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Chapter 175 One million, one million

Li Guan did not participate in the final suppression, but sat in the center of the castle, in the meeting hall towering into the towering tower of five feet high, listened to the whole process in his ears. In the rain curtain on the island, there was constant noise, the sound of the strings of strong bows and hard crossbows, the muffled sound of the sharp arrows entering his body, and the crisp sound of the spear breaking, the harsh sound of the horizontal swords intertwined. As well as the shouts of "Avenge for the old leader!" "Kill all the lackeys of the Feng family!" "Kill all the remnants of the Feng family!"

Li Yan was able to outline the scenes that were happening outside in his mind. He sat by the brazier, wearing a thin white middle-clothed shirt, slightly closed his eyes and seemed to sleep, listening quietly. He heard footsteps, water and blood on the ground splashing with combat boots. The muffled sound of the horizontal knife slashing on the cowhide wooden shield, the sharp sound of gold and iron, the sound of bowstrings and thunder, and the rumbling sound of shouting and killing.

The people on the island were lingering, either yelling unyieldingly, or begging for mercy in a low voice. Some were still retreating, and some were already dead in the streets and alleys. Li Guan seemed to have heard the sound of yellow beard. He was directing some pirates to transport large amounts of materials seized. He seemed to have heard Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong among them, shouting to the hundreds of slaves and their families who had just been rescued by Li Guan's knife: "You have been forgiven for death by nobles. Now those who want to survive now come with me, come with me!" Then he heard the creaking opening of the warehouse doors, and then countless pirates and slaves began to wrap large and small bags of materials with straw and oil paper, and transported them to the dock in the rain.

The sound gradually weakened and finally calmed down. In the end, only a few painful wails from an occasional corner were left. The heavy rain gradually weakened, but there was still a white rain fog between the world.

When Liu Shouqian and Zhang Chengzong came back, they were no longer the same clothes as before. They changed into a leather robe from the mansion and wore a wide long cloak on their bodies. They wore a phoenix winged croaker on their heads. When they came back, Li Yan was awakened by the sound of footsteps and woke up from their sleep. As soon as they woke up, Li Yan immediately felt a little sore all over. They fought in the heavy rain for half a night last night. In the weather just in early February, the rain was biting cold. They didn't care about those things when they fought. They just rested by the fire and fell asleep exhausted. Now, when they woke up, they immediately felt all kinds of soreness and even had a hot forehead. They actually had a low fever.

Li Yan struggled to sit down. Seeing that the two of them had blood stains on their faces, he couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Are you injured?"

Liu Shouqian reached out and touched his face, and smiled and said, "I'm fine. This is not my blood. It's probably the blood of those Khitan dog slaves."

"What's going on?" Li Guan asked in surprise.

"It's nothing big. Among the slaves, there were more than a dozen khitan dogs. At first I thought they were also slaves, so I was not prepared. When I was at the dock, they actually wanted to rob the ship and escape. I took my brothers to chase them, and almost let them escape. Later I found out that these khitans were not slaves, but guards recruited by the Feng family, who were specially supervising the slaves."

Li Wei and Duan Shan and a large group of people walked in in a very embarrassed manner, covered in mud. However, everyone's expressions were very happy. While walking, they were talking and laughing loudly. Li Wei and Duan Shan were in front, Fifth Shu and Zhao Jiang were behind, and Wang Shi was also following. The ten young children of the Xiao family followed naturally, and were laughing with Li Wei and the others while walking. The group kept laughing. If Li Yan hadn't been awake now, he would have thought that this was in a dream.

Why did the ten playboys in the Xiao family fight with Li Wei and his group so much that they are so angry? It seems that they are just about to be close to each other and call each other brothers?

Wushu was mixed with white air, and he walked to Li Yan, grinning and showing two rows of big white teeth and smiled, "General. Let's make a fortune!"

One of the Xiao family's dandy players, who was tall and thin, looked a little thin among the ten people, but Xiao Kai, who was obviously the leader among the ten people, smiled and said, "General, this time it's really worth it. I calculated that this trip made a lot of money. I looked at the seized materials, and the gold, silver and copper coins alone had a total of 170,000 guan. The silk and linen, silk and mirror flower silk were even more of a huge fortune. I guess these were the benefits of Xiao's family in Duli Town. They placed him on Cat Island, but they didn't want to be our seizure. These were converted to 600,000 guan of copper. In addition, there were 300 guan of tea, 500 guan of pepper, 800 guan of frosted sugar, and 100 guan of spices of various colors."

