Fenghou

Tang Qian said coldly: "I have killed not ten thousand people, but several thousand people. Killing your son is like slaughtering a sheep."

Speaking of this, Tang Qian said sharply: "Cut off one of his son's ears first."

The soldier pulled out the dagger, and the boy was pushed to the ground. The child cried out in fright, "Let me go! Please don't cut off my ear, ah! It hurts! Daddy, save me!"

"You guys stop!"

Lao Ding collapsed, he fell to his knees, "I say, I say everything!"

Tang Qian waved his hand, and the soldier stopped. In fact, the soldier cut the boy's ear with the back of the knife, which frightened him.

"Say it! You only have one chance to save your son."

"In Fengqiu Sericulture Garden!"

"I know what I'm asking?"

"I know that you are looking for his hidden wealth. It is there. I have seen it with my own eyes."

Tang Qian immediately ordered: "Get a carriage ready, and a thousand cavalrymen will follow me to Fengqiu!"

Chapter 38 Digging for Money

Qian Huang's manor in Fengqiu is not big, covering an area of ​​only [-] mu, but its geomantic omen is excellent. There are low hills all around, shaped like a bowl, and a small river flows through the middle like a jade belt. The royal manor of the Song Dynasty, originally called Jubai Garden, is now renamed Sericulture Garden.

Currently only Qian Huang's son's family and a few servants live in the manor.

Before dawn, Tang Qian led a thousand cavalry to the sericulture garden. The soldiers rushed into the manor and detained Qian Huang's son's family and several servants.

Lao Ding, the coachman, brought Tang Qian to a lonely wooden house, pointed to the wooden house and said: "I saw last time, the master sent dozens of boxes into the wooden house, and then I don't know, every time I send him here , he sent me to Pan Town."

With a wave of Tang Qian's hand, more than a dozen soldiers rushed in. The wooden house was small, at most forty square meters, full of old furniture and other sundries. The soldiers cleaned out the sundries and soon found a piece of wood underneath. Slate, lift the slate, and there is a cellar below.

"Found it!" The soldiers cheered.

Tang Qian's brows gradually frowned as the large wooden boxes were moved out. There were a total of forty large boxes, all of which were copper coins. Woolen cloth!It's just the nature of a miser.

Tang Qian immediately ordered: "Bring Qian Hou, his wife and children!"

Not long after, a thin man brought him along with his wife and children. Qian Huang's son is called Qian Hou, but he doesn't look thick at all. His wife is also shorter.

Frightened by these ferocious soldiers, the three members of Qian Hou's family huddled together, and Qian Hou held his son tightly in his arms.

Tang Qian stepped forward and said to the three people: "We are all here. I believe you know why we are here. I will give you a chance to tell us where the money is buried. My Highness promises to leave you a house and two shops. Then It’s not bad to be a small landlord for the rest of your life if you leave more than a hundred acres of land.”

After a pause, Tang Qian's tone suddenly became very ferocious, "If you still refuse to say anything up to now, I will cut off your son's ears first, and if you don't say anything, I will goug out his eyes, then your wife, and finally I will cut off your son's eyes." When it comes to you, castrated you, I don't believe you, you refuse to say, you only have this chance, I don't have the patience to wait, I will count to three now, one...two..."

Tang Qian raised his hand, ready to give an order, when Qian Hou's wife suddenly said, "It's in the left wing of the back hall, just move the bed away and you'll see it!"

"You..." Qian Hou glared at his wife.

His wife pulled her son over, hugged the child tightly and said, "You are afraid that you will not be able to explain to your father, so don't you care about your son's life or death?"

Qian Hou was not as stingy as his father. He was just afraid that he would not be able to explain to his father. He looked at his only son and suddenly sighed. He took a key from his waist and handed it to Tang Qian, "What my wife said That's right, there is no mechanism inside, but there is a very thick iron door, this is the key, I just hope you keep your word!"

"If you didn't hide anything, there must be no problem. I didn't say this, it was His Highness King Yong's order. He kept his word."

"My wife's jewelry is delicate and soft!"

"Personal items within the normal range can be taken away."

With a wave of his hand, Tang Qian led the soldiers to the left wing of the back hall.

