"The first generation of King Qin is really good at it. The inheritance of King Qin's palace for more than two hundred years is definitely not a fluke!"
After listening to King Qin's narration, Yuan Keli sighed.
"Prince Qin, as long as you are in Prince Qin's palace, your direct descendants can move around freely, but you cannot leave the sight of the soldiers."
"Don't worry, I will tell the truth in my reply to His Majesty! I still have to deal with things, please do it yourself!"
After Yuan Keli finished speaking, he bowed his hands towards King Qin and left the room.
Cui Ming saw Yuan Keli coming out outside the door, and he was relieved. If it was a little later, he would have barged in.
"Cui Ming, bring a hundred people from one household to follow this pavilion."
Half a quarter of an hour later, the team arrived in the garden of the palace. According to King Qin's instructions, Yuan Keli opened the mechanism on the rockery.
A dark cave entrance as tall as a person appeared.
After Cui Ming made some operations, everyone walked down the path. At the end was another stone gate, which was also controlled by an agency.
As the stone door opened, all the furnishings in the secret room were displayed in front of everyone, against the backdrop of torches.
There are hundreds of boxes stacked one after another.
"Mr. Ge, it's all money!"
A Jin Yiwei opened several boxes and quickly reported to Yuan Keli.
Here is what the King of Qin told Yuan Keli, a secret that only the kings of Qin in the past knew.
It turns out that the first generation of King Qin suddenly established the ancestral system in his later years. He had to withdraw half of his income and save it every year, and he did it without realizing it.
The purpose is to leave it to future generations. If one day the title of King Qin is deposed, future generations can use the money to become rich and powerful families.
When the second King of Qin arrived, he experienced the reduction of vassal status by Emperors Jianwen and Chengzu, which further strengthened his father's decision, so this rule was passed down from generation to generation.
Historical records show that the first King of Qin committed many evil deeds. When he went to conquer Western Fan, he kidnapped 150 virgins and castrated 155 young boys. Many boys died as a result.
And so on, Zhu Yuanzhang, who still had lingering resentment after his death, ordered the scale of his funeral to be reduced. The memorial text read: Although you are dead, you are still unworthy, which shows the absurdity of the first King of Qin.
It is said that the weapons used by Chengzu in the rebellion were a secret room dug underground in the palace, and pig pens, duck sheds, etc. were built above to hide the sound of the weapons being made.
It would be interesting if this ancestral system was established by the first King of Qin in his later years.
Whether he is hiding his clumsiness, really thinking about his descendants, or has other agendas, it doesn't matter.
The important thing is that these are all free money.
"Everyone move out!"
It took half an hour to move hundreds of boxes out.
Before leaving, Yuan Keli glanced at a corner, where was another exit of the secret room, leading hundreds of meters away.
Even if the Qin Prince's Mansion is rebuilt, future generations can enter through a tunnel hundreds of meters away and transport away gold and silver.
Hundreds of boxes in the courtyard were all opened, and all the silver in the boxes was wrapped in oil paper. Under the light of the fire, it looked very spectacular.
"Take inventory!"
Everyone started to move, pieces of oil paper were removed, and the true appearance was gradually revealed.
There are actually copper coins from the Hongwu period in the ancient box, and the ropes that hold the coins are rotten.
It took another half an hour to count them out.
"Mr. Ge, there are 7,000 taels of copper coins, 7,397,000 taels of silver, and more than 10,000 taels of gold, equivalent to 7,540,000 taels of silver."
"If you add the cash in the inner treasury, the total is 8.25 million taels of silver."
"Mr. Ge, do you think there are any secrets in Prince Qin's palace?"
"Almost, even if there is, there won't be much left!"
Yuan Keli thought for a while and then gave the answer.
PS: According to statistics, a total of about 23 million taels of silver were mined in the Ming Dynasty, and the silver accumulated in previous dynasties before the Ming Dynasty was as much as 460 million taels. In addition to the nearly 500 million taels produced by the Ming Dynasty, it flowed into China in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. There are about 300 million taels of silver in China. If you calculate it this way, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty had almost 800 million taels of silver. However, the silver was all in the hands of officials and businessmen, and the people were very poor!
Looking at the hundreds of boxes of white silver, Yuan Keli was very emotional. In addition to the five million taels previously punished by the wealthy businessmen and gentry, a trip to Shaanxi actually produced 13 million taels, which was more than what was achieved in the three years of the Ming Dynasty. Silver tax is more.
"Cui Ming, pack all the gold, silver and items in the inner treasury into boxes, and then seal them."
"Also, tell King Qin that you can take away whatever you want from the palace. You are responsible for packing it and transporting it back to Beijing together."
"Except for bulky items."
Yuan Keli added that he was really afraid that the King of Qin would say, I like the Nine Dragon Wall in front of the palace, and that would be the end of it.
"After dawn tomorrow, send someone to inform these gentry and wealthy merchants who have placed their fields under the Qin Prince's Palace that I have an invitation!"
"clear!"
Cui Ming said in a deep voice: "Mr. Ge, you have been busy all day. You should go and rest first. Master Zeng and other commanders are here to take care of you. There will be no problem."
Yuan Keli thought for a moment and nodded. He was over sixty and couldn't stand it anymore.
In a guest room in the palace, Yuan Keli slowly fell asleep.
In the lobby of a mansion in Xi'an City, more than ten people gathered together. These people were tall, short, fat, thin, old, middle-aged and young, but without exception, everyone was dressed very richly.
"Everyone, everyone knows about the affairs of the Prince of Qin's Mansion. The house confiscation is certain. The title deeds of the fields we posted under the Prince of Qin's Mansion must have been obtained by Yuan Keli. What should we do?"
An old man sitting in the first seat had a sad face, and the people sitting below also had serious faces.
The land deed is in Yuan Keli's hands, so they have no reason to prove that it is theirs. They go to Yuan Keli and say that the land deed is theirs? Isn’t that just throwing yourself into a trap?
For tax evasion, the Ming Dynasty Law stipulates that the person will be severely beaten from fifty to one hundred times, plus a fine, and the amount of the fine is half of the tax evasion.
If they were hit with fifty sticks, they might be killed directly.
Even if they can't be beaten to death, the taxes they have evaded over the years will probably confiscate their family's money.
"I have an idea. If Yuan Keli comes to us, we will take the initiative to admit our mistakes. We will not want as much land as the Qin Prince's Mansion, and then..."
"Are you crazy?"
One person shouted angrily: "Nearly half of the land held on behalf of others has been taken out. How can we collect rent?"
"No hurries?"
The person who just started speaking glared at the person who retorted: "There is a big disaster in Shaanxi right now, and the people are starved of food. As long as there is money and food, there is a lot of land. Now it is only a short-term loss."
"Haha, that's a good idea. I was punished tenfold for taking the lead in raising prices and selling grain some time ago. Do you think he will let us off easily?"
"We can't go and get the land, we can't take the initiative to plead guilty, and we can't run away. Can we just wait to die?"
