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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 138: Unexpected

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    After a period of surprise, Xiao Yungui slowly calmed down. His upstart and shady young master's temperament came into play again, and he suddenly thought of a sentence: Don't reveal your wealth.  He asked Hong Yuner hesitantly in a low voice: "Four-eyed sister, do you want these things to be put into the holy treasury?"

    Hong Yuner came back to her senses, glanced at Xiao Yungui, and already understood what he meant.  A public sharing system currently implemented by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.  The holy treasury refers to the public treasury and the national treasury. All wealth and things in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were given by God. At the beginning, it was stipulated that only God could be called holy, so the public treasury was called the holy treasury, also known as the holy treasury system.  The holy treasury system began at the beginning of the uprising. At the beginning of the uprising, many believers of the God Worship Church took the elderly and the young to participate in the uprising.  They sold their fields and contributed all they had to the public treasury, and all food and clothing were paid for by the public treasury.  From now on, this system will be implemented in the entire army.  Gold, silver, silk, treasures, grain, etc. seized in battle must be turned over to the public treasury and cannot be kept privately. Violators will be severely fined or even beheaded.  The living needs of generals and soldiers are provided by the public treasury.  The types and standards of supply include grain, oil, and salt, which are generally supplied in equal amounts regardless of age or age; the supply of meat, cloth, and other daily necessities varies from day to day to the King of Heaven and below, but to lower-level officers and soldiers, they are not supplied every day.  In addition, grocery money and worship money are used as offerings by compradors to pray to the Heavenly Father, and are also used as pocket money. The amounts vary, but the quotas for various types of supplies are not fixed and vary according to the source of materials.  .

    The basis of the holy treasury system is selfless wealth and roughly equal distribution. Its implementation played a certain positive role in the early victory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.  It ensures the livelihood of soldiers and their families, and also attracts many poor people to participate.  But in fact, the holy treasury system is not strictly implemented.  With the military victory, more and more cities and towns were recovered, and the sources of goods were abundant. Each soldier had his own private property. The so-called principle that the law does not punish the public and people have no private property could no longer be adhered to. Therefore, it was stipulated that private possessions should not exceed five taels of silver.  .  Senior generals live in luxury and use the public treasury at will, so supply quotas gradually lose their practical significance.  In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the holy treasury system continued to be implemented in name. The holy treasury provided each king, general and soldier with their own share of food, money, and clothing. However, since most of them had private wealth and did not rely on these shares, the holy treasury  The treasury system existed in name only and transformed into a general logistics supply system.

    Judging from the stage of historical development, the private system is still in its infancy. Any egalitarian ideas and systems that want to change this objective trend can only be a beautiful and naive fantasy of the exploited.  If it is required to be implemented in practice for a long time, it will undoubtedly lead to obstacles and destruction.  From the perspective of people's ideology, the concept of private ownership that has existed for thousands of years cannot be changed by the "Taiping Regulations" prohibiting private possession of gold and silver, the Heavenly King's edict, and the Dongwang's edict requiring "public mindedness and exorcism".  .  Although farmers have a strong anti-feudal revolutionary spirit, precisely because they are farmers, they have a strong sense of private ownership and a desire to make a fortune.

    These treasures are roughly estimated to be no less than tens of millions of taels. Such a huge wealth has far exceeded the general holy treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Changsha. The books of the West Palace's military holy treasury only have more than one million taels of silver in the books. It is still possible to capture Yiyang in northern Hunan.  Earned after waiting for land.  The money Yueyang received from the Qing court treasury has not yet been accounted for, but it is still worth millions of taels. If these Wu Sangui treasures are added to it, it will definitely alarm the King of Heaven and the King of the East in Changsha. With an edict or edict, this sum  The money might have to be sent to the Changsha General Holy Treasury.  When the money reaches the holy treasury, it is not owned by the Western King or the Western Palace, but becomes owned by the entire Taiping Army. It either becomes property to support the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, or it becomes property squandered by several high-ranking kings. Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er will  Lose control over the money.

