Chapter 86 Wuhumen is rich
Taizhou Wuhumen Backyard
This is where the sect masters lived in all dynasties. Originally, the west wing was Wang Liuhuai's residence, but now he has become the sect master, so he simply moved to the Wuhu Escort Agency next door.
Gao Tai and Wei Xiaobao have been back to Wuhumen for more than half a month. In addition to the first ten days, Gao Tai was busy investigating Wuhumen's assets and related industries, he also went out several times. In recent days, he has started teaching the Five Tiger Soul Broken Spear and the self-created Black Tiger Fist in the sect, and ten-way bullet legs.
In less than three days, the disciples of the three generations learned it, and Gao Tai began to concentrate on teaching Wei Xiaobao's martial arts.
Although Wei Xiaobao does not have any advanced martial arts in the original work, it is not that he has poor qualifications, but that he is not keen on martial arts. In fact, Wei Xiaobao's qualifications and understanding are first-class, even superior.
Gao Tai first taught Wei Xiaobao how to stalk in the past two days. At first, Xiaobao was still crying for pain and fearing fatigue. When Gao Tai's whip hit him, he knew that he could not escape and could only grit his teeth and persevere.
Gao Tai set a study plan for Wei Xiaobao to practice basics in the morning, and learn Black Tiger Fist and joint recognition acupoints in the afternoon, but Wei Xiaobao is smart. After Gao Tai taught him, Xiaobao had already learned it at that time.
The day before yesterday, Gaotai felt that he had completely mastered the Five Tiger Sects, and finally copied the 64-way Five Tiger Breaked Sects into a knife score and handed it over to Wang Liuhuai.
Wang Liuhuai was immersed in the Five Tigers' Break Door Knife for his whole life. He knew how to practice brilliant moves by looking at the knife guide, and he didn't need Gao Tai to teach it.
Holding the knife note, Wang Liuhuai excitedly announced his retreat and hid in the backyard of the escort agency and stopped talking about the world.
After more than ten days of investigation and survey, Gao Tai had a clear judgment on the assets of Wuhumen, which had been operating in Taizhou for more than 50 years. He only had one impression, that is, he was quite rich.
There are only Wuhu Escort agencies that carry property in Taizhou and nearby areas, especially the business of following waterway cargo ships is endless. The Wuhu Escort Agency has a prosperous business, with five to six hundred to seven to eight hundred taels of silver every month.
Most of the disciples of the Wuhumen are engaged in business such as escorts, bodyguards, house guards, and house guards in the escorts, and their lives are acceptable.
If Mao Shiba hadn't been excluded by his master after killing someone, he wouldn't have become a thief in the Yangtze River.
Now the news that Gao Tai has become the leader of the Five Tiger Sect has not been heard. This is because the disciples of our sect deliberately did not say it, but more importantly, Gao Tai specifically instructed not to promote it. Therefore, the people and the government did not know that the anti-Qing faction Mao Shiba had become the leader of the Five Tigers' Broken Sect Sword.
Gao Tai was not afraid of being arrested by the government officials. Moreover, Gao Tai felt that even if the local government in Yangzhou knew about it, there were no masters in Jiangsu, and there was no threat to him at all.
Even if the imperial army came, it was difficult for me to do anything. I really mobilized the army and left. Wuhumen did not rebel. With the qualifications, connections and power of the Wuhumen, the local government had no choice but to do anything.
However, Gao Tai had other plans, so he was not ready to promote the news that he was the sect leader for the time being. Therefore, the sect leader of the Wuhu Sect was still the old sect leader Wang Liuhuai.
Without worries, Gao Tai was more focused on taking stock of his own assets.
In addition to the large investment of the Wuhu Escort Agency, Wuhumen also has more than 2,000 acres of high-quality paddy fields outside Taizhou City. In addition to expenses, there is also a profit of more than 1,000 taels of silver per year.
The rest are a grain store, a blacksmith shop and a tooth shop. With the income from the money placed in the stamps and the filial piety of the two or three nearby counties, all kinds of miscellaneous items are also earned four or five hundred taels per month.
Gao Tai calculated that the annual gross income of Wuhumen reached 14,000 taels of silver. Apart from eating, drinking, defecation and various expenses in the sect, it could also reach a net income of 8,000 taels.
The account book that Wang Liuhuai gave to Gao Tai clearly records that Yangzhou Xinhe Money House had 10,000 taels of silver in its own sect, and Jinling Huitong Money House had 50,000 taels of silver in its own sect. At the same time, he also quietly told Gao Tai that 50,000 taels of silver were buried underground in the backyard, which were all the assets of Wuhumen now.
Wang Liuhuai never married and had no children in his life. He did not value money. Gao Tai also believed his words, so he simply looked through the account book and thought about how to spend so much money.
In the past, Wuhumen used silver to pay no expense except for food and drink, and they just made some weapons and bought some precious medicinal materials.
Gao Tai was thinking about rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Han Dynasty, but he thought about using more than 100,000 yuan in deposits to the knife.
