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Chapter 738 What are you?

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    The more they counted, the more frustrated the officers and scribes became.

    Looking at these boxes of treasures.

    Some were plundered from Franji's ships.

    After the Francons occupied various colonial sites, they frantically plundered local supplies, or directly plundered local gold and silver, and sent them back to their home countries ship by ship.

    Some came from colonial settlements everywhere.

    Others come from maritime trade.

    Most of the income from maritime trade was obtained in exchange for official silk and porcelain.

    Xu Jing paid close attention to all official trade income and kept an account. This account belonged to the imperial court.

    This time, customs clearance lasted a full day.

    People have to stay here.

    Those good-hearted Tianjin soldiers and oilmen refused to leave. Some people came again after eating.

    What made them stunned was that what the fleet brought back was not only a group of ragged, sallow-looking sailors, but also countless treasures.

    People kept talking, and some people whispered: "It is said that the silver brought back now is 3.27 million taels." One pound of Ming Dynasty is sixteen taels, which is equivalent to hundreds of thousands of pounds.

    Overseas, a lot of silver is not currency. People are accustomed to using gold for currency purposes, so the price of silver is not expensive. Many people actually only use silver to make utensils or just as ornaments, so in trade  In the process, the fleet frantically purchased silver. Hundreds of thousands of jins of silver were converted into only a few hundred tons. But by the Ming Dynasty, it was a huge amount of wealth.

    Gold is the most terrifying thing. When the final calculation was made, there were 1.9 million taels of gold, which was also just a hundred tons. If placed in the Golden Continent, it would be nothing more than a gold house built by the emperor of a certain country for himself. But whether this gold is in Buddha  Langji, or the Ming Dynasty, is also a terrible wealth. If it is converted into silver, it is probably worth more than ten million taels.

    In addition to other items, there are hundreds of tons of spices and countless ivory, agate and other jewelry.

    Nearly 20% of the money was obtained by exchanging official porcelain and silk.  Most of the rest were snatched from the hands of the Francois.

    Twenty percent of the gold and silver were packed into boxes and sent directly to the national treasury. No, now, it should be the internal treasury.

    The rest will be collected according to the customs duty, and one percent will be drawn out of ten to enrich the internal treasury. The remainder will be distributed as rewards to the officers and men of the fleet according to their merits.

    When going to sea, even if there are two thousand sailors and crew members who have no merit, the minimum they get is three thousand taels of silver.

    Those who have more people are more than 20,000 or even 30,000 taels.

    At this time, silver had not been continuously imported into the Ming Dynasty. This was only the first import. Therefore, the price of silver was not as high as in history, when the Francons crazily imported silver into China after the great geographical discovery. The price of silver did not depreciate.  Even the poorest sailor has three thousand taels of silver in his hand, which is enough to make him rich and become one of the leading wealthy families in the local area. He can marry several wives, build a mansion of several acres, and purchase a hundred acres of land.  .

    As for those who have made meritorious deeds and received tens of thousands of taels of silver, that is even more terrifying.

    Suddenly, the entire port was filled with joy.

    And the countless boxed wealth needs to be sent to Xishan first, and then the silver is divided on large scales. This is also for safety. The gold and silver are divided here. Of course, the sailors are all people who lick blood with their swords.  , but they can¡¯t carry this wealth for a while. Most of them live in empty houses. Do they put these hundreds of kilograms of gold and silver directly into their own shacks?

    Tianjin Wei was boiling.

    Damn it!  Going to sea is almost like moving a mountain of gold.

    Many of the sailors who went to sea were military households of the Tianjin Guard. When they were incorporated into the Navy and allowed to go to sea, I don't know how many people boarded the ship crying, so that those military households who were not drafted felt relieved.  Tone, luck, going into the sea, wouldn¡¯t this make you a bastard?  He died outside with no bones left, and there was no one to take care of him when he died at home.

    But nowmany people are crying.

    They are all extremely poor people who cannot afford three meals a day. Who would have thought that the people who were sympathized with at the beginning would become rich and prosperous in the blink of an eye.

    Moreover, it was obvious that they had found a good supporter. Ambassador Xu led them out of the port, followed by Hou Ninghou, and the one in front was said to be a disciple of the Fang family. The gold and silver were also distributed to the government and the palace in Xishan Town. People kept  Word of mouth spread, and it became known that the sailors could go to Xishan to withdraw the money at any time.

    They are like proud little roosters, swaggering through the market. Although they are ragged, they are strong-backed and different. These peopleThe front teeth flew out and flew everywhere.

    The servant subconsciously covered his face.

    People like this have never experienced this before. They screamed, covered their faces, and rolled on the ground in pain.

    Everyone was shocked.

    When Cheng Qianhu saw this, his face turned pale and he said sternly: "You"

    Ergou didn't even look at the servant, but suddenly he took out a dagger from his waist. This was found from a prisoner of Franji. It was made of fine steel. When the dagger was taken out, it was shaking with silver.  Light, and then, his hand stabbed hard with the shining dagger.

    The dagger stabbed into the table.

    Three points into the wood.

    Sawdust is flying.

    The two dogs raised their heads again.

    Those thousand households almost collapsed. He didn't expect that these two dogs were so bold!

    Ergou smiled, the smile was very calm, only twitching the muscles on his face, but he suddenly shouted: "What the hell are you Cheng Jianye? You are used to being in one-third of an acre of land in this thousand-household house. You don't know how to behave like this."  Anyway, you want to blackmail me?"

    Qianhu actually fainted Then, Ergou, who was timid back then, now asked himself what he was?  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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