    Hong Yun'er gritted her teeth and said: "If we are sure to hide it from Changsha, we'd better find some trustworthy people and build a treasurer to manage the money." Xiao Yungui nodded heavily and said with a smile: "  Okay, we two adulterers and adulterers will work together to swallow this money!" Hong Yun'er couldn't laugh or cry, her pretty face turned red and she spat in a low voice: "We are like-minded, what kind of adulterers and adulterers are we? It's so unpleasant to hear, please think of a way quickly  Whatever happens."

    Xiao Yungui touched his chin and pondered for a moment, then looked back at Tang Erniu and the four West Palace swordsmen who were still in a daze on the other side of the stone room. The five of them were the first to come down. Li Zuoche and others were guarding outside, and they didn't know what was going on below.  There is something.

    After thinking for a moment, Xiao Yungui called Tang Erniu and the other five people over, and said: "Tang Erniu, take a brother out and invite Mr. Zuo to the government office. Remember, you two are not allowed to talk to anyone on the way.  For what you see here, just ask Mr. Zuo to come. When you get here, you can only ask Mr. Zuo to come down alone." Then Xiao Yungui said coldly: "You two, remember, this matter is related to the lives of all our soldiers and brothers in the West Palace.  , you can¡¯t reveal even a word, otherwise Heavenly Father and Brother Heavenly Brother will cause great disaster!¡±

    Tang Erniu and the other five people were startled. They didn't understand how these treasures could bring disaster. However, seeing the serious look on King Xi's face, as if he was facing a formidable enemy, they didn't dare to ask any more questions. Tang Erniu turned around and asked someone to follow him.  went.  Xiao Yungui ordered the other three people to guard the stone chamber door.He could only let Zuo Zongtang in.

    After a cup of tea, Zuo Zongtang panted heavily and followed Tang Erniu and the others down to the stone chamber. It seemed that he had jogged all the way down. When Zuo Zongtang saw the treasure in the stone chamber, he was also stunned.  I was speechless for a long time.

    After a while, Xiao Yungui coughed and told Zuo Zongtang how to find the treasure, and then he took a deep breath and said, "Everyone says that Wu Sangui was defeated after he became emperor in Hengzhou. The treasure should be in the territory of Hengzhou, and more  Some people have been looking for it for many years but have not found it. It turns out that Wu Sangui's treasure was hidden in Yuezhou, an inconspicuous place. It must be that after Wu Sangui's troops arrived at Xianghu, he wanted to continue eastward to restore Jinling, so he hoarded money, food, and firearms in Yuezhou.  The state, unfortunately, was defeated later and these things had no time to be transported away, so they had to be buried on the spot."

    Xiao Yungui said in a low voice: "Sir, now is not the time to sigh. If these treasures are transferred to the Holy Treasury of the West Palace, they will be taken away by the Changsha General Holy Treasury sooner or later. Then our West Palace will suffer a huge loss. Please give us a quick answer.  What an idea.¡±

    Zuo Zongtang stroked his beard and said, "It's easy to understand. Among the generals in the West Palace, who does the King of the West think is the most trustworthy?"

    Xiao Yungui pondered for a moment, looked at Hong Yuner, and the four-eyed girl blurted out: "Lin Fengxiang!"

    Zuo Zongtang smiled and nodded and said: "General Lin is loyal and kind, taciturn, and loyal to the King of the West. He can be entrusted with the custody of the treasure. Zuo will let Li Shourong and Wang Kaiyun be responsible for the new treasurer, General Lin  Choose trusted soldiers and horses to guard the perimeter. The treasurer is guarded by two generals, Li Zuoche and Tang Erniu, led by the Xiwang brothers. The treasurer's daily use must be approved by the Xiwang, and the two generals Li and Tang can release it. At the same time,  The Queen of the West sent Li Xuanji and Yang Dongqing as supervisors to ensure nothing goes wrong."

