Prioritizing matters, the most important thing for Zhao Zongwu at present is to find out the dark ghosts and determine the most basic guarantee for his safety. During this period, if he can get the opportunity to 'be promoted from the people to an official', even if the land of Liaoxi is really unable to return to the sky and fall into the hands of Jiannu in the future, then he can also go to the capital with his official to seek greater benefits!

But the premise of wanting to go to the capital to seek greater interests is that he, Zhao Zongwu, must be an official recognized by the imperial court!

If he didn't have this identity, then even if Zhao Zongwu went to the capital to seek development, then he didn't seem to have any other development channels except to worship the court.

But whether it is the Eunuch Party or the Donglin Party, Zhao Zongwu doesn't like it in his heart!

You can use it, but it's impossible to go to the door!

Of course, these are all things to consider in the future, and how to find out the dark ghosts and find out the root of the 'Liaoxi Illegal Salt Case' is the most important thing for Zhao Zongwu at present.

The most taboo thing to be a person is to eat in the bowl and look at the pot. This will not only blow up your appetite, but even affect the subsequent trend.

Although the specific identity of the person behind this scene is, Zhao Zongwu now at least understands that the object he tracked down before has a basis for judgment, and one thing that can be concluded is that his previous thoughts are correct!

After this has an overview of the fundamental problem, what Zhao Zongwu needs to do now is to continue to investigate!

But now what makes Zhao Zongwu feel confused is this, Xu Cat's line has actually been broken a long time ago, and others have been doing things in the name of Xu Catfish all these years, and they don't show the slightest flaw, which means that this is definitely not done by one person!

It seems that the question I thought about earlier is simple, and it seems that not only high-ranking officials in Guangning are involved in this 'Liaoning West Illicit Salt Case', but also officials from all over Liaoning! ’

If you want to build such a huge chain of interests, then this link is absolutely indispensable, and it must need the support of local officials, gentry, and merchants! ’

The more he thought about it, the more Zhao Zongwu felt that the hostile forces in front of him would be!

The decay of Liaodong recorded in the history books is already full of fog, even if the Wei Institute is corrupt in the last years of Wanli, it will not be crushed by Jiannu with a blow!

A relatively gaudy building on the outside doesn't seem to be so easy to be destroyed by a bang!

The defeat of either side is bound to start from internal disintegration, and the fundamental reason why the Ming Dynasty has lost so many available guarantees in Liaodong is still internal.

If it weren't for the internal problems, there would never have been such a quick reversal.

After all, the Ming Dynasty at the end of Wanli is still in the middle of the trend, even if there is corruption inside, but the hegemony of the Ming Dynasty is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!

If all these conjectures are true, then Zhao Zongwu can basically conclude that there is a force in Liaodong that has defected to Jiannu because of monetary interests!

They are a product between the Jiannu and the Eight Great Jin Merchants.

As the most powerful channel for the sale of stolen goods in Jiannu, the Eight Jin Merchants can be regarded as interpreting what is called the phenomenon of treason and slavery, enriching oneself and sacrificing the country!

'The land of Shanxi can basically be concluded to be the eight major Jin merchants and even the small Jin merchant groups in the meantime! This Jin merchant is famous for daring to give up everything for profit! ’

Through some existing basic information, what Zhao Zongwu wants to do is to basically sketch out a general range, and with such a range, then he basically has a rough judgment in his heart.

'Since the Jinyi Wei Secret Banner stationed in Liaodong wants to thoroughly investigate the 'Liaoxi Illegal Salt Case', who initiated this matter? If this was just an ordinary intelligence gathering, there would be no need to send so many valuable Dark Flag members!

But if it is important, why did more than 40 members of the Dark Banner die on the way to the secret investigation, but Han Hu, who is a hundred households of the Dark Flag, was not angry?

There are so many secrets hidden in this, I have to be careful!! ’

After having a basic judgment in his heart, he added more doubts in Zhao Zongwu's heart, because there were too many things that happened in this matter that could not stand scrutiny!

Zhao Zongwu didn't know who he could trust now!

Although looking at the account book in front of him, there were about 39,000 taels of flowing water recorded in it, and by observing Zhao Zongwu, he could clearly perceive that this was only one of the many account books!

This book contains more than 39,000,000 taels of silver, so if there are ten books, there will be 390,000 taels of silver alone!

For a Liaodong that only has 3 million taels of silver, there are 390,000 taels of hidden illicit salt trafficking, and even more so, this is just the skin of it!

Not to mention that there are still 18 10,000 taels of silver bills in Zhao Zongwu's arms, which adds up to 180,000 taels of silver, even if the storage fee is removed, there are still more than 17 taels of silver.

As an anonymous money ticket, whoever holds this money ticket can exchange it for silver taels without verifying their identity!

What kind of strong capital does this require to have such a level?

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Zongwu believes in his heart that the benefits of this 'Liaoxi Illicit Salt Case' are by no means a small number, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it has a million-level silver tael!

After all, selling illicit salt is already a huge profit, and there are more luxury goods in Jiannu, which is a lot of money to resell to Daming!

When the amount of silver reaches a certain amount, then it will show a tendency to make money, and many times the rich will become richer in such a situation!

As long as you don't go too far, then it's basically impossible to go bankrupt.

What's more, the groups that are qualified to be rich in Daming are also fixed, the right and officials are enduring groups, and the businessmen are stubble leeks!

Since the situation is not clear now, let's evacuate the place for the time being, and we must not be alarmed by this, and everything needs to be done carefully. ’

Zhao Zongwu knew very well in his heart that what he had to do next would be more difficult, but if he acted recklessly now, he would have nothing to gain except for increasing the difficulty of the problem!

Since we know this, it is better to stay away from this eye of the storm for the time being, and slowly explore what kind of situation exists from the perspective of a bystander!

Only by truly understanding what this eye of the storm is can we solve the problem at the root!

Thinking of this, Zhao Zongwu burned all the letters he picked up, and left the secret room with money tickets and account books.