Luo Lan told the story of the capital city in the letter, and then attached a bill at the end of the letter, which recorded every income and expense they had since arriving in the capital city, as well as their current inventory.
"What's wrong? Luo Lan is having trouble in the capital?"
Tang Xiaobei noticed something was wrong with Jin Feng's expression and asked with a frown.
"See for yourself."
Jin Feng handed the letter and accounts to Tang Xiaobei.
Tang Xiaobei looked at it quickly, his eyes widening.
When he saw the final sum of the account books, Tang Xiaobei couldn't help but take a breath.
"Master, what happened to Luo Lan in the capital? Is it not going well?"
Guan Xiaorou didn't know what happened yet and was extremely anxious.
"It's not that it's not going well, it's that it's going very smoothly."
Jin Feng asked: "Do you know how much money she made back in the capital?"
"How much?" Guan Xiaorou asked.
"More than eighty thousand taels!"
"Eight...more than eighty thousand taels?" Guan Xiaorou suspected that she heard wrongly.
At the same time, he looked at the package in front of Tang Fei and others.
Now there are still more than 4,000 taels of silver in the back mountain warehouse, packed with several boxes.
Guan Xiaorou has never seen 80,000 taels of silver, but she knows by comparison that it is definitely a huge pile.
The package in front of Tang Fei and the others would definitely not fit.
"Madam, the package is full of gold bricks."
Tang Fei smiled and motioned to the veterans to open the packages on the ground.
The piles of gold bricks swayed under the reflection of the sun, making Guan Xiaorou unable to open her eyes.
"This...all this was earned by Luo Lan in the capital?"
Guan Xiaorou swallowed.
"Not only that, Luo Lan also bought a shop and a house in the capital, and spent more than 10,000 taels on renovations. In the end, he kept a few thousand taels for emergencies."
Jin Feng sighed: "And she still has thirty black knives in her hand that she hasn't sold. If she sells them all, she can at least sell them for tens of thousands more taels."
"Are black knives so valuable? Thirty pieces can be sold for tens of thousands of taels?" Guan Xiaorou couldn't believe it.
"Madam, sir, it's less. Black knives are very popular in the capital now. The day before I came back, Miss Luo Lan sold ten black knives for more than 50,000 taels."
Tang Fei smiled and said, "Miss Luo Lan also said that the black knife will become more and more valuable in the future."
"this……"
Guan Xiaorou was so shocked that she was speechless.
With her worldview and values, she couldn't understand spending thousands of taels of silver to buy a knife.
"Luo Lan is indeed very powerful, but the one who is even more powerful is my husband."
Tang Xiaobei also finished reading the letter and accounts, and turned to look at Jin Feng, his eyes sparkling: "Without the poems written by Xianggong, Luo Lan would not have gone so smoothly.
Sister, you don’t know that your husband is now the most famous poet in the capital. Even His Majesty praised him for his good poetry.
Those rich people who are willing to buy black knives do so because of the engravings on the black knives.”
"Stop putting your hat on me and check the accounts quickly. Old Tang and the others are still in a hurry to go home."
Jin Feng touched his nose unnaturally.
After all, he didn't write those poems, so Jin Feng was still a little embarrassed to be praised so much.
Gold nuggets have a fixed weight and are easy to count. In just ten minutes, Tang Xiaobei finished counting.
Jin Feng pushed open the warehouse door and entered a room full of shelves. There were baskets of copper coins on the shelves.
There are now thousands of people working for Jin Feng to earn a living, and they only need wages every month, which requires a huge amount of copper coins.
This roomful of copper coins is only enough to pay all the workers for a few months.
Jin Feng walked through the layers of shelves, walked to the end, and stopped in front of an iron door.
Opening the thick iron door revealed a cave over two meters high and three meters wide.
On the left side of the cave, there is also a row of shelves with boxes on them.
The boxes contained silver ingots of various sizes.
"Old Tang, please bring the gold nuggets in."
Jin Feng shouted outside.
"yes!"
Old Tang immediately led the veteran into the warehouse. Under Tang Xiaobei's command, he neatly packed the gold nuggets into small wooden boxes and put them on the shelves.
"Xiao Bei, please write down the list of escorts going to the capital this time and report it to Brother Liang. Their bonuses will be doubled this month. The extra money will be provided to the accountant of the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau."
Jin Feng explained.
Now the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau is on the right track. It has its own canteen, dormitory and accounting department, as well as a complete set of reward and punishment measures.
If there is nothing particularly important, Jin Feng will generally not interfere.
But the road to the capital was far away, and although Old Tang didn't say it, Jin Feng also knew the hardships involved.
And after receiving so much money at once, Jin Feng couldn't be too stingy.
"Thank you sir!"
Old Tang and the others all laughed.
Zhenyuan Escort Bureau has bonuses for sending out escort missions. The farther the journey is and the higher the degree of danger, the higher the bonus will be.
When they went to the capital this time, the bonus was higher than the sum of their usual income in half a year. Now it has doubled again, which is equal to the total income of more than a year.
All the houses in the house have to be replaced with brick houses and it is not enough.
"You have been tired all the way, and you must have missed your mother-in-law and children. Go back quickly."
Jin Feng said with a smile: "I will rest for three days starting tomorrow, and then report to the camp again."
"okay!"
The veterans were even happier.
With money and time, they can take their mother-in-law and children to visit the county town.
Now that there is a suspension bridge, it is closer to the county seat than the county government.
After all the veterans left, Jin Feng asked Guan Xiaorou to close the warehouse door, then lit a torch and walked deep into the cave.
After walking more than thirty steps inside, another thicker iron door appeared.
Opening the iron door, the narrow cave suddenly turned into a stone house.
There are also rows of shelves in the stone house, with heavy crossbows glowing coldly, as well as boxes of black knives and armors!
Hunters rely on bows and arrows to hunt, woodcutters use knives to chop wood, and women also use knives to cook. Therefore, according to the laws of Dakang, people can make and hold knives, bows and arrows, but they cannot make armor privately.
These armors were secretly made by Jin Feng by Mancang, and then sent by Zhang Liang's confidants.
With these armors, black knives, and well-trained veterans, Jin Feng can pull out a steel armored team of hundreds of people in a very short period of time if needed.
Coupled with flash bombs and a more powerful heavy crossbow that has not been disclosed to the public, as well as the defenses prepared around Xihewan, even if Qinghuai leads the Tielin Army to attack, Jin Feng is confident to deal with it.
Therefore, in fact, this stone chamber is the real core of the back mountain warehouse.
It is also Jin Feng’s biggest source of confidence.
Only Jin Feng, Guan Xiaorou, Tang Xiaobei, Zhang Liang and a few confidants know the secret of the stone chamber.
There were only two keys. One was carried by Jin Feng and the other was buried by him.
In this way, even if the key on his body is lost, he can dig out the other key.
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I’ll post two chapters first, and the rest may come later. You can read them tomorrow.