Episode 4 Traps

Xiang Xiaoqiang opened the glass lid of the candy box and looked at it carefully for a while.

He immediately realized that it wasn't sugar. This one is heavier than sugar and doesn't have a bit of stickiness. Xiang Xiaoqiang pinched the "candy" and observed it carefully. Deep rose red, the size of peanuts, somewhat translucent, with a rough surface that looks very similar to the texture of a sugar cube.

It can't be a gem, right? It occurred to him suddenly. But he shook his head again, feeling that it was wrong. No matter how you look at it, this is too far from the feeling of "gem". He was shining in the light, a little transparent, but poor, like a dark red pebble.

No, it's definitely not a gem. …… So what is it? Could it be a candy cube? Xiang Xiaoqiang hesitated, stretched out his tongue and licked it. …… There is no taste at all.

He put the "candy cube" back in the box and looked at the others. There are a total of eighteen sugar cubes in the box, three white, five blue, five red, and five green. The size is about the same, the size of peanuts. Xiang Xiaoqiang suspiciously picked up the blue and green sugar cubes again and looked at them, they all felt similar to the red ones, not like sugar cubes, but they were definitely not like any gems.

Xiang Xiaoqiang picked up another white sugar cube. This white sugar cube is also very transparent, and the surface is rough, which looks like a rock candy. But it's heavy in your hand, and it's cold.

"Damn," Xiang Xiaoqiang became impatient and scolded, "What the hell is this!" …… Autumn Stream! Xiuxiu! ”

As soon as he shouted, the guards at the door immediately called Qiu Yu and Xiuxiu over. Xiang Xiaoqiang pushed the box of candy in front of them and said:

"Look, this is what someone's company bought for you, saying that it was for you to eat as a snack,...... Eat yourselves. ”

"Ah, what a beautiful candy!"

Qiu Yu smiled, reached out and pinched a red one, and was about to fill it in his mouth. Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that Qiu Yu really wanted to eat, and he was very frightened, and Xiuxiu hurriedly shouted:

"Don't Qiu Yun!"

Qiu Yu himself had already discovered that something was wrong, and spit it into his palm in time, and said strangely:

"What is this? Not strawberry candy? …… So heavy! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was angry and laughed, and reprimanded:

"Are you really eating? If you are told to eat, you will eat, so obedient! ”

Xiuxiu also said urgently:

"Qiu Qiu, this is left by someone, it's not clear, how can you put it in your mouth? Alas, really! ”

Qiu Yun grimaced, stuck out his tongue and smiled:

"Actually, I reacted quite quickly, how could I eat it? Look, as soon as I find something wrong, I spit it out. But what the hell is this? …… Ah, I see!! ”

Qiu Yu exclaimed, holding the "candy" in his hand, and looked at the light, his eyes getting wider and wider.

Xiuxiu also picked up another candy in the box and observed, looking up at Qiu Yu at this moment. Xiang Xiaoqiang also stared at Qiu Yu and asked:

"What is it? Say it! ”

Qiu Yun looked at it very seriously for a while, and said categorically:

"It's a ruby!"

"Hey ......" Xiang Xiaoqiang was deflated and sneered, "...... Do you have rubies like this? ”

Qiu Yun nodded very seriously:

"Yes, I have rubies like this in my house."

Xiang Xiaoqiang was suspicious, and was about to continue to laugh, Qiu Yun opened his mouth and said:

"Xiaoqiang, Xiuxiu, let me tell you, this is the raw material of ruby, which is the appearance of freshly mined and has not been cut and polished. What we see in jewelry stores is finished products, which are semi-finished products. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang stopped smiling, and his expression slowly became surprised. When Xiuxiu heard this, she also carefully put down the "sugar cube" in her hand, for fear of breaking it.

Qiu Yu carefully pinched each "candy", looked at the light carefully, and soon judged that the five red "candies" were all ruby raw materials.

"What about the blue and green ones?" Xiuxiu was anxious, and a very bad feeling spread throughout her body, as if these were not gems, but bombs, "And the white ones?" ”

Qiu Yu carefully looked at the others again, and was a little unsure:

"I haven't seen these two raw materials, the blue one may be a sapphire, and the green one may be an emerald."

