After the eldest young master Yu returned to the house, he went to see his father, the legendary master who fainted from vomiting blood and is still unconscious.
"Mr. Yu is not unconscious. He is sitting in the bedroom talking to his son. He looks very energetic and his face is very rosy. He does not look like someone who has vomited blood and is in a coma. Rather, he looks like he is in high spirits for a happy occasion. Cool."
Jin Yang described it to them with a puzzled look on his face.
Hearing this, Qingyan and Chou Chou raised their eyebrows at the same time and looked at each other.
Chou Chou also looked over with his spiritual consciousness to see what was going on.
Qingyan looked at Jin Yang and motioned for it to continue.
Jin Yang nodded and continued: "They are now keeping the servants away and have their confidants guard the door, not allowing anyone to come near.
oops! The hook behind the screen turned out to be a mechanism! Oops! The door to the darkroom is actually behind the toilet in the clean room! This is really unexpected. "
Qingyan and others twitched their lips. This was really unexpected. I had never heard of a darkroom being placed there. If you were going to the toilet, and a few people suddenly came out from behind, how embarrassing would it be?
Just listen to Jin Yang continue to say: "The father and son went in, there was a tunnel inside, hey, there is a stone door! Huh? My spiritual sense can't penetrate the stone door! There is a formation!
Yanyan, please wait while I study that formation first to see if I can crack it. This formation should be able to isolate spiritual consciousness, so it won’t be too difficult to crack. "
Chou Chou said from the side: "No wonder I didn't find this place when I was exploring the city before. It turns out that there is a formation. I didn't pay attention at the time and was fooled by this formation.
Jin Yang, please study first, don't rush to crack it, I will go in first to see what they are doing. If there are any experts around them, it will be easy to alert the snake. "
Jin Yang nodded obediently and only used his spiritual consciousness to test the formation without touching it.
Chou Chou's spiritual consciousness is much stronger than Jin Yang. If it twists its spiritual consciousness into one, the penetrating power will be several times stronger, and the formation will have no effect on it.
Of course, this also requires that the person setting up the formation is weaker than Chou Chou or on par with Chou Chou, otherwise it won't work.
Chou Chou continued: "There is also a tunnel behind the stone gate, and there is also a layer of bricks. The passage is very wide, and three people can walk side by side.
They now entered another door. Inside was a room, um... a space of almost 100 square meters. It was filled with boxes, and the boxes were full of silver, or official silver! "
"Cough cough cough~ cough cough cough~" Qingyan was listening while eating kebabs. When she heard this, she wanted to speak. As soon as she took a breath, she choked on the cumin powder and started coughing.
Chou Chou quickly stepped forward and patted her on the back. Huang Jin went to the table and poured her a glass of cold spring water. Jin Yang and Yuan Bao also came over and looked at her with concern.
Qingyan waved her hand to indicate that she was fine, took the cup from Huang Jin's hand, and drank several times of water before she felt better.
After she calmed down, she sat up straight and said to Chou Chou, "What's going on? Why is there official silver in it?"
It is normal to dig underground secret rooms to hide money. Many wealthy families do this to leave a way out for themselves and their descendants.
But what was inside was official silver, which was abnormal.
Thinking about the so-called Master Huang again, Qingyan had a guess.
"Isn't this a way to identify one's biological son as a trick played by those two old guys?
Let's not say whether the second young master is the biological son of Mr. Huang. If Guan Yin appears in the family, it is likely that they are conspiring with Mr. Huang.
Just talk about why the bank is so easy to steal. Even if it is a thief, it is impossible not to alert other people. The entire government cannot be involved.
It seems that they took advantage of the fact that the Yu family, a long-standing householder in Xiangzhou City, could have dug the tunnel directly to the bank. It is possible that the official banknotes were lost more than once.
I just don't know if those bandits are their accomplices, or if they got involved by mistake and took the blame for them. "
After Qingyan finished speaking, she looked at Chou Chou and asked: "Chou Chou, have all the official silver stolen by the bandits been recovered? How much is it approximately? Can you reconcile the lost money?"
