There are many versions of the story about the Ye family's courtyard, among which the one Feng Qiuping said is only the one that has been widely circulated outside.

Some gossip can be circulated in Yanjing in various versions, which one is true, and no one can really determine this.

But Wu Jianguo also seems to know some news about this small courtyard, and the news he knows belongs to the one that no one outside knows.

The Ye family was originally doing business overseas, and it was rumored that it was in Nanyang, but in fact, Nanyang did not have a family surnamed Ye, and even if there were, the scale was not very large.

But when Ye Zhenghao returned to China, he was very generous, and he was able to gain a firm foothold in China in a short period of time, and a large part of the reason was also from the fact that after Ye Zhenghao returned to China, he provided a large amount of material support to the country.

Speaking of grain alone, the Ye family used foreign forces to import hundreds of tons of grain within a month.

At that time, these grains could be said to have helped the country overcome a huge difficulty, but later Wu Jianguo used the strength of his hands to investigate along this line, but found that this batch of grain could not find a source at all.

This is very strange, after all, hundreds of tons of grain are transported back at a time, which is not a small amount of hundreds of catties, and such a huge amount of grain is so large that people can't get rid of the provenance, which obviously has some unknown secrets.

Out of a sense of professionalism, Wu Jianguo even made a special trip to contact some overseas Chinese to help investigate where hundreds of tons of grain could be raised in the shortest possible time.

But the final result was a huge blow to Wu Jianguo.

These grains seem to appear out of thin air, no one knows where these things are transported from, even the ships that transport them are private ships, only Ye Zhenghao knows the sailing route of the ships, and the people on the ships don't know where these grains come from.

But fortunately, there is no problem with this batch of grain, and the crisis of the country has been solved, so this matter can only be stopped.

Wu Jianguo did not continue to investigate this matter, and even the leaders above told him that he hoped that this matter would end here, and there was no need to spend too much time on it.

Only then did Wu Jianguo understand that the leaders above did not trust the Ye family very much, and they were also suspicious, but there was no need to raise this suspicion at this time.

Later, Wu Jianguo was not idle, every time the Ye family had business dealings, he would make a special trip to arrange people for a detailed investigation, but the final results were still decent, and there was no problem with it.

didn't see any problems, but in the end he found that the Ye family's business had grown into a behemoth before he knew it.

Everything has become a foregone conclusion, even Wu Jianguo has always felt that this Ye family is not as simple as it seems, but he has never been able to grasp the evidence, just to say this, he is still a loser.

exhausted all means, but he was still defeated, but Mr. Lei was still by his side constantly comforting him and giving him ways to give him advice.

Everyone thought that Wu Jianguo had given up, and there was no need to chase after the Ye family's affairs anymore, but in fact, no one knew how much effort he had put in behind his back.

The hard work paid off, Wu Jianguo's efforts were not wasted after all, he investigated for ten years, and finally the overseas informant gave him an important clue.

It is said that at an auction abroad, traces of the Ye family were found.

It is said that this is not a strange thing, the Ye family itself is a big family with a bit of a family background, and it is not surprising that when others are still visiting department stores, they are already visiting auctions.

Who knew that the people of the Ye family went to the auction not to buy things at all, but to sell things!

After investigation, in just ten years, the Ye family sold antique cultural relics worth more than one billion yuan at auctions in various countries, and these cultural relics are not only domestic, but even a large part of them are some precious cultural relics abroad.

And the origin of these cultural relics remains to be investigated!

After all, even if the Ye family has a big business at home, it is impossible to include all the antiques and cultural relics of various countries in their own home.

After ten years of investigation, there was finally a hint of return, Wu Jianguo followed this line, rearranged the investigation, and even made a special trip to ask someone to check the ancestor of the Ye family.

After checking the time when the Ye family left the country, he finally understood where these things in the Ye family's hands came from.

Everything comes from the sea!

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea, the ancestors of the Ye family left the country with their families, went to the sea to make a living, and took advantage of the convenience in their hands to do a business without capital.

Seventy or eighty years ago, the Ye family was actually a group of pirates, although they would not land and rob the surrounding fishing villages, but the ships passing by at sea became the meat of their mouths.

In the earliest days, they grabbed some military ships from the sea, relying on fishing boats as cover, plus the group of people under them have been fishermen for generations, and their underwater skills are very good, and they even relied on some small fishing boats to sink I don't know how many warships.

But later, the warships were constantly updated, and the soldiers on the warships were carrying long guns and short cannons, but they were still wielding swords and shotguns, and it was obviously very difficult to deal with them, so they turned their attention to some merchant ships.

Over the decades, they have stored an unknown number of good things on an island overseas, and gold treasures are everywhere.

