In the afternoon, a few people came from the machine factory, bringing gas and water pumps, as well as water pipes. After an hour of running the gas generator, the diesel engine finally started, and the pumping machine began to pump out the well water in a steady stream, directly into the moat.

In less than two hours, the water in the well was drained. Lou out of the swarthy bottom. Several police powerful flashlights shone to the bottom together, and the iron box that Gou Er sank on the night of D-day appeared in the light of the powerful flashlight. It was intact and sank to the bottom of the well.

"Catch it up!" Lin Baiguang said excitedly.

Wu Xiang agreed, and was about to climb down after loading the rope, but Mu Min stopped:

"After a while! Now that the water has just been drained, there is a high probability of a lack of oxygen underneath. ”

After waiting for a while, he hung the burning candle down and tried it again before he let the black go slip off the rope. Then an indigenous staff member went down to help tie the box with a rope buckle, and then hoisted it up little by little with a hand-cranked gourd.

The box was extremely heavy, and Lin Baiguang estimated that there were a lot of belongings inside, so the caretaker would pull up the people who went down first, so as not to drag the box down halfway - the underground place was so small that there was no place to hide, and it was necessary to harm his life.

Carefully along the way, he finally lifted the box, put it next to the well, and Lin Baiguang carefully inspected it - it was said to be an iron box, but it was actually hardwood clad with iron, and the outside of the box was intact. Even the hanging lock is good haode,

However, this box was soaked in water like this, and most of the contents were only gold and silver, and it could not have been a letter or something. Otherwise, it's strange if you don't soak it......

Thinking of this, he was slightly disappointed, although the treasure was good, it was not what he wanted.

That being said, let's get the box back first. The box was loaded into the car and pulled back.

The box was opened in the special room of the Internal Affairs Committee, Mu Min's curiosity was very heavy, and he had long wanted to see what this ancient treasure was, so he took a hammer to smash the lock three times and divided it by two, and opened the box to see that it was sealed well with oilcloth grease, and the box itself was also made very tightly, and it was lined with a thick layer of animal skin, which was thick and hard.

"It's a wolfskin." Mu Min has handled the case of illegal trade to protect animal leather, and he recognized it at a glance, "Isolated from cold and moisture, Gou Er is really careful." ”

Unwrapping the wolfskin, there was no box full of golden treasures, it was a bag of carefully sized packages with oiled paper, Mu Min was about to open it, Lin Baiguang suddenly stopped him:

"Don't tear it down."

“？” Mu Min was puzzled.

"It would be better to invite someone from the Planning Commission to be there." Lin Baiguang said, "There is a voucher for registration while opening the seal." ”

Mu Min was reminded by him before he remembered that there was no one else here except for her and Lin Baiguang, in case there was any incident in the future, wouldn't it be unclear.

"It's because I'm fast, and I should have smashed the lock after the people from the Planning Commission arrived."

"It's not a big problem, and it's too late now."

called the Planning Commission at the moment, and after a while, Sun Xiao came. He brought special documents for the inventory of the loot.

At the moment, the sealed haode oil paper packages were opened one by one, counted, counted, and took out all kinds of things, including gold ingots and silver ingots of different sizes, stacks of gold leaves, Spanish silver oceans wrapped in columns, all kinds of pure gold and inlaid jewelry, inlaid jewelry utensils and weapons - some with obvious exotic styles. Sun Xiao took pictures one by one, numbered, and registered.

There was a little water in the box, and there was some moisture, but the objects were very well preserved. This made Lin Baiguang feel a little relieved - even if there were paper documents, the loss should not be too great.

Cleaned all the way to Zuihou, there were two small iron boxes inside, this is a real iron box, the outside is wrapped and sealed with oilcloth for several layers, Lin Baiguang's heart moved-so pay attention to moisture-proof, ten ** is the paperwork.

Pry the box open, and the inside is wrapped in oiled paper. Lin Baiguang opened one of them, and a stack of envelopes of letters was found inside. He said excitedly:

"Found it!"

Sun Xiao and Mu Min both leaned over to look, Sun Xiao smiled and said: "It's so rare, I haven't seen you so excited about a box of gold, silver and jewelry, and a few letters have made you like this!" ”

"You don't understand this, a piece of paper is much more valuable than these chests of gold and silver treasures." Lin Baiguang patted the small iron box, "I dare to say that Gou Er would rather lose all the treasures here than lose this small box." ”

After the registration was completed, the gold and silver treasures were picked up and transported by the vehicle assigned by the Planning Commission, and the seized documents and materials were returned to the General Administration of Political Security. He summoned a few indigenous interns from the Directorate-General of Security to catalogue the documents.