Then she suddenly carefully pinched a white "rock candy" and exclaimed:

“…… Ah, I know this white, you know what it is? It's a rough drill! ”

"Rough drills?"

"Yes, it's diamond raw material, it's not cut! I have one of these at home! It's a rough diamond, absolutely! ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang and Xiuxiu were very surprised, and they both asked Qiu Yu how she could know this raw gem.

Qiu Yu continued:

"When I was a child, there was a big silver building in the Confucius Temple in Nanjing, and my dad used to take my mom there to buy jewelry for her...... Later, my mom passed away...... The next year, in 1929, during the Great Depression, the silver building had just bought a batch of gem raw materials, and the funds were all suppressed and the turnover could not be opened. Banks are all tightening their monetary policies, and no one is willing to lend money. The owner of the bank came to my father and begged him to lend him money.

"At that time, my master advised my father that at this time, he must cover his pockets and never put money out. But my father and the boss are old customers, and they are very familiar, and he is very bold, so he didn't listen to the master, and borrowed 20,000 Ming Yang to Yinlou. But no one expected that the economic depression would get worse and worse, all walks of life would go out of business, and no one would have the money to buy jewelry. Yinlou couldn't turn over anymore and went bankrupt. The court seized the assets, and the two remaining assets of the silver building were the largest, one was its real estate, and the other was the batch of gemstone raw materials.

"My dad was the biggest creditor, and he was awarded the raw stones. At that time, you can choose whether you want the physical goods or the cash after the court auction. Because of the economic depression, everyone wants cash, and so does my dad. But his master advised him for the second time that it was best to ask for gems. My dad asked why, and he said that in this economic depression, jewelry can't be sold at a high price, and it's not as good as a third of what it was during the boom. And the economic crisis will always pass. Now that you are not short of money, it is better to keep the gems in stock and wait until the prosperity returns in a few years, which is a big profit.

"This time my dad listened to him and accepted the raw stones. I was only thirteen or fourteen years old at the time, and I was very fond of jewelry, and I used to pester my dad for those gemstones. There are five of them, four of them are rubies, which are relatively large, each the size of a walnut, and one moment is a wool diamond, which is the raw material of diamonds, the size of half a broad bean. …… Then I accidentally broke a ruby in half, and my dad got angry and locked it up and never let me play with it again, saying ...... Well, when I grow up...... When you get married...... Hey, make a dowry. ”

Xiao Nizi finished speaking. Xiang Xiaoqiang was still unsatisfied with what he heard, and exhaled lightly, he didn't expect that his father-in-law had prepared such a dowry for Qiuqiu, and he would have such an unexpected income. Xiuxiu listened while looking at the box of "candy" on the table, and gradually cold sweat flowed down.

Xiang Xiaoqiang asked a little greedily:

"Qiu Yun, how much are your dowries worth now?"

Qiu Yu smiled and said:

"Last year, my father asked someone to appraise the price, and the raw materials of those gems were no less than 60,000 Mingyang. …… In recent years, the economy has only improved a little, and it is far from prosperity. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was amazed, Qiuqiu's father just listened to a suggestion from that master, and in six years, the capital tripled. It seems that the master has some ability.

…… How much is 60,000 Mingyang worth? Equal to thirty-one kilograms of gold. According to the gold price of later generations, it is almost more than 7 million yuan.

Qiu Yu continued to look at the eighteen gem materials, and said:

"These are not as big as my rubies, but they are much better colored...... In particular, these three hair diamonds are bigger than the one at home at every moment. Added up...... It's worth more than the ones in my house. Hundreds of thousands of Mingyang, maybe? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang was really nervous, and told Yuhuacong's manager how to leave the gift. The three men looked at each other. After a while, Xiang Xiaoqiang commanded:

"Go and invite Princess Liaoyang to come."

