Chapter 117
Hearing Tang Yin's reprimand, Wang Meng sobered up a little, he looked at Tang Yin with blank eyes, and said in a trembling and weak voice: "My lord, my subordinates know that I am wrong, my lord spares his life......"
"It's late!" Tang Yin didn't bother to look at him more, turned around, and said as he walked out: "Chop!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Cheng Jin pulled out the knife, aimed it at Wang Meng's neck, and slashed it viciously. Easy Reading on Phone: Organized
As the cold light flashed, Wang Mengdou's big head rolled from his shoulders to the ground, Cheng Jin lifted it up and followed Tang Yin out of the bedroom, leaving only the continuous screams of women in the room.
When he got outside, Tang Yin looked back at Cheng Jin, the more he looked at it, the more he appreciated it, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and felt that Cheng Jin was calm, thoughtful, and had a good cultivation, so he was called a rare talent.
If he didn't pay much attention to Cheng Jin and the Dark Arrow at the beginning, now he has to look at him with admiration.
At this time, he was worried about the shortage of silver due to the expansion of the army and the purchase of war horses, and it was a solution to the urgent need to steal one million taels of silver from Wang Meng's house. Tang Yin was angry and faintly joyful at the same time, and he said to Cheng Jin: "Cheng Jin, you have made a great contribution this time, what reward do you want?"
"Do things for adults, subordinates don't want to be rewarded!" Cheng Jin arched his hand and said with a positive color.
Tang Yin nodded with a smile and said, "Meritorious rewards and punishments are justified." Each person will be credited with a great merit and rewarded with two thousand taels of silver. After a pause, he said again: "Cheng Jin, you have done a good job in this matter, continue in the future, and strictly investigate the corrupt officials in the county, now, you can try it first, and if the evidence is conclusive, the officials below the city lord can be cut first!"
Investigating Wang Meng's matter, there were millions of taels of silver in plain white, which made Tang Yin taste the sweetness, and naturally he would not stop there, Wang Meng is still like this, I think there are still corrupt officials in the county, he wants to continue to investigate with secret arrows, one can correct the atmosphere of the officials in the county, and the other can also fill the silver treasury, killing two birds with one stone.
However, the authority he gave to Cheng Jin was large enough, and the first trial of officials was enough to be scary, and the first and then the officials below the city lord were even more terrifying. Wang Meng's case not only made the name of the Hidden Arrow famous in Pingyuan County, but also made the officials in the county shy away from the Hidden Arrow and stay away.
Tang Yin's reuse of Cheng Jin naturally made the latter more attentive, and at the same time, the fact that the dark cultivators controlled the real power in Pingyuan County was also widely spread, attracting more dark cultivators to come and defect, plus a group of friends brought by Cheng Jin himself, within a few days, the members of the dark arrow had expanded to more than thirty people.
Although the cultivation of each member is uneven, they are all dark cultivators.
Due to the increase in the number of people, in order to facilitate management, Cheng Jin set up three teams in the dark arrow, those who are high will enter the first team, those who are poor will enter the third team, and those who are not inferior will enter the second team.
In addition, he also ordered uniform clothing and armor for the members of Dark Arrow. The members of the dark arrow are all wearing black cloth clothes inside, black leather armor on the outside, no helmet on the head, black swords on the back, and a saber across the black leather scabbard around the waist.
He immediately asked Guan Yuanji to find the Mozambican horse merchant Zhao Fu, and ordered 3,000 Mozambican war horses at a price of 80 taels each, plus the 1,000 horses ordered before, a total of 4,000 horses, and hastily calculated, so many war horses also cost more than 300,000 taels of silver.
Tang Yin bought so many war horses at once, which made Zhao Fu extremely happy, and he promised that it would be delivered within half a month. He did not stay long in Hengcheng, but on the same day he took his servants back to Mozambique to prepare the horses.
After sending Zhao Fu away, Tang Yin and Guan Yuanji went to the silver treasury of the county capital, looking at the antiques, brocades, and cloths seized from Wang Meng's house, Tang Yin rubbed his chin and said: "If you sell all these things, you can get back a lot of silver!"
Tang Yin used to be indifferent to money and didn't care, but now it's different, as long as he hears money, his eyes light up, it's not that he has become greedy, but at this time he can better understand the importance of money in troubled times. Expanding the army, purchasing supplies, buying grain and grass for military horses, distributing military salaries, and subsidizing the dead and wounded soldiers did not need money, just waiting for the little military salaries and materials issued by the county, and the 80,000 soldiers of the Plains Army would have to starve to death and die of poverty.
Guan Yuanji nodded and said, "If you can find a big buyer, these things can be sold for almost 100,000 taels." ”
"Big buyer!" Tang Yin frowned, and muttered: "Where are the big buyers in my plain county?" Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered a person, the young girl he met in the teahouse a few nights ago, she claimed to be a member of the Fan family, and the Fan family was not a big buyer?
If I go and ask her to buy these things, I don't know if she can accept it? Thinking about it, Tang Yin shook his head again, he is not a person who will take the initiative to ask for help, not to mention that the other party is still a woman, and a woman who doesn't take him seriously.
Tang Yin suddenly grinned, looked at Guan Yuanji, and said, "Yuanji, aren't you the biggest businessman in the county?"
