Siena's wealth is far beyond Marin's imagination. Before, Marin grabbed gold bricks, silver bars, gold coins, silver coins, and the soldiers' remaining copper coins, which were nearly 1 million gold coins, which was probably similar to Karamothi.

However, after actually sending people to steal the big customers and shops in the city, Marin realized that the wealth of Siena Bank was not the big one of Siena City.

The Republic of Siena is a commercial republic in Italy with hundreds of years of history known for its trade and finance. Although it is not as good as the annual fiscal revenue of more than one million gold coins in the Republic of Venice, there are many wealthy households in the city.

Moreover, in this era, European commercial tax was levied on physical trade as the standard. It has three professional terms, namely "pound tax", "tonnage tax" and "output tax". It mainly involves tax officials collecting corresponding taxes based on the quantity of goods and the estimated unit price. In addition to these physical taxes, it is the "tith tax" of the church.

But in a financial city like Siena, the financial industry does not involve physical taxes. The "tith tax" is mainly aimed at the output of land acres. Because private financial trade cannot be monitored at all, so naturally there is no tax collection. Financing the transaction is completed by issuing a few notes in private. How do you monitor it? Therefore, Siena is so prosperous and rich, and the annual tax revenue is only more than 300,000 gold coins, which is still because it swallows a lot of "tith taxes". But as far as the small state of the Republic of Siena is concerned, it is not short of money at all.

From those wealthy families, the soldiers carried out boxes filled with gold and silver coins. Except for the churches in the city, all the conspicuous buildings in the city were basically looted by the soldiers. Even the bishops' private houses in the city were looted.

Unlike the teachings in other places, the church in the Republic of Siena has long been disinterested from the Holy See. Although it is close to Rome, because of the terrain, the local governments and churches do not miss the Holy See at all. Therefore, the Holy See never regards the priests of the Siena Republic as their own people. Since the citizens of Siena deprived the local bishop of the local bishop in 1167, the local church has been out of the control of the Holy See. Therefore, before coming, Julius II said that the priests in Siena are just scum of the church, and can be dealt with at will as long as they are not killed.

Therefore, this time, Marin focused on the private houses of some local bishops and monasteries, and indeed carried out many boxes full of gold and silver.

In order to this looting, Marin also conducted special search training for some officers. For example, in those luxury houses, you must push the bookshelf in the study, turn the metal lamps, turn the bed to see if there is a pull ring under the bed... and even search the toilet...

Then, the team leaders of the search team who obtained the true teachings of Marin really found many secret rooms and found many treasure chests...

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"No, that's the savings of our family for hundreds of years!" The patriarch of a banker family shouted excitedly when he saw more than a dozen treasure chests found in the secret room in the study!

This family has been searched for nearly 200,000 gold coins in cash in the bank. Unexpectedly, there is still almost a lot of money hidden in the family. No wonder, it is normal for others to open a bank for hundreds of years, and it is normal for them to have a thicker family. A family that opens a bank must have to keep some help, otherwise it will be ruined if someone maliciously runs. Private banks are not like the Chinese banks in later China. When the bank is run, they can mobilize funds from other branches. Or, simply let the superiors order ban the run. If they are shameless, they can print more paper money... Therefore, the bank will not easily collapse unless the regime is overthrown.

Private banks are different. The survival of private banks is credibility. Otherwise, no one is willing to keep money here. Moreover, because of long-term lending, the cash in the bank is often insufficient. As long as there is a run and the banker cannot afford to deal with it, the bank will go bankrupt. Therefore, cautious bankers often leave some back-ups to avoid being plotted against by competitors.

Therefore, in the private homes of more than a dozen bankers in the city, they will basically leave some backups, usually hidden in their own homes. This is different from bank reserves, which is the final guarantee measure. In addition, some are considered wealth accumulated by the family.

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Another point is that since the republic was declared in 1167, the city of Siena has never been broken or looted. The only war with Florence in 1260 was won, and the biggest disaster was the Black Death in 1348.

