Chapter 42 Big Asshole
After a while, Gong Xiaoda found two pocket watches, one of which was a silver watch with a silver shell, and the other was a more expensive gold watch. Not to mention the case of pure gold, when you opened the lid of the pure gold, you saw that the surface was a natural crystal surface, and the pointer was inlaid with long strips of rubies. Every scale on the dial was made of red sapphire, and the back of the watch was also engraved with foreign text, but it was neither English nor German. Zhao Peng could not see those foreign texts, so he could only roughly understand that it was a pocket watch made in Geneva.
Then, Zhao Peng quickly found another good thing: it was a tube made of gold, but Zhao Peng knew that the thing was actually a telescope, which was called Qianli Milestone back then. However, this Li family was really luxurious, and it actually made Qianli Milestone made of gold and crystal.
In addition to the Qianli Miles used by the head of the family, Zhao Peng also found three pairs of copper Qianli Miles. This thing was originally a good thing for the army, but was used by the Li family as a toy for entertainment. It was probably because some young masters and young men in the mansion took the Qianli Miles to peep at which beautiful little maid changed their clothes. Zhao Peng thought to himself very vulgar.
"Everyone move quickly, take as much gold as possible, and don't take anything else!" Zhao Peng shouted.
The Jinyiwei tried hard to put the gold in his arms. Because the military orders were like mountains, they could only give up the jewels and jade that were dazzling, and only put the gold in it. However, there was too much gold in the Li family, and the Jinyiwei could not take it all away, so Zhao Peng could only order them: "Don't take too much, everyone hides the gold, don't let the friendly troops see it."
At this time, a noise came from outside, and Shunjun rushed in.
Li Jiaguo originally commanded the servants and tenants to block the gap and drove the Shun Army out again and again. Who knew that the backyard was taken over by the Jinyiwei, and the servants and tenants who were unwilling to fight were defeated in an instant. Li Jiaguo, who was over 60 years old, also died in the chaos. He defeated the enemy in front of him, and the excited Shun Army soldiers rushed in with their blood-red eyes.
Li Laiheng walked up to Zhao Peng and patted his shoulder with a smile: "Brother, you are really not interested enough! We were fighting hard outside to hit the gap, but you sneaked in and snatch things!"
Zhao Peng laughed: "General Li, if I hadn't brought someone to attack me on the side, I'm afraid the gap hadn't been taken down at this time, right? I didn't get anything in my hand, so I let my brothers take some things on their own. Aren't most of the things still there? General Li, your people can also take them away. Take some of them first, and then share the rest to General Gao."
Li Laiheng nodded knowingly and laughed randomly: "Okay! Brother Zhao really has vision! Gao Yigong's guy didn't work hard a few days ago, so he came to grab things today! If he hadn't seen him as an elder, he would have turned against him long ago!"
In fact, Li Laiheng knew very well that since Zhao Peng came in one step in advance, he would definitely embezzle some things, but it doesn't matter. It is a rule on the battlefield that the army that attacks the city first makes more profits. Moreover, there are not many people on Zhao Peng and he can't take much of it. Gao Yigong, who really takes advantage of it, is outside. Let the brothers hurry in and grab it. If you have too many guns, you will make a profit, and you will share the rest.
At this time, Hao Yaoqi asked, pointing to the trembling men, women, and young people kneeling on the ground: "General, what should those people do?"
"What should I do?" Li Laiheng glared at his eyes, "Old rules!"
The so-called old rule is to kill a woman and keep her. Li Laiheng's words determine the lives of thousands of male men in the mansion. This seems to be a little cruel, but this is not the time to talk about the kindness of women. Even if Zhao Peng decides by himself, he will give the same order as Li Laiheng. Those male men already have a deep hatred for Shunjun and Jinyiwei, and keeping them is a future trouble. Once the Qing soldiers enter the pass, these people will soon transform into the Qing army in the Green Camp.
Although most of the tenants and slaves were innocent, there was no time to select them one by one at this time? The best way was to cut them all indiscriminately, so as not to keep them and waste food.
The gold, silver and treasures collected by the Shunjun from the Li family's mansion were shocking. The silver alone was as high as 8 million taels! There were nearly one million taels of gold, countless jewelry, jade, calligraphy and paintings, and antiques.
