When leaving the prison, Bai Cha stuffed a gold bracelet into the prison head's hands.
Please ask the other party to help take care of Ye Yuan and Ye Shu.
After making arrangements for the prison, Bai Cha held an umbrella and left.
As soon as he got off the carriage, Bai Cha saw the housekeeper running towards him in a hurry: "Girl, how is the matter handled?"
Looking at the housekeeper whose clothes were wet, Bai Cha tilted the umbrella in his hand to protect the elderly housekeeper from the wind and rain:
"Go back first, father and brother won't be back tonight."
The housekeeper's eyes turned red when he heard this: "Yes, is it the county magistrate who refuses to let me go?"
Bai Cha nodded slightly: "You have been tired for the whole day. Go back to eat first, take a hot bath, and ask the accountant to send the account books to my study."
The housekeeper couldn't care less about this. When he heard that Bai Cha wanted an account book, he knew something big was going on, so he hurriedly responded: "I'll take care of it right away."
Stacks of ledgers were moved into Bai Cha's room.
After reading all the ledgers, it was already dark outside.
Qiuli and several maids had fallen asleep on the table.
Bai Cha organized the account books.
The Ye family's property in Yancheng is equivalent to about three thousand taels of silver.
With such a huge amount of property, it’s no wonder that County Magistrate Ken Gao defied Su Baicha’s orders.
He leaned back in his chair and yawned tiredly. His body had reached its limit after a busy night.
But Bai Cha knew that she couldn't sleep yet, and Gao Chunlin would definitely make an appointment with her again today.
She asked Qiuli and others to go back to the room to rest, washed her face with white tea, and drank a bowl of barley porridge. The housekeeper came to inform her that someone from the Gao family had invited her to come over.
After changing his clothes, Bai Cha got into the carriage with his account book.
It rained all night last night, and this morning it was foggy and humid.
Entering the living room of the Gao family, Bai Cha saw Gao Chunlin sitting in the first place.
Gao Chunlin saw the white tea and smiled: "Have you had breakfast?"
Bai Cha nodded: "Thank you, Mr. Gao, for your concern. I have already used it."
"The mentality is good." Gao Chunlin didn't know what he meant.
Bai Cha lowered his head and adjusted his skirt, knowing that this was not the time to show off his words.
Seeing that Bai Cha didn't answer his words, Gao Chunlin didn't bother to chat and went straight to the topic:
"Originally I didn't want to call you over so early.
But after you left last night, there was another letter from above.
Urging me to deal with your Ye family as soon as possible, this is a letter, do you want to read it?
Forget it, let me show it to you."
As he spoke, Gao Chunlin handed the letter to Bai Cha.
After receiving the letter, Bai Cha quickly browsed it.
The shadow of Su Baicha can also be seen from the white tea in the handwriting.
After reading the letter, Bai Cha did not hand it back.
"Is this the end?" Magistrate Gao's eyes flashed with surprise.
"It's all over."
"Then you go back and raise money as soon as possible, so that I can clear up the relationship as soon as possible and release your father-in-law, don't you think?"
Gao Chunlin thought of the Ye family's property and wished he could take it for himself now.
Bai Cha lowered his eyes and handed the fake account book he had prepared overnight to the other party.
"Master Gao, this is the income and expenditure record of all the Ye family's properties in Yancheng in the past two years. Take a look."
Gao Chunlin looked at the account book in front of him, his hands trembling with excitement.
He could barely hide his greed.
Quickly open the ledger.
He wanted to see how rich the Ye family was!
But as he flipped through the ledger, Gao Chunlin's face became increasingly ugly.
The Ye family's business seems so good, but in fact it can barely break even?
In two years, the Bai family only made three million taels????
Bai Cha knew that Gao Chunlin would definitely be suspicious, so he came up with the rhetoric he had made up long ago:
“It’s true that the Ye family makes money, but the money needs to be used to open new shops and other industries and put it back into production.
Just like Rouge Zhai, all its profits must be invested in the research and development of new rouges and lipsticks.
We have to pursue quality. The materials sold on the market are uneven, so we can only invest more money to produce materials.
For example, freshwater pearls in pearl powder and beeswax in lip balm.
These expenses are invisible to others.”
Gao Chunlin's face turned dark: "Ye Baicha, I'm not here to listen to your complaints!
If you don't want to save your father and brothers, I'll take them out and chop them down right now!
Of course, you and all of you in the Ye family will be beheaded!"
Seeing that the other party took the bait, Bai Cha pretended to be frightened and burst into tears: "I, I don't mean to complain, please listen to me.
In Yancheng, the Ye family did not make much profit, but that was because the Ye family had just returned to Yancheng.
Most of the Ye family's industries are in Jiangnan.
My father has worked hard for many years in Jiangnan and other places. Over the years, the income and expenditure have been stable, and the monthly profit is about five million taels."
Hearing that the Ye family made a profit of five million taels every month, County Magistrate Gao's eyes widened instantly, and the greed in his eyes could no longer be concealed.
Thinking of so much money, his attitude towards white tea also changed from a violent storm to a gentle drizzle:
"Then show me these!
You clearly know that Uncle Gao is eager to save people.
Oh, my silly niece, don’t feel bad about money at this time.
In this way, you give me 200 million silver first, and I will clear the relationship first, and let's rescue your father and brother first. If it is not enough, I will ask you for it again!"
Bai Cha was almost shocked by Gao Chunlin's shamelessness.
Two hundred million silver?
How dare he say this!
Does he know how much 200 million silver is?
During the Qianlong period, the Qing Dynasty’s annual treasury revenue was only 70 million taels!
The amount of money He Shen embezzled was only 1.1 billion taels of silver.
He asked for 200 million silver with just one mouthful.
He is not afraid of the strong wind flashing his tongue!
"What? Do you think it's too much money?
Your Jiangnan family can earn millions of taels a month.
Yancheng is also starting to make a profit. Your family can save 200 million silver in a few years.
But if your father and brother are dead, they will never come back.
You have to think clearly about this account.
Moreover, after your father and brother die, your family’s branch will divide your family’s property mercilessly, and you won’t be able to keep it!”
Bai Cha wiped his tears and said, "Of course I understand what you said.
It’s not that I feel sorry for the money, they are all external things, and you can earn them again if you lose them.”
When County Magistrate Gao heard what Bai Cha said, he couldn't help but nod in agreement: "Yes, your idea is absolutely right."
"But, the money is not in Yancheng. My father has left the money in Jiangnan, and I need to go to Jiangnan to get it.
Didn't you say that my father and brother will be beheaded soon?
It’s a long way to the south of the Yangtze River. Every time we go there, the bodies of my father and brother are so cold when we come back..."