In the Yunzhou Military Treasury.
Looking at the mountains of gold and silver piled up in the warehouse, Zhao Jun's eyes gleamed, but the one who was more excited than him was Zhao Duan next to him.
The gold and silver in front of me were melted into gold and silver bricks.
After counting, more than 26 million taels of silver and one million taels of gold were melted into 2.6 million silver bricks and 100,000 gold bricks, and were neatly piled up here in the shape of a pyramid. People who look at it are dizzy!
These mountains of gold and silver, Zhao Duan couldn't help but said:
"Lao Liu!"
"What's wrong, old man?"
"You see, I have raised you for so many years. Now that I am old, it is time for you to support me, right?
I don’t want more. The two mountains in front of me are enough for the pension. You see, most of what you Yunzhou County uses now are those Yun banknotes. You can’t use this gold and silver. Putting it here will take up a lot of money. Location, let me help you solve it. "
"Old man, has anyone told you?"
"What?"
"I told you you were greedy!"
"How can this be called greed? I am afraid that you are too young and do not know how deep the gold and silver water is, and that you cannot grasp it.
I am old and can afford it. I am just helping you to grasp it. How can you say you are greedy? "
"Old man, look at the sky outside. It's already dark. I can't daydream anymore!"
After saying that, Zhao Jun directly grabbed his old man and carried him out of the warehouse regardless of his struggle.
There was just a clang sound, and he kicked the two iron doors that were ajar one at a time shut.
Zhao Duan watched helplessly as he was getting further and further away from the gold and silver mountains. He kept struggling, but found that he couldn't struggle no matter what. Not only did he burst into tears and shouted unfilial!
"Ahh! You unfilial son, let me go, let me go, don't leave! Don't leave! Gold and silver! Gold and silver! Mine! Mine! They are all mine!"
Zhao Jun did not dare to stop at all along the way. When he arrived at the warehouse of Yunzhou County, he specifically ordered that no one was allowed to come to the warehouse privately without his own warrant, even if the princess came!
This completely eliminated the possibility of his old man stealing money.
Then he directly carried the struggling old man back to the palace with his hand, and Cao Shuang was so anxious that he couldn't help but chase after him.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! Put His Majesty down! Put Him down! Your Majesty..."
After returning to the palace and confirming the safety of his gold and silver, Zhao Jun let the old man down who had already looked gloomy.
The old man who was put down had a blue face. He didn't know whether he was angry or caused by the long-term resistance to poor blood circulation. In short, he didn't give Zhao Jun a good look. He snorted and turned back to his room. Cao Shuang said Hurry to follow.
Zhao Jun doesn't care about this, as long as he can keep his gold and silver. The old man is old, being more angry will help his health?
Ye Yin, who had just prepared the meal and was about to call Zhao Jun and his son back for dinner, saw that Zhao Jun had come back. The father and son were still looking like this and suddenly asked in confusion: "What's wrong with the father? You made him angry." ?”
Zhao Jun shrugged and said nonchalantly: "It's okay, don't worry about him, just wait until his anger subsides."
Then he said with excitement: "Princess, do you know how much gold and silver the Japanese country sent back?"
"Didn't you say tens of millions? Why, have they been counted?"
Zhao Jun nodded repeatedly, grinning and said: "A total of more than 26 million taels of silver and one million taels of gold!"
"so many!"
Ye Yinye couldn't help but be shocked by this astonishing number. Her rosy little mouth opened slightly and she covered her face with surprise.
Zhao Jun couldn't help but rubbed his hands and said excitedly: "With this money, many things can be done. To tell you the truth, I have already found a substitute for the rubber on the steam engine, and our Yunzhou County will start it soon." An earth-shaking change.
And this change requires a lot of money. Just the amount of gold, silver, money and food needed for the railways throughout Yunzhou County and Shendu territory is an astronomical figure!
Although we had a lot of income every year before, once the railway starts to be built, what we have left will not be enough.
