Hao Ling is also the cousin and nephew of the county master, and Zhang Zhutou listened to his orders and hurriedly escorted the five people back to the county office.

Hao Yu still couldn't believe that everything he had experienced was actually a scam, he really wanted to catch up again, and ask Tu Xiongwei, how could all this be fake? He's seen their ships, they've seen their goods, he's even seen their shops, how did the most real thing become fake? Moreover, he has already invested 80,000 taels into it, if all this is fake, what face does he have to face his father and mother?

"You let go of me! You let go of me! This can't be fake, absolutely impossible! Hao Yu roared angrily at Hao Ling, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he pointed at Hao Ling with a desperate and angry hand, and asked, "Tell me the truth, did you do all this?" Did you instruct them to deceive me and deceive me so much? ”

Hao Ling was simply speechless, he saved him and didn't say anything, why did he still spread the matter on his head? Besides, if he hadn't brought someone over in time today, God knows how much of a mistake Hao Yu would have made!

He pressed Hao Yu's shoulder with one hand and said in a deep voice: "Hao Yu, calm down!" How could I possibly do such a thing? Calm me down! ”

Hao Yu couldn't bear such a big blow, he looked like crazy, he almost stared at Hao Ling with tears in his eyes, and roared angrily: "Impossible, impossible!" You must have done it, who else but you? You must have done it! ”

Hao Ling was speechless, his heart was ruthless, and he simply slashed a knife on the back of Hao Yu's neck, and he continued to talk nonsense here, making things even bigger.

As soon as this incident came out, Hao Fu's face was already even bigger, and he couldn't make a bigger disturbance.

He led someone to arrest someone here, presumably the news has reached his father's ears at this moment, and he doesn't know how his father will deal with this matter. Anyway, he has fulfilled his responsibility as a big brother, and since he discovered Hao Yu's behavior, he has worked hard to investigate this matter.

In order not to worry the old lady, Hao Ling decided not to send Hao Yu back to Hao's mansion for the time being, but temporarily opened a room in the inn outside, and ordered someone to take care of him in the inn. After everything was arranged, Hao Ling went to find Master Hao.

Sure enough, even though Taihe County is not small, such a big thing happened and quickly reached the ears and eyes of Master Hao.

As soon as he saw Hao Ling appear in front of him, Master Hao snorted angrily in a cold voice.

Hao Ling stepped forward with an indifferent expression, and said with a straight face: "Dad, you have already heard about Hao Yu, right?" ”

Master Hao's face was ugly, and he nodded reluctantly.

Hao Ling sighed and persuaded: "Dad, Hao Yu is still young after all, and it is possible to be deceived, but he is just confused for a while, I have already asked people to arrest those liars, and after the county officials interrogate them, I will track down the whereabouts of the tens of thousands of taels of silver." ”

In the past two years, Master Hao has gradually put the focus of business in the hands of Hao Ling and Hao Yu, and he is only responsible for meeting with those old friends from time to time and continuing to cooperate, so he doesn't know about 80,000 taels of silver at all.

Hearing Hao Ling say this, Master Hao couldn't help but be stunned, and said in surprise: "What tens of thousands of taels of silver?" Could it be that Hao Yu was cheated of tens of thousands of taels of silver? ”

Hao Ling didn't have time to tell Master Hao about the matter, originally hoping to secretly help Hao Yu recover the tens of thousands of taels of silver, and Hao Yu of the province was punished by Master Hao, but people are not as good as heaven, and he hasn't had time to investigate the matter clearly. I can't, and I can only catch those bandits first, and then interrogate other things.

"Daddy, it's the child's fault! A few years ago, I found that the money in the shop seemed to be a little nervous, but it was only because I was busy everywhere during the New Year, so I didn't pay attention to it for a while. It was only after the year that the investigation began, and this investigation actually found out what happened. Hao Ling stood in front of Master Hao, and slowly recounted the matter in a deep voice, "When the child settled the accounts, he found that there were a lot of fake accounts, and the total was as much as 80,000 taels!" Eighty thousand taels is definitely not a small amount, and the child felt that there must be something inside, so he didn't tell his father about it for the time being, but just investigated it himself. ”

Subsequently, the child found that the 80,000 taels of silver seemed to have been taken by Hao Yu, so the child kept sending people to follow Hao Yu to see who he was dealing with, and where he spent the 80,000 taels of silver. Until two days ago, the person who had been following Hao Yu told me that Hao Yu had been in frequent contact with a few people in the past two days, and listening to the content of those people's conversations, it seemed that they were traveling at sea. ”

As soon as the child heard that something was wrong, he quickly arranged for a few more people to thoroughly investigate the matter, only to find out that the five people were habitual offenders, who had already been wandering around the country, and somehow arrived in Taihe County in the past two years, and they didn't know how to contact Hao Yu. Today, the child can be regarded as having been arrested with someone. ”

Hao Ling carefully told Master Hao about the general process, and then stopped talking, he had already done everything that should be done, and the rest depended on how his father would deal with it, as for the official government, it was all a family anyway, so it was easy to deal with it.

