Zi Hou, ahead is our Taicang’s silver vault, slow down and be careful of the steps ……”Jia Langzhong led Zhu Pingan to the front of the silver vault and turned around to remind Zhu Pingan to pay attention to his feet when going up the steps.
The location of the silver vault was about 50cm higher than the ground, this was for waterproofing considerations, on the other hand, it was also to make the view of the silver vault a little more open for monitoring.
The Silver Vault is actually divided into two parts: the Vault and the Silver Vault.
Outside the door of the vault and the silver vault, there are plaques with the words “Daming Jiajing Gold Vault” and “Daming Jiajing Silver Vault”.
It is heavily guarded.
Naked soldiers could be seen moving in and out, carrying silver.
“This silver warehouse and silver warehouse, is the most heavily guarded place in Taicang, in Taicang, only the treasury soldiers can touch the gold and silver, other people, even if it’s Zhang Guanku, is not allowed to touch even one or two pieces of silver. The day before yesterday, the saint decreed ‘allocate 200,000 taels to make Tao Tianshi perform the ceremony of Anshen at Jianyuanyue, Wudang Mountain’, and they are carrying this 200,000 taels of silver, loading the car and sending it to the inner palace.”
Walking onto the platform and standing outside the gates of the Taicang Silver Treasury, Jia Langzhong pointed to the treasury soldiers coming in and out and said to Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Pingan nodded, his eyes looking towards the Taicang Silver Vault.
The hall official who was supervising the treasury soldiers inside the gate saw Jia Langzhong and Zhu Pingan and hurriedly came over to salute.
“In Taicang, you are the ones with the most important responsibilities, you must not be lax, you are busy with your work, don’t worry about us.”Jia Langzhong waved his hand with a serious face, signalling that the hall officials did not need to salute, and hurriedly went back to their own work stations.
“My humble servant excuses himself.”
Hearing this, the hall official arched his hand and retreated, returning to inspect in front of the main gate.
“Zi Hou, please don’t be offended.”Jia Langzhong watched as the officer returned to his post and then turned to Zhu Pingan and explained, “The officer is responsible for supervising the treasury soldiers and preventing the treasury soldiers from entrapment and concealment, it is a matter of safety and security for the Taicang Silver Vaults, so not a single point can be sloppy.”
“How could that be, Lord Jia is loyal and strict in his duties, Ping An is too proud to sigh in admiration, how could he blame.”Zhu Pingan shook his head and slightly tugged at the corner of his lips.
“If everyone understands us like Lord Zhu, then our Taicang errand will be easy to handle.”Jia Langzhong said emotionally, listening to the words.
“Where where where ……”Zhu Pingan pulled the corner of his mouth.
At this time, there were about twenty or so treasury soldiers under the supervision of the hall officials, carrying Taicang’s silver treasury in and out, busy carrying the silver from the treasury to the outside of the treasury, weighing it, boxing it up, sealing it, and then loading it onto the vehicles that were escorting it to the inner treasury.
The scene was a bit spicy.
Treasury soldiers are young and strong men, about twenty or thirty years old, uniformly dressed in silver treasury clothes and trousers. The top is a coat with no sleeves, with the word “Taicang” written on it, and the bottom is a simple crotch trousers.
The two treasury soldiers worked together to carry out a box of silver from the silver treasury, weighing and recording the silver under the supervision of the official, then carrying it out of the treasury, affixing a seal, and placing it in a fixed position outside the treasury.
After moving this box of silver, the treasury soldiers returned to the silver vault again to carry the next box of silver.
Returning to the silver vault again, they would have to be inspected again, just as if they had just entered the vault.
Outside the main door of the silver vault, the treasury soldiers took off their clothes and went naked to the front of the hall to be inspected by the officer.
“Gah~Gah~”
The treasury soldier was naked in front of the hall official, squatted down his body, stretched his hands out straight, exposing his two ribs, and then slightly bent his legs and bounced twice, slapped his hands on top of his head, and loudly learnt to quack like a duck inside his mouth.
After these actions are done.
Then in turn forward, there is a bench in front of the Kubo in turn across the bench, mouth at the same time shouted “out”.
Through the above actions, to prove that their bodies, armpits, mouths, hands are not carrying silver.
Such a series of done, can be allowed to enter the silver vault by the hall officer.
