In the early morning of the next day, the gate of Yiling City was opened, and the Wei Wu army had already controlled the city, and Gao Yihuan entered Yiling City surrounded by all the generals.

Last night, Sun Kewang slipped away overnight, because he was afraid of being discovered by Gao Yihuan, so he did not destroy Yiling City, but Gao Yihuan entered the street, and the city was still deserted, with doors closed on both sides, and occasionally the windows opened, but they were also closed immediately, and there was a whisper.

Yiling City, like Jingzhou, did not have many residents in the city, but Gao Yihuan still asked people to go to Zhangbang to calm the people, and ordered the storage of warehouses and the arrest of the remaining Western troops in the city.

Since Yiling is in hand, only a small number of elite soldiers need to be stationed to prevent the Western Army from leaving Sichuan, and the Wei army in Jingzhou only needs to guard against the Ming army in Wuchang and Hunan, and Gao Yihuan does not need to leave too many troops.

Now Gao Yihuan has an army of 100,000, with 30,000 to guard against the Western Army and the Ming Army, and the remaining 70,000 can be used to deal with the Qing army's southward advance.

With this 70,000 army, Gao Yihuan felt that although his strength was still far inferior to that of the Qing army, it was not worse than Wu Sangui.

Although Sun Kewang left, he still made Gao Yihuan very satisfied with taking Yiling Prefecture.

At this time, he rode into the city, and a cavalryman galloped forward and reported in a loud voice, "Great Marshal, General Zhao has discovered the place where the Western Army hides silver!" ”

"Where?" Gao Yihuan raised his eyebrows, and his heart moved.

"In a big pond in the East Side!"

When Gao Yihuan heard this, he immediately turned his horse's head and ran towards Dongcheng with the cavalry.

After a short time, everyone came to the edge of a pond with about 20 acres, and saw many Wei soldiers jumping into the water, swimming in the middle of the pond, burrowing into the water from time to time, and then tying the box that sank into the water with a rope, and the soldiers on the boat struggled to pull it up.

Gao Yihuan looked towards the shore and saw that ten salvaged boxes had been sent to the shore, full of silver.

This made Gao Yihuan happy, he didn't expect that he copied Sun Kewang for one million taels in Jingzhou, and then Yiling could actually seize a sum, Sun Kewang is really a good hand at collecting money.

At this time, Zhao Zhuzi, who was directing the salvage, walked over with his arms hanging and said with a smile: "Handsome! ”

Gao Yi smiled and pointed to the silver box and said, "How did you find this?" ”

"There were a few deserters from the Western Army, sneaky next to the pond, and were caught by the last general's people, and as a result, I didn't expect to learn from them that Sun Kewang had sunk the silver to the heart of the pond." Zhao Zhuzi said excitedly.

"How much silver has been sunk?" Gao Yihuan was very interested, "What about the captured soldiers?" ”

"These deserters from the Western Army are estimated to have participated in Shen Yin, and then slipped away while the Western Army was retreating, wanting to quietly take some silver, but they were too anxious." Zhao Zhuzi replied: "After the humble post was caught, it was given to Xuanyiwei's brothers, and it is said that two of the three were killed, and one was also abolished. However, when the news came out, there were about more than 200,000 taels. ”

More than 200,000 taels, enough for him to spend 100,000 horses, a month's expenses.

Gao Yihuan couldn't help laughing, "Haha~ It seems that Sun Kewang is very ruthless in accumulating wealth!" ”

At the moment, Gao Yihuan was very interested in watching the soldiers salvage, until someone came to report that a lot of grain was found in the grain depot, so Gao Yihuan took a horse and left and went to the grain depot to check.

Subsequently, Gao Yihuan searched a lot of property in Sun Kewang's home.

Among them, there are not only gold, silver and jade, but also many utensils, antiques, treasures, and more unique classics, calligraphy and paintings of the previous generation, the value is immeasurable, which makes Gao Yihuan surprised for a while, but I didn't expect Lao Sun, a leader of the rogues, to be interested in these things.

