People live in the Ming Dynasty, evil spirits are soaring into the sky

Chapter 130 Taking stock of harvest! Datong Mansion actually produced more than million taels of silver! !

The prefect of Datong was killed, and the new prefect of Datong took office immediately.

It turns out that although Cao Zhengchun killed him directly, he did not kill him for nothing, and the timing he chose was also very clever.

He was killed after all the landlords in Datong Prefecture were wiped out and the upright officials of Datong Prefecture were found.

It turns out that Datong Prefecture is not without good people in Hongdong County. At least there are a dozen or so prefecture and county magistrates who were dismissed from their posts because they were dissatisfied with the Datong Prefecture magistrate.

These officials were all invited back from their hometown by Cao Zhengchun, appointed directly in the name of his imperial envoy, and took office.

What happens next is easy to say.

Cao Zhengchun killed all those profiteers who preyed on the common people. How could he let the corrupt officials go?

So the Tatars, a group of inhuman things, dared to assassinate the government lord.

There were thirteen county magistrates and prefecture magistrates in Datong Prefecture, and nine of them were actually killed.

For a while, every family in Datong Mansion was holding a banquet.

I don’t know, I thought there was some big happy event.

The killed magistrates and magistrates were quickly replaced.

The people are still sleeping, and so are the officials.

However, Cao Zhengchun and his thousand elite men were very sober.

Because it’s impossible if you don’t wake up.

So much property needs to be inventoried and organized.

The backyard of Datong General Military Mansion.

This has become a temporary storage place for Cao Zhengchun to pile up stolen property.

Looking at hundreds of large wooden boxes with neat specifications piled up in the backyard, Ma Gui's eyes were numb from looking at them for the past five days.

Even though he had been in Datong Mansion for so many years, he didn't know that Shanxi businessmen were really so rich.

Fortunately, his backyard used to be a temple, otherwise there really wouldn't be a courtyard large enough to accommodate a thousand people.

But now the yard is almost filled with hundreds of boxes.

Ma Gui was even worried that only one Datong Prefecture had been wiped out. There were still four more prefectures in Shanxi. The richest Taiyuan Prefecture had not even begun to move, but there were already so many. If they were all wiped out, there was no telling how much would be piled up.

Ma Gui shuddered as he looked at the conditions written on the seals of those big boxes.

In addition to stating that it was collected by the imperial envoy, each seal also stated the amount and source of the property.

Although the wealth of dozens of families is the largest, there is also a lot of wealth from the magistrate of Datong to the county magistrate, military officer, etc.

Cao Zhengchun was sitting in the yard listening to the reports of the elites, and Ma Gui was also listening, his teeth aching as he listened.

It turned out that the amount of silver copied alone amounted to 14 million taels;
Two million one hundred and twenty thousand taels of gold;

Pearl agate, antique vases and countless more.

Although the land was distributed to the people, it was still limited in quantity, roughly more than 3.9 million acres.

The annexation of land by these gangsters is really impressive.

You must know that the total cultivated land in Datong Prefecture is only over 8 million acres.

This small group of them occupies half of the land.

No wonder the people were so happy after their land was given to the poor.

As for the remaining properties and shops, they are all temporarily stored in the Datong Prefectural Government Office.

In general, this time the house raids produced more than 20 million taels from Datong Mansion alone.

This is still floating wealth, and the goods in the shop have not been liquidated yet.

Even the properties of these landlords in other provinces and even foreign countries have not had time to liquidate. Chen Han has to send people to deal with it. It is estimated that it will take a year or two to figure it out.

Ma Gui's eyes glowed golden as he listened.

Officials like them have always felt that the imperial court was very poor.

Otherwise, the salary would not be set so low.

But I didn't expect that the profiteers below were so rich.

The money confiscated from one government actually reached more than 20 million taels.

Although he doesn't know how much taxes there are in the world, he also knows the concept of 20 million vehicles. But Chen Han knew.

Because by the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's annual treasury revenue was simply calculated in silver, and it was difficult to break through the threshold of 10 million taels.

And now, just by confiscating the homes of these profiteers and corrupt officials from Datong Mansion, they have obtained 20 million taels of silver.

Anyone who still thinks that the Ming Dynasty is not rich should really put their brains away.

It can only be said that the court of the Ming Dynasty was not wealthy, but it cannot be said that the people were not wealthy.

After hearing the amount, Cao Zhengchun was still very satisfied. If Datong Mansion had made so much money, the remaining mansions would not have more.

If we build a few more mansions, it will be enough to support Ming Dynasty for several years.

Cao Zhengchun was in high spirits.

But the Taiyuan Prefecture is already full of sorrow.

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Taiyuan Prefecture.

Shanxi Chamber of Commerce.

Almost all the eight major families gathered around Taiyuan Mansion.

So here are some of the richest people in the world.

They are also the best informed.

In fact, they got the news the day after it happened, but they were puzzled.

You must know that they have a trump card.

The Tatars have always listened to themselves and others, and it is impossible for them to turn their guns against them like today.

So they sent people to investigate, and the results surprised them.

It's really the Tatars who are doing this.

After the money was robbed, it was piled directly in the General Military Mansion of Datong Commander-in-Chief Ma Gui.

This is very confusing.

They did not go directly to confront Ma Gui, but went to ask what was going on in the Ma family.

The Ma family is not considered successful among businessmen, but it is a high mountain among generals, and its appetite is naturally huge. It is definitely not like Ma Gui said that it only takes the part that should be taken.

But the people sent by the Ma family to question Ma Gui also came to nothing, and they were all detained in Ma Gui's house.

At first, the Shanxi merchants thought that Ma Gui was up to something, but later they discovered that after the death of the prefect, someone immediately took office, and they also received a formal transfer document.

Now they knew that there must be an imperial envoy from the imperial court hiding in the dark.

And they finally understood that wasn't this the same method used by His Majesty the Emperor to send Chen Han to the southeast?

It seemed that he was going to be the governor of Zhejiang Province, but secretly he controlled the Japanese pirates and massacred the local gentry.

This method is really clever and despicable.

Although knowledgeable people knew that secretly the emperor and Chen Han were working together to suppress those who opposed the reform, but on the surface at least the court did not take action against the opposition. Those who did so were 'pirates', 'Japanese pirates', White Lotus Sect, and Tatars. Tartar.

The court wanted all the benefits, such as:

First, attack the local tyrants and divide the land, so that when people all over the world hear such things, they will praise today's emperor as the holy emperor;

Second, all the gold and silver went to the treasury;
Third, a small group of people who strongly opposed the imperial reform were killed.

As for the notoriety, 'pirates', 'Japanese pirates', the White Lotus Sect, and the Tatars all bear it.

The head of the Qiao family smashed the fine tea bowl and said angrily: "We can't just sit there and wait for death. We must do three things well.

First, let the officials of the imperial court take action and impeach them all. Let me take action;

Second, the private soldiers of the Shanxi merchants in Shanxi and the official troops here must be mobilized to first destroy this group of Tatars;

Third, it seems that the pressure on the Tatars alone is not strong enough. Aren't the Jurchens in Liaodong always trying to enter the pass and loot? Lead the way for them, detouring through Mongolia and heading south to the capital.

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PS: Restless! Today is also the end of four chapters! If the data is good, more updates will be added! ! Taiyuan Prefecture hasn’t started yet! keep going! ! !

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