When Duke Liang, Duke Ying, and Duke Zhi did not dare or want to rebel, the Imperial Bank was undoubtedly the only reason for the Empress Dowager. The palace is in the hands of the queen mother's sister-in-law, Concubine Ying, and the Imperial Bank is in the hands of Lan Dian, the bank's chief bookkeeper.

Landian, the word is the same thing. Born in 946, he graduated from the Department of Finance of Imperial University. After graduating, he worked as the chief secretary of the household department for four years, and then entered the imperial household department as a small household outsider. In 978 of the Han Dynasty, he was promoted by Guan Xin, the first assistant of the cabinet at that time, and was sent to Shuzhong as the county magistrate of Jiameng County.

At this time, he was appreciated by Zhigong, and then he rose to the top, from Jiameng County to Shuzhong Taishou, all the way up. In 985, he was transferred back to Luoyang and served as the head of the household branch. But in 990 of the Han Dynasty, he was deposed by the emperor for involving Guan Xin, the first assistant of the cabinet, to borrow money from the Imperial Bank, and he was at home for a time.

In 994, he was reinstated as the head of the Imperial Bank. At this time, it had been twenty-four years since he first became the chief bookkeeper!

Twenty-four years ago he was the head of the household department, and twenty-four years later, he became the head of the Imperial Bank. Although they are both in this position, there is a world of difference in power. He was able to hold this position, in addition to his proficient in finance, it was more of a strong recommendation from His Royal Highness Zhigong. So from the bottom of his heart, Landian is grateful to Zhigong. It is this gratitude that makes Landian work harder to do his job well and actively participate in the reform of the Imperial Bank.

Although the president is Zhong Zhen, the head of the household, the six main books under the president are all recommended by His Royal Highness Zhigong and arranged by the Queen Mother. Among them, Landian is the leader. So the emperor did not appoint the immovable Imperial Bank at all. It is impossible to replace them, not to mention whether the Queen Mother will agree, first of all, it is impossible to find so many management talents who are familiar with banking business. Even if there is, it is all under the curtain of Zhigong.

The Imperial Bank has been in existence for 500 years, and it has had many shortcomings, the most serious of which is the management of the treasury of the country's fifty-six branches.

In this era, there were no reinforced concrete, no security doors, no cameras, no monitors, and no infrared. Therefore, the vaults of the Imperial Bank were built with craftsmen who built the city walls, and a sturdy airtight room was built behind the bank branch, which was divided into three floors: upper, middle and lower. However, there was a fear that the coins would be damaged by mold, so the vaults were built with basements and ventilation and exhaust pipes. Apply for the empire to send the Yulin Army to garrison, and the treasury manager changes every six months, and each time there are nineteen people to supervise each other, etc......

But even so, in the course of five hundred years, these vaults have produced countless moths for stealing money and exchanging coins.

Since Landian took over the Imperial Bank, not counting natural losses, 20 million gold coins have been evaporated from the bank vaults across the country every year! He asked the whole country to thoroughly inspect the defense measures of the vaults without finding any problems, and the only way to change this situation was to start with the storage of coins.

Beginning in 998, Landian embarked on reforms. In the past, the various branches of the Imperial Bank were concentrated every seven days, and the coins in the treasury of each county were concentrated in the branch where the county guard was located, and the profits were reviewed once a year, and then the profits were transported to the headquarters in Luoyang.

Now, Landian has changed the original annual review of the branch to once a quarter, and at the same time, the coins of each vault are inspected once every six months.

In this way, Landian will control the abnormal wear and tear of coins on the way to escort, although the freight of escorting coins has increased, but compared with the 20 million gold coins that evaporate out of thin air every year, the increased freight is only a drop in the bucket. After two years of reform, the results have begun to bear fruit. Banks' abnormal losses are declining day by day.

Faced with this situation, Lan Dian couldn't be happy, because he had a sweet burden again, that is, in the three vaults of the Imperial Bank's Luoyang headquarters, gold coins had been piled up, and the coins shipped from all over the country were about to collapse the vaults!

Of course, in the face of this situation, Landian quickly made corresponding strategic adjustments, that is, to expand the vault! But Luoyang City is the capital of the Son of Heaven, and the land is extremely expensive, so it is easy to buy it at all. The kind of mixed place of Shangshanfang is not in Landian's consideration, and his target is in the two places of Dongcheng and Xicheng. But the inhabitants of these two places are either rich or expensive, and they do not look like people who will transfer land for money.

