Chapter 429: Three million taels of official silver stolen
A group of demons and monsters were summoned, and there were quite a few of them. There were only a few shapeshifters, only three in total.
Among them were a white snake, a herring, and the wealthy businessman toad. However, the wealthy businessman toad was a tricky way of transformation, and his transformation into a human was not that complete.
White Snake and Qingyu, on the other hand, seem to be outsiders who have just arrived.
Then Lu Xingshi elaborated on his request. The monsters and monsters had different expressions on their faces, and for a while they didn't know how to deal with it.
On the contrary, the white snake herring had an indifferent expression, as if he was planning to make a fortune in Shao'an Mansion and leave without any intention of staying any longer.
After making the request, they disbanded directly. Lu Xingshi thought that just monsters and ghosts would not be enough. He would have to let the official power of Shao'an Mansion help him find it.
So he immediately found the master of Shao'an Mansion.
"The Taoist priest doesn't know something..." The master of Shao'an Mansion began to cry miserably as soon as he arrived, saying how miserable Shao'an Mansion was tormented by these monsters, monsters and karma. He just wanted Lu Xingshi to help kill the demons and give them back. A bright and clear world.
"The prince of the mansion doesn't know something. It's not that I don't want to be a poor man, but that I can't." Lu Xingshi sighed: "I chased this evil obstacle from the capital and threw him into your Shao'an mansion."
"If it cannot be eliminated in time, when this evil obstacle is successfully completed in the future, not only your Shao'an Mansion will be the first to suffer, but also all the people in the world."
The other party cries miserably and morally kidnaps Lu Xingshi, but Lu Xingshi is not polite and directly coerces the other party with compassion and righteousness.
You are just a small town, and what he wants to do affects the whole world. Unless you are shameless and go rogue, it is impossible to refute.
If the other party dares to act rogue, Lu Xingshi will use his fists to make the other party calmly reason with him.
Mr. Shao An was speechless for a moment. It wasn't that he couldn't refute, but he didn't dare to refute.
After serving as an official for many years, how could he not be able to defeat Lu Xingshi? However, he understood Lu Xingshi's thoughts and could not change them yet.
Forcibly entangled not only failed to achieve his goal, but also made Lu Xingshi disgusted, and in the end the gains outweighed the losses.
"Since the Taoist Master is in such a difficult situation, let's help the Taoist Master eliminate this evil obstacle first, and then ask the Taoist Master to give Shao'an Mansion a clean slate later." Mr. Shao'an Mansion said directly that I will help you, but you have to eradicate Shao An Mansion afterwards. The monsters and ghosts in Anfu.
When Lu Xingshi heard this, he naturally nodded in agreement: "Don't worry, Mr. Fu, this is my responsibility."
He was polite to the other party, but in fact the other party didn't ask for help. Lu Xingshi would have killed these monsters.
The two of them were chatting, and then there was a rapid knock on the door.
"Your Excellency, something big has happened." A government official said with a nervous tone.
"Come in." Fu Jun looked a little ugly, but he also let the other party come in and said.
When the government officials saw Lu Xingshi, they hesitated.
"Let's put it bluntly, this Taoist priest is not an outsider." Fu Jun didn't have many taboos. Most of the people who could come to him at this time were on official business and rarely on private matters.
"The official silver in the warehouse was stolen." The official said it bluntly.
But the prince also smiled: "How many taels were lost? Go and ask someone to catch the thief."
He was relieved in his heart. He lost his official silver. This matter could be big or small, it all depended on whether he wanted to handle it or not.
"All of them." The officer said with a confused look on his face.
The smile on Mr. Shao An's face completely stiffened, and his voice rose several times: "You said everything was stolen?!"
If one hundred and eighty taels are lost, it is called theft. If all is lost, it is not called theft, but robbery.
How could there be so much silver in the warehouse that all of it disappeared silently.
As for taking a little bit at a time and accumulating a little bit into a lot?
This is simply impossible. There will be an inventory every month. If it is less, it can be attributed to fire consumption, but if it is more, it will be obvious.
"They were all stolen. The ones that were there yesterday were all gone when we took inventory today." The yamen servant could only report the truth.
"It seems that it is the work of ordinary people. It is either evil or demons." Lu Xingshi intervened.
"Taoist Priest, look here..." Mr. Shao An also realized that being able to take away so much silver quietly is definitely not something ordinary people can do.
You must know that there are three million taels of official silver in the warehouse. Regardless of the quantity or weight, it is absolutely impossible to take it away without any movement.
"Let me go take a look and lead the way." Seeing this, Lu Xingshi always felt that this was something unusual.
The initial suspicion is that it was caused by evil spirits. Generally speaking, demons and ghosts do not value gold and silver. Their hard currency is blood food.
