Chapter 458: Explanation
"How do you say that?" Gu Yixuan's meaningful smile made Lin Feng a little confused. The Fang family is Qi Yuheng's money bag, and the head of the family, Fang Qian, is good at management, in his opinion, it is extremely normal to have savings. Relying on the Fang family, if you want to raise Qi Yuheng and these people, it should not be a problem.
However, Gu Yixuan's current look made Lin Feng feel that things were not as he thought, and he was really a little confused.
"In this capital, there are seven families, each of which is extremely luxurious, plus the consumption of His Royal Highness the Great Prince, just the meals, I am afraid it is beyond our imagination, not to mention the servants and attendants in the family. Gu Yixuan slowly opened his mouth and said to Lin Feng: "In the past few days, I asked Fu Huaisang to check the account books of the Cha family in recent years. Do you know how much the Maison spends each year?"
Gu Yixuan looked at Lin Feng, waiting for his answer.
"Then how do I know? Lin Feng shrugged: "But even if you don't know, listening to what you just said, you also know that it must not be a small amount." ”
"You can guess that the power is relaxed. Gu Yixuan's palms spread out and made a gesture of invitation to Lin Feng.
"I guess..."Lin Feng touched his chin, and after thinking for a while, he made a number: "So much?"
Gu Yixuan smiled softly and shook his head: "Your number is compared to your Lin family." "Everyone knows that the old general Lin Xuan has always been frugal, and the Lin family's expenditure consumption should be the last among the hundred officials.
Lin Feng's number is just counting the Lin family's biggest expenses during the Chinese New Year. But it is less than a fraction of the family.
"Continue to magnify the range of guesses, don't let poverty limit your imagination. Gu Yixuan teased, pressed Lin Feng's hand, and motioned for him to guess again.
Lin Feng pursed his lips: "You stinky boy, if you guess wrong, you guess wrong, and you still squeeze me around the bend." "Lin Feng didn't have much money on his body, but now that Qin Huaisu is by his side, most of it is handed over to her to take care of, and he is becoming more and more frugal.
How could Gu Yixuan not know such a situation, so he couldn't help but joke with him: "Eh, you are saying something wrong, you and my brother, how can I squeeze you." Having said that, the smile hidden in his eyes betrayed Gu Yixuan's inner thoughts.
"Yes, I don't fight with you, I can laugh if you want. Wait for Master Fenglin to come out, when you feel better. Glancing at the blood-red ring on Gu Yixuan's finger, Lin Feng raised his head.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Feng stretched out his hand to Gu Yixuan again and compared: "Then, so much?" This was already the price he had given to estimate the use of His Royal Highness the Second Prince.
Seeing that Gu Yixuan still shook his head, he also broke his other three fingers: "These should be half of them." Gu Yixuan's soft words made Lin Feng's eyes widen, staring at his hands: "This... It's only half?!"Unbelievable, even if Darui's treasury is emptied, it can't reach such a amount!?
"Where did all this money come from?" Lin Feng swallowed, put his hand away, and asked Gu Yixuan's eyes.
"Where did you come from?" Gu Yixuan looked at him, and then said, "Naturally, it didn't come through normal channels. ”
"Fang Qian, the head of the Fang family, heard that when he started his family, he was an outlaw who was in the market and good at gambling. Relying on a moment of luck, he made a fortune, plus he was a little clever and sleek, so he gradually found a way to gamble and make a fortune. Gu Yixuan said eloquently, and told Lin Feng about the news he sent to investigate with Lin Feng one by one: "But once a person makes a fortune, he will be remembered by the people above, and he always wants to scavenge some wealth from him, so that he can also get a piece of the pie." If you are someone else, I am afraid that you will stick to your own one-third of an acre, so that not only will your property be gone, but you may also take a life. But Fang Qian is different, he has climbed up from the bottom, and he is used to the means and tricks of collusion between these officials and businessmen. Therefore, he did not cling to his immediate interests like those people. ”
Lin Feng listened with relish, personally picked up the teapot, poured tea and water into Gu Yixuan's teacup.
Speaking that his throat was indeed a little dry, Gu Yixuan picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and continued: "Fang Qian used money to open up the relationship between the government and the government, and sought common interests with these officials, and soon developed and grew, raising these people and himself to be fat and fat. ”
"There are a lot of those officials, since Fang Qian has given them profits, how much can he gain?" Lin Feng scratched his head.
