Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 24 Li Yi: Gold coins explode!
Not to mention that their master Li Dianyuan was very stingy with them and often withheld their wages.

Just like a security guard who earns 3,000 yuan a month, the most he can do at work is to slack off and play games while also stopping some takeaway and express deliveries.

With a salary of 3,000 yuan, do you expect the security guard to fight the criminals to the death?

I want to eat fart!
By the same token, the housekeepers and servants of the Li Mansion would not fight to the death with bandits just for the small amount of wages given by Li Dianyuan.

Upon seeing this, Li Yi immediately opened his mouth and shouted.

"The Qing demon Li Dianyuan led his army to attack our God Worshipping Society. He has been captured and killed by our sect. We cut off his head and used it as a sacrifice to our flag."

"Now, this brigade commander has been ordered to come and confiscate the assets of Li Dianyuan, the Qing demon."

"I would like to advise you all here. If you want to live, surrender immediately. If you are stubborn and resist stubbornly, don't say I didn't warn you!"

As soon as Li Yi finished speaking, the head that had been sticking out from the courtyard suddenly disappeared, followed by a dull thud of something heavy falling to the ground.

After hearing the news that Li Dianyuan was dead, the housekeeper of the Li Mansion fell directly from the wall.

Seeing this, without waiting for the housekeepers and servants of the Li Mansion to react, Li Yi turned to Chen Picheng beside him and said.

"Order your men to launch an attack on Li's mansion immediately. Capture Li's mansion as soon as possible. No mistakes are allowed."

Chen Picheng clasped his fists to show that he understood, then dismounted from his horse, ready to personally lead the attack on Li's mansion.

Although Chen Picheng is young, he is quite brave.

However, before Chen Picheng led his team to rush forward, the door of Li's mansion had already been opened from the inside.

The door hinges creaked as they rubbed against each other.

The dusty butler, along with several servants, knelt down in front of the mansion gate with a plop and spoke with a slightly trembling voice.

"I am willing to surrender..."

Even if Li Dianyuan was still alive, they might not be willing to fight for him, let alone now that Li Dianyuan is dead.

Seeing this, Li Yi signaled Li Sheng to bring the person to him.

After the butler was brought before Li Yi, he immediately bowed.

"I am Ye Zhisheng, the steward of the Li Mansion. I am willing to surrender today. I hope you will spare my life."

Seeing this, Li Yi asked with a calm expression on his face.

"Go to the west wing. You lead the way."

The silver cellar where the Li family hides their silver is located in the west wing. This is the information Li Yi obtained from Li Dianyuan.

Ye Zhisheng's expression froze when he heard this. Although he didn't know why Li Yi wanted to go to the west wing of the Li Mansion, he still nodded and agreed, and began to lead the way.

Li Yi followed Ye Zhisheng and walked towards the west wing, giving instructions as he walked.

"Uncle Wang, Picheng, the two of you will lead the team to seal off the Li Mansion and take control of everyone in the mansion."

"Zhiyong, Tiesheng, follow Uncle Wang and Picheng."

"Li Sheng, Li Liang and his men will follow me..."

In this era, clan members are natural confidants because the possibility of their betrayal is really low.

Therefore, Li Yi planned to take Li Sheng and Li Liang to explode Li Dianyuan's gold coins.

Wang An and his colleagues were assigned to be responsible for perimeter surveillance and security.

Soon, Li Yi brought people to the west wing.

He ordered everyone to wait outside and he pushed the door open.

After entering the west wing, Li Yi quickly found the hidden mechanism. After opening the mechanism, a dark hole appeared in the corner of the wall.

Li Yi knew that this should be the silver cellar that Li Dianyuan had mentioned!

Li Yi did not enter rashly. He first ventilated the silver cellar a little, then picked up the oil lamp on the table next to him, lit it, and tested the oxygen content in the silver cellar.

After confirming that everything was OK, he crouched down and entered. He lit up several oil lamps embedded on the walls of the silver cellar. Under the light, three silver winter melons with their outer layers oxidized to gray-black were placed in the corner of the silver cellar.

In this era, when landlords and gentry hid their silver, in order to prevent thieves, they would usually melt the loose silver into large silver melons for storage.

The same is true for Li Dianyuan.

Li Yi walked forward and reached out to touch one of the silver winter melons.

The panel prompts instantly.

[Ding~ Detected 1,000 taels of silver, do you want to top up? ]

One thousand taels each, three makes three thousand taels.

In addition to these three big guys, there are also some loose silver and copper coins in the Li Mansion's silver cellar...

It matches the approximate number given by Li Dianyuan.

Li Yi's expression changed, and the silver winter melon he was touching disappeared instantly, and was recharged into the mall by him.

[Recharge successful]

[Balance: 1,340 taels]

The one hundred and thirty taels given to Li Yi by his mother and the one thousand taels rewarded to him by Feng Yunshan when he was in Shanren Village had all been spent by Li Yi, who exchanged them for foreign guns and the truth serum used on Li Dianyuan.

Of the remaining 1,340 taels, 1,000 taels came from the silver winter melon, and 340 taels were the donations from the entire Lijiazhuang to Li Yi.

After thinking for a while, Li Yi bought another 1842 Charleville model percussion rifles in the mall, and placed them together with the he had bought before in the silver cellar of the Li Mansion.

The reason why he didn't use all the money on the panel to buy foreign guns was that he needed to keep some money to buy the ammunition and primers needed for the foreign guns.

What if he used all his money to buy a gun, and ended up having the gun but no way to replenish the bullets after they ran out? That would be fucking funny!
After doing all this, Li Yi turned around and left the silver cellar, calling people in to count the amount of silver and foreign guns in the silver cellar.

……

The regiment began to count the silver and foreign guns in Li's silver cellar.

Li Yi summoned Wang An and others to discuss the matter again.

"Just now I simply counted the foreign guns hidden by Li Dianyuan in the silver vault. There are probably about 200 to 300 of them."

"These two or three hundred foreign rifles are definitely not enough to equip our entire army."

"So, my idea is that we can hold a selection in the army and select a group of elite soldiers to form a foreign rifle team through a shooting competition."

"Concentrate the use of foreign guns as much as possible to maximize their power."

"What do you think?"

The reason why Li Yi did this was first to concentrate the use of the foreign rifles in his hands in order to give full play to their advantages when used in a concentrated manner.

The second purpose is to break up the factions within the army.

Now Li Yi's subordinates are mainly divided into three parts.

One group was the followers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, led by Chen Picheng.

The second is Li Yi’s fellow villagers.

The third is Wang An’s people.

The three do not belong to each other and are three completely independent hills.

Although they all listen to Li Yi at the moment, in the long run it poses a huge hidden danger and may even be the source of division and internal strife within the team.

Therefore, Li Yi planned to use the excuse of concentrated use of foreign guns to break up the factions among the generals and reorganize the army.

Use this to strengthen your voice in the military!

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