Every quarter, there is an endless stream of coins shipped from all over the country, and the vault is overwhelmed, so in desperation, Landian has to rent a place and temporarily use it as the vault, which is the Grade A prison of Dali Temple!!

Wang Zhao of Dali Temple is the confidant of the Queen Mother, and the Imperial Bank is the "private property" of the Queen Mother. The answer, of course, is no. Therefore, Landian used the vacant cells on the lower two floors of the Grade A prison as a gold coin stockpile.

Of course, this news is absolutely confidential. In addition to Landian, five fingers who know about this matter can be counted. Even Yu Linjun, who was guarding in a Class A prison, didn't know that in addition to guarding the prisoners, he was also helping the bank as a security guard, and he still had no salary to pay.

This is also a big reason why Shende was so shocked when he learned that someone had escaped from prison. In fact, where is he worried that a prisoner will escape from prison, he is worried that someone will rob the vault. The prisoner ran away, and naturally there were yamen and Yulin secret guards at all levels who were responsible for locking up and arresting him, but if the vault was robbed, he would not have enough ten heads to cut off the queen mother at one time.

And since the beginning of this year, there have been several open and secret battles for the management of the Imperial Bank above the court, the most fierce one is the declaration of war on Rome, for which an imperial sacrifice wine and an imperial marquis have died! It's appalling!

Some people on the Imperial Party have already said that the moldy and even the ropes of the money in the Imperial Bank are rotten, but they refuse to give half a share of the treasury of the household department, and impeach all the managers of the Imperial Bank, and say, "The banker, created by the Holy Ancestor himself, is the pillar of the country, how can he be satisfied with himself?" Therefore, the household department was asked to send officials to "thoroughly check the money deposited in the bank in order to save the empty treasury."

Although these twists and turns were kept by the cabinet, in order to prevent the Imperial Bank from becoming the target of public criticism, this month Landian emptied the deposit money in a vault and smuggled the entire 2 billion gold coins into the Grade A prison, plus the original 1.6 billion gold coins, the entire Grade A prison already has 3.6 billion gold coins! This is already the largest inventory warehouse of the Imperial Bank in recent years!

Of course, in order to protect the money, Lan Dian also tried his best to get Shen De to pay attention to the security work, and transferred 10,000 gold coins to Shen De from the bank, hoping that he would find a way to sell the commander of the second class army and send more people to guard the Class A prison. If he could, he even wanted Shende to contact Major General Han Qi of the Guards Regiment and ask him to send some Guards to do security work.

For this money, of course, Shen De is obliged to embezzle. said to Landian that the money had been given to Han Wei, but Han Wei, a despicable villain, took people's money but didn't eliminate disasters for others, and he couldn't help it.

Shen De is the queen mother's person, and Lan Dian can only believe it.

However, speaking in good conscience, Shen De is still very concerned about this matter, the most obvious is that he does not go to bed early at night now, and he has to call a few famous singers to sing songs for him every day, and he does not fall asleep until midnight. Of course, as Shen De's confidant, Qi Guanyi has also changed significantly--- he has a military combat knife when he patrols the prison!

Ever since he lied about the "military situation" that night, Qi Guanyi has become a little afraid of patrolling. Especially for that "living ghost" corner, he hurried through it, and didn't even dare to stay. So when someone pulled him and shouted: "Team up, team up, look, there is silver light!" At that time, Qi Guanyi didn't even raise his head, and shouted: "Why are you doing so much idle business?" Let you patrol and patrol, what's so strange about having silver light? Strip your naked and let it shine under the moon, don't you have to shout for us to see! ”

The prison keeper kept his mouth shut, not daring to say anything more.

A group of people hurried by, unaware of the three people crouching in the dark corner beneath the silver light.

One of them is, of course, Shen Yun, the other is Fang Cheng, and the last one, I believe many people can't guess. But if you can see that although wrapped in a black night suit, it still makes men have a physically impulsive figure, and you will know, this last person is Bu Chan!