"Let me take a look." Chou Chou nodded and looked at the vehicles returning for escort.
Before, I only briefly looked at the money on the cars, but I didn’t see the exact amount.
This turned out to be a good thing, and it really discovered the problem.
The first layer of those silver boxes contained good silver, but the lower layer was not at all. Except for the second layer, which was made of bricks wrapped with silver foil, the lower layer was just a pile of stones!
In this way, if you don't open the box and take out the layer of silver on top, you won't be able to see it with the naked eye.
It told Qingyan and others about this discovery, and Qingyan frowned, "Are they really a gang? They deliberately cover each other up like this, so that the eggs are not put in the same basket, so that even if one of them is caught, there will be no All the money will be found.
Perhaps this was a trap set by Mr. Huang and the Yu family for the bandits, deliberately letting them steal the fake money so that if they were caught, they would not be able to recover the money and would still be guilty of the crime. "
Jin Jin had other ideas, "It's also possible that they didn't know each other at all, but they just happened to have the same purpose, and they took action on the same day, one was an overt robbery, and the other was a covert robbery. Of course, there is another possibility. ."
Qingyan looked at Huang Jin, "What do you mean?"
Huang Jin continued: "It is very likely that the silver in the underground bank of the Yu family was not stolen in a day or two. Their tunnel could not have been completed in a day or two. If it was dug for this batch of disaster relief funds, then they would It takes the ability of a prophet.
No one can predict where a disaster will occur months or even years in advance, not even the Qintian Prison.
Moreover, Mr. Huang had an old relationship with Mr. Yu's family eighteen years ago. If he can give someone a concubine, he must have a good relationship.
Of course, I don’t know what Mr. Huang was like eighteen years ago. Maybe his family was not as good as the Yu family at that time. The purpose of giving away the concubine was to win over the Yu family.
But if it is true as the rumors say, and the concubine entered the Yu family while pregnant, then it is not a win-win, but an enmity.
So there is another possibility. Mr. Huang had a higher status than Mr. Yu back then. On the surface, he was giving away his concubine, but in fact, he was blatantly letting his son and his concubine be raised by the Yu family. He was giving some benefits to the Yu family, such as Some conveniences in business and so on.
Of course, it is also possible that Mr. Yu is Mr. Huang's confidant, and he is the nail that Mr. Huang arranged here.
After all, Mr. Yu is a businessman on the surface. He cannot be the real person behind the scenes. He can instigate a current official, or he is a high-level official who can be responsible for disaster relief. "
Qingyan concluded: "So the most likely thing is that the two parties collided by mistake. Mr. Huang and the Yu family wanted to make another fortune through disaster relief. When the bandit knew that there was such a large sum of money, he also I had the idea of this batch of money.
The money in the Yu family's underground bank may not necessarily be from this batch of disaster relief funds, or it may be only part of it, and the rest has been collected little by little over the years. "
Chou Chou nodded in agreement with Huang Jin and Qing Yan, and said to them: "Yes, there are old and new boxes containing silver. They don't seem to be made by the same batch. The official seal of the silver inside is not the only one. , as well as other state capitals.
It is very possible that Mr. Yu is a money bag for Mr. Huang, helping him make money, doing business to help him make money, and secretly helping him get the money whose origin cannot be explained.
This is not the only disaster in the south. There have been many floods before. This amount of money for disaster relief cannot be limited, and they cannot all be greedy. If they are all greedy, he will die soon. .
After working as an official for so many years, I should still be able to carry a full meal. Losing this disaster relief fund is a big deal. It is not as simple as being an official. It is possible to be beheaded directly.
But if he succeeds in disaster relief, he can be promoted to a higher position, and even if he gains some benefits from it, the emperor will not care too much and will continue to assign him to continue to be responsible for this. "
Qingyan understood what Chou Chou meant, but she was still a little confused, "If they are two groups of people, the bandits can be said to have collided by mistake, but how did they steal the money out of the bank smoothly?
And how was the silver exchanged? The silver was exchanged for stones. It couldn't be those bandits who exchanged it, right? Why bother hauling a pile of rocks all the way back to their own base camp?
