Chapter 5297: Treasure Fight
Two hundred and seven five-toothed ships were escorted by more than a hundred monk pirates on the sea route.
The people on the ship were all family members of the most prominent officials and dignitaries in China, and a quarter of them were direct descendants of the royal family.
The higher the status of a person, the more precious his life is.
On the contrary, the lower the status, the lower the life.
These noble people grew up in a greenhouse. They don't understand the hardships of the people at the bottom, and they don't have the courage of the people at the bottom to break the boat and destroy the fish.
After the casual cultivators in the South China Sea sank the three leading ships, the dignitaries on board behind them were as honest as big quails.
Dayangui is a large island with an area of dozens of miles, located between Fuzhou and Yizhou in the Central Plains.
After only about four hours of sailing, the huge fleet arrived at the coast where the wild geese were returning.
Because the fleet was huge and the ship was a five-toothed ship with relatively deep water, the huge fleet dropped its anchor in the offshore area where the wild geese returned.
At this time, reinforcements from Nanhai's casual cultivators also arrived.
After some inspections, the casual cultivator of Nanhai, who had been poor for eight lifetimes, took a breath when he looked at the statistics.
There are two hundred and seven five-toothed ships, fifty-seven of which are used to transport the families of dignitaries, and the remaining one hundred and fifty ships, all of which carry gold and silver treasures.
The catalog of statistics is really eye-opening.
Ninety-four million taels of silver and 1,530,000 taels of gold.
There are more than 500 kilograms of large oyster pearls from the East China Sea.
There are more than 13,300 top-quality furs.
More than 7,600 kilograms of various high-quality jade, jade, and night pearls.
There are more than 1,600 ivory tusks.
One hundred and twenty rhino horns.
There are more than 500 calligraphy and paintings of celebrities from ancient times to the present.
There are more than 800 pieces of various bronzes with extremely high collection value, large and small.
There are so many exquisite antique porcelains and precious utensils that it is difficult to record them.
These treasures filled tens of thousands of wooden boxes.
Chen Xiaofei looked at the statistical catalog and cursed.
If it really comes to the point of annihilation of the country and the extinction of the species, dozens of them can be hung on the side of the ship and escape.
But these guys organized such a huge fleet mainly to transport treasures.
The total value transported by this fleet, equivalent to silver, exceeds sixty million taels.
You must know that more than ten years ago before the catastrophe, the imperial court's annual taxes, including commercial taxes, land taxes, head taxes, customs duties, salt taxes, copper and iron taxes, all added up to only thirty million taels.
This group of greedy and fearless worms took away the two years of national tax revenue during the peak period of the imperial court in just one sea trip.
What is the war about?
Of course it’s silver!
Nowadays, the outflow of national funds makes this group of cultivators who have already transcended the world feel extremely angry.
Of course, the pattern of these poor monks is still a bit small.
This fleet transports mostly noble family property.
There may seem to be a lot of jewels, jade artifacts and antiques, but there are not many national treasure-level cultural relics, and there are even fewer cultural relics that can represent the splendid civilization of China.
As early as ten years ago, when the catastrophe began, Yu Jizi and His Majesty the Emperor had secretly moved the true national treasure-level cultural relics of the Chinese civilization to a safe area in order to prevent the worst consequences.
Those treasures living outside the royal family are just shrimps and nothing.
However, for the cultivators of the Nanhai Sect who have never seen much of the world, this is a huge wealth that subverts the three views.
Ye Xiaochuan's message to Zhou Wu was very vague. He just wanted to let the Nanhai cultivators disperse to stop the fleeing fleet.
As for how to stop it and how to deal with the intercepted property, Ye Xiaochuan did not elaborate.
Ye Xiaochuan did not explain in detail, so Chen Xiaofei had room to operate.
Aren't you trying to escape?
Okay, you can run away.
But of the tens of thousands of wooden boxes you are carrying, you cannot take away any of them.
All treasures, all left behind.
Someone resisted.
