Chapter 519: Seeking in the Inner Room

According to the information, Zhao Yu knew that Pu Shougeng had three sons-in-law, and there were dozens of them in the side room. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info The eldest son Shiwen has some elegant atmosphere, Meng Yin conferred officials, and was ordered to visit the southeastern countries for the Quartet, and announced the will of Kublai Khan to all parties, so that the Central Plains has changed dynasties, and now the Mongols have become emperors, asking them to visit the new lord, send tribute, and at the same time can communicate with each other, and everyone does business together. At the same time, it is also a deterrent, if you don't come, it will be a rebellion, and the Great Khan will send troops to conscript. So it's also an official act. From this point of view, Pu Shougeng wants to train his eldest son to become an official, so as to rely on power to protect business and continue the prosperity of the family.

The second son is Shi Si, who is in charge of the private soldiers of Pufu, and also holds the official title of a volunteer soldier. After Pu Shougeng became the governor of Fujian, the family affairs were basically handed over to him to take care of. This person is insidious and cunning, ruthless in his work, if Quanzhou Bloody Night says that Pu Shougeng is the mastermind, then he is the executor. Think about the Quanzhou clan after all, they are royal descendants, and the Pu family has to respect them even if they are dissatisfied, and they are familiar with each other, and they do business together to make money. But it was Shi Si who broke the limbs of the captured clan one by one, tortured to death, but turned his face and did not recognize people, which is very in line with the nature of profiteers, and Pu Shougeng also cultivated it as a commercial successor.

The youngest son Junwen doesn't know whether he is low-key, or he doesn't like to be an official businessman, but he is like an idler at home, only hanging an idle job in the house, and outsiders know little about him. It is said that as early as they had just arrived in Quanzhou, they were hurriedly sent out of the city by Pu Shougeng. Others thought that Pu Shougeng was to prevent the city from being breached, and the family was baptized in blood before he wanted to leave a son to continue the incense. As for the children born to those concubines, they are either too young, or they have no interest, maybe they were divided into the mansion early after being pressed into the long house, and there are no outstanding talents, but they are all caught and waiting for questioning, and in the end they will inevitably die.

Now none of the descendants of the Pu family have been caught, the eldest is just going to sea, the second is obviously surrounded in the house but escaped unknowingly, and the third child was sent out of the city to hide in the manor or villa, and he can't find any trace of him for a while. Chop the grass without removing the roots, and the spring breeze blows and grows. And his family, with their amazing business acumen and extremely cumbersome connections, will re-emerge in just a few years, and will still be the enemy of the Great Song Dynasty. If you don't kill them, you won't be able to understand the hatred, and it will also leave a great trouble, at least it will make a big contribution to the financial revenue of the Yuan court......

"Chief Zheng, is there a clue about how Shi Si escaped!" As soon as Zheng Huchen came, Zhao Yu temporarily put down the work of signing and sealing, and summoned him to the inner room to ask. Look at it is also a pair of panda eyes, and know that it has also not slept all night.

"Your Majesty, my subordinates interrogated many servants and private soldiers in the Pufu last night, and got a clue to find the secret passage where Shi Si fled, but the secret passage was damaged in the middle and cannot be tracked!" Zheng Huchen replied.

"Oh, doesn't even Sun Shengfu know about this secret passage?" Zhao Hao asked a little surprised.

"I don't know, I don't know where the secret passage leads, and my subordinates don't look like they're lying!" Zheng Huchen said.

"Oh, this old ghost doesn't believe anyone!" Zhao Yu nodded and said, he knew that Zheng Huchen's sentence 'not like lying' was basically a foregone conclusion, but Sun Shengfu didn't know how much suffering he had to suffer.

"The subordinates suspect that there is probably more than one secret passage that only the Pu thieves know, and there are captured Pufu private soldiers who confessed that he had sent the killers recruited in the palace to the Qunfang Pavilion in the back garden before the inner mansion was breached, but they were not seen out. The subordinates checked, and there were no such people among the captured servants and the dead and wounded, and then led people to investigate, and sure enough, there was a secret passage leading to a silver building outside the mansion, but it was already empty! Zheng Huchen said.

"Three holes of cunning rabbits!" It is not uncommon for large families to have secret passages, but this Pu family obviously lacks a sense of security, and it must be the continuous construction of the left and right of the successive family owners, so that Sun Shengfu does not understand, this has caught up with the 'three fat' family, "The secret passage that Shi Si escaped from is only afraid that it also leads to the city, and the flood gates outside the city are guarded by people, and they can't escape." If you immediately mobilize people to uncover and dig up the secret tunnel, I don't believe that I can't find a hiding place! ”

"Your Majesty, my subordinates have also thought about it, but the amount of work is too large, the dark passage has collapsed more than ten zhang, and it is very narrow, only allowing single people to pass, and it will take more than a month to clean up. And the hateful thing is that this dark passage runs through the streets and alleys, and houses and courtyards have been built on it, and it is not easy to dig it up! Zheng Huchen said with a wry smile.