Gao Yigong sighed: "I thought Chen Yan was already rich enough to compete with the country, but I didn't expect that comparing with the Li family and country, it would be a witch!"
Zhao Peng said: "When Li Sancai died, he had left more than 6 million taels of silver. Although Li Sancai died, the network of relationships and business empire he left behind were there. The Li family made another five million taels in the past twenty years, and Li Sancai was the governor of the grain transport for twenty years and only earned six million taels. In fact, they are still not as good as Chen Yan, who has only been the chief minister for a few months. It should be said that if the Li family and Chen Yan, the loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, are a witch!"
Li Laiheng said angrily: "This guy Chen Yan should have killed him! The big and small family of labor and capital starved to death, and I was the only one who was lucky enough to meet my adopted father and survived! This guy only had the first assistant for a few months, and he actually had five million taels of silver!"
Poor Chongzhen even had patches of dragon robe, and he ate the simplest food every day. The palace treasury was so empty that rats were about to run away, but the officials under his command were all rich enough to rival the country. When Chongzhen asked all officials to donate their salaries, everyone cried poorly. The Ming Dynasty had been raising scholars for nearly three hundred years, but it raised a group of dog things that were heartbroken.
In fact, Zhao Peng was not a person who hated the rich in his previous life, but he believed that the rich people who rely on their own efforts should deserve respect from others, but how did the gentry of the Ming Dynasty get rich? They used secretly to amend the rules of the Ming Dynasty and did not pay taxes to absorb the blood and sweat of the people, and borered the country. Then these people deserve to die! The Ming Dynasty was so decayed that it was indeed time to perish. However, the demise of the Ming Dynasty allowed the Tartars outside the pass to take advantage of it and steal the country of China, which led to China starting to lag far behind the West. This is the saddest thing.
In addition to collecting huge amounts of gold, silver and treasures and various rare treasures, the Li family also collected a large amount of grain, reaching a shocking 30,000 stones! Opening the Li Mansion granary, there were mountains of rice and flour. The bottom grain had been stored for many years and had begun to age and mold. In addition to grain, there were also a large amount of precious wood such as mahogany and sandalwood in the Li Mansion warehouse.
Li Laiheng said angrily: "There are so much surplus food hidden in these borers! If these foods were transported to the northwest for disaster relief that year, Li's family would not have starved to death. Why would the people rebel?"
Yes, the Chinese people are the most honest. Who is willing to rebel as long as they have a bite of food? But these worms force the people to a dead end, so the people can only be willing to be in peace with kings, princes, generals and ministers. At that time, what will greet the bureaucrats and gentry will be the anger of the people. In the end, they can only hold their wealth and be swallowed by the anger of the people.
The eight million taels of silver found by the Li family were divided into ten parts, each of which was 800,000 taels. Zhao Peng took three parts, 2.4 million taels, Li Guo and the others took four million taels, and Gao Yigong took one and six million taels. Zhao Peng took 160,000 taels of gold, and the remaining Li Guo and Gao Yigong were divided. For other jewelry, jade, calligraphy and paintings, antiques, sandalwood, mahogany and so on, Zhao Peng took only a small part of the jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and the rest were given to Li Guo and Gao Yigong very generously; and Zhao Peng only gave to Li Guo and Gao Yigong 30,000 s of grain, and Zhao Peng only took two thousand stones, and the remaining one was generously given to Li Guo and Gao Yigong. As for the female family in the mansion, they were generously given to Li Guo and Gao Yigong.
Zhao Peng's distribution made Li Guo and Gao Yigong very satisfied because they got the big shot. Li Guo and Gao Yigong, who had benefited, praised Zhao Peng for his sensibility.
In fact, Zhao Peng ordered the Jinyiwei to hide more than 100,000 taels of gold secretly. The more than 2,000 Jinyiwei he brought in, each of them hidden more than 50 taels of gold. On the surface, it seems that Zhao Peng didn't want those jewelry and antiques and other things to suffer, but in fact he didn't suffer any loss, because in the troubled times, those things are not easy to take action, and it is not as realistic as gold.
Chapter completed!