After Ye Zheng ordered Niu Tiezhu to knock the woman unconscious, he asked the big tiger and the little tiger to take care of her alone. In addition, at this time, the servants in the Zhou Mansion had lost the intention to resist, and they were all hiding and running away.
They were afraid that Ye Zheng and his gang would do harm to them.
Now that Zhou Ligui, the biggest culprit of the Zhou Mansion, has died, there is no need for Ye Zheng and the others to continue to pursue the case. At this time, the housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion was stumbling and collapsed on the ground, his face
His expression was extremely frightened.
Ye Zheng ordered someone to go over and pick him up, ready to ask him where the Zhou Mansion's bank and granary were. Before he could use any means to intimidate him, the housekeeper turned pale with fright and peed.
Pants, everything is covered.
Under the leadership of the housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion, everyone quickly arrived at the warehouse where the money was stored in the Zhou Mansion. It took a lot of effort to break open the thick and thick warehouse door. When the door of the warehouse was just opened, everyone saw
After seeing what was going on inside, I was immediately shocked!
In the large warehouse, there are many shelves and boxes. The shelves are all filled with pieces of gold and silver utensils and antique jades. The boxes contain countless gold and silver. In addition, in the corner of the warehouse
, there are countless copper coins piled up.
Ye Zheng and others looked at the countless gold and silver treasures, their eyes were shining and they were swallowing hard. At the same time, everyone was sighing in their hearts that Zhou Ligui had lost all his wealth over the years.
How much common people's hard-earned money and how many evil deeds have been done to accumulate so much money. Now that this person has died in the hands of his own gang, he has done something for the local common people.
People take pictures of great good deeds that are praised by others.
After marveling at the gold and silver property in front of him, Ye Zheng asked the housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion again how much gold and silver there was in the warehouse. Unexpectedly, the housekeeper hesitated and couldn't tell, saying that he
Although he is a housekeeper, Zhou Ligui usually does not allow outsiders to enter such an important warehouse. Therefore, he will not know the result until the liquidation of how much gold and silver there is in the warehouse.
Ye Zheng nodded after hearing this, and hurriedly ordered the housekeeper of the Zhou family to sort out the gold and silver in the warehouse as quickly as possible, because for these gold and silver, he not only wanted to bring them back to Fengming Ridge, but it was more important.
What's more, he has other plans to arrange these belongings.
After receiving Ye Zheng's order, the housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion hurriedly searched for a few old accounting gentlemen in the Zhou Mansion. With the addition of these accounting gentlemen, the inventory in the warehouse became much faster.
After nearly half an hour of counting, the results in the warehouse finally came out.
There are more than 15,000 taels of gold, 110,000 taels of silver, more than 9,000 taels of copper coins, more than 700 pieces of various gold and silver jewelry and jade pendants in the warehouse. In addition to the two taels, there are also antique porcelain and some unknown items.
Treasures, more than three hundred pieces.
Although Ye Zheng knew a lot about these data, he didn't know to what extent it was!
At that moment, Ye Zheng frowned and asked the accountants to estimate all the gold and silver jewelry and antique jades according to the lowest price in the market, and see how much silver there was.
Ye Zheng doesn't want to know how many antiques, jewelry and jades there are in here now. He just wants to know clearly how much silver they got in total when they came to rob the Zhou Mansion this time. You accountants and I have done this.
It's so complicated and troublesome, I can't understand it! I only have one request, how much are the things in this warehouse worth in terms of silver taels?
In the midst of his urging and cursing, the accountants were so frightened that they had no time to wipe off their sweat, and then they hurriedly began to make calculations and make new estimates.
The results came out soon. If all the items in the warehouse were converted into cash, they would be worth at least 800,000 taels of silver!
When Ye Zheng and everyone present heard this amount, everyone was shocked! Including the accounting gentlemen who participated in the liquidation.
Eight hundred thousand taels of silver! What is the concept of that? Such a large sum of money can be used by everyone present for a lifetime.
According to the commodity prices and gold-to-silver ratio at the time of the Great Lie Dynasty, one tael of silver was equal to a copper coin (one thousand penny), and one tael of gold could be exchanged for twelve taels of silver. For an ordinary family of five in the Great Lie Dynasty, they
The annual living expenses were only 6-10 taels of silver. This shows how huge this huge sum of 800,000 taels was at that time.