However, the city of Siena has never been broken, so it can be said to have flourished for hundreds of years. Most of the wealthy families in the city have saved hundreds of years. Moreover, many families will build secret rooms to hide treasures. If it were ordinary troops, even if they searched in, they might not be able to find the treasure secret room.

But this time they met an opponent...

Ma Lin has watched many TV series in his previous life, and has seen more and more strange hidden secret rooms. For example, the plot of moving iron bowls in Niujia Village in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", what are the plots of pushing bookshelfs, the plots of turning torches... and even the plots of the secret room of the pit...

Ma Lin told dozens of loyal and smart middle and lower-level officers under his command to search the century-old clans according to their instructions. Sure enough, he found many secret rooms...

What made Malin laugh and cry was that there were two families who set up secret rooms by the edge of the pit. Moreover, these two families who hid their secret rooms in the secret rooms of the pit had a very thick family. But now, they all belonged to Malin...

There is also a family secret room that is also cleverly disguised - their family treasure secret room is under the base of the statue of Jesus in the family hall...

I have to say that the people in this family are very smart, because Europe is currently a place where Christianity predominates. Generally speaking, no one dares to move the statue of Jesus casually. If the church knows it, you will definitely be a "heretic"...

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! But I am so desperate. The team leader who led the team once heard Ma Lin tell the story of "Liancheng Jue". In "Liancheng Jue", the treasure is the great golden Buddha and the treasure secret room under the base of the golden Buddha's lotus...

The captain named Hans felt strange when he saw the head of the family sitting calmly in front of the statue of Jesus and praying. Then he remembered the plot in "Liancheng Jue", and guessed that the old man, the head of the family, cared so much about this statue of Jesus, wouldn't it be hidden under the statue of treasure? Or, the statue of God itself was made of gold and was covered with mud on it?

Then, Hans stepped forward curiously and knocked on the statue of Jesus with his hand. As a result, there was no metal echo, and it seemed that it was a real stone statue...

But at this moment, the old man who was originally sitting there praying was excited:

"Stop! Are you going to blaspheme the gods?"

Hans was stunned, but then he was overjoyed. Because, when Marin trained them before, he said that when the other person's head of the family was excited to not let you touch something, you must check it out carefully. Moreover, this is very "Liancheng Jue"...

So Hans excitedly stepped forward and groped up and down to find the statue of Jesus. Finally, he hugged the statue of Jesus, turned left and right, and found the entrance to the treasure secret room...

Seeing that the family treasure secret room was exposed, the old man fainted on the spot. And Hans also found a large amount of gold, silver and treasures from the treasure secret room...

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When boxes of gold, silver and treasures were transported to the compound where Marin was located, Marin was shocked - is this the foundation of Siena for hundreds of years?

Then, Marin had a sudden idea and took people to search in the large yard he had seized, and actually found a small secret room. Although only a box of silver coins was found, Marin was extremely happy.

Finally, after statistics, the total value of gold, silver and treasures found from the wealthy families in Siena is estimated to be more than 1.5 million gold coins. As for copper coins, there are not many. After all, these wealthy families do not use copper coins very much. However, in the civilians, there may be more copper coins. But Marin is unwilling to loot the civilians, so when only searching for wealthy families, the copper coins are only worth more than 100,000 gold coins. But although the value is low, the total number is really large.

Marlin was in a good mood. With a wave of his hand, he asked his soldiers to share the copper coins. After all, he had already taken the big head, and he had to give the small head a happy one...

With the cash of nearly 1 million gold coins snatched from the Siena Bank vault, this time, the city of Siena was robbed and the copper coins worth more than 100,000 gold coins deducted to the soldiers, Marin obtained a huge wealth worth more than 2.3 million Ducat gold coins in total.

Moreover, this is only the value of gold, silver and copper coins. The various artworks stolen from the homes of those wealthy families are probably worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins...

"I made a fortune, I made a fortune..."
Chapter completed!