Lin Hachiro himself is not greedy for money, but the backbone soldiers under his command do not have his noble integrity. One of the important reasons why they were able to follow the non-commissioned officers to fight was the lack of pay.

Te Niang's death will not be compensated!

Now that Binhaiguan has been broken, other people's debts can be realized. Brothers who died in battle can also be comforted. Should they be paid enough?

Looking at the soldiers left and right, Lin Hachiro felt a little tangled in his heart. He was worried that when he gave the money to these soldiers who were still working hard before, the soldiers would be satisfied and would no longer work so hard. They are all recruited peasants, who usually look dull, but in fact each has a peasant-style cleverness and cunning.

But if he doesn't send it now, so many people are looking at him eagerly. Their non-commissioned officers have lofty goals and ideals, and want to change the shogunate and make it rejuvenated. But the soldiers are not necessarily ah, it is only right and proper to be a soldier to get pay.

Confused, Lin Hachiro swept the wooden box in front of him. It is said that there are golden mountains and silver mountains in Binhaiguan, but the wooden boxes in the vault in front of you seem to be a bit small. He took two steps forward and checked again left and right.

"There is about 170,000 pounds of cash in the vault, please read it." The accountant sank, knowing that he had been discovered. Alcock's foot touched him a little, and he immediately spoke.

"So, there are other vaults?" Binhaiguan's treasury is a very secret existence, and Lin Hachilang is not aware of it.

In fact, there are four treasuries in the entire customs. In addition to the treasury for storing the latest tariffs, one is the loan repayment treasury, the other is the Sekiyu reserve treasury of the shogunate, and the other is the specialized treasury for foreign banks, foreign banks and commercial firms in Yokohama. .

Each is useful, each has its place.

"Yes, we need to go to the next level." The accountant is also a bright-eyed person. If he is not happy, how can he be a foreign accountant with an annual salary of 1,000 pounds.

"Go!" Although Lin Hachiro had some doubts in his heart, since he took the initiative to speak up, he didn't say much.

Soon the vault on the next floor was opened. It was the vault where the shogunate was kept, and there was much more money in this vault. And not only gold, but also silver. Many Mexican and American silver dollars, as well as Qing Dynasty silver collars, are stored here.

Foreigners are not stupid, paying with silver in Japan has certain advantages. Although it is not as exaggerated as rumored on the Internet in later generations, the size can always take advantage of it.

Therefore, Lin Hachiro, who did not complete the verification and did not come to the verification in a hurry, mistakenly thought that there was almost a million gold stored in the vault five or six times larger than the above. In fact, there is only Guan Yu worth less than 300,000 taels of gold in this vault.

With these two vaults, Lin Hachiro gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and immediately announced that he would vacate all the 170,000 in the first vault as a reward for the hundreds of people under his command. But instead of distributing it now, he asked each team to point out a soldier who was most trusted by everyone, and compiled more than twenty.

These people will take the money and transfer it to other places, and when the big event is completed, the money will be divided among their respective teams.

He tried to hang these soldiers in this way and continue to use them for him. Although the soldiers were a little anxious, after hearing that they were willing to share the money with them, their morale was barely maintained.

The first bank of 170,000 was almost finished. The first to hear the news, the other soldiers who flocked to the Binhai Customs Building also rushed over in a group.

Compared with Alcock, who is completely ignorant, many soldiers know Hayashi Hachiro and Takahashi Taro, who are quite popular among the soldiers. They are ordered to line up, then register their names, and then receive far more than they owe. large sums of money.

To put it bluntly, it is the name of the vote!

In the end, it may not necessarily be necessary to threaten them with this kind of thing, but just in case. Maybe in a few hours, the crowd who took the money and made a fuss was instigated by him and ran to Edo.

The gathered soldiers stood in twos and threes at the door and in the hall of the customs building. Some people were excited, some people looked around, and some people didn't know why.

Seeing more and more people coming, Lin Hachiro and Takahashi Taro became more and more excited. With thousands of miscellaneous soldiers under the cover, their plan is completely correct.

It's just that there were too many people, so naturally non-commissioned officers followed, and some people asked Lin Hachiro when he would be paid. As soon as the words came out, the crowd naturally shouted, and they had to share the money quickly.

It was also strange to say that hundreds of people did not ask Lin Hachiro where the money they were going to send came from. Some people know it well and pretend to be confused. Anyway, Lin Hachiro robbed the money, not him. So many people come to take it, and at most they just return it, and they can still use thousands of us for surgery?

Others are purely bold. I will take it if I take it. I even set the train station on fire just now, and now it is not a big deal to grab anything else. The big deal is tomorrow morning, if I lose my clothes, I will go directly to Ezo by boat. Just find a mine, and be a miner for three years, just change your identity and come back.

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"The last bus of the day didn't return to Edo on time?" Chuemon, who was already on duty, had already finished his dinner, and suddenly heard his subordinates reporting that Go Junzo asked for a visit.

"Yes, at 6:20, it was supposed to arrive at Nihonbashi, but the car didn't arrive." Go Junzo is the dispatcher of the main station. If the car at the station is not available, he must be responsible.

"Did you send a telegram to ask each station?" Chuemon nodded, but he didn't feel anything.

What's so strange about the late bus. Even the high-speed rail in the 21st century will still be delayed many times a year. Maybe something happened on the way.

"Nagoya, Okazaki, and Hamamatsu all reported on time that the trains started normally, but there was no news from Shunfu, Odawara, and Yokohama." Go Junzo apparently also thought that the car might have encountered something on the road.

"Then send a newspaper to ask." Chuemon thought to himself that since it was interrupted between Hamamatsu and Shunfu, maybe there was something wrong with the Oigawa Bridge?

"But a blank newspaper was sent at Yokohama Station after seven o'clock." This is the only strange place in Gojo.

"Blank newspaper?" Chuyouemon was stunned for a moment, thinking what a strange thing this is.

If you want to say that the car broke down in Yokohama, just say it directly. It's not a big deal. At most, it will be the early bus from Nihonbashi tomorrow. Send a few masters to repair it.

"Xiaguan sent a newspaper to ask, but he never returned." Xiang Chunzao was also strange.

"It's a rare thing..." Chuemon raised his eyes and looked out, and there was actually a light snow floating outside.