Chai Shanhe was pulled over by the purple-clothed supervisor and knelt down again. Hearing Qin Xiao's interrogation, Chai Shanhe smiled disdainfully and said: "Master Qin, until now, it will be a dead end for me to say anything. In this case, why bother?
A waste of words?"
"That's not necessarily the case." Qin Xiao smiled faintly: "If you can tell the truth and even find all the missing money, you may be able to survive."
Chai Shanhe laughed twice and said: "Master Qin, I really underestimated you. I thought you were so stupid that you let me go down the mountain. It turns out that you had laid a trap waiting for me to jump." He stared at Qin Xiao's eyes.
, said with confusion: "I'm just very strange, how did you know that I was related to this matter?"
"I'm not sure, so I just tested it." Qin Xiao sighed: "The general manager of Hangzhou came to the inner treasury to withdraw money. It was very sudden. It can be said that you were caught off guard. If he only took away three to fifty thousand taels of silver, you can completely handle it.
But the Hangzhou side wants to withdraw 200,000 taels of silver at a time, and the warehouse can't get it out at all. You have no preparations, and the treasury silver will be stolen."
"The bank was stolen. Hundreds of taels of silver disappeared, but seven to eighty thousand taels of silver were left behind. Of course, it's not that you don't want to take it away, but that you have to deal with the fact that the people below may bring money from here at any time.
I questioned the deputy warehouse manager Bo Mao Lu before...!" Qin Xiao looked at Mao Lu in the corner and said: "Master Mao Bo, you said before that over the years, the business of the inner warehouse shops in the three states in the south of the Yangtze River has been
They are all pretty good. The inner treasury has more money coming in and less money coming out, and the annual profits are very considerable. Moreover, if those shops need cash flow, they usually raise it from the shops themselves first. If it is not enough, they will use the inner treasury.
Mix the silver."
Mao Lu hurriedly said: "Exactly. The general manager of the stores in the three states of Jiangnan will check the accounts every six months. In addition to leaving part of the revolving bank, the remaining profits will be sent to the inner treasury for storage. At the end of the year,
We will transfer part of the escort from the inner treasury to Kyoto and hand it over to the inner treasury of Kyoto."
Qin Xiao nodded and said slowly: "The large-scale transactions in Jiangnan are all controlled by the Jiangnan Aristocratic Family. The Neiku Shop does not compete with the Aristocratic Family for profit. To put it harshly, the Neiku Shop in Jiangnan can only take advantage of the Jiangnan Aristocratic Family and look down upon it.
But even so, the profit is considerable. Because the business is not too big, and each shop can transfer cash to each other, each amount of money allocated from the inner treasury is actually not a big amount.
Lord, what I said is correct, right?"
Mao Lu said: "What your Excellency said is absolutely true. According to the amount of money allocated by the humble post, the largest amount was only 80,000 taels of silver. However, this was a few years ago. Sometimes the inner treasury also has 100,000 taels of silver per year.
You can't transfer money twice."
"So we only need to store one hundred thousand taels of silver in the warehouse, which is enough to deal with what happens in the shop." Qin Xiao smiled calmly: "That's why there are still seven to eighty thousand taels of silver left in the warehouse."
Jiang Xiaochun immediately asked: "Master Qin, according to what you said, could it be that... Wang Tang was also involved?"
"Don't worry yet." Qin Xiao smiled slightly and looked at Chaishan Hedao: "Chaishanhe, you arranged for the silver to be transported out of the inner treasury. I shouldn't have told you, right?"
Jiang Xiaochun frowned and asked Chai Shanhe, "Are you really transporting the treasure trove of silver out?"
Chai Shanhe hesitated for a moment and asked instead: "Master Qin, you said I was the one who transported the silver out. Do you have proof? How did I transport the silver out?"
"I just said that letting you go today is just a test." Qin Xiao said calmly: "After the incident, Commander Jiang sealed the inner treasury in time, so the spies who stayed in the inner treasury could not escape. They must be thinking these days.
I looked for an opportunity to go down the mountain to escape, but unfortunately the inner treasury was too tightly sealed, and your Chaishan River was directly locked up. As a result, it would be difficult for you to fly." A slight smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "Today I used the excuse of cleaning the swill pool.
, I wanted to test you. You finally waited for the opportunity to escape, and immediately jumped out and volunteered to go down the mountain to find someone. At that time, I was 70% sure that you were a spy from the inner treasury, but I was not completely sure, so
Let you go down the mountain. If you are really a spy, you will definitely abscond immediately after coming down the mountain, and that is exactly the case."
Chai Shanhe sighed: "Master Qin is indeed smart, but I was too anxious and fell into your trap."
"You asked me how the silver was transported out of the inner treasury, then let me ask you, why did the farmers in Linshan Village suddenly disappear?" Qin Xiao's face was calm, but his eyes were sharp.
Chen Xi said calmly: "We arrived at Linshan Village. Linshan Village has a total of forty-eight households. However, five years ago, there were only forty-one households in the village. The seven extra households moved to Linshan Village from other places five years ago.
According to the villagers, those seven families came to Suzhou after a disaster in their hometown. Initially, the villagers did not agree with these people staying in the village, but they gave the villagers a lot of benefits and would take the initiative to help them.
He helped the villagers with farm work, so these seven families settled down in Linshan Village."
