Accompanying Operation Gui Youguang are the loyal guards of the Iron Pillars, which is also to prevent someone from leaking the news or ventilating the news.

When everyone was dispatching, Shen Mo was not idle, he was escorted by more than three feet, and he went straight to the south of the city, the secret station of the Jinyi Guard.

Sanchi went up to call the door, and asked inside, and he said to the code as before, but who knew that he would not get the slightest response. Sanchi was in a hurry, slamming the door, but still silently, as if no one was inside.

Sitting silently in the carriage, he lifted the curtain and called back the futile three feet.

"My lord, he didn't see us on purpose." Sanchi said angrily: "Is that it? ”

"Stupid, don't you know how to climb walls?" Silence whispered.

"Oh." Sanchi scratched his head, looked at the high wall and said, "But it's full of broken porcelain, and I can't climb it." ”

"Looks like people really don't plan to see me." sighed silently, got out of the carriage, stood firm against the wall of the car, luckily dantian, and said loudly with all his strength: "Zhu Shisan, if you don't see me again, Lao Tzu won't have you as a brother!" ”

The voice was sharp and angry, startling the old eagle.

But there was no movement at the door, which made Shen Mo feel faceless, sat back in the carriage angrily, and said in a muffled voice: "Go!" The guards crowded around the carriage and left with their heads down.

Seeing the swaggering guy slipping away from the crack in the door, Lu Ji felt that he had never been so happy in his life. After they left the street, he finally couldn't help laughing, no matter how dark Zhu Shisan's face was on the side.

Laughing enough, seeing that Zhu Shisan's face was still elongated, Lu Ji calmed down and breathed: "Laugh one." ”

"Enough!" Zhu Shisan said angrily in a low voice: "I don't know how you got the order of the commander, but the purpose of the Metropolitan Governor to let me come to Suzhou is to escort Lord Shen, not to help you dismantle his platform." ”

"Yo yo," Lu Ji said with a sneer, "Now it's hard?" Why didn't you squeak? ”

"Hmph," Zhu Shisan smiled contemptuously, "With the genius wisdom of Lord Shen, do you still need me to speak out?" ”

"You ......" A trace of confusion flashed on Lu Jixiu's beautiful face, and he suddenly said: "I see!" Saying that, Silver Tooth bit and said, "So, you want to disobey the order to help him?" ”

"I won't disobey!" Zhu Shisan shook his head and said, "But don't expect me to help you." As he spoke, he raised his voice and said to the people in the house: "Listen to the rabbit cubs, these are all for Lao Tzu's cat in the nest, whoever dares to go out Lao Tzu will break his leg!" ”

"You!" Lu Ji was angry at first, and then laughed loudly: "As long as you don't help, if I knock him down, it's not like pinching an ant to death?" ”

"Hahaha......" Zhu Shisan also smiled: "You are too stupid, only people who don't know his past will have such naïve thoughts." As he spoke, he clasped his hands around his chest and said, "I'll wait and see who it will be when the time comes, crying and begging me." ”

"Good, good!" Lu Jiyi stomped his feet and said, "Let's see!" Then he got on the sedan chair, and when he was finished, he dropped a cruel sentence and said: "When the time comes, let the two of you roll a roll and get out!" ”

A trace of fierceness flashed on Zhu Shisan's face, and he exhaled two turbid breaths and said, "Don't send it!" ”

"I don't need to!" When he said this, Lu Ji had already walked out of the gate of Jinyiwei.

"Phew, sissy, dead shemale!" Looking at his departing back, Zhu Shisan scolded in a low voice: "What a bit of a man!" ”

Lu Ji's sedan chair left from Zhu Shisan, and before he walked out of the alley, he was stopped by several officials in red clothes and black hats, and said viciously: "Stop, inspection!" ”

An old man in brocade clothes smiled contemptuously: "Open your dog's eyes and see whose sedan chair this is." Although the style of the sedan chair is quite low-key, you can still see a six-sided snowflake-shaped light-colored sign from the lower part of the window, and the officials of Suzhou City know that this is the symbol of the Pan family.