"That's where you elm head can't think of it. Gu Yixuan poked Lin Feng's head: "Fang Qian earned, but it was all huge profits, and ordinary methods naturally didn't work." Although it seems that he is in the silk cloth business now, this is just a means for him to hide his eyes. ”
took out a piece of stationery from his bosom and handed it to Lin Feng: "On this letter, it is recorded by Miss Huaisang, the list of goods that have entered and exited the family recently. Take a look. ”
Lin Feng unfolded the letter paper, read it carefully, and felt a little strange: "This is strange, how can it be all some grain and firewood? With such a large amount, when they enter the family, will they finish eating?" Lin Feng felt more and more strange as he looked at it, this grain was dry and woody, and he was still transported by water, and he was not afraid of dampness and mold?
"See what's strange?" Gu Yixuan looked at him: "Tell me what you think." ”
"My idea is that all the people in their family are rice buckets, and they are full of food. Lin Feng put down the letter and said.
Gu Yixuan just wanted to hold his forehead when he heard it, how could this nerd's brain grow like this?
A light woman's laughter came into her ears, the red ring glowed slightly, and Gu Yixuan and Lin Feng looked over one after another. After a few moments, the light on the ring faded.
"Grain and firewood are all things that cannot be damp, so many tribute oranges, neither presented to the emperor nor to the monarchs of various countries, but quietly sent into the family, don't you think there is something strange in this?" Gu Yixuan's reminder made Lin Feng suddenly realize, and slapped the table: "You mean, these so-called grain dry firewood and these tribute oranges are greasy?"
Gu Yixuan nodded: "Let's not talk about why this grain withered grass took the waterway for the time being, just talking about this tribute orange makes me extremely suspicious." His finger tapped the corner of the letter and motioned to Lin Feng, "Let's see what the total weight of this tribute orange is." ”
Lin Feng looked in the direction of his finger, his eyebrows furrowed: "This... Even if the whole sack was filled with gongju, it would not have such a weight! Such a weight, I don't think it is a tribute orange, but like a ......" A few words quickly popped out of my mind. But he didn't dare to speak, so he could only widen his eyes and look at Gu Yixuan.
"Guessed right. Looking at Lin Feng's appearance, he should have guessed it, Gu Yixuan nodded with a smile: "As you think, it's really an armament." ”
With such a weight, he couldn't think of any other reason than munitions.
"Gongju is like this, then, what about grain and dry firewood?" Lin Feng asked: "I'm afraid, those two things are not the grain and dry wood we see." ”
In the family, there is nothing, even if the firewood is exhausted, there are also servants who go up the mountain to cut it, do you need to choose such inferior dry firewood, and transport it from a distance for thousands of miles?
"Then you say, what is the grain and dry wood?" Lin Feng sat quietly and waited. I saw Gu Yixuan stand up, slowly walked to his side and stopped, put his hands behind his back, and looked up at the starry sky: "I guess, it's private salt." ”
This speculation was learned by Fu Huaisang after his last visit to Caoyun Wharf. According to Fu Huaisang, the porters at the wharf were extremely careful with the sacks containing grain and dry firewood, and the overseers also told them to handle them with care and not to damage the contents of the contents.
"If it's really grain and dry wood, which of these two things will be fragile enough that the movers need to be light-hearted?" Gu Yixuan still remembered that Fu Huaisang mentioned to him that when she went to Caoyun alone, she heard the words of the two brothers who were resting on the side.
"Private salt, His Royal Highness the Great Prince actually did such a thing that lacks morality!" Lin Feng couldn't help but scold.
"Then, are you using this to threaten Qi Yuheng?" As if he understood what Gu Yixuan meant, Lin Feng opened his mouth to ask.
I saw Gu Yixuan smile: "Brother Lin, am I such a despicable and shameless person in your eyes?
Threat, in Gu Yixuan's view, is the lowest set of tricks. He hated such people the most, because he would never have done it himself.
"No, no, no, I'm just asking you what you're going to do next. Listening to Gu Yixuan's answer, he actually felt that he was a little trembling: "You don't want to be so fierce, I'm so scared that I don't dare to speak." ”
Gu Yixuan laughed when he heard this: "Do you also have times when you are afraid?" Gu Yixuan teased: "Since when did our young general actually show weakness to me." ”
"you. Lin Feng laughed, and slapped a palm on Gu Yixuan's back, the force was so great that Gu Yixuan grinned in pain.
"Then what are you going to do?" Lin Feng was puzzled, and looked sideways at Gu Yixuan's face, inexplicably a little distracted.
"How to do it?" Gu Yixuan looked at Lin Feng: "Heh, tomorrow morning, you will be able to know." ”
Just to trouble Fu Huaisang, he wandered around and tried his best to tripped His Royal Highness the Great Prince.
"There is an appetite. Lin Feng opened his mouth and said, "You stinky boy, you always keep this wonderful place and don't talk about it, what do you mean?"
"In this matter, I have reached a consensus with Miss Fu Huaisang, I believe that we will soon be able to break Qi Yuheng's wings again. Gu Yixuan said this, with a proud look on his face.