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Chapter 1077: In fact, there is no one else, but I can hide the silver!
In the Zhangjiakou Fort, only Fan Yongdou and Wang Dengku resisted slightly. However, under the powerful offensive of the Yongyi Army, their resistance was like a mantis using its arms as a chariot, which is not worth mentioning.

Soon, the situation in Zhangjiakou Fort stabilized. Although there were still only Yongyi Army soldiers patrolling and guarding the streets, and few pedestrians appeared, Hecheng was firmly controlled by the Weiyuan Battalion soldiers.

The news from Xiaobai Mountain and Taiping Mountain was also transmitted back at this time. Except for a fire in a warehouse on Taiping Mountain, the rest were completely controlled. All the guards guarding the warehouse were also captured, and no one escaped the net.

The Laiyuan Fort in the north was also taken away by General Yulin Qi Yi, General Zuo Qinghe, and now there are more than a thousand elite Yulin Cavalry stationed in the fort, and they have also completed control of the entire fort.

According to the report of Yulin Cavalry Commander Li Changsheng, he did see many captives swimming outside the mouth. However, for the time being, he did not notice any large groups of captives gathering together.

But even so, he still sent several groups of rangers to investigate the exits at night, and at the same time strengthened the defensive deployment at the pass while ensuring control of the entire fort.

Intelligence from all parties finally gathered at Kuixing Tower. Seeing that everything was going smoothly, Wu Zhizhong's tense face also showed a rare smile.

So far, everything is unfolding according to the pre-planned plan. However, the East and West teams responsible for ambushing Lai Tianlu and Lai Tianshou brothers are the main leaders of this operation.

They were commanded by veteran generals Guo Yingxian and Lin Fangping respectively. General Guo led the cavalry and infantry under Biaoying to ambush on the main road from Youweicheng to Zhangjiakou.

The place where Guo Yingxian set up his ambush is located about five miles east of Youwei City, and still ten miles away from the side wall to the north.

The terrain here is relatively flat, with only some undulating hills, and there are no dense forests on both sides of the avenue. However, the weeds here are as tall as a person.

However, this place is very close to Youweicheng. Within the scope of his own city defense, he must be unprepared. Lai Tianlu would never have thought that he would die. How could anyone be so stupid as to set up an ambush here?
On the other side, Lin Fangping also led the Weiyuan Camp Tiger Guard Cavalry and the right part of the infantry, deep into the foot of Geyu Fort, and set up an ambush in a mountain valley between Yangfang Fort and Geyu Fort.

Geyu Fort is a little further away from Zhangjiakou, with Yangfang Fort in the middle. It can be said that this is Lai Tianshou's inside line. Even if the terrain where Lin Fangping set up his ambush is dangerous, he will not care too much.

After completing the ambush missions in both places, they will lead their troops to the Youwei City and Geyu Fort to control the Shangbei Road and the Middle Road to prevent other troubles.

After all, Zhang Cheng just wanted to take this opportunity to deal with the Eight Families of Shanyou once and for all, which would not only cut off the source of supplies for the Tartars, but also earn a large amount of gold and silver supplies for himself.

Moreover, he can also take the opportunity to rectify the Xuanda Company so that it can become a vassal of his brave army, helping him to quell the rebellion internally and defend the Tartars externally, in the hope of truly dominating the world.

At the same time, Lieutenant General He Zhenxiong of Biaoying also brought an infantry unit and a tank unit to the Ningyuan Fort to coordinate the actions of all parties. If there was any change, he could rush to support at any time.

"Send an order to Xu Jinyong, asking him to strictly guard the city gates. No entry or exit is allowed. At the same time, the martial law in the fort will be lifted. However, patrols will be strengthened and announcements will be issued. From You hour, a curfew will begin. Anyone who stays in the streets will be severely punished!"

"Here."

"In addition, the captured adulterers must be detained separately and under strict guard. Tell Xu Jinyong that there is no need for his people to torture him. Someone with a 'Black Snake Token' will go to contact him and be responsible for the interrogation." "

"Here."

After receiving the order, the Chinese military officer Zhang Jintai immediately ordered people to go and deliver the order.

Here, Wu Zhizhong looked at Wang Yuanjing again and said: "Consultant Wang, now Zhangjiakou has been completely controlled by our army, and all the traitors have been captured. It is up to you to take charge of the investigation of the traitorous property."

"This is my duty, why do I have to say anything about it?"

Wang Yuanjing held a few slightly scrawled records in his hand, and continued: "Just a cursory look, just in the warehouses of various thieves and merchants in Baozi, there are large amounts of salt, tea, sugar, silk, cloth, sheepskin, tobacco, etc." A lot of merchandise..."

