Chapter 212: Warships Collide, and a Fortune Is Won

In the evening of that day, Prime Minister Qin Ruhui summoned the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty of the Hongxi regime and held a unique "Late Dynasty" in the Jinluan Hall.

It can be regarded as the first time that the new dynasty was founded!

The "Late Dynasty" had only one theme of the court meeting, which was to plunder all the people's wealth and anointing from Jinling City and even the entire fertile area of ​​Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In Qin Ruhui's words, not even a single copper plate can be left to the rebels!

In fact, Qin Ruhui has been adhering to this code of conduct since the death of Emperor Jian'an Zhao Qian and Emperor Lingwu ascended the throne, taking it as his duty to plunder the people's wealth and anointing.

Otherwise, even Qin Ruhui, who holds the high position of prime minister, his annual salary is only one thousand two hundred taels of silver.

If he wanted to rely on his salary to accumulate his current family fortune, he would have to work from the Yin and Shang Dynasties to the second year of Daxin Lingwu before he could collect the twelve million taels of gold, let alone the nine thousand seven hundred Ten thousand taels of silver.

You must know that the annual tax revenue of the entire Great New Dynasty is only more than 20 million taels of silver.

In other words, in less than three years after becoming prime minister, Qin Ruhui made enough stolen money to earn the tax revenue of the New Dynasty for ten years. The speed of his embezzlement was comparable to that of the famous celebrities around Emperor Qianlong and Shen. .

After the first "Late Dynasty" of the Great New Dynasty retired, Qin Ruhui hurried to the Stone City Pier outside the city to see off his family who was about to go to Chengdu Prefecture.

A number of courtiers complained, especially Su Chen, who was the governor of Liangjiang and the commander-in-chief of the Jinling Defense War.

Because Prime Minister Qin Ruhui publicly assigned him a task of 30 million taels of silver in the court hall, just because the Liangjiang area under Su Chen's jurisdiction was the richest place in the south of the entire New Dynasty.

Qin Ruhui wanted to use this method of killing the goose to retrieve the eggs, leaving chicken feathers for those who would invade the capital in the future, whether it was the Lingwu regime represented by Wu Sanjia or the Jingnan army represented by Chen Huaian.

In the court hall, Su Chen did not dare to refuse Qin Ruhui's order face to face, thinking that after returning to the Liangjiang New Army Camp, he would completely raise the banner of betraying the treacherous Prime Minister Qin Ruhui.

However, when Su Chen returned to the camp, he realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Outside the camp of the Liangjiang New Army, a large number of Tengjia troops appeared. Their strength was at least twice that of the Liangjiang New Army. They had already surrounded the camp of the Liangjiang New Army.

"What exactly is going on?"

As soon as Su Chen returned to the Chinese army's tent, he angrily asked his lieutenant general.

"Reporting to the Governor, the vine-armored soldiers outside the camp are here to assist our Liangjiang New Army in garrisoning the Yangtze River on the orders of Prime Minister Qin!"

The deputy general replied with a helpless look.

snort!

Su Chen snorted coldly, and finally recalled why Qin Ruhui assessed a tax of 30 million taels to himself. This was money to buy the life of Nanzhao's vine-armed soldiers!

"They are just weasels giving New Year greetings to chickens, they have no good intentions!"

Su Chen said in a cold tone: "Send the order and tell the brothers to be alert. If the Tengjia soldiers dare to do anything wrong, they should be killed immediately by the governor and go to the north bank to join Emperor Lingwu's new army of Huben soldiers!"

"Yes, sir!"

Meanwhile, Stone Town Pier.

The gold and silver of the Qin Mansion were so soft that they could be loaded into three large ships. Together with the escorting red guards and Qin Mansion family members, more than a thousand people were boarding the ships in an orderly manner.

Qin Ruhui stood on the dock and said goodbye to his eldest son Qin Tianchao, and whispered: "Tianchao, remember to keep a low profile after arriving in Chengdu."

Qin Tianchao nodded and said, "Dad, don't worry, I still know the principle of keeping wealth private!"

Um!

Qin Ruhui continued: "When we get to Chengdu Mansion, everything there has been arranged in advance by my father. Yang Yi, the garrison master of Chengdu Mansion, was promoted by my father. He will care about you;"

"In addition, these eight hundred red-clothed guards are the servants that dad left for you to protect yourself. When they arrive in Chengdu, you will give them more money to settle down. At any time, if you have soldiers and weapons in your hands, you will have a strong waist. Get tough!"

"besides......"

Farewell is imminent, Qin Ruhui can't wait to pass on all his life experience to his eldest son Qin Tianchao.

After all, he carries the future of the Qin family on his shoulders.

Finally, when the three treasure ships loaded with gold, silver and jewelry set sail, Qin Ruhui also let go of the hand of his eldest son Qin Tianchao and motioned for him to board the ship.

"Go ahead and wait until your father has settled the matters in the capital, and then I will personally send someone to bring you back!"

"Dad, the child is gone!"

Qin Tianchao and the Qin family standing on the bow deck were reluctant to leave. Finally, after the ship set sail, they gradually moved away from the Stone City Pier;

They also stayed away, Qin Ruhui, the talker of the Qin family, stood on the dock and looked at them.

We have traveled thousands of miles away, and I don’t know when we will see you again.

Seeing the large ship full of family members gradually disappearing on the Yangtze River waterway, Qin Ruhui's hanging heart finally fell to the ground.

After thirty years of ups and downs in the officialdom, Qin Ruhui was able to build such a family fortune for future generations during his lifetime. He, Qin Ruhui, could be considered to have lived a life worth living.

While thinking this, he ordered to drive back home.

As everyone knows, all attempts to draw water from a bamboo basket are in vain!

On a July night, the moon and stars were scarce and the visibility was high. The only sound of the three large ships loaded with gold, silver and jewelry traveling on the Yangtze River waterway was the sound of breaking water.

Late at night, the Qin family members all fell asleep in the cabin on the ship.

Bang!

Suddenly, a violent vibration woke up Qin Tianchao from his sleep.

He subconsciously pulled out the sword on the bedside, and rushed out of the cabin with the sword without bothering to put on his armor.

As he walked, he shouted: "What's going on?"

At this time, the Red Guards who were accompanying him came to report: "Sir, our ship collided with another ship on the river!"

What?

Qin Tianchao was furious and said sternly: "Who is so bold? Didn't you see the flag of the Prime Minister's Mansion hanging on the mast of the bow?"

"They dared to hit the ship of the Prime Minister's Mansion. They are so bold. They are tired of living, right!"

As Qin Tianchao spoke, he called a group of Red Guards to carry swords and run straight to the bow with murderous intent.

I want to see which blind guy dared to hit the ship of the Prime Minister's Mansion!

After a while, Qin Tianchao and his party came to the deck of the bow.

When they saw the ship that caused the accident, everyone, including Qin Tianchao, was dumbfounded!

Not only because the ship was tall, solid and mighty, but also because on the mast of the ship was a scarlet four-clawed yellow dragon flag.

On the flag, the capital "Jin" was particularly eye-catching under the moonlight.

What Qin Tianchao ran into was actually the Longcheng Navy Fleet heading north along the river to Jinling!

Now, it was going to be fun!