Guan Yuanji smiled bitterly and said: "It used to be, but now it's definitely not, I donated all the money that my family can donate, and if I want to get money, I have to sell my house and land!"
Hearing this, Tang Yin waved his hand again and again, and said with a smile: "That's not it." He knew that since he took office, Guan Yuanji has donated a lot of money from his family to fill the county treasury, no matter how much he needs money, he can't sell Guan Yuanji to the extent of selling houses and land. "Now we still have more than a million taels of silver in our hands, and we are not in a hurry to sell these things, we will talk about it later!" Tang Yin patted Guan Yuanji on the shoulder, turned around and walked out of the silver vault.
Tang Yin wanted to sell these items to the Fan family, but he was embarrassed to take the initiative to speak, what he didn't expect was that the Fan family took the initiative to find the door.
At noon, after Tang Yin had eaten, he was taking a walk in the backyard of the county guard's mansion, when the housekeeper Tang Zhong came to report that Fan Min had come to see Tang Yin.
Fan Min Tang Yin was very unfamiliar with this name, and he didn't know this person in his impression, so he asked, "Who is she?
"My lord, she didn't explain her intentions, but she claimed to be the daughter of Fan Ju. ”
If it was before, Tang Yin didn't know who Fan Ju was, but he heard about the Fan family from Qiu Zhen, and he also knew that the head of the Fan family was Fan Ju. Fan Ju's daughter? Could this Fan Min be the woman he met in the teahouse that day who spoke wildly? Thinking of this, he calmed down and said to Tang Zhong, "Please come to her close! Let her wait for me in the hall." ”
"Yes, sir!" Tang Zhong agreed and walked away.
Tang Yin walked around the backyard for a while, then went back to the house, and then changed into clean clothes unhurriedly, and went to the lobby to see Fan Min slowly.
The Fan family is not a noble family, but it is a business tycoon, with strong family resources, rich and rival the country, and its status in the country of wind is also very important, the daughter of Fan Ju, her status is naturally noble, how dare others slack off when they see her, but Tang Yin put her in the lobby, and it was close to half an hour to wait, how could this lady of the Fan family be comfortable.
When Tang Yin arrived, she was sitting on a chair and sipping tea, tasting the third cup of tea.
Seeing Tang Yin, Fan Min put down the teacup, stood up, and said quietly: "Little girl Fan Min, I have come to meet Lord Tang!"
Fan Min doesn't know Tang Yin, but he has heard the rumors, and he also knows a little about Tang Yin's appearance, and when I meet today, I feel that the rumors are true, Tang Yin is really young, and his appearance is also handsome, and he is born with a smile, even if he looks like he is happy with a straight face, which makes people naturally feel close, but the temperament he exudes is cold. Evil spirit, bringing people an indescribable deterrent, being looked at by him, as if he was being stared at by a vicious wolf whose head may pounce at any time, this point has not been mentioned in the rumors, in general, Tang Yin's appearance and inner temperament are diametrically opposed, he seems to be a contradictory complex.
She was looking at Tang Yin, who was also looking at her. Sure enough, it's her! The woman in the teahouse who can make herself 'can't eat and walk around'! Today, Fan Min is dressed in a costume, and in addition to being beautiful, she looks even more graceful and luxurious, making it difficult for people not to focus their eyes on her. A beautiful and proud woman! Tang Yin sneered in his heart, his face did not show the slightest, he said with a smile: "What kind of wind is blowing today, it actually blows the eldest lady of the Fan family to my house!"
"Your Excellency is polite!" Fan Min said sarcastically: "It is an honor for a little woman to take time out of your busy schedule to meet me. Come to think of it, there must be a lot of affairs for adults?"
Tang Yin's old face was dark red, and he muttered in his heart: What a girl with sharp teeth! He laughed dryly and said, "It's okay, it's okay! Miss Fan Min is here, I don't know what's going on?"
Fan Min's face was straight, cut to the point, and said, "I have something to ask for help." ”
"Oh?" Tang Yin waved his hand and motioned for Fan Min to sit down, and then he also sat down in the main seat, picked up the teacup next to the table, and asked with a smile: "Miss Fan Min has something to say, please speak!"
"Your Excellency should know something about our Fan family?"
"Well, I know a little bit about one or two. ”
"Our Fan family wants to extend their business to Pingyuan County, including opening restaurants, teahouses, pawnshops, dyeing workshops, weaving workshops, etc. in the county, which is not only conducive to the prosperity of Pingyuan County, but also can increase the political achievements of adults.
"Of course!" Tang Yin didn't understand what her intentions were, and nodded in response as his brain turned, "Of course you're welcome." ”
"But my lord, you also know that Pingyuan County is not peaceful, not to mention the invasion of foreign enemies, all industries are also deserted, and the population is small, if our Fan family opens so many shops in Pingyuan County and invests so much money, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make money!"
"What do you mean......"
"I hope that the adults can reduce seventy percent of my Fan family's business taxes, and only in this way will our investment not lose too much, and I think the adults will not object?" Fan Min leaned forward with the handle of the chair, leaning forward, and said with a smile. Not only did she speak confidently, but she also looked like a giver. Seeing this, the official brothers standing behind Tang Yin almost had their noses crooked.