Chapter 937 Chapter 937: Game (Part 1) [Please vote]
The oiran's beautiful eyes flashed with astonishment.
She didn't seem to expect that Shen Tang was still a clueless young man. In the past, which businessman in the industry would come up and ask how much he could borrow to guarantee a guaranteed profit without losing money? Who is not careful to accompany the smiling face? After a while, the oiran returned to her usual charming and calm self.
"Nujun is joking, when doing business, you will make profits and lose money. How can there be a business in this world that is guaranteed to make profits without losing money? How much principal you borrow depends on how much principal Nujun needs to do business. According to the rules, as long as If you borrow it, you can get shelter no matter how much it is."
Shen Tang was not bypassed by her.
He smiled and said: "Indeed, you can get shelter by borrowing any amount you want. Shelter is all shelter, but it can also be divided into caring and uncaring. This is like the maids and servants around the queen, who are also divided into first, second and third classes. The little girl thought What I know is, how much will it cost to borrow first?”
She didn’t mince words in her words.
The oiran stretched out her slender fingers to pick up the tea cup and pretended to drink tea. She did not directly answer Shen Tang’s question: “I heard that the queen did this in order to save the family business from the elders of the clan. In this case, as long as the business is done, why pursue the first class? I think the third class is enough. It's enough for the end of the year. Since you can do business in Jinli County with just a little money."
Faced with the temptation of the oiran, Shen Tang just shook his head: "If it was just for this purpose, there is no need to come here today. Cards.”
The drinks for the top oiran are not cheap either.
The oiran's rich makeup flashed with surprise for a moment.
Smiledly asked: "Is there another purpose?"
Shen Tang said frankly: "To be honest, I personally thought that Kunzhou was initially established for more than a year, and there were hundreds of wastes waiting to be built everywhere. They are all business opportunities. I plan to eat the food here before other grain merchants react. As long as I manage it properly, there will be no dividends in the future. I have a husband who has been dead for less than two months. Even though he has thousands of dollars, he still has no way to reach a high position. Although the king allows merchants to enter the officialdom, how difficult is it to pay a price? As it should be."
To put it more simply -
She just wants to use money as a stepping stone.
The more official debts you borrow, the more interest you pay to others, and the more disguised bribes you give to others, and the easier it is for you to be regarded as one of your own by high officials. In the land of Jinli County, there is such a big tree to protect her. Isn't it smooth sailing for her to do business here?
The oiran covered the corners of her lips with a handkerchief, and her laughter was as clear as a silver bell: "Female You have a valiant temperament and are quick to talk to others. In the past, there were so many male customers asking for connections, but none of them had them. You are half as powerful as you are."
Said and praised: "I admire you very much."
"If this happens, the benefits of the oiran lady will also be indispensable." Shen Tang is facing hundreds of officials. How can a person who can be calm and composed in a fight be fooled by a few words from an oiran? She waved her hand calmly, and the cashier standing beside her took out her money bag with a wink.
Chu Yao took out two heavy, golden pieces of gold.
Two pieces of gold are not big, but their purity is rare.
Shen Tang said: "This is the tea fee for the lady."
The oiran lady smiled and put her hand into her sleeve. The heavy makeup could not hide her good mood: "Okay, lady. I will tell you everything you say, and it will be done!"
Shen Tang sat for a while and then prepared to get off the flower boat.
The oiran lady’s palm covered the back of her hand and said softly: “My lady, don’t worry, it will still be a while before we reach the shore.”
When the other party leaned over, the rich fragrance penetrated into Shen Tang's nostrils. Like a frightened rabbit, she suddenly retracted her hand and blushed slightly. She still had the momentum from before: "Hua, Oiran... please respect yourself. I still have a lot of filial piety.”
The court lady rested her chin on her hands.
A pair of phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, her red lips parted slightly, and she whispered in her ear with a sweet and bewitching tone: "It's a pity that the lady became a widow before she knew the taste of love in the world."
Shen Tang raised his eyes and looked at the courtesan.
The oiran lady chuckled and said: "Our place is the most popular place in the world, and there are always some secrets that outsiders don't know. You don't need to be so nervous. It will make you look scornful of you."
The corners of Shen Tang's mouth twitched slightly, and he opened his eyes to make up for it by telling lies.
"What I said is true. My late husband and I were married at the fingertips. Nine years ago, our two families were in a matchmaking relationship, and we were destined for life. It's a pity that we got married in the church. During these years, he was forcibly drafted to fight. The news was intermittent, so I thought he was still alive. Two months ago, when I found his clothes, I found out that he had been killed in battle for many years, and even his remains were not found..."
As he spoke, his eyes sparkled. Water light.
Chu Yao and his colleagues: "..."
Seeing her reaction, the oiran lady also believed her and blamed herself. Shen Tang softly pulled the veil and said: "No wonder Oiran, I have actually had a premonition in my heart for the past few years, but I have always refused to believe it. It feels much better to say it.”
In this way, the oiran lady gave her some gentle words of comfort.
In order to make Shen Tang feel better, the oiran lady also took the initiative to tell some of her tragic past, which was quite tragic.
The oiran lady was originally from a good family.
