Late Qing Dynasty Executioner

Chapter 40: Money and Beauty
Zhang Haomin had someone lower the gangplank. After Liu Er got on the boat, he went straight to Addis's body and stabbed him in the neck again.

"He's obviously dead. Is there any need for you to do this?" Chen Gu was somewhat speechless when he saw Addis' pale face. It was obvious that all the blood had been drained out.

"I'm happy with it, what's it to you?" Liu Er retorted like a child and rolled his eyes at Chen Gu, obviously in a good mood.

Chen Gu was too lazy to pay attention to him. He looked at Zhang Haomin and others and asked, "Have you searched the cabin? Did you find any silver?"

Zhang Haomin shook his head with a strange look on his face, "There is no silver in the cabin, but ~!"

"The money is in the warehouse!" Scar grinned.

"How many are there?" Chen Gu asked casually, then waved his hand and said, "Lead the way."

"A lot, several large boxes!" Scar said as he ran over and opened the entrance to the bottom warehouse on the deck at the cabin door.

After entering the bottom warehouse, there were many small boxes stacked inside two open large boxes. Chen Gu opened a small box at random, and inside was silver ingots worth ten taels of silver each. There were ten in each layer, and judging from the size of the box, there should be about ten layers.

"Open all the boxes, count them and move them to the small fishing boat. Move quickly," Chen Gu ordered.

There were only more than 10,000 taels of silver ingots, 1,000 taels of gold, and more than 10,000 silver coins of various kinds. All of them converted into silver were less than 40,000 taels.

Huihuazhuang not only achieved nationwide exchange, but also produced bearer silver bills, which were equivalent to acceptance bills in later generations.

"What surprise?" Chen Gu frowned and asked, "Opium?"

Therefore, in this era, the family assets to be stored are definitely cash and silver, but if used for circulation, they are basically things like silver bills.

"That's definitely not it. I know you hate opium, and the opium is in this warehouse!" Zhang Haomin pointed to a pile of earthenware jars in the corner and said, "Those are the opium."

But this amount of silver was far lower than Chen Gu's estimate. After all, a Qing prefect could earn 100,000 taels of silver in three years, while a general of Chengdu, who was like a frontier official, could only collect 40,000 taels of silver after collecting such a large amount of money along the two rivers and four banks. It was too unreasonable.

Although forty thousand taels was not a small amount, it was enough to fulfill the promise of a minimum of one hundred taels of silver per person, and to reward meritorious people with a sum of silver, and the rest was enough for the development of the village.

"The banknotes are in the cabin, and there are also surprises in the cabin. I just don't know if you can enjoy them now!" Zhang Haomin said to Chen Gu in a low voice.

After the mid-Qing Dynasty, the money shop industry had developed very well, including not only the exchange business between various gold, silver and copper coins, but also the deposit and withdrawal of gold and silver, etc.

There is even an institution like Huihuazhuang that is similar to UnionPay.

Everyone quickly started working together, and Zhang Haomin was responsible for keeping accounts.

"Where is the banknote?" Chen Gu asked suddenly. He almost forgot about it.

"Come here, throw the opium into the river, and remember to smash the jar before throwing it." Chen Gu glanced at everyone coldly, and then said, "You all remember this.

No one in the village is allowed to touch opium, including smoking it yourself, planting it, selling it, etc. If I find out, I will let you feel the power of the rifle. "

"Don't worry, young master. We brothers can't afford to smoke opium. It's something for rich people to play with. We can't get involved. As for planting, it's not much better than farming." Scar said with a smile. "Just know it yourself. I will help you make money, but I will kill you if you touch opium. If you want to touch opium one day, think about whether you will die in my hands!"

After Chen Gu threatened everyone, he followed Zhang Haomin to the cabin.

The bottom warehouse is actually a cargo warehouse, and there are quite a lot of things piled up, including gold, silver, opium, cloth, fine wine and other materials looted by Addis, as well as weapons, ammunition, swords, armor, food and other military supplies.

Unfortunately, Chen Gu had no time to count the items, and he could only move the most valuable items. He couldn't waste too much time, so as to avoid any more trouble.

Fortunately, after Yuanbao and others cleaned up the scene, they came over to help, which sped up the moving process a lot.

Chen Gu and Liu Er followed Zhang Haomin to the cabin. After entering, they found that it was a very luxuriously decorated room with an area of ​​about 20 square meters.

"The Qing Dynasty has become corrupt!" Zhang Haomin sighed, "The General of Chengdu, the highest military commander of a province, actually turned a warship into a room for his own enjoyment."

Chen Ju glanced at Liu Er and reminded him, "The sour scholar said that the Qing Dynasty had been completely stabilized after the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. Even if it is corrupt now, it is still a centipede that is dead but not stiff. It cannot be easily shaken."

Liu Er glanced at Chen Gu and said, "I know that I have no chance in this life, so you should work hard, it's good to be young!"

"Haha, they're just a little too young!" Zhang Haomin smiled, walked a few steps to the bed, pulled back the quilt, revealing two shivering girls.

"Ah~!"

As the quilt was lifted, the two girls screamed at the same time, their voices high-pitched and melodious.

The two girls were about fourteen or fifteen years old, with delicate features, fair skin, and tall but plump figures.

"That old Korean Addis really knows how to enjoy himself!" Chen Gu couldn't help but curse in his heart. Just thinking about the scene of that fat old man Addis hugging these two young girls, Chen Gu felt restless.

Zhang Haomin glanced at Chen Jue with a half-smile, and asked with a strange expression: "Can our young master enjoy the beauty?"

Chen Gu couldn't help but blush. He really couldn't enjoy it. This body was too small. He hadn't had any erotic dreams in the past two or three months.

Chen Gu glanced at Liu Er and said with a smile: "Old man, why don't I give them all to you? It will also help you to have a descendant!"

"Forget it. I'm old now, why bother thinking about descendants? If I really wanted to leave descendants, I would have done it twenty years ago." Liu Er sighed and said.

It is not easy for an executioner to find a wife, but Liu Er has a mountain stronghold, so he can arrange for his wife and children to live there. Even if no one is willing to be with him, he can still snatch a wife back home.

Chen Gu couldn't help but look at Liu Er with a strange look. Could this old guy be incapable?
Liu Er seemed to understand Chen Gu's eyes, and he immediately became furious. He glared and asked, "What do you mean, kid?"

Chen Gu grinned and said, "No, I just care about you. Even if I don't want to leave you with a descendant, I can take you back to warm my bed. Otherwise, it would be a pity to kill you like this!"

(End of this chapter)