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This time, Qian Hou did not disappoint Tang Qian. They discovered a huge underground space and dug out more than [-] large boxes, gold, silver, copper coins, jade, copper, and all kinds of silk and satin. number.

Looking at the mountains of boxes, Tang Qian finally understood why it was called Qian Sanhuang. These boxes were really going to crush people to death.

"General, look at this!"

The soldiers handed over the two thick inventory books they found to Tang Qian. Tang Qian couldn't help being startled. One of the inventory books was written on the Qian family's wealth inventory, and the other was written on the Qian Liu family's wealth inventory.

"Find me Qianhou!"

Not long after, Qian Hou was brought up. At this moment, he was very calm, and the huge boxes piled up in front of him seemed to have nothing to do with him.

"What is the general looking for from me?"

"Let me ask you, what's going on with these two inventories?" Tang Qian raised the inventory and asked.

"The Qian family register is my father's property, and the other one was kept by my sister. At first I thought it was her property, but later my father told me that it was actually Liu Yu's property. It was Liu Yu's property half a year before Liu Yu's collapse. , he entrusted my father to keep [-] large boxes for him, and another [-] boxes belonged to my elder sister’s private property, so the Qian Liu family has a total of [-] boxes.”

"What's the sign?"

"The one with the black paint on it."

Tang Qian nodded, "Tell me everything you know!"

Qian Hou sighed and said, "I don't know much. My father told me that Liu Yu used more than 300 carts to transport the wealth northward. Basically, it was copper coins and cloth. It was a cover-up for Jin Bing. He In fact, the real wealth is all here with us. He sent [-] soldiers to dig the underground palace in the manor, and later sent [-] confidant soldiers to transport the wealth by boat. I heard that these soldiers are all dead. I hoped that Liu Yu would die in the north as well, but in the end he was also a bamboo basket."

Tang Qian thought for a while and asked again: "Are the other high-ranking puppet Qi officials still rich?"

"Of course there is. To be a high-ranking official in Puppet Qi, whoever is not desperately searching, everyone is filthy rich!"

"Does your father know?"

Qian Hou hesitated and said: "He knows that he is most interested in this kind of thing, general, if I persuade my father to report and expose, can I keep some more?"

Tang Qian nodded, "If your father makes great contributions, His Royal Highness King Yong will consider it as appropriate."

"Well, I'll go back to Bianliang to persuade him now!"

Tang Qian immediately sent someone to escort Qian Hou's family back to Bianliang in a carriage, and at the same time sent someone to inform His Royal Highness King Yong that he needed hundreds of ships to transport the wealth back to Bianliang.

Tang Qian wrote another text message to Yong Wang Chen Qing, reporting their harvest. In Fengqiu's manor, there is not only the wealth of Qianhuang, but also part of Liu Yu's wealth, all of which are high-value gold and silver jewels. According to a rough estimate, Liu Yu's wealth alone is more than 2000 million.

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On the second day after the Song army captured Bianliang, the city of Bianliang began to have some vitality, and many shops opened, including grocery stores, dim sum shops, food stalls, medicine shops, restaurants, teahouses, inns, brothels, etc. It continued to open.

Of course there are also customers, among which soldiers are the main consumers. The 20 troops take turns to have holidays, and tens of thousands of soldiers go shopping every day. They have strong spending power, especially restaurants and brothels.

Chen Qing also began to implement the first step of Bianliang's commercial recovery plan, and sold a large amount of materials from the seized spoils to shops and restaurants in Bianliang at a low price. Among them, wine and meat were the most popular, and the first batch took out 20 Only frozen mutton and [-] jars of wine were sold to restaurants in Bianliang, as well as tea cakes, rice noodles, soybean oil, briquettes, etc., which were all raw materials needed by restaurants and teahouses.

At the same time, farmers outside the city began to sell vegetables in the city. With meat, rice noodles, vegetables, fuel and other supplies, more importantly, the curfew was canceled and all commercial taxes were exempted, which gave the merchants great confidence. At the beginning, more and more restaurants resumed business.

In addition, Changping stores have also appeared, selling coarse grains, coarse salt, and coarse cloth at very cheap prices. Twenty Changping stores have appeared in the city, and there are long queues in front of each Changping store. There is no point in hoarding these three coarse products. Especially for limited purchases, people at the bottom are basically queuing up.

