Piracy detected! There was silence in the office, Li Suo looked at Su Baiyi with some nervousness, and the Jinyi guards next to him who had just rushed back from the Beijing Division were even more like pins and needles. Su Baiyi was tight-mouthed, his face was pale, and smoke rose from the cup he held in his left hand, as if he was the only living creature in this quiet room.

"Seven and a half million taels, seven and a half million taels, hehe, Wen Zhenmeng is really a good means." Su Baiyi gritted his teeth, and had the urge to kill Wen Zhenmeng.

Previously, he auctioned 15 shares of the railway, the lowest at 500,000 taels, the highest at 3.5 million taels, a total of 18 million taels of silver, and an average of 1.2 million taels per share.

But what about Wen Zhenmeng?

For the same fifteen shares of the railway, he only sold 7.5 million taels.

It's less than a fraction of itself!

This adds up to 500,000 taels per share.

Talent.

Lao Tzu has built up momentum before, you are good, turn around and give away the country's property like this.

Seeing the nervous looks of the two in front of him, Su Baiyi said again: "Oh, you two don't need to be nervous, this matter has nothing to do with you." After a pause, he said, "Xiao Xu, did you go to the singing and selling party of Lord Wen?" Do you know what the situation is like on the spot? ”

"Nope!" Xiao Xu shook his head and said cautiously: "Master Wen didn't have any singing and selling parties at all. ”

"Didn't have a so-kee?" Su Baiyi was slightly surprised: "Then how did he sell the railway shares?" ”

"Back to your lordship." Xiao Xu said: "According to his subordinates, Lord Nawen didn't want to sing and sell on his own at first, but handed over the matter to the Ministry of Rites, and he didn't want the people in the Ministry of Rites to accept it; He then found a number of officials such as the household department, the six sections, and the military department, but in the end no one was willing to come forward to sing and sell, so that the matter was delayed for a long time, and finally His Majesty was furious, and the governor of the five provinces, Lord Chen, was in urgent need of military salaries, so Lord Wen could only sell them at a low price. ”

Su Baiyi's pupils shrank slightly: it was too late to organize, and then it was sold at the lowest price.

Sure enough, it's a good means.

"Even if it's too late, our railway shares should be very sought-after, and there should be no shortage of rich people in a place like Jingshi, where every inch of land is valuable, and it won't only sell 500,000 taels per share, right?" Su Baiyi looked at Xiao Xu and asked again.

The railway is a new thing, and it immediately became one of the focal points of the entire empire after it was proposed by the emperor of Su Baiyi, coupled with the vigorous publicity of the Guide Mansion in the first two months, as well as the shocking singing and selling party, it will not make no one care.

Three and a half million taels of silver per share of pearl and jade, for those rich people, even if they spend two million taels of silver, they will make money, and they will definitely not sell only 500,000 taels of land for a share, Wen Zhenmeng has a problem with his brain?

Or is it that this old man has received benefits from his own pockets?

"This ...... The subordinate news is not very exact. Xiao Xu cautiously looked at Su Baiyi's face, and found that his anger seemed to have dissipated, and then said: "My subordinates heard that at the beginning, Jiading Bo was not enough silver, so he found Wen Zhen Meng Wen and said that Master Wen sold Jiading Bo a face and sold it at a price of 500,000 taels of silver. Jiading Bo had a big mouth, and the front foot had just received the railway shares, and the back foot went out to show off, so that many relatives came to the door and forced Lord Wen to sell. Master Wen can't favor one over the other, so ......"

"Hmm......" Su Baiyi took a deep breath, waved his hand at the two of them to retreat, and lay down on the chair weakly.

Damn, Lao Tzu worked hard and planned for the Ming Dynasty, but before the eight characters were skimmed, the country's property was accounted for by your relatives of the old Zhu family.

If there were 10,000 alpacas flying over Su Baiyi's head, he wanted to say three words to the sky in his heart: You are paralyzed!

Jiading Bo is not enough silver?

What an international joke.

Others may not know, but Su Baiyi knows too much about this kind of strange thing at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Who is Jiadingbo?

That was Emperor Chongzhen's old father-in-law, Empress Zhou's father Zhou Kui. On the occasion of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor extorted money from the relatives, and in order to show his sincerity, he also promoted Zhou Kui's title from Jiading Bo to Jiading Hou.

But how did Zhou Kui repay his son-in-law?

He ran to the palace and cried to find his daughter crying poor. Queen Zhou was soft-hearted, so she gave Zhou Kui 5,000 taels of silver for him to donate, and the old guy donated 3,000 taels after getting the silver.

Yes, I also earned 2,000 taels back and forth!

is such a person, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the whole family was arrested by Li Zicheng, when his wife and daughter-in-law were forced to hang themselves, the eldest son was beaten to death, and he and his second son and nephew were tortured and almost died, he actually handed over a huge sum of three million silver.

Three million, silver!

It is equivalent to nine months of tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty.

Alas!

Su Baiyi sighed helplessly in his heart: A bunch of pigs!

……

In the mountains north of Xingyang.

Uncle Yan Wen held a roll of drawings in his hand, with two local old farmers by his side, reading the drawings while walking, and at the same time watching the direction of the mountains and rivers and the flow of the rivers.

