However, now that Empress Dowager He trusted Lu Feng unconditionally and Emperor Liu Bian was young and weak, the only person Huang Zhong could be loyal to was Lu Feng!
Lu Feng displayed his powerful martial strength, aura, and strategy, which convinced Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong's loyalty to Lu Feng had already increased to 90.
With such loyalty, Huang Zhong would not betray Lu Feng unless Lu Feng killed Empress Dowager He and Young Empress Liu Bian!
Lu Feng naturally wouldn't kill Young Emperor Liu Bian right now. He only wanted to use the Emperor to command the other princes.
If he wanted to usurp the throne, he had to wait until the world was wiped out!
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In the following period of time, the head of the palace, Shang Guan Fan Lihua, reported that there were palace maids reporting that the Ten Attendants had hidden a large number of treasures.
Now, the only way was to find Chief Eunuch Zhang Rang and find out the whereabouts of the treasure from him!
Lu Feng was very clear that in the future war, the fight was about money, so he could not let go of any gold, silver, or treasure!
Moreover, they were the Ten Attendants of the Great Eunuch who had controlled the Imperial Court for decades. How much wealth could they amass?
Think about the eunuch Liu Jin of the Ming Dynasty. How much money did a eunuch take? In 2001, the Asian Wall Street journal listed Liu Jin as the 50 richest people in the world in the past 1000 years.
Then, how much property did Liu Jin have and how much was his property converted into RMB?
According to Ji Shi Wen, written in the early years of Jiajing, Liu Jin's family property was " a total of 12,578,000 taels of gold and 259,583,800 taels of silver." In other words, there were 12,057,800 taels of gold and 259 million taels of silver. Liu Jin's family had hundreds of millions of taels of silver. It was unbelievable because the total amount of silver circulating in the entire society of Zhengde was less than 300 million taels.
According to the records of Zhao Yi, a historian of the Qing Dynasty, Liu Jin's house was raided after his failure. The amount of money confiscated was eighty bundles of jade belts, 2.5 million taels of gold, and more than 50 million taels of silver. He had countless treasures. The exchange rate of gold and silver in the Zhengde Dynasty was roughly 1:6. 2.5 million taels of gold could be exchanged for 15 million taels of silver. Liu Jin's assets were calculated in silver, which should be more than 65 million taels.
If we use Zhao Yi's record to convert, how much is 65 million taels worth? We will still convert it according to the purchasing power of rice. At that time, the price of rice was about 400 wen (about 0.4 taels of silver) per stone. 65 million taels of silver could buy 160 million stones of rice. A stone of rice in the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to about 150 catties of rice today. We calculated it at 4 RMB per catty of rice. It can be seen that a stone of rice =0.4 taels of silver =150 catties =600 RMB (applicable to the middle of the Ming Dynasty). In other words, if Liu Jin's assets were to be placed today, it would be about 96 billion RMB, which is a shocking astronomical figure.
Qin Hui, the great traitor of the Song Dynasty, had about 17.6 billion yuan in assets. Compared to Liu Jin, it paled in comparison!
In Liu Jin's era, the Ming government's total annual income was less than 30 million kilograms of rice, plus more than 3 million taels of silver. If all of it was converted into silver, it would be about 1000 taels. Liu Jin's personal wealth from corruption was actually six times the annual income of the Ming government.
And the Ten Attendants of the Imperial Court and the other eunuchs had controlled the internal court of the Eastern Han for so many years. The treasures they had accumulated might not be inferior to Liu Jin's!
It could even be said that their treasures were as rich as a country…
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