Her father is violent and gambling, and her mother is cowardly and submissive. She and her twin sister depend on each other for life. In exchange for gambling money, her father came up with the idea of selling a pair of daughters to a flower boat. They are rare twins with excellent foundation and look exactly the same. If Huachuan buys them and trains them well, and when they are brought up, they can be presented as "Emperor's Queen" and "Sisters serve together".
Hua Chuan is willing to pay a high price.
The man who was addicted to gambling agreed immediately.
However, the man revealed the truth while drunk.
The mother of the courtesan hid one of the children. At the appointed time, the flower boat came to pick her up. When she saw that only the elder sister was left of the twins, the price was cut in half. The man was angry and beat the woman half to death. After two years, he sold the woman to make money.
"Pawn it to make money?"
"Pawn your wife." The courtesan smiled charmingly. Some men could not afford the betrothal gift, so they rented their wives. The price of renting a wife was only There is a betrothal gift of 20% to 30%. After the rented wife gives birth to a child, the wife will return to her original husband. Originally, the husband pawned his wife for profit, but later the husband rented his wife to continue the family line. "Everyone gets what they need, and everyone is happy."
Shen Tang's face gradually darkened.
Asked: "A lot?"
Oiran: "I don't know."
Shen Tang's hands hidden in his sleeves closed and his knuckles tightened .
She asked: "Are you the twin sister?"
The court lady smiled and said nothing.
While speaking, the flower boat suddenly swayed greatly.
Shen Tang stood up and said: "We've reached the shore."
The court lady stood up suddenly and walked to the window. There were more than 20 people dressed as government soldiers on the bank of the river and lake. . The leader pushed aside the left and right and forced to board the ship: "Zhe Chongfu, check! All men, keep to the left, all women, keep to the right, be aware of each other!"
Shen Tang came up and stretched out his neck to watch the fun: " This is? ”
The oiran lady had a cold voice, unconsciously tightened her hand on the window edge, gritted her teeth and said, "It's those poor soldiers again!"
Shen Tang covered his face with a handkerchief.
After a while, the sound of footsteps and the collision of weapons and armor came from downstairs. Counting the footsteps, there should be person No. 6.
The private room was kicked open.
“Everyone, men on the left and women on the right!”
Shen Tang: "..."
The leader is a female soldier with a strange appearance.
Seeing the crowd of people in the room, the other party raised his thick eyebrows and pressed the handle of the knife: "I say it again, men on the left and women on the right."
Shen Tang and the others could only follow the words. Just do it.
This is not the time to reveal your identity.
The leading female soldier took a few steps forward and stood looking at the courtesan. The latter stood weak and boneless, and sneered: "You poor soldiers, why don't you want to train and cultivate the land, and have trouble with flower boats all day long?" ?How many times have you been here? , did you find a pair of disheveled people? Or do you have to see a man and a woman having sex on top of each other? Take off.
Before she finished speaking, Shen Tang heard a loud slap.
The female soldier slapped the oiran in the face neatly. The latter didn't expect the other party to come out, and his face tilted to one side. After slapping someone, the female soldier said one word after another: "I am willing to humble myself."
The oiran lady licked the corners of her lips and there was a faint blood.
She said with an indifferent expression: "Those who are not mean are outside."
The female soldier ignored her words and waved her hand: "Take it away!" The oiran lady scolded: "You dare?"
The female soldier stuffed a cloth into her mouth and said, "Take them away!"
He stopped at the door, then thought of Shen Tang and others, and added: "And these guys, take them all with you too. Let’s go!”
Shen Tang: "..."
Several ministers: "..."
This is the first time in my life that I was imprisoned for coming to the flower boat.
The prison environment in Zhechong Mansion is relatively clean.
Shen Tang sat on the straw mat and covered his face: "No, why did this group of people suddenly appear? What is Zhe Chong Mansion doing?"
The king and his ministers were caught while enjoying a flower boat ride together.
This matter will explode wherever you put it.
As soon as he turned his head, the accompanying living room attendant grabbed a small pen and held a letter in one hand to record something. Shen Tang's expression immediately cracked. The living room clerk is responsible for recording the daily actions and national events of the king, and writing daily notes to the king...
In other words -
If the country of Shen Tang can maintain a stable inheritance In a few generations, future generations will be able to see a record of the founding emperor and his ministers going on a flower boat together and being cracked down on pornography. This is a rhythm that will be nailed to the pillar of shame in unofficial history. Thinking of this, her head hurt even more.
"Liang Lang, can you please stop writing?"
The other officials were stiff and their expressions were cracked.
Damn it, they forgot about the living room!
Will this guy write their names on it too? Thinking of this, my eyes darkened for a while - it was still unknown whether my name would go down in history, but it would be safe for future generations to lose face together with the king.
The person in the living room was called by name. He looked up at Shen Tang, then at his colleagues. He turned around with a palm-sized letter and continued writing and drawing without giving Shen Tang any face.
Just when a few officials wanted to roll up their sleeves and beat up the hostess and force him to rewrite the content, someone came from the prison.
It turned out that Captain Qi Shan and Captain Zhe Chong came to pick them up.
