Chapter 1063: Make a fortune!

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Siena's affluence is still far beyond Marin's imagination. Previously, the gold bricks, silver bars, gold coins, and silver coins that Marin had snatched from the bank of Siena, as well as the soldiers who could not finish the remaining copper coins, were close to 1 million gold coins, which is almost the same as Karamosi's estimate.

However, after truly sending people to **** the large households and shops across the city, Marin knew that the wealth of the Siena Bank was not the bulk of Siena City.

The Republic of Siena is a centuries-old commercial republic of Italy famous for trade and finance. Although it is not comparable to the annual revenue of more than one million gold coins in the Republic of Venice, there are many rich households in the city.

Moreover, in this era, the European commercial tax is levied on physical trade. It has three professional terms called "pound tax", "ton tax" and "export tax". The main reason is that the tax officer collects corresponding taxes based on the quantity of the goods and the estimated unit price. In addition to these in-kind taxes, it is the church's tithe.

However, in a financial city like Siena, the financial industry does not involve real taxes. The "Tithe Tax" is also mainly aimed at the output per mu. Because private financial trade cannot be monitored at all, it is natural not to mention tax collection. The financiers wrote a few bills in private to complete the transaction. How do you monitor? Therefore, Siena is so prosperous and rich, and the annual tax is added up, but it is more than 300,000 gold coins. But for the small state of the Republic of Siena, there is no shortage of money.

From the giants, the soldiers carried out boxes full of gold and silver coins. Except for the church in the city, all the prominent buildings in the city were basically looted by the soldiers. Even the private houses of the bishops in the city have been looted.

Unlike the teachings in other places, the church in the Republic of Siena has long been separated from the Holy See. Although it is close to Rome, because of the dangerous terrain, the local government and churches are not a bird church at all. Therefore, the Holy See never regards the priests of the Republic of Siena as their own. After the citizens of Siena deprived the local bishop of the ruling power in 1167, the local church was out of the control of the Holy See. Therefore, before he came, Julius II stated that the priests of Siena were nothing more than scum of the church, as long as they were not killed, they could be disposed of at will.

Therefore, Marin focused on the private residences of some local bishops and monasteries this time, and really carried out many boxes full of gold and silver.

For this looting, Marin also conducted special search training for some officers. For example, in those mansions, you must push the bookshelf in the study room, turn the metal lamps, turn over the pull tab at the bottom of the bed ... even, search the edge of the toilet ...

Then, the captains of the search team who got Marin ’s true biography found many secret rooms and found many treasure chests ...

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"No, that's our family's hundreds of years of savings!" The head of a banker family shouted excitedly when he saw the dozen or so treasure chests found in the back room of the study!

This family has already collected about two hundred thousand gold coins in the bank. Unexpectedly, the family still has almost the same amount of money. It's no wonder that people have opened banks for hundreds of years, and it's normal for them to have a thick foundation. The family that opened the bank must definitely keep some hands behind, otherwise, it will be finished after being maliciously run over. Private banks are not like China's state bank in later generations. The state bank is run, and it can mobilize funds from other branches. Or, simply let the above order prohibit the run. Do n’t be shameless, you can print more banknotes ... Therefore, the National Bank is not easy to collapse unless the regime is overthrown.

Private banks are different. The fundamental survival of private banks is credibility. Otherwise, no one will save the money with you. Moreover, because of long-term lending, the cash in the bank is often insufficient. As long as there is a run, and the bankers ca n’t afford the money, the bank will go bankrupt. Therefore, cautious bankers tend to stay behind to avoid being calculated by competitors.

Therefore, in the private houses of more than a dozen bankers in the city, some of them will basically keep some backhand, usually hidden in their own homes. This is different from bank reserves and is the last safeguard. In addition, there is some wealth accumulated by the family.

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Another point is that since the Republic was announced in 1167, Siena City has never been compromised and looted. The only war with Florence that occurred in 1260 was won, and the biggest disaster was the Black Death in 1348.