……

Fourteen Gege listened to the stories of several people, picked up the gems and looked at them again, frowned:

"I know a little bit about these gemstones, but I haven't touched the raw materials. Generally speaking, though, raw materials are worth between half and two-thirds of the finished product. If Qiu Yu hadn't looked away, these were really gems, then judging from the size and color alone, the total price would not be less than 200,000 Ming Yang. If there are no big cracks or impurities in it. ”

Then she saw the bamboo strip bag on the side and asked:

"This is the tea they sent?"

"yes," Xiang Xiaoqiang said, "there won't be a check in it, right?" ”

Fourteen Gege didn't speak, but carefully opened a little, took out the first tea cake, gently opened the wrapper, looked at the old label embedded in the dark tea cake, and carefully sniffed the taste, squinted his eyes, and identified it like a wine taster.

"People don't have to hold the check," Fourteen Gege carefully put it down again, looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang, and a gloating smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "This bag of antique-grade Pu'er tea has been aged for nearly a hundred years, and it is worth twenty or thirty thousand Ming Yang." …… Of course, hehe, you can't compare it to that box of candy......"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was very embarrassed, his hands were subconsciously rubbing his buttocks, and he still said:

"Won't you...... How do you know ......"

Fourteen Gege's face showed a hint of gloom, and he said faintly:

"My Amma has a few different pieces of Pu'er tea cakes, and I often make a little to drink them...... I vividly remember the look and taste of those cakes of tea, and one of them was like this. …… Tea is not produced in the north, and tea is very expensive on our side, relying on foreign companies to sell it from Daming, and the price is usually doubled. This is even more true of this superb tea. I said twenty or thirty thousand Mingyang, which is still half the price of our place. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang and Qiu Xiuxiu looked at each other again.

These 200,000 Mingyang's things, plus those two bulletproof cars, are nearly 300,000 in total. As a princess canonized by the Ming Dynasty, Fourteen Gege's annual income is only 750,000. This Yuhua Cong company is also too big.

But their calculations are in place, a military vehicle is two or three thousand Mingyang, and Xiang Xiaoqiang at least intends to purchase tens of thousands. This is the business of tens of millions of Mingyang. Even if it is not all given to one company, Yuhuacong may get a lot. Compared with such a large order, hundreds of thousands of Mingyang are undoubtedly a drop in the bucket. In Yuhuacong's opinion, for a person of Xiang Xiaoqiang's status and wealth, hundreds of thousands of Mingyang are already a great temptation, and they are the number that can be taken desperately.

Yes, Xiang Xiaoqiang went to Beiqing not long ago to play for 500,000 Mingyang. But that was only his first pot of gold. One can play for the first pot of gold, but then it won't. Especially Xiang Xiaoqiang now, he has a huge power, almost "monopolizes" the empress, and has a "mineral plan" with almost unlimited wealth...... These two or three hundred thousand can make his heart move, but it is far from enough to buy him.

Fourteen Gege muttered:

"If this is on our side, I can tell you clearly what to do now. But I don't know much about the unspoken rules of Daming. However, I always feel that Yuhua Cong Company only came once, and it seems a bit too ...... to spend such a large amount of money in less than a day It's urgent. ”

Xiuxiu also nodded again and again, looking at Xiang Xiaoqiang. Xiang Xiaoqiang also pondered for a moment, and asked Xiuxiu:

"And yet...... You told me that it is very risky to do these things in Daming? If you don't get it right, you're ruined? ”

Xiuxiu hurriedly said:

"That's right, how can the two sides send it like this without a few rounds of temptation? If it's in the North ......"

She glanced at Fourteen Geg and continued:

“…… If it is in the Northern Qing Dynasty, as long as it is sent, among the hundred officials, one hundred dare to accept it, and no one cares about it at all, so he can not think about it, and send it is ...... But in Daming, most officials did not dare to accept it. The person who sent it will worry about the official denunciation. Once the report is made, all the money will be confiscated, and a large part of the confiscated money will be rewarded to the official who reported it. Taking a step back, even if this official wants to accept it, he has to worry about whether someone has set up a bureau to deal with him, and if he falls into a trap and is taken by someone, then he will be finished. Therefore, the two sides will not dare to make such a transaction without a full understanding and repeated temptations. ”

Fourteen Gege glanced at Xiuxiu, nodded as well, and said to Xiang Xiaoqiang, that's pretty much it.

