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Chapter 260 Feng Zhang's Treasure and Dividing the Booty

On the entire Daxie Island, the military police of Li Xigou and the Shamen Town soldiers, mainly Flying Eagle Reconnaissance Battalion, began to carry out a comprehensive cleaning. Li Wei and Li Xigou joined forces and performed their duties. More than a thousand soldiers began to search and clean the house from door to door.

Feng Zhang and Feng Xun are dead, and the power he has been in charge of Daxiezhai City for ten years will be uprooted.

"When will the revenge be repaid?" When Li Guan issued the order, he was sobering up with a cup of hot tea in his hand. The first sentence made everyone feel a little worried, for fear that he would let the Feng family go mercilessly and those loyal to the Feng family. However, Li Guan's next sentence made them feel relieved, "If you cut the grass, you must get rid of the roots!"

Li Yan has already taken over Da Xie Village, so he does not intend to let go of those loyal and follow Feng Zhang. The struggle is so cruel. If you stand in the wrong team, this is often the end. Although the Feng family lives in Qingzhou, Li Yan is out of reach, and the power is temporarily unable to truly deal with the huge century-old Feng family. However, Li Yan can still make the decision on the territory of Da Xie Village and eliminate those people.

After the last battle, Feng Zhang's power in Daxiezhai was greatly shaken and he lost all other islands except Daxiezhai's southern island. Although after the agreement was reached, Li Guan only occupied Daxiezhai and more than a dozen small islands around him and returned Gui Island and Wuhu Island to Feng Zhang, it became an empty island, and there were not many people yet. All of them gathered on the southern island, which also made Li Guan's cleaning operation very smooth.

The South Island has tens of thousands of people, and the preliminary search will soon end.

Feng Zhang's wife, children, old tribesmen, as well as their confidants and family members, were identified as soon as possible and taken to the dock.

Regarding these people, Li Guan directly ordered Feng Zhang's family members and the top generals who refused to surrender to beheaded, and their heads were hung on the dock to public. The rest, nearly 3,000 people, were all given to Li Lingfu as gifts by Li Guan. Their property and houses were confiscated. Although Feng Zhang lost several times in a row, the money and grain stored in Daxie Village over the past ten years still amazed Zhang Hong and Du Zhongwu, who came to count and register.

It is estimated that there were enough grains of 300,000 stones. There were forty grains of 8,000 stones per granary, and only ten of them were empty on the island. These grains were enough for his original 20,000 troops to eat for five years. The amount of copper coins in the treasury was also quite amazing. There were coin shortages everywhere in the late Tang Dynasty, and more than 800,000 guan of copper coins were lying in Feng Zhang's treasury. The entire treasury was covered with yellow copper coins, and many copper coins were even piled up for too long that the ropes for the strings of coins were rotten and the copper coins were scattered all over the ground. At this time, the official official coin minting furnaces in the Tang Dynasty were only ninety-nine, and they could only mint 300,000 guan a year. The coins saved by Feng Zhang were almost equivalent to the amount of coins minted by the imperial court for three years.

In addition to money and grain, a large amount of other materials were also harvested. Among them, the silk used for both money and silk was as high as one million pieces, and a long row of warehouses were piled up. Other silk fabrics, more than 100,000 pieces, silk silk, silk, silk, silk, and silk, and silk, and silk, and silk, and silk, silk, silk, and silk, and silk, were worth millions of guan.

In addition to these, the seizure of military supplies is also exciting.

Seizure on the battlefield and receiving in the warehouse. Each of the swords, guns, spears, spears, bows and arrows has more than 10,000 pairs, especially the three most standard equipment: spears, horizontal swords, and bows and arrows, which are as high as 20,000 pairs, and individual crossbows as many as 8,000, and various shields are also more than 5,000.

There are more than 20,000 iron helmets, 3,000 pairs of iron armor, 5,000 leather armor, and million arrows. In addition, there are hundreds of heavy crossbows and catapults of various types. This is the weapons and equipment and storage of a 20,000 army, a real treasure. With so many weapons, Li Guan's Shamen Town Army almost didn't have to worry about weapons for a long time.

"This is all the family belongings that Feng Zhang has controlled Dengzhou Port for years and has privately intercepted part of the Pinglu Army divisions of Qingzhou Wang Jingwu and other Pinglu Army divisions. This Feng Zhang is indeed powerful. He has intercepted so much money and grain and saved so many family belongings. But Wang Jingwu and other Pinglu Army leaders can tolerate him until now, which is not simple. But we have to thank him for saving such family titles. Now we have made wedding dresses for us." Li Guan couldn't help laughing when he heard Zhang Hong excitedly reporting all the gains.

Zhang Hong nodded, "Yes, Feng Zhangzhan's ability is indeed good. What's even more amazing is that these weapons are almost all built by Daxie Village within ten years. Feng Zhang has a huge ordnance workshop in the village city, with 3,000 craftsmen, creating weapons day and night. In addition to what he has accumulated and left behind, he also secretly traded a large amount of ordnance with the Liaodong ministries and the Khitan, Bohai Kingdom, Silla Kingdom and others every year to make a lot of profits."

