There was a deathly silence in the hall, Qin Xiao frowned and asked: "When did you die?"
"Master Mao, it's up to you to decide this matter." Jiang Xiaochun looked at an official next to him: "You know this matter best."
The man immediately raised his hands and said: "Bao Maolu, deputy director of the bank, is a humble person. Mr. Bo committed suicide." This man was in his forties and looked quite honest. He said respectfully: "April 25th.
, it was discovered that the silver in the bank was missing that day. Master Bo knew that he was deeply responsible. When we were not paying attention, he found a rope and hanged himself. The body was still parked here for the time being, and two people were assigned to guard it, but...
..It has been half a month, and although some medicinal materials were used on the corpse, it has already rotted."
Qin Xiao and Chen Xi looked at each other and asked Mao Lu, "Mao Lu, how did you discover that Ku Yin was missing? Please tell me in detail."
Mao Lu thought for a while, obviously clearing his thoughts, and said very cautiously: "Reporting to your lord, the source of the silver in the inner treasury is mainly from the secret stores of the inner treasury in various places in Jiangnan. In the early years, there was no establishment in Jiangnan.
The inner treasury and the inner treasury silver in Jiangnan were sent directly to Kyoto. After the princess took over the inner treasury, she ordered the secret operation of business in Jiangnan, and chose to set up an inner treasury in Lingyan Mountain as the operating silver for the inner treasury shops.
Every six months, the general manager of the three states in the south of the Yangtze River will compile the accounts of each store under the name into a book, and then send the silver to the internal warehouse for storage. If each store has large transactions and needs cash turnover, it can also be done here.
Allocate money."
Everyone present looked at Mao Lu, knowing that what he said was also to let Qin Xiao and others understand the operation of Jiangnan's internal treasury, so that they could facilitate the investigation of the case.
"Are you sure he committed suicide?"
"When Lord Master Bo was discovered, many people at the bank saw it." Mao Lu said cautiously: "After the incident, Commander Jiang personally inspected the body and determined that he had hanged himself."
Jiang Xiaochun nodded and said: "Jiang can testify to this. Jiang carefully inspected the body and found that there were no other injuries on the body. He was definitely hanged to death."
Mao Lu nodded and said: "That's right. Silk is sold to Nanyang people for eight taels of silver a piece. Therefore, after this business is completed, after excluding various expenses, there will be a surplus of about three hundred thousand taels. Naturally, the price in Hangzhou is
Very happy, the manager of Hangzhou got permission from the princess, went to the inner treasury in person, brought the vehicle, and prepared to take away 200,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury. With the princess's permission, the inner treasury naturally had to transfer the silver, and Hangzhou
The manager arrived here with his people on April 25th. He opened the bank that afternoon and wanted to withdraw money from the bank, but... he suddenly found that the money in the bank had disappeared...!
"
Qin Xiao immediately asked: "Mao Lu, please make it clear that it was April 25th that the silver in the bank account disappeared. On April 24th, was there any problem with the banknotes in the bank?"
"This...!" Mao Lu hesitated for a moment before saying: "On the eighth day of April, the general manager of Suzhou wanted to allocate 30,000 taels of cash. At that time, he opened the treasury to withdraw the silver. The treasury was still there, and the thirty thousand taels of cash were transferred
The two silver coins were allocated to the Suzhou manager."
"The princess ordered back then that the silver deposits in Jiangnan's inner treasury should not be less than 500,000 taels, so even if the silver is transferred from here to Kyoto, the Jiangnan inner treasury has never been less than 500,000 taels since seven years ago.
Liang of silver." Mao Lu chose the words carefully, fearing that his words would make mistakes: "However, the business in Jiangnan is prosperous, and the cash stored here has been more than one million taels in the accounts in recent years. In Kyoto,
There is no shortage of silver there, so the princess ordered that the minimum amount of silver in the Jiangnan treasury be changed to one million taels, and the excess will be sent to Beijing every year."
"Although the Jiangnan inner treasury is to prevent the inner treasury shops from using silver, in fact, in recent years, they have taken in more and sold out. A large amount of cash is stored in the warehouse, and only a small part is occasionally transferred." Mao Lu said in a slow voice: "
Everything was going smoothly at first, but just last month, Hangzhou suddenly received a big deal. It was a business negotiated with people from Nanyang. It required 100,000 pieces of silk, and it had to be prepared before August this year.
The goods were shipped and shipped away. The cost price of silk this year was four taels of silver per piece. To purchase one hundred thousand taels of silk, four hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver were needed. The Nanyang people paid part of the deposit, and the general manager of the shops in Hangzhou also came from various places in Hangzhou.
Each shop collected nearly 200,000 taels of silver in cash, but combined, there is still about 200,000 taels short of the 470,000 taels of silver."
"So Hangzhou wants to allocate 200,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury?" Qin Xiao asked.
Mao Lu nodded and said: "Exactly. You need the key of a humble position to open the treasury. Before April 25th, the last time the treasury was opened was on the eighth day of April." He looked at an official next to him and said, "Zhang Lingli should also remember it.
clear."
Zhang Lingli immediately said: "The humble position is guaranteed by the head. On the eighth day of April, Master Mao and Mr. Zhu Bo opened the bank together, and indeed they only took out 30,000 taels of cash from the bank that day. That day was recorded in the account book of the humble position.
