In the afternoon, Chen Qing, accompanied by Zhang Xiao, inspected the warehouse in Bianliang.
Chen Qing originally thought that Jin Bing had transported all the supplies, but now he discovered that the situation was far from as bad as he feared. In fact, it was the opposite. Jin Bing left a large amount of supplies that he had not transported away.
If we want to investigate the reason, it is not that Wanyan Wushu deliberately left grain and grass supplies to the Song army, but that they did not have such a large transportation capacity. The livestock had been eaten up and could not be transported by large trucks. They could only rely on water transportation, but they only had five
There are more than a hundred 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 behind. If Li Taigu hadn't rebelled against Xiancheng, Du Rong might have burned down the warehouse, and now all the supplies were cheaper for the Song army.
"I did some cleaning last night and this morning. The largest items were grain, which amounted to 380,000 shi, and 200,000 dans of fodder. The second largest amount was pig iron, which amounted to 5 million jins, and copper ingots also amounted to 4 million jins.
There were 500,000 pieces of cloth and 30,000 tents. It was originally 40,000 tents, but they took some of them away."
"How much armor and treasure are there?"
Zhang Xiao shook his head and said, "Your Highness is disappointed. He has neither of these. They were all transported away by Wanyan Wushu. Bingjia was the focus of their transportation. The property was distributed to the Jurchen soldiers. They even gave up food and grass. Except for Bingjia, other
Only 10,000 large tents were taken away, mainly because there were no means of transportation, and all the livestock in the cargo carts were eaten by the Jurchen soldiers. This can be considered their retribution, and the retribution came too quickly."
"Then there should be other debris!"
"There are too many miscellaneous things. There are nearly a million pieces of wood for the light fence. In the warehouse outside the city, there are also medicinal materials, sheepskins, blankets, war drums, flags, raw materials for making bows and arrows, and salt for food.
Dried meat, oil, sheep wine, cheese, pickles, various condiments, 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, which is about ten thousand kilograms. It is not the salt sold to the people by their Salt and Iron Department. Their Salt and Iron Department is in Laizhou and the salt warehouse of Kaifeng Prefecture.
In Chenliu County, I heard from Gao Ding that there are about 100,000 kilograms of salt in storage."
Chen Qing nodded, "Mix up some substances and sell them to stores at low prices to stimulate business first."
Zhang Xiaodao: "Your Highness, the main problem now is that the people have no money. This morning Fuhong gave Beizhi a suggestion, and Beizhi thought it was good."
"What advice?"
"Fuhong said that Wanyan Wushu recruited hundreds of thousands of troops, which caused the price of food in Bianliang to rise sharply, and the prices of all items increased accordingly, triggering a panic buying wave among the people. Every household spent all their money and bought a lot of them.
Useless things have led to a boom in the black market, and everyone is bartering, but they feel that the exchange is not cost-effective. Fuhong suggested setting up an official treasury to purchase items from the people, and the money will flow back into the hands of the people."
"What about the items?"
"When items are sold to the 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: "I am worried that I may not have enough copper coins."
Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "Money is not a problem. There will be a lot of income soon. I guess Tang Qian should have sent some news."
Chen Qing's expectations were not wrong. In the afternoon, soldiers from Fengqiu arrived at the camp, bringing an unexpected surprise to Chen Qing.
There was actually Liu Yu's private wealth. Of course, Chen Qing also fully understood that Liu Yu was escorted to Linhuang Mansion in the northern grassland. His wealth was escorted separately by Jin Bing, and it was impossible to return it to him.
He also knew it well, so there was no other way to hide part of the money and entrust it to Qian Huang.
There are 400,000 taels of gold and 3.5 million taels of silver, which adds up to 27 million taels. Then there is the wealth hidden by Qian Huang, which is about 15 million taels.
Chen Qing immediately ordered Yan Jun to lead 2,000 cavalry and 500 flat-bottomed tugboats to Fengqiu County.
At this time, Chen Qing received another report that Qian Huang and his son were asking for a meeting outside the camp and had important information to report.
Chen Qing immediately ordered people to bring Qian Huang and his son into the big tent.
Not long after, Qian Huang, accompanied by his son, walked into the big tent. The two of them knelt down to pay homage, "The little man Qian Huang and his son came to see His Highness King Yong!"
"Both of you, please get up!"
Chen Qing said calmly: "The soldier said that you have important information to report. What is it?"
Qian Huang was already devastated, but after his son's repeated requests and for the sake of his grandson, he decided to earn some more wealth for his children and grandsons.
Qian Huang took out a thick booklet from his arms with trembling hands and presented it to Chen Qing, "This is some information I collected privately, about the property status of each government."
Chen Qing took the book and looked at it carefully, and found that it basically contained the family properties of various high-ranking officials in the Qi Dynasty, including various treasures at home, land, shops and other real estate properties, and even speculated on how much money each family had."
"Is this accurate?" Chen Qing asked.
Qian Huang nodded, "The first two items are basically accurate, and the last one will only be underestimated."
"How could you even think of making this up?"
Qian Huang sighed and said: "This is my biggest hobby. I often ask Liu Yu. He has a special spy who knows better."
"You have a total of thirty families here. Where do they live now? Where is their hometown? You didn't even write it down here. How can I check it?"
Qian Huang took out another large folded piece of paper from his arms, handed it to Chen Qing, and said reluctantly: "Your Highness, this is two pieces of credit."
Chen Qing took the paper and unfolded it. Sure enough, it was the current residence of thirty families and the possible locations where the treasure was hidden. It was written in great detail. Eighteen of them were in Bianliang, the other twelve were nearby, and the furthest one was
In Caizhou, Qian Huang's weird hobby really helped him a lot.
"Say it! What do you want?"
Qian Huang perked up and said quickly: "I have three small requests. One is that the Old Beijing Restaurant to the east of Xiangguo Temple belongs to me. I want to leave it to my children and grandchildren, and I also have five hundred acres outside the city."
Land, I want to use it for retirement.”
"Those are two small requests!"
"Count two!"
"Okay, I agreed. I will leave the restaurant and land to you. What else do you want?"
"There is also my daughter's Queen's 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 soldiers. Can Your Highness return it to me?"
Chen Qing turned around and took out a large jade seal from the table, "Is this it?"
"that's it!"
Chen Qing returned the jade seal to him, and at the same time wrote a pardon for his daughter and handed it to him, "If your daughter returns to the Central Plains in the future, with this pardon, she will be safe and sound."
Qian Huang was so happy that he knelt down and kowtowed, thanked him again and left.
In the afternoon of the next day, Tang Qian returned from escorting the fleet. Chen Qing immediately appointed Tang Qian as the Thief Searching General and ordered him to lead an army of 10,000 to search for the wealth of thirty households of senior officials on the list. He was given half a month to complete the task.
, then he will be promoted to vice-capital.
Tang Qian divided his 10,000 men into 31 teams, each with 300 people. The last team of 1,000 people was commanded by him. He also copied 30 lists and ordered 30 generals.
He led people to search various houses.
The search of Qian's house was relatively quiet before and did not attract anyone else's attention. However, the search of thirty high-ranking officials' mansions, especially the eighteen households in Bianliang, immediately alarmed the whole city and caused a lot of discussion.
But more people clapped their hands and applauded, saying it was time to deal with this group of people long ago.
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[Historically, Wanyan Wushu did not let go of the high-ranking officials and relatives of the puppet Qi Dynasty, and successively obtained more than one million taels of gold, thirteen million taels of silver, and more than ninety million taels of copper coins]