The Rise of the European Emperor

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Siena's wealth is far beyond Marin's imagination. Before, the gold bricks, silver bars, gold coins, silver coins that Marin grabbed at the Bank of Siena, and the remaining copper coins that the soldiers couldn't finish were close to 1 million gold coins, which was about the same as Karamossi's estimate.

However, after sending people to rob the big households and shops in the whole city, Marin realized that the wealth of Siena Bank is not the big head of Siena City.

The Republic of Siena is a centuries-old commercial republic in Italy known for its trade and finance. Although it is not comparable to the annual revenue of the Republic of Venice, which is more than one million gold coins, there are many wealthy households in the city.

Moreover, in this era, European commercial tax was levied based on trade in kind. It had three professional terms, namely "pound tax", "ton tax" and "export tax". It is mainly the tax officer who collects corresponding taxes based on the quantity of goods and the estimated unit price. In addition to these taxes in kind, there is the "tithe" of the church.

However, in a financial city like Siena, the financial industry does not involve tax in kind. The "tithe tax" is also mainly aimed at the output per mu. Because private financial transactions cannot be monitored at all, and naturally there is no tax collection. Financiers open a few bills in private and complete the transaction. How do you monitor it? Therefore, Siena is so prosperous and rich, and the annual taxes add up to more than 300,000 gold coins. This is still due to the fact that it swallowed a lot of "tithes". But as far as the small state of the Republic of Siena is concerned, it is not short of money at all.

From those rich and powerful families, the soldiers carried out boxes full of gold and silver coins. Except for the church in the city, all the conspicuous buildings in the city were basically looted by the soldiers. Even the private houses of the bishops in the city were looted.

Unlike the teachings in other places, the Church of the Republic of Siena has long been separated from the Holy See. Although it is close to Rome, because of the dangerous terrain, the local government and churches don't care about the Holy See at all. Therefore, the Holy See never regards the priests of the Republic of Siena as its own. Since the citizens of Siena deprived the local bishop of the ruling power in 1167, the local church has been separated from the control of the Holy See. Therefore, before coming, Julius II said that the priests in Siena were just the scum of the church, as long as they were not killed, they could be disposed of at will.

Therefore, this time, Marin focused on the private houses of some local bishops and abbots, and indeed he brought out many boxes full of gold and silver.

For this looting, Marin also conducted special search training for some officers. For example, in those mansions, you have to push the bookshelves in the study, turn around the metal lamps, check if there is a pull ring under the bed...even, you have to search the toilet...

Then, the captains of the search team who got the true biography of Marin found many secret rooms and treasure chests...

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"Do not,

That is our family's hundreds of years of savings! "The patriarch of a banker family shouted excitedly when he saw more than a dozen treasure chests found in the secret room of the study!

This family has been confiscated in the bank with more than 200,000 gold coins in cash. Unexpectedly, there is still a similar amount of money hidden in the family. It's no wonder that people have opened a bank for hundreds of years, and it's normal for their families to be thicker. The family that opened the bank must have some backup, otherwise, it will be over if it is maliciously run over. Private banks are not like the Bank of China in the later generations of Huaxia. The Bank of China was run on and could mobilize funds from other branches. Or, simply let the above order a ban on the run. If you are more shameless, you can print more banknotes... Therefore, the National Bank will not collapse unless the regime is overthrown.

However, private banks are different. The foundation of the survival of private banks is reputation. Otherwise, no one will deposit money with you. Moreover, because of the long-term lending, the cash in the bank is often insufficient. As long as there was a run and the bankers couldn't afford to deal with it, the bank would fail. Therefore, a prudent banker will often leave some behind to avoid being plotted by competitors.

Therefore, in the private houses of more than a dozen bankers in the city, they basically keep some backup hands, usually hiding in their own homes. This is different from bank reserves and is a safeguard of last resort. In addition, there is some wealth accumulated by the family.

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Another point is that since the declaration of the Republic in 1167, the city of Siena has never been breached or looted. The only war with Florence in 1260 was won, and the biggest disaster was the Black Death in 1348.