Most of these things were copied by the Western Army and obtained from several palaces, and Zhang Xianzhong brought them to Yiling when he entered Sichuan, and finally the road was not good, so he left these cultural relics, including some gold and silver, in Yiling.

Later, a batch of silver was transported by Sun Kewang to Jingzhou, and these things have been in Yiling.

Gao Yihuan was at Sun Kewang's residence, commanded his subordinates to load the car, took good care of it, and only came to the mansion at noon to deal with many aftermath matters.

At this time, a soldier at the door reported: "Dashuai, a few village elders have come to ask for a meeting." ”

Gao Yihuan frowned slightly, he didn't really want to see these squires.

When he conquered Jingzhou, Gao Yihuan's identity was still Dashun Wei Hou, and Wei Wujun was also a branch of the Shun army.

However, after Gao Yihuan accepted Zhao'an, the originally cautious squires became more emboldened and began to make demands on Gao Yihuan, hoping to return Sun Kewang's assets that they had embezzled, abolish the current tax law, and return to the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

This made Gao Yihuan's heart raise a trace of vigilance, for him, the gentry is just a tool, it is used to maintain the rule, and it can give certain benefits, but it must be content, not too greedy.

If they not only fail to maintain their rule, but become a cancerous mass, then he must eradicate them.

Gao Yihuan could probably guess that these people came to him to say something, and he didn't want to see it, but in the end he nodded, "Let them wait in the lobby, Ben Shuai will come later." ”

At this time, several squires and landlords were led to the lobby. They are all big families in Yiling Prefecture, Sun Kewang is not very polite to them, not only was he forced to pay a large amount of money and food to help them, his family wealth was almost hollowed out, and even his own land was rented, but Sun Kewang had to interfere, and life can be said to be quite miserable.

Now that the Ming army has come back, these squires who were hiding immediately formed a group to return to their hometowns.

At this time, there were more than a dozen people sitting in the hall, and the big families in Yiling's four miles and eight townships, as well as the leading people with heads and faces, basically came to the county office.

Now that Gao Yihuan has not arrived, several people are sitting and talking in a low voice, discussing how to get their things back.

Everyone was talking in twos and threes, and there was a commotion in the hall, and an old man suddenly stood up, coughed, and stretched out his hand to press down, making everyone quiet.

This old man's name is Chen Zhonglian, he once worked as an official in the imperial court, and he has returned to his hometown with a seven-grade imperial history, and it has been nearly ten years.

Because he was born as a Taiwanese official, although he stepped down, his colleagues were a lot old, and local officials did not dare to offend, and all the governors of the county had to meet him after taking office, even if the prefect had to give him face.

Because of this identity, he can be said to be the leader of Yiling and even the gentry of Jingzhou.

At this time, everyone saw that Chen Zhonglian was about to speak, and everyone quieted down, and he said slowly: "I heard just now that the official army found a lot of silver in the big lotus pond in Dongcheng, presumably it was Sun Thief who looted us and other things, but this tall and handsome man who entered the city is said to be not a good person, so we don't want this silver, it should be a reward for the army!" ”

"In this world, soldiers are like bandits, what Chen Lao said is reasonable, we don't want silver! But the property, shops, and land in the city must be returned to us! Everyone nodded.

Chen Zhonglian smiled: "Yes, this is the focus of our visit today. As long as the family business is there, the money is gone, and you can still earn it back. The food is gone, and the rent is more, and in a few years, everyone will be able to recover again. ”

Saying that, he glanced at everyone and instructed: "This tall and handsome man is also from a rogue background, you can speak carefully, if you can't speak, just keep your mouth shut and let the old man talk to him!" ”

Chen Zhonglian didn't know Gao Yihuan very well, and after he resigned, he didn't care much about the affairs of the world, and only paid attention to his own one-third of an acre.

Although Gao Yihuan is very powerful now, in Chen Zhonglian's eyes, he is just a rogue after all, and he is estimated to have no culture, so he is full of confidence.

(Thank you to the big guy for not needing a perfect 10,000 reward in his life, to become the protector of this book, and thank the big guy for his support.) ）

(End of chapter)