Chapter 190: Holding an Eagle
Another feather arrow came and shot straight at Lu Qianfu's chest, Lu Qianfu's long knife was raised and knocked on the feather arrow, but the strength was a few points worse, but he couldn't knock the feather arrow away and shoot it on the shoulder.
Seeing this, Xu Mingyuan threw out the Qingshuang long sword in his hand, and passed through the chest of Lu Qianfu, who was staggering backwards.
Lu Qianfu's body shook and fell backwards on his back.
The two followed up the room, Xu Mingyuan stretched out his hand and pulled out the long sword that pierced into the wooden wall, looked at Lu Qianfu, who was out of breath on the ground, and said a little puzzled: "How is this person's martial arts not like a person who has broken through the realm of the second grade for many years?" ”
"This person is good at using a left-handed knife, and he can still survive until now after being poisoned, and his internal strength is already strong." Wuya put away the dagger in his hand and said coldly.
Xu Mingyuan nodded thoughtfully, the blade used by Wuya was a dagger, which seemed to be smeared with poison, although he failed to assassinate successfully, he also broke Lu Qianfu's arm, and his strength dropped greatly after the poison, so he was suppressed by Lao Lei with a feather arrow.
There were also one or two sounds of bowstrings letting go from time to time outside the house, it should be that Lao Lei was finishing, since Lu Qianfu was dead, Xu Mingyuan and the three of them had completed their tasks.
As soon as the two of them walked out of the house, two figures just jumped down from the roof, it was Leng Ye and Chu Yue, and after a while, a strange whistle sounded outside the courtyard wall, it was the unique whistle of Yuntai Division, it should be the people in the front yard who were easy to solve.
Wuya looked at Leng Ye and Chu Yue and asked, "Have you got the things?" ”
Chu Yue nodded, and with a lift of his hand, it was a blue and white package, which should be wrapped with one or two account books.
"Where's the silver?" Wuya continued to ask.
"Just in time, they were just getting ready to give a gift." Leng Ye replied coldly, turning sideways slightly, it was a bulging black package.
"Get out of here first, and the people from Jingzhao Mansion should be here tomorrow. Half of the credit on the bright side of the credit is given to them. Wuya glanced at the account book in Chu Yue's hand and the package on Leng Ye's body, and said softly, walking towards the courtyard wall first, stepping on the rockery, and climbing over the wall out of the courtyard.
Xu Mingyuan and others also climbed out of the courtyard wall. followed Yi and Wuya into the darkness.
Half an hour later, in a small courtyard in the southeast corner of Yongxingfang, an oil lamp was lit in a room, but the window was covered with a heavy black curtain.
Xu Mingyuan and Wuya sat opposite each other at a square table, and there were two packages on the table. Lao Lei stood by the window, out of nowhere, he found a black cloth, and gently wiped the horned giant bow, Chu Yue sat on a chair, also wiping the long sword.
Yi and Leng Ye were not in the room. Outside the house, on the wall of the courtyard, there were two figures, and there was no one to say a word.
Wuya untied the package containing the account book, there were two thick blue ledgers inside, Wuya flipped through it casually, but he couldn't help but be stunned, and his face became a little strange.
"What's wrong?" Xu Mingyuan asked softly, reaching out to pick up another ledger to take a look, and his face couldn't help but change slightly.
Wuya put the ledger in his hand on the table. looked at Xu Mingyuan and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to cast the net this time, and the rabbit and the eagle were all caught together." ”
"This is the income record of Beifeng Building in the past two years. In every pen, innocent people have died, and these people really deserve to die. Xu Mingyuan also put down the ledger in his hand, and said in a deep voice.
Wuya tapped his finger on the ledger in front of him and said, "This is a record of the bribes paid by Beifeng Tower to some imperial court officials in the past two years, and each one is recorded in detail. Although Cao Cheng ranked third in the North Wind Building, he was known as Cao Xiucai, and it was said that he was still on the Jinshi list back then. He was in charge of the account of the North Wind Tower. ”
When Xu Mingyuan heard this, he couldn't help but be slightly surprised, originally he thought that the account book in Wuya's hand was also the account book of Beifeng Tower, but he didn't expect it to be a record of bribery to officials in the DPRK and China.
"Who is the person behind this North Wind Tower?" Xu Mingyuan looked at Wuya and asked.
Wuya thought for a while and said, "It should be Zhang Liang, the prince of Changping County, but this person rarely interferes with Beifeng Tower." I'm afraid that only two or three people in the North Wind Tower know about this. There is no trace of him left on this ledger, so there is no way to rely on this to do anything to him. ”
"Changping County Prince......" Xu Mingyuan thought lightly, his brows furrowed slightly, this county prince is a first-class title behind the national prince, and it is a second-class grade. If this Changping County Duke is really the master behind Beifeng Tower, then why did he use all the money obtained by Beifeng Tower to bribe the officials of the DPRK and China.
If a person of his status still wants to climb up, it is no longer something that can be done by the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government with a few kind words, and without real great merit, it is impossible to be promoted from the county prince to the state prince.
Xu Mingyuan stretched out his hand to take the account book in front of Wuya, and flipped through a few pages at random, and the officials recorded on it, from the Zhongshu Shilang to the thousands of households in the Yulin Army, were actually all-encompassing.
If it is said that a close minister of the Son of Heaven such as Zhongshu Shilang is still worthy of Zhang Liang's friendship, then the Yulin Army Thousand Households should not appear in this account book at all, and then look at other officials, almost half of the courtiers above the court.
Xu Mingyuan suddenly remembered something, looked at Wuya and said softly: "Who is this Liang close to?" ”
If you ask ordinary people this, you naturally don't know how to answer, but from the moment you just looked at the account book, Wuya, who had a strange face, obviously knew something.
Hearing Xu Mingyuan's question, a different color flashed on Wuya's face, and he was silent for a while before he nodded and said: "The king of Changping County divorced his wife and remarried, I heard that the current lady is the sister of Jing Zhao Yin, and Jing Zhao Yin's Mansion is opposite the door of Xiangwang Mansion." ”
Wuya's words seemed to have said nothing, but he said everything, Xu Mingyuan understood after thinking about it carefully, nodded and said: "It seems that the eagle is quite big this time, we estimate that we can't eat it, copy out a copy of this accounting record tonight, and give it to Jing Zhaoyin's people as evidence, and I will hand over the rest to Chen Yanshi for him to decide." ”
Xu Mingyuan put the bribery account book in front of him, and pushed the other account book to the cliff.
Wuya nodded, reached out and grabbed another package, and said with a smile: "It's quite heavy, it seems that tonight's income is not bad." ”
The package was opened, and inside was a stack of silver tickets from Longxing Qianzhuang, which seemed to have more than 100 tickets, all of which were one hundred and two silver tickets. There was also an ingot of silver at the bottom, and it also looked like a dozen taels.
Wuya counted carefully, a total of more than 12,300 taels, which is a lot of money, it seems that it is indeed as Leng Ye said, Beifeng Lou should be preparing to give gifts these days.
What is recorded in the account book, those who are three or four grades, to say the least, are also sent from thousands of taels of silver, and the wealth can be seen.
Wuya divided the silver ticket into two halves, tapped it, and directly put half of it in front of Xu Mingyuan.
"What is this?" Xu Mingyuan looked at the thick stack of silver tickets in front of him and said with some doubts.
"The old rule, you take half of it, and the rest of the brothers divide it." Wuya said with a smile, putting the remaining silver ticket and silver together and wrapping the package back together. (To be continued.) )