Part 2 The Elegant Career of a Corrupt Official Chapter 2137 Off-stage Trading
Of course, Zhao Xing knew that the situation was not right, his castle was tightly guarded, and usually only the side facing the dock was open, and someone wanted to sneak into the castle unless it was hidden in the cargo. Since the last thief appeared, Zhao Xing has cleaned up the dock workers again, but now this phenomenon still cannot be stopped, indicating that the management has not returned to normal, and this kind of thing happens frequently, which also means that he is being targeted.
Jin Fuji pointed to the cellar door again and asked, "Da Lang, do you want to open the door and have a look?" β
The door is said to be the cellar gate, but it is actually the door of the corridor on the first floor. Because there is a lot of rain in Hangzhou, in order to prevent rainwater from pouring in, this door is higher than the usual ground, with three huge steps. There is also no basement inside the door, and the ground level is even slightly higher than the outside. The rooms on this floor are all used as warehouses, and the three steps are the highest, and the height is just at the level of the surface of the cart, so that the goods on the cart can be moved directly into the house.
Because the house is filled with valuable goods, unlike the dock area on the east side, where the warehouse door is very large, this place was originally built as a house, and the corridor is a small room, each door is similar to the size of a residential door. However, the material of the gate is very hard, and it is made of African ebony.
Through Huang Xing's description, it can be speculated that those people originally slipped into the castle while lying in the cargo box, and planned to get out of the container at night and sneak into the secret place of the castle to hide, but he didn't expect that the door of the warehouse was really strong, and the tools in his hand could pry open the box and climb out of the box, but he was helpless against the strong door.
Zhao Xing stood at the door, still hesitating.
It stands to reason that just open the door. Catching the thief and interrogating him could find out the truth, but there was a faint uneasiness in his heart that made him afraid to open the door of the storeroom easily.
It's not that I'm afraid that I won't be able to control the thieves inside, but the identity of the thieves is too interesting.
Zhao Xing's cargo transportation is in strict accordance with the modern logistics standard process, who contrusts the goods, from which loach stack passes, all levels of loach stack must be marked on the kraft paper pasted on the box, under such a strict procedure, there are people who frequently want to mix into the castle, which can not help but make Zhao Xing consider the energy of the people behind the scenes.
The first time I infiltrated was to infiltrate through the docks. This person needs cover to get into the box, and at least one person needs to re-nail the box back. The identity of the former person was not clarified, and later Zhao Xing grouped the dock workers for quantitative management. Everyone needs to stamp their own stamp on the boxes they handle, so that by sneaking in from the docks the old way, they will find out who is covering. So they changed course, and this time they went straight to the shipper.
In ancient times, communication technology was backward, and the people behind the scenes could find a cargo person so quickly. Then he stole beams and pillars from the consignor, hid a person in a cargo box, and then transported it into Zhao Xing's warehouse. And it happens to be valuable cargo that does not need to be inspected at the dock - this degree. Can this kind of reflex be an ordinary person?
Ouchi of the Imperial Palace? Impossible, under the ancient traditional education, if the imperial court really did something, it would not be so obscene, as long as there was an edict, no one in the castle would bow to the imperial power. Be honest with your majesty. And this is the Song Dynasty after all. It is impossible for the imperial court to send people to infiltrate in a row without regard for face.
Zhao Xing wondered in his heart: Who am I targeting?
The shipper of African ivory must be the maritime merchants. Some of these ivory ivory have been bound into boxes directly on the coast of Africa, and the four corners of the boxes are sealed with iron bars with secret marks, and transported directly into the warehouse. Some were traded in the South China Sea, such as Vietnam. This box of goods from Fuzhou, it is the South China Sea toll paid by other maritime merchants to Zhao Xing, and the goods have been inspected before being packaged, but I don't know which link went wrong, and a person appeared in the inspected cargo box.
"Is there a vent in this room?" Zhao Xing asked.
Jin Fuji replied: "No, this room was originally designed according to the home, the size of a living room, but there is no ventilation duct in it, and there is no stove location, once the door is closed, it is difficult for snakes and insects to enter, because of this reason, those goods are stored in this house." β
Zhao Xing smiled, and smiled very kindly: "Take a few charcoal stoves, block all the cracks of the door, and pour soot into the cracks of the door, remember, it must be green furnace smoke, don't smoke the ivory in me." β
If the guy inside is from Fuzhou to board the ship, then as of today, he has been hiding in the cargo box for three days, eating, drinking, and sleeping in that narrow box, this perseverance alone is impressive, and the mastermind behind the training of such a person is not a simple person, Zhao Xing would rather not explore it himself.
