Chapter 59: Zhang Xiu's Account Book
Hu Che'er walked very simply, when the east city gate was razed to the ground after the terrible explosion, he immediately fled with the city family, as for the soldiers under his command, in fact, there was not much left, a loud bang shook the sky, and also swallowed up all the soldiers gathered behind the city gate. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It's sorcery! Hu Che'er summed up so frightened.
After entering the city, they did not encounter the ordinary street fighting, because the people of Wancheng, who had been oppressed for a long time, after seeing Hu Che'er escape from the south gate with his family, they launched a riot, and several children of the big clan began to welcome Cao Ang's army into the city, and on both sides of the avenue in the city, the remnants of the city defenders who were killed were hung, and the cheering crowd gradually walked out of the house and began to greet Wang Shi.
"His grandmother's, the rest of the remnants of the soldiers were killed by the people, where did Lao Tzu get heads?" Shi Shen kept complaining.
Yuan Yun kicked Shi Shen angrily, and then pointed to the city lord's mansion not far away and said: "Hurry up and go to the house, Zhang Xiu's treasury is important, don't you see how active Xiaoliu is?" I gave the order that whoever found the vault would be rewarded...... Uh, a hundred! ”
Shi Shen immediately grabbed the horse's head and said, "Is this true?" ”
", when did Lao Tzu lie to you?" After Yuan Yun finished scolding, he saw Shi Shen desperately urging the horse to rush out.
Cao Ang smiled bitterly, drove over from the side, and said: "The treasury is to be handed over, but it is not private gain, if you really find it, I will allow you to go in and choose one you like, as for the rest of Brother Yun, don't mess around." ”
Yuan Yun smiled and said, "You promised me that I would allocate a part of it for the construction of the new workshop, so naturally I won't bother anymore, I want Zhang Xiu's account book." ”
Cao Ang was stunned for a moment, and said suspiciously: "The account books should be searched by Zhang Xiu's mansion, what kind of vault are you looking for?" ”
Yuan Yun rolled his eyes and said, "Before the He clan in our territory was in turmoil, I was confined to Cao Mansion by your father, do you think I just eat and sleep every day, sleep and eat?" Your father's master books have to take some broken accounts to me every day to study, including the He account book that was searched, I can smell the smell of Zhang Xiu, if I am not mistaken, He sold 200,000 stone of grain to Wancheng last year, the price is ten times that of the market, just this transaction, let the He family earn fat and fat, and this kind of fatal business, how can Zhang Xiu put the account books in the government for safekeeping? ”
Cao Ang pondered for a moment and said, "How can so much grain be transported out of our territory without being discovered? ”
Yuan Yun said with a smile: "It is recorded in the account books of the He family that they have been importing salt from the direction of Luoyang for several months, which is simply the most ridiculous thing. But He's account books clearly record that they have made a lot of money from here, if I guess correctly, every time He sends so many carriages to the so-called Luoyang to buy salt, in fact, it is to transport grain outside, you must know that those so-called vehicles to buy salt, when they leave, they are not necessarily empty, as long as they transfer from Luoyang to Wancheng, it is naturally feasible to trade grain, but if this kind of thing is done by the He family, it will definitely not be able to escape, but if it is a union of several families, So there is still a way to bypass a few key queries. ”
Cao Ang was indeed smart, and immediately thought of something bad, his face suddenly turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother Yun is suspicious...... Xu Du still has others to make deals with Zhang Xiu? ”
Yuan Yun's face also became serious, and he nodded and said: "Cao Sikong controls the Son of Heaven, although there are many benefits to this matter, but there are also many bad things, there must be people inside who don't want the Cao family to become bigger, and there are a lot of people outside who want you to fall, this time Xu Du is coming to Liu Biao, not Zhang Xiu, plus it is still a critical period to crusade against Yuan Shu, if you want to say that these people have no private agreement, I don't believe it if you kill them, your father just left Liu Biao, didn't Brother Cao Ang suspect that someone in Xu Du reported the news?" ”
Cao Ang naturally had suspicions before, but there was no real evidence, and he had no way to investigate and deal with it, and now when he thought of the embroidered account book, he immediately came to his senses, if the details of the transaction were really recorded in the account book, then none of the families involved in this matter could escape.