One hundred thousand taels of silver seemed like a huge sum of money, which was converted into hundreds of millions of yuan in later generations. However, it seemed like a drop in the bucket when it was used to the great cause of anti-Qing and restoring the Han Dynasty. Gao Tai could only plan slowly.
Gao Tai held the National Rescue Spike Association in Xi'an City in his last life, and later established the Wulin Tongmeng Association, and deeply understood that the gang is the gang.
The mixed gang will not get silver and mixed yarn? The basic foundation of Wuhumen is very stable. Gao Tai thought that as long as he gathered the Caogang, he could form a huge industrial chain of daily gold making money. At that time, there would be no worries about not having silver, but it would be difficult to earn hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year.
The Eight Banners of the Qing court are now busy enclosing land and slaves in northern provinces such as Zhili, and blocking the Zheng family in Taiwan. They have no energy or mind to manage the Jiangnan and northern forces. If the overall situation is unified decades later, the existence of the Wuhumen will be suppressed by the court.
Gao Tai first ordered people to buy hundreds of serfs under the age of 20 in the countryside of Taizhou and other places, and then added more than 200 teenagers from the tenants to the Wuhu Escort Agency and the fourth generation of disciples of the Wuhumen, allowing them to teach these children basic martial arts and train them to become local armed organizations of the Wuhumen in Taizhou.
Gao Tai felt that it would take as long as three years to train these children. When this group of children became famous, they would collect more children from the north. At a time, 10,000 or 20,000 or 30,000 disciples could still be trained. At that time, they would always be able to join the rebel army.
After making everything right, Xiaobao's martial arts gradually became more and more powerful.
This day was the second day of August. Gao Tai sat upright on the official hat chair in the courtyard and was drinking tea. Wei Xiaobao was practicing the 64 moves of the Five Tigers Broken Door Knife with a steel knife in the courtyard. However, his moves were immature and could not exert his real power.
After an hour, Wei Xiaobao stopped and adjusted his breathing, then put down his steel knife, and practiced the White Tiger Catching Hand, Black Tiger Fist, and Leg Bounce.
Gao Tai waited for Wei Xiaobao to finish practicing, but then stepped forward to point out his mistakes and omissions one by one, and then demonstrated and taught himself. Wei Xiaobao was smart and intelligent, and understood as soon as he heard it, and he corrected it when he took action again.
Gao Tai turned around and sat down, praising himself: "If the disciples of the Five Humen have the qualifications of Xiaobao, I can train hundreds of top-notch masters in the world in less than ten years!"
Gao Tai has also practiced the Five Tiger Breaking Sword recently, and he can feel that his martial arts skills are also improving. He knows that his upper limit should be inferior to Linghu Chong, who has lost his internal strength but has mastered Dugu Nine Swords, but there will be no big difference. The level of the master of the Deer and the Cauldron is still worse than that of the Swordsman, and his current strength should be above the second-rate in this world. Even if he is not as good as Chen Jinnan and others, he will not be inferior to first-class masters such as Fengjizhong and Li Xihua.
Gao Tai's current strength is among the upper reaches of the martial arts world. A few days ago, he also asked his uncle Wang Liuhuai about the methods of practicing internal skills.
Wang Liuhuai did not hide his own personal information. He spent two days passing on a not-so-high-level inner breath method that he had practiced for more than ten years to Gao Tai.
The Five Tiger Broken Sword Sword was lost a hundred years ago. Wang Liuhuai searched for many years before he got a book called "Yin Feng Claw" internal power.
According to Wang Liuhuai's many years of research, this martial art is a profound skill that practices the mutual progress of Yin and Cold internal strength and the excellent claw technique. However, somehow the claw technique has been lost, leaving only some superficial breathing methods and acupoint attack methods.
Wang Liuhuai studied hard and practiced for more than ten years. After taking countless detours, he only developed some shallow internal strength after suffering. He was not very powerful when he took action, so he had no use when fighting with Gao Tai before.
Gao Tai didn't dislike it. After all, the inheritance of internal strength is the foundation in the martial arts world. He had to be carefully taught by Wang Liuhuai, and Wang Liuhuai had many years of cultivation experience to help him. After practicing hard for more than ten days, he finally developed a wisp of inner breath true energy.
Gao Tai seemed to be teaching Wei Xiaobao to practice martial arts, but in fact he was sitting on a chair and regulating his breathing secretly to practice his internal skills. He knew that he had practiced too late. His body was thirty-five or six years old, and he was afraid that he would not be able to practice high-quality internal skills. However, Gao Tai almost reached the momentum of external swordsmanship. It was almost a fantasy to learn top martial arts. He dreamed in the daytime.
If Gao Tai wants to improve his martial arts, he can only grit his teeth and persevere and practice his internal skills. Even if the process is half the result with twice the effort, even if the final result is weak, Gao Tai dares not slacken at all, because he has gradually become a real martial arts fanatic.
He was already immersed in the feeling of becoming stronger, and it was like a wealthy mistress who kept getting money and was full of pleasure...
Chapter completed!