If Du Ke was in a good mood earlier, then Du Ke is in a bad mood now. He looked at the boxes of white silver, some golden gold, and some jewelry, etc. His whole face turned black. "These are all from the robbers' den?" So much silver, not including the robbers who ate and used it, how much does it have to add up?
Du Ke remembered the old guy Yonghe Hou, no wonder the bandits were so active, no wonder the money found by the bandits was directly used as military salaries, it turned out that this caused a lot.
Thinking that these silvers can be used as military salaries, the old guy Yonghe Hou must be in a good mood. However, he was not in a good mood, because the money was robbed from the common people.
Qin Fang said: "These were found from the robbers' den, but the last general has taken 40%, 30% is used for the development of the military camp in Yunxiang County, and 10% is rewarded by the emperor to the last general." Qin Fang said this ,his face was not red or dry.
Du Ke glanced at him. If he didn't know Qin Fang's mind at this time, then he would not be worthy of sitting in the position of the Minister of War and the emperor's confidant. When Qin Fang wrote the letter, he didn't directly say how much money was in the robbers' den. That's the idea. If so, can you get that much money?
Qin Fang was also a little guilty. After all, it was the first time he did this kind of thing, and he secretly prayed for luck. If this didn't happen, the emperor did not agree in advance, but first let the imperial envoy to check the silver, then he won't get 30% of the money, and he will lose 10% of his own.
Du Ke also had no idea. Although Qin Fang was careful, Qin Fang's behavior was obviously much better than that of Yonghe Hou taking all the stolen money. However, how come from the Yongzhou Barracks, more like bandits than bandits?
Qin Fang added: "The last general only took 40% of the silver, and these jewels have not been touched. Also, these are only found in the robbers' den, not including the county magistrate's warehouse, which will be seen at the end,the last commander didn't dare to move, you can see it yourself."
When Du Ke heard this, he had a bottom line: "Let's go and have a look."
The county magistrate's warehouse is in the county magistrate's bedroom, and there are many soldiers on the door handle. As soon as Duke saw the posture of the soldier, he knew that the situation inside must be serious.
When the soldiers saw Qin Fang, they hurriedly saluted: "General."
Qin Fang nodded and stepped forward to open the door: "Sir, please."
Du Ke and the people he brought into the house, Qin Fang followed, and then closed the door. Then Qin Fang walked to the portrait on the wall and took down the portrait. The mechanism was very clever. If he didn't pay attention, even if he took down the portrait, he would not have noticed that there was an mechanism here, because the button of this mechanism was used for To hang pictures.
So according to normal thinking, who would have thought that this was an organ? Most people think it is the wooden nails on which the portraits are hung.Qin Fang pressed the wooden nail inside, and then a wall was removed.
Du Ke and others walked in and saw three wooden cabinets, and the wooden cabinets were either silver or gold.
This amount was several times the 50,000 yuan the robber had.Du Ke's face was very ugly.
Three years of Qing Dynasty prefect, one hundred thousand snowflakes of silver. This year, Du Ke really saw the meaning of this sentence.Of course, 100,000 taels of silver is not too much in Du Ke's eyes, and his Du family's fortune is more than that. However, look at the origin of the money. The robbers' den found 50,000 taels, which were stolen from the common people. For ordinary people who spend only 2 taels a year, what does this 50,000 taels mean? It means that there are tens of thousands of ordinary people who have been robbed, which means that even if there are not tens of thousands of ordinary people, they have been robbed for many years.
Looking at the county magistrate's warehouse, even if you don't have to count it carefully, Du Ke knows that if you convert gold into silver, the money here will add up to several hundred thousand taels.
This is how much people's fat and people's cream have been looted?
No, it may not have been obtained by scavenging people's fat and people's cream. This county magistrate should have used extraordinary means.
Du Ke looked at Qin Fang: "Do you know the origin of these silver coins?"
His voice was as cold as ice slag.
Qin Fang felt that the county magistrate was going to be unlucky. "It came from the robbers, and also from the Feng Family Medical Center. The Feng Family Medical Center uses cheap medicines with small profits but quick turnover. Over the years, the profits are very considerable. Moreover, the reason why the bandits only have 50,000 taels left. The money is due to the large number of people and the high expenditure. But the county magistrate has less family and less expenditure, so he will naturally have money."
Du Ke raised his eyebrows: "Small profits but quick turnover?" These words are somewhat meaningful.
Qin Fang said: "It is to attract customers with meager profits and increase profits with multiple sales."
