The Red Mansions

Chapter 147 A Lot of Treasures of the Japanese Pirates

Jia Yun took the gift sticker, opened it, and frowned.

It's not that the gifts given are too few, but too rich.

For example, on the gift sticker of the Zhen family, it says that there are 50 taels of silver, plus [-] mu of fertile land outside Gusu City.

At the current market price of fields in Gusu, Xia Tian would cost three to five taels of silver per mu, middle field would cost five to eight taels of silver per mu, and upper field would cost ten taels of silver to start with, and those in better locations could reach two or thirty taels per mu.

Since the Zhen family was so bold in giving him a gift, it must be from Shangtian. Even if it is ten taels of silver per mu of land, 50 mu of land is worth [-] taels.

In other words, the Guangzhen family will give Jia Yun a gift of one million taels of silver.

According to Jia Yun's estimation, the number of gifts given by each of these big families can be equal to that of the six big families in Cixi, even if they are very willing, that's why Jia Yun was surprised.

You must know that the purchasing power of silver is very strong!
As the saying goes, "Wanguan family wealth" means that with the worth of Wanguan and the status of a non-member, one can jump into the social gentry class.

It can be seen that let alone a million taels of silver, even if he has 1 taels of silver, he is a proper rich man.

Think about the Xue family, Wang family, and Jia's family. Although these are not top-notch nobles, they can at least be regarded as second-rate nobles.

These families, relying on a few generations to accumulate millions of wealth in the past hundred years, know how big the Zhen family is.

Jia Yun thought that a mere county magistrate would not allow these families to be wary, let alone be so narcissistic that she had such a big face that it was worth the Zhen family's gift of a million taels of silver for peace.

"Either they want to harm me, or they have other unspeakable secrets!" Jia Yun thought to herself.

The former, Jia Yun, was quickly eliminated, because the Zhen family wanted to harm him, and there was no need to pay such a high price.

You must know that the Zhen family has a big business, and it is extremely heartbreaking to spend millions of taels of money.

"That's right! Something is going to happen to the Zhen family!" Jia Yun suddenly realized.

Whether it's in the original book or Lin Ruhai mentioned it last time, it shows that the imperial court is already investigating the Zhen family.

Jia Yun thought in her heart: "It seems that in the eyes of the Zhen family, the collusion with Liu Yong'an can be fatal if the court finds out about it."

"At the same time, they didn't have the opportunity or time to prevent me from exposing their collusion with the Japanese pirates, so they simply used money and goods to stun me."

Thinking of this, Jia Yun opened the gift stickers of several other companies to have a look, and nodded secretly, confirming that her guess should be close to ten.

The handwriting of the other six families is relatively normal, and like the six families in Cixi, each family sent 30 taels of silver.

"They didn't tell the Zhen family?" Jia Yun guessed secretly.

Thinking back, Jia Yun felt that the Seven Great Masters should have confessed, and the reason why the Zhen family gave away so much may be the result of private self-assessment.

After thinking for a while, Jia Yun burned the gift stickers, and then told Jia Wenlin, "Go and collect all the gifts, and tell them by the way that Liu Yongan has died in the war."

Of course Jia Yun would want money and goods.

Even if he exposes Liu Yong'an, he won't get any benefit. Instead, he will let others take advantage of it and offend a large number of people.

With his current small stature, it's better not to fight hard with those big families. If Jia Yun from the six Cixi families can let him go, these big families can naturally let him go too.

After a while, Jia Wenlin came in with a stack of bank notes and a land deed, and said:

"The steward of the Zhen family said that if the master passes by Jinling, you are welcome to visit the Zhen family. They will sweep the couch and wait for you."

Jia Yun counted 230 million taels of silver bills, and said with a smile: "It's fine to go to Zhen's house as a guest. It's a gunpowder warehouse, so it's better not to mess with it."

After putting away the bank notes and land deeds, Jia Yun ordered: "After the soldiers in the patrol battalion rest for a few days, you can arrange for them to go back to Yiwu, and at the same time arrange a few personal guards to follow. This time we are going to form an anti-Japanese army Township soldiers, we have to recruit people again."

There are ready-made examples of patrolling camps. When they return to their hometowns, the recruitment will definitely be smoother.

The standard establishment is five thousand and six hundred people for one guard, and one guard for five institutes. However, most of the troops are not equipped according to the standard.

For example, if there are few, there are three thousand households, but only three thousand.

There are many seven, eight, sixteen, seventeen, twenty-five and so on, and the number of one guard is not necessarily 25. The number of guards actually ranges from 600 to tens of thousands.

Jinyiwei, for example, is typically not prepared and configured according to the standard.

There is also the important town of Nine Borders. Because of the corruption of the military households, most of the people who can fight are private soldiers, and there is no one who is not overstaffed.

Jia Yun counted 3 taels of silver and handed it to Jia Wenlin, and said:

"First recruit 4000 people in Yiwu. According to the rules, each person will be given five taels of silver to settle down first. I will send a letter to the clan for the rest of them, and let the clan recruit another 600 people and send them over."

This time, if we recruit clan members again, we won't be recruiting only in the third room.

He planned to recruit some people in the capital, and some people from the Jinling ancestral land, making up a total of 600 people.

Among them, the clansmen recruited from the capital are still acting as personal guards, and the clansmen from Jinling can be placed at the grassroots level to serve as officers like Xiaoqi to help him control the troops with a little training.