Glancing at the direction of the City Lord's Mansion again, Cao Ang slapped his horse and sped up a few steps, and then said to Yuan Yun: "This matter needs to be kept secret carefully, if there is really an account book, Brother Yun must hand it over to me quickly." ”
Yuan Yun smiled, bowed, and naturally guessed in his heart why Cao Ang said that he must hand over the account books to him, this matter involves too much, and it is not something that he can participate in a little Yuan Yun, only Cao Ang's identity as the son of the Cao family can be justified, otherwise a few more families like the He family before, send the dead assassins in the family, it will be enough for Yuan Yun to drink a pot.
Cao Ang's soldiers obeyed the order very much, only entered the homes of the people of Wancheng to search, absolutely did not rob, and did not make things difficult, this kind of action immediately won the favor of the people in the city, several Wancheng families, have sent the people in the clan to see Cao Ang, hoping to get some benefits after the replacement of the city lord, Cao Ang is also very familiar with this kind of thing, it can be regarded as a source of left and right, so that Wancheng quickly settled down, and some of the remaining Zhang Xiu's deserters were quickly arrested, because the people of the city hated them more.
Xu Du direction is still constantly transporting some war equipment resources, with Ma Jun's improved new car, the speed of transportation has increased several times, black powder, steel crossbows, and even a small part of armor, just continue to enter Wancheng, for the cavalry ambushing Zhang Xiu behind to make various material preparations.
Xu Yi and Xiahou Nan have been leaving the city for Jingzhou for two days, accompanied by more than 50 of Cao Ang's most elite personal guards, if they can see Liu Biao safely, then Cao Ang's army will immediately enter Liu Biao's interior, Yuan Yun has begun to prepare for this, that is, to sleep well and nourish his spirit.
Shi Shen and Xiao Liu stayed awake all night, and took the hundred and ten people to search in Zhang Xiu's City Lord's Mansion all night, which paid off, and they really found the vault secret room for them at dawn.
When Yuan Yun and Cao Ang rushed to the entrance of the secret room, the sky was already bright, this entrance was in the back garden of the city lord's mansion, surrounded by planted shrubs, if it weren't for a few searching soldiers running here for convenience, it is estimated that they would not find that the turf here is so shallow, as soon as the turf is uncovered, a downward passage is immediately revealed.
When the entrance was opened, there were lights coming out of the inside, which made Yuan Yun feel relieved, because this kind of underground facility is the most closed, and it is easy to lack oxygen after staying for a long time.
A few soldiers went down to the bottom floor, and then pushed open a large wooden door inside, and in an instant a room of golden light came out, where countless treasures and treasures were piled up, which were probably all looted by Zhang Xiu and his uncle Zhang Ji for most of their lives.
When Shi Shen and Xiao Liu were desperately stroking those gold objects, Yuan Yun's eyes fell on a small wooden box, because the fire paint sealed by the wooden box was actually engraved with the words 'Western Regions Grain Species'. Carefully opened the wooden box, Yuan Yun almost laughed and went crazy, the box was divided into many small packages, on which were written in seal characters 'pepper, grapes, cumin, carrots, olives, leeks' and a bunch of other names.
Zhang Xiu had these things naturally introduced from Xiliang, and he did not plant them, mainly because the climate in the Central Plains was different from that of the Western Regions, and if he wanted to plant them successfully, he had to go through a lot of agricultural processes, and no one recorded them more in detail than Yuan Yun's brain.
The ecstasy in his heart ended, Yuan Yun carefully clamped the wooden box under his armpit, and then looked at Shi Shen and Xiao Liu with disdain, these two fools knew that their eyes were shining at a large pile of gold, really good things, these two people didn't know the goods at all.