And unless it had been exchanged before, this little time was not enough for them to go through all the trouble. After all, after discovering this, they had been under Chou Chou's nose and had no chance or time to exchange money. "
Chou Chou also fell into silence. He couldn't figure out where the leak was, unless there was a culprit among them.
If it was Mr. Huang who replaced the silver, and something happened to the silver in his hands, he would be the first to be involved.
Besides, where can he go? At least there isn't that much money in this underground bank, and it doesn't make sense. According to the amount brought back, the money in it shouldn't be just this, there should be more.
Moreover, a lot of the silver in the ground is somewhat weathered and faintly black.
Although it does not mean that the newly distributed disaster relief money must be brand new and shiny, but since it is allocated from the same batch, it must be the same.
It cannot be said that the money in the treasury is all kinds of money.
well? wrong! Qingyan thought again that they seemed to have heard from those people that the money was not allocated from the treasury, but was raised from Xiangyang and Fancheng.
In other words, if it is raised, it is not necessarily from official bank. It may also be raised from the private sector, mostly donated by some big merchants and big families.
Although it is temporarily placed in the government's treasury, it is not necessarily all official silver. After all, official silver is only circulated in the government and cannot be spent as ordinary silver.
At least it cannot be used by private merchants. What they use is silver that has been melted down by the government. Most of it is broken silver or has no mark on it.
This is also to distinguish the difference between the two. Once the official bank is stolen or robbed, clues can be quickly discovered as long as someone uses it.
Just like the banknotes in banks in later generations are numbered, if the bank is stolen, clues can be found based on the banknote number.
As long as criminals use these banknotes, they can follow the clues and find them. This is also a means of preventing theft.
In this case, Chou Chou said that the Yu family's underground bank was full of official silver. If the money was raised by the private sector, it would be impossible to exchange it for official silver, and it was not allocated by the imperial court.
It is very likely that Mr. Huang worked together to dig tunnels and stole the official silver over the years. It took me who knows how many years to accumulate these.
If a few are lost every time, it will indeed not be discovered for a while. Although it is recorded, it would be difficult to say if the person who made the record is also one of their own.
As long as you fill in more losses and stuff every time, just like the cashier and accountant are the same person, you can do whatever you want, and there is no way to check it.
Qingyan said to Chou Chou: "Chou Chou, take a look at the silver that the bandits took away. Is there any official seal on the surface layer of silver?"
Chou Chou nodded, and quickly withdrew his consciousness and said: "Some of them are there, some are not. They are some relatively scattered silver coins, and some irregular silver bars and silver cakes."
Qingyan: "It seems that those bandits have nothing to do with Mr. Huang and the Yu family. The money may have been transferred before it was collected or transported, or on the way there.
Since the bandits didn't have time to switch the money, they must not have hidden it. If the money was before it was shipped or was changed during transportation, then there would be someone else behind it. "
Sighing, Qingyan continued: "It seems that the bandits don't know that the silver they stole at such a huge risk is actually less than one percent of the real amount."
Although it is true that each box has one layer, compared with the real total amount, it is really not one percent.
Originally, they thought they had stolen tens of thousands taels, but in the end, what they actually got was probably less than a thousand taels. This was equivalent to accepting the money from selling cabbage and being charged with selling white powder.
Thinking of this, Qingyan felt a little pity for the bandits.
If the government cannot find out the whereabouts of the money, it is very likely that they will be charged with this crime, and they will be beheaded, or the lightest case will be exile.
Chou Chou: "You don't have to sympathize with those people. They all have lives on their hands. If they say they only rob money and don't hurt anyone, that means all the people they hurt before are dead. There is no proof.
Those who have escaped from them dare not say that they are cruel, for fear of being retaliated later. You should know that public opinion can be controlled.
As for the old, weak, women and children in the village, those old people are not good people. This robbery business is basically inherited from the ancestors. Except for the innocent children, everyone else knows about it. "
Qingyan nodded. In this case, the crime was deserved. She couldn't control those children so much. She couldn't pity the murderer's children and not let the murderer be brought to justice.