However, the city of Siena has never been breached, so it can be said that it has been prosperous for hundreds of years. And most of the rich and powerful families in the city have hundreds of years of savings. Moreover, many families will build secret rooms to hide treasures. If it were an ordinary army, even if they went in and searched, they might not be able to find the treasure chamber.

However, this time they met their opponents...

Marin had watched a lot of TV series in his previous life, and he had seen many wonderful ways to hide secret rooms. For example, in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the plot of Niujia Village moving the iron bowl, the plot of pushing the bookshelf, the plot of turning the torch... and even the plot of the secret room in the pit...

Marin told these "experiences" to dozens of loyal and smart mid- and lower-level officers under his command, and asked them to follow the instructions to check those centuries-old clans. Sure enough, many secret rooms were found...

What makes Marin dumbfounded is that there are really two families who set up secret rooms beside the latrine. Moreover, these two families who hid their family properties in the secret room of the latrine have very strong family backgrounds. But now, it's all Marin's...

There is also a family's secret room that is also very cleverly disguised-the treasure secret room of their house, under the base of the statue of Jesus in the family hall...

I have to say that the people in this family are very smart, because the current Europe is a place where Christianity dominates. Generally speaking, no one would dare to mess with the statue of Jesus. If the church finds out, you will definitely be judged a "heretic"...

But it's so hard to die, the team leader who led the team had heard the story of "Liancheng Jue" told by Marin. In "Liancheng Jue", the treasure is the big golden Buddha, and the secret treasure room under the lotus base of the golden Buddha...

The team leader named Hans felt strange when he saw the head of the family sitting calmly praying in front of the icon of Jesus. Then, he remembered the plot in "Liancheng Jue", so he guessed—the dead old man, the head of the family, cared so much about the statue of Jesus, could it be that the treasure was hidden under the statue? Or is the idol itself made of gold with mud on the outside?

Then, Hans stepped forward curiously and knocked on the statue of Jesus with his hands. As a result, there was no metal echo, and it seemed to be a real stone statue...

But at this moment, the old man who was sitting there praying was excited:

"Stop! Are you blaspheming?"

Hans was taken aback for a moment, but then he was overjoyed. Because, Marin said when he trained them before. When the owner of the other party is excited not to let you touch something, you must check it out. Moreover, this is very "Liancheng Jue"...

So, Hans excitedly went up and down to grope for the statue of Jesus. In the end, he hugged the statue of Jesus, turned it left and right, and found the entrance to the hidden treasure room...

Seeing that the family treasure room was exposed, the old man fainted on the spot. And Hans also had a large amount of gold and silver treasures found in the treasure chamber...

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When boxes of gold and silver treasures were transported to the compound where Marin was, Marin was stunned—is this the centuries-old heritage of Siena?

Then, on a whim, Marin led people to search the large courtyard he seized, and found a small secret room. Although only a box of silver coins was found, Marin was very happy.

In the end, according to statistics, the total value of the gold and silver treasures seized from the wealthy families in Siena City is estimated to have reached more than 1.5 million gold coins. As for copper coins, there are not many. After all, these big families don't use copper coins very much. On the contrary, those common people's homes may have more copper coins. But Marin didn't want to loot those civilians, so when only the rich and powerful were searched, the copper coins were only worth more than 100,000 gold coins. But although the value is low, the total quantity is quite a lot.

Marin was in a good mood, and with a big wave of his hand, he asked his soldiers to divide up the copper coins. After all, he has already taken the big head, and he has to give the small head to make the soldiers happy...

In addition to the cash of nearly 1 million gold coins snatched from the Siena Bank vault, this time the city of Siena was looted, and after deducting the copper coins worth more than 100,000 gold coins distributed to the soldiers, Marin got a total of more than 230 worth Huge wealth of Wandukat gold coins.

Moreover, this is only the value of gold, silver and copper coins. And the various works of art snatched from the homes of those big families are estimated to be worth hundreds of thousands of gold coins...

"I made it, I made it, I made a fortune..."

Even though Marin's family was strong, he was stunned by the wealth in front of him. After all, most of the wealth in his hands is food, and he still dare not cash out all of it. And all the gold and silver treasures in Siena City were piled up in front of him, which blinded Marin's eyes...