Two million taels of gold and five million taels of silver?
this number……
The messenger was frightened and asked Su Yonglin tremblingly if he had not studied mathematics well, so he said two hundred thousand and five hundred thousand instead of two million and five million.
He felt that Su Yonglin would not make such an outrageous request.
Su Yonglin immediately changed his face and became furious.
"You want to deceive me because I don't know how to count? How can two hundred thousand and two million be the same? If we don't get gold and silver, we will destroy the city and massacre it! Starting with the rich and powerful!"
Unable to distinguish, Su Yonglin immediately drove the envoy out of the military camp.
The news was brought back to the inner city, and the whole court was shocked. They were surprised by Su Yonglin's lion's mouth, and were horrified by Su Yonglin's severe threat of " massacring the city starting from the powerful."
Some people began to complain about Pusan Hutu's behavior of handing over horses and weapons to Su Yonglin. They felt that this was stupid and made it difficult for the soldiers in the city to fight for a long time. They had no bargaining ability in the face of Su Yonglin's demands.
They denounced Pu Sanhu Tu as a traitor to the country, who single-handedly put Jin Ting in such a dangerous position, and wanted the Queen Mother Tudan and the new emperor to punish him.
The servant was scattered and suddenly the soil was angry and annoyed.
"What's the difference between the massacre of the city then and the massacre of the city now? You can depose me and accuse me, but when the bandits invade the city and slash your necks with swords, don't scream!"
The ministers were speechless.
They knew that what Pusan Hutu said was right, and they also knew that everything Pusan Hutu did was their acquiescence. Naturally, no one wanted to compete with Pusan Hutu for power at this time.
What's the difference between fighting for power with Pu San Hu Tu at this time and fighting over who can go to the guillotine first?
So Pusanhutu was able to continue to take charge of the overall situation, but he did not think that he could plunder two million taels of gold and five million taels of silver from the inner city.
Although there are many corrupt officials in the city, and there are countless wealthy and powerful families, if they are all scraped off, it might be possible to make up this amount, or even more, but this is impossible.
How could he attack his colleagues who are also powerful officials?
After much calculation, he felt that even if he sold the entire inner city, he wouldn't be able to raise that much money, so he could only send someone to negotiate with Su Yonglin to see if he could reduce the amount of money paid.
Without saying a word, Su Yonglin beheaded the envoys who came to bargain, sent their heads back, and told them - there was no room for bargaining, and if they didn't pay, they would attack the city!
The bloody heads shocked the minds of the people in the city. The frightened Pusanhutu immediately stepped up his efforts to collect gold and silver from the entire inner city, saying that those who donated enough gold and silver would receive generous rewards, such as official positions and titles. Category.
Yes, this guy did not hesitate to use his official position and title as bait in order to make people donate gold and silver.
I have to say that this condition is very tempting. Although the Liberation Army is now outside the city, the official positions and titles are attractive, so some people with a lot of money but relatively low status decided to pay for officials and titles to improve their status. .
With this hand, within five days, Pusan Hutu obtained 70,000 taels of gold and more than 300,000 taels of silver.
But this amount is just a drop in the bucket compared to what Su Yonglin asked for.
Pusanhutu also asked the powerful, high-ranking officials and the royal family to pay money to help the country tide over the difficulties. However, there are indeed relatively few people who are willing to help the country tide over the difficulties. One or two are hiding and unwilling to pay, so it's a good deal. In a few days, they only collected 110,000 taels of gold and 430,000 taels of silver.
Wan Yanliang went to war and left the national treasury very empty, but he still had his own inner treasury where he kept his private money, and there was a lot of gold and silver there.
But Pusanhutu doesn't plan to use it, and plans to keep it at the bottom of the box in case of emergency. At the moment, it is mainly for external searches.
The voluntariness had reached its limit, but the task was far from completed. Pusanhutu thought for a while, gritted his teeth, and continued to send people to request Su Yonglin to reduce the amount of gold and silver, but Su Yonglin refused.
It felt that these guys would not produce oil without pressure, so Su Yonglin decisively launched his army to attack the city.
The Liberation Army pressed forward and attacked fiercely. Although some of the defenders on the inner city walls were brave and dared to fight, many were afraid of escaping and did not dare to continue fighting.
Within half a day, the inner city fell. The Liberation Army took control of the inner city wall, but did not go any further - Su Yonglin ordered the troops to occupy the city wall and control the wall on the spot, not to go deep into the inner city.
However, using this as a deterrent has frightened the dignitaries and officials in the inner city. The rulers of the Jin Kingdom were completely frightened and sent people to beg Su Yonglin to surrender and beg Su Yonglin not to massacre the city.
