Next, Chang Feng prepares to search the longevity library.
The so-called longevity treasury is, to put it bluntly, the temple's treasury.
However, the purpose of checking the Changsheng Treasury this time was not to find stolen money, but to find the secret cellar.
Chang Feng has been raiding homes in Jinyiwei for three years, claiming to be a man who has seen money. But this time, Dayongchang Temple will tell him what it means to be rich!
Corrupt officials? Their little money is really weak compared to Dayongchang Temple!
Chang Feng took Hu Zi and led everyone to a place a hundred steps away from the Changsheng Treasury.
Hu Zi suddenly fell to the ground and made a strange sound of "woo woo woo".
Chang Feng frowned: "Does Hu Zi also fear the Buddha? Is he frightened by the Buddha's longevity storehouse?"
Chang Feng guessed wrong. Tiger's sense of smell for money is too sensitive. He was suffocated by the stench of money!
In front of the Changsheng Treasury, there were originally monks guarding it. However, the monks were all gathered together by General Ye Guangye to save the soldiers who died at the border.
Chang Feng was shocked before he even opened the door of the Changsheng Library!
The two doors of the Changsheng Treasury are actually covered with a thick layer of gold skin!
It’s not copper or gold-plated, it’s gold that’s guaranteed to be fake!
These two doors alone are probably covered in more than five hundred taels of gold.
Everyone worked together to push open the two doors.
Oncoming were dozens of large iron frames.
Silver ingots, silver ingots, and silver ingots are neatly stacked on the iron shelves.
A rough estimate is that there are at least fifty thousand!
Fatty Xu said: "My dear. With so much money, Ji Xiao doesn't even bother to hide it? Just put it here in plain sight like this?"
Chang Feng smiled bitterly: "Oh, these silvers are nominally donated by pilgrims and earned from business, and they are in compliance with the law. He is also the imperial minister. Maybe he thinks there is no need to hide it."
Going further inside is a golden mountain. It's not an adjective, it's a real gold mountain.
Twenty taels of gold ingots built up a hill.
Each gold ingot is engraved with the four words "Buddhism is boundless".
At least for Dayongchang Temple, Buddhism is indeed boundless! So much gold can be gathered! Chang Feng estimated that this golden mountain must be about six thousand taels!
What concept? Laizhou Prefecture in Shandong Province was the largest gold-producing area in the Ming Dynasty. In the 22nd year of Chenghua, the amount of money produced by Laizhou Prefecture transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs for the whole year was only about 3,500 taels.
Chang Feng sighed: "My Buddha is compassionate! No wonder there is a theory of seven treasures in Buddhism. Jixiao's ability to gather the seven treasures makes him worthy of the title of 'National Master'."
Fatty Xu asked: "Which Qibao?"
Changfeng answered: "Gold, silver, colored glaze, coral, clam, red pearl, agate."
Further inside, there are ten large wooden boxes. Each wooden box is labeled with the word "Wanguan".
Chang Feng opened a wooden box, which contained bank deposits. Each card has two or five passes.
Bank notes are different from treasure notes. Due to the excessive issuance of Ming Dynasty's treasure banknotes in the past dynasties, today they are not as common as wipes.
When Taizu founded the country, he ordered a thousand copper coins to be exchanged for a treasure banknote. By the Zhengtong period, the conventional treasure banknotes on the market could only be exchanged for ten copper coins. Devalued a hundred times.
But the bank deposit check refers to the depositor's certificate of depositing the copper coins into the bank, which can be redeemed on demand. If you write "Gui" on the deposit check, you can exchange it for "Gui" copper coins.
It is said that he is "rich". There are as many as one hundred thousand copper coins accumulated in the Changsheng Treasury!
Further inside, there are four large boxes of field deeds. There was also an account book in one of the boxes. Chang Feng flipped through it and found a total number.
The land owned by Dayongchang Temple is 150,000 acres! That's 150,000 taels of silver!
