Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1279
Linyi Palace is still very luxurious.

19 years ago, the Sui army conquered and broke through the capital, looting the capital and the palace, even the temple.But the Sui army withdrew after the looting. Fan Fanzhi returned from the sea and immediately started rebuilding and repairing the capital palace.

Nineteen years later, the Lion City is more prosperous, the palace is more resplendent, and the temple is more magnificent.

Deep in the palace, there is a royal family temple.It is dedicated to the ancestors of the Fan family. Fan Fanzhi not only recreated pure gold tablets for the ancestors, but also taller than the 18 yuan gold tablets that were robbed at the beginning. Width.

In addition, he also built eighteen pure gold statues for the eighteen ancestors, as an apology for the robbery of their tablets.

The eighteen golden statues are all over ten feet high.

A group of pirate leaders stood behind Li Shimin, dumbfounded looking at the golden tablet and the golden statue in the temple.

"It's all gold?"

"Well, pure gold is much purer than Daqin's Jinlong coins." Daqin's Jinlong coins look golden, but the gold content is only [-]%, and it is also mixed with copper to make the gold coins brighter and more beautiful. hard.

"Mother, how many catties of gold does such a big golden statue have?"

Li Shimin looked at the golden statue, which was more than ten feet high, "Generally, bronze statues of the same height weigh more than 1000 catties. This golden statue is more than ten feet high. I guess it must weigh several thousand catties."

"I guess it must weigh five or six thousand catties."

A leader of the Funan Pirates immediately counted there.

"If one tael of gold is obtained from Guangnan, it can be exchanged for the eight guan of the Great Qin Kaiyuan Tongbao. One catty of 16 taels is equivalent to 120 eight guan. One thousand catties is 12 guan. This five thousand catties is... "

"Five thousand catties is 64 yuan, and the eighteen golden men here are 150 coins. Of course, you also forgot to count the 18 yuan gold tablet, each of which must weigh thousands of catties." Woolen cloth."

A group of pirate leaders were all dumbfounded.

"So, is there no less than 1000 catties of gold here? Can it be worth more than [-] million yuan?"

"Yes, it is indeed worth so much money."

Everyone's breathing became rough.

Li Shimin was also very uneasy.

So much gold was completely unexpected. Although it is also recorded in history books, when Liu Song attacked Linyi, he looted more than 19 catties of gold. The Sui army invaded Linyi [-] years ago and also looted Lots of gold.

But such a large number is still astonishing.

You know, the annual gold output in the Sui Dynasty was only 3 to 50 taels, and the total gold output was only about [-] jin.One hundred thousand catties, based on the output of the Sui Dynasty, it would take [-] years.

Even if the output of gold and silver in Central Plains is low, and that in Linyi is high, it is too high.

Li Shimin also knew that Linyi had the advantage of maritime trade. Most of the transactions between Linyi and maritime merchants were gold and silver, so Linyi had more gold and silver, but it was indeed too shocking.

The gold medals and men in this temple alone are worth 300 million guan.

With such a large amount of money, it would be a big deal to recruit troops and build warships.A big treasure ship with tens of thousands of guns, he built a hundred ships, but only a million guns, recruited a pirate, at most dozens of guns a year, and recruited 100 ships, but only hundreds of thousands of guns.

A pirate seemed to see what Li Shimin was thinking, and leaned close to him, whispering, "Erlang, this is a lot of capital, and now we have captured the Lion City, if we use this gold to build warships and weapons , Recruiting troops and buying horses, they can completely support themselves on the ground, and even call themselves a king and a country.”

These words made Li Shimin short of breath.

Yes, the sky is high here, the emperor is far away, and it is nearly a thousand miles away from the southernmost Sunset Capital of the Great Qin Dynasty. Especially the climate here makes it difficult for the Qin army to penetrate here.

Back then, the Sui army had also breached the capital city of Linyi, but in the end they had to evacuate the entire army, and even because of unacceptable conditions, countless people died of illness along the way. In the end, most of the soldiers and horses who marched south were lost on the road of class division.

Lion City has the capital to be self-reliant. It is a big port on the Maritime Silk Road. It is convenient for business and trade, and it is surrounded by plains, so it can be self-sufficient in farming.

heart.

Li Shimin was really moved.

"Report, Zhang Peng, the guard of Linyi, and the heads of the city's merchant gangs are asking to see each other." A report from a pirate interrupted Li Shimin's imagination.

This report also made him wake up.

It is really tempting to become king here, but Li Shimin is not alone in controlling the Lion City. What's more, there is a more powerful Qin Royal South Sea Fleet in the South China Sea.

Shaking his head, Li Shimin sighed secretly.

"Let's go, meet the heroes of last night."

On the golden palace of King Linyi, Li Shimin met with Zhang Peng, Cui Liulang and others here.

The three families meet here to celebrate success.

Congratulate each other with fine wine and smile.

"Li Xiancheng, there is bad news. Last night, although we successfully captured the Lion City, we also captured Fan Fanzhi, but Fan Fanzhi's son, Fan Touli, ran away."

Fan Touli is the prince of Linyi, and Champa's name is Jian Dapo Dharma. He is brave and warlike, very fierce.In the chaos last night, this person saw that the situation was not good, and immediately led his bodyguards to escape from the city.Right now, they must have gone to rescue soldiers.

Li Shimin held the wine glass in his hand, but he didn't care about it.

"It's okay, just run away."

"Let's discuss first how to deal with Lion City."

Hearing this, everyone turned their attention to Li Shimin. After a desperate effort last night, he finally won the Lion City. Now everyone is of course concerned about how to share the benefits.

However, the three forces have their own ideas.

Like many pirates under Li Shimin, they just want to grab one ticket and leave, they don’t plan to occupy the Lion City for a long time, especially after seeing the golden men in the city, they want to share the gold, and then go back to their hometowns to become rich alright.

On the other hand, the merchant gang wants to control this city port for a long time, so that the merchant gang can occupy this important port on the Maritime Silk Road.

As for Zhang Peng and other troops, most of them also hope that the Qin army can come to take over the defense, and then they will return to the imperial court and appoint officials to serve.Some people simply want to go back to the Central Plains and their hometowns.

But no matter whether you leave or stay, the spoils must be taken.

"Let me make a suggestion first. For the Hu merchants in the city, those Funan merchants, Chenla merchants, Kunlun merchants, Tianzhu merchants, Persian merchants, Arab merchants, etc., it is best not to touch them. In the future, there will be no Hu merchants who dare to come to the Lion City to stop for trade, and no one will come here to do business, so the Lion City will become a dead city in the future." A president of a business gang said.

"Our own Han merchants in the Central Plains cannot harass and loot." Cui Liulang also said.

(End of this chapter)