After counting the amount of money in the warehouse, Ye Zheng had a rough idea. He asked the housekeeper of the Zhou Mansion and the accounting gentlemen to summon all the servants who had not escaped from the Zhou Mansion to the front yard.
In the venue, after giving each of the maids and slaves a considerable sum of money, they were asked to go back to their hometowns, and those who went their separate ways went their separate ways.
Those maids and slaves in the Zhou Mansion were originally the children of poor families. The reason why they worked in the Zhou Mansion was because they were persecuted by Zhou Ligui. In fact, their life in the Zhou Mansion was not easy. Now that Zhou Ligui is dead
, they were also preparing to leave separately. However, they never expected that the leader of the bandits would be so kind and generous, not only letting him leave safely, but also giving each of them so much silver. Suddenly, the maids and slaves turned to Ye Zheng.
After a lot of gratitude, he rolled up the package and left the Zhou Mansion.
But there were still dozens of young men who were homeless because of the death of their family members. Finally, when they saw the ability and righteousness of Ye Zheng and his gang of bandits, they immediately wanted to join Ye Zheng. What Ye Zheng lacked at this time was manpower.
, he wished that others would come to seek refuge with him, so he agreed to them immediately without hesitation.
Anyway, there is so much money, gold and silver in the warehouse, I don’t know how many trucks it will take to transport it. With the thirty or so people they came this time, it will definitely be difficult to carry it back to Feifeng Village. In this case, why not
It would be good to find more people to join in and help them drive the trucks and load the goods back to the mountains.
After the maids and slaves left, Ye Zheng saw that the housekeeper of Zhou Mansion and the accountants were still there, and seeing that they all looked uneasy and scared, Ye Zheng was secretly amused, and immediately ordered Niu Tiezhu:
: "Give the accountants and housekeepers a hundred taels of silver each and let them go. They will have to work hard tonight.
When the housekeeper and several accountants heard this, they were overjoyed. After receiving the money, they couldn't wait to escape from the Zhou Mansion, for fear that Ye Zheng and the fierce bandits would regret it.
After arranging everything, Ye Zheng began to have people load the gold and silver belongings in the warehouse onto carriages. Anyway, there were many mules and horses in the Zhou Mansion, so there was no need to worry about finding the tools to transport these things. After loading the gold and silver in the warehouse,
After collecting the silver and property, they opened the Zhou Mansion's granary and loaded the grain into dozens of large carriages. Originally, Ye Zheng wanted to carry more, but because there were too many things and not enough manpower, he had no choice but to
He reluctantly stopped.
At this time, Niu Tiezhu suddenly came to him and reminded him: "Brother Ye, since we have successfully robbed the Zhou Mansion and also got rid of the Zhou Li ghost who has done many evil things, otherwise, we must quickly rob these robbed people."
The gold, silver and grain that comes will be delivered to the village, otherwise, I’m afraid something will change if it’s too late!”
Ye Zheng raised his brows and said in confusion: "Those thugs and evil slaves in the Zhou Mansion died and escaped. Zhou Ligui's evil deeds are also punished. Just with the dozens of guards at the Tongling Town Guard Station, we can't
I'm afraid they don't have the guts to come and arrest us. Even if they come, I'm not afraid. Now that the Zhou Mansion is in our possession, what else do we have to worry about? What we worry about now is how to use so much food.
and transport the gold and silver property back to the village. How about we rest here tonight to celebrate, and wait until early tomorrow morning to return to the village."
Niu Tiezhu shook his head and said with some worry: "Brother Ye, we have nothing to worry about now, but you should know that the head of Dahe County is the elder brother of Zhou Ligui. Now we are robbing Zhou Mansion. I'm afraid
Someone has already passed it on to him. Although this place is still a day and a night away from the county seat, once he learns the news, he will definitely be furious and surround us at all costs. By then, we will not be able to leave even if we want to.
It’s a bit difficult, because after all, if we are traveling with so many carriages, we will definitely not be as fast as the lightly armed soldiers and horses of the government.”
Ye Zheng frowned and said, "How many soldiers and horses are there in the county?"
Niu Tiezhu nodded and said seriously: "A county usually has a thousand standing troops, which are specially used to suppress bandits and suppress rebellious people. Their weapons and equipment and the quality of the soldiers are not what the guards in the town guard station can do.