After the patrol team passed, Shen Yun poked his head out of the darkness and said with a smile: "Xiaochan, you really have a way, you are so scared that the team doesn't dare to look here again!" ”

Bu Chan said coldly in the back: "What has a way is that you are not me, if it weren't for those Yulin Army deliberately not hitting the light in this direction, I wouldn't be able to take care of the two of you...... Also, we don't seem to know each other very well, so I'll ask Shen Shizi to call me Buchan! ”

Shen Yun grinned, didn't care at all, just said, "When you get here, do you think there is any way to get inside?" ”

Buchan said: "I only seemed to promise you to take you here, but I didn't say that I would help you in!" ”

Shen Yun said: "Now that I've arrived here, of course I'm going to go in and meet my old friends, should I come here to see the scenery?" Don't say you didn't think about it before you came, and you know it's a lie if you think about it with your ass! ”

Bu Chan's face flushed, and she spat him but didn't speak again. With the black cloth covering his face, Shen Yun couldn't see the scene full of shame, but he was so excited that he was dying of excitement now, even if he saw it, he probably wouldn't have any other thoughts.

The lower two floors of the mushroom-style building of the Grade A prison are the treasury, and Shen Yun also learned about it by accident. It was none other than the Kunlun slave who told him the news.

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Kunlunnu is actually not a personal name, but a collective term for all blacks by the Han people. Although it is not the colonial era, the status of blacks is just as low. Even in the Caliphate, which was dominated by African territory, blacks were second-class citizens. Due to historical changes, blacks who should have appeared in large numbers in China during the Tang Dynasty began to appear during the period of the Holy Ancestor's expedition to the west. Now in Luoyang, there are at least a thousand such blacks.

The move of the bank vault to the Class A prison began last year, and it has been the black men who have been secretly bringing in the gold coins. Of course, they themselves didn't know what they were carrying in, but the Kunlun slave that Shen Yun met was an exception.

One night a year ago, he helped the Imperial Bank deliver gold coins to a Class A prison. Because he was afraid of a lot of people, and there were not many gold coin bags, the bank invited him to work alone at that time. His physique can indeed be used by one person for ten people. Everything was going well, but just as he was transporting the last packet of gold coins, he tripped and fell to the ground, and the gold coin bag on his shoulder also fell apart...... So he was sent to a Class A prison.

Why not just kill him?

This was Shen Yun's problem at that time. But soon Kunlun Nu answered Shen Yun's question with his strength--- the iron railing as thick as a child's arm was as loose as a pheasant's trouser belt in front of him, and it was broken away with a slight pull. It is not easy to kill such a strong man, even if he is a black man with no status. Once more people are alarmed, it will definitely let the Yulin Secret Guard intervene as well. You know, the Yulin Secret Guard is not ignorant of the matter of the Imperial Bank, but he just can't find a reason to intervene. So Landian let Shen De be imprisoned in a Class A prison.

As for why he was deaf by Tu Tianjiao's punch, it was purely because this Kunlun slave was too honest, and he didn't let out a fart when he was caught before, but that day Tu Tianjiao came to inspect the prison (in fact, he came to ask Shi Qian), he wanted to come out of the cell to find Tu Tianjiao to redress his grievances, but before his feet stepped out of the twisted iron railing, Tu Tianjiao's fist had already hit his temple......

That's how it happened. These contents are still Shi Qian stammering Shen Yun out of his mouth--- I have to say that this Shi Qian is really a language genius, and being a thief to do his part can be regarded as unparalleled in ancient and modern times.

Gossip is less, and the book is back to business. Bu Chan took a closer look around, this was a ninety-degree three-dimensional concave angle, and fifty meters away was the lighthouse of the Yulin Army, but their lights always avoided this corner intentionally or unintentionally. Bu Chan clinged to the already mottled prison wall, and she didn't see any big movement, just turned her back to the wall, her arms were spread, and her hands and feet jumped up a few meters, and then a few meters......

The delicate body tightly wrapped in the night clothes slowly moved upward, with a slender neck, a towering chest, and then a flat lower abdomen, tight and slender legs, and the deep and concave mysterious delta actually made him feel a wolf howl when it appeared in front of Shen Yun with a vague feeling...... Damn, it's torture!

Fang Cheng glanced at Shen Yun nervously: "What's wrong?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, maybe I sprained my foot!" Shen Yun hurriedly waved his hand in a low voice, and when he looked up again, Bu Chan had already gone up more than ten meters and was already hidden in the darkness. At this moment, Shen Yun felt that he was watching an angel soar to the heavenly realm, although this angel was wearing black clothes......

