Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 795

[Chapter 795 Letter from Yanzhou]

“Let’s go, let’s see how rich the Xie family is.” Zhao Xu took back his steps towards the Golden Luan Hall.

Compared with the Jinling treasury and granaries, the Jinluan Palace is insignificant.

From now on, this place will be just an ordinary city in the south of the Yangtze River.

Following the general out of the palace, the group stopped in a courtyard not far from the palace.

This courtyard is unremarkable, and it is just a courtyard with a large courtyard when viewed from above.

But in fact, there is a mystery hidden inside, and this mystery is under the low house.

For concealment, the treasury is hidden underground.

Many places under the entire yard have been hollowed out to store silver, gold, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, antiques and other valuables.

Following the general into the middle room, and then down the stairs, seeing the things piled up in the underground secret room, Zhao Xu, Chang Wei and the others suddenly took a deep breath.

I saw that the secret room was full of wooden boxes. The lids of the wooden boxes were opened, and there were glistening silver inside.

These silver ingots are all twelve taels. According to a rough estimate, there are at least five or six million taels of silver in this secret room.

“Get rich.” Chang Wei and the others couldn’t help laughing, winking.

Zhao Xu also nodded with a smile.

Although the Xie family is not as rich as the Liang family, it is estimated to be second only to the Liang family among many wealthy families.

After the Jinling Rebellion, the Dou family looted Jinling and took away a lot of wealth.

But after the Xie family took control of Jinling, they stored their property in the national treasury.

If there were no catastrophes created by the Dou family, it is estimated that the treasury would be even more astonishing.

Immediately, everyone went to other secret rooms, and found three more secret rooms full of silver and one full of gold ingots.

The rest are jewelry, calligraphy and painting, ancient porcelain and other works of art.

Among these items, Zhao Xu also found a large number of silver ingots cast by the Han and Wang families.

This made him realize that besides the Xie family’s things in the national treasury, there might also be Han family and Wang family’s.

The soldiers of the Han family and the Wang family were under the fence, and they did not take out some things as mortgages to the Xie family.

How could the Xie family support them for nothing?

“Send more people to guard the treasury, Jiangbei’s development depends on these money.” Zhao Xu said.

For hundreds of years, Western countries have relied on plundering around the world to accumulate capital.

If Dasong wants to develop, it also needs capital.

At the moment, he took Korea and looted Japan, which is a way of accumulating capital.

Now the war going south, robbing the wealth of powerful clans, has become another way for him to accumulate capital.

Of course, he didn’t want to be so introverted.

After Jiangnan was unified, he would let the natives spit out what they ate.

They wanted Dae Song to die and he killed them.

After leaving the treasury, Zhao Xu went to the granary again.

The grain of the world comes from the Xie family, and during this war, the Xie family naturally hoarded a large amount of grain in Jinling.

After some inspections, he estimated that the food and grass in Jinling City would be enough to feed 400,000 troops for a year.

After inspecting the treasury and inspecting the granary, Zhao Xu was satisfied and boarded the city wall with the generals.

The retreat of the powerful clans not only left food, grass and wealth, but also gave them the trenches they dug.

At present, the soldiers of the royal family’s army are repairing and perfecting the trenches under the command of the general.

Relying on these ditches and Jinling’s food and grass.

Jinling City will become their first stable bridgehead going south.

“Jinling City has been taken, and the rest of the war will be left to you.” Looking at the endless field, Zhao Xu said to Chang Wei.

His most important purpose this time is to participate in the battle of crossing the river.

Now the battle of crossing the river has ended beautifully, and Jinling was taken by taking advantage of the situation.

Relying on this city, the royal family’s army gained a firm foothold in the south of the Yangtze River.

The remaining small battles can be handed over to Chang Wei and other generals.

If there is any major change again, it will not be too late for him to come to the battlefield in person.

After all, now that there are steamships, it only takes about two days to travel along the canal from Yanzhou to Jinling, which is very convenient.

“Your Highness has already led me to fight a beautiful battle, and the rest will be handed over to the junior general, who will not embarrass His Highness.” Chang Weilang said.

He reckoned that the king of Yan would go back after he defeated Jinling.

After all, there are many affairs in Jiangbei, and King Yan can’t stay out all the time, which delays the government affairs.

Zhao Xu nodded, “According to the direction in which the Shizu army fled, they should have gone to Sucheng. If you fight another fierce battle, the southern part of Ningzhou will be taken. They will never go to Songcheng Linhai.”

After a pause, he continued: “Although they are currently defeated, they must guard against arrogance and impetuosity in battle, and they must not be sloppy.” The

two were talking, when a soldier hurriedly boarded the city wall and presented a letter. Come up, “Your Highness, a letter from Yanzhou.”

“Oh?” Zhao Xu took the letter and tore it open.

After a brief glance, he laughed, “I don’t want to go back, so I have to go this time, happy event.”

“Happy event?” Chang Wei and the others looked at each other and suddenly smiled ambiguously.

Lu Chang has always been heartless, he said: “Could it be that the princess found out that you are happy?”

“Go, what nonsense.” Zhao Xu glared at him, “It’s your good deed. After a while, you can change the muskets again. ”

“Change the gun?” The generals were stunned.

Zhao Xu nodded.

This letter was sent by Wang Ying. Since he told him to develop the breech-loading gun, he has led the craftsmen to overcome the technical difficulties of the breech-loading gun day and night.

Recently, he and the craftsmen successfully assembled the bolt of the breech-loading gun using the parts made by the lathe.

This means that needle-action breech-loading guns will be mass-produced next.

In fact, speaking, according to the development process of firearms.

Needle-action breech-loading guns predate muzzle-loading rifles that use tapered bullets.

One was born in 1836 and the other in 1849, thirteen years apart.

During this period, the Dreiser rifle represented by the needle breech gun was equipped with the Prussian army, but it has been unknown.

Because the mainstream at that time was that the generals of various countries believed that the difference between a front-loading gun and a rear-loading gun was the same as whether a person eats with his mouth or his butt.

So full of contempt for breech-loading guns.

It wasn’t until the Danpu War, when the front-loading gun was beaten by the breech-loading gun, that they rectified the chaos and immediately equipped the breech-loading gun.

At present, the musket refitting of his army is also going through this process.

It’s not that he deliberately took a detour, but that the technical requirements for breech-loading guns are much higher than those for front-loading guns.

It is now capable of mass production.

But even so, with the current technology, the rifled guns currently equipped by the royal family can increase the effective range to 900 meters, while the effective range of the next breech-loaded guns will only be about 600 meters.

The reason is that the airtightness of breech-loading guns is not as good as that of front-loading guns, and there is some air leakage.

After that, the progress of breech-loading guns is less air leakage than anyone else.

But the flaws do not conceal the advantages, the breech-loading gun can shoot ten bullets per minute, and can shoot in any position, changing the situation of the war.

That’s something a front-loading gun can’t do.

When the soldiers of the royal family are equipped with these breech-loading guns, even if the Western natives crack the secret of the tapered bullets, it will not help.

(end of this chapter)