Qing Mulan's eyes lit up: "With such a high reward and no need to take risks, I believe that if the notice is posted, 99% of the people in the city will become Mr.'s eyes and ears!"
Soon, Da Liu found Captain Xiao with a stack of notices.
Then I saw groups of government soldiers holding notices and posting them all over the city.
Most of the people were illiterate, so the soldiers did not leave even after posting the notice, and just stood beside it.
"Master Jun, what does this notice say?"
Some bold people bravely asked: "Is the imperial court going to reduce taxes?"
News of the war in the north gradually spread to Sichuan and Shu as the veterans returned. Some people already knew that the imperial court had won the war, and they were all looking forward to the news that the imperial court would reduce taxes.
Unfortunately, they are destined to be disappointed.
Instead of reducing taxes next year, they are likely to increase.
"No, this is a reward order."
The soldier said loudly: "Miss Xiaobei was abducted by a masked man in Yahang yesterday morning. Mr. Jin Feng is now offering a reward for clues. If anyone provides useful clues and helps find Miss Xiaobei, Mr. Jin will pay three dollars."
One hundred taels. Whoever delivers Miss Xiaobei safely to Mr. Jin will be rewarded one thousand taels!
Anyone who discovers anything unusual recently can go to the Sheriff’s Mansion to report it, and someone will register there. If the information provided turns out to be useful, you can go to the County Sheriff’s Mansion to collect the reward!”
In fact, this soldier was illiterate, but the reward order was very simple, and he had already memorized it in his mind with just a few words.
"What, offering a reward of one thousand taels to find someone?"
"Didn't you hear what the military master said? To send someone there, you only have one thousand taels. To provide information, you have to provide useful information, and you only have three hundred taels!"
"Only three hundred taels? You are so bold. Have you ever seen three hundred taels of silver?"
"I've never seen it before. The biggest piece of silver I've ever touched in my life is five taels."
"Mr. Jin is really willing to spend money for Miss Xiaobei!"
"Haven't you heard? Mr. Jin not only wrote "Hoe the Day at Noon", but also wrote lyrics for Miss Xiaobei. What's the name of a smile that costs a fortune?"
"This time I really spent a lot of money to make the beauty smile."
"What do you know? This is a good story!"
"Stop saying anything. If you don't go to work today, go find Miss Xiaobei!"
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Not to mention ordinary people, for many merchants, three hundred taels is a huge sum of money.
Stimulated by the high reward, the news of the reward quickly spread throughout the city. Many people walked out of their homes and wandered around Yaxing, hoping to be lucky enough to find some clues.
Half an hour later, people began to come to the county governor's house to report clues.
At this time, more than a dozen small tents were set up in the open space in front of the county magistrate's palace. In each tent sat a small official, who was dedicated to recording clues provided by the people.
This can also ensure privacy and eliminate people's worries about retaliation afterwards.
At the edge of the open space, there was a large table with white silver ingots placed on it.
In fact, one thousand taels of silver was not much, but in order to increase the visual effect, Jin Feng deliberately asked people to stack the silver ingots into a tower shape.
In this way, there are many gaps in the middle, which looks like a hill, shining dazzlingly under the sunlight.
The eyes of the people coming and going were almost blinded, and they couldn't bear to look away, they just wanted to watch for a while longer.
Many people have the idea of rushing over to grab a few silver ingots, then turn around and run away.
But they are just thoughts in their hearts, no one really dares to do this.
Because there were over a hundred soldiers standing next to Yinshan, including many archers.
If anyone really dared to rob it, he would probably be killed before he could reach the Yinshan Mountain.
Stimulated by Yinshan, more people came to provide clues. The clerks would excerpt a page and send it to the soldiers, who would then send it to the largest tent in the corner.
Jin Feng, the county chief, and Lieutenant Xiao sat in a tent and reviewed each message one by one. If the three of them thought a message was suspicious, they would send soldiers to verify it.
As messages were sent out one after another, teams of government soldiers were sent out.
After a busy day, the soldiers caught many petty thieves based on clues, and even caught a serious criminal who was wanted by the Capital Criminal Department.
Unfortunately, Tang Xiaobei was still not found.
There were so many people who came to report the news that Jin Feng and the three of them spent the rest of the time reading the news except for lunch, and they didn't even go to the toilet.
Even so, there were more and more pages on the table, and by the evening, they were as thick as two fingers.
Jin Feng and Lieutenant Xiao were fine. One was young and the other exercised regularly, so they were fine. However, the chief police officer was getting older. After working hard for a day, he gradually became unable to bear it. His hands were shaking so much that he could hardly hold a brush.
Be the first to leave.
When it got dark, Captain Xiao couldn't stand it anymore.
Ever since Tang Xiaobei disappeared yesterday morning, he and his soldiers have been busy, and he only had time to sleep for less than two hours. Today, he has been sitting here for another day, and he can hardly open his eyes.
Seeing this, Jin Feng also asked him to go back.
In fact, Jin Feng didn't sleep last night and had to drive all night on the mountain road, but he was really worried about Tang Xiaobei and was highly excited. At this time, he didn't feel sleepy at all, but his eyes were a little sore.
Tang Dongdong came in to deliver water, and when he saw Jin Feng's eyes were bloodshot, he couldn't help but feel distressed, and even said with a sigh: "Brother Feng, you haven't slept for two days and one night, why don't you go get some sleep?"
"There is no news from Xiaobei now, how can I sleep?"
Jin Feng took the water bowl and took a sip: "I'll read two more pages."
While drinking water, Jin Feng picked up an unread page again.
When he saw what was written on it, Jin Feng's eyes suddenly widened. He handed the water bowl to Tang Dongdong and quickly picked it up among the pages that had been reviewed on the table.
"Sir, what are you looking for?"
Qing Mulan, who came in later, asked.
"Look for it!"
Jin Feng found a page that he had seen before.
This page recorded a report from an old woman. According to the old woman, her neighbors were a pair of sworn brothers. They did not do business all day long. They took advantage of everything from food, drink, prostitution and gambling. When they were rich, they lived and drank wildly, but when they had no money, they were hungry.
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Yesterday morning, a carriage came to the brothers' house, and then the second brother went out to buy several jars of wine, fifty or sixty kilograms of meat, rice and other things.
The old woman suspected that the brothers had kidnapped Tang Xiaobei.
When Jin Feng saw this information, he didn't pay much attention to it because he felt that the old woman was exaggerating. No matter how greedy the brothers were, they couldn't buy fifty or sixty pounds of meat at once, right?
It’s only autumn now and it’s still hot. If you can’t finish the meat, it will go bad in two or three days. Why buy so much?
But on the page Jin Feng saw while drinking water just now, a commoner said that he passed by the back alley of West Street yesterday morning and saw a carriage coming out of the back alley and heading north of the city.
There is nothing wrong with the two messages individually, but when they are connected together, Jin Feng's heartbeat speeds up instantly!