The 231st chapter is rich enough to rival the country
Not wanting to attract attention, Han Qian and his men spent two days quietly transporting this batch of property to the Yudai River at the foot of Maobu Mountain, taking advantage of the darkness, and then transported it by boat to Yongchun Palace Manor.
In the next four days, Han Qian, Zhang Ping, Jiang Huo, and Yuan Guowei collected all three other secret warehouses near Jinling City known to the Feng brothers. Finally, the wealth transported into Yongchun Palace Manor was worth up to 100,000 copper coins.
1.1 billion yuan, totaling 1.1 million yuan.
In addition, the Feng family also has 10,000 acres of grain fields hidden in the counties of Gyeonggi Province, nine farms with more than 600 houses, six water mills, and more than 400 cattle and horses.
The amount of property seized by the Third Division, together with the prefectures and counties, was even more astonishing. By the end of September, the amount of property and treasures, as well as two to three hundred pawn shops, warehouses, etc., totaled more than 5 billion, which was almost worth the amount.
Shang Dachu’s annual income this year.
This does not include the confiscation of more than 100,000 acres of grain fields, more than 5,000 slaves, and more than 300 soldiers from the Feng family.
Although the Feng family property confiscated by the Third Division was astonishingly large, it could only slightly alleviate the court's financial crisis in the past two or three years. However, for the county and prince's palace, it was too terrifying to unexpectedly gain millions of dollars of property.
Already.
Before and after the establishment of the Longque Army, almost 200,000 yuan of money and food were invested in the late Honglou and Xinchanghou Mansion, which almost completely squeezed out the late Honglou and Xinchanghou Mansion.
At this time, the power of the county prince's palace can be said to be extremely great. In addition to the Yongchun Palace Manor, it also has five military camps under its jurisdiction. However, the land tax of the military mansion, the military funds allocated by the Duzhi Division, and the field rent earned by the Yongchun Palace Manor
, the total harvest in a year can be only tens of thousands of dollars, and after deducting the huge expenses of the Dragon Bird Army and the prince's palace, there may not be more than three melons and two dates left every year.
This time, it can be said that the Prince's Mansion has obtained five or six years' military expenditure of the Dragon Bird Army at once.
Yang Yuanpu stood in front of the warehouse filled with treasures in Yongchun Palace, his face flushed with excitement. Thinking about the past two years to raise military funds, in addition to the robes given by the palace, he spent more than two years out of the palace.
He had never purchased a single silk garment, and it was difficult to admit that all the obscene garments he made were patched.
"Your Highness, Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong, although they are the sons of guilty ministers, they have contributed to Your Highness by offering their wealth. Han Qian would like to ask Your Highness to allow them to stay in the Prince's Mansion to serve them." Han Qian stood beside the third prince and said.
Shen Yang, Zheng Hui, Wang Lin, Zhang Ping, and the Marquis of Xinchang, Li Pu, who came here specially, all looked at Han Qian in surprise.
Han Qian originally wanted to leave Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong in Yandangji, but the confiscated property of the Feng family was so huge that in order to avoid suspicion, he sent Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong to the county prince's house for confinement.
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People's hearts are the hardest thing to guess. Han Qian thought he was doing it openly, but who knows if Feng Liao and Feng Yi really revealed the location of the Feng family's secret treasures?
And even if Feng Liao and Feng Yi didn't hide anything, how could Xinchang Hou Li Pu, Wang Lin, Zheng Hui and others really believe it without a trace of doubt?
If the total confiscated property of the Feng family does not reach several million yuan, but only a few hundred thousand yuan, and in the end hundreds of thousands of yuan are scattered outside, or even fall into the pockets of the officials in charge, Han Qian believes that many people will
Turning a blind eye, but if he thinks that the Feng family may still have millions or more of property hidden in the dark that has not been unearthed, Han Qian believes that the third prince's trust in him may not be able to
Such suspicion!
The human heart is actually the most testable.
Han Qian has now handed over Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong to the county prince's house for confinement. At least there is no need to suspect that he secretly colluded with the Feng brothers.
Yang Yuanpu looked back at Han Qian, nodded and said, "That's fine, let's just ask them to stay in Jinyun Tower to atone for their sins for the time being."