Well now, with this windfall, large-scale mining has begun in Iwami. It is estimated that it can provide us with an average of nearly six million taels of silver every year.
In addition, according to the news from Li Erniu and others, they had an unexpected surprise in this battle. In addition to Iwami Yinshan, they accidentally captured a team of people who were specially exploring the country's mineral resources for Japan's Guanbai. After interrogation, there are actually sixteen more gold and silver mines that are currently under their control and unknown to outsiders!
There are ten gold and silver mines on the Kansai and Kyushu Rikoku islands that we occupy alone.
If all these gold and silver mines were mined, we would be able to earn at least 30 million taels of silver from Japan every year!
In addition, Japan can also handle the manpower required to build a huge railway.
According to what Li Erniu and others said, although these Japanese were very stubborn before defeating them, once they were defeated and enslaved, they were even more obedient than dogs.
In order to expand the output of Iwami Ginzan these days, Li Erniu and the others exhausted more than 3,000 Japanese to death. However, these Japanese did not riot. Instead, they really expanded the mining scale of Iwami Ginzan more than ten times! "
"So, the gold and silver of Japan plus manpower plus our own are enough to accomplish what you want to do?" Ye Yin asked.
Zhao Jun nodded: "More than that! It's more than enough!"
"But our Yunzhou County is already strong now. Why do you still want to be stronger? I always feel that you have always had a sense of urgency in your heart during this time, as if there is some crisis chasing you, making you People who were so lazy have become diligent.”
Ye Yin frowned and said.
Recently, he could clearly feel that something was wrong with his prince. He had never seen him in such a state since he married to Yunzhou Mansion.
After hearing this, Zhao Jun was silent for a moment, then helplessly touched his forehead and said, "But he must be sick."
"Sick, my lord, are you sick?"
Ye Yin immediately became anxious. The prince was actually sick. when did it happen? Why didn't she know?
Zhao Jun spread his hands and sighed: "It's not a serious illness, it's just my lack of firepower phobia.
Ever since that bastard Harinut analyzed the situation that the Yunzhou Army might face if the Xiongnu attacked Yunzhou County with all their strength, I started to get sick. I thought that since the number of troops cannot be increased in a short time, then we will Increase weapon power.
As long as the steam engine is completed, transportation capacity is available, and new power is available, many things can be accelerated.
Recently, I have been focusing on gunpowder. Don’t look at the muskets in our hands now. It seems that they are much worse than the continuous crossbow due to range and loading problems. But as long as this thing develops to a certain level, it will definitely be better than the continuous crossbow. Even more terrifying weapons!
Especially if the machine gun is manufactured, no matter how many Huns come, as long as I still have bullets, I can send them to their eternal life!
My disease is already terminal. If this firepower is not enough for one day, my disease will not be cured even for one day. You don’t have to worry.
By the way, where is Wang Huaien? I haven't seen him all day today. Have you seen where he went? "
After briefly describing his condition, Zhao Jun asked with some confusion.
He hadn't seen Wang Huaien all day today and didn't know where this guy had gone.
Hearing this, Ye Yin immediately rolled her eyes at him and said, "You forgot, you were the one who sent me out this morning. It seems that you asked him to send a message to Yun Xiang's army. Yun Xiang's army has been gone for several days, and he has no one." I won’t be able to come back in five days.”
Only then did Zhao Jun remember that he had indeed sent him out in the morning, and his mind was really confused.
After Zhao Jun learned that the Muhar tribe only took out the women captured by the lowest-value tribesmen to equal the number of people, Zhao Jun was angry and immediately asked Wang Huai'en to catch up with Yun Xiang's army to send them a message.
Since this Muhar tribe is so shameless, don't blame yourself for being ruthless!
At this time, Wang Huaien was galloping on the grassland in the wind and snow.
The cold wind hurt his face, but Wang Huaien didn't dare to stop for even a moment.
Yun Xiang's army has been gone for four or five days. If he doesn't catch up quickly, he won't be able to catch up. It would be a big sin if he delayed the prince's affairs!
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(End of chapter)
