Under the admiring gazes of everyone, Zou Run calmed down the two cows and found six more people. He explained the precautions for transferring the wounded with thousands of instructions until he saw these people holding torches and carrying stretchers, slowly Slowly disappearing into the distant night, he began to deal with other things with peace of mind.
Chen Xuan, who had been waiting for a long time, came forward. He first bowed solemnly to Zou Run and expressed his heartfelt respect for Zou Run's cherishing of me. Then he pulled Zou Run and Zou Yuan to a secluded place. Report important matters.
"The leader of the village, the second leader, Huang Zeli, turned out to be a weakling. Before I used any methods, the guy told me honestly. He said that his family had about 10,000 gold, silver and copper coins in total, and more than 4,000 rice and flour. Stone, five horses, ten cattle, and more than a hundred sheep. But..."
There was hesitation in Chen Xuan's tone.
Chen Xuan stopped talking when he heard the important point. This made Zou Yuan, who was listening anxiously, interrupted Chen Xuan's pause anxiously. "You're so hesitant? But what?"
"However, according to his confession, the cash hidden in his home is only about 5,000 guan, and the rest of the gold and silver are buried in..."
When Chen Xuan finished explaining the situation, Zou Yuan was so surprised that he almost bit his tongue, "Oh my god! Xedi is such a good business! Huang Zeli is so good at scraping the land! Xedi is a small village with only sixty or seventy households. People, he just scraped off tens of thousands of dollars of property..."
Zou Yuan lowered his voice subconsciously. He could not have imagined that a little-known seaside fishing village could squeeze out so much oil and water. This was beyond his imagination.
After listening, Zou Run also noticed something was wrong. In his memory, the average household property of an ordinary farmer in the late Northern Song Dynasty was only over one hundred guan, which also included fixed assets such as fields, and large livestock such as cattle.
Therefore, the average working capital of a household is only about 10 or 20 guan. If you work hard for a year, excluding the royal grain, national tax and personal expenses, you can probably save 78 guan. When converted into silver, it is only about 100 guan. Just five or six taels.
This means that even if the whole village does not eat or drink, and all the money they earn is handed over to Huang Zeli every year, he will still need to go without food or drink for nearly fifteen years to accumulate a fortune of tens of thousands.
Something's wrong! Not only was the amount of gold and silver unreasonable, but even the amount of grain and livestock was fishy. Why would Huang Zeli, an ordinary rich country man, hoard more than four thousand dan of grain? This is almost a year's ration for two hundred people. Could it be that he was so kind that he wanted to cover the entire village's rations? This unscientific!
After calming down, Zou Run realized the various doubts behind this series of numbers. He vaguely felt that they were very closely related to each other, until the corner of his eyes inadvertently passed by the corner of a warehouse.
What was piled in that corner was nothing but inconspicuous rough straw bags.
So many straw bags? What is this for?
Zou Run raised his legs and stepped into the warehouse. As soon as he entered the door, he smelled a strong salty smell. He couldn't help but cover his nose with his sleeves. Then he picked up the corner of a straw bag and felt a little tingly in his hand. Zou Run Run frowned and twirled it with his fingers, then brought his fingers to the tip of his nose to sniff.
The taste was very fishy, I stretched out my tongue and licked it, it was so salty...
There’s a clue! An idea suddenly came to Zou Run's mind, and he immediately ordered people to lift Huang Zeli to an empty room, and took Zou Yuan to interrogate him in person.
Seeing Huang Zeli, Zou Run decided to deceive him first.
"Mr. Huang, you are so calculating. Are you afraid of handing over the family property so neatly? Are you afraid of losing money? Or do you want to divert trouble to the east?"
Huang Zeli's eyes suddenly shrank in the darkness. He didn't expect that the thief chieftain in front of him was not only too young, but also too smart. He could detect the problem at a glance. However, he was not someone who could sit back and wait for death. Suddenly, His brain was spinning crazily, thinking hard about countermeasures.
