Steel Dynasty - Chapter 901

[Chapter 899 Huge Wealth]

The lights flickered in the shimmering secret room, and Lu Fei and others looked at the scene in front of them in surprise.

In front of them, there were piles of gold and silver, and there were countless copper coins. Many of the ropes holding the copper coins were even rotten.

With just this glance, Lu Fei was sure that the silver in front of him was at least six million taels, and according to Sima Ying, this was not all.

“Lu Fei, I’m really rich now. These two months are worth it, it’s worth it.” Luo Xin excitedly patted Lu Fei on the shoulder and laughed.

Lu Fei was stunned and almost drooled at his mouth.

He said to the generals around him: “You all should pay close attention to your things. If you are short of one or two pieces of silver, be careful I will pull out your skin. Each of you is holding the most advanced rifles, and most of the soldiers are still using old-fashioned rifles.” With this money, they can use the muskets.”

“Yes, commander,” the generals shouted.

After ordering the generals, Lu Fei and Luo Xin continued to follow Sima Ying to other secret rooms.

To their surprise, these secret rooms also contained a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, jade and other things.

However, this is just a warehouse for storing gold and silver in the Chu Palace.

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

A huge amount of grain and grass is stored here, and connected to the grain and grass warehouse are cotton, cloth, fur and other materials collected as taxes. In addition, they also went to see the captured property of the wealthy family.

After inspecting all the supplies in Lin’an City, Lu Fei took a deep breath and said to Luo Xin: “This time we really made a lot of money. With this food and grass, we can definitely garrison Lin’an and continue south to fight the parliamentary army from here. “

Luo Xin nodded in agreement and said, “In that case, we will quickly count the supplies and transport the seized property to Qingzhou. Now the court is short of money everywhere.”

“There are still two months to get money from the wealthy families in Chu. All the captured wealth was transported together. Now the soldiers are waiting to be equipped with Falcon rifles and this grenade, which is simply a weapon for conquering trenches. Now Sima Hao will fight in trenches. It can be seen that the merchant council is even more interested in this method of warfare. If you know it well, you must be on guard,” Lu Fei said.

After agreeing on this, the two immediately ordered the soldiers to count the wealth in Lin’an City. On the third day, they handed the number to Niu Ben who arrived.

“Just the gold and silver is 47 million taels, and other shops, houses, fields, workshops, grain, silk and other items are equivalent to 890 million taels of silver!” Niu Ben’s eyes almost bulged out.

“Old General, this is just a rough figure. More detailed counting is still going on. People used to say that the wealth of the Cao family in Dayu State is equivalent to hundreds of millions of taels of silver. Now it seems that what they said is true. This Chu State is really Too rich.”

Compared to Niu Ben, Luo Quan was much more indifferent. He said: “If Chu has been in business for more than three hundred years since its founding, it would really be okay.”

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Ben took a deep breath and said, “This gold and silver will be sorted out and shipped to Qingzhou immediately. Silk, porcelain, cloth, excess grain, copper, iron, etc. must also be shipped there 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 did not cause much damage to Lin’an City. It is estimated that Lin’an City will be restored to prosperity soon. When merchants bring steam engines to build workshops here, it is estimated that this place will soon be restored.” It can become a major trading center of Great Chongqing.”

Niu Ben was noncommittal on this issue. Compared with the north, which was raided and plundered by barbarians every year, the south has been stable and prosperous for a long time. Even after this war, the situation of the people is still worse than during the war. The north is much stronger.

Moreover, the climate in the south is warm and suitable for growing rice, and the water network is dense. As long as it settles down, the food can be restored in one season.

…

Fuzhou was once a land directly under the royal family of the Chongqing Kingdom, but for hundreds of years the Chu State has exerted influence here at all times. After the feudal kings’ rebellion, Fuzhou was nominally a royal land, but secretly it was under the rule of the King of Chu.

However, after the merchant council’s army arrived, this place quickly became the paradise of the merchant council.

At this time, Cao Kun came to Fuzhou Pier in person. He breathed a sigh of relief after seeing a merchant ship with the word “Cao” on it entering the terminal.

After the ship arrived at the dock, Cao Kun immediately asked soldiers to escort the people on the ship off.

“Earl Kerry, I said I will not let you down.” Standing next to Cao Kun was an Englishman. He was Earl Kerry, who was in charge of the British East India Company.

On Cao Kun’s right side stood Brazil Le and Richard, their eyes feverishly watching the six people coming off the boat.

“Cao Kun, we didn’t misjudge you.” Kerry glanced at Cao Kun appreciatively, and at the same time looked at Brazil Le and Richard with disgust, making no secret of their disgust for the two of them.

Now in the North American colonial war, they initially gained an absolute advantage, but the French stepped in at this time, and they chose to support the colonial dirt.

Although they are now poached by the French in America, they have the same interests in Great Chongqing.

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

Moreover, the defeat of the northern nomads and the Japanese country made them more vigilant about this, especially since the mercenaries also brought new artillery shells used by the navy of the Chongqing Kingdom.

They paid a high price of three hundred thousand pounds for this damn shell.

But in his opinion, the effort was worth it. The precise structure of this shell amazed their officers.

Because of this, they decided to focus on collecting technology and talents from the Great Chongqing Kingdom, and creating chaos became secondary.

Today, after giving the Merchant Council a lot of support, they finally got what they had dreamed of.

“Count Kerry, we French people have to pick first.” Basile said unceremoniously. The sea was too dangerous. This time Kerry arrived in Fuzhou from the interior through their East India Federation. Kerry had no choice.

Shrugging, Kerry kept a smile on his face, but in his heart he greeted all the women in France, “Of course, we will keep our promise, but you’d better keep your promise, otherwise I guarantee that none of your French ships can Go back to Europe.”

Brazil’s expression changed. He snorted and walked straight to the six people who got off the boat. After looking at them, he chose three who looked stronger.

Kerry breathed a sigh of relief. He understood what Brazil was thinking. He was probably worried that weak people would not be able to survive the drift at sea.

But he didn’t care, because the configuration of British warships was much better than that of the French.

(End of chapter)