The lights flickered in the faint light of the secret room, and Lu Fei and the others looked at the scene in front of them in surprise. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In front of them, there were piles of gold and silver, and there were countless copper coins, and many of the ropes on which they wore copper coins were rotten.

With just this glance, Lu Fei could be sure that the silver in front of him was at least six million taels, and in Sima Ying's mouth, these were not all.

"Lu Fei, I'm really rich now, these two months are worth it, it's worth it." Luo Xin patted Lu Fei's shoulder excitedly and laughed.

Lu Fei was dumbfounded, and his saliva almost remained.

He said to the generals around him: "You all keep a close eye on my things, if there is a silver tael missing, be careful that Lao Tzu plucks your skin, you all have the most advanced rifles, and most of the soldiers are still using old-fashioned muskets, with this silver they can use it." ”

"Yes, Captain." The generals shouted.

Commanding a group of generals, Lu Fei and Luo Xin continued to follow Sima Ying to other secret rooms.

To their surprise, these chambers also contained a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, jade and the like.

However, this was only a treasury for gold and silver in the palace of the king of Chu.

Then everyone followed Sima Ying to the granary in the city.

Huge quantities of grain and grass were stored here, and along with the grain and grass warehouses were cotton, cloth, furs, and other materials collected as taxes, and in addition to this, they went to see the seized property of the wealthy families.

After inspecting all the materials in Lin'an City, Lu Fei took a deep breath, and he said to Luo Xin: "This time it is really a big profit, with this grain and grass, we can completely garrison Lin'an, and continue to fight the parliamentary army in the south from here." ”

Luo Xin nodded in agreement, and he said: "In this case, let's quickly count the materials and transport the seized property to Qingzhou, now the imperial court is short of money everywhere." ”

"There are still two months of wealth seized from the Chu Di Hao clan all transported over, and now the soldiers are waiting to be equipped with falcon rifles, as well as this grenade, it is simply a sharp weapon to capture the trench, and now Sima Hao will fight in the trench, it can be seen that the merchant council knows this kind of tactics very well, and it must be guarded against." Lu Fei said.

At this time, the two immediately ordered the soldiers to count the wealth in Lin'an City, and on the third day they handed over the amount to the arriving Niu Ben.

"Gold and silver alone are 47 million taels, and other shops, houses, fields, workshops, grain, silk, and other things are equivalent to 890 million taels of silver!" Niu Ben's eyes almost popped out.

"Old general, this is just an approximate number, more detailed is still continuing to count, in the past, people said that the Cao family's wealth in the Great Yu Kingdom is equivalent to hundreds of millions of taels of silver, but now it seems that what is said is true, this Chu State is too rich."

Compared with Niu Ben, Luo Quan was much more indifferent, he said: "The Chu State has been operating since its establishment for more than 300 years, if there is no such wealth, then it is really in the past." ”

Niu Ben took a deep breath, and he said: "This gold and silver will be sorted out and shipped to Qingzhou immediately, and silk, porcelain, cloth, excess grain and grass, copper, iron, etc. should also be transported as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, General." Lu Fei and Luo Xin responded.

Luo Quan looked at the streets of Lin'an at this time and said: "Yes, this war has not caused much damage to Lin'an City, it is estimated that it will soon be able to restore prosperity, and when merchants set up workshops here with steam engines, it is estimated that this place will soon become an important place for commerce and trade in Dayu." ”

Niu Ben was noncommittal on this issue, compared to the north being attacked and plundered by barbarians every year, the south has been stable and rich for a long time, even after this war, but the situation of the people is still much stronger than the north during the war.

In addition, the warm climate in the south is suitable for rice cultivation, and the water network is dense, as long as it settles down, the grain can recover in a season.

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Fuzhou, which used to be the direct land of the royal family of the Great Yu Kingdom, but for hundreds of years, the State of Chu has exerted influence here all the time, after the rebellion of the vassal kings, Fuzhou was nominally the royal land, but secretly it has been under the rule of the King of Chu.

However, after the arrival of the Merchants' Council's troops, it quickly became a paradise for the Merchants' Council.

At this time, Cao Kun came in person on the dock of Fuzhou, and he breathed a sigh of relief after seeing a merchant ship with the character Cao on it enter the wharf.

As soon as the ship arrived at the dock, Cao Kun asked the soldiers to escort the people on board down.

"Count Kerry, I said I wouldn't disappoint you." Standing beside Cao Kun was an Englishman, who was none other than Earl Kerry, who was in charge of the British East India Company.

To the right of Cao Kun stood Basil and Richard, their eyes feverishly watching the six men who had disembarked from the boat.

"Cao Kun, we didn't misunderstand you." Kerry looked at Cao Kun appreciatively, and at the same time at Bassio and Richard in disgust, making no secret of their dislike for the two.

Now in the North American Colonial War they had an absolute advantage at the beginning, but the French intervened at this time, and they chose to support the colonies.

Although they are now being dug up by the French in the Americas, they have the same interests in the Great Chongqing Kingdom.

The French did not want to lose their Commonwealth of East Indochina, while they did not want to lose their British India, Malacca and Australia.

Moreover, the defeat of the northern nomads and the Wa kingdom made them even more wary of this, especially since the mercenaries brought new types of shells used by the navy of the Great Chongqing State.

For this damn shell, they paid a hefty price of three hundred thousand pounds.

However, in his opinion, the effort was worth it, and the intricate structure of the shells amazed their officers.

Because of this, they decided to focus on collecting the technology and talent of the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and causing chaos was reduced to second place.

Today, after giving a lot of support to the Merchant Council, they finally got what they were looking for.

"Count Cree, we French have to pick first." Brazil said unceremoniously that the sea was too dangerous, and this time Kerry arrived in Fuzhou from the inland through their East Indies Federation, and Kerry had no choice.

Shrugging his shoulders, Kerry kept a smile on his face, but in his heart he greeted the entire French family, "Of course, we will keep our promises, but you had better keep your promises, otherwise I guarantee that none of your French ships will return to Europe." ”

Basil's face changed, and with a snort, he walked straight to the six people who got off the boat, and after looking at them, he chose three that looked stronger.

Kerry breathed a sigh of relief, he understood what Brazil was thinking, and he was afraid that the weak would not be able to survive the sea.

But he didn't care, because the British battleships were much more clever than the French.