Qi Shan sighed and said: "My lord..."
Shen Tang raised his hand: "This matter has nothing to do with me."
Captain Zhe Chong immediately knelt down half-kneeling, He lowered his head and clasped his fists: "... I will not be able to do things well in the end. Please punish me and punish me."
Shen Tang: "You should take care of Zhe Chong Mansion."
Captain Zhe Chong lowered his head further: "I will obey the order."
"Ji Shou, what did you find out here?" Several groups of people entered from different places, and Kang Shi was on the other side.
After leaving the prison, we met at the temporary foothold.
Well, the staff is quite neat.
Kang Shi: "I sent people to check the nearby white paper shops. During the period when ghosts stole food, people rarely worshiped their ancestors, so paper money should not be used much. I went everywhere and found that there was indeed a shop that sold a lot. Paper money, the person who buys paper money is the government official."
Shen Tang laughed: "The government official buys so much paper money?"
It's really not cover-up at all.
Kang Shidao: "The news I heard was that Si Yan's family asked him to have a dream, so he bought a lot of paper money and burned it to the other party."
Shen Tang asked casually: "Si Yan What is it called? ”
Kang Shi checked very carefully: "Niu Zhong."
"Niu Zhong? This is a decent name." Because the level of education was too low, the names of the common people were basically chosen randomly.
"It is reported that his real name was Niu Er, but he donated money to find a job as a janitor, so he changed his name to Niu Zhong."
Shen Tang rubbed the tea cup : "Niu Er?"
The words of the previous broker could not help but come to mind.
"Did you meet any broker at the inn?"
"A broker? No."
Shen Tang became increasingly certain that this broker was cheating on him.
"Does Niu Er have a crazy mother-in-law?"
"How do you know, lord? This Niu Er does have a mother-in-law. Neighbors say that this person is delirious and usually goes crazy and hurts people everywhere. Niu Er's mother-in-law bit her every time she saw her. One time, she bit off a person's ear. The mother then locked her daughter-in-law at home to take care of her... These were the words of the neighbors, but in-depth investigation revealed that there were some discrepancies between the testimony and the reality. I judged that this woman was not crazy or stupid before," Kang Shi continued, "There was a neighbor. It was once said that this woman's hands were slender and white, unlike those of a peasant..."
It's not easy to maintain a pair of slender, white and flawless hands.
This means that this person basically does not work.
Be pampered and taken care of everywhere.
And——
“Niu Er is the chief minister of the government, and not everyone can sit in this position. Where did he get the money to get a job?” Shen Tang pointed at the table with his finger. I am afraid that the money may not have come cleanly, "Ji Shou, besides this clue, are there any other clues?"
Kang Shi said: "Niu Er is dead."
Shen Tang was not surprised: "It's normal to be dead."
Was such an obvious clue left unprocessed until he was caught?
Shen Tang asked again: "Have you checked the mass graves?"
If those ghosts are pretended to be living people, there must be a hiding place in the mass graves, and they can be found no matter how hard it is. There may be clues from the traces of a large number of living people's activities. Just be afraid, those ghosts are disguised by Yan Ling, there is really no clue at all.
Kang Shi said: "I checked it too, no problem."
No problem just that there are no clues.
“Tianquanwei secretly interviewed many people who saw ghosts that day, and most of the testimonies were correct. Those ghosts did not look like living people. A child took advantage of the elders in the family not paying attention and ran into the group of ghosts. , went straight through the bodies of these ghosts, and came back with a high fever."
Shen Tang thought for a while, and looked at Gu Chi.
I didn’t take Gu Chi with me when I went to Huachuan today. Gu Chi went to do another thing. To put it more simply, he was digging a grave. The grave he was digging was the one that the broker was muttering about in the middle of the night.
Gu Chi said: "There is a woman in the tomb. Judging from the condition of the bones, she should be around seventeen or eighteen years old. There are varying degrees of cracks in the occipital bone, temporal bone, scapula, clavicle, and ribs. There is also a knife on the lumbar spine. She was obviously beaten. Murder.”
The woman’s leg bone was also hit with a blunt instrument.
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Regarding the investigation, I probably don’t quite understand why Tang Mei took action.
At first, Tangmei sent seven soldiers and horses to cooperate with the Ministry of Justice to arrest him, but she later changed her mind temporarily because this matter was serious.
First of all, the supervisory censor died.
Do you know how serious it is to kill an imperial envoy?
Secondly, Kunzhou borders the Northern Desert. It took Yuanhuang three years for Tang Mei to completely take over the entire territory. Before that, she only controlled part of it (especially the border forces bordering the Northern Desert). If we start a war with Bei Mo, food supplies will be in Kunzhou. Part of Kunzhou is also a neighbor of Wu Xian.
It is the most ideal result for the food to be embezzled by officials. Otherwise, no matter which neighbor takes it away, the problem will be very, very serious.
Tangmei is now investigating privately to make sure what the situation is.
For pure corruption, just do it boldly and do everything according to the list. But if forces from other countries infiltrate, they will alert the enemy.
PS: Everyone knows about Tang Mei’s luck, so...┓(`)┏
(End of this chapter)