Feng Wenlan and Kong Zhou had just been sentenced to death. As the legitimate sons of Feng and Kong, it was inappropriate for Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong to stay in the prince's palace. Who knows if they have any grudges in their hearts?
However, the few people present were all people with clear minds. They could also know why Han Qian handed over the Feng brothers to avoid suspicion. If he did not send the Feng brothers back to the prince's palace at this time, how could they be imprisoned?
As the sun set, the third prince was sent away by car to leave Yongchun Palace Manor. Han Qian was also preparing to take a boat back to Yandangji Manor on the west coast.
"The fall of the Feng family has solved many problems for the imperial court!" Tian Cheng said with emotion as he looked at the galloping road after a rain and the deep ruts made by the carriages.
When the third prince returned to the city, a large amount of copper coins, copper ingots and other items were left in the Yongchun Palace Manor, but he still transported more than 30 red gold balls and more than 300 silver balls back to the prince's palace by carriage.
The red gold ball and the silver cast ball each weighed a standard sixty-four kilograms, totaling more than twenty-five thousand kilograms of gold and silver. They may not look big, but they took more than twenty carriages, which made the third prince return to the city this time.
The team looked quite magnificent.
Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and the others were fully involved in the search for the Feng family's secret treasures. At this moment, they were still deeply shocked by the huge amount of the Feng family's secret treasures.
Han Qian stood on the bow of the boat with his arms folded. The annual income of the state treasury in Da Chu in normal years was only seven to eight million yuan. Based on this calculation, the property of the Feng family was equal to the annual income of Da Chu in the past year. It can indeed be called
He is so rich that he can rival his country.
However, on the other hand, the low annual revenue of the national treasury not only shows that the imperial court's control over the prefectures and counties is far from strong enough, but also shows that the productivity of the world is really low.
After the carriages and horses surrounding the third prince gradually disappeared into the depths of the sunset, Han Qian took a boat back to Yandangji.
Yesterday, Yang Qin and Xi Chang led the fleet from Xuzhou to Jinling again. At this time, Yang Qin and Xi Chang also stood in front of the village to welcome Han Qian back.
Even though it was getting late at night, at the Hehong Wharf in front of the village, more than a hundred slaves were still carrying bags of grain, cloth, paper and other goods onto the ship non-stop.
As Han Qian expected, Jinghu suffered severe floods in summer and autumn. In addition, half a year of war had extremely severe damage to the agricultural production in Jingxiang area. As a result, grain prices in Jingxiang, Jinghu and other places plummeted after the autumn.
It's rising day by day.
The Dongting Lake flood, coupled with the need to relocate 15,000 households to Dengzhou and Junzhou before winter, resulted in a large increase in the number of households fleeing from Tanyue and other prefectures and counties. In the summer, Xuzhou added tens of thousands of refugees. This is also
This caused the price of food in Syria to skyrocket.
The Xuzhou Ship Gang can transport the grain trafficked from Runyang to Tanyue and unload it for sale for profit, but in order to ensure the needs of Xuzhou, they still do not hesitate to extend the voyage by more than double, and only arrive at Qianyang City in Xuzhou.
Unload the grain.
The injection of large sums of money allowed Xuzhou Shipyard to purchase ready-made shipbuilding timber directly from Jinghu, thereby eliminating the longest time-consuming wood storage and drying process in the shipbuilding process. At the same time, hundreds of skilled craftsmen in the Jinghu area were able to
Shipbuilding craftsmen were recruited to Xuzhou.
By the end of September, the number of new fast sailing ships owned by the boat gang had increased to six, ensuring that they could go back and forth between Xuzhou and Jinling every month.
In this way, Han Qian was able to transport tens of thousands of stones of japonica rice to Xuzhou every month, and at the same time, he was able to transport a considerable amount of pig iron, tea medicine, tung oil and other products from Xuzhou to Jinling.
Yang Qin and Xi Chang returned to Jinling yesterday and heard that the amount of wealth confiscated from the Feng family was staggering, but their emotions were not as deep as those of Tian Cheng and Gao Shao.
Even though Xi Changcai made three trips with the boat gang, he understood the details thoroughly and knew how terrifying the wealth generated by the fleet's monthly trip to Xuzhou and Jinling was.