In this way, after a long time, Huang Zeli forced a smile and said as if he had accepted his fate:
"Haha, Your Majesty, no matter how much property I have, I have to survive to enjoy it. Now my life is in your hands. I am only willing to hand over all my property in exchange for the lives of the whole family. This deal He was worthy of his duties, so the villain did not hide anything."
"If your Majesty doesn't believe it, just take a small boat and dig on the island I mentioned, and you will find out. But when you get the gold and silver, please be kind and spare the little man and his family."
"Hahaha!"
Hearing this, Zou Run was not in a hurry to answer, but just laughed suddenly. When he laughed, Zou Yuanwu on the side did not scratch his head, and his face was blank.
Huang Zeli, on the other hand, had something in his mind. When he heard the laughter, his face became uncertain, and his heart became even more anxious, fearing that his flaw would be discovered.
"Why...why is the king laughing?"
Seeing this, Zou Run became more and more sure of his thoughts, so he stopped laughing, and a rare sternness and ferocity appeared on his face.
"Mingren don't tell secret words, Mr. Huang, you must have known for a long time that I will not let you go? What's more, I killed the only son you had high hopes for in front of you. You hate me to death. It's too late, how could you tell the truth about your family history without even being forced to do so?"
Zou Run deliberately used the lie of killing Huang Cheng to stimulate Huang Zeli. When he saw the changing expressions on Huang Zeli's face, Zou Run felt reassured and then spoke his judgment with certainty.
"I only heard that the people in the village said that you are a gangster. Why did you become a philanthropic boy this time? If it is not as expected, the so-called money buried on the island is actually the money you used to buy and sell private salt. silver!"
"According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, those who cross the border to buy private salt exceeding one hundred and twenty kilograms will be sentenced to death by imprisonment in Yuanxijunzhou or even Salmon Island. In serious cases, they will be directly sentenced to death by hanging."
"With such a fatal crime and such an exciting wealth, as long as I get to the island by boat, the vicious group of private salt dealers on the island will definitely not let me go. The day I get to the island will definitely be the day I die. What I said Right or wrong? Rich Man Huang?"
Zou Run revealed the secret with one word, and Zou Yuan, who had been stunned for a long time, finally realized what he was doing, and he was immediately furious.
"Hiss! This plan is so vicious! Let me chop off your bird head and cut out your intestines to see what kind of poison is in your head and how many liters of poisonous water are in your stomach!"
Seeing that his plan to wipe out his family before his death was exposed, Huang Zeli could no longer conceal his inner resentment and hatred. He pointed his halberd at the two poles, looked crazy, and cursed desperately:
"You guys are a bunch of robbers who can't be killed and can't be cut into pieces! Kill my beloved son and take away my property. I won't let you go even if I'm a ghost! Don't be complacent. Although gold and silver are good, they are not like you. I can afford such a low life! The people standing behind me are all the most important officials in Dengzhou. They can crush you like ants with just a move of their little finger. Sooner or later, the army will kill you, and you will all suffer. Lingchi's punishment! You will all have your heads displayed in public! You will be quartered on five horses!"
With a bang, the extremely furious Zou Yuan drew his knife in his hand and was about to step forward to kill this guy, but was stopped by Zou Run.
"Why are you trying to stop me! Let me cut this guy to pieces with one knife first!"
"Uncle, please don't get angry. This guy is obviously irritating us. He just wants to die quickly. How can we give him an advantage like this? Uncle, please put away the knife. I have a good way to deal with this guy. I'll keep it until he suffers as much as possible." Yes."
It would be a waste to let Huang Zeli die at this moment. Zou Run persuaded Zou Yuan to put away the knife, and then asked someone to take him out to wait for the public trial. As for the threatening words from this guy's mouth, Zou Run secretly kept it in his heart and was always vigilant. If the private salt business wants to grow, local officials will definitely be involved. This is undeniable, but who will participate specifically? It's not something that a small character like Huang Zeli can know.
Youdao has an arrow on the string and has to be fired. Zou Run knew that now was not the time to care about these things, so he pulled Zou Yuan, who was still angry, outside.