The carriages and horses with this symbol have always been taboo, and the old man did not believe that anyone dared to stop their car.

Several officials laughed quietly: "In extraordinary times, let's cooperate." ”

"Don't think!" The old man said angrily: "Get out! Otherwise, don't blame me for being unkind! ”

"You're welcome?" At this time, a majestic voice sounded, Hai Rui Haigangfeng appeared behind the officer, looked at the old man coldly and said: "The law of the Ming Dynasty contains a clear text, in the palace city, officials above the fifth grade can take a sedan chair, I don't know how many products are in the sedan chair?" Who is it? ”

At the beginning of the country, there was this regulation, but it was established by the thrifty old Zhu, who had been trampled on for more than a hundred years, and now it is businessmen who also sit, women who also sit, anyway, as long as there are conditions, they can sit.

The old man said in his heart, where did this come from? Then he said unhappily: "The children of the Han family go out, and no one has ever taken care of them in a sedan chair for decades, so why should you care?" ”

"No one cares for decades?" Hai Rui sneered: "I'm going to take care of it today!" Get out of the car! ”

The old man lost his temper, took out a handful of broken silver from his sleeve, stuffed it into the hands of the officials next to him, and said, "Brothers, drink a cup of tea, raise your noble hands." ”

In front of the sea pen stand, who dares to take this money? The old man sent it around, but he didn't send it out, he couldn't help but be very embarrassed, ashamed and annoyed: "Don't toast and don't eat and drink, our master is a detective!" ”

"Is it your master sitting in the sedan chair?" Hai Rui asked coldly.

"Well, of course not," said the old man angrily; "My lord is in office in Shandong, I'm you, don't make trouble unreasonably, okay?"

"Take it!" Hai Rui's face was like an ancient well, and he said: "Take it back and interrogate it carefully." ”

Lu Ji in the sedan chair finally couldn't help it, lifted the sedan curtain, and shouted into the alley: "Zhu Shisan, you haven't come out to help yet!" ”

There was no response in the alley.

"Take it!"

Back at the mansion, Sanchi was still angry, and said angrily: "Zhu Shisan is too unrighteous!" ”

"You can't say that," Shen Mo was already calm, and while wiping his face, he said lightly: "He also has his difficulties, and he has already told us clearly, we can't force anything anymore." ”

"Did he tell us?" The three-foot monk was puzzled.

"Of course," Shen Mo threw the towel on him and smiled, "If he doesn't squeak, it means that someone is around, and it's not easy to make a sound." Except for the people of the Pinghu Lu family, who else can force him to be like this? ”

"Oh," Sanchi said suddenly: "It turns out that Lu Ji, who is neither male nor female, is also in it?" ”

"That's right," Shen Mo smiled: "I originally thought of blocking him at the back door, but I thought that he couldn't be a big fish, so I couldn't make Zhu Shisan embarrassed." ”

"Not a big fish? Pinghu Lu's family is not a big fish? Three-foot's eyes widened.

"Just his bear." Shen Mo recalled Lu Ji's appearance, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but smile and said: "It's not enough to succeed and more than to lose, what can you do?" ”

At this time, Tie Zhu came in from outside and reported: "My lord, three of the people you want have been arrested, and the remaining one has not been found." ”

"It doesn't matter, three is enough." Shen Mo nodded and said, "Go and see." ”

Under the leadership of Tie Zhu, he went to the inquiry room of the government office, and Gui Youguang had already taken a few clerks and asked for a confession there.

As soon as Shen Mo came in, all the people in the room stood up and saluted, Shen Mo nodded slightly, then sat down on the main seat, looked at the three gray-looking guys and said, "From the guest to the prisoner, does it feel good?" "All three of them have been to the banquet we said earlier.

