Chapter 620 choked on the spot

Soon, under the leadership of Qiu Yue, they returned to the inner house and came to the inner study.

After finding the inlaid wainscoting, I found that it was seamless, and even if I looked closely, I couldn't see any flaws.

Looking back at Qiu Yue, however, she didn't know where the mechanism was opened.

Lin Xiao didn't bother to look for it, and immediately motioned to Shi Suo to find an axe, and quickly cut the wall of the board, revealing a hole.

Stone Lock volunteered, drew his pistol, and was the first to get in.

After entering the cave, just a few steps, there is an extremely narrow staircase under your feet, and slowly walk to the end, and sure enough, it is an underground secret room.

No one expected that in this secret room, they unexpectedly found the owner of this mansion - Zhai Dahu.

Shi Suo walked down the stairs, and as soon as he looked in, he found him slumped on a box, shivering......

This chamber is not too big, about the size of half a bedroom.

Leaning against the wall, the three mahogany low-leg cupboards are lined up, and there is a jar of water and a lot of dry food next to it.

When Zhai Dahu was escorted out, although he was not discouraged, he was so trembling that he couldn't stand.

He is such a local tyrant and inferior gentleman, usually in his own one-third of an acre of land, accustomed to being powerful and blessed, except for a little politeness to the officials and gentlemen in the county, he is simply the emperor of the soil, killing people and setting fires, bullying the good and tyrants, and he really doesn't blink an eye.

At this time, he was captured by life, and knew that it was hard stubble to come to the door, so he immediately vented his strength, and wanted to beg for a few words, but he couldn't say it in his throat.

Everyone originally thought that this local tyrant who colluded with the lake bandits and called for wind and rain in the county should be such a heroic figure, but now seeing him like this, they suddenly felt contempt.

Lin Xiao ordered two soldiers to drag people to the mass meeting, and he and Shi Suo brought a few fine people to smash the locks on the mahogany cabinet one by one.

Sure enough, it was full of books, contracts, and many letters, tied with strings.

Although these things are not money, since he has solemnly hidden them here, they must be very valuable.

However, this is not the place to tidy up, Lin Xiao decided to bring it back to the camp first, transport it to Yangzhou with the loot, and hand it over to Zhang Chenfeng to deal with.

On the other wall, there are several large boxes, and the stone lock is opened one by one.

Three of the boxes, neatly stacked, were dazzlingly bright gold ingots, estimated to be more than 10,000 taels.

The other boxes were full of jewelry, antiques and other valuables, among which Guang Lin Xiao recognized items such as mutton fat white jade, pearls, agate, and ivory.

There were a few things in it that attracted Lin Xiao's special attention.

In a box, there are several delicate and colorful coral trees.

Among these corals, there are purple-red, pink, and milky white like milk, but what surprised Lin Xiao the most was a blue coral with elegant colors.

Although Lin Xiao is not knowledgeable about corals, he has heard of them because he has served in the harbor all year round.

In this era, the collection of coral is small, it is still a symbol of wealth, and it is rare and expensive, almost only the princes and nobles, as well as a few wealthy businessmen and giants have the strength to collect, and it is difficult to see the shadow of ordinary people.

However, in later generations, most of the coral species are no longer rare.

Because everyone knows that its ingredient is only calcium carbonate, therefore, it is difficult to speculate the price to the sky, except as a decorative ornament, only some superstitious rich people in feng shui, will deliberately collect.

However, blue coral is different.

During his visit to the museum, he had heard that blue coral is found off the coast of Africa and is a very rare item, and it is said that it is almost impossible to collect it......

The second thing that aroused Lin Xiao's curiosity was a few mouthfuls of white cotton bags.

At first, he was still very confused.

Judging from the feel, what is contained inside is nothing more than flour and the like.

"It can't be heroin, right?"

He secretly laughed at himself, "As for hiding it so strictly? ”

However, when I opened it, it was a whole bag of fine salt that was crystal white and snow-white.

He was taken aback - how did such fine salt come from?

Immediately, his mind came to the layer of fine salt flowers that had been scraped on the wall of the brine pool in Hakukoma Field that day.

But, on second thought, this is unlikely, right?

These hundreds of catties of fine salt, all scraped by this method, how idle people can do it?

After thinking about it carefully, he suddenly remembered something.

When he was in Hangzhou, Li Tao said that in fact, there are also salt farms on the east coast of Zhejiang.

He roughly remembered that Li Tao had mentioned place names such as "Qingquan", "Changshan" and "Chuanshanchang", saying that these places were all salt farms of some scale in the Beilun area.

However, compared with the two Huai, there are very few tidal flats in eastern Zhejiang, and these few salt farms, after all, are too small, and their output is really a drop in the bucket for the huge demand of several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, in the open sea of the Zhoushan Islands, there are several small islands, all of which produce "tribute salt".

Among them, there is an island called Daishan, the boiled salt is white and fine, called "Daishan salt", which can be called the fine product of sea salt, since the Song Dynasty, it has been listed as tribute salt.

There is also an island called Xiangshan, where salt people have the craft of making fine salt in addition to boiling ordinary salt.

This kind of fine salt is called raw salt, and it is also one of the tribute salts, but the output is very small, it is said that every 100 catties of coarse salt can be processed to produce five catties of raw salt......

"This local tyrant dares to harbor anything that is forbidden,"

Looking at these things, Lin Xiao scolded in his heart, "It's so bold that it's boundless!" ”

These are nothing more than further proof that his accomplices are definitely outlaws, not to mention ordinary cargo ships, even tribute fleets, they dare to attack.

No wonder, the north-south traffic of the Grand Canal was in a semi-paralyzed state as early as more than ten years ago, and there is no doubt that this is one of the reasons for the accelerated demise of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

At that moment, Lin Xiao had an idea in his heart.

Pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud, it seems that the destruction of this person and the seizure of these letters and account books will not be of small help to eliminate all kinds of lake bandits and completely dredge the canal......

The fate of Zhai Dahu was decided.

At this moment, he was escorted to the stage and handed over to the masses for struggle and criticism, and the crowd under the stage let out bursts of angry shouts: "Kill him!" Kill him! ”

Obviously, the previous accusation played a role, and for a while, thousands of people in the audience were excited.

I don't know who got up, picked up a brick lump and threw it at him, this time, the scene immediately got out of control, and then there were more, fist-sized bricks and stones flying up to the stage.

Zhai Dahu, who was tied up like a zongzi, dodged left and right, but how could he dodge.

In this way, in a burst of noisy noise, the rampant Zhai Dahu was smashed on the head and broke the blood flow, and he choked on the spot.