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Chapter 11 Confiscation and Influence

When the red sun rose again, the residents of Shanhai County hid in their homes and secretly watched the patrolling soldiers.

Each team of ten people, wearing armor and holding spears, walked neatly on the street.

The residents looked at these soldiers in amazement and panicked in their hearts.

For a while, they didn't dare to leave the house.

But some people are always brave.

A teenager in his teens sat in front of the door and observed the soldiers for a long time, and finally got up the courage to walk out of the house.

"Who are you?" he asked loudly.

The patrolling soldiers stopped abruptly, glanced at the boy, but ignored it and continued to patrol.

Their task is to stop people from causing chaos, and they don't care if the residents can't go out. It's better not to come out for the time being and save trouble.

Seeing that they were ignoring him, the young man became more courageous, and even followed directly in front of the patrolling soldiers.

"Who are you?" he asked again.

The leader of the team glanced at him again and said, "We are the guard of His Royal Highness King Shanhai."

"His Royal Highness Shanhaiwang! Is that the prince who came here more than ten days ago?" The boy asked curiously.

Although Zheng Ming rarely shows up, there are many rumors about him in Shanhai County.

It is rare for the impoverished Shanhai County to welcome a big man, and the residents naturally gossip.

"That's right." The captain replied.

The boy hesitated for a moment, then asked again, "Will you hurt us?"

While leading the team to continue patrolling, the squad leader said, "As long as you don't cause trouble, we won't care about you."

"If you dare to make trouble." His eyes suddenly became sharp, "Kill to kill."

The young man was startled by his eyes, and immediately froze in place. He didn't come back to his senses until the patrol team walked out dozens of meters.

However, after some hesitation, he caught up with the patrol again.

"Can I join you?"

In the eyes of the young man, the soldier in the camp, wearing a battle armor and holding a spear, is simply a warrior in his dreams. The reason why he dared to come out is because he hopes to become such a warrior.

The captain stopped and looked him up and down.

"You are too young, we are in the camp and do not accept children."

"I'm not too young, I'm sixteen this year," the boy said.

The team leader was stunned. The boy was not tall and very thin, and he looked like he was only thirteen or fourteen years old.

"We are in the camp and don't accept anyone now."

He still refused.

The young man was disappointed.

Looking at the soldiers walking away, he suddenly shouted: "I will definitely join you."

As the sun slowly rose, there were more and more pedestrians on the street. At first, they were a little afraid of the patrol team, but after observation, they found that the patrol team almost ignored them, and they were relieved.

at the same time.

There are a large number of soldiers standing in front of the mansion of Zhao Song and Liu Sanjia.

The raiding has just begun.

Lu Shou, Luo Jing, and Gao Shun each led a team.

Watching the wooden boxes being moved out of the three mansions, many residents watched curiously.

"What's going on?" someone asked curiously.

"Didn't you hear the screams last night? Hahaha, the three major families must have been cleaned up by the county prince." Someone replied.

"real!"

"With the three major families gone, don't we have to pay rent?" a shop owner asked.

"What are you thinking? The three major families are gone, isn't there still the prince of the county? I just hope that the rent will be cheaper in the future." An old man wearing a brocade said.

"That's right, I heard that the prince is a teenager, so he shouldn't charge too much rent," said the shop owner.

They are all shop owners on both sides of the street. In the past, all the shop real estate in Shanhai County was occupied by Zhao, Song and Liu Sanjia, and they had to pay rent to the three major families when they did business.

With the residents' discussion, the progress of the home search gradually came to an end.

A carriage pulled the heavy boxes back to the county office, completely blocking the front of the county office.

Zheng Ming stood in front of the county yamen, watching the soldiers carry boxes in and out, the smile on the corner of his mouth became brighter and brighter.

"This king is finally rich."

"Hehe, the three major families have accumulated wealth for decades, and all of them belong to His Royal Highness." Xiao Fuzi was also extremely excited, and his small eyes almost disappeared from laughter.

However, Zheng Ming shook his head and said, "Money becomes useless when it's too much."

When he first arrived in Shanhai County, he only had 300 taels in his hand, so he wanted more money urgently, but now he was happy to see boxes of silver moved into the county government office, and his mood became flat instead.

Although he likes money, he is not a miser and will not put all the money in the warehouse.

When the sun went down, the raid was finally over.

Lu Shou and the others all returned to the county government office with smiles on their faces.

"His Royal Highness, this is what he got from a house raid." Lu Shou handed the three booklets to Zheng Ming.

Zheng Ming sat at the desk in the lobby and opened the booklet to read.

"so much!"

he said in surprise.

"Yes, Your Highness." Lu Shou said.

Zheng Ming browsed through all the three booklets, and at the same time calculated silently in his heart.

The result surprised him.

The three families confiscated a total of 20,000 taels of gold, more than 40 taels of silver, and [-] taels of copper coins.

The exchange ratio of gold, silver and copper coins in the Dali Dynasty is almost one to ten to ten.

That is, one tael of gold is equivalent to ten taels of silver or ten copper coins.

Of course, this is the official price, and the conversion ratio of private gold, silver and copper coins is even larger, which is almost equivalent to one to twelve.

Calculated in this way, the three families copied more than 60 taels of silver in total.

In addition to gold and silver, there are also a lot of grain, jade jewelry, farmland and real estate.

On the books, none of these have an exact number, only a general amount.

Among them, the grain is about [-] stone, and one stone is about [-] catties, which means about [-] tons.

The grain crop in Shanhai County is wheat, and one mu of land can yield about [-] to [-] catties, and it takes almost [-] mu of fields to produce these more than [-] stones.

The three families of Zhao, Song and Liu had a total of more than 120,000 mu of cultivated land.

Looking at this series of numbers, Zheng Ming let out a long sigh.

It is not unreasonable that Shanhai County is poor.

The wealth of Zhao, Song and Liu Sanjia occupies [-]% of Shanhai County's property. It would be strange if Shanhai County was not poor.

"Is there any statistics on the hidden population?" Zheng Ming asked.

Lu Shou replied: "Go back to Your Highness, we can't count the exact figures yet, but the lower official estimates it to be around [-]."

"Nine thousand! How did they manage so many people?" Zheng Ming asked curiously.

Lu Shou explained: "These people are all tenants of the Zhao, Song and Liu families. The Zhao, Song and Liu families divided them into more than 300 villages. Each village has a village order and [-] or [-] servants. The tenants only need Just pay [-]% of the food. Although I can’t get enough, I can barely survive.”

(End of this chapter)