"There are countless gold and silver treasures and all kinds of rare treasures inside. Governor, hurry up and take a look." Dai Zong said excitedly.
It was the first time for Dai Zong to see so many gold and silver treasures, which were countless, so he hurriedly came to report to Wu Dong.
Wu Dong glanced at Zhu Wu and said, "Mr. Zhu, let's go take a look at Tian Hu's treasure house."
Zhu Wu nodded, and the three of them headed towards Tian Hu's palace. Entering the palace, they saw that the palace was extremely luxurious, but there was a sense of elegance in the luxury, not the luxury of the nouveau riche.
There is a huge garden behind the palace, and there are many wintersweets in the garden. In the cold winter, the wintersweets are in full bloom, and they are very beautiful against the white snow.
"Tian Hu's palace is quite beautiful." Wu Dong couldn't help but admired it.
"It is said that Tian Hu spent a lot of money to hire the best garden master in Jiangnan to design this garden. Look, Grand Governor, the few strange stones in front are said to be the flower and stone framework that the emperor of the dynasty transported from Jiangnan to Bianliang. They were robbed by him.
Put it here." Zhu Wudao.
Wu Dong went to look at the stones and found that they were just beautiful and had nothing special about them. He was very strange and didn't understand why Song Huizong was interested in stones. He spent several generations of the Song Dynasty's accumulation for Hua Shi Gang.
, forcing the people of Jiangnan to survive. Such stupidity is simply unbelievable.
Now this Tian Hu seems to be almost the same as Song Huizong. He is obviously a hunter and occupies a large area, but he doesn't want to make progress and is just playing this kind of thing.
Wu Dong sighed softly, and Zhu Wu said: "What is the big leader sighing for?"
Wu Dong smiled and said: "Just looking at this garden, I know that Tian Hu is unlikely to achieve great things. In fact, he is just an unbearable person."
At that time, Li Zicheng was also the leader of the peasant uprising army, but Li Zicheng did not start to become corrupt until after he occupied Beijing. Tian Hu only occupied the territory of the five prefectures and fifty-six counties before he began to become corrupt, which was much worse than Li Zicheng.
Zhu Wu nodded, and he felt very satisfied when he saw that Wu Dong was not confused by the beautiful scenery of the garden.
In this era, not only kings are looking for counselors, but counselors are also looking for good kings to assist them. It is said that a good bird chooses a tree to roost. How can a talented person be willing to assist a person who is incompetent and has no ambition?
After walking for half a quarter of an hour, we arrived at the end of the palace. There was a huge palace here. The palace door was closed tightly at the moment, and dozens of Liangshan soldiers were guarding it. They saw Wu Dong hurriedly performing a military salute.
"Open the door, let's go in and take a look." Wu Dong said.
The soldiers opened the door of the palace, and for a moment, it was as if a layer of gold paint was sprinkled on the ground, and the front was covered with gold.
Wu Dong was startled, and Dai Zong said: "Grand Governor, there are a lot of gold bricks in it..."
Wu Dong nodded and strode into the palace. Dai Zong and Zhu Wu hurriedly followed.
After entering, I saw countless gold bricks. Each of these gold bricks weighed dozens of kilograms. People with weak strength could not even pick up the gold bricks with one hand.
"How much gold is this?" Wu Dong said in disbelief.
"If all the gold here were exchanged for silver... it would be at least 8 million gold." Zhu Wu calculated it and said.
"What? 8 million guan?" Wu Dong was surprised. You must know that Liang Shanbo's current annual income is only 5 million guan. This is because he monopolized the trade with Goryeo and added business in various parts of Shandong Province to achieve such a result.
The value of the gold bricks here alone exceeds the harvest of Liangshan in one year. What's more, in addition to the gold bricks, there are countless silver, countless pearls, agate, and various treasures. The total value of these treasures is at least
More than ten million dollars.
"So many gold and silver treasures...how did Tian Hu get it?" Wu Dong couldn't help but ask.
"After Tian Hu rebelled, he has killed all the wealthy landlords in the five prefectures and fifty-six counties. This should be the wealth accumulated by these wealthy landlords in several lifetimes." Zhu Wudao.
"So that's it..." Wu Dong said while sighing at the affluence of society in this era. Of course, the gap between the rich and the poor in this era is far greater than that of previous dynasties, and is the highest in all dynasties. The rich have unimaginable wealth, while the poor have unimaginable wealth.
on one's last legs.
"Grand Governor, since Tian Hu became the 'King of Jin', he has never paid a penny to his ministers or generals, nor to the army," Zhu Wudao said.
"How can Tian Hu's officials, generals, and troops survive?" Wu Dong said.
"Of course we robbed." Zhu Wu smiled bitterly and said: "When we were on Shaohua Mountain, we still robbed those big households, but these people under Tian Hu, no matter who they were, robbed those ordinary people who couldn't survive.
His rations were also snatched away by Tian Hu’s subordinates. Anyone with a little treasure in the family would be killed by Tian Hu’s subordinates. Any pretty girl in the family would also be taken over by Tian Hu’s subordinates. To be honest, Tian Hu’s subordinates were more
People from Qi Liao are much more cruel."
Wu Dong nodded slightly, feeling a little sad in his heart. The common people were living too hard. I thought these peasant rebels could perform better, but who knew they were not as good as the imperial court.
"With so much gold and silver in the treasure house? Is Tian Hu going to become a rich man?" Wu Dong said.