However, the city of Siena has never been breached, so it can be said that it has prospered for hundreds of years. Most of the big names in the city have hundreds of years of savings. Moreover, many families will build secret treasure room. In the case of a general army, even if you go in and search, you may not be able to find the secret treasure room.

However, this time they met their opponent ...

Marin's previous life has watched a lot of TV series, and has seen many wonderful ways to hide the secret room. For example, the plot of Niujia Village ’s moving iron bowl in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", what is there to push the bookshelf, to turn the torch ... and there is even the plot of the Maokeng Chamber ...

Marin had a brain to tell these "experiences" to dozens of loyal and clever middle- and lower-ranking officers under his command, and let them follow the instructions to check those hundred-year-old clan. Sure enough, I found many secret rooms ...

What makes Marin cry is that there are really two families who set the secret room on the edge of the pit. Moreover, these two families who hide their homes in Maokeng's secret rooms are very thick. But now, it's Marin ...

There is also a family secret room that is also very cleverly disguised-their family treasure room, under the base of the statue of **** in the family hall ...

I have to say that the people in this family are very smart, because, at present, Europe is a place where Christianity dominates. Generally speaking, no one dared to mess with the image of Jesus. If known by the church, you will definitely be judged as a "heresy" ...

But it's so dead, the team leader who led the team once heard Marin tell the story of "Lian Cheng Jue". In "Lian Cheng Jue", the treasure is the big golden Buddha, and the secret treasure room under the golden Buddha lotus base ...

The small captain named Hans was surprised to see the head of the family sitting calmly in front of the icon of **** and praying. Then, he remembered the plot in "Lian Cheng Jue", so he guessed that the old man of this family cared so much about this statue of Jesus, would it not be a treasure hidden under it? Or, the idol itself is made of gold, with mud on the outside?

Then Hans stepped forward curiously and tapped the statue of Jesus. As a result, there is no metal echo, it seems to be a real stone statue ...

But at this moment, the old man who was sitting there praying was excited:

"Stop it! Are you going to blasphemy?"

Hans was taken aback, but then he was overjoyed. Because, Marin said before training them. When the owner of the other party is excited to prevent you from touching something, you must check it carefully. Moreover, this is "Liancheng Secrets" ...

So Hans stepped up and down to explore the statue of Jesus. Finally, he hugged the icon of **** and turned left and right to find the entrance to the treasure room ...

Seeing that the family treasure room was exposed, the old man fainted on the spot. And Hans also made people find a lot of gold and silver treasures from the treasure room ...

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When a box of gold and silver treasures was transported to the courtyard where Marin was located, Marin was stunned directly-is this the heritage of Siena for hundreds of years?

Then, Marin had a whimsy, and he also led people to search in the large courtyard he seized, and actually found a small secret room. Although only one box of silver coins was found, Marin was very happy.

Finally, according to statistics, the total value of gold and silver treasures searched from the big households in Siena City ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ is estimated to reach more than 1.5 million gold coins. As for copper coins, not many. After all, these large households don't use copper coins very much. But those civilians' homes may have more copper coins. However, Marin did not want to loot those civilians, so, in the case of only searching large and large households, copper coins were only worth more than one hundred thousand gold coins. But although the value is low, the total number is really a lot.

Marin was in a good mood. With a big wave of his hand, he directly asked his men to divide the copper coins. After all, he has already taken the big head, and he has to give the little head to make the soldiers happy ...

In addition to the cash of nearly 1 million coins snatched from the Siena Bank vault, this time looting Siena City, and then deducting the copper coins worth more than 100,000 gold coins distributed to the soldiers, Marin received a total of more than 230 worth The huge wealth of Wandukat gold coins.

Moreover, this is only the value of gold, silver and copper coins. And all kinds of artworks stolen from those large households are estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins ...

"Sent, sent, made a fortune ..."

Even if Marin's family was strong, he was stunned by the wealth in front of him. After all, most of his wealth is food, and he dare not cash it out. And the gold and silver treasures of Siena City piled up in front of him, blinding Marin's eyes ...