"That's miserable, don't talk about going out, even if you sleep, you have to keep one eye open!" Zhao Yu was immediately deflated when he heard this, in this era, there are no large machinery such as forklifts and hook machines, and there are also demolition houses, this workload is large enough, if there are a few forks in the middle, he will have to get the nickname of 'demolishing the whole city'. And he originally because as long as he surrounded all the Pu clan in the mansion and wiped out the family, those killers would have no money and no reward, so they would not risk their lives to find their own trouble. But now Shi Si, who has mastered the killer, has also run out, and he must have this money in his hand, otherwise he will die first.

"It's the incompetence of his subordinates, and he can't share his worries for His Majesty!" Zheng Huchen pleaded with the guilt, "The subordinates have already scattered nails all over Quanzhou City, as long as Shi Si does not go out of the city, he will be caught as soon as he shows up!" ”

"It's not that simple, Pu Shougeng has already calculated that our attack on Quanzhou this time is to get money, so we won't stay for a long time, so we have to take money to redeem our lives again and again. And Shi Si knew that we were looking for him everywhere, how could he be willing to show up, he only needed to hide for ten days and half a month with peace of mind, and he would be safe as soon as we left. So there's no need to waste manpower! Zhao Yu waved his hand and said.

"Your Majesty is right, if he doesn't move, we really can't find out his whereabouts!" Zheng Huchen thinks about it, there are tens of thousands of houses in Quanzhou City, and it is almost impossible to search carefully for each family in the current situation.

"Junwen has no whereabouts, he can't catch this, and he must not let him escape!" Is the arrester too big, Zhao Hao wondered if the little one could be caught?

"Your Majesty, that Junwen is the most unproductive of the Pu family, neither in power nor in wealth. Stuffed in the house all day long, only reading and painting for fun, there is no threat to us, the top priority is to focus on Shisi! Zheng Huchen said with some puzzlement.

"That's a mistake, I thought it was a big fish...... Zhao Yu waved his hand and said.

Zhao Hao then spoke out his suspicions. He thinks that with Pu Shougeng's cunning, he doesn't know how many secret passages have been repaired at home, and he will definitely have a back hand in his work, and Junwen is likely to be the shadow he laid down, which can also be said to be a spare tire. Of course, his suspicions are not all guesses, but because Pu Shougeng violated common sense and revealed too many abnormalities.

I think that when the Song army has just arrived in Quanzhou and has not yet completed the siege of the city, Pu Shougeng should have a chance to go out of the city. But he didn't leave, and he didn't let Shi Si, who was in charge of the Pu family's business and private army, go. If he had the confidence to hold the city at that time, and thought that he could wait until he instigated the capital to lead the troops to relieve the siege, why should he send a son out of the city! According to common sense, it must be in case the city is captured, and the Pu family can still leave incense to revive the family business. In the consideration of ordinary people, they should choose a shrewd and capable son to go, but Pu Shougeng instead let the Pu family be the most unproductive, and Junwen, who was regarded as a waste by outsiders, went out of the city first, which made some sense.

In this way, there is only one explanation that can make sense, that is, Junwen is not a waste as outsiders think, but should be the best of the brothers, Pu Shougeng hid it in order to wait for this day, as the hope of the Pu family's comeback, so he will first ensure that he is foolproof at the moment of crisis, and send him out of the city first.

In order to ensure Junwen's safety, Pu Shougeng attracted the attention of the Song army, and not only left Shisi, who was regarded as the successor of the Pu family's business empire, in the city, but even sacrificed his own life and gave up the last opportunity to escape from Pufu. In order to make people misunderstand that the Pu family no longer has the ability to resist, they admit their defeat. It can be said that Pu Shougeng's plan was perfect and meticulous, and at first blinded all the people and attracted their attention to Shi Si. But he met Zhao Hao, who also likes to keep his hands behind in doing things, and plans to strive for perfection, so that he can see the flaws through the layers of fog.

In addition, Zhao Yu also knows that modern rich people will not put their eggs in one basket when investing, so as to prevent the East from shining and the West from shining brightly, so as to prevent losing all their money once the investment fails. He lived in the present and the past, in this time of chaos, and navigation was a very high-risk industry, so he thought that Pu Shougeng would not concentrate all his belongings in one place, and must hide them in several places in case of accidents.

