According to the confession, a month ago, Zhao Bo had withdrawn hundreds of thousands of taels, or even more.
As for the assets, they amounted to even more: over a thousand properties, more than 100,000 acres of landholdings, over 500,000 bushels of grain, over thirty workshops and stores, and outstanding debts of 140,000 taels documented by IOUs. A rough estimate put the fixed assets at over two million taels.
However, these fixed assets were of no concern to those who ransacked the house.
Of course, not all were to be confiscated.
According to Ning Yuchan, who mentioned offhandedly, they would draw out two-tenths of the fixed property, with the bulk going to the Taoist Institute and the smaller share to the Government Office and county guard.
What concerned Xu Jin and other participants in the seizure were the cash assets.
Estimated at a hundred thousand taels.
This gave Xu Jin a bit of a surprise, as it was completely an unanticipated fortune, and a substantial one at that.