"We are remembered by thieves", Jin Buji sighed while arranging people to pour cigarettes into the house: "Big official, only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves, open the door of the house, find out that person and ask, isn't it all clear?" β
Zhao Xing smiled: "Don't panic! We are very meticulous in our work, and he has left us many clues, but I can't get out of it now, but I will send someone to track it down, what a panic, he can't run. β
When Zhao Xing returned, the show had already been carried out to Xiuxiu and Cui Ning escaping from the palace. The two were talking in a ruined temple. Xiuxiu on the stage said: "Do you remember?" β
Cui Ning crossed his hands, and he only deserved it.
As soon as Zhao Xing sat down, Liao Xiaoxiao leaned close to Zhao Xing's ear and sang softly: "Do you remember?" β
Xiuxiu on the stage said: "Everyone cheered for you that day: a good couple!" How did you forget? β
Cui Ning deserves it again.
Liao Xiaoxiao sang softly and whispered: "Why did you forget?" How did you forget? How did you forget? β
Zhao Xing was surprised: "What forgot?" What did I forget? β
Xiuxiu on the stage said: It's like just waiting, why don't I be married to you tonight? I don't know what you think? β
Cui Ning said honestly: "How dare Liao Xiaoxiao scold: "Idiot!" "I don't know who she scolded.
Chen Yiyi listened to the whisper here and asked, "Who stays?" Watching the drama doesn't stop. I want to go back to the room and make trouble. β
On the stage, Xiuxiu said violently: "You don't know, I will get up and teach you badly, but how do you take me to my home, I will talk in the house tomorrow!" β
Cui Ning said: "Sue the little lady: If you want to be married to Cui Ning; Only one thing, it's hard to stay here......"
"Coward!" Chen Yiyi scolded in a low voice: "I think I ...... back then" She paused, glanced at Zhao Xing, and immediately shut up.
"Ahh β
"Go!" Chen Yiyi gritted his teeth and said, "I'm like you, a person without a dowry." My dowry is a fiefdom, I am the lord of Guangyuan, and the piece of Guangyuan belongs to me. β
There are many eunuchs present today, and Liao Xiaoxiao is bold. was not afraid that Chen Yiyi would make her unable to get off the stage, so she put her face against Zhao Xing, with a little bullying smile, and said softly: "It's different, the official loves me, although I don't have a dowry." But the official may have opened a few workshops and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars, and I don't have to worry about spending money in this life. Right? β
Hundreds of thousands of small money, Chen Yiyi didn't take it seriously. She was already quiet in the plot, so she didn't bother to argue with Liao Xiaoxiao.
Chen Yiyi is fascinated, it does not mean that other people are fascinated, some officials are still walking around, contacting each other, Zhao Xing has many people coming and going, and they all want to take this opportunity to talk to Zhao Xing. But I saw Liao Xiaoxiao's appearance. I feel embarrassed to come and disturb. Zhao Xing is also taking advantage of Liao's small cover to refuse some unwanted visits. But there were some people he didn't refuse, such as Jiao Touch.
Jiao Touch donated 500 yuan this year, bought an empty official title of undertaker, and he can be regarded as an official gentry, he has been in Fujian recently, this will, taking advantage of the cover of singing on the stage, he frequently signaled to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing knocked on the back of the chair, Liao Xiaoxiao sat up straight, dignified looking at the performance on the stage, Jiao Touch took the opportunity to approach and sat on an empty chair behind Zhao Xing.
"Bad news from the Changhua Army, do the officials know?" , Jiao Touch asked softly.
Zhao Xing nodded lightly: "Zhang Wan, the inspector of the Changhua Army, said: The new degraded officials have arrived, and he is afraid that those degraded officials will see the situation of the Changhua Army and go back to sue, so he plans to attack them, I asked him who they are, don't hurt the good people by mistake." β
Jiao Yan whispered: "My family's boat recently came back and told me that Zhang Wan had already done it, and the three degraded officials in the new place had already reported their illness and died. β
Zhao Xing didn't look back, he watched the performance on stage, his hand was gently beating on his thigh, Jiao couldn't see Zhao Xing's reaction, he whispered: "Why are so many degraded officials recovering and Zhang Wan's group of Changhua Army officials refuse to leave, what should I do?" β
Zhao Xing didn't look back, he watched the performance, and said softly: "It's different, Zhang Wan is a military attachΓ©, and he was degraded because of defeat, not because of party disputes, such a person may be difficult to return to the Central Plains for the rest of his life...... Besides, he didn't dare to go back, he knew too much, and he was afraid that after leaving the Changhua Army, we wouldn't let him go. Therefore, the three officials did not dare to reply. β
Jiao Yan whispered again: "I heard about Liu San, Zhang Wan and those people have earned a lot in recent years, will they be like Liu San?" β
Zhao Xing replied: "No! There are a total of several hundred households in the Changhua army, and there are only a few dozen people who can fight, and there are thousands of craftsmen in our shipyard, and thousands of people can't keep a good eye on dozens of people, so they will eat in vain.