Old Master Hao's expression had changed from anger just now to exhaustion, he waved his hand at Hao Ling, signaling Hao Ling to go out first for the time being, and let him be alone for a while.

Hao Ling saluted respectfully and withdrew.

The matter has been generally dealt with, what should be grasped has been caught, what should be pulled has been pulled, and there is no need to rush the rest, and there is time to deal with it slowly.

Master Hao stayed in the house for a long time before he came out.

This matter is also very easy to deal with on the surface, for the time being, deal with the five liars first, ask the specific whereabouts of the 80,000 taels of silver, if you can recover some, it is also good. After all, such a large sum of silver taels is here, even if those people use it so badly, it can't be spent so quickly, right?

When it comes to the county office, where can those five liars be allowed to talk nonsense? Under the heavy punishment, the five people quickly confessed everything one after another.

What made Master Hao infinitely desperate was that the 80,000 taels of silver had really been spent by a few of them, and there was nothing left! However, it is not without gains.

Although those five people were liars, some of their experiences were also true.

A few years ago, the five of them were indeed engaged in overseas trading business, using huge ships to transport goods back from overseas and sell them, making a huge difference from them. It's just that, in a shipwreck, their ship capsized, and all the cargo was gone, and they were just lucky enough to pick up a life and come back, and there was nothing left.

It was not easy to build a giant ship across the sea, and even if they wanted to do the business they used to, they could no longer afford to build a big ship. No, I had to embark on the road of fundraising, to put it mildly, that is, to embark on the road of cheating money.

They have their own real experiences, so they also fool many people with half-truths.

Hao Yu was young and ignorant, coupled with his youth and vigor, he wanted to surpass Hao Ling wholeheartedly, and without being vigilant, he fell into their way.

In addition to the 80,000 taels of silver, part of which was used by them, they handed over the other part to the shipyard to build a huge ship across the sea. It's not like they haven't thought about it before, but they've never really been able to raise so much silver like this time.

Most of the funds for the big ship have been given to the shipyard, and only a small part has not been given, and the construction of the big ship is not a matter of more than a month, at least it will take more than half a year.

After learning about this, Master Hao personally took Hao Ling to the shipyard eight hundred miles away from Taihe County, looking at the big ship with a length of more than 100 zhang, Master Hao was speechless.

Their family had never been in the water business, so what could they do with such a huge ship? Most of the inland rivers are relatively small, and there is no need for such large ships, so is it difficult for them to do maritime trade?

As soon as this idea appeared, it was vetoed by Master Hao himself!

There are so many things to risk in the maritime business, and for their own sake, the family business is now sufficient. If it continues to expand, I'm afraid that I won't be able to cope with it well.

I have to say that Master Hao is a wise person. From a human point of view, everyone wants to climb higher and higher, wishing that they would never reach the top! After all, human desires are endless. Infinite pursuit can only make people's greed heavier.

Now, Hao Mansion is just quite famous in Taihe County, Hao Yu has already embarked on such a road, and has been deceived by a few liars, if Hao's family business is bigger in the future, God knows how many liars will come to cheat again.

Can you see through one person's deception, can you see through two? Three, four, how many?

Master Hao then had a private conversation with the owner of the shipyard, probably just to ask if there was anyone else who wanted this ship, and if anyone else wanted it, Hao Fu would transfer it out at a cheaper price.

This is a large shipyard, and a lot of big ships are built here every year, so when Master Hao proposed to transfer the ship at a low price, the shipyard owner agreed after a few nonsense words, and gave Master Hao 40,000 taels of silver.

In addition to the 40,000 taels of silver, two houses and a lot of gold, silver and jade were also recovered. Although there is no shortage of these Hao Mansions, it is okay to put them away, and Master Hao did not resell them, but only regarded them as his own private property.

I have to say that the five crooks will enjoy life, the two houses are located in a street away from Haofu, the house occupies a huge area, in addition to the two courtyards, there is a large small lake in the courtyard, the small lake leads to the moat, the lake water is crystal clear, and there are many goldfish of all colors in the lake.

Come to think of it, if it weren't for the construction of a big ship, the five crooks would have each bought one of these houses, right?