(Note: I beg some history expert readers to please stop complaining! During the Chenghua period, one acre of land was sold for one tael of silver. Please refer to "Taiping County Chronicles". In my book, all figures and historical events are based on historical records. . I’m not just making it up. I can’t say it’s different from the concept in your mind, just blame me for making it up. “Be true to big things and don’t be constrained to small things” is my writing principle.)
Chang Feng made a rough estimate and found that the wealth in the Changsheng Treasury of Dayongchang Temple was at least 300,000 taels! The top ten were obtained by Cai Zhong from greedy ink.
You must know that in the 17th year of Chenghua, the emperor embezzled the silver from the Taicang treasury in the name of "spending the rewards from the inner court", which caused a turmoil where hundreds of officials knelt down to remonstrate. The amount of embezzlement was only three hundred thousand taels.
Fatty Xu geared up and said, "His mother's legs are broken. It's so much money. It would be a pity not to copy it."
Chang Feng said: "My hands are itchy too. Don't worry, the money will belong to the court sooner or later."
What Chang Feng said "sooner or later" alluded to the day when the prince passed away and the prince ascended the throne. Can't say it clearly.
Chang Feng told everyone: "Don't be stunned. Our goal today is not to find gold and silver, but to find the secret cellar! Check it out!"
Huzi is no longer of use. The strong smell of gold and silver in the longevity library interfered with its sense of smell.
More than fifty people knocked on every stone slab and wall in the Changsheng Treasury. Look for hollow chambers and the like.
However, after half an hour, nothing was found!
Everyone left the longevity library. Chang Feng looked back at the huge money bank: Just wait. Next time I come here, I will definitely be carrying money for the imperial court!
The sky has gradually darkened, and it is already dusk.
Chang Feng and others continued to search inside the pagoda.
At the same time, in the underground secret room of Dayongchang Temple.
This is not so much a secret room as it is an underground palace.
A hundred young women were tied up with rags in their mouths, and they were kneeling in the underground palace.
Among these young women, there are not only those who disappeared from the feudal yamen, but also thirty or forty women from ordinary families.
Behind the young women, dozens of strong men stood.
In the center of the underground palace, there is an altar. There is a large cauldron in the center of the altar.
Two people stood by the altar.
One is the third brother of Concubine Wan Gui, and the commander-in-chief of the rear army, Wan Xi.
One is the left minister of the Ministry of Rites, Li Zi Province.
Li Zi Province, a traitor who held a high position by helping Emperor Chenghua refine elixirs and seek immortality.
Wanxi said: "Master Li Xian, a letter came from the ground. It said that the prince brought a group of people into the temple and seemed to be looking for our secret room."
Li Zisheng didn't take it seriously: "The entrance to Ji Xiaoxiu's secret passage is extremely secretive. If they can't find it, there's nothing to worry about."
"Tonight at Yin hour, when the yin hour of the yin year and the yin month comes, the blood of a hundred good-looking virgins will be poured into the cauldron, and the 'life extension pill' will be cooked. The life of the imperial concubine will be saved!"
Wanxi said: "Our Wan family depends entirely on you, Master Li Xian!"
Li Zisheng was a little worried: "Isn't it wrong for us to hide the matter from your second brother, fourth brother, and Eunuch Shang, who abducted the female candidate under the guise of a demon fox?"
Wanxi said: "What will they do if they find out? If my sister's life cannot be saved, the Wan family, Eunuch Shang, and you and Jixiao will all die in Zhu Youtang's hands sooner or later!"
"It's only been two days since you got the Snowy Land's Life Extension Pill. You have to cook the pill in the yin year when the moon is yin and the day is yin."
"Where can I find so many beautiful young virgins in two days? I can only look at the candidates for the crown princess!"
Li Zisheng glanced at the hourglass: "Okay. After four and a half hours, the knife will be cut on time to draw blood! Success or failure depends on this!"
