Chapter 117: A lot of money
So such a toss, after the harvest came up, even Xiao Tianjian was startled, others don't say, with his understanding of history, the first to start is Chongzhen's father-in-law Zhou Kui, just from Zhou Kui's house, his team copied out more than 1.3 million taels of silver, more than 70,000 taels of gold, and other valuable calligraphy and paintings and jade jewelry, the value of which is preliminarily estimated, even in this troubled world, these things are worth more than one million taels of silver, In addition, there are thousands of acres of land annexed by the Zhou family around Gyeonggi, in addition to these valuable things, the gendarmes also copied out thousands of stones of various grains in his mansion, most of which are old grain, and even many of them have become moldy, and there are thousands of horses of various silk and satin, which shows how stingy Zhou Kui is, people starve to death every day outside his mansion, and this guy would rather let the grain rot in his treasury than take out a little bit to help the hungry people in the city.
At the beginning, Chongzhen begged him for money several times, this guy is like an iron rooster, but now it's good, as soon as Xiao Tianjian came, he immediately cut down more than 100 people in his whole family except for women and children, this guy has used Chongzhen's power for so many years to collect this piece of family property, all of which were given to Xiao Tianjian in vain, so that Xiao Tianjian almost turned over from the dragon chair with a smile, looked at this list, and scolded damned.
In addition, Cao Huachun, who surrendered, knew that he could not be spared, and in order to seek a way to live, he handed over all his private property, and he was a eunuch alone, so he handed over 350,000 taels of silver, and the rest of the big eunuchs were not interesting, and they had no money, and they were denounced by Cao Huachun, and after the house was raided, they were all copied out of a huge amount of property.
So don't look at this kind of action is limited to a very small range, but the harvest is very rich, but it makes Xiao Tianjian a little regretful, compared to the original estimate of the harvest of 50 million taels of silver, now because of the greatly limited scope of the raid, the amount of silver and the amount of gold that have been copied out have only reached more than 30 million taels, and it is not even more than half of Li Zicheng's entry into Beijing to force the silver taels in history, which shows how much wealth has been precipitated in the capital.
However, Xiao Tianjian did not feel too sorry, after all, he and Li Zicheng are different, although he also urgently needs these yellow and white things to enrich the treasury, but he knows that everything must be limited, in this list of copyists, after careful consideration, some rich officials were not included in the scope of copying, for no other reason, although this part of the people also made a lot of money, but for example, among them, the bachelor Fan Jingwen, the household secretary Ni Yuanlu, the left capital Yushi Li Banghua, Taichang Temple Shaoqing Wu Linzheng, Wu Ganlai and other ministers in the household department have not been included in the scope of copying, and many of these people are very rich, but they are relatively speaking, they are still relatively capable people, and they have a greater influence among the scholars.
Xiao Tianjian didn't feel sorry for this, he asked for money but didn't lose his mind by the temptation of gold and silver, he knew very well that this kind of thing must be limited to a certain range, otherwise, even if he made more money, the price he might pay in the future would be greater.
But at present, although the gold and silver are relatively small, but it does not mean that the harvest will be less than Li Zicheng, in addition to the yellow and white things, they also copied a large number of cultural toys, calligraphy and paintings and the like, the value of these things is actually more valuable than those real money and silver, in the future will be more valuable, as long as the country settles down in the future, there will be more and more people who collect these things, this is the troubled times to hide gold and silver, the truth of the Shengshi Xing collection, given the time as long as he can return the world to a peace, it is expected that these things will be put on the market in the future, In the future, it will bring huge revenues to the Great Middle and North Koreas, and when the time comes, the gold and silver converted from these things will probably far exceed the gold and silver harvested now by ten times or even a hundred times.
After Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin's soil buns entered Beijing, they only stared at the yellow and white things with their two eyes, and they didn't know the value of these things at all, many calligraphy and paintings that could be called treasures, and even burned down by them in large numbers, which was very huge for the destruction of Chinese culture, but compared with it, Xiao Tianjian paid more attention to the value of these cultural toys, calligraphy and paintings and antiques, not to mention how much these things were worth, just the cultural value they contained, which could not be measured by gold and silver for future generations.
And not only these things, through this large-scale confiscation action, they also confiscated thousands of properties in Beijing, these bastard things, taking Nanjing as an example, after these properties are put on the market in the future, they will also bring a huge amount of wealth to the country, China and North Korea.
So don't look at the yellow and white things that can't be copied out at the moment, they can't compare to what Li Zicheng got in history, but in fact, the value of the things that Xiao Tianjian harvested has already far exceeded the 70 million taels of silver.