After entering the silver vault, they changed into the uniform clothes and trousers of the silver vault, carried the silver again, and returned to the government vault after carrying the silver, but also went through a series of inspections as mentioned above.
In other words, every time they left the silver vault, they had to go through the above inspections, and only after they had finished carrying the silver and gone through the inspections could they put on their own clothes and go home from work.
“In Taicang only the treasury soldiers can touch the silver in the treasury, so undressing, shouting, stretching, clapping, squatting and jumping is to prevent the treasury soldiers from entrapping the silver, and to make sure that Taicang’s silver treasury doesn’t lose a single cent or millimetre of silver.”
Jia Langzhong explained to Zhu Pingan from the side.
Zhu Pingan nodded at the words.
In fact, in his heart, he was unimpressed.
If this could ensure that not a single cent or milliard of silver would be lost from the silver warehouse, then the biggest theft from the treasury in the Qing Dynasty hundreds of years later would not have happened.
Zhu Pingan in modern times, out of curiosity, seriously studied the Qing Dynasty treasury theft case, not to mention the other cats and dogs, alone the treasury soldiers this item has a lot of cats and dogs.
It seems that the inspection process of the treasury soldiers mentioned above was seamless and there was not a single loophole to be exploited, but in reality?
If these treasury soldiers really can’t get a bit of oil, then why are there hundreds of relations break their heads, sharpen their brains, send a large amount of silver, to compete for a treasury soldier position it, obviously there are holes in it.
Each phase of the treasury soldiers fifty people, every five years to rotate a batch.
These treasury soldiers are basically hereditary, have always been in this certain hereditary treasury soldier family circle scramble circulation.
And there is a very interesting thing is, when the treasury soldier rotation, whenever someone through the gift, fight relationship and other layers of competition, secretly set a treasury soldier position, they will spend a lot of money, hire several martial arts master as a bodyguard, inseparable, to defend them for a short period of time.
The reason is that every time a treasury soldier is rotated, he or she has to go through a dao dao session, where the minister in charge of the treasury, who is the highest leader of the Ministry of Revenue or the Taicang, conducts a dao dao session at the Ministry of Revenue to go through the process, and after the dao dao session is completed, the treasury soldier’s position is considered to be finalised.
If there is anyone in the dawning of the time late, or did not arrive, then this treasury soldier position will have to be replaced by someone else to do.
As for your previous connections and money, I’m sorry, but it can only be considered as being blown away by the gale.
Therefore, at this time, if there is that treasury soldier did not hire bodyguards to ensure that he or she is successful in the dawning, if other people know about it, then he or she will be kidnapped, or imprisoned, so that you can’t dawning, and then took your place.
So there must be a lot of grease in the treasurer’s position with such stiff competition.
It is.
There is a policy at the top and a plan at the bottom.
It seems that the Taicang silver warehouse on the library soldiers in and out of the library check strict, but for generations of reckless library soldiers, does not prevent them from stealing the library silver, their grandparents passed down the skills of stealing the library can still be effective in Taicang, and step by step to flourish.
In fact, they steal treasury silver is mainly human entrapment.
Kubing generations, these Kubing family children from childhood to exercise a unique set of skills to steal silver – “Valley Road to hide silver”.
That is, through the chrysanthemum to hide the Treasury silver, they grew up exercising this skill, first of all, with oil smeared on the eggs, stuffed chrysanthemums, running and walking jumping exercise, mastered, the eggs will be replaced by duck eggs, goose eggs, to the end of the 10-two weight of the iron pills, of course, at this time it is necessary to call the bladder of the props of a pig.
It is said that when the “Valley Road Hidden Silver” is achieved, ten smooth silver ingots can be carried at a time, adding up to one hundred taels of silver.
After standing there for a while, Zhu Pingan noticed that there were at least two treasury soldiers who had bulging abdomens and were walking in a somewhat awkward manner, and were probably “Gu Dao Hidden Silver” experts.
However, Zhu Pingan’s face remained unchanged and he did not make a sound.
Compared to the officials of the Taicang treasury, these treasury soldiers who stole silver through human entrapment are really nothing, at best they are small ants stealing wheat, not worth mentioning.
Hitting the grass will frighten the snake.
This kind of mistake of losing a lot of money for a small reason, Zhu Pingan would never do.
