marquis of jingan

Chapter 414
The Wang family is very rich, so rich that even Shen Yi feels a little surprised.

Because the coastal cities of this era are still different from the coastal cities of later generations. In places like Taizhou Prefecture, there are seven mountains, two waters and one field. It's just to make ends meet, although it's not very poor, but it's not rich either.

Only these wealthy households who do business along the coast can earn a little profit by virtue of the advantage of being near the sea.

Even so, places like Taizhou Mansion, not to mention places like Jiankang Gusu or Lin'an Mansion, even Jiangdu Mansion, Shen Yi's hometown, are much worse than places like Jiankang Gusu or Lin'an Mansion. After taking over the Wang family's property, after some counting, the number reached the point where Shen Yi was astonished.

In terms of silver alone, there are more than 27 taels hidden in the cellar of the Wang family mansion!
The other land deeds, land deeds, antique calligraphy and paintings, jewelry, and some gold nuggets are added together, and the Wang family's property is estimated to be close to one million!

It's not that Shen Yi has never seen a millionaire. In places like Jiankang and Jiangdu, although there are not many millionaires, there are still some, but places like Taizhou...

When Shen Yi handed the property list of the Wang family to Li Mu, he couldn't help sighing: "Only this one Wang family has become so fat, there is no need for more, just copy two or three more Wang families, and form a resistance group." The salary of the Japanese army is enough."

Originally, Li Mu only knew about the 27 taels of cash. Hearing what Shen Yi said, he immediately took the list, read it over, and clicked his tongue.He opened the mouth and said, "It's richer than my Prince Jin's Mansion."

After saying this, he glanced at Shen Yi, and said: "Although the royal family is fat and oily, His Majesty once promised to allow us to confiscate the property of those who communicated with Japanese to form coastal defense, but those in the court Civil officials may not be willing to..."

The prince said slowly: "Some people in the court belong to the gentry or wealthy businessmen in these places, and some people are jealous when they see the money. Those people have very good eyes and ears. Maybe in a few days, someone in the court will play See our brothers have embezzled court funds."

Having said that, Li Mu smiled, pointed to the list in front of him and said, "There is still this money."

"Maybe in a few days, the God of Wealth in Jiankang will send a document, saying that the money should be charged to the treasury of the household department."

Shen Yi smiled: "Uncle Zhao is really likely to send this document, but he has no selfish intentions. As the Minister of the Household Department, he tries every means to enrich the treasury of the Household Department. It is his job to be a good accountant of the court."

"His old man's house in Jiankang was bought by my aunt."

Li Mu smiled dumbly: "Okay, I know that the people in the Ganquan Academy are united."

Shen Yi shook his head, and stopped talking about this topic, but said: "Your Majesty, your Majesty probably also knows in his heart that this trip to the south to patrol the sea is difficult to do, so he didn't choose those civil servants with high positions and deep experience to do it. Afraid that they will be cautious at every step, we sent us two young men, just to ask us to use our momentum to accomplish this."

"What I mean is, no matter which yamen of the imperial court sends us any documents, we will ignore them, except that the imperial court sent people from the Dali Temple's Zongfu to come and take us, otherwise we will just keep our eyes closed."

"You said it lightly."

Li Mu glanced at Shen Yi, and said angrily: "I am an imperial envoy on this mission, Zi Heng, you always say that you are just an eighth-rank official, what happened, is it because I, an imperial envoy, is the one to take the blame? "

Shen Yi smiled at Li Mu and said: "If something happened to the son, he would also be taken to the Zongfu for questioning. The outer court has no right to intervene. At that time, pardoning the son will not be a matter of His Majesty's words?"

Li Mu narrowed his eyes slightly, looked up at Shen Yi, then shook his head with emotion: "This may be the reason why His Majesty sent me to take the blame for you."

"After all, I am from the Li family, and I can carry the big responsibility."

…………

In the next few days, Shen Yi and Li Mu began to get busy.

The two were not in a hurry to use the Wang family's private property, and only used the Wang family's 27 taels of cash to formally form the Anti-Japanese Army.

This anti-Japanese army was established in accordance with the emperor's will, nominally for the purpose of eradicating Japanese pirates and calming the coast.

In other words, this is a temporary establishment.

One day in the future, after the Japanese pirates are eliminated, this anti-Japanese army will be disbanded on the spot.

However, His Majesty's ambition is not only to wipe out the Japanese pirates, but when the anti-Japanese army is able to wipe out the Japanese pirates, they may transform into another brand new army.

But that's all for later.

The current situation is that the two young men, Shen Yi and Li Mu, need to build the skeleton of the anti-Japanese army first.

First of all, it was Linhaiwei's two young men who killed the Japanese pirates.

The young man named Wan Zhong was still recuperating in bed, but Xue Wei, a young man who hacked and killed a Japanese pirate without any damage, was "directly recruited" by Shen Yi into the Anti-Japanese Army and promoted to the general banner.

The general banner is under 50 households, with [-] people in charge.

Theoretically speaking, this is a seventh-rank military post.

But it's only in theory, because the anti-Japanese army is currently a temporary establishment, and Xue Wei's general banner has positions but no titles.

Or, after he has made some achievements in the anti-Japanese army in the future, he will become a regular official and become a serious court official.

The reason why he was only given a general flag was because when he reached the position of a hundred households, it was not just a question of personal bravery, but a certain commanding ability. At present, neither Shen Yi nor Li Mu had seen Xue Wei. any command ability.

And for Xue Wei to be directly promoted to several levels, in fact, there is also the meaning of buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars. Let these soldiers see that as long as they kill the Japanese pirates, the imperial court will definitely reward them!

After accepting Xue Wei, Shen Yi set up a tent at the gate of Linhai County and officially started recruiting troops.

The treatment is favorable, which is more than twice that of the sergeants of the local guards.

If you have money, there are naturally many people who sign up. Soon, a long queue formed in front of Shen Yi.

The reason why the queue was so long and they didn't rush forward was not because they were very qualified, but because Xue Wei, with a fierce face, and his little brothers, holding a big stick, were kindly maintaining order.

Master Shen sat in the tent himself, recording the names of the applicants one by one.

After most of the day, Shen Yi's registration paper was filled with names one by one. A rough look showed that there were already more than 500 people.

Shen Yi was very satisfied with this speed.

Although he knew that the vast majority of these people did not come to destroy the Japanese pirates, but came to steal the army's salary.

But it doesn't matter, as long as the number of people is large enough, a few useful ones can always be selected.

The names were reported one by one, Master Shen lowered his head, and recorded them one by one.

A big man stood in front of Shen Yi.

Without raising his head, Shen Yi repeated mechanically: "Sign up."

"Ling Su."

Hearing this name, Shen Yi subconsciously wrote the word "Ling", then stopped writing and looked at the burly man in front of him.

Master Shen put down his brush and smiled dumbly: "Ling Qianhu, the last time Linhaiwei's anti-Japanese war was unfavorable, the imperial court has not settled with you, don't you think you want to join the anti-Japanese army to avoid guilt?"

Ling Qianhu bowed his head respectfully, cupped his fists at Shen Yi, and bowed his head deeply.

"Ms. Ling came here precisely to make meritorious deeds."

He bowed his head and said, "Ling is willing to give up his identity as a thousand households of Linhaiwei and become a small soldier in the Anti-Japanese Army!"

(End of this chapter)