Looking at this list, Xiao Tianjian finally breathed a long sigh of relief, with these more than 30 million taels of gold and silver at the bottom, in the short term, there will be no more financial difficulties in the big China and North Korea, and after the money is invested in the restoration of basic production in the future, the benefits will be 100 times this, and these yellow and white things will not all flow to the society in the future, but will be transferred to the Bank of China to reserve, issue more dragon banknotes, gradually stabilize and establish the credit of dragon banknotes, and establish a new financial system. Completely put an end to the status quo of cash trading that was popular in the Ming Dynasty.
So this time Xiao Tianjian won the capital of the Ming Dynasty, not only destroyed the Ming Dynasty, which had ruled the country for nearly three hundred years, but more importantly, obtained a relatively sufficient economic foundation and laid a solid foundation for future development.
With the city of Beijing was conquered, Xiao Tianjian also faced a major choice, when he established the Great Middle Dynasty in Nanjing, he did not officially announce that the city of Nanjing was positioned as the capital of the Great Middle Kingdom, for this reason the DPRK and China have long been controversial about the matter of the capital, there is a large number of people who believe that the Great China Dynasty can completely set Nanjing City as the national capital, and there is no need to select the national capital in Beijing, after all, Beijing is too close to the Guanwai, it is easy to be threatened by the Mongols and Jiannu outside the Guanwai, once the capital is set in Beijing, the strategic depth is too shallow, The safety of the capital division can not be guaranteed, and the north after the war in recent decades and the impact of the climate, whether it is the population, agriculture, commerce have been greatly damaged, if the capital of Beijing, but also like the Ming Dynasty, to rely on the support of the south to the north, just to maintain such a big luck, is a huge burden, so the DPRK and the central government for the capital of Nanjing City is very high.
After all, after more than 200 years of operation in the Ming Dynasty, Beijing has been quite prosperous, and the capital is in Beijing, which can take advantage of the political convenience to restore agriculture, industry and commerce in the north more quickly, and it is also convenient to attract more refugees who have fled south to return to the north to settle down, and it is easier to attract the wealthy population of the south to migrate to the north.
In his opinion, this kind of controversy is still beneficial for him to rule the country in the future, and it is impossible for him to establish a hall of words in the middle of the dynasty, and everything is up to him, so he is tired of it, and he is estimated to be too busy, especially in the handling of government affairs, he thinks that even if he has some knowledge of later generations, he cannot be called a very qualified administratorMoreover, many things in this era are different from those of later generations, and many systems of later generations cannot be copied to this era, otherwise not only will they not have a good effect of governing the country, but they will also cause greater chaos if they are not done well.
To put it mildly, the steps can't be too big, otherwise, the steps are too big, and it's easy to get the egg, so although Xiao Tianjian knows in what direction the world will develop in the future, at least now it is not the time to fully implement the systems of the later generations, but more to imperceptibly, step by step, gradually guide the country to develop in the right direction, until one day, a new political system is established in this country.
In the past, Xiao Tianjian could still delay the matter of fixing the capital, but after he took Beijing City, he had to face this matter, so in a few days after entering Beijing, when all kinds of things were still complicated, the scholars who stayed in Nanjing began to send people to present the folds, congratulating Xiao Tianjian on the capture of Beijing City, and on the other hand, they also began to move the matter of the capital.
However, after Xiao Tianjian thought about it, he still did not finalize this matter, but temporarily ordered Lu Xiangsheng to temporarily take the position of director of the Supervision Yuan, acting as the governor of Beizhili, temporarily sitting in Shuntianfu, responsible for cleaning up the mess in the area of Beizhili.
Although Chongzhen is dead, the Ming Dynasty can be declared extinct, but for Xiao Tianjian, there is still a very important thing that has not been implemented, that is, Chongzhen's three sons, Prince Zhu Cihong, Dingwang Zhu Cijiong, and Yongwang Zhu Cizhao, after the army captured Beijing, there was no news.
But it has been ten days since he entered Beijing, but there is still no news from these three people, which makes Xiao Tianjian feel a little uneasy.
Although the eldest prince Zhu Cihong of these three people is only thirteen years old, and the youngest Yongwang Zhu Cizhao is only six years old, but their identities have nothing to do with age, no matter who they are, they are undoubtedly a heavy time bomb for the Dazhong Dynasty, once they are allowed to flee to the south, they will immediately be supported by those Ming Dynasty officials who have not yet submitted to the Dazhong Dynasty, and a small court will be established. Continue to oppose the Great Middle Kingdom.
Although Xiao Tianjian is not worried about not being able to clean up the southern provinces, after all, a unified south, compared with the separate southern provinces, once they are allowed to set up a recognized small court, it will cause great trouble for the next step of unifying the south.
So Xiao Tianjian these days, in addition to being busy "stealing money from his family", he has also been paying attention to this matter, and he also issued an edict to the world on July 20, which is the third day of his entry into Beijing, officially announcing the death of Emperor Chongzhen and the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
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