As he spoke, he threw the account book in his hand on the case again and said angrily: "In addition to these ordinary commercial goods, there are also a large number of ginseng, mink skin, deer skin, Korean ginseng and other medicinal materials, which are obviously from Tatar. I bought it from my son..."

Wang Yuanjing said with gritted teeth at the end: "And in the silver vaults of those traitors, a large amount of gold, silver and porcelain were found, and many jewelry were stained with traces of blood.

Look at the styles of those gold and silver jewelry, they are all styles from my Central Plains region..."

When he said this, he choked up slightly and could no longer continue. Although he didn't finish his words, everyone around him already understood what he meant.

Undoubtedly, these bloody gold and silver ornaments must be the funds used by the Tartars to purchase goods from profiteers. Maybe the profiteers have not had time to transport them back to their old homes in Shanxi.

Of course, they didn't have time to wipe off the blood stains on the jewelry, or maybe they didn't care at all whether those gold and silver jewelry were stained with the blood of their compatriots.

No, these profiteers may have already regarded themselves as members of the Qing Dynasty.

At this moment, they are just new Tatar thieves wearing Han clothes.

Forgetting one's ancestors, engaging in slavery and betraying the country, smuggling and violating laws, supporting the enemy and selling stolen goods...

There are so many crimes, and if you take them out at random, they are all serious crimes of confiscating the family and exterminating the clan. However, they are responsible for all this. It is really not a pity to die!

However, the various furs and precious medicinal materials from Liaodong have always been popular in the Central Plains.

In the post-Jin era, the old slave Nurhachi used these real estate goods to smuggle them with profiteers in large quantities in exchange for weapons and armor for combat.

Just imagine, without the secret smuggling support of profiteers, could Nurhaci really make a fortune with only thirteen pairs of armor?
joke.

It's just a big joke!

These damn profiteers are really crazy for their own selfish interests. The gold, silver and silk obtained by the Tatar thieves from several raids are flowing into their hands continuously.

These gold, silver and silk were all robbed by the Tatars from the hands of the Han people. If you look closely at the blood stains on these jewelry, their original owners must have died tragically under the butcher's knife of the thieves.

In fact, Wang Yuanjing was not the only one who was furious. Everyone in Kuixing Pavilion was filled with indignation. However, he was moved by the scene and once again recalled the scene when he was robbed by the Tatars in Mafang, and felt the same.

"Commander Wang, there is no need to be angry about this. Now that Japan has arrived in Zhangjiakou, I will never let any of these traitors live, not even their family members. I will not let them go."

Looking at Wu Zhizhong in front of him, Wang Yuanjing's eyes were full of surprise and uncertainty. He said: "General Wu, he killed an adulterer without being sentenced by the court. Even if he is responsible for it, he will be guilty of a big crime."

He hesitated and added: "What's more, although these profiteers are extremely hateful and even though they were cut into pieces by a thousand swords, it is not enough to quell the hatred in their chests, their family members are guilty of crimes that will not lead to death. Such excessive killings may be detrimental to the general!"

"Afraid of a ball."

Wu Zhizhong looked resolute and answered loudly: "In the battle with Julu, if I hadn't risked my life to save him, how could I have survived to this day with this broken body?"
Even more so, my uncle never gave up and kept me as a disabled man in the army and in a high position. I, Wu Zhizhong, think about how I can repay my uncle every day, so that I can be worthy of my uncle. "

He stepped forward and patted Wang Yuanjing's shoulder gently, and continued in an awe-inspiring manner: "Yuanjing, since the battle of Mafang, you have become attached to my uncle, and all the events since then are still vivid in my mind.

I am also deeply touched by the hardships and hardships of my uncle's journey. We are of the same mind and wish to bear everything for my uncle, but there is nothing we can do.As for today's matter, my uncle has been working hard for two years, so naturally it cannot be ended hastily. If that is the case, why bother to mobilize so many troops? How can we control Zhangjiakou in the future, and how can we confiscate the assets of profiteers?

Anyway, someone has to take the responsibility, so let me, Wu Zhizhong, do my part for my uncle and bear the infamy of this killing. Even if I lose my life because of it, I will have no regrets! "

Wu Zhizhong turned around and walked to the window, looked at the quiet streets outside the window, and said those words: "Although there are thousands of people, I will go!"

"I can understand the general's mood, but this road is too difficult."

Wang Yuanjing also came to the window and continued softly: "And killing like this, is this my uncle's intention?"

"Bo..."

Wu Zhizhong opened his mouth, but only uttered one word, then he remained silent. After a moment, he said again: "I don't care whether it was my uncle's intention or not. In short, I have made up my mind about today's matter, and there is no possibility of going back on it!"

"In that case, take care of yourself, General."

