The Qing Dynasty

Chapter 304 Yixin is missing

Li Yaoting reported, "Liu Zhigang and Zhou Zhan were extremely ruthless. They slaughtered people in both the Qing and Duan mansions, leaving no one alive. When our people arrived, they had already killed everyone in the two mansions."

"Where are Yixin and his son?"

When he heard that everyone in Prince Qing's palace had been killed, Teng Yuzhao couldn't help but get excited.

Teng Yuzao was most concerned about the life and death of Yixin and his son. It would be the best if these two were killed by Liu Zhigang and Zhou Zhan, saving him a lot of trouble.

"We didn't find Yixin and his son."

"He's missing."

"Our men searched the palace but couldn't find their bodies."

"did not find?"

Teng Yuzao was somewhat surprised by Li Yaoting's words.

"Could it be that Yixin was captured by Liu Zhigang, Zhou Zhan and others?"

However, this idea was immediately rejected by Teng Yuzhao. They went to Yixin's mansion with only two ideas in mind: one was for money, and the other was for revenge.

The same should be done to Zai Yi's palace, to retaliate against Zai Yi for letting them enter the capital. Now there is an imperial decree to wipe them out. It is already good enough that these people did not set fire to the capital and then loot in the chaos.

As for their arrest of Yixin, it was completely meaningless. If they wanted to kidnap Yixin and then threaten the court to stop suppressing the Boxer Rebellion, not only would they fail, but it would also backfire and instead invite attacks from the court and foreigners.

Moreover, this is completely contrary to their intention of hiding their identities and moving away.

Well, without Yixin's body, there is only one explanation: Yixin never lived in his palace at all.

It is even very likely that Yixin was worried about his safety and hid somewhere else.

It is even possible that there was a secret hiding place in Yixin's palace. When he discovered that Liu Zhigang, Zhou Zhan and others were attacking and looting the palace, he immediately hid in the hiding place and escaped the disaster.

Seeing that Teng Yuzao didn't say anything, Li Yaoting hurriedly said, "Marshal, although Yixin's body and no one alive were found in the palace, I have instructed that the security department is looking for cellars, secret rooms, and partition walls in the Qing Palace. They are not only looking for Yixin and his son, but also looking for the secret place where Yixin hid his money."

Hearing Li Yaoting talking about finding where Yixin's family hid the money, Teng Yuzao couldn't help but think that Li Yaoting had said so much but had never mentioned how much money was found in Yixin's house.

It seemed that Li Yaoting also sensed Teng Yuzhao's thoughts, and he reported without Teng Yuzhao asking.

"When we rushed into the palace, Liu Zhigang and his gang had already opened Yixin's silver vault. After we drove them away, we found more than three million taels of silver in the vault."

Li Yaoting said with some regret, "Because we chased them suddenly and attacked the palace decisively, Liu Zhigang and his gang had no choice but to flee in a hurry. Whole ingots of silver were scattered everywhere in the palace, but I estimate that they stole at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver."

Only three million taels of silver? This made Teng Yuzao a little disappointed.

However, Teng Yuzao immediately shook his head and said, "Yixin has been corrupt and selling official positions and titles for so many years, he definitely wouldn't have only had this little money."

"You did the right thing. You must search carefully in Yixin Mansion."

"What's the situation at Prince Zaiyi's mansion?"

Teng Yuzao turned the topic to Prince Duan's Mansion. Teng Yuzao thought that although Zai Yi's Prince Duan's Mansion's wealth could not compare to Yixin's Mansion, after all, as a Prince Duan, he had not held any prominent post before, and he had only been in office for a short time. However, although there would not be too much wealth, it would not be too little, and a few hundred thousand silver coins would not be a problem.

Unexpectedly, Li Yaoting's answer surprised Teng Yuzao.

"There are only over 800,000 taels of silver found in Prince Duan's mansion, but there are a lot of gold ingots, estimated to be 600,000 to 700,000 taels."

Six or seven hundred thousand taels of gold!

When Teng Yuzhao heard what Li Yaoting said, he was shocked. Six or seven hundred thousand taels of gold was a huge sum of money.

Around the Gengzi Year, the gold-silver price ratio was not 1:10 as in the Republic of China period. It had been rising from 1:5 in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. At this time, the domestic gold price had reached 1:25. In the few years after the Gengzi Year, the gold price soared all the way, reaching a peak of 1:35 at one point, and then slowly recovered to around 1:10 in the Republic of China period.

Teng Yuzhao couldn't help but secretly sigh in his heart that the family background of these old princes was so strong that one could not underestimate them.

Since Prince Duan's palace has such a strong and wealthy family background, the other princes must not be too bad either, which made him feel excited.

If he could get a large sum of money in the capital this time, it would be a huge help to him, so much so that it would greatly shorten the time it takes to accumulate development capital.

After instructing Li Yaoting to be careful and not to be careless, Teng Yuzhao returned to his courtyard.

While walking in the yard to enjoy the cool air, he was thinking about what happened today. After a while, he still felt a little worried, so he called Wei Jinghai again to ask about the situation of the coalition forces outside the city.

From what we learned from Wei Jinghai, the coalition forces were collecting the bodies. They were very quiet and only sent a small number of unarmed personnel, who were accompanied by a large group of civilians who were either hired or captured and were driving vehicles to collect the bodies.

The Americans and the British also sent people to deliver medicines, mainly aspirin, iodine and alcohol.

The Americans sent the largest amount of medicine, enough for more than 2,000 wounded soldiers, and they also promised to send more medicines as soon as possible.

The British had much less. The medicines they sent were only enough for more than 500 wounded soldiers, and they were also instructed that these medicines were only for British Marines.

Teng Yuzao believed that the Americans should be grateful to him. Not only Conger, but also Chaffee, the supreme commander of the US troops who followed the troops to attack the capital, should also be grateful to him at this moment. There is nothing wrong with sending more medicines.
Teng Yuzhao thought that there was nothing to worry about and was going to give Wei Jinghai some more instructions, but he didn't make the call in the end. After a quick wash, he went to bed with his clothes on.

Time flies, and more than twenty days have passed in the blink of an eye.

During these twenty days, just as Teng Yuzhao had expected, the coalition forces did not launch another attack, but instead shrank their troops into several groups and tightly defended their respective areas.

Among them, the Russians and Japanese had more troops, so the Russians moved their troops to the Lugezhuang area in the north of the city.

The Japanese were stationed in the south of the city, but had retreated across the canal.

The garrisons of other countries were all stationed in a small area centered on Xihongmen in the south of the city.

These coalition forces had one thing in common: they all dug a large number of trenches around their bases for defense.

Apart from sending out cavalry to carry out large-scale looting and hunting down the Boxers in the countryside, the coalition forces did not launch any further siege operations.

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