This is what his daughter-in-law described to him. "Furthermore, because of the problems with the medicines in the Feng Family Medical Center, the efficacy of the medicines is very slow. If the medicine is slow, the people will buy more often, and then the profits of the Feng Family Medical Center will increase. However, the common people don't know. One of the ways. They thought it was the same medicine as other hospitals, but the price was cheaper in Feng's hospital, so according to the number of purchases, compared with the medicines of other hospitals, the common people thought they were making money."
Sadly, they didn't know it, and in fact lost a lot of money.
Du Ke said sharply: "Use the lives of ordinary people to make these dirty money, such people should be killed."
His murderous aura was so strong that Qin Fang and others didn't dare to make a sound.
Things in Huanshui County went quite smoothly for Du Ke. When Qin placed the bandits in the bandit den to subdue the bandits, the bandits had already confessed. There was something about the county magistrate in the bandit's confession, so the county magistrate could not deny it. For people like the county magistrate, blessings may not be shared, but disasters must be pulled back. Therefore, when he knew that he had no hope of escape, he directly dragged Doctor Feng and the Feng Family Medical Center into the water.
Speaking of which, the county magistrate still has some brains. At least, Doctor Feng doesn't know about him and the bandits. He would rather let the robbers ask Dr. Li for help than the Feng Family Medical Center. Doctor Feng take advantage of this incident to blackmail him.
But now, the bandit chief, the county magistrate, and Feng doctor are all locked together. The three sinful people look at each other every day.
But after seeing the county magistrate, Du Ke asked Qin Fang a question: "Qin Fang, do you know why the county magistrate has so much money, but is still so thin?"
Qin Fang didn't expect Du Ke to be so humorous, he frankly said, "I don't know at the end."
Duke smiled: "Do you think he might be hungry and thin by himself?"
Qin Fang couldn't understand it. To be honest, he hadn't paid attention to this issue before, and he didn't expect such a majestic Lord Du to pay attention to this kind of thing.
But: "No way? If he is hungry and thin, what does he do with so much stolen money?"
Duke nodded: "So, let me tell you why he is thin. You may not know that some women will buckle their sore throats every day in order to maintain their slim body, or eat something that induces vomiting, and then eat something that induces vomiting. If you eat too much, you will lose interest in what you eat, so after you can't eat anything, you will lose weight.
I see that the county magistrate also has some such doorways. He has so much stolen money. If he eats big fish and meat every day, he will definitely gain weight. Once he gets fat, he will not be able to maintain the image of Qingzhi County. As the saying goes, to see if this county magistrate is greedy or not, it depends on whether his body is fat or not. So, that's what he should have done. "
Qin Fang rarely flattered: "Your Excellency is wise."
Qin Fang stayed in Huanshui County for about 20 days. In the past 20 days, Du Ke had already left after handling the affairs of Huanshui County. Qin Fang had to continue to stay because the sick people had not recovered. Knowing that they were cured, he took them out of Huanshui County and continued on their way.
However, they were on their way when Yang Haiyan and the others arrived in Yunxiang County.
Those who have seen Huanshui County, seeing Yunxiang County at this moment, have a feeling of being unable to return to their senses for a long time. The main reason is that Huanshui County is too desolate, so desolate that standing outside the county seat and watching the collapsed city wall of the county seat can make people suspect that they have gone to the wrong place.
Regardless of whether the county magistrate of Huanshui County is embezzling or earning stolen money, at least on the surface, Huanshui County has developed well. No one talks about robbers.
There is also a doctor Feng in the county seat who is a great man. Although the county seat is not prosperous, it can be considered consistent. If you don't compare Huanshui counties, just take border counties, and that's a good development.
But, what is going on in Yunxiang County? The city walls have collapsed, so is there no one to take care of it? What does the county magistrate do? Could it be that because Yunxiang County is not at the border, the city wall does not need to be used to defend the enemy, so it is allowed to collapse like this.
Lv Xiaowei came to Yang Haiyan: "Madam, is this Yunxiang County?"
Yang Haiyan didn't know either. Although she had read in a geological magazine before that Yunxiang County was a relatively remote and poor place, everything in front of her limited her imagination.
Because no matter how remote and poor, even the city walls of the county town are like this?
Not to mention that the imperial court does not care, it is passed to the imperial court. Does the magistrate of Yunxiang County still need his head?
Yang Haiyan got off the carriage and said, "I don't know either. Go and ask the yamen at the gate of the city." On the way, they looked at the map and asked people, it should be right.
Captain Lu: "Yes."
In fact, the yamen at the gate of the city watched the brigade come over, there were 2,560 people, and they were also afraid, because they were afraid that the people who came were not good.
However, they still came over boldly: "Excuse me...Is General Qin Fang Qin here?" The county magistrate said that the generals of the imperial court would bring people here to settle down, since there are more than 3,000 peopte, it should be considered easy to recognize.