"These things are much more expensive than grain. I have seen tea leaves. Only a small part of them are Mengding Shihua small square tea balls from Jiannan Yazhou, which is known as the world's number one tea, and Zishu tea in Guzhu, Huzhou, which is called the world's second. Most of the three hundred stone teas are relatively ordinary teas from Fuliang. These are just inferior products from teas and are the commodities for ordinary people to drink. However, even so, these teas are still very expensive. Mengding tea is worth twenty guan per kilogram, and purple bamboo tea can be worth eighteen guan per kilogram. Even the ordinary low-quality Fuliang tea is expensive per kilogram. At 500 jin per kilogram, these three hundred stone tea is worth ten thousand jin. If you include those top-quality teas, these three hundred stone tea is worth at least twenty thousand jin per kilograms."

Xiao Kai is worthy of being the son of the first gentry in Jiangnan. When talking about these maritime trade goods, he was very informed. "The five hundred stones of pepper are also extremely valuable. Our Tang Dynasty has always liked to eat mutton and especially liked to eat mutton. The mutton is fishy and smelly. It is necessary to use pepper and other spices to remove the fishy smell. This pepper is not eaten for a day and needs to be eaten every day. However, the Tang Dynasty did not produce this product. All peppers had to be transported from the Western Regions, so they were extremely expensive. When Xuanzong was in charge of the world, the son-in-law of Wang Zhongsi, the governor of Hexi, one of the ten major military governors in the world, was the son-in-law of Yuan Zai, the most sage-loving prime minister during the Daizong period. Later, when his home was confiscated, he had collected nearly 100,000 kilograms of pepper that he had stored. Even the prime minister, who was once the emperor's most confidant, had accumulated so many peppers. It can be seen that this product is valuable. Moreover, because this product is easy to store, it cannot be damaged, and will not depreciate, so it has great value for storage."

"Then how valuable is this pepper?" The surname of the Fifth Shou was very strange, with the surname Di Fifth Shou. It is said that he had a relationship with the prime minister Di Fifth Qi during the Suzong period and was his descendant of his lineage. Going back to the top, his ancestors had a surname Tian during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and were famously able to do business. Later, in the Warring States Period, he directly exiled the king of Qi and became the king himself, known in history as Tian Qi. Later, Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, and Liu Bang unified the Central Plains. He feared the business ability of Tian's family and ordered the forced division of Tian's family into eight surnames, divided into first, second, and until the eighth, and moved them from Shandong to Guanzhong.

However, although he changed his surname, the descendants of the Tian family have the ambition to do business. For example, when Di Wuqi was the prime minister, he had presided over the fiscal and currency reform of the Suzong Dynasty. The descendants of Di Wuqi, who had long lost their family, had a strong body like a tiger and wolf, but also had an unknown and smart heart. When it comes to money, he was more sensitive than anyone else. Before, he had taken his subordinates to cut off the left ear of the corpse on the battlefield, put a bag and took it to Li Guan to ask for merit and reward.

Xiao Kai chuckled: "Pepper is just like tea, it has long become a necessity for the people's lives. From kings, nobles, to the people of the people, no matter they have, pepper, they are not as good as tea, and this thing is transported by the Western Regions. Whether it is the Silk Road or the Dongyihai Road in Guangzhou, it is very troublesome, and the price is naturally not expensive. A pound of pepper is three to four times that of a pound of tea. The discount is about five to two pounds per pound. There are eight hundred stones here, which is 96,000 pounds. If it is 1,500 pounds per pound, that is 144,000 pounds per pound."

"In addition, frosting and spices are also very expensive." Xiao Kai also sighed, as if the supplies were all his. "The most common ones we can see in the Tang Dynasty are brown sugar and sugar granulated. Frosting, like this white frosting and snow, is very troublesome to process and the price is even higher. In history, only the emperors and concubines in the palace, as well as the princes and nobles, can be used by them. A pound of frosting can be worth one pound of tea and eight hundred stones of frosting. It is worth nearly 50,000 guan. I have seen that one hundred stone of spices, and it contains agarwood.

Wisteria, elixir, camphor, suhe, benzoin, Javanese, **, myrrh, clove, green wood, patchouli, jasmine oil, rose perfume, tulip, amamot, and cinnamon. In terms of value, it should be five to ten times more expensive than pepper. Most of these were purchased from places south of Funan, such as Zhenla, and even the Western Regions. If a spice of 100 stone can be worth at least ten to twenty cents, or even thirty cents per kilogram, this batch of spices is conservatively estimated to be worth at least 200,000 cents."