The three of them called Qu Liantiandao: "My lord, the whole city is the same six cents of profit, and we only put more than 100,000 taels of Yinzi money together, and the big families of the Pan family and the Wang family, which one is millions of taels!" ”

"Fifty steps and a hundred steps of laughter." Shen snorted, patted the law on the table and said: "During the forty years of Zhengde and Jiajing, the imperial court issued three orders and five declarations, and the monthly interest on loans should not exceed three points, but you want six points of interest, you still violate the law, this is like killing people, is there a difference between killing one and killing two?" ”

After some questioning, the three people who wanted to use the big family as a shield stared.

Shen Mo picked up a few sheets from the table that read, 'A certain person borrowed a certain number of taels of silver from a certain number for a certain year and month, plus six profits, and returned them in January, and borrowed a contract certificate. He shook his hand and said, "These IOUs have the seal of your shop and your signature." Then from the hand back to the light brought back from the basket, picked up an account book, a look, it happened to be a money-lending account, casually read: "February 15, the lion to get money three borrowed to tattoo five taels of silver, five vouchers, with Ruixiangzhuang cloth ticket fifteen as the hostage. Squinting again, he found another one, and read: "On March 14, I will collect three taels of silver and three taels of silver from the lion, and return the pledge." ”

"With these things, you can solve an iron case if you release the case of usury!" looked at the three people with pale faces expressionlessly, until all three of them lowered their heads in fear, and then asked Gui Youguang: "Lord Gui, you are the official of Suzhou and the person in charge of the punishment, tell me what crime they should be guilty of?" ”

"My lord, according to the law, those who give usury privately will be given eighty rods, exiled for 1,200 li, and their property confiscated." Gui Youguang said unequivocally.

"My lord spare my life...... the three of them finally couldn't support it, knelt down and kowtowed: "Lord Fuzun, you give me a way to live, we, we will listen to your ...... everything" They are 'blind people eat dumplings, and they know in their hearts', knowing that this is Xiang Zhuang Dancing Sword, which is intended for Pei Gong, it must be for that matter.

"What happened after I went back the day before yesterday?" Shen Mo closed his eyes slightly, and his voice seemed to come from the sky: "Why did your attitude take a big turn?" That's why he caught the three of them.

The three of them still had to support each other, silently slowly opened their eyes, and said with a murderous awe: "There is a way that is 'the county order of breaking the family, the mansion Yin of destroying the door', do you believe it or not?" ”

"Letter, letter ......" The three of them were completely frightened, and they confessed like pouring beans into the bamboo tube...... It turned out that they, the bosses, really felt that the silent plan was a long-term plan, and when they went back from the banquet, they also met and made an appointment to go back and ask their respective bosses behind the scenes to make this matter happen.

At first, the reaction was good, but what I never expected was that just one night later, the four major families of Suzhou City expressed their attitude towards the matter through the mouths of Pan Gui and Wang Dezhang - they rejected Shen Mo's proposal and insisted on the original plan. He also said that the situation was under control, and after this battle, he would definitely be removed from his post and investigated, and no matter who became the prefect of Suzhou again in the future, he could only obediently obey orders.

"Obediently?" The corners of Shen Mo's mouth drew a cold arc and said, "Listen to whose life?" Are the four major families in Suzhou? Or is it the Pinghu Lu family? ”

"This ......" the three of them shook their heads and said, "We don't know." ”

Shen Mo didn't expect these three little minions to reveal the truth, so he asked, "Tell me about your grand plan to destroy Suzhou." ”

"Destroy ......" The three of them sweated like rain, shook their heads and said: "They said no, because the price of food is firmly controlled in their hands, they say they will rise, and they will fall." ”

"How can they do it?" Shen Mo asked.

"I also heard it yesterday, they used three steps to raise the price of rice, first spread rumors that Xu Hai Yema was coming, today it is said that Songjiang was captured, and tomorrow it is said that Wang Fu Yin and Yu Zongrong were killed, so that rumors spread in both places, and people were panicked, and then the people themselves spread rumors, as if the Japanese were really going to fight."

"Then they mobilized a lot of money to secretly buy the grain in the hands of the big grain merchants in the two places, and it is said that the purchase price reached 2 taels and 1 stones, which was the same as the highest market price last year.

