Chapter 113 Between Life and Death
“After casting the silver ingots into the shape of a saddle, a cavalryman can carry 800 taels of silver, and we have more than 43,000 cavalrymen, just The cavalry can take away half of the silver here.
A pack horse can carry three silver plates weighing fifty kilograms, which is one hundred and fifty kilograms, and attack two thousand four hundred taels of silver. With another fifteen thousand pack horses, we can take away all the remaining silver plates without affecting the march of our army."
Mu Tiantao put the war horses on his back. He took off the silver plate, held it in front of Liu Zongmin, and talked endlessly about the benefits of casting silver ingots into silver plates.
Liu Zongmin lifted the silver plate with one hand and found that the silver plate weighed fifty kilograms. He then placed the silver plate on the horse's back, pressed his hand on the horse's back, and found that the horse was motionless. Nodding with satisfaction.
"It seems that you have studied. What are the rules for this matter?"
Mu Tiantao pointed to the general supervisor in the west of the capital and said: "I asked someone There are six alchemy furnaces there. Each furnace can smelt a thousand kilograms of silver at a time. If it is smelted day and night..."
Liu Zongmin himself is a blacksmith. When Mu Tiantao said this, he immediately Said: "You can get 60,000 catties in one day and night."
Mu Tiantao nodded and said: "There are also alchemy furnaces from major banks. I think it can be completed in less than ten days. The heavy task of smelting."
Liu Zongmin sneered: "We don't want to smelt so much, first make sure our troops have saddles like this... we might as well make them heavier."
Liu Zongmin said with a smile. He left the bank with a smile. When he left, Mu Tiantao had grown from a pawn to a commander in charge of a thousand people.
After Liu Zongmin left, the leader of the personal guards called Mu Tiantao into his room and said: "Our brothers..."
Mu Tiantao immediately said: "All are here. It was damaged in the fire."
The guard leader said again: "Brothers have lived a hard life for so many years..."
Mu Tiantao immediately said: "It's too many. There is no way to get it."
The guard leader said again: "With so much money..."
Mu Tiantao sneered: "So many people have died in the capital these days. People, find some families with dead men, just act as their men, feed the women and children, and then..."
"Can't they be wealthy?"
"No, when Yun Zhao's soldiers and horses enter the city, the big families will still...hehehe."
The leader of the personal guard laughed and said: "They have been completely plundered."
Laughing and laughing, I couldn’t stop laughing.
These people followed Liu Zongmin to fight all over the world and suffered countless hardships. Countless escapes from death made them extremely tired of fighting.
Now, they have forced the emperor to death, but their situation shows no sign of improvement.
Chongzhen is dead, and he will soon face the Lantian Army, which is a hundred times more powerful than Chongzhen.
Now that money is available, many people are no longer willing to work for King Chuang.
After all, when you have nothing, only one bad life is worthless. Anyone who wants to take this bad life for one bite can take it, eat, drink, have fun, rape and plunder...
It's different now.
A penniless pauper has a completely different view of life than a person with a lot of money in his arms.
The former is to endure life, while the latter is to enjoy life.
As long as you are a normal person, who doesn’t want to enjoy life?
This is especially true for the first batch of Guanzhong people who followed Liu Zongmin to fight in the world.
Today's Guanzhong has long become a blessed place on earth, and you can easily know things about your hometown from the mouths of Lantian merchants who deal with the rebels.
In my hometown at this time, there were no starving people everywhere, no locusts flying all over the sky, no hemp-like thieves, no harsh landlords, and no government that liked to distribute, plunder, and collude with the rich.
The people in Yan'an Prefecture have been moved to Ningxia Town to plant rice. The people in Jingbian County have stopped farming for a long time. They have begun to graze. The men in Suide have all gone to Kouwai. After starting a business, it will cost a lot of money to marry a beautiful aunt from Mizhi.
People from Guanzhong who used to wander abroad are returning one after another. Some bandits from Guanzhong who fled to other places are now willing to go back to their hometowns and go to jail. After sitting in jail for three to five years, they can live a lifetime after being released.
However, they are definitely not among those who can return home.
After years of fighting, these hands have killed countless people. When killing people, there is no way to consider whether the other person is a good person or a bad person. Therefore, when they return to Lantian, they cannot withstand the interrogation.
Not being able to return to my hometown is a big problem.
The inability to bury the bones is a big problem.
The most terrifying thing is that the army is about to leave the capital and go to Liaodong... I heard that it is a place that can freeze people to death.
The decadent thoughts of these people were inspired by Mu Tiantao.
Among them, Mu Tiantao made it very clear what kind of place Liaodong is, with six months of cold winter a year, snowfields, forests, ferocious slaves, and terrifying beasts... …
Mu Tiantao believed that the pile of 70 million taels of silver would not be much at all if placed in a mouse hole. What he had to do was to try to keep the money in the capital.
As long as the money stays in the capital, it cannot fly away.
In just half a month, Mu Tiantao easily organized a corruption and theft group. With everyone working together, millions of taels of silver disappeared out of thin air, and Mu Tiantao The accounts he was responsible for were clear, as if the millions of taels of silver had never existed at all.
This is the result of corruption from top to bottom.