I couldn't get angry, so I went up and kicked Shi Shen and Xiaoliu, and asked them to throw away a few ingots of gold in their hands, and then scolded: "Fools are always fools, Cao Ang Shizi gives you a chance to make a fortune, let you come here and choose what you like, you are good, the dog only knows to stare at the gold in his eyes, even if you take this gold back, can you use it in your identity?" In the end, it can only be sold as jewelry, how much you have to lose in the middle, have you calculated? Idiot, what a fool! ”
Shi Shen glanced at the gold ingot in his hand, and then at Xiaoliu's hand, indeed as Yuan Yun said, only nobles or high-ranking officials can use gold as currency, and the use of small households is to overpass, and they will be questioned by the government, so he immediately put on an open face and asked: "Lord, you give us an idea, what should we take?" ”
Yuan Yun looked left and right, suddenly his eyes lit up, and then pointed to the stone in a brocade box and said: "This thing is precious, you have put it away, here is a pair, Shi Shen takes one, Xiaoliu takes one, and when you return to Xudu, you will send it to the pawn shop to sell, first sell one for five hundred yuan, and after the other party receives it, you will take out the second one, and sell it to the other party at a price of three times to ensure that the other party will not refuse." ”
Shi Shen stretched out his hand and took the pair of stones in his hand, only to feel that his hands were warm, the color was very colorful and beautiful, the stone was a little transparent, and there seemed to be a mosquito-like thing in the middle, and he was puzzled after looking at it for a while: "Such a broken thing can be sold for two thousand?" Don't try to bluff us. ”
Xiao Liu also looked at the two stones suspiciously at this moment, and then looked at the box that Yuan Yun was holding, so he asked, "What is the Lord Lord's choice?" ”
Yuan Yun impatiently opened the box under his armpit, Shi Shen and Xiao Liu saw that it was full of seeds, they immediately lost interest, and in an instant they felt that what Yuan Yun said was very unreliable, he actually chose a bunch of useless seeds, how can this kind of vision judge what items are precious? That pair of stones must be worthless, don't fool this little lord. After thinking about it, the two of them put the pair of stones back into the brocade box, and then still chose to take a large piece of gold ingot.
Yuan Yun rolled his eyes, was so angry that he couldn't speak, gritted his teeth and ignored the two fools in front of him, and just walked out holding the box containing the seeds.
When he arrived at the door, Cao Ang stopped Yuan Yun and whispered: "The account books have been obtained, but the records are very sloppy, and it will take a while to sort out and find them." ”
Yuan Yun nodded, and continued: "You already have a lot of good shopkeepers, let them check carefully, they will definitely find clues, I don't care about this matter." ”
Cao Ang seemed to be very happy, and he didn't ask much when he saw Yuan Yun holding a bunch of seeds, but he was puzzled after seeing Shi Shen and Xiao Liu holding a big gold ingot, so he asked Yuan Yun, "Aren't Shi Shen and Xiao Liu looking at that pair of amber stones?" I saw them pick up and put it down, and finally chose a gold ingot, which was really strange, and the amber stone was worth the ten gold ingots they held in their hands, I really don't know what they thought? ”
Shi Shen and Xiao Liu, who had already walked outside the door, heard Cao Ang say this, the corners of their mouths immediately twitched, and they wanted to return to choose again, but they had already seen Cao Ang's personal soldiers sealing the door, and now both of them began to slap themselves fiercely, eager to chop off their hands.
Yuan Yun held the wooden box, squinted his eyes and walked past Shi Shen and Xiaoliu, his eyes were full of disdain, he didn't believe Lao Tzu, hum, he deserved it.
Shi Shen sighed, patted Xiaoliu on the shoulder and said: "Forget it, I have chosen everything, besides, how can it be better than the lord's mallet, he actually chose the seeds, is he going to go back to plant vegetables?" Ha ha. ”
Xiao Liu's mood improved when he heard this, so he followed Shi Shen and laughed a few times.