Not to mention other things, the price of each stone of japonica rice in Xuzhou soared to 1,000 yuan after the summer, while in Runyang, the price per stone of japonica rice was only 600 yuan, and 14,000 to 5,000 shi of japonica rice were shipped to Xuzhou every month, after deducting
For expenses, you can get nearly three thousand yuan.
And if you transport pig iron, tea medicine, and tung oil from Xuzhou to Jinling, you can still get two thousand yuan.
In other words, the boat gang can make a profit of nearly 5,000 yuan per month.
If this market situation continues for a year, the boat gang will gain 50,000 to 60,000 yuan a year.
The county prince's palace obtained millions of dollars from the raid on the Feng family this time, which seemed extremely terrifying, but it only brought the Gang the benefit of twenty years, and it was not a wealth that was hard to hope for in this life.
If the scale of the boat gang continues to expand in the future, and as the power of the Han family and his son grows, the boat gang can open up more trade routes, the wealth will grow faster.
It seems that the boat gang's wealth accumulation is not that fast, and it even feels stretched. In fact, at this time, one or two hundred Xi clan members have to be redeemed every month, and a large amount of money and food are consumed in Yangtan Water Village and Xi clan.
Two plantations dominated by the village expanded.
In addition to the shipbuilding yard and weaving yard, Xuzhou also opened a new coal yard and iron mine in Heilong Mountain to the north of Qianyang City. An iron yard will be built in the future, and the model of Qiuhushan Craftsman's Workshop will be built.
, the construction of water dams, water mills, coal crushing water mills and other facilities are bottomless pits that require a lot of money and food.
In addition to the route between Xuzhou and Jinling, Xuzhou Boat Gang also organized another six ordinary sailing ships into a fleet to travel between Junzhou and Jinling.
Even though the fleet of these six ordinary sailing ships is much slower than the new fast sailing ships, after the initial transformation, it only takes one and a half months to travel between Junzhou, Xuzhou and Jinling - but it is currently replaced by
The garrison in Junzhou transports supplies, but there is no big profit yet.
Of course, there is another key reason why the fleet can come and go so quickly, and that is that Han Qian has sorted out and rectified the entire shipping process.
Yang Qin was originally from Shuizhai, and his experience was even more profound.
Take grain transportation as an example. At that time, grain was transported in bulk. In other words, whether it was rice, millet, japonica rice, or polished rice, it was loaded directly into the hold of the ship. It was used to travel to and from various places, loading and unloading ships.
Weighing in battles is a tradition that has been formed by shipping grain for thousands of years.
However, Han Qian purchased bulk grains from warehouses set up in Yandangji, Runzhou, and Yangzhou at this time, and then weighed and bagged them. This process may use more hemp woven bags and some labor, but the speed of loading and unloading ships will be greatly increased.
Six or seven ships, as long as there are enough strong laborers, it may only take one day at the earliest to load and unload them all.
Otherwise, no matter how fast the new fast sailing ship is, the loading and unloading process will waste more than half a month, and it will have to be lucky enough not to encounter rainy weather.
Not seeing the Feng brothers coming back with Han Qian, and knowing that they would be imprisoned in the Prince's Mansion, many people in the village felt secretly sorry.
There are also many people who believe that the Feng family must have hidden wealth, and whoever can control the Feng brothers may become extremely rich.
But Yang Qin and Xi Chang can understand Han Qian's mood. The Han family really doesn't care about these three melons and two dates, and it only leaves a stigma that cannot be wiped away.
The Feng Wenlan case has come to an end today. Han Qian also recovered from the matter. He called Yang Qin and Xi Chang to the official residence, asked about the situation in Xuzhou in the past month, and finally decided to order six Han craftsmen this time.
Taking the method of making crude steel that he had initially figured out, the master followed Yang Qin, Xi Chang and others back to Xuzhou to prop up the Xuzhou iron yard.
The Xi clan has gathered 700 people, and the early redemptions are mainly young and strong laborers, which also makes up for the lack of manpower caused by the recent expansion of the boat gang.
The plantations, coal mines, iron mines, and iron foundries to be built in the future require more manpower, which will mainly be hired from the refugees who have poured into Xuzhou.
They try every possible means to lure people over, and they also try every means to create conditions to keep them here.