"I want gold and silver but you won't give me any, so why are you begging to surrender now? Okay, three million taels of gold and ten million taels of silver. If you lose one tael, I will make you bleed like a river!"
The envoy from the Kingdom of Jin was greatly frightened and begged Su Yonglin to reduce the amount, otherwise they would not be able to get that much money even if they sold everything.
Su Yonglin looked down at the envoy from the Kingdom of Jin who was kneeling on the ground.
"The inner city is mine. The imperial city can be conquered at any time. I only care about the Emperor of Jin's face and do not go on a killing spree. You must not mistakenly think that I dare not attack the city. If you don't bring it to me, I will Just go get it yourself! Do you understand?"
The Jin envoy trembled and kowtowed, expressing his understanding.
This time, in order to prevent the Jin people from continuing to argue, Su Yonglin sent a five-person team headed by Jiang Yu, the former Boyecheng instructor, to enter the Jin Kingdom's imperial city. From then on, all Jin Kingdom's government orders must be executed through the five-person team.
Su Yonglin officially took over the Jin Kingdom regime.
However, none of the civil and military officials of the Jin Kingdom dared to resist.
Although only five people entered the imperial city, the civil and military officials did not dare to resist the five people at all, and respectfully handed over the power and obeyed their orders.
After Jiang Yu took over the government affairs of the inner city under Su Yonglin's order, he directly ordered the entire city to be plundered for gold and silver.
Three million gold and ten million silver, both are indispensable. This number must be reached, otherwise, don't blame them for being ruthless.
So Pusanhutu finally made up his mind to send out a small army to search for valuables such as gold, silver, pearls and jade from house to house in the inner city.
This is tantamount to stealing.
After the Liberation Army besieged the city, those who could live in the inner city were actually considered to be families with certain abilities and family backgrounds. Most people could only live in the outer city and could not enter the inner city, so they all had close ties with officials and dignitaries. twilight relationship.
So the poor are all in the outer city, and the inner city is already full of rich people, and the closer the people are to the imperial city, the richer they are.
The raiding troops broke into their homes and seized gold, silver, jewels and jade without saying a word, robbed their property and even beat their family members. This was a huge humiliation and threat to them.
They immediately found officials who were related to them and tried to put pressure on Pusanhutu.
But they don't know that the officials they rely on are now in trouble. They are struggling to survive under the intimidation of Jiang Yu and other five-person teams, and they dare not resist at all.
There is no point in protesting.
While Jiang Yu and the other five people strictly ordered the city to search for gold and silver, they also ordered Jin officials to deliver all important household registration, warehousing, administrative and other documents stored in the Jin government offices to their residences for personal inspection.
This was what Su Yonglin had ordered. He wanted them to have a basic understanding of Zhongdu City in a short period of time, so as to lay the foundation for the Liberation Army to take over Zhongdu City in the future.
If nothing else goes wrong, Su Yonglin plans to place the capital of the future country in Zhongdu City.
After some expansion and renovation of Zhongdu City, it is a good capital city.
In this era, the environment in Guanzhong has deteriorated, the population advantage and geographical advantage are no longer there, and Xi'an and Luoyang can no longer assume the responsibilities of the capital.
Not to mention Kaifeng, a flat plain with no danger to defend and the danger of the Yellow River flooding, was not within the scope of Su Yonglin's consideration.
Although Lin'an and Nanjing have a geographical support from the rich and densely populated Jiangnan land, it is extremely unfavorable to Su Yonglin's future northward expansion strategy and has no strategic advantage.
Zhongdu is located in Yanyun, with Yanshan and Taihang Mountains in the northwest, Chongqing Pass in the northeast, the Great Wall, and the Grand Canal in the south. It is of great significance to Su Yonglin's future restoration of production in the Central Plains and management of Liaodong, grasslands, and the Western Regions.
Therefore, Zhongdu must be preserved as much as possible to avoid large-scale destruction, and at the same time...squeeze all the wealth that can be squeezed out from the hands of the Jin Kingdom's powerful people, laying an economic foundation for a series of subsequent actions.
Therefore, under the strict supervision of the Liberation Army and the five-man team, Pusanhutu and Xijun successfully transformed from guards guarding the Jin Kingdom's royal family into evil ghosts who tormented their compatriots.
They plundered a large amount of gold and silver and robbed every resident in the inner city. Their efficiency was extremely high, even comparable to the efficiency of the Liberation Army when they cleared the wilderness in Jianbi, Hebei.
Two days later, the first wave of searches ended successfully.
Pusanhutu commanded the small army to collect a total of 210,000 taels of gold and 2,070,000 taels of silver. Including what he had obtained before, the total was 320,000 taels of gold and 2,400,000 taels of silver.
The harvest is quite big.
