Chapter 739: Chiku
Looting is always the most exciting time for the winning side.
With the orderly deepening of the Xiaba coalition army, the good news kept coming, Tuoba Xiongxin did not seem to have left any dead soldiers to deliberately destroy, except for some firearms armory and grain and grass storehouses that were burned at the beginning of the battle, all the warehouses in the city of Dar and the mansions of those Tuoba magnates and the warehouses of the large trading houses controlled by the Tuoba clan were still in good condition.
In addition to these Tuoba clan's family backgrounds, according to Lin Yi and Shaba Ying's intentions, all the residences and shops of the rest of the merchants and ordinary families in the city have been protected, even the kind of residences where the whole family unfortunately died in this war, they have also been sealed, and the Shaba clan will try to find the relatives and friends of these people when the time comes.
As for all the Tuoba clan sergeants who surrendered, including the residences of which generals, they were also protected, and Xia Ba Ying's approach immediately made these Tuoba clan sergeants grateful.
Among the Tuoba army that surrendered were many of the Tuoba Clan's high-ranking generals, and several of them even quickly drew up a map and list of the locations of almost all the warehouses in the entire Dar City, large and small, and what was in them.
Although he had long known that Darban City was one of the most important cities of the Tuoba clan and even the party, especially as a trade center, the Tuoba clan must have hoarded an astonishing amount of resources in this city, but the few high-ranking generals of the Shaba clan who first saw this list still had a feeling of blindness.
The Shaba clan is notoriously wealthy in the entire party and the Western Regions, but when they see this list, in terms of money alone, these Shaba generals feel ashamed of themselves.
Even like a dream, knowing that these Tuoba clan generals who were already in awe of Lin Yi to the extreme could not be deceived in front of Lin Yi and Xia Baying, but they were all a little skeptical that what was written on this list was true.
Except for a few alpine lakes that are freshwater lakes, many of the lakes are formed by glacial meltwater, which slowly seeps down from the extremely high snow-capped mountains, so they either dissolve a large number of rock components, or bring a lot of mineral salt, so that most of them are salt lakes, and some of them, although they are not salt lakes, are also dead lakes that do not produce any fish and shellfish like lime water.
The rarer it is, the more precious it is, so pearls, shells of some rare shellfish, and rare corals have always been the top currency in circulation in Dangxiang and the Western Regions.
What's more, the raw material of some beads of the Shaba tribe itself has powder made from pearls and coral.
But on this list, the Tuoba clan actually has three storehouses in the city of Darban that are used to store pearls and corals of all colors!
According to the descriptions of these Tuoba clan generals, according to the size of these treasury, these high-ranking generals of the Xiaba clan felt that even if all these treasures of the entire Xiaba clan were piled up, they might not be able to fill one of the treasury.
In addition, there are three warehouses in the city of Dar that are specially used to store turquoise and imperial bluestone and all kinds of beautiful jade!
When Buddhism in the Western Regions first spread to the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuyuhun and Dangxiang, most of the ritual utensils carried by many missionary monks were inlaid with turquoise, which was considered by these monks and believers to have a unique blessing effect, and could be blessed by the Buddha if worn for a long time.
Many scholars of the Southern Dynasties initially studied the spread of Buddhism in the Western Regions, and many of the notes they left behind were full of malicious speculations, thinking that these missionary monks in the Western Regions were probably playing tricks.
These scholars all speculated whether this kind of thing was actually quite abundant in the Western Regions, and after they gave it such a meaning, it naturally became a sacred gem with an astonishing value. In this way, these monks can take out some of them at will, and they can solve the wealth and silk they need to walk.
But later many facts confirmed that in fact, this kind of turquoise is very little produced in the Western Regions, on the contrary, there are some ore veins found in the territory of the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty, but most of them are associated with iron ore and copper ore, one is that there is not much quantity of mining, and the other is that the surface of this turquoise ore is often wrapped with black mud or stone crust, which is selected from these ores, which requires a lot of manpower.
After this confirmation, after Buddhism gradually became popular in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, this turquoise was also of astonishing value in the Southern and Northern Wei Dynasties.
Turquoise, which is considered by Buddhism in the Western Regions to be a gemstone with blessing power, is unique in color, and with long-term wear, the longer the contact time of people's qi and blood, the more warm it will be, and the color will also have a strange change.
But the fewer impurities and the more beautiful the color of the turquoise, the more amazing the natural price is.
Most of the turquoise stones piled up in the Tuoba storehouse of this Dadar city are the kind of gems with extremely high clarity and extremely blue, which are known as the best gems of the Blue Beauty in the Western Regions.
As for the imperial bluestone, it is indeed produced in large quantities in the Western Regions, the Southern Dynasty is generally called lapis lazuli, this ore in the Western Regions is surviving in an amazing amount, but most of them are blue and purple with dots of white gold, this common lapis lazuli price is low, but there are also the best, it is pure blue purple, and even deep purple and purple black.
Rare is expensive, this so-called gemstone is not recognized by the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty, and not many people will spend a lot of money to buy, but it is very popular in the Western Regions, and this kind of imperial bluestone is used to do business with some kingdoms in the Western Regions, which is treated with pearls.
These Xiaba generals roughly estimated that if all the treasures in these warehouses could be sold, I am afraid that they could at least feed tens of thousands of elite troops.
In addition to these treasures, some ordinary armor and ordnance hoarded by the Tuoba clan in the city of Darban, as well as refined black iron and refined copper from the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty, are also in an astonishing amount, and there is a storehouse area called Twenty-Three Rooms.
Of these twenty or thirty storehouses, only four or five were not full at this time.
This kind of treasure and war materials of this kind of level, Lin Yi couldn't imagine it at all.
He intuitively felt that the collection and accumulation of these royal families of the party for countless years was too ruthless, and if it were not for this kind of scraping and the bitter cold of the plateau of the party itself, the population of the party would have been really unable to rise, otherwise the party would have become a great disaster for the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty.
However, on this list, what attracted him and Bai Yuelu, Xia Ba Ying and others the most were two of the warehouses.
A treasury is directly called a library, and according to these high-ranking generals of the Tuoba clan, it is a place where all kinds of classics are piled up. These texts are very complicated, and many of them have been looted from the practice grounds.
Another storehouse is called the antiquities storehouse, which was originally just a collection of rare antiques, but later it was mostly piled up with some old objects or strange things of unknown origin and unknown use, but they seemed to have some strange things.