As for the current personal guards, they are all sent to the army to serve as thousands of households, hundreds of households, and general banners. If there is not enough guards in the capital, they will be replenished after the arrival of the capital's personal guards.

At this time, I believe that when his military exploits in Cixi spread to the capital, he will no longer be able to hide his official status, and at the same time he doesn't have to hide it anymore.

With the foundation of military exploits, his background gradually became thicker, even if Jia's family wanted to trouble him, it would not be so easy.

Now that his contacts in Zhejiang have reached the level of the governor, the imperial court is familiar with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and with the support of Xu Renzhi, the governor of Beizhili, and Zhuo Zhenyuan, the chief of the mountain, Jia Yun thinks that his background is pretty good.

"I don't know how the court will reward me this time?" Jia Yun was curious.

In the evening, Jia Yun went to the patrolling camp, and took all the money and various goods stolen by the Japanese pirates that Liu Xianglian brought into the warehouse to the space.

After returning home, Jia Yun immersed her mind in the space while taking a bath and counted carefully.

The first is silver, with a total of more than 480 million taels.

Then there are gold ingots, gold bars, gold cakes, gold leaves, gold sand, broken gold and other pure gold, more than ten thousand taels.

What follows is a dazzling variety of piles of goods.

Such as pure gold utensils, gold inlaid jewelry utensils, gold inlaid pearl and jade jewelry, gold inlaid jewelry, silver utensils, silver inlaid jewelry.

Jade wares, jade belts, gold belts, ivory, rhino horn, ox horn, tortoise shell, sandalwood, enamel, lacquer and other gold-inlaid utensils, gold and silver inlaid ivory chopsticks, pearl and phoenix crown headbands, large round pearls, inferior pearls, gemstones of various colors, etc.

Coral trees, elephant ivory, agate, crystal, glass, dragon eggs (big bird eggs with different patterns), cinnabar, Geyao porcelain and other curiosities, books, stone carvings and calligraphy, scroll albums of famous paintings of Jin, Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, etc.

Golden sea dragon pot, golden bowl, golden phoenix mouth dragon handle pot, golden unicorn pot, golden light gourd pot, golden element pot...

Mother-of-pearl lacquer large eight-part bed, carved and inlaid marble bed, eight-step middle bed with colored lacquer and carved lacquer, middle bed with carved poems and paintings of beech wood, golden-painted rattan-carved summer bed, Shanzi screen with combed back, plain lacquered rosewood and other summer beds, various Style size rosewood bed...

The sheer quantity and variety of categories really blinded Jia Yun's eyes.

The value of these things is immeasurable. If the statistics are compiled, it should be able to write a thick book.

It can be seen that these pirates robbed relatively little cash, and most of them robbed relatively precious utensils, jewelry, cloth, curios, books, stone carvings, ink marks, and postages.

When these things are sold abroad, one piece can be sold for several thousand taels, or even tens of thousands of taels, which is much more cost-effective than robbing money. After all, the number of pirates is limited, so there must be selective robbing.

"These guys have discernment!" Jia Yun was so excited, he was sure that even the Jia family couldn't gather so many valuable things.

The charming man saw Jia Yun sitting in the bathtub and giggling, she pursed her lips and asked with a smile: "Master, what are you thinking, tell me, and make me happy too!"

Jia Yun came back to her senses, came out of the bathtub, asked Meiren and Liren to wipe off the water droplets on her body, and said happily: "My lord, I have made a fortune again, is it worth being happy?"

"Of course it's worth it!" Meiren said with a smile.

The beauty giggled, and asked: "Master, our family has so much money, is it all used up?"

Jia Yun pinched her face, smiled and said, "You don't understand this, do you? We don't need it for the time being, but we will use it in the future."

He leaned close to the beauty's ear, sniffed her body fragrance, and said with a smirk, "For example, beauty, are you not allowed to have children for me in the future? Do you need a lot of money for our children to live a life of luxury?"

The warm wind blew beside the beauty's ears, making her body go limp in an instant.

Lying in Jia Yun's arms, she blushed and said with a shy smile, "Master is playing tricks on me again..."

Jia Yun chuckled, now that the matter of the pirates has been dealt with, and he has won so much money, he is in a good mood and is in high spirits.

So she turned her head and said to Charming: "It's still early today, change my clothes quickly, let's go back to the room and talk."

inside the room.

Meiren and Liren lay in Jia Yun's arms, both sweating profusely with their eyes closed to rest.

After a while, Charming asked in a hoarse voice: "Master, now that the Japanese pirates have been wiped out, will you be busy?"

"I'm afraid I will be busy for a while." Jia Yun stroked the shoulders of the two of them and said, "In a few days, it will be the beginning of March, and the spring plowing will start soon. I have to look around again."

The beauty tilted her head and asked, "Master, when will you be free, can you take us to the suburbs to get some fresh air?"

Jia Yun nodded and said, "You can do it at any time. In March, the grass grows and the warblers fly. It's a good time for spring. I'll take you to the countryside tomorrow!"

"Master is so kind!" Beauty said with a happy face.

Charming smiled and said: "It would be great if we could be in the capital right now. There are so many sisters in our family, going out for a spring outing together is both lively and happy."

Jia Yun laughed and said: "Master, I will go back to take the exam this year. Regardless of whether I pass the exam or not, I will stay in the capital for a few years. At that time, I will sometimes go to the countryside."

(End of this chapter)