"In the end, they hired people to queue up in various grain stores to buy grain, and the people were already panicked, so that the people's hearts were more floating, and there were more and more queues to buy it, but there was not much grain in the grain stores, so they intensified the rush to buy, and the grain stores were sold out one after another."

"Now the grain is in the hands of those big households, they can sell as much as they want," the three bosses said cautiously: "My lord, the funds in their hands add up, not to mention tens of millions of taels, although you are a noble man, but after all, you are alone, or self-preservation." ”

"Hehe......" said with a silent smile: "You care about me." As he spoke, he stretched out a finger and said, "Last question, how much money is in your account, and how much are the various tickets worth?" ”

"The three of us are about the same, all of them are more than 200,000 taels of deposited silver, worth 150,000 or 60,000 taels of tickets." The three of them replied honestly: "The other stores should be not too much different." ”

"How much is the total number of the whole Suzhou, do you have a number? Don't answer. Shen Mo smiled: "Write it down, don't show it to the other party, and the one closest to the correct answer will be acquitted." ”

The three of them immediately widened their eyes and pondered vigorously. Take the pen and paper, hold it with your hand, and write a string of numbers.

Shen Mo took it and looked at it, the three numbers were not too different, about an average of four million taels of silver, and three million taels of various colored tickets.

After the three of them were imprisoned, Shen Mo returned to the inner signing room, and said to the follow-up Gui Youguang: "If what they said is true, then we need four or five million taels of silver to solve the problem more satisfactorily." ”

"Do you need so much silver to stabilize prices?" Gui Youguang was surprised: "Do you need so much money to buy food? ”

"This money is for the aftermath," Shen Mo said: "Those who indulge in the price of grain are the real predators, their purpose is not just my Shen Cunyan, nor just to make a profit, but to sweep away the ticket number money in Suzhou City, this is their real purpose." If I don't prepare this money, the financial industry in Suzhou City will become someone else's, and we still have to rely on others, which is equivalent to losing a lot. ”

"My lord, as an aside, you seem to be very concerned about the ticket number, the bank, and the pawnshop." Gui Youguang said: "Even more than the city, more than the attention to the land." ”

Of course, Shen Mo couldn't tell him that if this era continues to develop normally, it will be an era in which finance is king. He could only say very seriously: "This thing is now the core of the contradiction, and if you solve it, the whole problem will be solved." ”

Gui Youguang seemed to understand whether he understood or not, but he didn't want to ask again, so he had to nod and say, "Then where does this money come from?" ”

"Borrow." He said silently: "I borrowed it all over the world, and I had to make it up." "The heart said, 'I can't ask my daughter-in-law, let her help me think of a way.'" After all, he doesn't know much about the wealth world of the Ming Dynasty, but Ruohan, who has been in business for many years, can know better - it is said that Ruohan, under the escort of the officers and soldiers of Shaoxing Mansion, has already set off to Suzhou, and now he should be on the ground in Hangzhou.

At this time, Tie Zhu hurriedly came in, muttered a few words in Shen Mo's ear with a strange face, and Shen Mo couldn't help laughing: "I didn't catch it, but someone caught it for me, this is really providence." Saying that, he gritted his teeth and said: "Don't let it go when you come, lock it up first, and when I'm done, interrogate it carefully to see who is having trouble with me!" ”

Before the words fell, another guard came in and reported: "President Gu of the Grain and Oil Chamber of Commerce is here." ”

Shen Mo ordered someone to invite him in, but he was not polite, and asked, "How much money can you scrape together?" ”

"About a million taels." Gu Rundong said: "This number has been repeatedly persuaded by the villain to make it up." ”

"Almost," said silently, "it should be enough to buy food with this money." ”

"My lord, where are we going to buy food?" Gu Rundong asked.

"The lake is ripe, the world is full, do you still need to ask?" Shen Mo said: "But wait for the news from Hangzhou first, if Hu Butang gives it, we will buy him, it is cheap, and the transportation distance is close." ”

(To be continued)