I made an agreement with Zhang Wan and them, they worked for another three years, and I would help them exercise in the imperial court and give them a reduction in charge, and at that time, they would be allowed to go home with money. For three years, they waited for it. β
Jiao Touch sighed softly, looked at the widow's dormitory halfway up the hill, and asked worriedly: "With so many people here today, that dormitory will be fine, right?" β
This, Zhao Xing didn't want to answer. He hummed along with the actor's performance, and after waiting for a while, he asked Liao Xiaoxiao: "What is the name of that Xiuxiu on the stage?" β
Liao Xiaoxiao understood what Zhao Xing was saying, and at this time, Zhao Xing needed her to lean in and scare off others with an intimate gesture, so she hurriedly approached Zhao Xing and whispered, "Her name is Zhan Qinqin." Why, the officials have taken a fancy to her, isn't she a brilliant woman...... The old man was gone. Liao Xiaoxiao's last sentence refers to Jiao Touch.
During Zhao Xing's trip to sea, Jiao Touch helped preside over the counterfeit currency market, and later he felt that when he was older, his son could do it, so he asked to return to Fuzhou and enjoy happiness by his son's side. This time he came because Zhao Xing went to sea in front of him to form the Nanyang Alliance, and the momentum was very big, but there was no business for him, so he took advantage of the Changhua Army to probe his breath, and Zhao Xing meant that since he had retired, the less he knew, the more he was protected.
For example, his counterfeit coin yard has now been moved to Tamna Island, and the factory in the cave has been turned into an artillery research center, which specializes in using the humid environment in the cave to prepare gunpowder, which cannot be told to Jiao Touch.
Jiao touched before leaving, Yang Zuren finally couldn't bear it anymore, he didn't care about how Liao Xiaoxiao made a general affectionate gesture, came to Zhao Xing's side, and sat on the empty chair: "Leave people, my lady likes the gift you give me very much, thank you." β
Zhao Xing listened to the other party's lack of words, smiled slightly, Liao Xiaoxiao immediately sat upright, pretending to listen to the drama with all his heart, Zhao Xing said haha: "It's good if you like it, Brother Yang, thank you for the news, in the future, our two families will come and go often, and ask your family to move around more." β
Yang Zuren smiled, and after a while, he said sarcastically: "I heard that Lord Fuzun is still planning to dredge the West Lake, and there is a lot of discussion in the transfer department, and you need to be careful when you leave the brother." β
Zhao Xing faintly heard that the Liangzhejiang Road Transit Division was very dissatisfied with Su Shi's behavior, this Su bachelor used tens of thousands of yuan to build a dike that would not collapse for a thousand years, completely solved the problem of flooding of the Qiantang River, and made the follow-up officials never use the way to repair the embankment to eat kickbacks, this kind of disregard for the rules of officialdom made the Liangzhejiang Road officials hate itchy, but they really can't help it. Because Su Shi didn't ask them for money.
Now I heard that under the operation of Zhao Xing, Su Shi planned to add another 200,000 stone of grain after dredging the two rivers, not only to dredge the West Lake, but also to mobilize 200,000 people to let them renovate the roads in Hangzhou...... This achievement made the officials of Liangzhejiang Road completely desperate.
Throughout the ages, with 100,000 yuan and 200,000 stone grains to build a thousand-year-old West Lake, only Su Dongpo alone, who can surpass such a political achievement, and in the future, do such a project near Liangzhejiang Road, how to do it, how much money should be declared? This simply made it impossible for officials to live.
Yang Zuren didn't look at Zhao Xing at all when he spoke, he watched the performance on stage, Zhao Xing also watched the performance on the stage, his left hand was still beating on his knee, after listening to Yang Zuren's narration, he grabbed a thing around him with his right hand, stuffed it into Yang Zuren's hand, and then high-fived and praised the performance on the stage: "Singing is so good!" β
Yang Zuren glanced down, and Zhao Xing handed over a white porcelain teapot from the Dingyao. This white porcelain pot is not much bigger than the palm, the white body is thin, the buckle is made of gold and stone, there are tear stains on the glaze, and the brush filament marks can be seen in the thin glaze.
Yang Zuren was startled, and hurriedly lowered his sleeves to cover the white porcelain pot. Dingyao white porcelain was born in 1088, it is one of the four official kilns of the Song Dynasty, this kind of porcelain fired with old soil, the porcelain surface is uniform like a piece of white jade. Due to the novelty of this kind of porcelain pot, most of them exist as tribute, and rarely flow into the people. But Zhao Xing had one in his hand.
Just now Zhao Xing was holding this small pot, smacking the spout, drinking the tea inside, the white porcelain was dazzling, Yang Zuren always wanted to ask the other party how to get this kind of white porcelain with a price higher than gold, but he didn't expect to say a few words, and the other party stuffed the teapot into his hand.
This is a thank-you, thank you for telling Zhao Xing some inside information privately. He was also a bribe, but no one could refuse it.
"I heard that Brother Yang has been in the Ministry of Justice, right?" Zhao Xing asked softly: "I have something I want to ask, perhaps, I need them to help me a little......