Wang Yuanjing sighed in his heart and said, "I went to check on the sergeants and check the assets of the traitors. There is no room for sloppiness."

Wu Zhizhong stood in front of the window without moving. He looked at the background of Wang Yuanjing who was walking downstairs and thought to himself: "With this broken body, I am ranked among the generals. Since my uncle sent me to Zhangjiakou, he wants me to be his Knife.

Now, now that my sword has been unsheathed, there is no reason to see blood.Wang Xiucai, you are also a smart person, don’t you understand the truth behind this? "

In the distance, Wang Yuanjing rode his horse slowly, resisting the thought of looking back at Kuixing Pavilion, but he was secretly worried about Wu Zhizhong in his heart: "With such excessive killing, I am not afraid of accountability from the court, but also afraid of divine punishment!"

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"General Wu, in my opinion, these profiteers can just be cut down. What else is there to judge?"

Wu Zhizhong looked at Lieutenant Commander Zhang Jintai with a look of disdain on his face and said, "Little Taizi, you don't know something."

He then continued to say to him earnestly: "These big merchants have a common problem, which is also one of their great advantages. It is precisely because of this advantage that their major families can continue to this day. No matter how the dynasties change, they have never truly The earth was destroyed.”

"What are the advantages?"

"Ha ha."

A disdainful smile appeared on Wu Zhizhong's face at this moment, and he said: "Actually, there is no other person, I just know how to hide money!"

"Zangyin?"

"Yes, it's Zangyin."

Wu Zhizhong sat on a chair, picked up the new tea that Zhang Jintai had just poured for him, and continued: "These businessmen have a strong sense of locality, and they know better the truth that 'if wealth does not return to its hometown, it is like walking at night in brocade clothes'.

Therefore, each of their families built huge houses in their ancestral home, and all the gold and silver and other valuables they earned outside would be transported back to their old houses.

At the same time, as businessmen, they are also the most careful with their budgets. Naturally, they know that no matter how huge a house they build, it cannot withstand war. Once it enters troubled times, it will inevitably be destroyed.

Therefore, each of their families will build a cellar to hide gold and silver. This is the basis for the survival of their aristocratic families! "

"You make money, but you don't use it to spend it. You have to dig a special cellar to hide it."

"Son, do you think those businessmen who can be called 'everyone' earn hundreds or thousands of taels of silver?"

Wu Zhizhong put down his tea cup and said with an exaggerated expression: "That's several million or tens of millions of taels of silver. My dear, Jintai, do you know how many large trucks are needed to fit it in?"

"Our baggage trucks can each carry fifteen shi of grain, which is about fifteen or six hundred kilograms."

Zhang Jintai calculated it very seriously: "This pound is equivalent to 16 taels, and one cart is more than 5000 taels. Even if it is 100 million taels of silver, it will take more than [-] large carts to hold it."

"That's right."

Wu Zhizhong burst out laughing and said: "The gold and silver that can be loaded in dozens or hundreds of carts is enough to feed and clothe their family for several lifetimes, or even dozens of lifetimes.

There is so much money that I can't use it all, and I just leave it at home for fear of being missed by thieves.Therefore, they came up with this method. Every household dug deep pits in their old houses or ancestral homes to serve as silver cellars, specifically for storing silver. "

Zhang Jintai was fascinated by what he heard, high-fived and said, "General, you really know everything. Jintai has learned a lot from following General."

"Gotta...gotta...stop it quickly."

Wu Zhizhong smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, I'm not afraid of your kid laughing at me. These things are not something I can know."

Looking at Zhang Jintai who looked confused, Wu Zhizhong flashed a look of regret on his face and said: "I just don't understand, why do you like 'Ye Bu Shu' so much?"

As he spoke, he flicked Zhang Jintai's head, and then said: "You have to know that all the things I just said about the 'silver cellar' were all given by my uncle before leaving.

Jintai, your father is the most outstanding general I have ever seen in my life. You really shouldn't leave his side and do anything in this army. "

"Hey, General, you are right, but we just like the pride of riding horses and killing slaves, but we cannot be a commander like you who can lead an army and guard an area.

However, my brother Chengfang is quite like a father-in-law. Perhaps in the future, he can become like General Wu, able to lead an army alone and go out of town. "

"Ah."

Wu Zhizhong thought to himself that maybe all this is just like what his uncle said...

"How you choose your life path should come from your inner thoughts, so that it will be interesting. However, what the future holds, you must work hard to have a chance to see the final outcome.

However, the likes and dislikes of the ending are often judged by outsiders, and the people involved do not even have a say.How ridiculous, ridiculous!
In fact, no matter what the final result is, the most important thing in life is to know how to enjoy the process and pursue the result with all your strength. "

(End of this chapter)