Originally, Emperor Chongzhen was also counting on the taxes of the three provinces to alleviate the urgent needs of the Ming Dynasty. However, all this came to an abrupt end after transporting grain to Hui'anguo and sending the tax silver to Xiongxian.

Taicang warehouse is the name of the Ming government warehouse. It was established in the seventh year of Zhengtong. It is also called Taicang Silver Warehouse, referred to as the Silver Warehouse. It is in charge of silver storage. Anyone who sends the remaining wheat rice warehouses in each province to make silver silk cloth, horse grass, and salt in the warehouse, sells land and collects money from the store, and submits them all through this warehouse. There are ambassadors and deputy envoys.

"Carbage" and "Carbage" are the basic storage places for national fiscal revenue in traditional Chinese society in ancient China. After Yongle moved its capital to Beijing in the early Ming Dynasty, it built a warehouse for storing grain in Beijing and Tongzhou, which was collectively called "Taicang". The treasuries of the inner government mainly store gold, silver, cloth, silk and other various materials obtained through tax collection, referred to as "Carbage". The two are the core storage institutions of the central government's finance in the early Ming Dynasty.

During the Orthodox period, the state's public finance and the royal finance were significantly separated, and the state's public finance expenses borne by the inner treasury were significantly reduced, while the royal finance share it was borne increasing. At the same time, in order to facilitate transportation, the state's large amount of taxes began to deduct silver.

Against this background, during the Zhengtong period, the Ministry of Revenue set up a special library. The initial purpose was to store the straw silver priced in Beijing in Suzhou and other prefectures in Nanzhili, so that they could actually buy it when using straw. It was for the Taicang warehouse.

The official responsible for transporting tax silver at that time was Hui'anguo. It was rumored that this person had died long ago. After the tax silver of Hui'anguo arrived in Xiong County, it disappeared. With it, the tax silver from the three provinces and the officers and soldiers of transporting tax silver were also disappeared.

It is said that nearly a thousand people of transport tax silver officers and soldiers were inexplicably attacked by bandits. Some people said that this batch of tax silver fell into the hands of the treacherous Li Zicheng, while others said that Li Zicheng did not receive the tax silver.

Anyway, this case later became a unsolved case. The tax and silver of the three provinces totaled more than 500,000 taels, but it disappeared. In addition, the domestic chaos at that time and the internal and external troubles of Emperor Chongzhen was unable to investigate the matter.

Later, the case was left unresolved. Anyway, all the officers and soldiers who transported the tax bank were dead, and Hui'anguo was also dead. This case was a unsolved case that could not be solved at all.

This batch of silver was probably in the hands of the treacherous thief Li Zicheng.

Who knew that in this Xiongxian prison, Zhu Ciyang actually called this "mountain mont" Hui'anguo. Could it be that this person was not dead?

In fact, Hui'anguo was certainly not dead. Not only did he not die, but he probably only knew the whereabouts of the 500,000 taels of tax silver in this world.

Hui'anguo, who was responsible for transporting tax banks at that time, was indeed targeted by the bandits. However, it was not Li Zicheng who targeted them, but the small bandits entrenched nearby.

Originally, Hui'anguo, who was a money and grain envoy, would not take these small bandits seriously at all. These bandits were almost at a loss and had no combat power.

But he was wrong, so a bandit was naturally not afraid of. But what about several shares and more than a dozen shares?

The Ming Dynasty at that time was already shaking, and domestic rebellious forces were rising one after another. Even the ancestral tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang of the old Zhu family was dug up, which shows how chaos in the Central Plains was at that time.

The bandits robbed randomly, grabbed a place, ate all the places and continued to fight in other places. And the officers and soldiers, in the name of suppressing bandits, actually did bandits.

Even the Ming officers and soldiers at that time killed innocent people and took advantage of their merits. Because the court at that time stipulated that killing a bandit would give one tael of silver.

Therefore, in order to win the blame, these officers and soldiers attacked innocent people. At that time, the people hated officers and soldiers more than hated bandits.

After all, most of the bandits are under the guise of practicing justice for heaven. The main targets of their robbery are wealthy families. The poor are already barely stolen, and there is nothing worth robbing. It is better to have a good reputation and strengthen their own power by robbing the rich and helping the poor.

But the officers and soldiers were not like this. In order to make a fortune, they killed innocent poor people. It is a miracle that such a Ming Dynasty could not be destroyed.

But at that time, because Hui'an Kingdom felt that the canal transportation was unsafe, it was easy to be attacked by bandits on the water. Liangshan, a water-drunk in the Song Dynasty, defeated the officers and soldiers on the water.

Since the canal transportation is not safe, then go to the land transportation, at least it is safer on land. Facing thousands of officers and soldiers, those bandits are not afraid of it.

In fact, this is true. All the way to the capital, no bandit dared to attack them.

However, the closer we were to the capital, the situation became worse and worse. These small bandits knew that relying on the abilities of a group of people alone, they were no match for the officers and soldiers.

So, they began to try to unite. At first, three bandits united together, and later they talked about seven.

Seven bandits had thousands of people blocking the tax-bank team of Hui'anguo. As a result, in front of the superior weapons of the opponent, the bandits were still vulnerable.

This failure did not make the bandits give up. They suddenly decided to continue to follow. Until they arrived at Xiongxian territory, the bandits had dozens of shares and tens of thousands of people.

Naturally, these many people were no longer afraid of the officers and soldiers. Hui Anguo also felt something was wrong. On the one hand, he hurriedly ordered people to go to Xiongxian for help. On the other hand, he and his officers and soldiers made a difficult decision.

Hui'anguo knew that the batch of tax silver they transported could not reach the capital. More and more bandits followed behind him, and this batch of tax silver would not be preserved sooner or later.

Losing tax silver will be a serious crime of beheading when he goes back. In desperation, on a dark and windy night, Hui'anguo summoned more than 200 trustworthy brothers under his command. He passed by a hidden place and used a plan to dispose of the tax silver.

He originally thought of hiding the tax silver in a hidden cave. Then, he loaded the box of transporting the tax silver with stones, so that the fish eyes could be mixed with beads.

In fact, Hui'anguo succeeded, and he successfully hid the tax silver in a hidden cave. His original intention was to use fake tax silver to lure away the bandits. After the reinforcements from Xiong County arrived, he would join forces with Xiong County to deal with the bandits. In this way, the tax silver was saved.

But the bandits were so fast that when they were about to arrive in Xiong County, they were made into dumplings by bandits.

These bandits were not just one, but a joint action of dozens of bandits. There was no one who took the lead in each other, and no one was convinced by everyone.

Relying on the large number of people, these bandits went crazy after surrounding Hui'anguo and other officers and soldiers.

The bandits felt that instead of living like this, neither human nor ghost, it was worth taking risks for the 500,000 taels of taxes.

So, without waiting for the officers and soldiers to react, they rushed forward with a scream.
Chapter completed!