The government also set up a stall to help collect wheat labor remuneration before starting the exchange. Originally, it was said that the remuneration was three liters of wheat per day, but Chen Qing changed it to [-] Wen per day. This is a great thing, [-] Wen You can buy a bucket of coarse grains and a catty of coarse salt at the Changping store. The news made the whole city rejoice. Almost [-]% of households went to participate in the wheat harvest. A small paper ticket was issued every day with the official seal on it.

There was a three-mile-long line in front of the government office, and the crowd was turbulent. More than a dozen civil servants were busy collecting invoices and issuing money. Behind them stood two officials in official uniforms. One was Li Ji, the general judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, and the other One is Fu Hong, the newly appointed magistrate of Bianliang County today. Fu Hong works calmly and is answering people's questions in an orderly manner.

Chapter 39 Report

In the afternoon, accompanied by Zhang Xiao, Chen Qing inspected the warehouse in Bianliang.

Chen Qing originally thought that Jin Bing had transported all the supplies away, but now he realized that the situation was far from as bad as he had feared. In fact, it was the opposite. Jin Bing left a large amount of supplies and did not transport them away.

If we want to investigate the reason, it is not that Wanyan Wushu deliberately left the food and supplies to the Song army, but that they did not have such a large transportation capacity, and the livestock were all eaten up, so they could not be transported by carts, they could only be transported by water, but they only had 500 There are many large sheepskin rafts, and time is tight, so they can only be transported once.

Wanyan Wushu finally transported away the weapons, armor and tents, and left all other supplies. If it wasn't for Li Taigu Xiancheng's rebellion, maybe Du Rong would have set fire to the warehouse. Now all the supplies are cheaper for Song Jun.

"Beizhi cleaned it up last night and this morning. The most important thing is grain, with 38 shi, 20 dans of forage, followed by pig iron, with 500 million jin, copper ingots with 400 million jin, cloth with 50, There are also [-] tents, which were originally [-] large tents, and they transported some of them away."

"How much armor and belongings are there?"

Zhang Xiao shook his head, "Your Highness is disappointed, there are neither of these, they were transported away by Wanyan Wushu, the armor is the focus of their transportation, the property is distributed to the Jurchen soldiers, they even gave up food and grass, except for the armor, others Only [-] large tents were taken away, mainly because there was no means of transportation, and the livestock in the carts were eaten up by the Jurchen soldiers, which can be regarded as their retribution, and the retribution came too fast."

"Then there should be other sundries!"

"There are too many sundries. There are nearly a million pieces of wood in the light barracks. In the warehouse outside the city, there are medicinal materials, sheepskins, blankets, war drums, flags, raw materials for making bows and arrows, and food. Salt, Dried meat, oil, mutton wine, cheese, pickles, various seasonings, etc.”

"How much salt is there?" Chen Qing asked quickly.

Zhang Xiao explained with a smile: "The salt mentioned here is the edible salt of their army, about ten thousand catties, not the salt sold to the people by their salt and iron department. Their salt and iron department is in Laizhou, the salt warehouse of Kaifeng Prefecture. In Chenliu County, according to Gao Ding, Beizhi has about 10,000+ catties of salt in storage.”

Chen Qing nodded, "Mix out some materials and sell them to shops at a low price, so as to stimulate business first."

Zhang Xiaodao: "His Royal Highness, the main problem now is that the people have no money in their hands. This morning, Fuhong made a suggestion to Beizhi, and Xiaozhi thinks it is good."

"What advice?"

"Fuhong said that Wanyan Wushu recruited 10,000+ troops, which caused a sharp increase in the price of food in Bianliang, and the price of all items followed, which triggered a panic buying wave among the people. Every family spent all their money and bought a lot of unused The things used have caused the black market to be hot, and they are all bartering, but they feel that the exchange is not worthwhile, so Fuhong suggested to set up an official quality warehouse to buy the items in the hands of the people, and the money will flow back to the hands of the people.”

"What about the item?"

"If the items are sold to the common people, there must be people who need them. The biggest advantage of doing this is to make the best use of the items and not waste them."

Chen Qing nodded, "It can be implemented!"

Zhang Xiao hesitated and said: "The humble job is just worried that the copper coins may not be enough."

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "Money is not a problem, there will be a lot of income soon, I guess Tang Qian should have news."

