Chapter 44: Feudal Towns
"How is it different?"
Duan Canghai said: "Although everyone in the Rising Sun Dart Bureau is dead, the dart car is still there, but the goods in the car are gone, and nothing is left." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"The cargo flew?" Yang Ning frowned, and said softly: "This is strange, if you want to hijack the goods, just pull the car away, why do you still leave the dart car?" Could it be to exchange the goods for their own cars? Shaking his head, he said: "If you want to rob the darts, it is naturally a quick battle, the sooner the better, to re-move the goods, it takes a lot of time, can the robbers get into the water in their brains?" ”
"Oh, Shizi, what does it mean that your brain is in water?" Duan Canghai felt that this sentence was very fresh, and immediately humbly asked for advice.
Yang Ning glanced at him and said, "The brain is full of brains, after entering the water, the brains and water are mixed together and they are pasty, and after soaking for a long time, there will be no brains, don't you understand?" ”
Duan Canghai admired in his heart, the metaphor of the secret prince is really novel and interesting, but there is a strange thing in his heart, secretly thinking that the brain of the prince was not bright before, but this time it was to the point, and he could find the key in an instant, and this brain was much easier to use than ordinary people.
Since the prince returned to the house, it has been very different from before, and I wonder if it was because the prince was kidnapped once, and he was stimulated, but it made the prince smarter? If this is the case, then it is really a blessing in disguise, and bad things have become good things, in the dark, maybe it is the ancestors of Jinyi Hou and the Qi family who are blessing this son.
"Shizi is right, that's the problem." Duan Canghai said: "The dart car is still there, but the goods are all flying, which is really strange." He added: "Qi Feng has heard people talk about it, and many people still suspect that these two dart teams were robbed by the same group, but I think it should be impossible." ”
Yang Ning nodded and said: "The modus operandi is different, and this kind of big case, once one case is done, what you think of is to hide it immediately, and rarely think about continuing to do the second case." "I thought in my heart, the Four Seas Dart Bureau was killed, but the fate was not good, the Flying Cicada Secret Ninja didn't really want to rob the dart, and then the dart car disappeared, naturally the Flying Cicada Forbearance dealt with the aftermath, they were going to hunt down Xiao Guang, and naturally it was impossible to find trouble with the Rising Sun Dart Bureau.
I remember that when I left, the gray-robed elder was still fighting with the cicadas, but he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
Duan Canghai gave a thumbs up, "The prince hit the nail on the head. Then he said: "It's really strange now, so many people have died, although these two dart games are strong, but this time they will bleed heavily." ”
Yang Ning thought about the sentence "the goods flew", the light flashed in his mind, and the corners of his eyes jumped slightly.
In Yang Ning's view, there are only two possibilities, or the gang of robbers are worried that they will be chased by people to the clues, so they will shunt the goods, and the premise is that the goods are easy to handle, and they will not be delayed for too long.
However, even if the car is changed, the slightly smarter robbers will never delay at the scene of the incident, and will definitely pull the dart car away from the scene of the accident before changing cars.
In addition to this possibility, there is another possibility, which is really as Duan Canghai said, the goods will fly by themselves.
If it's just ordinary goods, of course, this is not possible, but if the goods are alive, of course you can move around on your own.
Thinking of this, Yang Ning's body shook slightly.
If this is the case, then it is very likely that the Rising Sun Dart Game is the one that is connected to Xiao Yishui, and Fluttershy is taken away from Huize City by the Rising Sun Dart Game.
Then the goods fly away, and there is a possibility.
Yang Ning's heart was beating hard, he hoped that his judgment was not wrong, and according to this, it is very likely that Fluttershy and the others were not sent to the capital, but had already escaped halfway.
He is both happy and worried, if someone kills the dart game in the middle of the game and saves Fluttershy's group of girls, it will naturally be the best outcome, but if it is just black and black, and Fluttershy has just left the tiger's mouth and entered the wolf's den, then the situation is still extremely dangerous, and it is better to be taken to the capital by the dart game.
The dart bureau takes Fluttershy to the capital, and with the help of the Hou Mansion's power, he secretly inquires, but he may not be able to find out Fluttershy's whereabouts, after all, the Rising Sun Dart game has been found in this short period of time, and it should not be too difficult to investigate Fluttershy in detail.
But if Fluttershy falls into the hands of another group, it won't be easy to find her.
"Lord Shizi, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Yang Ning's uncertain expression and strange expression, Duan Canghai naturally didn't know what Yang Ning was thinking, and became worried.
Yang Ning came back to his senses and said, "It's okay, I just want to see if anyone is coming over today." ”
Duan Canghai said: "The days that should have come have also come, and if anyone comes, it will only be from other places, and when the general comes out, there will be more people." ”
Yang Ning nodded and asked, "Where did Mr. Qiu go?" I haven't seen anyone for a long time, by the way, has he borrowed any silver? ”
"It is not difficult to borrow a few thousand taels of silver from a pawnshop as collateral."
