Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 154 The Treasure of the Earth National Treasure
When Zhang Mingbin and his men were digging three feet to search for the national treasure, this guy had already taken advantage of the chaos and escaped from Suzhou City.When the Jinwu cavalry entered Fuya, Tu Guobao was admiring his collection in the secret room in the backyard.

Although Governor Jiang Ning has only been around for a few months, Tu Guobao has already taken the opportunity to collect a lot of money.

Tuguobaoben is a scoundrel in the north. He is the best man with money. He sold private salt in his early years, then entered Taihu Lake as a water bandit, and was recruited to join the army. south levy.

But no matter whether he used to smuggle salt or be a water thief, or became the Ming Dynasty official army to suppress the peasant army, or turned around to attack the Ming army to suppress the gentry and common people in the south of the Yangtze River after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, this person is always poisoning the people everywhere. Soldiers have always had the worst military discipline, and they like to loot the most.Some unwritten rules have even been formed, such as killing good men and taking meritorious service, and taking women for sale. Everywhere they go, they have to blackmail the local wealthy households. If they don’t give enough money, he will say that the other party is collaborating with the enemy, and Murder and ransack.

After Tu Guobao became the governor of Jiangning, he made even more money. He not only instigated his nephew Yang Guohai, Zhongjun Zou Xixiang and other confidants to frame the rich and collaborating with the enemy in order to extort money, and even let them secretly smuggle salt, saltpeter and ammunition for profit.

And often under the guise of military supplies, cleverly set up tax increases and apportionments.

No, in the name of giving relief, he secretly lent usury and even expropriated households, and occupied unowned houses and fields. People's houses, land and shops were confiscated, and even the merchant's grain, oil and cloth were the same.

In the name of giving relief, secretly lending usury, using the name of adopting orphans, taking all the land, houses and other properties of the orphan's family as their own, it can be described as extremely greedy.

Today, in the name of building more barracks, he pays taxes in Jiangning and collects tens of thousands of taels of silver.

Even if the common people's land taxes and grains are transported, he will look for opportunities to be greedy, and use the excuse that the common people transport the people to the people, thinking that it is a pain, and change it to an official transport, and then take the opportunity to apportion the freight by the mu, and make a lot of money from it.

Even the prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River had a lot of free land, and the income was used to support the elderly and children and help the servants. As a result, Tu Guobao ordered to collect grain from these free land. There are more than [-] mu of righteous land in the county, and the Tu Guobao collects one stone per mu, and nearly [-] stones are harvested.

Then it became even more commonplace to accuse the rich as robbers and accuse the gentry of collaborating with the enemy.

He often sent his subordinates to the countryside to suppress bandits and catch thieves, but they often killed good men and pretended to be meritorious, and sent troops to plunder.

Governor Jiang Ning has only been in a few months, and Tu Guobao has accumulated a lot of money. Except for some distribution to his confidants and generals, and some support for his family and rewards for soldiers, he keeps most of it by himself and hides it all in this secret room.

Chests of silver ingots melted into ingots.

In order to facilitate transshipment and storage, he even exchanged a lot of money into gold and cast it into gold bars.

When Zhang Mingbin rushed into Fuya, Tu Guobao was depositing more than 1 taels of silver he had recently collected in a secret room, looking at the gold and silver with a greedy and complacent smile.

Because of this, he was lucky enough to escape when the Jinwu cavalry entered the Yazhong.

Hearing the commotion outside, he sent his servants to inquire carefully, and learned that the Ming army disguised as a green battalion entered Suzhou City, Tu Guobao was also shocked.

Sitting slumped on the silver box, after a long period of palpitations, he decisively changed into civilian clothes, and fled out of the secret passage with his servants.This secret room is where he hides his silver, and it is directly connected to a house outside Fuya. This is also the escape route prepared by Tu Guobao in advance, and it is also convenient for the gold and silver to come in and out, so as not to attract attention.

At this time, he successfully helped him escape from the government office, and then under the cover of night, while the city was still in chaos, he disguised himself as ordinary people and took a few servants, and quickly fled to another secret stronghold, which was next to the city wall , is also the cover of a secret passage, from here directly escapes out of the city through the secret passage.

Tu Guobao is also worthy of being an old Jianghu. Although he is an official to the governor, he sometimes behaves a bit like when he was a bandit and a bandit. He always leaves a way out.

After escaping from the city, he avoided it carefully and ran to a house on the outskirts of the city. There were a few servants arranged by him and more than a dozen fast horses.

When he found his nephew Yang Guohai in the camp outside the city, Yang Guohai was taken aback by his appearance.

"Suzhou City is lost?"

Yang Guohai couldn't believe it, but seeing his uncle in such a mess, he could only believe this fact.

"Could it be that Huang Fei killed the carbine?"

"It's not the Yellow Bandits, and it's not Wu Zhikui. This is another army. They wear the banner of the Green Camp and have their hair shaved." Tu Guobao was still terrified, and even more annoyed when he thought of the thrilling journey.

He almost capsized, and when he thought of the gold and silver treasures in his secret room, he became even more anxious.

He wasn't in such a hurry to lose Suzhou City, anyway, the city didn't belong to him, but the gold and silver were collected by him with all his efforts.

"Is it a cavalry, or just the vanguard of the army?" Although Yang Guohai is not good at fighting and can only make money, he is also very alert at this time.

Tu Guobao gritted his teeth, "Look at the other party like this, he definitely came prepared, it's impossible for some small group of people to take advantage of the chaos to rob, I suspect it's someone from Kunshan or Songjiang, maybe it's someone from the fake Lu Jianguo .”

"Didn't it mean that the rebels in Jiangsu, Kunshan and other places were all suppressed by Yan Wogong, Li Yuchun, Zheng Jiwu, etc. who came from Jiaxing?"

"That's just their one-sided remarks, who knows if it's true or not, but the cavalry that is now entering Suzhou is well-equipped and fast-moving. They are by no means waiting for random soldiers. Hurry up and send people to Zou Xixiang and others to gather Fubiao together."

"Yes." Yang Guohai also realized that if a large army really arrived in Suzhou, they would have been kept in the dark. Not only would Suzhou be lost, but they would also be in great danger.

So he immediately dispatched messengers to find the other battalion heads of Fubiao, and asked them to quickly come and gather.

"Are you going to take back Suzhou City?" Yang Guohai asked, not only Tu Guobao's money is in the city, but his money is also basically in Suzhou City.

Tu Guobao shook his head with a dark face.

His experience told him that that team is not alone, so if they go back to fight Suzhou now, not only will they not be able to defeat them, but they may also fall into a tiger's mouth. The best way to deal with it right now is to stay away from Suzhou City.

"Send a few more teams to chase after Li Sutai. Now the most powerful fighter in the vicinity is his [-] full cavalry. If you want to take back Suizhou, you have to rely on him."

"Tell him, don't worry about Huang Fei for now, just say that Zhu Wu, the ninth younger brother of the pseudo-Lu Jianguo and the pseudo-admiral of Jiangnan, has already taken Suzhou. If we don't take Suzhou back, we can't do business for the higher-ups."

"Tell them, all gather at Qionglong Mountain in the western suburbs." Tu Guobao chose Qionglong Mountain in the west of the city as the assembly point. This place is in the west of Suzhou City, and it is also one of the few mountains outside Suzhou City. It is adjacent to the city and the lake. Can attack and defend.

"Send some more people out to find information, I want to know who put me together!" Tu Guobao said angrily.

(End of this chapter)