Zhang Xiang knew that Su Hao was determined to talk to him about this topic, and he said it so nakedly, there were no more than two possibilities, one was to investigate him, and the other was to share the spoils with him.

Want to find out about me? Zhang Xiang sneered in his heart, aren't you afraid that something will go wrong with the river? As for wanting to share the spoils, well, I admit that in the past six months, I have paid too little filial piety to the principal, a thousand taels, or even ...... I can take out two thousand taels, if you want more, then let's fight together.

After making up his mind, he raised his head, with a calm look on his face, and said to Su Hao:

"Master Su, some rumors from the outside world can't be taken seriously. Over the years, the villain has made a little money by co-operating with others to do some small business, but when it comes to ten thousand two private businesses, I'm afraid that the rumors are not true, right? ”

"Oh? It's the money earned from doing small business, I don't know what the officials do, can the official also get a share? Su Hao asked.

Zhang Xiang said: "This is the villain's private matter, so the principal doesn't have to ask, right?" ”

Su Hao said: "I heard that the Baishi cloth store in Huai'an South City includes the shares of the chapter officials, but is there such a thing?" ”

Zhang Xiang said: "Since Master Su knows, why bother asking? ”

Su Hao said: "Although the official knows that the official has shares in Baishi Cloth Shop, he has never known the amount of share capital and the amount of dividends, so he wants to inquire with the official Zhang. If the profit is good, what does it matter if the official joins the last share? ”

"This matter is inconvenient for the villain." Zhang Xiang bit his mouth tightly, since he had already made up his mind to carry Su Hao to the death, he didn't care whether he offended Su Hao or not.

Su Hao didn't mean to be angry, he still asked questions about the east and west, asked Zhang Xiang, and asked Zhang Guanlian and Li Shibai, and unknowingly, they chatted for more than an hour. What puzzled Zhang Xiang and the others was that many of the questions asked by Su Hao were aggressive, but when his side refused to answer or even maliciously confronted each other, Su Hao was not angry, and moved on to other questions without saying a few words.

It seems that this young man is still young, and he thinks that he can blackmail him if he gets some of his handles, but in fact, he has no real evidence in his hands, and he also lacks confidence, so he will be like this, with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, he did not beat anyone, but also scared the snake...... Zhang Xiang secretly drew conclusions to Su Hao in his heart, and his courage gradually recovered.

At this moment, a person dressed as a Taoist priest walked in from outside, came to Su Hao's side, put his mouth to his ear and said something, Su Hao nodded and said, "Let them come in." ”

The old Taoist Chen Guanyu greeted the outside, and Zhou Ruyuan and a young man dressed as a scribe came in with some brochures. They all walked up to Su Hao, opened the booklet, and whispered to Su Hao. Su Hao gestured with his hand, and several people walked aside and sat down. Among them, after the young scribe sat down, he pulled out an abacus out of nowhere, and began to beep and knock, and he did not know what he was counting. However, the sound of his abacus was not loud, and it did not affect the conversation of everyone in the hall.

"Zhang Xiang, just now you said that you have a stake in Baishi Cloth Store, right?" Su Hao asked.

Zhang Xiang said in his heart, isn't this the question Su Hao asked just now? Could it be that these newcomers have provided him with some new material? He didn't know Su Hao's intentions, so he just nodded slightly and acquiesced silently.

Su Hao picked up a booklet and read: "Zhang Xiang, the third largest shareholder of Baishi Cloth Bank, has a share capital of 200 taels, accounting for seven out of two shares. The time of investment is April of Wanli 13, and since the shareholding, a total of 1485 taels of 7 money and 3 cents have been divided...... Is this number true? ”

"Where did you know?" Zhang Xiang's eyes widened, this is highly confidential information, how did Su Hao know? Could it be that the boss of Baishi Fabric Store told Su Hao the secret? It shouldn't.

"The total share capital of Baishi Cloth Bank is 2,000 taels, and you account for 2.70% of the shares with 200 taels, can you tell me why?" Su Hao asked.

Zhang Xiang knew that it was useless to deny it, so he could only insist on: "This is my personal friendship with Boss Lu, how many shares he is willing to give me, can you control it?" ”

"Of course it does." Su Hao said, "Baishi Cloth Company has nothing to do with the river project before, since you became a shareholder, the river has purchased clothing, tents, cloth bags, etc. from Baishi Cloth Company every year for thousands of taels. Based on our rough calculation of the prices of 40 of these trades, the average profit is ......"

Speaking of this, he turned his head to the young scribe, who smiled slightly, looked at the paper in front of him, and said loudly: "Back to my lord, the result of the villain's calculation is that the average profit is eighty-four percent, which is more than double the price on the market. ”

Zhang Xiang fell into an inexplicable fear, and didn't even notice that the scribe's voice was clearly a female voice. In fact, whether the scribe is a man or a woman, what does it have to do with him, the reason for his fear is that Su Hao actually got the account book of Baishi Cloth Store, and even was able to restore every purchase on the river.

"Villain...... I don't know what the adults are talking about, what the river is purchasing from Baishi Cloth Store, how can the villain know. Besides, isn't it normal for the river to purchase what from which business? Zhang Xiang resisted stubbornly in the corner.