The accounts can be calculated. After the 30,000 taels of silver are allocated, there should still be 1,227,300 taels of silver in the bank."
"There are seventeen days between April 8th and April 25th." Qin Xiaodao: "The bank has not been opened for these seventeen days. When the manager of Hangzhou comes over, you will find that there are clearly one hundred and twenty in the account.
More than 100,000 taels of silver are available, but there is no silver in the bank?"
"I'm asking on April 24th. Is there still money in the bank?" Qin Xiao looked directly at Mao Lu.
Mao Lu shook his head and said: "This... I don't know about this humble position. The bank is an important place. The bank can only be opened when entering and leaving the bank. When entering the bank, the number of silver coins will be counted and recorded.
The account books will be sealed after being deposited into the bank. When leaving the bank, the bank boxes will also be moved out of the bank. After counting, all the money will be transferred out. Normally, even the bookkeeper cannot open the bank.
.Furthermore, there are two keys in the bank. In addition to the boss, Mr. Bo, there is also one in the humble position. It takes two keys to open the lock together to open the bank."
"This means that before the manager from Hangzhou came over, the last time the bank was opened was on the eighth day of April. On that day, 30,000 taels of cash were transferred from the bank to the manager in Suzhou?"
Chen Xi frowned and said coldly: "Not all the cash in the bank has disappeared?"
"No, there are more than 76,000 taels left." Mao Lu was stared at by Chen Xi's cold eyes, her back was hairy, she didn't dare to look at him, and lowered her head.
Qin Xiao sighed: "The news we received is that more than one million taels of silver from Jiangnan Bank disappeared overnight.
Everyone nodded. Mao Lu was also at the front of the store, but suddenly thought of something and immediately shook his head.
"Mao Lu, what do you mean by shaking your head?"
"Ji Zhi... I want to say that the cash in the bank has disappeared, but not all of it has disappeared." Mao Lu said anxiously: "I did an inventory afterwards and found that there are still seven... in the bank.
Eighty thousand taels of silver."
"I believe what Commander Jiang said, and I also believe that your guards are very tight." Qin Xiao nodded, thought for a moment, and then asked again: "Commander Jiang, there is something I want to know about these more than 200 people on the mountain.
, is it in the inner treasury all year round and never leaves?"
Jiang Xiaochun was startled, shook his head and said, "That's not true."
"Oh?" Qin Xiao asked with a smile: "We don't know the situation of the inner treasury, so I would like to trouble Commander Jiang to explain it."
Now it seems that the facts are quite different. First of all, there were seventeen days between April 8th and April 25th. You did not open the warehouse. It does not mean that the money disappeared overnight on April 24th.
, Secondly, there are more than 70,000 taels of silver left in the library, not all of them are missing."
Few people dared to speak, and the room was completely silent.
After a while, Jiang Xiaochun finally said: "Master Qin, Master Chen, and Jiang can guarantee with their heads that during these seventeen days, the inner treasury's vigilance has been as good as ever without any negligence. If more than one million taels of silver were left in the meantime,
After being transported out of the inner treasury and out of the main entrance of the inner treasury, there are three checkpoints on the way down the mountain. Unless you fly away from the sky, there are so many pairs of eyes in the inner treasury that it is impossible to avoid it."
Qin Xiao thought that from this point of view, the inner treasury guard was indeed a good job. He could still receive military pay when he was old, and he also found a good job for his children without worrying about food. Although it was really boring to stay in the mountains for two years
It's depressing, but with such treatment, I'm afraid many people would be willing to do this job.
The princess is very generous to the guards of the inner treasury, but it is precisely because of such superior treatment that these people can serve the princess wholeheartedly.
"However, officials have a day of rest." Jiang Xiaochun explained: "The generals guarding here, including the captain, have four days of rest time every month. They can take turns to go down the mountain to rest, including those who are qualified.
There are seven people on the guard side of the treasury, and there are six people on the inner treasury side who also receive the same treatment."
Jiang Xiaochun said: "Most of the people in the inner treasury are not allowed to leave the inner treasury. Not only are the guards under Jiang not allowed to go down the mountain all year round, but they also stay there for two years. During these two years, they eat, drink and have sex in the inner treasury.
When two years pass, another team will come to rotate. That team is in Kyoto and is directly selected and mobilized by the princess. The brothers who are currently guarding the inner treasury can rotate back to Kyoto at the end of this year.
If you stay there for two years, you will be transferred again for rotation."
Feixin couldn't help but said: "It's been two years. It's really not easy."
"The soldiers at the border are harder than this." Jiang Xiaochun said: "The guards at the inner treasury are treated very well. Their monthly military salary is twice as high as that of the Dragon Scale Guards in Kyoto. They also have plenty of food and drink, including fish and meat.
And the princess once promised these guards that when they get older and retire from the army, the inner treasury will still provide them with pensions and salaries, and even those who have children can replace them and join the inner treasury guards."
"Four days off for bathing?" Qin Xiao suddenly thought of something, stared at Jiang Xiaochun with sharp eyes and asked: "Commander Jiang, are you saying that on the day of the bathing break, there are thirteen people in the inner treasury who can go down the mountain and move freely?"
Jiang Xiaochun nodded and said: "That's right. These thirteen people have this privilege just because we are different from others, not because of our status, but because the two-year rotation does not include us, and there is no order from the princess to transfer us.
, the thirteen of us will always stay in the inner treasury."