Chapter five hundred and thirtieth eating mouth full of oil
The city was about to be undefendable, and once the city was destroyed, he and his family would be completely ruined, and all the millions of wealth he and his ancestors had plundered would be in vain.
But at this time, even though King Jingjiang had promised an absolutely high reward, the heavily armored soldiers of the puppet Tang rebel army had already climbed up to the top of the city one after another, and then swept away the Ming army on the top of the city like chopping melons and vegetables.
In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, and on a city wall with a narrow terrain, it is impossible for light infantry to cause any effective damage to heavy armored infantry.
But when the heavy armored infantry's long sword slashes through them, the light infantry without armor protection will instantly lose their combat effectiveness.
This siege battle was as expected by Chen Keqiao. There were no surprises. After the general attack was launched, his army completely controlled two city walls in less than a quarter of an hour, and then continued to extend to other city walls.
Hours later, the entire city walls, including the city gates, were completely controlled by the Tang Dynasty King.
If there was any surprise, it would be that they captured a super prisoner: King Jingjiang!
The unlucky King Jingjiang ran away with his men as soon as the city was broken. However, he did not go directly to other city gates where there were no rebels like others. Instead, he returned to the palace first, and then took a group of dozens of people and many
The carriage leaves the city together.
But after he made such a fuss, the Tang Dynasty King had completely controlled all the city gates and stopped the fleeing team in Jingjiang Prince's Mansion.
After stopping King Jingjiang's escape convoy, a platoon leader leading the team thought that these carriages were all the family members of King Jingjiang. But at first glance, good guy, among the dozen or so cars, only one contained family members.
The rest is all filled with gold and silver.
After seeing the soft gold and silver in these more than ten carriages, the team leader couldn't help but swallow his saliva continuously. Looking back, the soldiers under him were also swallowing their saliva.
He gritted his teeth and said: "Immediately report it, saying that we have seized a large amount of gold and silver and are in urgent need of support!"
But before turning around, he directly swept a handful of the gold ingots on the carriage in front of him into his arms, then walked to a dozen soldiers under his command, stuffed one into each person, and said at the same time: "Everyone will fight to the death to get it."
You should get some benefits, but if anyone dares to use more hands, don’t blame the military law team for coming!"
Although the military discipline of the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty was strict, this generally refers to battlefield discipline and the pursuit of strict compliance with orders. As for other things, it was actually just average.
Moreover, as an army with bandit origins, it is their fine tradition to plunder trophies. Even though it has improved now, after a war, superior officers will generally turn a blind eye to soldiers hiding some of their trophies.
There is no way, who made the military pay of the Tang Dynasty King's army so low?
In the early days, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty did not pay military pay. Although the soldiers could eat well, they could not get a penny of military pay and could not support their families at all.
Later, after conquering Xingquan Prefecture and even Liping Prefecture, the Tang Dynasty King took control of the two prefectures and had relatively ample money, so he gave the soldiers symbolic military pay, but this amount was still very small.
This amount of money is basically enough for the soldiers' pocket money, but it is still not enough for them to support their families.
But most of the soldiers have families. Although they join the army to have enough to eat, they also want to make some money for their families. They have enough to eat in the army, but many of their family members are hungry.
Get cold.
Therefore, during the course of the war, while the army seized a large amount of trophies, it also tacitly allowed the soldiers to hide some of the trophies privately.
Of course, the trophies hidden by these soldiers are usually gold, silver and soft things for carrying. However, they definitely don't dare to hide military supplies, such as food and weapons. At the same time, there is no need to hide them privately.
I can't hide it either.
After a dozen soldiers from this platoon noticed these carriages, a large number of soldiers from the Fifth Infantry Regiment soon caught up, surrounded the trophies and took them away. During this process, the soldiers did not
Opportunity to hide the loot, because after learning that King Jingjiang’s convoy was intercepted and gold and silver coins filled with actual cars were found on the convoy, not only many senior officers arrived, but also the Military Law Corps and the accompanying army
All the tax officials came running over.
The Tang Dynasty had a fine tradition. The cabinet liked to send officials to act with the army. To conquer a place was to directly establish local government in that place.
When the people in the tax department saw these gold and silver, their eyes lit up. Such a lot of gold and silver can greatly relieve the pressure on the tax department!
People like them in the tax department have always been treated as cash machines. Whether it is the military or other departments of the cabinet, anyone who has no money can go to their tax department.
The money in the tax department is never enough, and many taxes that cannot be collected have been arranged to be removed in advance.
For example, the tax collection in Guilin Prefecture has not started yet, but the tax department has already made relevant budgets. Guilin Prefecture will collect at least 100,000 taels worth of taxes in the first half of the year. Never mind.