Yang Ning let out an "oh", "Is it borrowing silver from the bank?" Second Uncle Duan, you said that our Hou Mansion is so big, and it can be regarded as a first-class wealthy family in Great Chu, how come it is that we don't even have enough silver? Even if you don't make a move for a while, you don't need to use the pawnshop as collateral to borrow money, right? ”
Duan Canghai said: "I don't know much about these things, but the rules of the money village are one or two pieces of silver, and there must be something to mortgage, let alone thousands of taels of silver." ”
"We don't know rich people in the Hou Mansion?" Yang Ning said: "The capital is the most prosperous place, there are so many princes and nobles, let's ..... We know some people too, right? ”
Duan Canghai shook his head and said: "There are naturally not a few people in Beijing who have a relationship with our Hou Mansion, but the old Hou Ye has made a rule that he must not have money dealings with any officials. ”
"Huh?" Yang Ningqi said: "There are still such rules? ”
"The prince didn't care about these things before, so he didn't know." Duan Canghai said: "The old marquis is upright, even if he is knighted, he is also honest and honest, according to what the old marquis said back then, if there is a financial exchange with anyone, there will be a relationship of interests, and it is inconvenient to do things." When the general was alive, he also strictly abided by the rules set by the old marquis, and did not have money dealings with princes and nobles. ”
Yang Ning sighed: "In this way, even if someone sends silver to honor the Hou Mansion, then it can't be taken?" ”
"That's nature." Duan Canghai said solemnly: "Not only that, the general is fighting on the front line, but the court has rewards, and the generals are all rewarded to their subordinates, and they never leave a penny." He added: "But the general is a marquis of a thousand households, starting from the old marquis, he has been given 3,000 fiefdoms, and there are hundreds of hectares of fertile land, so he can have no worries about food and clothing on weekdays." ”
"I'll rub!" Yang Ning couldn't help but be rude, "Three thousand feudal towns, hundreds of hectares of fertile land, can only be worry-free about food and clothing?" Second Uncle Duan, what are you kidding? ”
He saw that the Marquis of Jinyi was worried about a few thousand taels of silver, and he was puzzled, only thinking that the Hou Mansion was really poor, and then he knew that the economic resources of the Hou Mansion were really not weak.
With 3,000 fiefdoms, the annual income is bound to be expensive, plus hundreds of hectares of fertile land, although there are hundreds of people in the Hou Mansion, it is really easy to feed these people.
"No kidding." Duan Canghai knew that the prince didn't know anything about money, so he patiently explained: "Although our Hou Mansion has a lot of inputs, the expenses are also very large. ”
"Expenses?" Yang Ning said: "I don't see what expenses can be used to use so much silver." ”
Duan Canghai smiled bitterly: "The prince doesn't know, three thousand fiefdoms, hundreds of acres of fertile land, it sounds like a lot, but those who enter the Hou Mansion are very small. ”
"What does that mean?" Yang Ning frowned and said, "Is there still someone who snatches silver with a sword?" ”
"Not really." Duan Canghai lowered his voice: "The fiefdom of the Hou Mansion is in Jiangling, which is the ancestral land of the Qi family, and the old Hou also came out of Jiangling. The fiefdom is in the homeland, and the old marquis collects very little tax every year, so this entry is far less than that of other princes. Moreover, the tax of the fiefdom was set up by the old marquis when he was alive, and the income of 500 households was given to the third old lady's house. ”
Yang Ning suddenly realized at this time, no wonder Gu Qinghan and Chief Manager Qiu mentioned Jiangling's silver, it turned out to be the income of the fiefdom.
It's just that he didn't expect that out of the 3,000 feudal households, 500 households were transferred to the room of the third old lady, and it turned out that the room of the third old lady was actually supported by the Hou Mansion.
"Even if that's the case, there's no way there's not enough silver, right?"
Duan Canghai said softly: "The old marquis and the general are both benevolent people who value love and righteousness, they fight on the battlefield and treat their soldiers like brothers and sisters. Soldiers died on the front line, the court's pension has never been too much, the orphans and widows left behind are naturally miserable, the old marquis set a precedent when he was alive, many soldiers who died on the battlefield with him, the family is too poor, leaving the lonely old and weak to live, the Hou Mansion has to allocate silver every year, although it is not too much, but it can always let them live. The general also inherited the old marquis's method, the prince of the world, you calculate it yourself, in this way, how much more money can the Hou Mansion have? ”
Yang Ning was stunned, but he didn't expect such a play.
There are not a few soldiers who follow the two generations of Jinyi Hou to fight on the battlefield, even if only a small part needs help, it is a huge expense for the Hou Mansion.
"That..... The battle of Huaishui has been fought for so many years, with countless casualties, and the people who have died in the past few years have not been counted, right? Yang Ning said: "You won't have to help these people's families in the future, right?" ”
"If that's the case, it's not enough to have another 3,000 fiefdoms." Duan Canghai shook his head and said: "And if there are too many people, our Hou Mansion will help them one by one, I'm afraid some people will say that our Hou Mansion buys people's hearts, but it's not good." There weren't too many people who helped before, and someone in the court had already said about the general behind his back, but fortunately, the saint trusted the general, knowing that this was the old marquis's affection, and he just turned a blind eye. Lowered his voice, "This time the general passed away, and there was no will in the palace, but I am afraid that no one will think of the families of those soldiers who died in battle." ”
Only then did Yang Ning understand why the Hou Mansion's income was not thin, but the government bank was stretched, and it turned out to be such a thing in the middle.
However, it can also be seen that the two generations of Jinyi Marquis are deeply popular, and it is not accidental that the soldiers are willing to be born and die with them.
At this moment, I heard a voice outside: "Wuxiang Hou came to worship!" ”
In the middle of the voice, I saw that Manager Qiu suddenly appeared, hurriedly came to Yang Ning's side, and said in a low voice: "Shizi, Wuxianghou has arrived, this is the second time he has come, I am afraid that it is also to see you." ”
"Look at me?" Yang Ning frowned and said, "What do I have to look at?" ”
Mr. Qiu: "Wuxiang Hou is the future father-in-law of the prince, and you are his future son-in-law, knowing that you returned home safely, it is natural for you to come to visit." ”