"Okay, these craftsmen are very important. Put them all into our armor workshop." Li Guan decided to leave these craftsmen as used without hesitation. In troubled times, the importance of weapons and armor is self-evident. Although the current seizure in Shamen Town has been used for several years, Li Guan understood that there are two most profitable businesses in troubled times, both are food and weapons.

Shamen Town itself cannot use so many weapons for the time being, but it can continue to expand the ordnance workshop and use weapons processing and manufacturing as an important source of future finance for Shamen Town. This not only ensures Shamen Town's own weapons production capacity, but also ensures that there is a continuous stream of income.

It’s a great harvest, no wonder that heroes like Huang Chao never built bases and only knew how to wander around the world. A large part of the reason is that they are not as solid as those aristocratic families and generals who rebelled and separatist. Without craftsmen and materials, it is difficult to build a base. Building a knife and gun requires craftsmen and materials, which is really a big difference compared to robbing.

Li Guan himself also paid the sweetness of the seizure. His own military equipment workshop in Shamen Town was working day and night, but even over the whole year, the military equipment produced by thousands of craftsmen could not arm the nearly 10,000 people in Shamen Town today.

"There is also a horse farm in Daxie Village, including three thousand mules, five thousand donkeys, one thousand horses, and five hundred war horses. Feng Zhang, this dog thief, not only had hundreds of warships, but also raised so many horses and donkeys. His troops were completely equipped with ships at sea and horses on land, and his logistics were extremely mobile. It was completely based on the standard military and horses in the prosperous Tang Dynasty." Zhang Hong sighed that Feng Zhang, a border garrison guarding the island, not only raised nearly 20,000 troops, but also built so many warships, built so many weapons, and even equipped with so many donkeys and horses. This guy is very ambitious. If it weren't for the sudden rise of Shamen Town, and with time, this guy might have the same separatist ambition as Li Zhengye back then.

It is worthy of being Ziqing Town, which was once called the world's most powerful vassal. It is indeed the richest place in the north. At that time, Li Zheng had already crossed the ocean from western Liaoning to Shandong, and in a short time he gathered 100,000 troops to the world's powerful vassal. Now a small envoy of Da Xiezhai can accumulate such strength in ten years, and this land is indeed rich.

"How do you deal with merchants and people on the South Island?" Zhang Hong asked.

"After the thunder, you have to apply rain and dew. The kingly way is to help you with kindness and power!" Li Guan pondered for a moment and said, "If you should kill, kill, deal with what you should deal with, the remaining people and merchants, as long as they have no big relationship with Feng Zhang, don't go into it too deeply. Everything is done according to the rules of Shamen Town, the people register and issue an identity card. Merchants must also register and issue a business license. In the future, as long as they pay taxes on time, serve on time, and abide by our rules, they will not make things difficult for them."

Li Guan suddenly frowned, and Zhang Hong asked in confusion: "General, we have won countless harvests from Da Xie Village, including hundreds of thousands of stones of grain, more than 800,000 guan of money, millions of silk and cloth, as well as the full warehouse of weapons, and even thousands of donkeys and horses. Why is the general not very interested?"

Li Guan smiled bitterly: "I am of course happy to get this harvest, but because it is a big harvest, do you think we can eat these things?"

"What is the general's intention?" Zhang Hong's face changed and he asked anxiously.

"Da Xie Village is a very special town. This is a harsh and oily territory in Dengzhou Port. Even the Dengzhou Navy and Dengzhou are not as close to the water and towers as Da Xie Village. Who is not jealous of such a territory? You didn't see that Song Xi came with two thousand soldiers before. Do you think he was really just here to reinforce us? Didn't he think he was going to take the opportunity to occupy Da Xie Village? Although we took the lead, the dust is still uncertain. Whether we can eat this Da Xie Village is still a question."

"It is still unknown whether we can take Da Xie Village. You think that if these huge spoils are seized, we can swallow them in one bite. Nowadays, many people are staring at us. Those who eat alone will not have good results."

"Do you want to give up these spoils?" Zhang Hong said tremblingly, "General, this is a spoil worth millions of yuan. Such a good thing may never happen again. Even if the entire Dengzhou City is defeated, Feng Zhang will probably not have many possessions."

"A snake can swallow elephants, but if it swallows several elephants, then the snake may be able to hold on to death. If we can't bear to leave the child and cannot trap the wolf, if we can't bear to leave these spoils, we can't even defend Daxie Village by then." Li Guan sighed, "Of course, we won't give in in vain. We will take the initiative to send it. Let's study how to deliver it. We will get everyone a share, block everyone's mouth, and make them happy and satisfied. We have to find a way to not really spit out all the flesh that reaches the mouth."

Zhang Hong drooped his head, and several wrinkles on his forehead wrinkled deeply. He looked as if his parents had died. He sighed: "This sharing of spoils should not only satisfy all parties, but also cannot make us suffer too much. General, you have caused me a big problem."
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