Liu Zongmin is corrupting, Li Guo is corrupting, and Li Mou is corrupting.It is naturally unreasonable to regulate others and not allow others to commit corruption. Therefore, it is best for everyone to commit corruption together.
The sound of artillery fire from Li Dingguo’s army was getting closer and closer, and the people in the city became more and more crazy. Liu Zongmin fell on the bed for three days and three nights, indulging in sexual pleasure, while the generals in the capital and the people in the bank were The alchemy furnace is blazing day and night.
Liu Zongmin never imagined that he could see hundreds of kilograms of silver water poured into this small mold at one time.
What he didn’t know was that countless pure silver plates had been replaced with iron-tied silver. Those skilled generals in the capital who had long been recruited by Lantian had used their former cheating skills to the fullest extent. As a result, under Xia Wanchun's desperate urging, the output of fake silver plates has almost reached 30% of that of real silver plates.
Li Guo and Li Mou, two generals from peasant backgrounds, were very satisfied with the casting speed under Mu Tiantao's command.
If Liu Zongmin, who was born in the iron smelting industry, could only rape fewer women, with his ability, he could easily discover the fishy nature.
Unfortunately, he didn't come. He left everything to Li Guo, Li Mou, and Mu Tiantao.
Just when Li Dingguo's explosive shells had hit the city wall, the thick smoke in the blast furnace finally disappeared. Some of the cavalry had left the capital with a batch of silver plates or iron-tied silver plates. The target ——Shanhaiguan!
Liu Zongmin, who had not appeared for many days, finally appeared in Mu Tiantao's sight.
At this time, Mu Tiantao was dealing with two furnace explosion accidents. Nearly three thousand kilograms of silver water had been integrated into the furnace. It was a very cumbersome matter to get the silver.
Facing the frightened Mu Tiantao, Liu Zongmin looked at the stove and frowned: "The temperature of the stove is too high and the chamber will explode."
Mu Tiantao knelt down on one knee and clasped his fists He said: "Before you evacuate, you must dig out all the money from the furnace."
Liu Zongmin glanced at the leader of his personal guards. The leader nodded and then said: "I will stay, and finally Evacuate the capital."
Liu Zongmin put his hand on the head of Mu Tiantao, who looked like a black man, and comforted him: "Take as much as you can, Li Jin may not be able to get too much for you. More time."
After that, he left the dusty metallurgical furnace. This time, he was going to evacuate.
Watching Liu Zongmin leave, the leader of the personal guards seemed to see that Mu Tiantao, who was still working hard on the stove with a large group of craftsmen, disappeared out of thin air.
At this time, the sound of artillery outside the city seemed to be exploding in my ears.
Two dark young men sat side by side on the huge bell tower, looking at Li Jin's troops crumbling at the Zhengyang Gate, and at the North Gate where they could not see beyond. Team heading north.
As for the capital, it looks increasingly dilapidated and desolate.
"For ten days, we have been working non-stop, and we can only achieve this little result."
"Two thousand one hundredMore than 10,000 taels, that’s it. "
"How much more money can be found by searching the city? ”
“It will not be less than eight million taels.” ”
Xia Wanchun wiped the black ash on his face and said, “That’s enough, I’ve tried my best. "
Mu Tiantao turned his head and looked at Xia Wanchun seriously and said: "Can I really go back to the academy?
Xia Wanchun took out a flat silver flask from his arms, took a sip of wine, handed it to Mu Tiantao and said, "Mr. Your majesty finally agreed with my wealth and life as my guarantee.
All your past experiences for this year will also be archived and will not be held accountable. "
Mu Tiantao took a sip of wine. He didn't know whether he choked on the wine or what happened. A series of tears flowed down. He quickly wiped away his tears and said, "I can actually continue. Mix in Liu Zongmin's army and do some more things for Lantian.
Xia Wanchun shook his head and said: "It won't work. Later, we didn't have time to make iron tire silver, so I painted a lot of cast iron plates with black paint and sent them up. Liu Zongmin will definitely find out before tonight." .
If you go now, you are seeking death. "
"I can change my identity and go to Li Hongji's old camp. "
"No need, there may be more of us in Li Hongji's team than you think. Do you think this thing we two did is really so easy to succeed? It's just that there are a lot of people covering for us.
In addition, Mu Tiantao has died in the battle in the capital, and this is the news that your brother Mu Tianbo knows. ”
“In other words, I will be anonymous from now on? "
Xia Wanchun nodded and said: "You have a very nice name - Xiaohu. To be honest, you may be the only one among the old nobles who can participate in Lantian, political, and military affairs.
If you agree, from now on, Chuhu will not have any contact with Prince Mu’s Mansion and Zhu Aina. If you don’t agree, you will still be called Mu Tiantao and can return to Chang’an City where the Eight Kings were imprisoned in the Tang Dynasty. In the market, be a wealthy and idle person and live a happy life. "
Mu Tiantao looked at the desolate palace under the setting sun and said: "After sunrise tomorrow, there will only be tiger cubs in the world, and there will be no Mu Tiantao.
Xia Wanchun took a long breath, opened a medicine bag, took a sip himself, then handed the remaining powder to Mu Tiantao and said, "Swallow quickly." ”