"By the way, how do you know that Bu Chan will definitely help us? Also, how could she have such good kung fu? Fang Cheng suddenly leaned into Shen Yun's ear and asked, "You asked me to go to her as soon as I came back, aren't you afraid that she will reveal the secret of my sudden return to Beijing?" ”

Shen Yun said with annoyance: "Brother Teng Yu, why did you become so problematic?" I remember you used to be very crisp and concise...... Well, I'll answer you when I'm done, okay? ”

Fang said, "I knew you would say that...... That's it, the Huainan Hou family and the Bohai Hou family ......"

"Together!" Shen Yun interrupted him, "Brother Teng Yu, don't stress this point anymore, your ears are almost out of the cocoon!" ”

Fang Cheng smiled, and a hemp rope suddenly hung down on the black top, Shen Yun bolted the hemp rope neatly to his body, and then stretched out his hand and pulled it, and suddenly felt like a cloud flying up like a fog.

If it weren't for his mental preparation, Shen Yun would have almost screamed--- this is definitely more exciting than riding a roller coaster!

When Shen Yun stabilized his mind and found that he had arrived at a window, Kunlun Nu's black face that was almost mixed with the night suddenly appeared, which startled Shen Yun again--- I don't know if it was the reason for being a thief, Shen Yun was easily frightened tonight.

The huge force that pulled him up just now was done by Kunlun Nu. Bu Chan had already tied another hemp rope to the roof, and Shen Yun climbed through the round window that only allowed his head to enter, and came to the roof. This is not the case with Chinese-style architecture, where the roof is always roof tiles, and when it is lifted, the beams are revealed, and many thieves who steal people and money enter the house in this way. Shi Qian was already here to respond, and soon Shen Yun and Bu Chan were brought in, and Fang Cheng also concocted the same method and entered smoothly.

Returning to this prison, Shen Yun had a special feeling in his heart.

"Bai Xiaosheng, the master of the rivers and lakes, the third child of the poisonous dragon stone in Gui Street, the time of the flea on the drum, the Hou Kan of the East China Sea, the young marshal Ouyang Fu who steals incense, and the king of the thousand catties of power Zhang Ji ......" Shen Yun introduced these people to Fang Cheng one by one, and then laughed loudly: "Brothers, Shen Yun did not break his promise, and finally came back!" ”

Fang Cheng was a little worried when he heard Shen Yun laughing so loudly, but Shen Yun told him that all the deaf and dumb deputy prisons in this prison were in this prison, and Fang Cheng also smiled and said, "In this way, wouldn't God help me wait?!" ”

Bai Xiaosheng smiled: "Exactly." The 'Zhenlong Bureau' set by the prince is really unparalleled in the world! ”

This is clearly a sycophant. Before and after this strategy, Shen Yun didn't have any strength at all, it was all Hou Kan Shiqian who was busy with their work. It's just that someone really needs to take the lead to do this, and this leader must also have a certain amount of courage and gangsterism!

Bu Chan said coldly: "If you want to catch up, let's wait until we go outside." Now that you're here, what's next? ”

Shen Yun asked Fang Cheng: "Brother Teng Yu, did I let you bring the things you bring?" ”

Fang Cheng nodded, took out a row of silver needles inserted in the cloth bag from his arms and handed it to Shen Yun.

Shen Yun took it and handed it to Shi Laosan in the cell, and said with a smile: "Next, it depends on Shi Qian and Shi Laosan's methods!" ”

Shi Qian flipped off the beam with a somersault, clenched his fists and smiled: "Order!" ”

After that, he opened the cell that Shi Laosan had begged for five years and didn't open for him, and climbed out of the roof with Shi Laosan on his back. After a while, the door of the Grade A prison opened from the outside, and Shi Qian and Shi Laosan stood at the door with a smile, waiting for everyone.

The deputy prison outside the door all fell to the ground.

Fang Cheng was taken aback: "This, you killed them?" ”

Shi Laosan smiled and said, "No, it's just a needle in their sleeping hole." These deaf and dumb guys were startled by Shi Qian and made a move, and it was done in one fell swoop! ”

Ouyang Fu muttered, "If my Ecstasy Incense hadn't been confiscated, why would I need to work so hard......

Outside the cell were the stairs leading to the first and second floors, and the iron doors were all useless in front of the times, and they could be opened at the touch of a button.

