books, and we have to get some calligraphy and paintings to enhance our appearance. This way it will be perfect."
The old dog rushed out after smelling the shit. Then he turned back, picked up the half-eaten lasagna on the table, and said to Old Master Xu: "Old Xu, I want to go on a long trip to get some antiques.
Come back, and when we come back we will discuss my new poem.
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In the passage, Wang Keke was eating noodles while giving orders to Yanfeng Xiafeng. "Hurry through our channels and send a message to Tian Chenzi in Nanhai. They are just responsible for running errands. This action is our great and handsome mission."
The sect leader is behind the scenes and wants all the gold and silver treasures.
Let us, Gui Xuanzong, handle it.
Also, hurry up and gather three hundred disciples for me. We will go to the South China Sea immediately and bring more storage magic weapons...
I will go to Long Tianshan to discuss it now, and we will set off after a stick of incense..."
When Gu Jianchi learned that the scattered cultivators in the South China Sea had plundered the huge fleet that the Chinese dignitaries could not escape from, Wang Keke had already led three hundred disciples of the Ghost Xuan Sect and rushed out of the Hundred Thousand Mountains to attack the wild geese in the South China Sea.
Go to the island.
Gu Jianchi was in the front hall, listening to the latest battle situation at Niangzi Pass with several elders from Cangyun Sect and some foreign sect leaders.
After learning the news about the South China Sea, the big guys in the hall were stunned.
The existence of that fleet is not a secret to these big guys.
There are also people who are jealous of the huge treasures on the fleet.
But behind this fleet is the operation of the royal family, which also involves many righteous sects including Cangyun Sect.
So no one dared to take advantage of the treasure transport fleet.
They did not expect that the Nanhai Xiaoyao Sect would be so bold as to rob this huge fleet in broad daylight.
Of course Gu Jianchi knew that Tian Chenzi didn't have the courage, and it must be Ye Xiaochuan who was behind it.
If this huge batch of treasure falls into Gui Xuan Sect, it can make up for Gui Xuan Sect's current shortcomings in money shortage.
This was not what Gu Jianchi wanted to see. So, he immediately asked his disciples to send a message to the Nanhai Xiaoyao Sect to intervene in the matter in the name of Cangyun Sect, and sent two master uncles, Yuchenzi and Yuyangzi, to go there in person.
When you go to the South China Sea, you must collect these treasures.