"In October of the 14th year of Wanli, the river project purchased 1489 taels of stone from the Thai stone store, and Ning Taisong, the owner of the Thai stone store, admitted to sending you 300 taels of filial piety silver for this purpose, but there is such a thing?" Su Hao continued to ask.

"The villain doesn't know about it."

"In August of the 15th year of Wanli, the amount of 820 taels of tools such as shovels and pickaxes was purchased, and you drew 240 taels of rebates, but is there such a thing?"

"The villain doesn't know."

"In January of the 16th year of Wanli, the Zhongwu section of the river was repaired, 170,000 days of conscription, 7 cents and 5 cents of silver per person per day, and you collected an average of 1.2 percent of the fire consumption from each person's head, totaling 1,530 taels, but there is such a thing?"

"This ......" Speaking of this, Zhang Xiang was already shocked. Of course, there are things to collect fire consumption, but fire consumption comes from every servant, some people work long hours and pay more, and some people work short hours and pay less, and the proportion of fire consumption also depends on different situations, and is divided into half to two percent. Even Zhang Xiang himself didn't know that the average proportion of this fire consumption was 1.2 percent, and as for the figure of 1530 taels, he had never counted it in detail, but he had the impression that it should be about the same.

Which account book does the other party have in order to calculate such a secret and chaotic account? Zhang Xiang was completely at a loss. In his opinion, if Su Hao's data was inquired from the servants, could Su Hao ask them one by one of the tens of thousands of servants? Mathematical statistics is completely fantastical for Zhang Xiang, how could he have thought that someone only needs to investigate a small number of servants to be able to make an estimate with sufficient accuracy?

"No, no, Master Su, who are you, and why do you know so many secret things?" Zhang Xiang asked.

Su Hao said: "I'm sorry, after the official arrived, because you didn't cooperate with the official, I made the official angry." Therefore, the official sent someone to ...... secretly. I've been concerned about your little bit of business. This morning, after the official had invited you here, the public opinion camp of the official headquarters went separately to your mansions and to the trading houses with which you had money dealings, and took out some account books. By the way, I forgot to introduce to you, this girl is Miss Cheng, the chief accountant under the command of this official, and her ability to calculate accounts is worth 20 bookkeepers. ”

Speaking of this, Su Hao made a gesture to the scribe, Cheng Yi, who was pretending to be a scribe, turned crimson, and glared at Su Hao viciously while people were not paying attention.

Zhang Xiang and the others didn't care about Miss Cheng and Miss Li, their attention was focused on what Su Hao said, "Go to your mansion...... Let's go", they suddenly understood why Su Hao was talking so much nonsense to them just now, it turned out that he wanted to drag them down so that he could let his subordinates go to their house to collect evidence.

"Master Su, how dare you send troops to trespass on the villain's house!" Zhang Xiang asked with red eyes.

"It's not trespassing, it's being ordered to raid!" Su Hao glared, "This official was authorized by the River Governor's Mansion and was ordered to investigate the corrupt officials. I really don't know if I don't check, I was shocked when I checked it, Zhang Xiang, you are a small warden, the annual salary is only 6 taels of silver, and there are more than 6,000 taels of silver at home, gold, jewelry, and antiques, and the discount is not less than 20,000 taels.

The common people cut back on food and clothing, and saved money to build rivers in order to keep them safe. But you cut corners, shoddy, and deducted the food and silver taels of the servants, in less than 10 years, everyone has reaped tens of thousands of taels! Zhang Xiang, Zhang Guanlian, Li Shibai, do you think you should be delayed a few times in order to be worthy of the people of this world! ”

"Who do you think you are, there are many greedy people in this world, can you find out!" Zhang Xiang jumped up.

"Be honest!" Xiong Minfan, the new captain of the pro-soldier who was standing on the side, slapped Zhang Xiang on the shoulder, and slapped him back on the stool to sit down.

Zhang Guanlian and Li Shibai were already intimidated by Su Hao's royal spirit, and they knelt down together, kowtowing like pounding garlic: "Master Su spares his life!" The villain is willing to give all his family wealth and beg Su to spare the villain's life! ”

"Rubbish!" Zhang Xiang was pressed by Xiong Min on his back and couldn't stand up, but he could still curse in his mouth: "Lao Zhang, Lao Li, you didn't see it, this little white face has already thought about cleaning us up, is it useful for us to beg him at this time?" Don't forget, we still have a back-up move, and he can't help us! ”

"Ho ho, there's a back move, chapter warden, tell me what your back move is." Su Hao sat firmly and asked Zhang Xiang.

Zhang Xiang smiled coldly and said, "Do you think I'll tell you?" ”

"It's tough enough, it's a man." Su Hao stood up with a smile, walked in front of Zhang Xiang, and looked down at him, looking like a cat playing with a mouse.

"The surname is Su, I admit that you are ruthless, but I haven't thought about this day, I have been prepared for a long time. Since you have found out about my family property, you can take half of it, hand it over to the father-in-law, or keep it by yourself, my brother will never spit out half a word. Our only condition is to leave our brother a way to live. Otherwise, if we fight for this life, you won't end well! Zhang Xiang said awe-inspiringly.