Looking at the drawings against the mountains and rivers, his heart was shocked more than once.

He didn't know anything else, but he knew the entire section of the mountain railway from Xingyang to Gongxian best, and the topography and geography drawn on the drawings were almost the same as this scene.

This shows that someone has already started this work of geographical exploration for a long time, and has drawn a topographic map of the mountains and rivers along the railway, and selected a perfect railway line between the mountains and rivers.

How much work is this?

Uncle Yan Wen almost didn't dare to imagine it.

"Brother Yan, we really want to build a railway here?" The old man beside him was carrying a large package on his shoulder, holding a sickle and an axe in his hand, and a simple smile squeezed out of his wrinkled old face, and asked Uncle Yan Wen.

"Hmm!"

Uncle Yan Wen glanced at the old man, and then refocused his gaze on the drawings.

"Brother Yan, what is a railway?" Another local farmer, who looked younger, also carried a large bag and a water hyacinth in his hand.

"A railway is a railroad." Uncle Yan Wen didn't explain, raised his head and looked at a rather steep mountain in front of him, and said to himself: "After arriving here, the line should have bypassed this eagle's beak cliff from the north side, well......" After thinking for a while, he took the sickle from the old man's hand and said: "You two will pick up some dry firewood near here, I'll go to the mountain to have a look, and when I come down, I can just cook on the fire." ”

"Yes, sir!" The two of them took off the burden on their backs, spread out the stall on the spot and began to prepare.

Uncle Yan Wen took a sickle and a book of drawings, followed the path up the mountain, and when he encountered thorns blocking the road, he unceremoniously made a move, and opened up a small path by dividing five by two.

The railway from Luoyang to Guide has a total of 700 miles, and Su Baiyi divided it into seven sections, each section of 100 miles, and configured ten students to investigate.

Uncle Yan Wen and the other nine students happened to be in this group, responsible for this section of the mountain road between Xingyang and Gongxian. According to the previous work routine, first sent people to survey the route, groped the general direction of the entire road, determined what mountains and rivers crossed, and marked it on the drawings.

The second step is to use the instrument to accurately release the line according to the mark. The third step is to get the local government to cooperate and clear the obstacles along the line, so that the general alignment of the entire railway can be determined.

Uncle Yan's job is to explore the terrain and the direction of the railway in this first step.

He went up the flickering mountain path, unconsciously circled around, looked down at a certain mountain pass, and sure enough, he saw a relatively gentle area between the two mountains on the north side.

However, a little further west, it was blocked by a dense woods, and it was impossible to see the terrain below, so Uncle Yan Wen decided to continue walking to the top of the mountain to see if the terrain on the west side could pass.

Bypassing the north side of the eagle's beak cliff, the field of vision suddenly opened up a lot, when the sky and the earth were empty, the golden black was sinking, the western sky was full of clouds, and the mountains and trees and grass in the distance and near were covered with a layer of gold.

Uncle Yan Wen's heart also became empty, thinking that the career he was doing might really be famous for eternity, he took a deep breath, stepped up his pace and continued to climb, and in a few steps he went around to the top of the eagle's beak cliff.

Walking a few dozen meters west from the top of the mountain, looking down in another col, you can see the terrain on the west side.

Uncle Yan Wen was looking down with his head down, and suddenly saw two half-squatting figures on a bare mountain rock dozens of meters in front of him.

There are many displaced people here, and there are many bandits on the mountain, this is not the first time Uncle Yan Wen has encountered this situation, and it is not wrong to be careful with one more layer.

But when he looked at it, he realized that something was wrong.

Because he knew one of them, the man had a dark face, was wearing a brocade robe, and although he couldn't hear every word he spoke, he could see from his facial expressions and movements, he was indeed reckless.

This is the Governor of Xingyang, Lu Dadu, who is said to be the right-hand man under the anti-thief Luo Rucai. When Uncle Yan Wen lived temporarily in Xingyang, he had seen the dignity of this goods.

It's just an anti-thief leader, the key is the person behind the anti-thief leader, although he wears civilian clothes, judging from his descriptive bearing, he is a long-time military person.

A leader of officers and soldiers, a leader of anti-thieves!

What are two guys doing here?

Uncle Yan Wen couldn't help but feel a layer of fine sweat on his forehead, and he wanted to push it away quietly to avoid an unwarranted disaster. When he turned around, he saw several officers and soldiers not far behind him who had arrived here at some point, and were walking this way.

What should I do if the road ahead is not feasible and the road back is cut off?

If you are discovered, you will definitely die.

Uncle Yan Wen endured the fear in his heart, avoided the front and back roads, found another path under his feet, and slowly climbed along the steep cliff wall where there were some feet, and climbed silently for a long time, but because of fate, he came to the bottom of the two of them.

It's just that the grass and bushes are separated from the big rock where the two of them are accommodated, and the space under their feet is covered, and Uncle Yan Wen is just in sight.

Uncle Yan Wen didn't want to eavesdrop, but since he heard the first sentence, his heart sank.

I only heard one of them whisper: "Your handsome family doesn't know how to lift, what is the benefit of our soldiers?" How can this Xingyang shoal accommodate the handsome dragon? But that Guide Mansion is different, it is a rich land! ”