The period of unrest has passed, and steel ships are everywhere, even if they are merchant ships, as long as they do not stop, they have no way to intercept them.

At the beginning, they also had some means, deceiving some passing merchant ships, pretending to be some shipwrecked fishing boats, and after deceiving the boats, they secretly controlled these small and medium-sized merchant ships, but after a long time, almost no merchant ships in the surrounding waters would stop, even if they saw the wreckage of fishing boats and living people asking for help, these ships would not stop at all, and they would drive over directly.

Ye Zhenghao can see that they have come to the end of the pirate business, and the guns in their hands are not advanced equipment, compared with regular soldiers, they have no strength to deal with it at all, and if they continue in this industry, they will be wiped out one day sooner or later.

It is better to take advantage of the fact that there are still a lot of rare goods in hand, change careers to do serious business, exchange some gold bars for a few big ships, and have these goods and gold treasures in hand, and the descendants of the Ye family can be regarded as seeing the light.

Only then did Ye Zhenghao return to China with his wife, and began to concentrate on starting a business, with abundant funds in his hands, and with the support of the state, he really didn't have much effort to start a business.

For the goods purchased abroad, he basically didn't need the company to pay for them, but used the precious antiques in the nest to send them to the auction house, directly exchanged them for cash, disposed of these things in his hands, exchanged them for domestic goods in demand, pulled the whole ship back, and exchanged all these things for real money, and the Ye family also completely gained a foothold in Yanjing City.

The first half of Ye Zhenghao's life was smooth sailing, but this smooth day did not last long.

Ye Zhenghao, who was born as a pirate, still can't change his appearance after all, in terms of business, he doesn't have much experience himself, and he doesn't know how to cooperate with others, he just knows how to eat more and occupy more, what kind of business there is, and grab it as soon as possible, no matter whether he can do it or not, at least he has to take this business in his hands as soon as possible.

Until one day, Ye Zhenghao's hand finally touched the industry he shouldn't touch, which touched the interests of too many people, and even the country would have a lot of unpredictable accidents because of his actions.

It is mediocre not to be envied, but when a person is jealous of too many people, and no one wants to get close to him, then the problem must be in himself.

Originally, the large and small merchants who were not in his eyes were united in private, and they made up a sky-high price and invited the Taoist priests in the broken Taoist temple outside the city.

Many people don't understand, if they don't want to deal with the Ye family at this time, why do they want to find a Taoist priest, can a Taoist priest subdue Ye Zhenghao?

No one knows what the name of this Taoist priest is, but many people call him a crazy Taoist, because this person is crazy and crazy, and he spends most of his time resting in the dilapidated Taoist temple on the mountain.

But this crazy Taoist is still very famous in the next generation of mountains, and because he ate someone else's meal before, he promised that person one thing.

At first, the man didn't care much about what he said as a madman, but he didn't expect him to say casually that his eldest brother always bullied him, because the eldest brother was a butcher, and no one around dared to offend, and no one was willing to help him.

After more than half an hour, the man saw his eldest brother stumbling out of the house, kowtowing to him as if he was crazy, admitting his mistakes, and returning some of the things he had snatched from his house.

Everyone is curious if this crazy man really has some ability, but the crazy man doesn't want to talk about this matter, and the butcher who was cleaned up doesn't want to talk about it, but this incident has achieved the reputation of the crazy person.

The gang of people in Yanjing City were also sick and rushed to the doctor, they didn't think so much, so they pooled the money to find the crazy Taoist, and there was no guarantee whether they could succeed or not, but the crazy Taoist was not polite, and after knowing the cause of the matter, he only asked these bosses to renovate the Taoist temple on this mountain after the matter was completed, and he took over this matter.

Within a few days, the Ye family announced that they would re-bid for the few projects they had obtained before, no matter what the final bid was, even if it was a dollar, the Ye family would let these projects out.

No one knows what the crazy people have done, but I heard that from that day on, Ye Zhenghao moved out of the compound where he originally lived, and lived in the smallest courtyard of the mansion, without stepping out of the courtyard.

No one knows what happened that night, but Wu Jianguo asked someone to check on this madman, and heard that this madman surrendered early the next morning, saying that he had injured someone, and hoped that the state could give him the punishment he deserved.

Wu Jianguo deliberately met with the mad Taoist and wanted to ask him what he said to Ye Zhenghao and why Ye Zhenghao listened to him.

The crazy Taoist only showed a mouthful of yellow teeth in his mouth, and said with a smile: "I told him that he was too ugly to eat, and if he didn't spit it out, Lao Dao would reach out and help him dig it out!"

Wu Jianguo now thinks of the smile of the madman, and he still feels a chill down his spine, that kind of smile is almost the most terrifying smile he has ever seen in his life, there is no one.