Yang Banhou said: "Let me give it a try and you will know after a try."
Smith rolled his eyes and was speechless. This guy was so unreasonable.
Yang Banhou shouted: "Here comes someone."
A soldier ran in, saluted, and stood up.
Yang Banhou looked serious and ordered in a deep voice: "Immediately post a notice at the city gate and look for ten people who saw the Xunzhou magistrate leading people to withdraw from the county. Anyone who provides the true situation will be given fifty taels to each of them." The reward of silver must be done quickly and must be completed within half an hour."
"yes."
The soldier immediately agreed, turned around and left the government office.
Immediately, Yang Banhou called another soldier and whispered a few words. Even Smith couldn't hear clearly what Yang Banhou said.
Smith curled his lips and said, "Captain Yang, what exactly do you want to do?"
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious." Yang Banhou said.
Upon hearing this, Smith was not anxious, but he was angry.
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At the gate of the city, after a notice was posted to look for ten people who had seen the Song army retreat with their own eyes, the line of people became extremely excited, because as long as they could tell the situation at that time, they could get fifty taels of silver. This was a great thing. It's not an exaggeration to say that pie is falling in the sky all day long. The soldiers arranged to select ten common people and then led them to the Yamen.
After arriving at the government office, the soldier asked ten people to wait outside, then entered the hall and reported: "Captain, ten people have been brought here and are waiting outside."
"Come one by one, let the first person in first."
Yang Banhou had an expression full of wisdom, and he was very sure of what he was thinking.
The soldiers went to convey the order, and soon a common man came in. When the common man saw Yang Banhou, he immediately knelt down. Yang Banhou quickly stopped, and the common people stood respectfully, but still did not dare to express their anger. , Yang Banhou said: "The questions I asked are all very simple questions, so don't be nervous."
However, people are still nervous.
Yang Banhou was helpless and asked: "The magistrate of Xunzhou is taking the soldiers out of the city. Are there carriages one by one to escort the items away?"
The people thought for a moment and immediately said: "When the Song army left with their soldiers, they were in a hurry. I saw them at the city gate walking lightly and without carriages."
"you sure."
"There is absolutely no carriage."
"Okay, you go down."
Yang Banhou waved his hand and glanced proudly at Smith next to him.
The common people were a little reluctant and said coyly: "Sir, the common people have already told me about the situation at that time and when the money will be distributed." When he talked about the money, he became excited, raised his voice, and said loudly: " You put up a notice saying that if you answer the question, you will be given fifty taels of silver as a reward, so you have to count it."
Just a moment ago, the people looked timid and timid, but in the blink of an eye, they were completely different.
At the end of the day, money emboldens courage.
Yang Banhou said with a smile: "Don't worry, everyone has come. I still have to ask the rest of the people. After the inquiries are completed, the money will be uniformly distributed. Please wait outside for the time being. Don't worry."
"Yes Yes."
The people nodded repeatedly and left excitedly.
Immediately, the second citizen came in.
This time, the questions asked by Yang Banhou were still the same. The focus was also on the carriages. The people answered the same questions. No carriage left. The ten people answered the same question. Yang Banhou asked the soldiers to give each person fifty taels of silver. , and then dismissed the ten people gathered in the government office.
At this time, Yang Banhou said with a smile: "Captain Smith, do you understand?"
Smith smiled and said: "I understand, you came to the people to prove that the gold, silver, jewelry and money in the treasury were not removed, but were hidden. It's just that the location where the money is hidden is not easy to find."
Yang Banhou chuckled and said, "I have already sent someone to look for him."
"Tap, step,."
At this moment, a soldier walked in and saluted the two of them. Immediately, the soldier loudly shouted: "Report to Commander Yang that ten large sealed boxes were taken out from the pond under the rockery in the backyard."
"Let's go take a look."
Yang Banhou laughed and walked towards the backyard with Smith.
After he came to the backyard, he immediately ordered the soldiers to open the seals. After opening all ten large boxes, he found golden gold bars, dazzling jewelry, and ingots of silver shining with silvery white light, which simply blinded everyone present. Eyes, ten big boxes, all the money in the entire Xunzhou Prefecture treasury.
The Song army could not take it away, so they sealed it and put it in a pond.
However, I didn't expect to be searched out in an instant.
Yang Banhou ordered: "Count all the money immediately, and then exchange it with a bank in the city to turn it into small amounts of silver. We have promised to distribute the money to the people accompanying us, and we must cash it in. After the people who receive the money leave, , those who are willing to stay, we will select capable people to serve as soldiers."
"yes."
The soldiers left immediately and went to find the people from the bank.
Yang Banhou left someone to guard him and left with Smith.
In one day, all the money was cashed out, including 1.3 million taels of silver. This was mainly because there were enough gold bars to cash out so much silver. Yang Banhou asked the soldiers to bring 1.3 million taels with them. Yin Zi entered the military camp and put all the money in the military camp so that the people who participated in the attack on Guiping County with him could collect the money.
According to the statistics of the civilians in the army, there were 58,000 people in total. Yang Banhou ordered the soldiers in the army to distribute the silver according to the 20 taels of silver per person. More than one million taels of silver were distributed directly, and in the end only more than 100,000 taels were left. All the silver was distributed to more than 5,000 soldiers in the army. When divided equally, each soldier could have more than 20 taels of silver.
In the military camp, the people left happily. The scale of the attack quickly took effect, and soon only about 10,000 people were left.
These common people actually wanted to follow Yang Banhou and Smith and continue to make money. Unfortunately, Yang Banhou obviously couldn't need such loose people anymore. To select soldiers, Yang Banhou issued an order to recruit troops from the common people, and immediately More than 4,000 people fled, and only 6,000 were left willing to stay and join the army.
More than 6,000 people were selected, but only 3,000 remained.
When he was in Wuzhou Prefecture, Li Zhen transferred soldiers from Guangzhou to supplement the army. The soldiers under Yang Banhou added a thousand people, and Smith also added a thousand people. Each of them had nearly 2,500 soldiers. Now they are left After acquiring 3,000 soldiers, divided evenly, the number of soldiers of the two men increased again, to more than 4,000.
Their respective military strength has been greatly improved.
Yang Banhou and Smith stayed in Guiping County for five days to settle matters in Guiping County, and then arranged for the new Wuzhou magistrate to leave. At this time, it was impossible for Yang Banhou and Smith to move forward together, because Yang Banhou The next target, Nanning Prefecture, was approaching the southern territory of Guangxi, but Smith wanted to go north to Liuzhou Prefecture.
One south and one north, it is definitely impossible to travel together.
