I was the emperor in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 871 Harvest
No one cares whether they are laughing or crying on their side.

Many of the people who were rescued were fishermen or ordinary people in Yizhen County.

Many of Jiang Hao's subordinates stepped forward and risked their lives to fight water robbers just to save their family members.

The relatives were rescued, and they cried one by one, which moved Chen Hong and others.

In addition to crying with their relatives, there are also many miserable people who have been bullied. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the water pirates being caught, they came back with vengeance.

"Kill you bastard, let you bully me so much before, bah, you have today!"

Chen Hong and the others are not ordinary officers and soldiers, let alone the servants of the county government.

They are good at fighting, but they really don't have much experience in dealing with this kind of situation.

But you can't let the common people beat people to death.

There was no other way, Chen Hong had no choice but to order the common people to stop, otherwise it would be hard to say how many bandits in the water village would survive in the end.

At this time, facing so many captives, Chen Hong didn't know what to do.

Previously, they just discussed and won a battle to attract the attention of all parties in Nanjing.

But they forgot to discuss how to deal with these captives at that time.

If according to Chen Hong's previous temper, anyone who has a murder case on his body will be cut cleanly with one knife, and all troubles will be saved.

But now the scene is in chaos, and they can't tell who is the most vicious, and who is the one who is coerced by the innocent.

Just when Chen Hong was a little overwhelmed.

One of his subordinates came over, holding down the military division they had caught earlier.

Before Chen Hong could speak, the subordinate said first,
"My lord, this guy is clamoring to see you, saying that he has some important secret to report!"

As soon as Chen Hong heard the word "secret", he really became interested.

The thorny guy randomly found a place, squinted his eyes and said,
"Tell me, if you really have any secrets that can arouse the general's interest, the general will spare your life!"

Hearing this, the military master exclaimed in a very excited voice,

"General, this villain's secret keeping will satisfy you, General!"

While talking, he rubbed in front of Chen Hong, as if he was going to hug his thigh.

The subordinate who was in charge of escorting him thought that he was plotting something wrong, so he pressed so hard that his entire face fell to the ground.

And shouted coldly,
"Say something quickly, if you do such an unruly thing, be careful and kill you on the spot!"

Regardless of the terrible pain all over his body, the military master said in a hurry,

"The little one understands, the little one understands!"

"Hmph, tell me!"

Chen Hong waved his hand slightly and said,
"Let's let him go, he doesn't have the guts to assassinate me!"

When the military division was loosened, he didn't dare to hide anything, and said directly to Chen Hong,
"Thank you for your grace of not killing me. Be careful that the secret you want to tell your lord is related to the treasure room of the head of the water village."

The three treasure rooms aroused Chen Hong's interest again, and his heart twitched slightly.

"That's right, why didn't I think of it before, there are thousands of people in this water village, and the boss spends a lot of money every year just for food and drink.

If they had no money, they would not be able to support so many people. "

Although he thought of this, he didn't think how much stock a water village could have.

But the military division's next sentence surprised him.

"Don't dare to hide it, my lord. Although this water village is not considered a big force on the river, the money they have looted over the years is not a small amount."

"Few people in the house know how much money the big boss has looted over the years.

The villain also inadvertently caught a glimpse once again.

Although I just glanced at it, according to the villain's visual observation, there are at least 8 to [-] taels of gold and silver in the treasure room! "

Hearing this number suddenly, Chen Hong was also shocked.

What is the concept of 8 or [-] taels? Now, his subordinates are paid almost two taels of silver every month.

This amount of money is equivalent to the annual salary of four or five thousand soldiers.

In other words, if the big boss is not very greedy for money.

With this money, he is enough to feed a well-trained and well-equipped army of thousands of people.

If they met this kind of person today, it is absolutely impossible for them to win this battle so easily.

Chen Hong took a breath and said,

"How is this possible? A mere water village is so rich!"

The military adviser was afraid that he would not believe it, so he hurriedly explained to him,
"My lord does not know that on this river, although there is not much money to be made, once there is a harvest, it will be a big harvest."

"Those merchant ships that come and go, especially those full of cargo, aren't those ships worth one hundred and eighty thousand taels!

After a year, we only need to rob one or two ships, and all the expenses for this year will be covered. "

Chen Hong nodded his head slightly, which seemed to agree with his statement.

Although what they robbed were goods rather than money, these small-scale water villages all had their own channels for selling stolen goods.

Two ships a year, even if the discount is half, there is still an income of 5 to [-] taels.

With so much money, there is no pressure at all to support a mere thousand people.

"No wonder, water piracy in the Yangtze River has been banned repeatedly. It turns out that it is such a profitable business!"

The soldier went on to say,

"In fact, this is just a hard income, and the risk is also the greatest. If you can't get it, if you rob something that shouldn't be robbed, and offend someone who shouldn't be offended, the end will be miserable.

So we are also very careful about looting. "

"In addition, we also have a major source of income, which is to tie up those rich children who travel with us.

These children from rich families are all very rich, and we don't want too much. Each of them varies from three to five thousand taels according to the degree of wealth in the family.

More than half of them can receive money.

After a year, just this part of the income is at least 3 to [-] taels! "

The more Chen Hong listened, the more excited he became.

"Okay, okay, no need to explain, just tell me where this treasure room is."

"Okay, villain, I'll take you there, my lord!"

Not long after, several people came to a very secret basement.

It's just that at this time, the basement clearly showed signs of being opened.

Seeing this situation, the military adviser's face changed suddenly, he yelled that he was not good, and was the first to rush down.

But after opening the door of the secret room, I saw large and small boxes inside, piled up with silver that almost dazzled people's eyes in the whole secret room.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief,
"It's a good thing they didn't bring them all!"

(End of this chapter)