Therefore, Zhao Yu concluded that the Pu Mansion was not owned by the Pu family, and with his temperament, he would not hand over his property to others for safekeeping, and the only person he trusted most at the moment was his own son. He analyzed that he blocked the secret passage leading from Pufu to the outside of the city, and must have intercepted most of them in the mansion, and Shi Si must have taken some of them with him when he fled, one to ensure the necessities of life, and the other to pay the bounty of the killer. There is also a part that is definitely in the mastery of Junwen, and it must be the most part. If Zhao Yu goes to Tibet, it will never be less than 30% of all his assets, otherwise it will not be enough to support the Pu family's re-rise.

"Your Majesty is really quick-witted, and his subordinates can't figure out that Old Thief Pu has buried such a big nail even if he wants to break his head." Zheng Huchen sighed.

"It's not that I'm smart, it's just that you have too many things to think of this layer!" Although Zhao Yu said this, he was still very useful in his heart, and instead said, "The top priority is to find where Junwen fled and where to hide?" ”

"The subordinates thought that Junwen would not be able to escape!" Zheng Huchen pondered for a moment and said, "I don't know what the outcome of the war will be, so although I will choose to stay away from the battlefield, it will not be too far from Quanzhou; Second, for the convenience of care, the place of treasure will not be too far from Quanzhou; Third, this batch of property must be a lot, and it will not be easy for him to take it away if he wants to. ”

"Reliable!" Zhao Hao snapped his fingers and said, "I thought that he was mostly hiding in the Pu family's property, and he had to have a large enough place with convenient transportation. ”

"What Your Majesty said is exactly what your subordinates think, and this is the only place that meets these conditions!"

"That's right, it's Baojue Mountain!" Zhao Yu and Zheng Huchen both pointed their fingers to the same point on the map, and the two thought of another place.

Here is located in the southeast of Quanzhou ten miles, Pu Shou Geng and his brother Pu Shou Chen built Haiyun Tower, downstairs built a blue Wan Qing Pavilion, the bay below is the Pu family dedicated to Wumo Mountain, and there is a road, and in the nearby Yunlu Village also built a large manor, for them to live when they go out of the city. When Zhao Hao led his troops, he only blocked the port and dragged all their hundreds of large and small ships to the port south of the city to dock, and did not send troops to sweep the shore. Later, they suspected that they had a secret passage leading to this place, and they sent troops to monitor and find out what was going on, so they withdrew their troops after breaking through Pufu.

"This is really a place to hide, ten miles away just outside our camp guard, and not far from the enemy reinforcement camp besieging the east gate, once attacked, not only can we hide there, but also ask for reinforcements to rescue, and if we want to occupy it, we must use heavy troops." Zheng Huchen touched his beard and said.

"Do you want to make this fortune together?"

"Your Majesty, your subordinates are willing to serve, but what your subordinates can't collect, it's still your Majesty's use!" The two were thinking about how to capture Junwen, and the little emperor suddenly said with a grin. Zheng Huchen has also cooperated with His Majesty many times, and he understood his meaning as soon as he heard it, that is, he wanted to secretly take this wealth as private money.

"If you have wealth, everyone will send it together, how can I swallow it alone, the old rule is seventy percent to the inner treasury, and three percent to the affairs bureau." Zhao Yu said.

"After the move of the dynasty, His Majesty's expenses are increasing, and he has already sent a wealth to the Affairs Bureau before, but he doesn't dare to ask for it this time, how to do what His Majesty commands!" Zheng Huchen is also a sensible person, knowing that he can't be greedy and excessive, and he must stop in moderation, otherwise it will not be wealth, but a disaster.

"It's okay, I've been a little tight lately, so I'm welcome." Zhao Yu nodded with satisfaction and said, "You are responsible for this matter, use the manpower of the action team of the Affairs Bureau, and then let Zheng Yong bring the escorts to assist, pay attention to the secrecy, don't alarm them!" ”

"The subordinates understand, and they will definitely do it unknowingly, and no one will be alarmed." His Majesty's words were a pun, how could Zheng Huchen not understand, and immediately assured.

"Good!" Zhao Hao smiled like a flower, he thought that he wouldn't be able to catch much oil and water on this expedition, but he didn't expect Pu Lao Thief to prepare it, but he suddenly stopped laughing again, "Just talking about him, I almost forgot about business......

"Oh, what else does Your Majesty command?" Zheng Huchen complained bitterly in his heart when he heard this, His Majesty really treated himself as an outsider, and he only thought that he had few things, but he still gave a courtesy...... (To be continued.) )