At this time, Zuo Liqiu seemed to suddenly have an idea, and said happily: "Brother Liu, the things placed in the main hall are already so valuable, so isn't his bank account really as valuable as a mountain of gold and a sea of gold? After a while, the bank room opened for sure. I need to take a look!"
Liu Haojia smiled, pointed at the things in the room and said, "That's not necessarily the case! I bet that there are hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in Qiu He's family's treasury, but I'm afraid there are more like these. thing!"
Zuo Liqiu was surprised when he heard this and said, "No way?"
Looking at Zuo Liqiu's surprised look, Liu Haojia explained: "There is an old saying that only three generations of officials know how to dress and eat! This Qiu He family has been rich for several generations, and there is a salt business. It can be said that they are making progress day by day. Gold! So what is the use of saving so much silver at home? The extra appearance is naturally used for enjoyment, and after enjoyment, he should buy some antiques and antiques. After all, the longer these things are kept, the more valuable they become! What’s more, the Qiu family Generations of people have been extremely wealthy, so naturally they want to pursue elegance, and naturally they want to buy more elegant things to highlight their status! Do you think that the Qiu family is like the rich people in the countryside, who can't help but throw a few in the cellar!"
The helpless thing Liu Haojia talks about is a kind of big silver ball specially made by rich people! The small ones weigh hundreds of kilograms, and the big ones weigh one thousand kilograms!
Since there were too few investment channels in ancient times, many landlords and wealthy families had accumulated a lot of money and could not spend it, and they were worried about being stolen! So they simply asked expert craftsmen to melt the silver into huge balls and hide them in the cellar!
These silver balls are extremely heavy and have no handles. If a thief comes, he can only look at the balls and sigh! Even if a bandit breaks into the house, the silver ball cannot be moved in his hurry! The silver ball didn't even have a handle, and it was extremely heavy and difficult to load and unload. It couldn't be transported without special tools and horses! Maybe when I return home with my officers and soldiers to counterattack, I'm afraid I'm still stuck in the cellar!
The two people were chatting, and a guard in Jinyi stepped forward with a happy face and said, "Sir, we found the Qiu family's bank vault!"
After hearing this, Zuo Liqiu immediately became interested and hurriedly said: "Go and have a look! Go and have a look!"
So the two of them went directly to the backyard with Jin Yiwei leading the way! There was a group of soldiers guarding the door of an inconspicuous warehouse! There was also a man dressed as a butler who was kneeling there and shivering. It seemed that he had pointed out where the bank was!
Liu Haojia directly ordered: "Open it and take a look, it will also give us a long experience!"
The lock had been opened before Liu Haojia arrived, but no one dared to move the door! Now that they had the order and they wanted to see it, they naturally opened the door quickly! But as soon as the door was opened, a guard in Jinyi said "Hey" and said: "Sir, there is something wrong with this door! I'm afraid the outside of the iron door is painted with wood-colored paint!"
After saying that, the Jin Yiwei knocked on the door with his finger. Sure enough, it was not a wooden sound! There was even a good guy who scraped the door twice with a knife. After hearing two "squeaking" sounds, the color inside was revealed. Sure enough, it was an iron door!
Liu Haojia was a little confused when he saw that the house was not big and did not look like a bank. Now that I saw the iron gate, I felt that I had found the right place, so I said directly: "Have you asked? What is the structure of this bank?"
Jin Yiwei kicked the butler who was kneeling beside him and said, "My lord, if you ask me something, please answer me quickly!"
The housekeeper trembled and said, "Let me tell you, this bank is actually divided into two floors! The upper house only contains some scattered silver for daily needs, and the real bank is below the ground! As for this The house and the bank below are all connected by steel plates, and molten iron is poured into the middle! Even the tiles on the roof are fake, and you can see the pieces of steel plates when you peel them off!"
Hearing these words, not only Liu Haojia and Zuo Liqiu were amazed, but even the Jin Yiwei's eyes shone, thinking about how much gold and silver there was inside the bank!
At this time, the door had been opened, and everyone gathered around Liu Haojia and stepped in! I saw that the room was full of shelves, with silver boxes stacked on top of each other! There is a large iron plate on the ground in the middle, which should be the door to the underground bank.
Liu Haojia raised his hand and pointed, and a Jin Yiwei immediately stepped forward to open a silver box, and sure enough, a thick layer of scattered silver was revealed inside! When the housekeeper saw this, he said: "This row of shelves
There are scattered pieces of silver on top, and the remainder every month must be cast into ingots and placed on the shelf at the other end! "
Jin Yiwei opened the boxes on other shelves, and sure enough, there were rows of ingots inside! Then I opened other boxes according to the butler's prompts, and sure enough I saw a lot of gold ingots and the like! Everyone's mouths were dry and their eyes were red!
After the inspection of the surrounding boxes was completed, everyone gathered around the iron plate in the middle of the ground. At this time, everyone discovered that the steel plate embedded in the ground was actually in the shape of a gate. There are actually two door knockers in the middle. Liu Haojia didn't need to ask, but a guard in Jinyi asked the housekeeper: "Old guy, how do you open this door?"
The housekeeper stepped forward and took off a hook with an iron chain from the walls on both sides, and hooked the two hooks to the door knocker! Then without his instructions, a Jin Yiwei ordered the soldiers to shake the winch in the corner. The iron plate slowly opened like a door, revealing a wide staircase! It seems that the real treasury is down there!
Seeing the depth of the corridor going down, Zuo Liqiu couldn't help but said to the housekeeper: "Is there any information from the agency down there? If we go down there and shoot thousands of arrows at once, wouldn't we all die in your hands!"
Hearing this, Liu Haojia smiled and said, "You have read too many stories! This kind of bank probably has people coming in every few days. What are you doing with so much agency information? Are you trying to trick yourself?" "
The butler nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right, that's right! This bank is used every day, and there is no mechanism at all!"
At this time, a soldier lit a torch and was about to go down, but the housekeeper touched the wall and activated some mechanism? The lights in the corridor actually lit up one after another, illuminating the entire steps! When everyone saw it, they praised the cleverness!
A guard in Jinyi went down first to investigate, and then shouted loudly from below: "Two adults, there is nothing going on below, you can come down now!"
After receiving the news, Liu Haojia led Zuo Liqiu and others down to the bank! After going up the long steps, when he stood firm, he realized that the underground space was really quite big! It's almost two hundred steps square! The surrounding walls shone faintly under the light. It seemed that the housekeeper was right. The surrounding walls were made of steel plates. The thieves couldn't dig in even if they wanted to dig tunnels!