The corners of Chai Shanhe's eyes twitched but he said nothing. Jiang Xiaochun lowered his head. The man thought and murmured: "Five years ago... Yes, it has been almost five years since those people from Linshan Village came to clean the sewage pool." Thinking of it.
What? His face suddenly changed, and his hands and feet were cold.
"These seven families have a total of twenty-six people, including thirteen strong men, plus women and children." Chen Xi said with a calm face and a gentle voice: "The villagers also know that the strong men of these seven families,
I found a good way to clean the swill ponds for the officers and soldiers on Lingyan Mountain. I would go up the mountain every three days and pull back all the leftovers and dirt on the mountain. After pulling these things back, there would be leftovers.
The food is divided equally among each household to feed pigs and chickens, while the waste is used to irrigate the fields. Because of this, the villagers have already regarded these seven households as their own."
"The Young Supervisor said earlier that the villagers in Linshan Village were missing, did you mean...these seven families?" Jiang Xiaochun looked solemn.
Chen Xi nodded and said: "On April 27th, these seven families, old and young, suddenly disappeared without a trace overnight. When they left, they didn't take any furniture or clothes with them. At first, the villagers thought they were going out temporarily.
, but after waiting for several days and still not seeing these people come back, it was confirmed that all seven families had run away." He looked at Jiang Xiaochun with a cold expression: "Commander Jiang, I discovered that the treasury silver was stolen on April 25th, that is,
He said that the group in Linshan Village escaped two days after the incident. If you had discovered the problem with those farmers in time after the incident, there would still be time to arrest them, but it is a pity that before Mr. Qin discovered this problem,
You didn’t even realize that there was something wrong with those farmers, and you were missing out on a great opportunity.”
Jiang Xiaochun said angrily: "Jiang is stupid, indeed... I really didn't think that those... those people would actually participate in stealing the inner treasury." At this time, he had understood, looked at Qin Xiao and asked: "Master Qin,
Are you saying that the money was transported away by the farmers Chaishanhe found?"
"Commander Jiang, when did those people go up the mountain?" Qin Xiao asked without answering.
Jiang Xiaochun said: "It's after dark. When everyone goes to bed, they can clean the swill pond and hut easily." He stared at Chaishan River and sneered: "Chaishan River, it turns out that this was all planned by you. It was done in the beginning.
You suggested asking them to come over at night to clean up the mess, saying that there are too many people around during the day, and the brothers have to go to the latrines, making it inconvenient to clean up. It turns out you are harboring evil intentions."
"Commander Jiang agreed to let them come over to clean up at night. He must have felt that there are two hundred brave and skilled soldiers in the inner warehouse, and those farmers would not dare to have other thoughts when they came in." Qin Xiao said slowly: "And the warehouse is managed by people from the inner warehouse.
, even if those farmers have other intentions, they can't open the warehouse and threaten the money in the warehouse."
Jiang Xiaochun sighed: "While they were cleaning up, there were always people watching them."
"Of course the people watching them are also dispatched by Chaishanhe." Qin Xiao also sighed: "Chaishanhe, if I'm not wrong, the two corpses outside should be the people you arranged to monitor the farmers. Of course the others
Unexpectedly, the people who monitor the farmers are actually on the same team as them."
Chai Shanhe gave a thumbs up and said: "Master Qin, you can speak so accurately. I really admire you."
"That's not right." Bo Maolu, the deputy head of the inner treasury, suddenly lost his voice and said: "This... this is wrong...!" Seeing everyone looking at him, he felt a little embarrassed and cupped his hands to Qin Xiao and said, "Sir,
Even if the leaders pretending to be farmers have a way to transport the silver out, but... But if they want to take the silver, they must open the warehouse, otherwise it is impossible to take out a tael of silver from it. The warehouse has no windows, only one door.
We checked inside the warehouse and found that there was no other exit, such as digging a tunnel or something, and the copper lock was intact on the day we opened the warehouse, so... So how did they get the money from the warehouse?"
"If Wang Tang were alive, he could give a good explanation." Qin Xiao clasped his fingers together, leaned back in his chair, and sighed: "But he is dead, so we can't get his confession."
After thinking for a moment, he looked at Mao Lu and said, "Master Mao, you always carry the key with you. Does that mean that others can't get your key?"
"Absolutely impossible." Mao Lu said resolutely: "Bizhi regards this key as life, and... and Bizhi has absolutely no involvement in their conspiracy. Please tell me clearly!"
Mao Lu was panicking at the moment. If the money was stolen, the warehouse must be opened. To open the warehouse, two keys were needed. It was almost certain that Wang Tang was involved in the silver stealing plan, but Wang Tang couldn't do it with just one key.
If you come, you will definitely become a major suspect.
"Just because the key is with you, it doesn't mean they don't have the same key." Qin Xiao shook his head: "Master Mao, you still haven't figured out what's going on?"
"A humble job... A humble job and a stupid person!"
Feixin had been taking notes and couldn't help but look up at Mao Lu: "Mao Zhubo, you told your Excellency before that Wang Tang is your tea companion. Isn't that right?"
"Yes...we drink tea together occasionally." Mao Lu really didn't want to have anything to do with Wang Tang, but she had said it before and had to admit it bravely.
"With so many people in the inner treasury, why did he become a tea friend with you? You didn't understand the reason?" Feixin said calmly: "In the final analysis, of course it is for your key."