Chapter 138 Surprise
After a surprise, Xiao Yungui slowly calmed down. His nouveau riche and black-bellied young master acted again. He suddenly thought of a sentence, saying that Cai should not be exposed. He asked Hong Yuner in a low voice and hesitantly: "Four-eyed girl, should these things be filled into the Holy Library?"
Hong Yuner came back to her senses and looked at Xiao Yungui, and understood what he meant. At present, a public sharing system was implemented in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Holy Kingdom is the public treasury, the national treasury. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gave all wealth and things to God. At the beginning, it was stipulated that only God was called a holy, so the Gongkuan was called a holy treasury, also known as the Holy treasury system. The Holy treasury system began at the beginning of the uprising. When the uprising began, God worshipped the believers who brought the elderly and helped the young and participated in the family. They sold their land and each dedicated everything to the public treasury. All the food and clothing of people were spent on the public treasury. Later, the entire army implemented this system. The seized during the war
Gold, silver, silk, treasures, grain, etc. must be handed over to the public warehousing. Individuals are not allowed to keep it privately. Violators are punished severely until beheaded. The daily needs of generals and soldiers are supplied by the public warehousing. The types and standards of supply, grain, oil, and salt, are all supplied in equal quantities, regardless of age or age; meat, cloth, and other daily necessities are supplied, and the daily share of the following kings is different, and the subordinates are not supplied every day. There is also money for buying vegetables, and the money for worship is used as a comprador offering to the Heavenly Father, and it also serves as a pocket item, and the quantity is different, but the fixed quota of various types is not fixed, and it varies depending on the source of the material.
The basis of the Holy Cushion system is the selfless wealth and general equal distribution of people. Its implementation played a positive role in the victory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the early days. It guaranteed the lives of the soldiers and their families, and attracted many poor people to participate. But in fact, the Holy Cushion system was not strictly implemented. With the victory of military victory, the number of cities and towns of recovery was increasing, and the sources of wealth were abundant. The soldiers each had their own private wealth. The so-called law did not punish the masses, and the principle of selfless wealth was increasingly unable to be adhered to, so it was stipulated that private storage should not exceed five taels of silver. Senior generals lived a luxury day by day and took it arbitrarily for public treasury, and the supply quota gradually lost their practical significance. In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Holy Cushion system was nominally implemented, and the Holy Cushion system was supplied to the kings, the generals and soldiers with their own shares of food, money, and clothes. However, since most of them had private wealth, they did not rely on these shares. The Holy Cushion system was in name only and became a general logistics supply system.
From the perspective of historical development, the private ownership system is still in its infancy. Any egalitarian idea and system that wants to change this objective trend can only be the beautiful and childish fantasy of the exploited. If it is required to be implemented in practice for a long time, it will undoubtedly retreat to obstacles and destruction. From people's ideology, the concept of private ownership for thousands of years is by no means something that the preaching of the "Taiping Rules" prohibits private collection of gold, silver and the imperial edict of the Heavenly King, and the imperial edict of the Eastern King. Although the peasants have strong anti-feudal revolutionary nature, they are farmers, and their private ownership concepts and desire to become rich are strong.
These treasures are roughly estimated to be no less than tens of millions of taels. Such a wealth of wealth has far exceeded the general sacred kus of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Changsha. The West Hall Suijun Holy Valley has only more than one million taels of silver and money on the books, and it is still the income after conquering Yiyang, the northern part of Xiang. The silver and money obtained by Yueyang in the Qing Dynasty have not been recorded, but there are millions of taels. If these treasures of Wu Sangui are added, it will inevitably alarm the king of the heaven and the east king of Changsha. With an imperial edict or an edict, the money may have to be sent to the general sacred kus of Changsha. When the money arrives in the Holy Valley, it will not be owned by the Western King or the West Hall, but will become owned by the entire Taiping Army. It will either become the property to support the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, or become the wealth squandered by the senior kings. Xiao Yungui and Hong Yuner will lose the dominance of this money.
Hong Yuner gritted and said, "If you are sure to hide it from Changsha, we'd better find some trustworthy people again and build a treasurer to manage the money." Xiao Yungui nodded heavily and said, "Okay, we adulterers and sluts together!" Hong Yuner was so amused that she blushed and spat in a low voice: "It's like-minded, what kind of adulterers and sluts? It's so ugly. You can think of a way to do it."
Xiao Yungui touched his chin and pondered for a moment, turned around and looked at Tang Erniu and four West Palace Knife Hands who were still dazed at the other end of the stone chamber. The five of them came down first, Li Zuoche and others were guarding outside, and they didn't know what was underneath.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Yungui called Tang Erniu and the other two to come over and ordered: "Tang Erniu, take a brother out and invite Mr. Zuo to the government office. Remember that on the way, you two are not allowed to tell anyone what you saw here. Just ask Mr. Zuo to come here. You can only let Mr. Zuo come here." Following Xiao Yungui, he said coldly: "You two remember, this matter is related to the lives of all the soldiers and brothers in the West Palace. You cannot reveal a word, otherwise your heavenly father and brother will cause a disaster!"
Tang Erniu and the other five were startled and did not understand how these treasures could cause disaster. But seeing the Western King's face was serious and as if he was facing a great enemy, he did not dare to ask anything else. Tang Erniu turned around and called someone to follow him. Xiao Yungui ordered the other three to guard the door of the stone chamber and could only let Zuo Zongtang come in.
After a cup of tea, Zuo Zongtang followed Tang Erniu and the others down to the stone chamber with a heavy breath. It seemed that they had jogged all the way. When Zuo Zongtang saw the treasures in the stone chamber, he was stunned and could not speak for a long time.
