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Chapter 43 Still inaccessible

The so-called inner treasury of the silver treasury is where local governments place silver storage.

This place is not open for many years. Except for the officials who have to open the door seal point to verify the savings, it is normal for the treasury door to stay open for three or two years without moving.

Because this reserve silver storage is not used for local fiscal expenses at all.

The so-called "preparation" means that another money is stored in the bank treasury, and does not participate in daily cashiers, and only reserve funds for urgent official duties or permanent storage.

In other words, if Chenzhou Prefecture did not suffer unbearable natural disasters, or if the capital did not order the transfer of funds and the joint funds, the reserved silver in the inner warehouse would not be seen again for a hundred and eighty years.

Therefore, this system was mentioned in Kang Mazi's later years and was not officially implemented until the fourth year of Yong Laosi. Then Gan Xiaosi completely established this system.

Because in the late Lao Kang era, the Qing Dynasty's treasury was empty and there was no capital to realize this system. During the fourth period of Yong Lao Lao, the treasury was in reform, and the deficits gradually increased and the accumulation of funds gradually increased, so the Qing court was able to prepare the concept of silver storage to put it into practice.

When Gan Xiaosi came to power, the national strength of the Qing Dynasty was at its peak. The treasury had 80 million taels of silver left by his father to him. This allowed him to adjust the provincial seal and store the amount of silver several times. In order to consolidate border governance and enrich border reserves, the silver storage system was promoted to the border areas. The Ministry of Revenue of Shengjing "storages ingot silver forever" was also increased by 10 million taels.

Chenzhou Prefecture also had 20,000 taels of silver reserve, and the inner treasury not only had 20,000 taels of silver that should have, but also had a lot of private wealth from Su Hetai. Su Hetai transported his own silver to the inner treasury to reserve. This was a public secret in the prefect's yamen.

Because it is the safest there.

Zhao Liang wanted to find out the news without any effort, and he would not leave any traces.

After quietly exploring south, Zhao Liang knew the specific location of the silver treasury, between the second hall of the prefect's yamen (the important building in the yamen that is second only to the lobby, the place where the prefect, his staff and officials gather and discuss daily) and the third hall (the inner house, the residence of the prefect's family).

Although there are many fragmented buildings there, the highest and strongest among them are not the powerful Supervisory Office and the Money and Grain Office, but the silver treasury on the east and the grain treasury on the west, also known as the Silver Bureau and the Tax Deposit.

Zhao Liang has no big demand for food now, so he is here to prepare to attack the bank deposit this time.

As for how people could enter the inner warehouse without knowing it, under the wall of the silver warehouse, Zhao Liang had a ruler-length knife wrapped in the handle of the scabbard with an inconspicuous gray hemp rope.

He asked him to lie down alone, and he was hit by Zhao Liang's neck, but he didn't know that the end was not broken. The blade penetrated into the wall like a piece of tender tofu. The face of the kuye, who was strangled by Zhao Liang, suddenly changed. This should be a sharp sword.

If it is inserted into your head...

The kuye couldn't help but think of the watermelon that he had cut open by himself in Xia Tian. As soon as he sent his bladder, the gray-green cotton pants were immediately wet.

Zhao Liang's face also changed suddenly, and he shouted "Damn it!" and threw the person on the ground with a trembling hand.

Immediately afterwards, the culprit couldn't even make a sound.

"I dare to scream, I'll strip you alive!"

"Good man, please spare me, please spare me!"

The custodian really couldn't imagine how lawless a person was so bold that he dared to come to the prefect's office to provoke trouble, but he knew very well that his life was in the hands of the black-clad masked man in front of him.

Not to mention the sword that was sharpened like mud in this master's hand, he just slapped Er Qiangzi (Kudin) with a quick slap. He strangled his neck before his screams could be heard. Then he could tell how powerful he was.

"Be obedient, I don't want to kill someone tonight." Otherwise, the custodian would still have a living life.

"I'll ask you and answer."

"How much silver is there in the internal and external warehouses?"

The treasury official dared not say a word of redundant words, "There are fifty taels of ingots, one hundred ingots of ingots, twenty taels of ingots, one hundred ingots of ingots, one hundred ingots of ingots, one hundred and sixty taels of silver, nine thousand three hundred and twenty taels of silver; there are also three thousand five hundred and seventy taels of copper coins. As for the inner treasury, the small only knows the 20,000 taels of silver. As for the specific amount of private wealth of the prefect, it is not something that the small can know."

"That's all? And the broken silver?" Zhao Liang was a little surprised. This number was really pitiful.

"My hero, that broken silver will melt." Otherwise, how could so many silver ingots come from?

Zhao Liang nodded, and a doubt came to his heart. No wonder he was intimate with the silver ingots of the government several times before, he only saw a silver ingot with inscriptions on the inscription.

"He's what he said, he took off his pants and farted, and he's a waste of time."

Ninety percent of the people circulate are scattered silver. The government collects silver and wants to raise it into large ingots, but when the silver and money flow back to the people, it will be truncated into tax silver. What's the purpose of going back and forth?

I don’t know why the eagle ocean has flowed into China for hundreds of years, but neither the Ming Dynasty nor the Qing Dynasty seemed to have seen the benefits of minting gold and silver coins.

Zhao Liang was puzzled, but he was not prepared to think more.

Kuding fell on the ground and was still angry. Zhao Liang slapped him without breaking his neck. The Ku official was very tactful and found a rope to tie Kuding tightly, and blocked his mouth with a cloth towel. Then, he followed Zhao Liang into the money warehouse obediently, and started working without saying a word.

Zhao Liang, who used a treasure knife to split the iron lock of the warehouse door, sat on a stool like an old man, watching the warehouse clerk work hard - piled the silver ingots on the outer warehouse rack at Zhao Liang's feet bit by bit.

The silver in the bank warehouse is never stored in boxes, but is placed on piles of wooden shelves. Each pile is not large, and the quantity is clear at a glance, so it is very convenient to count.

The kuan was working hard and never had any tricks, but his work efficiency was really low.

He was so low that Zhao Liang couldn't stand it anymore. He fainted with a slap, tied it up and stuffed it outside.

I immediately put away the silver and copper one by one.

Then he split the door of the inner warehouse and swept everything inside.

It only takes a quarter of an hour to complete.

There was a pile of gold, silver and jewelry in the small courtyard of the space, and a basket of copper. Zhao Liang was so lucky that he got blood back, and the small vault that had been consumed before suddenly filled up again.

But he really didn't feel much pleasure in his heart, because his real troubles in this government office have not been solved yet.

Su Hetai, Su Hetai...

Standing under the wall of the silver treasury, Zhao Liang stared silently at the residence of the three halls. It took half a quarter of an hour before the personnel quietly left the government office.

When he returned to the Liu family courtyard on Cross Street east of the city, the aura that had accumulated in his heart was still as jammed as a stone.
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