There were seven or eight people in total, Er Ya and Si Xi, and they stayed in Li Tianyang's official residence all night before they could be considered to have completely sorted out the objects, gold and silver that were transported back by Yamamoto and them.

Gold and silver artifacts are the easiest to estimate the value, and as dirty things, Li Tianyang will not expose his possible existence for the added craftsmanship value of these gold and silver objects, so the two women basically directly weigh the weight of these gold and silver objects to estimate the value.

After weighing, the value of the most valuable real gold and silver in the batch of stolen goods that Yamamoto Fifty-six and them transported back was about 100,000 taels of gold, which means that Li Tianyang and them earned almost one million taels of silver.

The most troublesome thing is the valuation of some antique calligraphy and paintings, and rare treasures, which themselves fluctuate in value, which brings great trouble to Erya and Sixi.

Fortunately, Li Tianyang quickly selected two members of his team who had many years of experience in pawn shops and had a high vision for this kind of antiques and other objects to assist Erya and Sixi in the warehousing room, which could be regarded as solving the troubles of Erya and them.

But then, as the two former pawnshop shopkeepers on the side successively estimated the value of these objects, as well as the provenance and ownership of these objects, Li Tianyang found many problems from it.

Many of these things are rare and rare, such as a small Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl, on the inside of its small black glaze, covered with thousands of natural white glaze layers of different shapes and sizes, irregularly or gathered in strings, or hanging alone, placing it between the palms of the hand and gently rotating, like thousands of eyes watching you, and like thousands of stars surrounding you.

This little tea-drinking thing, who would have thought that it was worth 10,000 taels of silver and did not see it in the city, who made it an antiquity of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was rare to stay in the world, Wei Zhongxian's father-in-law was very proud after receiving this tea set, and he took it out to show off to others, and it can almost be said that no one knows where it belongs.

The object is a good object and it is also priceless, but if Li Tianyang and the others really want to take out such a thing and sell it, then they have to be prepared to be found out the origin of these things, but it is a headache for Li Tianyang.

Therefore, when the approximate value of this batch of antiques, calligraphy and paintings was estimated, although there were only four or five boxes of things, it was two or three times higher than the value of the remaining dozen boxes of gold and silver.

It's a pity that about half of them are folk rumors that Wei Jiuqiansui of the Ming Dynasty has taken some treasures, and the rest of them are generally Li Tianyang who does not dare to guarantee that they will not be recognized.

In this way, when the government has been chasing these stolen goods from Wei Zhongxian, if Li Tianyang wants not to expose his actual acquisition of these valuable treasures, then Li Tianyang will either transport them to the Wa Kingdom, Ryukyu and other nobles who are deeply influenced by the Ming culture and are willing to spend money to collect these antique treasures, or Li Tianyang can temporarily hide them, and wait until the rumors pass and everyone no longer pays attention to these lost items, then there is a possibility of making a move.

In later generations, Li Tianyang saw too many of the corruption and incompetence in the late Qing Dynasty, so that the country was bullied by the foreign powers and lost countless treasures, which were robbed by the foreign powers and returned to the country for collection.

In the education of Li Tianyang's later generations, these antique treasures not only represent the artistic vision and craftsmanship level of the era in which they were created, but also a means for future generations to admire and understand their ancestors.

Therefore, the first way to discount these antiques was given up by Li Tianyang, and even because the collection in the hands of Wei Zhongxian's father-in-law was too precious, Li Tianyang even decided not to take the second way of discounting, and took these treasures representing Chinese culture and skills in exchange for silver and mundane things, but wanted to collect them and wait until one day to put them out for the world to visit, so that outsiders know the strength of Chinese civilization, and let the children of China be proud of such a civilization.

When Li Tianyang had such an idea, it also meant that at least half of the gains made by Yamamoto and their trip had become numbers on paper, which could not be converted into real money needed for the development of Hongmen.

But obviously Li Tianyang doesn't care about this, anyway, this is just an unexpected fortune he got on a whim, he was also inspired by the movie at the beginning, and there is a book essay that I don't know what the name is, which gave him the idea of letting Yamamoto and them be heroes in the green forest, but he didn't want to beat the positive income more than they expected.

Moreover, just the real money and silver that were converted into money and the jewelry and necklaces that were easy to get rid of were also enough for Hongmen to work hard for a while, which made Hongmen feel a lot of relief from Li Tianyang's finances.

More than one million taels of silver, enlarged in the Ming Dynasty may not be enough for a year's military salary in Liaodong, but in the forces of Hongmen, which is only a few towns and more than 100,000 people, it can hold on for a while.

Of course, in terms of Li Tianyang's means of spending money, it seems that the huge amount of money may not be able to last long, for example, at this time, when Li Tianyang guarded the second girl and got the last value of this batch of stolen goods, he had already begun to carefully calculate in his mind how to spend this money.

First of all, it is natural to increase the purchase of iron ore, Hai Dafu on the other side of Shilu has long stopped stealing copper coins, compared to the risks and income of stealing copper coins, Li Tianyang has already paid too much silver money for purchasing iron ore in the past two years.

Moreover, the iron ore output and mining difficulty in the Shilu mine are far lower than the cost of copper mining, and there is such a big stomach as Li Tianyang, who is generally the buyer, Hai Dafu will continue his unsuccessful copper mining if he is stupid, and now he has long been full-time to mine iron ore for Hongmen and transport it to Dayuan Island.

After this naval battle, Li Tianyang deeply realized the important impact of firearms on the entire war in the future, and as he made up his mind to take the route of elite soldiers and strong troops, the composition of firearms would be an extremely important part of their entire team, so this investment was indispensable.

The second is to speed up the layout of their Qixintang business, whether it is the structure and expansion of the external guard intelligence system in the future, or the recruitment and reception of more homeless people and ordinary people to Dayuan Island to develop Dayuan Island, or even earn more silver money to support the increasingly huge Hongmen, the development of Qixintang can no longer be swallowed slowly like now.

Although, in the eyes of others, the development of Qixintang and Youjian Inn has been extremely fast, but it still cannot meet Li Tianyang's expectations for them.

(End of chapter)