In comparison, so we still have to hurry up and transport the goods and leave."
Ye Zheng pondered for a moment and said: "Brother Niu is right, but I was careless and almost made a big mistake. Okay, hurry up and notify everyone, let them pack their goods and money immediately, and be ready to leave at any time!
"
After Niu Tiezhu got Ye Zheng's consent, he immediately turned around and made arrangements to leave.
At this time, Ye Zheng looked at the grain piled up in the granary, tens of thousands of pounds. If it was just thrown away, sooner or later it would fall into the hands of Zhou Li Gui's brother. In that case, it would be too cheap for them. But if
Burning it on fire would be too wasteful, and Ye Zheng couldn't bear to do it. There are countless refugees and refugees out there starving to death on the roadside because there is no food. In this case, why not simply use the food in the granary to
All of it should be distributed free of charge to the refugees and the poor people around them. In this way, the problem is solved and I have done a great good deed.
Thinking of this, Ye Zheng's mood suddenly brightened, and he immediately issued an order to several of the Zhou family slaves who had just taken refuge with him, and asked them to beat gongs and drums to spread the word that the local bully Zhou Ligui had been killed by the green forest thieves, and now
The granary of the Zhou Mansion has been opened and the grain is released for free, asking everyone to come and collect it as soon as possible. If they arrive late, they will burn down the Zhou Mansion and return to the mountain.
When Ye Zheng had people release the news that Zhou Ligui had been killed, everyone in the local area was extremely happy and clapped their hands. They were full of gratitude and admiration for Ye Zheng, a gang of thieves who had done harm to the people, so that night
Not long after arriving, many refugees and civilians came one after another outside the Zhou Mansion Granary. At first, they were still skeptical, thinking that the news was not true. But after the first person received the food and went back to spread the word, the others were completely convinced.
Believed.
As a result, more and more refugees came to receive food. In the end, it was no exaggeration to describe it as a huge crowd. The entire Zhou Mansion granary was surrounded by water, so Ye Zheng arranged to stay and distribute food.
No one is too busy.
Fortunately, before that, he had arranged for the hunters from Niujia Village to lead the dozens of new brothers to drive dozens of carriages loaded with gold and silver grains in advance and return to Qifeng Mountain without stopping.
He himself and several brothers stayed behind to provide food and take care of the aftermath.
Seeing that more and more refugees came to collect food, they would definitely be too busy just by themselves. At that moment, Ye Zheng asked all his people to come out and let the refugees rush into the granary to get food by themselves.
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When the refugees and common people heard this, they immediately became excited. They all rushed into the granary and tried their best to pretend to grab food. Many people even ran back and forth many times and grabbed a lot of food. In short, those who were there
All the refugees have basically received food. Ye Zheng is too lazy to worry about who has more and who has less.
Since there were so many people coming to grab food, it didn't take long for the entire granary to be emptied by everyone. At this time, Ye Zheng led several of his brothers and poured ointment all over the Zhou Mansion.
Throw the fire down, and in a moment, the entire Zhou Mansion will become a sea of fire, and the evil-doing Zhou Li ghost will also turn into a ball of ashes under the blazing fire. This may be the secret.
retribution.
In front of the sea of fire, Ye Zheng jumped onto his horse (with the help of others, of course), waved his hand boldly and laughed loudly: "It's so happy, today is so happy! Eliminating harm for the people, doing justice for heaven, nothing more than that,
Brothers, let’s go! Hahaha…”
Amidst the wild laughter, Ye Zheng rode away in front of Juechen, followed by several brothers who were also full of pride and enthusiasm, chasing Ye Zheng's back with fanatical eyes.
Just as Ye Zheng and the others rode away, dozens of big men in black appeared outside Zhou's mansion. All of those big men were holding sharp blades, and each of them looked extremely tough.
A big man in black came to the leading bald man and said respectfully: "Master Liu, they have left now, so should we go back to the mountain?"
At this time, the bald man at the head looked at the raging fire and sighed slightly: "This Ye Zheng is really amazing. With only a few dozen people, he was able to level the entire place without any effort."
Zhoujiapu! Hey, it seems that Master Deng has wasted all his worries. Our visit this time is of no use at all. Ye Zheng, Ye Zheng, you are so powerful..."