In addition to the letters, there are many other important things, starting with a number of books. Lin Baiguang looked through it, but he didn't understand the style very well, so he decided to call Sun Xiao to help. Although the financial regulations are different in ancient and modern times, accountants are always more sensitive to numbers and structure.

Because there were too many things, I invited a few people who were good at ancient texts to help clean up. Lin Baiguang retrieved from the archives the documents on the situation of the Gou family that had been seized and interrogated after the extermination of Gou Jiazhuang, so as to check the name and identity of the letter.

Unfortunately, with the exception of some letters, most of the letters either did not have the upper and lower paragraphs, or were replaced by codes, either "Nanhai Kasa Weng" or "Qiongshan Yisuo", or "Zhimeitang", "Wu Zhixuan" and the like, and some simply had only one monogram. I really can't tell who is who, and after comparing it, I found that many names were also found in Gou Da's correspondence.

If only we could know who these names refer to - at least someone could send someone to inquire. Lin Baiguang estimated that judging from Gou Dagouer's activity ability, most of these people are in the area of Qiongzhou Mansion and Leizhou, and they will not go too far.

He ordered that the documents and materials seized by Gou Jiazhuang should also be transferred and analyzed together.

Lin Baiguang couldn't help much for the time being, he asked people to add calcium carbide lamps in the conference room, bring tea and food, and have enough ice. He himself studied the information he had in his office, trying to piece it together and find out the trajectory of Gou Er's activities in Qiongshan.

Every hour, he sent a correspondent to the conference room to inquire about the progress, and returned to always: "Nothing special has been discovered yet." ”

At ten o'clock in the evening, the first major discovery was finally made: Sun Xiao brought a ledger.

"If this booklet is thrown to Guangzhou, it is estimated that there will be an earthquake in the officialdom of Qiongzhou."

"What's good?"

"It's a bribe." Sun Xiao said, give him the account book.

It turned out to be an account book for giving favors and gifts, and it was the same thing as the "gift account" that the state and county officials had to bargain for when they handed over to their masters. It is nothing more than the information of various officialdom figures who need to be checked and the number of various rules and regulations given by the "three festivals". The Gou brothers did this kind of business, and they couldn't do it for long without the care of the government, even if there was no collusion, they had to do it as usual and buy peace.

Lin Baiguang took a rough look at it, there are five sets of teams in Lingao County, Chengmai County, Danzhou, Qiongshan County, and Qiongzhou Mansion in Hainan, as well as a list of all the officials in Xuwen County in Leizhou, each official has personal information such as place of origin, department name, and birthday, in addition to the officials themselves, as well as their family members and children. It is very well written. There are many changes in this ledger, and some people's names have been ticked off, and there is not only the time of resignation, but also the reason for resignation: promotion, resignation, transfer, death, crime, and so on.

At a cursory glance, the movements and bribe prices of local and surrounding officialdom between the first year of the Apocalypse and the seventh year of the Apocalypse are clear at a glance.

Above, the information of Wu Mingjin, Wu Ya and other major figures in the high-ranking officialdom is also readily available. There is also a feeding standard of three festivals and one life.

Lin Baiguang was not as excited as Sun Xiao, he had seen something similar to this before.

"No, because this is just the bottom book of the unspoken rules of officialdom." Lin Baiguang said, "Gifts such as three festivals and one longevity, ice and charcoal and two respects, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, were regarded as the legitimate income of officials, and the emperor Lao Tzu knew that the officials below had this - they couldn't make waves." To be the bottom book of real large bribes. ”

"I thought it was a ticking time bomb......

"It's nothing, it's useless." Lin Baiguang thought, but this thing is still very useful, at least it is a data sheet used in the officialdom. It is of great significance for intelligence personnel to enter the Ming officialdom in the future.

"Is there a book of genuine bribes?" Lin Baiguang is more concerned about this.

"It seems to be there, but it doesn't work. All with codes. Sun Xiao flipped out another booklet.

This is the real bribery account, a few years, months, and days, how much money and property are given to someone for something, what things are planned, and what the result is, which is clearly written. But the name of someone on it is all a code used when writing the letter. I can't tell who it is.

Lin Baiguang noticed that Zuihou once gave a bribe in April of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and Gou Er bribed someone and asked him to go to Wu Mingjin to tell him not to put his son Gou Chengxuan's cheating in the county school routine exam on the literary platform. thus preserving Xiucai's fame.

"It's a pity." Lin Baiguang studied it, "But judging from the things entrusted to them, these people should be officials - at least they are also people who are very close to officials. ”

"It's a pity that I don't know who it is, otherwise with this set of information, they would have to obediently listen to us."

"Hehe, it's not that simple." Lin Baiguang has been in the officialdom for many years, and he knows that this thing can be said to be useful or useless, it depends on the current situation at the time, "But we can use it, the key is to know who is who."

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