Two days passed in a blink of an eye. During these two days, Zhang Fan's mood gradually changed from excitement to disappointment.

The fundamental reason for all this is very simple, that is, the huge magistrate's mansion only produced a few hundred taels of silver!

Is this something that humans can do?

"Old man, I'll give you another chance, will you say it or not?"

Looking at Zhou Zhonghong who was tied to a chair by himself, Zhang Fan could be said to have eyes blazing with anger.

A magistrate's family actually has less money than a magistrate in Xiasha Town. Can anyone believe this?

Don't ask him about whether he is greedy or not. The Qing Dynasty today has rumors of a three-year purification of the prefecture and a hundred thousand snowflakes of silver. As a parent official in a prefecture, Zhang Fan doesn't believe that this guy will be missing Bing Jing and Tan Jing.

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In fact, Zhang Fan is indeed a little ignorant here. Although Bing Jing and Tan Jing existed in the Qing Dynasty, they were most popular during the Qianlong period when they really became popular.

At this time, the country was short of money. As soon as Yongzheng came to power, he directly launched a series of major reforms such as returning fire to the public and dividing the land into households. For this reason, many people committed suicide, including Nian Gengyao and Long Ke.

Even these two heroes have not been spared. How dare anyone openly come to do this?

Isn’t this an obvious way to seek death?

Since Zhou Zhonghong became an official, he has always been a representative figure of integrity and uprightness. Even the local people praised him highly. If you expect such a person to be corrupt, you might as well believe that a sow can climb a tree.

"Since I became an official, I have always been clean and self-sufficient. I don't even bother to do such dirty and dirty things!"

Zhou Zhonghong's complexion was slightly pale at this time, but his voice still sounded energetic.

In the past two days, Zhang Fan had searched the entire mansion, but in the end he still found nothing. He originally thought that the old man had the foresight to hide the treasure elsewhere, but now he saw that the old man had the foresight to hide the treasure elsewhere.

With such a look of death, Zhang Fan finally felt that what the other party said might be true.

"Forget it, let it go."

Zhang Fan sat back on the chair feebly, his tone full of disappointment.

I originally thought I could make a fortune, but luckily I didn't get a penny, but I got a lot of money (mainly referring to explosive troops).

"You want to let me go?"

Hearing that Zhang Fan actually wanted to let him go, Zhou Zhonghong thought he had heard wrongly.

"If I don't let you go, why would you still eat my food? It's a beautiful thought. Get out of here!"

Zhang Fan pointed at the door and roared at Zhou Zhonghong, not even thinking that the mansion he was currently in should have belonged to someone else.

After Zhang Fan occupied Songjiang Mansion, he naturally accepted the original magistrate's residence directly. However, Zhang Fan was not too harsh on the family members who were driven out by him. He only found an abandoned house for them in the city.

The courtyard allowed them to live in it.

When Zhang Fan occupied Songjiang Mansion, many people fled the city directly, but Zhang Fan did not stop him. After all, there were so many people, and they couldn't all escape.

However, there are some advantages to this, that is, there is a lot of free space, and it is not too troublesome to arrange it.

After the failed house raid, Zhang Fan was depressed for a long time. In fact, he didn't have other options. For example, the rich businessmen in the city were a good choice, but Zhang Fan gave up after thinking about it.

It's not that he was kind-hearted and didn't want to do it, it was because he couldn't find a suitable opportunity to ransack the house.

The businessmen here dare not say that all of them abide by the law, but they have never done anything illegal. Many of them even have good prestige among the people. If they do it rashly, there may be something wrong.

After all, he would have to continue the Northern Expedition in the future. If a fire broke out in the backyard, it would not be good news.

"Ugh...where should I go to get gold?"

Zhang Fan looked at the more than 600,000 remaining funds in the system and couldn't help but have a sad look in the corners of his eyes.

In the past few days, Zhang Fan has frequently asked the ore refinery to explore the surrounding veins, but the problem is that there are no large mines where they are, so it is not too difficult to withdraw system funds from this point.

As the saying goes, if you don't become a householder, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are...

Zhang Fan let out a long sigh, his face full of disappointment.

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At this time, just as Zhang Fan was sighing, an army officer made it clear that the orderly army was gradually advancing towards the place where Songjiang Mansion was.ъìqυgΕtv.℃ǒΜ

Compared with the four thousand infantrymen that Zhang Fan killed before, this army is obviously more disciplined, and there are many cavalry among them, but the number is not large, only about a thousand or so, and the number of the entire army is in

About 20,000.

The leader of this army was naturally the Jiangnan Admiral Wei Jingguo who had gone to mobilize troops before.

When Wei Jingguo went to Zhenzhou, he drew up a report on the matter and sent it to Jiangning Mansion (that is, Nanjing) and handed it to Fan Shiyi, the current governor of Liangjiang.

When he learned the news that Songjiang Prefecture had actually fallen, Fan Shiyi was also shocked. He quickly asked Wei Jingguo to transfer the garrison troops from Zhenzhou and Changzhou to support Songjiang Prefecture, and he drafted the matter as a memorial.

Arrive at the Forbidden City.

Judging from the time, it is estimated that the memorial has not yet arrived in Beijing, but the current situation waits for no one, so we can only let Wei Jingguo, the Jiangnan admiral, recover Songjiang Mansion first.

After a day of running around, Wei Jingguo felt somewhat depressed, but he was still worried about the situation in Songjiang Mansion.

To be on the safe side, he had previously allowed Deng Hui to lead four thousand infantrymen to fight in the frontline battle. However, two days had passed and no news had been received.

This couldn't help but make Wei Jingguo even more worried.

Deng Hui has been with him for a while. He is definitely not a person who is greedy for success. He always makes decisive decisions when the situation is not right. Even if he cannot defeat the rebels, he will definitely give him a letter to say so.

These rebels have the right background.

But for so long, there was no movement from the other party, which made Wei Jingguo start to have some wild thoughts.

Could it be that he was killed?

Suddenly, a terrible thought flashed through Wei Jingguo's mind.

No, no, how is it possible? They are just a group of rebels. Deng Hui has four thousand infantry. Even if they are defeated, they will not be killed or captured.

But if that’s the case, why didn’t the other party write to me?

The more Wei Jingguo thought about it, the darker his face became.

"Sir, look! It looks like Songjiang Mansion is ahead!"

At this time, the accompanying deputy suddenly shouted, interrupting Wei Jingguo's thoughts.

"Um."

Wei Jingguo nodded. After coming back to his senses, he looked into the distance. But when he fixed his gaze on the city in the distance, his pupils shrank sharply.
Chapter completed!