Zhao Xiu and Xuemao walked to the cemetery and came to an inconspicuous tombstone, the tombstone was covered with moss, because it was backlit on the mountainside for many years, so the tombstone was very damp, and the yin air was even more dignified at night.

Xuemao pushed the top of the tombstone with his hand, moving the entire tombstone backwards with the soil at the bottom of the tombstone, revealing a black hole in front of the tombstone, and Zhao Xiu could see the steps in the black hole through the moonlight.

Zhao Xiu stepped into the black hole first, stepped on the steps, and slowly walked into the hole, and then Xuemao also walked into the hole.

In a huge cave, the whole space is filled with light, and it doesn't look like a dark cave at all. The whole cave is like a hornet's nest, the center of the hornet's nest is a huge pothole, the hollow is surrounded by dense nests, hundreds of nests have wood inlaid with rows of spiral plank paths, along the plank road can go down from the top of the pit to the bottom.

The pit was filled with rows of extremely neat wooden boxes, hundreds of thousands of wooden boxes almost filled the hole, and as for what was in the wooden box, the people in this cave had long been numb to it.

In a row of caves on the top floor of the huge pothole, there were hundreds of busy bookkeepers, and a young bookkeeper came to a man dressed in gold and said anxiously: "Director, take a look at this book." ”

The young man who was called the director was named Li Xing.

Li Xing hurriedly took the account book, and after reading it carefully, he wrote a very special symbol on the account book with the brush in his right hand, this symbol was created by Zhao Xiu, except for a few people, almost no one knew the meaning of this symbol.

Li Xing has been reviewing this account book in the top cave all day long, and it stands to reason that Li Xing usually doesn't do these little things, but this time is an exception, because the account books he has reviewed in the past few days are all huge accounts, and the units on these accounts are not silver but gold.

In this mysterious cave, the daily entry and exit accounts are worth the total account of the Heavenly Martial Kingdom for a year.

Li Xing hadn't closed his eyes for two days and one night, so he stood at the top of the pit and looked at the boxes that rose day by day, slowly approaching the top of the hole.

"Director, Director" Any voice in the cave would seem very hollow, and a black-clothed guard ran towards Li Xing.

"What's the matter?" Li Xing was already on the verge of collapse, and he wanted to end the matter here quickly and go back to sleep well.

"Director, the Sect Master and a Demon Guardian have just entered the mountains and are heading towards you."

Li Xing exhaled, nodded with relief, and turned around and walked towards the cave. He hadn't taken a few steps before he saw Zhao Xiu.

Li Xing hurriedly knelt on one knee, clasped his hands into fists and said, "Subordinate, Li Xing, the director of the Internal Investigation Department, has seen the sect master. ”

Zhao Xiu and Xuemao also saw Li Xing, Zhao Xiu saw Li Xing kneeling and saluting, and hurriedly raised his hand, "Get up, you have worked hard in the past two days." ”

Li Xing's face was pale, and he originally had big eyes and double eyelids, but now he only had his squinting eyes left, looking at Zhao Xiu listlessly.

Zhao Xiu stepped forward to help Li Xing with guilt in his heart, and the two slowly walked to the plank road built around the hole.

Zhao Xiu looked at the mountains of wooden boxes in the pit and asked, "How many taels of gold do you have to have?" ”

Li Xing took a step back, leaned against the wall and smiled proudly at Zhao Xiu, "Four thousand, three hundred, seven hundred thousand." ”

Zhao Xiu looked surprised, "What? Forty million? What the did you spend more than 10 million in a year? ”

Zhao Xiu's surprised expression, Li Xing seemed to have expected it a long time ago.

Li Xing looked at the hill stacked with boxes under his feet, and said helplessly: "Don't be too happy, it seems that we have made money, but in fact, we have lost a lot." A year ago, since you and I set this gold plan, I began to cash out a large amount of gold with silver, as early as seven months ago, the ratio of silver to gold in China has begun to skyrocket, from 20 to 1 a year ago, to 40 to 1 now. That is to say, since the last seven months, I have spent forty taels of silver for every tael of gold, and the rate is increasing. Our savings in the past five or six years have basically been used up by me. ”

Zhao Xiu nodded after hearing this, and immediately looked around. Blood Mao stood guard at the entrance of the plank road with his back turned around, and no one could get close to the two who were talking.

Zhao Xiu frowned and scratched his face with his hands. "In the second half of this year, the price of food and medicine in Tianwu Eleven Prefecture soared, in addition to the slump of almost all the shops in these two lines, there was also a trough that the Chamber of Commerce had never encountered, and many merchants in the Chamber of Commerce were already on the verge of collapse, and some directly sold their shops to the Chamber of Commerce. This is the case in Liaozhou, and it is definitely even more difficult to do business in other states in Tianwu, so it can be seen that the golden plan you proposed has worked. ”

Li Xing nodded weakly, "The silver in the hands of the people has become worthless, and there will inevitably be serious consequences, but if we continue to do this, we can't bear it ourselves." If it weren't for the savings of the former Shang Nanshan King, relying on us alone to fight a business war with the entire Tianwu Kingdom, I don't know how miserable we would die. ”

Zhao Xiu understood what Li Xing meant, "So, we can't boil porridge on low heat anymore, we have to add oil to this fire, make this fire less vigorous, and let the raw rice in the pot accelerate the cooking of rice." What do you think, let's hear it. Zhao Xiu asked Li Xing.

"I have an idea to harvest not only gold, but also grain. Today's largest grain producing area in Tianwu is our Liaozhou, as long as we can stop transporting grain to the outside world, we can increase the grain price of the entire Tianwu several times. If you think about it, the money in the hands of the people has been devalued, and the price of grain has risen, so that the savings of the people in a year cannot provide them with a few mouthfuls of food. ”

Zhao Xiu stopped Li Xing's words and fell silent, he pursed his lips, lowered his head, and suddenly felt a lot of pressure.

"The current situation in Liaozhou is very complicated, everyone has a fire in their hearts, they can't be anxious, they can't wait, they can't wait, it's like sitting on pins and needles. Two days ago, Shi Hongzong made a move on the Ning family in Shangjing, this old guy pulled out the first knife, and everyone in the eleven states of Tianwu is now holding their breath, and their eyes are all focused on Shangjing, just waiting for the Shi family and the Ning family in Shangjing to divide the victory and defeat to make the next countermeasure. It's the same in Liaozhou, Zhang Jin's old fox has been stuck at home and barely going out in the past few days, he is just waiting

machine, so as to give me a fatal blow. At this time, I can't be sure what the consequences will be, alas~"

Zhao Xiu sighed, "Alas, I'm also under a lot of pressure now, and it's not impossible to seal the grain road, but the time has not yet come, I plan to wait for a few months to see the situation in Shangjing, if there is an accident, if the Ning family accidentally defeats Shi Hongzong, then we will be in vain to seal the grain road." ”