    At this point, Zuo Zongtang looked at the four soldiers behind Tang Erniu, and said: "These four old brothers will follow General Tang to guard the inner treasury. When transporting the treasure, they must seal the box tightly so that no one can see it.  To find out what's inside, those who know about this must monitor each other. Only when we go further can we lift this ban. When the King of the West becomes full-fledged, even if Changsha knows about this, there will be nothing he can do.  "

    Xiao Yungui nodded, and immediately ordered Tang Erniu and others to go out to find some coarse cloth and straw mats, wrap up the boxes, and find some large trucks to transport the boxes back to the backyard of the government office. Lin Fengxiang was sent to lead troops to guard the perimeter.  Tang Erniu and Li Zuoche led a hundred trusted swordsmen in the West Hall to guard the inner perimeter. Wang Kaiyun and Li Shourong, led by Zuo Zongtang, began to count the treasures.

    After three days of counting, this batch of treasure gold bars and silver ingots was converted into silver taels, totaling more than 8 million taels. The remaining pearls, jade, jade, etc. were worth about 6 million taels, totaling about 14 million taels.  It should be noted that the Qing government's current annual tax for the whole country is only 20 million taels. Later, with the addition of lijin tariffs, it will only reach 40 to 50 million taels. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its capital in Tianjing, Shi Dakai took charge of the holy treasury and was operating well with frugal food and clothing.  , the highest asset of the Holy Treasury was only eighteen million taels. It can be said that this money made the King of the West extremely wealthy for a time.

    After calming down, Xiao Yungui allocated some pearls, jade, jade and other items to Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and others, intending to let them sell them when they went to the Qing court to do business. These items would not turn into silver for Xiao Yungui and Xidian.  It is said to be useless.

    On the fourth day after finding the treasure, He Yuanlun, He Bin, Zhou Zhaoyao and other merchant ships from Sichuan came to Yuezhou. After they arrived in Yiyang, they heard that the King of the West had captured Yuezhou, so they came all the way to gather together.

    On the pier, Xiao Yungui met He Yuanlun from the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce. The old man was still in good spirits. He looked at Xiao Yungui and laughed loudly: "What a good King of the West. As expected, he has led his troops to the north. The little old man has no treasure this time."  Wrong bet."

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    He Yuanlun said with a smile: "As long as the King of the West agrees to help me clear out the influence of other chambers of commerce in Hankou, Hanyang and other places, our Baoqing Chamber of Commerce will definitely follow the King of the West's lead."

    Xiao Yungui knew that the old man was very ambitious and wanted to dominate the business in the three towns of Wuhan. However, when he entered the army, he also needed to clear out the chambers of commerce that were vassal to the Qing court. Naturally, the two of them hit it off.

    When He Yuanlun delivered more than 100,000 kilograms of sulfur, saltpeter and other materials purchased from Sichuan, Xiao Yungui ordered the firearms craftsmen in the army to receive the materials and began to re-mix the gunpowder proportions.  Although Xiao Yungui could not remember clearly the optimal ratio of black powder, he vaguely remembered that the ratio of nitrate was the largest, and the ratio of sulfur and carbon was about the same, so he asked the military firearms craftsmen to trial production according to this general direction, hoping to find the most powerful one.  The ** is coming.

    He Yuanlun stayed in Yuezhou for a few days, and after purchasing a batch of goods, he left Yuezhou and returned to Hankou first.  Xiao Yungui ordered Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and others to set off with the fleet. He Bin and Zhou Zhaoyao brought a group of Bai Zetang's men to follow Zhu Changlin.?Wei Helin set out as a helper for the two of them, but also with the intention of monitoring them.

    After the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce's fleet set off, the Xiangyin Qing army also took action. Yuezhou was captured. Zhang Liangji and Peng Yulin were afraid that they would be surrounded by the Taiping Army, so they began to redeploy their troops, but Xiao Yungui and Zuo Zongtang were  Unexpectedly, the Qing army led by Zhang Liangji, Peng Yulin, Hu Linyi and others did not go directly back north to attack Yuezhou. Instead, unexpectedly, they suddenly crossed the Xiangjiang River westward and went directly to Yiyang to attack Wei Changhui's troops in Yiyang.
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