Searching for loot is always the most exciting moment for the winning party.
As the Shaba coalition forces deepened in an orderly manner, good news continued to come. Tuoba Xiongxin did not seem to have left any dead soldiers to deliberately sabotage. Except for some firearms, armories and grain and grass warehouses that were burned at the beginning of the battle, Dar
All the warehouses in Ban City, the mansions of the Tuoba clan's powerful people, and the warehouses of the large trading houses controlled by the Tuoba clan are still intact.
In addition to these Tuoba family members, according to Lin Yi and Xia Baying's wishes, the residences and shops of all other merchants and ordinary people in the city have been protected, even those whose whole families unfortunately died in the war.
Their residences have also been sealed up, and the Xiaba people will try to find the relatives and friends of these people when the time comes.
As for the residences of all the surrendered Tuoba clan soldiers, including the generals, Xia Baying's actions immediately made these Tuoba clan soldiers extremely grateful.
Among the Tuoba clan's troops who surrendered were many high-ranking generals of the Tuoba clan. Several of them even quickly drew a map and list, listing the locations of almost all warehouses, large and small, in the entire Darban City.
And roughly what's in it.
Although we have long known that Darban City is one of the most important cities for the Tuoba clan and even the party, especially as it is a trade center, the Tuoba clan must have hoarded astonishing resources in this city, but I saw this list first
Several high-ranking Xiaba generals still felt as if they were blinded.
The Xiaba people are famous for their wealth in the entire Dangxiang and the Western Regions, but when they saw this list, just in terms of money, these Xiaba generals felt ashamed of themselves.
It was even like a dream. They knew that these generals of the Tuoba clan, who were already in awe of Lin Yi to the extreme, could not lie in front of Lin Yi and Xia Baying, but they all doubted whether what was written on this list was true.
real.
Dangxiang is far away from any sea area. Except for a few mountain lakes, many of the large water lakes in Dangxiang are freshwater lakes. Many lakes are formed by the accumulation of glacial meltwater. This glacial meltwater slowly seeps down from the extremely high snow-capped mountains.
, so either a large amount of rock components were dissolved, or a lot of mineral salts were brought, so that most of them are salt lakes. Although some are not salt lakes, they are similar to lime water and do not produce any fish or shellfish.
Dead Lake.
The rarer they are, the more precious they are. Therefore, pearls, some rare shellfish shells, and rare types of corals have always been the top currency in circulation in Dangxiang and the Western Regions. Now, although some beads made by the Sherpa people have become currency
, but it certainly cannot be compared with pearls, corals and the like.
What's more, some of the beads of the Sherpa tribe are made from powders ground from pearls and corals.
But in this list, Tuoba actually has three warehouses in Darban City used to store various pearls and corals!
According to the descriptions of these Tuoba generals and the size of these warehouses, these high-ranking generals of the Xiaba tribe felt that even if all the treasures of the entire Xiaba tribe were piled together, they might not be able to fill one of the warehouses.
In addition, there are actually three warehouses in Darban City specifically used to store turquoise, imperial bluestone and various kinds of jade!
Buddhism in the Western Regions first spread to the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuyuhun and Dangxiang. Most of the magical instruments carried by many missionary monks were inlaid with turquoise. Turquoise was considered by these monks and believers to have a unique blessing effect, and if worn for a long time, it could obtain
Buddha's blessing.
Many scholars in the Southern Dynasty first studied the spread of Buddhism in the Western Regions, and many of the notes they left behind included malicious speculations, thinking that the missionary monks in the Western Regions were probably being mysterious.
These scholars all speculated whether this kind of thing was actually abundant in the Western Regions. After they assigned such meaning, this kind of thing naturally became a sacred gem with amazing value. In this way, these monks could take out some at will to solve the problems they need for walking.
wealth.
But later many facts confirmed that this kind of turquoise is actually rarely produced in the Western Regions. On the contrary, some veins have been discovered in the Southern Dynasties and Northern Wei Dynasty, but most of them are associated with iron ore and copper mines. First, there is not much mining quantity.
, Secondly, the surface of this kind of turquoise ore is often covered with black mud or stone shells, and even picking out these ores requires a lot of manpower.
After this confirmation, after Buddhism gradually became popular in the Northern Wei and Southern Dynasties, this turquoise became extremely valuable in the Southern and Northern Wei Dynasties.
Turquoise, a gemstone considered by Buddhism in the Western Regions to have divine blessings, is unique in that it has different colors. With long-term wear, the longer a person's Qi and blood are in contact, the warmer and moister they will be, and the color will also change.
Strange transformation.
But the fewer impurities and the more beautiful the color of turquoise, the more amazing the natural price.
Most of the turquoise accumulated in the Tuoba clan's warehouse in Darban City is the kind of extremely clear and extremely blue gemstone that is known as the Blue Beauty in the Western Regions.
As for imperial bluestone, it is indeed produced in large quantities in the Western Regions. It is generally called lapis lazuli in the Southern Dynasties. This kind of mineral exists in surprising quantities in the Western Regions, but most of it is blue-purple with dots of white gold. This common bluestone
The price of gold and stone is low, but there are also top quality ones, which are pure blue-purple, and even deep purple and purple-black.
Things are rare and valuable. This so-called gem was not recognized by the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty. Not many people would spend a lot of money to buy it. However, it is very popular in the Western Regions. It is convenient to use this imperial bluestone to do business with some kingdoms in the Western Regions.
It is treated like a pearl.
These Xiaba generals made a rough estimate. If all the treasures in these warehouses could be sold, they would be able to support at least tens of thousands of elite troops.
In addition to these treasures, the Tuoba clan also hoarded an astonishing amount of ordinary armors and weapons in Darban City, as well as refined black iron and refined copper from the Southern Dynasties and Northern Wei Dynasties. There was a warehouse area called Twenty-Three Rooms.
Of these twenty or thirty warehouses, only four or five are not full at this time.
This level of treasures and war supplies was beyond Lin Yi's imagination.
He intuitively felt that the expropriation and accumulation of these royal families in Dangxiang for countless years were too severe. If this expropriation and the bitter cold of the plateau of Dangxiang itself had not caused the population of Dangxiang to be unable to increase, otherwise Dangxiang would have become the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty.
of serious trouble.
However, in this list, what attracted him, Bai Yuelu, Xia Baying and others the most were two of the warehouses.
A warehouse is directly called a library. According to these high-ranking generals of the Tuoba clan, it is a place where all kinds of classics are piled up. These classics are very miscellaneous, and many of them are spiritual classics looted from the practice areas.
Another warehouse is called the Antiquities Warehouse. This antiquities warehouse initially only accumulated some rare antiques, but later it became mostly filled with old objects or rare gadgets of unknown origin and purpose, but that seemed to have some peculiar features.