Wushu stood on one side and his eyes were shining, calculating desperately with his fingers that looked like bear's paws, and muttering words. Gold, silver and copper coins were worth 170,000 guan, silk, hemp, silk, mirror flower and silk were worth 600,000 guan, tea leaves were worth 20,000 guan, peppers were worth 144,000 guan, frosting and sugar were worth 50,000 guan, and spices were worth 200,000 guan. Together, how much is this, how much is it?"

Xiao Kai chuckled and reported on the side: "One hundred, one hundred and eighty-four thousand stakes, roughly the number."

A sound of gasping in the hall sounded in the air, and everyone looked incredible. Even Li Guan was shocked by the number added together. Although these materials were so valuable, it did not mean that Li Guan could get so much. First of all, he had to share the spoils with Zhendonghai, and then most of the things he received were supplies. This had to be sold through some special channels to exchange for money. But even so, Li Guan was also surprised by the number that had exceeded one million. Damn, this was one million guan, not one million guan.

The Tang Dynasty court now only minted 330,000 guan a year. He and Zhendonghai captured a private island that the Feng family had been operating for 60 years, and they actually copied out a huge amount of supplies of millions of guan.

Crazy, Li Guan felt a little crazy now.

In the face of this huge amount of supplies, the 50,000-yuan armour that had been reclaimed, the batch of armour that had just been divided up with Zhendonghai, and the 300 war horses seemed to have become a little ordinary all of a sudden, making people unable to get excited.

Such a huge fortune will be difficult for anyone to keep calm in front of it.

Li Guan knew that he had to discuss the distribution of this material with Zhendonghai first, otherwise, it would be very likely that some unnecessary misunderstandings and suspicions would occur to both sides.

"What are you going to allocate?" Baibei had just had a brief rest. Hearing that Li Yan was coming, his face was full of smiles and he smiled calmly. It seemed that the elegance returned to him, and he would no longer see the madness of last night.

"I obeyed the leader of Bai Da. This time I attacked Mao Island, my original intention was to regain the batch of weapons." Li Yan chuckled.

"Our original intention is to take revenge. As long as we take revenge, all the materials harvested on the island will belong to you. However, this time the harvest is very rich. If we don't take any, I believe that our brothers will probably have some opinions. So, everyone will take what they need and distribute it as they want. Everything is up to me." The white beard looked at Li Yan and smiled.

Li Guan couldn't guess whether Whitebeard was really not moved or was scrupulous about everyone's relationship. He thought for a while and said tentatively, "I just found someone to calculate. This time, the spoils, except for the slaves and my arms, the weapons we have already divided, and the Rust ships at the dock, are actually worth millions of qian!"

Sure enough, when Whitebeard heard this number, the corners of his eyes twitched slightly, but he covered it up very well and immediately returned to peace.

"One million guan is indeed a great harvest. What do General Li want to divide it?"

"Brothers, settle the accounts clearly, and this is to avoid misunderstandings. This time, the brothers in Zhendonghai sent out 1,800 people, and I only brought 200 people. So what I mean is that we will divide them according to people, you are nine and I am one. I just need 200,000 spoils. In addition, I am willing to give the other Feng family ships to Bai Dangjia, but I hope that Bai Dangjia will give me more than ten or five hundred stones from your own ships, so that I can carry my spoils back." Li Guan said calmly.

Whitebeard brows moved, "How can this be done? I think we will divide it equally, this is fair, and it is brother. I think this is how it is. You know that we are pirates, and it is useless to ask for those tea leaves and spices. Why don't we just be more cheerful, one person has 500,000 yuan, and the batch of gold, silver and copper coins will be discounted by 170,000 yuan, and the other spoils will be taken away by Brother Li. As long as you deal with the flocs afterwards, Brother Li will dispose of the flocs and give them another 300,000 yuan."

Li Guan's heart moved, "I don't think so. Bai Dangjia, please give me twenty ships of more than 500 stone for me. It doesn't matter whether the old or new points are new or old. Then give you all the gold, silver and copper coins. I will handle the other goods and give you another 400,000 guan. How about it?"

White beard stretched out his big hand and patted Li Guan heavily in the air, laughing and said, "I have believed in Brother Li, so that's the matter!"
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