The knife rises and the head falls.
When a few heads were picked up, no one dared to have any objections.
Wang Keke only learned the news half an hour after all the property statistics were compiled, so he was already relatively well-informed. It was passed on by the Nanhai Sect through the secret contact point with Guixuanzong.
Now the entire world does not know that such a huge fleet has been robbed.
It was noon at that time, and Wang Keke was having lunch with Old Master Xu in Qiming Mountain.
Wang Keke recently wanted to pretend to be a scholar. It happened that Ye Xiaochuan vacated the library of Pianmiao Pavilion and built a library belonging to Guixuan Sect in Qiming Mountain. Wang Keke squeezed in among the scholars when he had something to do.
While eating, the old naughty boy discussed poetry with Old Master Xu.
He stood in the valley at dusk yesterday, looking at the dark clouds above his head, and became poetic. He composed a poem that he believed to be a masterpiece of ancient times and today.
Oh my god,
What a big cloud.
When it comes, it covers the sun and moon,
It rained heavily when we went there.
I came here specifically to ask Old Master Xu for advice. In fact, it was just to show off.
Old Master Xu and the great scholars from China hired by Gui Xuanzong with high salaries were shocked when they heard this poem.
It was not that they were shocked by the poem, but that Wang Keke actually showed off such a bad poem with a proud look on his face. They were surprised that Wang Keke's cultural attainments were completely out of proportion to his thickness of face.
When Wang Keke was getting ready, Yanfeng came in and whispered a few words in his ear.
The lean old man's eyes immediately lit up.
He shouted: "Is there still this matter? I have always felt that our Guixuan Sect has some shortcomings. Now I understand that we have millions of books, and we also need to get some calligraphy and painting to enhance the appearance. This way it will be perfect."
The old dog smelled the shit and rushed out. Then he turned back, picked up the half-eaten lasagna on the table, and said to Old Master Xu: "Old Xu, I am going on a long trip to bring back some antiques. When I come back, we will discuss my new work. That poem.
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In the passage, Wang Keke was eating noodles and giving orders to Yan Feng. "Hurry up and send a message to Tian Chenzi in Nanhai through our channels. They are just responsible for running errands. This operation is controlled by our great and handsome sect leader behind the scenes. All the gold and silver treasures must be collected."
Let us, Gui Xuanzong, handle it.
Also, hurry up and gather three hundred disciples for me. We will go to the South China Sea immediately and bring more storage magic weapons...
I will go to Long Tianshan to discuss it now, and we will set off after a stick of incense..."
When Gu Jianchi learned that the scattered cultivators in the South China Sea had plundered the huge fleet that the Chinese dignitaries could not escape from, Wang Keke had already led three hundred disciples of the Ghost Xuan Sect and rushed out of the Hundred Thousand Mountains to attack the wild geese in the South China Sea. Go to the island.
Gu Jianchi was in the front hall, listening to the latest battle situation at Niangzi Pass with several elders from Cangyun Sect and some foreign sect leaders.
After learning the news about Nanhai, the big guys in the hall were all stunned.
The existence of that fleet is not a secret to these big guys.
There are also people who are jealous of the huge treasure on the fleet.
But behind this fleet is the operation of the royal family, which also involves many righteous sects including Cangyun Sect.
So no one dared to think about the treasure transport fleet.
They did not expect that the Nanhai Xiaoyao Sect would be so bold as to rob this huge fleet in broad daylight.
Of course Gu Jianchi knew that Tian Chenzi didn't have the courage, and it must be Ye Xiaochuan who was behind it.
If this huge batch of treasure falls into Guixuanzong, it can make up for Guixuanzong's current shortage of money.
This is not what Gu Jianchi wants to see. So, he immediately asked his disciples to summon Nanhai Xiaoyao Sect to intervene in the matter in the name of Cangyun Sect. He also sent two junior uncles, Yuchenzi and Yuyangzi, to go to Nanhai in person to collect these treasures. come over.