He really didn't understand what Tian Hu was thinking. So much gold and silver could appease many people and arm many soldiers. Tian Hu actually put it in a treasure house and hid it at home. If he was a rich landlord, it would be okay.
Normal. But he is already known as the "King of Jin" and he still collects treasures. This is simply stupid.
"Grand Governor, what should I do with these gold and silver?" Zhu Wudao said.
"Of course it will be returned to the people...but how to return it needs to be carefully considered," Wu Dong said.
Zhu Wu nodded. Naturally, gold and silver cannot be distributed casually. All these gold and silver must be used on the edge of the sword to truly benefit the people and make them grateful.
The three of them walked around in the treasure house. When leaving, Wu Dong noticed that Dai Zong's eyes were a little dull. He couldn't help laughing, grabbed a large handful of pearl agate, and put it into Dai Zong's hand.
Dai Zong was taken aback and said: "The Governor... this..."
Wu Dong said with a smile: "You collected information for Liangshan. This is what you deserve."
Dai Zongdao: "But..."
Wu Dong smiled and said, "Just put it away."
Dai Zong happily put away these pearls and agate, feeling extremely happy and very grateful to Wu Dong.
Wu Dong glanced at Zhu Wu and said, "Mr. Zhu, would you like to take some treasures too?"
Zhu Wu shook his head and said, "No need."
He has great ambitions and wants to leave a name in history. Naturally, he does not take treasure seriously. Moreover, he has no family and is still alone. As long as he can have enough to eat, no amount of other wealth means anything to him.
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He was very contemptuous of Dai Zong. He also knew that the treasure Wu Dong had just given to Dai Zong was a means to bribe Dai Zong. He was not disgusted with this. He felt that a leader should have the means to win people's hearts, otherwise he would not be called a leader.
leader.
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The three of them had just come out of the treasure house when a battalion commander came to report that they had discovered Tian Hu's granary and a large number of land deeds from Tian Hu's palace.
Wu Dongrang collected all the land deeds, and then went to the granary with Zhu Wu and Dai Zong. When they arrived at the granary, they found that it occupied several miles of land and the granary was full of wheat.
"Many people have starved to death in Weisheng City in the past two years, but he actually has so much food stored here." Zhu Wu said in disbelief.
This food is enough to support tens of thousands of troops for several years, and it has been kept here. This time Tian Hu led his troops to Puzhou City, but it seems that he did not use this food.
"Take out some of the grain and distribute it to the people." Wu Dong said to the battalion commander beside him.
The battalion commander hurriedly agreed to come down and work on this matter.
Wu Dong looked into the distance and thought to himself, Lin Chong, I wonder what happened to Hu Sanniang?
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Lin Chong had already arrived in front of Fenyang City at this moment. Fenyang City did not have any defense. He obtained the city with almost no effort. Now he is also rectifying the situation in Fenyang City and restoring order here to normal.
In addition, Lin Chong also discovered a large amount of gold, silver, grain, and land deeds. Although not as much as Wei Sheng, it was still a huge amount of wealth.
Lin Chong was very excited and immediately sent someone to Wei Sheng City to report the matter to Wu Dong.
Conquering Tian Hu's territory this time, not to mention anything else, is completely worth it just for the wealth. Of course, the wealth is only a trivial matter, and more importantly, it is to gain a large number of people.
Hu Sanniang led the troops to attack Zhaode. It was already dark, and 8,000 soldiers were rushing in the snow. They ate fried noodles when they were hungry, and swallowed white snow when they were thirsty.
Late that night, the soldiers arrived at Zhaode City.
Hu Sanniang originally thought that Zhaode City would have certain defenses, and the city gate would be closed late at night. Unexpectedly, when she arrived at the foot of Zhaode City, she discovered that the city gate was open, and there were several Tianhu soldiers sitting lazily on the fire.
Next to it, mutton is roasting, and there is wine next to it.
"God is really helping me!" Hu Sanniang was overjoyed and immediately called Yang Xiong and others over, saying: "First seize the city gate, and then wipe out the remnants of Tian Hu!"
Half an hour later, all four gates of Zhaode City were occupied by Liangshan soldiers. At this moment, Liangshan soldiers were carrying out a brutal purge in Zhaode City.
Zhaode City originally had tens of thousands of soldiers, but there were only more than a thousand soldiers on duty, and the rest went home to become rich men. How could these more than a thousand people defeat the Liangshan army of more than 7,000 people?
Almost as if they were destroyed, Zhaode's defenders kept falling down and dying.
After wiping out all the Zhaode defenders, the Liangshan army began to look for the officials and generals in Zhaode City and massacred all of them.
No one who has anything to do with the Tian Hu regime should be spared.
Late at night, the entire Zhaode City smelled of blood, and blood even flowed into the streets, dyeing them red.
The people of Zhaode were hiding in their homes one by one, terrified, not knowing what was going on...
Hu Sanniang stood on the city wall, looking quietly into the distance, her face slightly pale. Such cleaning was not what she wanted to do, but she had to do it.
After capturing Zhaode City, she could only leave a small number of troops here, and the rest had to be taken away to attack Jinning and Gaizhou. Therefore, all hidden dangers must be cleared before leaving, and there was no room for mercy.
There must be many more such things in the future.
"For Liangshan, I must do this." Hu Sanniang told herself secretly.
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