Become a feudal king from today

"Let's go and see how rich the Xie family is." Zhao Xu took back his steps towards the Jinluan Palace.

Compared with the Jinling treasury and granary, the Jinluan Palace seems insignificant.

From now on, this place will be just an ordinary city in the south of the Yangtze River.

Following the general out of the palace, the group stopped in a courtyard not far from the palace.

This courtyard is unremarkable. From above, it is just a courtyard with a larger courtyard.

But in fact, there is a mystery inside, and this mystery is under the low house.

For the sake of concealment, the treasury is hidden underground.

There are many places hollowed out under the entire yard to store valuables such as silver, gold, jewelry, calligraphy and paintings, and antiques.

After following the general into the middle house and going down the stairs, Zhao Xu, Chang Wei and others took a deep breath when they saw the things piled up in the underground secret room.

I saw that the secret room was filled with wooden boxes. The lids of the wooden boxes were open, and there was white silver inside.

These silver ingots are all twelve taels each. According to a rough estimate, there are at least five to six million taels of silver in this secret room.

"Get rich." Chang Wei and others couldn't help but laugh and wink.

Zhao Xu also smiled and nodded.

Although the Xie family is not as wealthy as the Liang family, it is probably second only to the Liang family among many wealthy families.

After the Jinling Rebellion, the Dou family looted Jinling and took away a lot of wealth.

But after the Xie family took control of Jinling, they stored their property in the national treasury.

If it weren't for the disaster caused by the Dou family, the national treasury would probably be even more shocking.

Immediately, everyone went to other secret rooms and found three more secret rooms filled with silver and one filled with gold ingots.

The rest are jewelry, calligraphy and painting, ancient porcelain and other works of art.

Among these items, Zhao Xu also discovered a large number of silver ingots cast by the Han family and the Wang family.

This suddenly made him realize that in addition to the Xie family's items, the treasury also belonged to the Han family and the Wang family.

The soldiers and horses of the Han family and the Wang family were left under the fence, and they did not take out some things as collateral to the Xie family.

How could the Xie family raise them in vain?

"Send more people to guard the treasury. The development of Jiangbei depends on this money." Zhao Xu said.

For hundreds of years, Western countries relied on plundering around the world to accumulate capital.

Dasong also needs capital if it wants to develop.

At the moment, he captured Korea and looted Japan. This was all a way to accumulate capital.

Now the war going south and snatching the wealth of powerful families has become another way for him to accumulate capital.

Of course, he didn't want to get involved like this.

After unifying Jiangnan, he would ask the Western natives to spit out bit by bit what they had eaten.

If they wanted Da Song dead, he would kill them.

After coming out of the treasury, Zhao Xu went to the granary again.

The world's food comes from the Xie family. After this war, the Xie family naturally hoarded a large amount of food in Jinling.

After an inspection, he estimated that the food and grass in Jinling City was enough to feed an army of 400,000 for a year.

After inspecting the treasury and inspecting the granaries, Zhao Xu was satisfied and climbed the city wall with his generals.

The retreat of the powerful tribes not only left behind food, grass and wealth, but also gave them the dug trenches and fortifications.

At present, the soldiers of the royal palace are repairing and improving the trench under the leadership of the general.

Relying on these trenches and the food and grass in Jinling.

Jinling City will become their first stable bridgehead heading south.

"Jinling City has been captured, and the rest of the war will be left to you." Looking at the endless wilderness, Zhao Xu said to Chang Wei.

His most important purpose this time was to participate in the battle across the river.

Now the battle across the river has ended beautifully, and Jinling has been captured.

Relying on this city, the royal family's troops established a firm foothold in Jiangnan.

The rest of the small battle can be left to Chang Wei and other generals.

If he encountered any major changes again, it would not be too late for him to go to the battlefield in person.

After all, now that there are steamships, it only takes about two days to go from Yanzhou to Jinling along the canal, which is very convenient.

"His Highness has led us to fight a good battle, and the rest will be left to the general. The general will not embarrass His Highness." Chang Wei said loudly.

He estimated that King Yan would go back after capturing Jinling.

After all, there were many affairs in Jiangbei, and King Yan could not stay away all the time, which would delay government affairs.

Zhao Xu nodded, "According to the direction of the escape of the Shi clan army, they should have gone to Su City. If you fight another fierce battle, the southern part of Ningzhou will be taken over. Songcheng is near the sea. They will never go there."

After a pause, he continued: "Although they are currently defeated, they need to guard against arrogance and impetuosity in fighting, and they still cannot be careless."

The two were talking when a soldier hurriedly climbed up the city wall and handed over a letter, "Your Highness, a letter from Yanzhou."

"Oh?" Zhao Xu took the letter and tore it open.

After a brief glance, he smiled and said, "I don't want to go back, so I have to go back this time. What a happy event."

"Happy event?" Chang Wei and others looked at each other and suddenly smiled ambiguously.

Lu Chang, who was always heartless, said, "Could it be that the princess found out that she is happy?"

"Go, what are you talking about?" Zhao Xu glared at him, "It's a good thing for you. After a while, you can change the musket again."

"Change guns?" The generals were stunned.

Zhao Xu nodded.

This letter was sent by Wang Ying. Since he told him to develop a flash cap breech-loading gun, he has led the craftsmen day and night to overcome the technical difficulties of the breech-loading gun.

Recently, he and his craftsmen successfully assembled the bolt of a breech-loading gun using parts made on a lathe.

This means that needle-fired breech-loading guns can be mass-produced next.

In fact, speaking of it, according to the development history of firearms.

Needle-fired breech-loading guns appeared earlier than muzzle-loading rifled guns that used tapered bullets.

One was born in 1836, and the other was born in 1849, thirteen years apart.

During this period, the Dresser rifle, represented by a needle-fired breech-loading gun, was equipped with the Prussian army, but it remained unknown.

Because the mainstream at that time was that generals from various countries believed that the difference between front-loading guns and breech-loading guns was the same as whether people eat with their mouths or butts.

So full of disdain for breech-loading guns.

It was not until the Tempe War that muzzle-loading guns were defeated by breech-loading guns. They corrected the chaos and immediately equipped breech-loading guns.

At present, the muskets of his army are also undergoing this process.

This is not because he deliberately took a detour, but the craftsmanship requirements of breech-loading guns are much higher than those of muzzle-loading guns.

We are now capable of mass production.

But even so, with the current technology, the rifled guns currently equipped by the royal army can increase the effective range to 900 meters, while the effective range of the next breech-loaded guns will only be about 600 meters.

The reason is that the sealing performance of breech-loading guns is not as good as that of front-loading guns, and there is some air leakage.

After that, the progress of breech-loading guns was that they leaked less air than anyone else.

However, the flaws are not concealed. The breech-loading gun can shoot ten rounds of bullets per minute, and can also shoot in any posture, changing the war situation.

This is something a muzzleloader cannot do.

When the royal soldiers were equipped with these breech-loading guns, even if the Western Turks cracked the secret of the conical bullets, it would be of no avail.