King Liqin was extremely aggrieved and furious.
Emperor Guang Dong was too ruthless!
But just as Li Shaoquan said, if he refused to surrender, he would be dead! His entire family would not have a good ending. If he surrendered, he might even have a good ending.
After hesitating for a while, King Liqin decided to give in.
"Forget it, money is just a worldly possession after all! If the emperor wants it, then give it all to him. Benwang will submit a memorial of apology and await the emperor's decision!”King Liqin sighed.
"Your Highness, this is definitely a wise move!”Li Shaoquan heaved a sigh of relief when he saw King Liqin yield.
After King Liqin compromised, Li Shaoquan followed suit and contacted the other princes, clearly telling them whether they wanted money or their lives.
If he wanted money, he would lose both. If he died, he could still protect himself and his family.
Under such circumstances, these kings would naturally make a wise choice.
Thus, the kings all submitted their pleas to the emperor of Guang Yue, pleading for punishment.
With these princes as the first example, the other nobles naturally followed suit.
No one was willing to die, and no one was willing to die with their family.
This allowed the Emperor of Guang Dong's plan to be implemented smoothly.
In just three days, the Emperor of Guang Dong had received the letters of apology from these princes and ministers.
"Very good, since they have all realized their mistakes. In that case, I won't kill them all. Send these people and their families to Fengtian! Within 20 years, you are not allowed to return to Beijing or enter the pass!”the emperor ordered.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Li Shaoquan replied.
"Minister Li, all the assets they left behind will be confiscated. This silver will be used as funds for the development of industry, transportation, education, science and technology, health care, and military. I will definitely not allow anyone to take it. Otherwise, I will definitely kill you!" Guang Zhou emperor reminded.
Li Shaoquan understood what the Emperor of Guang Dong meant, so he naturally expressed that he would take good care of the silver.
In fact, the Emperor of Guang Dong had been very ruthless recently, especially when he was dealing with the Banner People. Naturally, no one dared to reach out at this critical moment. Wasn't that courting death?
More than half of the nobles in Yanjing were forced to move outside the pass. The wealth they left behind ended up in the hands of the Emperor of Guang Dong.
This wealth did not enter the national treasury, but directly entered the internal treasury.
When money was needed, the emperor would directly allocate it from the treasury.
Of course, the prerequisite was that the officials of the Ming Empire had to be reorganized first. Otherwise, how much silver would they have left?
Li Shaoquan organized a team of people to count the assets left behind by these nobles.
One had to know that although the current Ming Empire was very poor. However, the poor were the ordinary people.
The ruling class was still very rich. The wealth accumulated by these nobles over the past two hundred years was not a small amount!
Just the wealth of King Liqin alone was over a hundred million taels of silver.
Although the other nobles could not compare to King Liqin, they were not much less.
Some were worth tens of millions of taels, while others were worth millions.
Adding all of them together, it was naturally a large number.
Li Shaoquan spent a whole month to calculate all these assets.
Excluding the houses, land, shops, and other real estate, he had obtained a total of 200 million taels of silver from the families of the nobles.
Of course, this was only a small part of it. What really took up the majority of the land was the land and shops.
Which of these nobles didn't have a few thousand acres or even tens of thousands of acres of land?
Many shops and houses in Yanjing and other big cities belonged to them.
The Emperor of Guang Dong ordered that some of the houses in Yan Jing be left as the offices of the various departments after the official system reform. The other houses and shops were all sold.
In this way, the emperor of Guang Dong had obtained a total of one billion taels of silver.
This did not include land. If the land was included, this number would probably double.
However, the Emperor did not intend to sell the land. He still had a great use for it.
"Emperor, all the silver has been deposited into the treasury and registered!”Li Shaoquan reported to the emperor.
"Very good. With so much silver, zhen will not be short of money anymore. Big Ming's various developments could finally be on the right track!”The emperor was very satisfied.
With so much money, it would not be a problem to develop industries, transportation, or armaments.
He wanted to see what the East Asian people would use to start a war with Da Ming!
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