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Chen Qing's expectations were not wrong. In the afternoon, the soldiers who rushed from Fengqiu arrived at the camp, bringing Chen Qing an unexpected surprise.

There is actually Liu Yu's private wealth. Of course, Chen Qing also fully understands that Liu Yu was escorted to Linhuang Mansion in the northern grassland, and his wealth was escorted by Jin Bing separately. It is impossible to return it to him. I also know it well, so there is no way to hide part of the money and entrust it to Qian Huang.

There are 40 taels of gold and 350 million taels of silver, adding up to 700 million guan, and the wealth hidden by Qian Huang is about 500 million guan.

Chen Qing immediately ordered Yan Jun to lead [-] cavalry and [-] flat-bottomed tugboats to Fengqiu County.

At this time, Chen Qing received another report that Qian Huang and his son were seeking an interview outside the camp and had important information to tell.

Chen Qing immediately ordered someone to bring Qian Huang and his son into the tent.

Not long after, Qian Huang walked into the big tent accompanied by his son, and the two knelt down to pay respects, "The villain Qian Huang and his son are meeting His Royal Highness Prince Yong!"

"You two, please stand up!"

Chen Qing said lightly: "The soldier said, you have important information to report, what is it?"

Qian Huang's heart was ashamed, but under the repeated demands of his son and for the sake of his grandson, he decided to earn some more family property for his children and grandchildren.

With trembling hands, Qian Huang took out a thick booklet from his pocket, and presented it to Chen Qing, "This is some information I collected privately, about the property situation of each prefecture."

Chen Qing took the brochure and looked at it carefully. Basically, it was the family property of various high-ranking officials, including all kinds of treasures at home, real estate such as land and shops, and even guessed how much money each family had?

"Are you accurate?" Chen Qing asked.

Qian Huang nodded, "The first two items are basically accurate, and the last item will only be underestimated."

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​making this up?"

Qian Huang sighed and said, "This is my biggest hobby. I often ask Liu Yu. He has a special spy, so he knows more about it."

"You have a total of [-] families here. Where do they live now? Where is their hometown? You haven't written it here. How can I check?"

Qian Huang took out another large folded piece of paper from his bosom, handed it to Chen Qing, and said reluctantly: "Your Highness, this is two credits."

Chen Qing took the paper and unfolded it. As expected, it was the current residence of [-] households. The possible location of the treasure was written in great detail. Among them, there were [-] households in Bianliang, and the other [-] households were nearby. In Caizhou, Qian Huang's weird hobby really helped him a lot.

"Tell me! What do you want?"

Qian Huang cheered up, and quickly said: "The villain has three small requests. One is that the Old Beijing Restaurant to the east of Xiangguo Temple belongs to the villain. I want to leave it to my children and grandchildren, and I still have five hundred acres outside the city The land, I want to use it for the elderly.”

"Those are two small requests!"

"Count two!"

"Okay, I agree, the restaurant and the land will be left to you, what else do you want?"

"There is also my daughter's empress seal. I will never see my daughter again in this life, so I have to keep it to miss her, but it was taken away by the soldiers. Can Your Highness give it back to me?"

Chen Qing turned around and took a big seal of a jade carving from the table, "Is this it?"

"that's it!"

Chen Qing returned the jade seal to him, and at the same time wrote a copy of his daughter's pardon and handed it to him, "If your daughter returns to the Central Plains in the future, she will be safe and sound with this pardon."

Qian Huang was overjoyed, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, thanking him again and again and leaving.

In the afternoon of the next day, when Tang Qian came back with the escort of the fleet, Chen Qing immediately appointed Tang Qian as the general who searched for thieves, ordered him to lead an army of [-], and searched the wealth of [-] high-ranking officials on the list, and gave him half a month. , he was promoted to deputy capital.

Tang Qian divided his 31 subordinates into 300 teams, each with 1000 people, and he commanded the last team of [-] people. He copied [-] checklists and ordered [-] generals to lead them to the army. Various mansions were searched.

Previously, the search of Qian's house was relatively quiet and did not attract the attention of others, but the search of [-] high-ranking officials' mansions, especially the [-] households in Bianliang, immediately shocked the whole city, and there were discussions from all over the place.

But more people applauded, and it was time to clean up this group of people.

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