It doesn't matter whether it's goods or cash.
But one hundred thousand taels of silver is the lower limit!
Even the taxes from places like Guilin Prefecture, which have not yet been conquered, have been taken into account. You can imagine how much pressure there is on the tax department.
The two most struggling organizations in the huge Imperial Palace of the Tang Dynasty were the Taxation Department and the Ministry of Industry. One had to desperately make money to supply the various expenses of the Tang Dynasty, and the other had to continuously manufacture weapons to supply the army.
When the officials of the tax department, who have been working hard to expand more financial resources, saw so much gold and silver, their first thought was not to make money from it, but: with such a batch of gold and silver to top it up, the life of our tax department will be ruined.
At least I can live in peace for a few days!
After a preliminary inventory by officials from the tax department, they found that these carriages were worth at least more than 60,000 taels of gold and silver alone, but there were also numerous jewelry, silks, and satins, as well as precious playthings such as calligraphy and paintings, and some were imported from Jingjiang.
Wang and others found a large stack of various land and house deeds in the box they carried with them.
The value of these things is even more difficult to estimate. If we had to put a price on them, it would start at at least 500,000 taels of silver!
What made the tax officials even more excited was that after a simple interrogation, they learned that King Jingjiang fled in a hurry this time and only took with him gold and silver that were easy to carry. In fact, there were many messy items in the palace's warehouse.
thing.
Immediately, the officials of the tax department asked the military on the spot that all the prefect offices, warehouses and the like could be put away. The main business was to occupy and protect King Jingjiang first. If this operation was done well, at least it would be possible.
Provided the Tang Dynasty with more than one million taels of silver in revenue for the national treasury.
And what is the money in the treasury used for? Naturally, the bulk of it is used for military expenses!
Therefore, the military was naturally extremely supportive of this. It immediately dispatched an entire battalion of nearly 500 people to kill Prince Jingjiang's Mansion. Moreover, this battalion was one of the only three regular army infantry battalions under Chen Keqiao.
:Thirteenth Infantry Battalion.
Although Prince Jingjiang fled, there are still many people in the palace. After all, the huge Prince Jingjiang has more than just Prince Jingjiang, his concubine, children and other direct relatives. In fact, after more than a hundred years of reproduction, Prince Jingjiang has already
It has developed into a super big family with many clan members.
Everyone knows that Zhu Yuanzhang is particularly fertile, and his descendants are also super stallions. They are imprisoned in the palace and have nothing else to do except create humans, so this has caused
The number of clan members in the Ming Dynasty was particularly large.
To put it bluntly, Zhu Yuanzhang created a nation by himself!
Although the first generation of King Jingjiang was only Zhu Yuanzhang's great-nephew, he still possessed the excellent fertility genes of the Zhu family, and his descendants were extremely numerous.
Let’s not talk about the collateral lines for now. Let’s just say that there are hundreds of close relatives in the palace, and there are thousands of people including slaves and the like.
The Thirteenth Infantry Battalion also encountered resistance when it attacked King Jingjiang, but this resistance did not pose much of a threat to a battlefield-experienced unit like the Thirteenth Infantry Battalion. Several rounds of gunfire were fired at them, and then a bomb was thrown at them.
With one round of grenades, King Jingjiang was declared lost.
Then the huge King Jingjiang became the trophy of the Tang Dynasty King!
Then the people from the military were cleaning up other people in the palace, while the people from the tax department were counting the various seizures!
The more this was counted, the happier the people in the tax department became, making the director of the Guilin Prefecture Taxation Bureau who led the team laugh so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.
The amount of cash seized from the motorcade and the palace alone amounted to more than 100,000 taels of silver. This did not include gold and silver jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and the larger ones were various farms and shops, whose industries were spread all over the country.
There are industries throughout Guangdong and Guangxi, and even in the Jiangnan region.
If all these properties, paintings, calligraphy and curios are sold and exchanged for cash, even in this era of war and turmoil, at least two million taels of silver can be recovered.
what does that mean?
This means getting rich!
These officials from the tax department seemed to see promotion and wealth beckoning to them, and they were in a very good mood!
The people in the military were also happy. The money recovered by the tax department was naturally used for military expenses, and most of the credit for seizing the money belonged to their military.
In addition, during the capture of Jingjiang King, although there were tax officials who followed and guarded the city closely, it was impossible to keep a close eye on them all. Many soldiers and officers hid a lot of things secretly.
Of course, they would not dare to take something that is too conspicuous, but it is still possible to take some inconspicuous small things, such as a jade bracelet or a gold earring.
It can be said that my mouth is full of oil after eating, it is so enjoyable!