Well, Xiang Xiaoqiang understood. This kind of thing is done secretly on one side, and openly on the other. Although there are both sides, the degree is very different.

He stood up, stared at the valuable things on the table, touched his chin, and said word for word:

"In other words, someone wants to set up a situation to mess with me. …… Who is it? Xiuxiu! ”

Xiuxiu was startled, her face turned white with fright, and she muttered:

"My lord, no...... It's not me......"

"I didn't say it was you," Xiang Xiaoqiang glanced at her and said, "You go, let the security team secretly check on Yuhua Chong's company for me!" ”

Xiuxiu hurriedly ran away, and after a while, she came back with a stomachache. I had a stomachache and had already heard what Xiuxiu had said, so I ordered to go down to investigate secretly, and then I also came to the commander's office.

Now the people's guard has gathered several big think tanks. Qiu Yu couldn't say anything, so he poured tea for them on the side.

Everyone agreed that someone must be using Yuhua Cong Company to set a trap for Xiang Xiaoqiang and want to engage Xiang Xiaoqiang. Ask Xiaoqiang a few questions: First, with his current status, can he be brought down by just accepting bribes?

Several people, along with Qiu Yu, looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang in surprise.

"Why can't you pull it down?" His stomach hurt and his eyes widened, "Can't you get so many people to set up a situation for political enemies?" ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at everyone's expressions and realized that in today's Daming, this crime is also defeated. His consistent experience is that as long as there is no loss of power in the officialdom, it is very difficult for people to get out of power on the charge of corruption.

Fourteen Gege added:

"Not necessarily, Ziteng is talking about before the coup d'état, and now it is after the coup. Many rights are now out of scrutiny...... After all, Lord Xiang has won the trust of His Majesty. If Your Majesty wants to protect your lordship, no one will be able to move your lordship. But after such a fuss, it will definitely greatly damage the image of the adults in His Majesty's heart. And this is the biggest reliance of adults at present, and the most popular for others. This may also be the purpose of the other party. Even if it doesn't work this time, the other party will set up a game and frame the adult for a second or third time. As for whether the conviction can be convicted in the end, it is important to set off an uproar and make the adults stink. Both with the people and with His Majesty. ”

Several people nodded their heads, agreeing with her analysis. Xiang Xiaoqiang raised a second question: Isn't the other party afraid that after he receives the gift, he will report it directly? In this way, they will not only lose hundreds of thousands of Mingyang, but they will also be punished, and the order will be completely ruined.

Fourteen Gege analyzed:

"The other party did not send cash, second, gold and silver, and third, did not send checks, but these two strange things...... These two things are worth a lot of money, but the average person doesn't recognize them. Needless to say, Pu'er tea is these 'candies', if it weren't for Qiu Qiu's family having the same, if she recognized it, we all got together, and who knew that this was rubies, sapphires, and diamonds? Of course, it will soon be found out that it is not candy, but what it is, I can't figure it out for a while. Therefore, it is difficult to think of denunciation in a short period of time. ”

Xiuxiu looked at everyone and said hesitantly:

"Yuhua Cong is just a company, and if he has no grudges with adults, he should not be the mastermind. However, who can take advantage of such a big company as Yuhuacong? If Yuhua Cong Company does this, it is likely to lose tens of millions of Mingyang's business, and it will also be stigmatized as bribery. Who can afford such a high price? ”

Fourteen Gege thought for a moment and admitted:

"Yes, that's a problem."

Just then, an officer of the security team came in with materials in his hand and whispered something in his ear with a stomachache. With an "ah" of stomach pain, he said to Xiang Xiaoqiang:

"My lord, who do you guess is the major shareholder of Yuhua Cong Company?"

"Who is it?"

"Zheng Yuxuan!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang was stunned, and his mind suddenly brightened.

…… Zheng Yuxuan...... Jade Flower ......