Everyone poured down, only to see a two-tiered hemp bag appear in front of everyone.

Hou Kan took the lead, rushed up and tore open one of the sacks, and the yellow, orange, orange, and orange gold coins that exuded a tempting soft golden light suddenly poured out, and the hearts of the people who shook continued to tremble, and the exclamation was blocked in their chests, and they couldn't shout out!

Hou Kan threw himself into the pile of money and roared from his throat with a crying voice: "Mother, Lao Tzu has never seen so much money in his life...... I knew that money came so easily, why did Lao Tzu fight for life and death at sea, and the wife who fell in the end was separated, and even the old lady had to rely on others to support him! , ......"

Hou Kan was so out of shape, no one blamed him. Perhaps there are many people in this era who have hundreds of millions of gold coins, but if you want to see so much money at one time, it is estimated that even the emperor has never had this kind of experience. Even Bu Chan was stunned for a long time, looking at the sacks full of grains, and muttered: "With so much money, how can we move away?" ”

Shen Yun smiled: "Don't worry, there is a chapter and, I'm afraid that there won't be enough things!" What's more, this Kunlun slave is not blind! ”

Zhang Ji smiled honestly and rubbed his hands excitedly. He stole a thousand stones of grain in one night, and it is estimated that it is not enough to have a sack of value here, and now there are so many gold coins for him to claim, he is an honest man who is a little unable to hold on.

"But how do we get out of this money? Outside the door is the Yulin Army! Fang Cheng's excitement was followed by worry. With so much money, even Fang Cheng, who has never worried about money, is red-eyed, but after his eyes are red, he is worried that he won't be able to get it. Gains and losses are an accurate portrayal of his mood now.

Shen Yun patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, the East China Sea Shark King and Bai Xiaosheng have already arranged it, and those Yulin Army will definitely be quieter than these deputy prisons tonight." As for those prisons, hehe, Shi Laosan's silver needles are still a lot left......"

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The next day, as soon as Lan Dian arrived at the main bookstore of the Imperial Bank, a fat man who was sweating profusely and even had a slightly deformed smile stood in front of him.

"Blue, Lord Lan, all the felons in the Grade A prison escaped last night!"

Lan Dian's heart jumped, and he opened his mouth to ask but didn't dare to ask that question. The fat man, with a smile that was more ugly than crying, suddenly howled: "It's gone, three billion billion gold coins, all gone......"

Lan Dian fell to the ground with a pop and fainted instantly!

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Since the act of treating the Grade A prison as a bank vault is confidential, the Imperial Bank cannot make the matter public, and can only let the Dali Temple secretly investigate. At the same time, Lan Dian also asked the Queen Mother, hoping that the Queen Mother could come forward and let the second town of Yulin Secret Guard arrest all those felons, and maybe claim the gold coins back.

The Queen Mother almost fainted in anger at first glance, screaming to investigate thoroughly. The Yulin Secret Guard also acted "actively" after learning of this, at least on the surface. The emperor was also "thundered and furious", and repeatedly said to the empress dowager that the murderer would be brought to justice, and ordered Tu Tianjiao to solve the case. Tu Tianjiao also repeatedly told the Queen Mother that he must catch the murderer as soon as possible, and said: "This is a giant thief of the country, and he will be arrested and beheaded immediately, and he will not be tolerated!" ”

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The "giant thief" who Tu Tianjiao said would never be tolerated was sitting on the official ship to Bohai County at the moment, counting the gold coins in his hand with great interest.

“1、2、3、4、5…… 12968、12967、12968…… Damn, what's that money! It's annoying to be a rich man! A certain gentleman said with a wicked smile on his face.

"Yuan Rang, this can't be counted? When Buchan asked you for half of it, you still disagreed...... Hehe, I can't see that even the Yulin Secret Guard is involved in this operation! Fang Cheng laughed.

"This is called the official and bandit family! Damn, if they hadn't promised to give His Royal Highness Duke Hu a sum of military expenses, I wouldn't have given them my hard-earned money! Alas, the most unoffending person in this world is actually a woman! Shen Yun snickered.

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And other "giant thieves" also got on the official ship to the northern Xinjiang, and the official ship was planted with a majestic Han imperial flag, and His Royal Highness Hu Gong grabbed a handful of gold coins and smiled from ear to ear......