After a while, Xiao Yungui coughed and told Zuo Zongtang how to find the treasure, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Everyone said that Wu Sangui was defeated after he became emperor in Hengzhou. The treasure should be in Hengzhou. There were even delusional people looking for it for many years but not found it. It turned out that Wu Sangui's treasure was hidden in an inconspicuous place in Yuezhou. I believe that after Wu Sangui's troops arrived in Xianghu, they wanted to continue to advance eastward to restore Jinling, so they hoarded money, grain and firearms in Yuezhou. Unfortunately, they were defeated later and could not be transported away, so they could only be buried on the spot."
Xiao Yungui whispered: "Sir, it's not the time to sigh. If these treasures are charged to the Holy Library of the West Palace, they will sooner or later be dismissed by the Holy Library of the Changsha General, then our West Palace will suffer a lot of losses. Let me give you an idea."
Zuo Zongtang touched his beard and said, "This matter is Yi Er, among the generals of the West Palace, who does the Western King think is the most trustworthy?"
Xiao Yungui pondered for a moment, looked at Hong Yun'er, and the four-eyed girl blurted out and said, "Lin Fengxiang!"
Zuo Zongtang nodded with a smile and said, "General Lin is loyal, kind and righteous, taciturn, and is even more loyal to the King of the West. He can entrust his treasure to the treasure. Zuo will ask Li Shourong and Wang Kaiyun to be responsible for the establishment of a new treasurer. General Lin will select his confidant soldiers to guard the periphery. The treasurer will be protected by the King of the West, and the King of the West, and the King of the West, and the King of the West, and the King of the West, and the King of the West, and the King of the West, and the King of the West, and the King of the West, and the King of the West, will be safe."
Speaking of this, Zuo Zongtang looked at the four soldiers behind Tang Erniu and said, "These four old brothers followed General Tang to guard the inner treasury. When transporting treasures, they must seal the boxes heavily to prevent people from seeing the things inside. Those who know about this must monitor each other. After we go further, the ban can be lifted. When the Western King is full of wings, even if Changsha knows 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 linen mats to come back, wrap the boxes, and find some big trucks to transport the boxes back to the backyard of the government office, and send Lin Fengxiang to lead troops to guard the outside, Tang Erniu and Li Zuoche led a hundred secret card hand in the west hall to guard the inside, and Wang Kaiyun and Li Shourong, led by Zuo Zongtang, began to count the treasures.
After three days of calculation, the batch of gold bars and silver ingots were converted into silver, with a total of 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 court's annual tax was only 20 million taels, and the tariffs on likin were added, which reached 40 to 50 million taels. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its capital in Tianjing, Shi Dakai was in charge of the Holy Cut. With the good operation of saving food, the assets of the Holy Cuts reached 18 million taels. It can be said that this money made the Western King rich rival the country for a time.
After calming down, Xiao Yungui distributed some pearls, jade, jade and other things to Zhu Changlin, Wei Helin and others, intending to let them sell them when they go to the Qing Dynasty to do business. These things did not turn into silver, which was useless for Xiao Yungui and the West Palace.
On the fourth day after finding the treasure, He Yuanlun, He Bin, Zhou Zhaoyao and other merchant ships traveling to Yuezhou. After they arrived in Yiyang, they heard that the Western King had captured Yuezhou, so they gathered all the way.
On the dock, Xiao Yungui saw He Yuanlun of Baoqing Chamber of Commerce. The old man was still in good spirits. He looked at Xiao Yungui and laughed: "What a Western King, he has led his troops north. The old man is not wrong in Bao this time."
Xiao Yungui laughed and said, "Old He has worked hard for this trip. Next, the army will go to Hankou, Hanyang, Wuchang and other places, and rely more on the old heroes."
He Yuanlun smiled and said, "As long as the King of the West promised to help me clear out other chambers of commerce forces in Hankou, Hanyang and other places, my Baoqing Chamber of commerce will definitely follow the leader of the King of the West."
Xiao Yungui knew that this old man had great ambitions and wanted to dominate the business roads of the three towns in Wuhan, but when he advanced, he also needed to sweep away the chambers of commerce that vassed the Qing court, so the two naturally hit it off.
At that moment, He Yuanlun delivered more than 100,000 jin of sulfur, saltpeter and other items he bought from Sichuan. Xiao Yungui ordered the firearm craftsmen in the army to receive the supplies and start to re-mix the proportion of gunpowder. Although Xiao Yungui couldn't remember the best ratio of black gunpowder, he vaguely remembered that the proportion of nitrate was the largest, and the proportion of sulfur and carbon was similar, so he asked the firearm craftsmen in the army to try the production in this general direction, hoping to find the most powerful **.
He Yuanlun stayed in Yuezhou for a few days. After purchasing a batch of goods, he wanted to leave Yuezhou and return 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 and Wei Helin, who were the helpers of the two, and they also meant to monitor the two.
After the fleet of the Baoqing Chamber of Commerce set off, the Qing army in Xiangyin also took action. Yuezhou was captured. Zhang Liangji and Peng Yulin were afraid that they would fall into the siege of the Taiping Army, so they began to re-deploy the troops. However, what Xiao Yungui and Zuo Zongtang did not expect was that Zhang Liangji, Peng Yulin, Hu Linyi and others led the Qing army to go north to attack Yuezhou, but unexpectedly, unexpectedly, they suddenly crossed the Xiangjiang River westward and rushed directly to Yiyang, attacking Wei Changhui's troops in Yiyang.
Chapter completed!