Blood food is not limited to humans, other monsters and monsters are naturally in their diet, but compared to those who have not practiced Taoism, they are the safest to prey on.
On the contrary, it is the evil way. Many magic powers, elixirs, talismans, magic weapon formations, etc. all need gold and silver as introduction.
He is poor in literature and rich in martial arts, but he cultivates Taoism and ruins his family.
There is no extraordinary currency such as spiritual stones, and cultivation requires the use of ordinary goods, so currencies that are endowed with value such as gold and silver are useful.
As for being monopolized by ascetics, I'm afraid it's not courting death.
It's not like the underworld is cultivating immortals. There are a lot of immortals and gods. If you dare to do this, you are waiting to be dealt with.
The immortals and gods didn't do this, but you, the immortals and gods' reserve forces, were so bold that you really treated the immortals and gods as decorations.
Furthermore, the number of monks is very small, and they only occupy an insignificant part of the total population. If they have a monopoly, they can still dig it themselves. This is a feudal society, and it is not a modern capital existence. There are also demons, ghosts, and evil ways as external enemies, which are not what the ascetics want to do.
However, with the mentality of a cultivator, he would not do this even if he could monopolize it.
Lu Xingshi arrived at the warehouse, led by the Yamen servants and accompanied by the Fujun.
After checking it carefully, I quickly found out how the official silver was moved.
"Five ghosts are moving." Lu Xingshi said.
Mr. Shao'an Mansion didn't have many surprises. He had already prepared for it.
"It's just a little strange. Why does a demon want official silver? Doesn't it know that if such a large amount of official silver is circulated on the market, it will be easy to find the source?" Lu Xingshi said with a strange expression.
"It's actually a demon?" Lord Shao An was really surprised this time. According to his guess, it was an evil way.
As Lu Xingshi said, as long as this official silver circulates on the market, even a small part will be caught.
There is indeed silver in the currency circulating on the market, but there is definitely no official silver.
Official silver is used for treasury, which is the tax and fiscal revenue of each province and government.
The words or patterns of the official silver logo must be engraved to facilitate the management of the national treasury.
So it is not used for circulation.
If the evil way obtains official silver, it doesn't matter. Whether it is the materials for refining elixirs, magic weapons, talismans, or as an introduction to the practice of magic and magical powers, they will be consumed, so they will not be circulated at all, so they can't be traced if they want to.
There is no need for demons, unless they are demons who have entered the Tao. However, there are very few demons who have entered the Tao, and most of them are wild demons.
They have their own magical powers. If they want to practice and enter Taoism, it is better to eat blood food to increase their cultivation and Taoism. It can also satisfy their appetite, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
Of course, the speed of increasing one's cultivation through blood food is just slower than that of one's own cultivation.
It's just that there is no way to enter the Tao, so I can only choose this method as a replacement.
"The demons and ghosts I saw in Shao'an Mansion are not capable of performing this level of Five Ghost Transport." Lu Xingshi added.
"Isn't that the work of an alien demon?" Mr. Shao'an felt disappointed. According to this situation, the official silver will definitely not be recovered.
Fortunately, troubles happened one after another in Dazhao. Without this official money, he could find a way to escape.
"Probably not. Moreover, the transportation of the five ghosts is not just a simple magical power. If there are five ghosts, even a very low level of cultivation can achieve this effect." Lu Xingshi added.
The targets appeared in his mind, namely the white snake demon and the blue fish demon.
These two are alien monsters, and with their cultivation, if they had the help of the five ghosts, they would be able to achieve this level.
It's just that he has no evidence, but he directly expresses his guess.
When Lord Shao'an heard this, he didn't dare to act.
If it were in the past, there would be no need to worry about these, just capture them directly.
However, now that there are no monks in Shao'an Mansion, the dynasty's protection has disappeared, and he and others have become directly vulnerable.
If they dare to take action, these two demons will dare to eat them.
"I don't know if the Taoist priest can recover this official silver, but I am willing to give half of it as a gift." Mr. Shao'an Mansion gritted his teeth and said.
Yes, he can still get half of it back to make up for the shortfall.
No give, nothing.
"It's free of charge as a gift. This is Dazhao's official silver." Lu Xingshi was not greedy at all, and it was easy to teach others what he had taken.
"I am very interested in this demon taking silver. Maybe there is some secret in it."
"Furthermore, the snake and fish demons stealing official silver is just my guess. There is no proof."
Naturally, Lu Xingshi wouldn't be satisfied with what he said. Who knows what the truth is.
"It's just that I still have to track down the evildoer. I'm afraid I won't be able to get away from this matter. I have to investigate it myself, Mr. Fu." It's already good that Lu Xingshi can come to the warehouse to help the other party check, but he is not good at investigating cases.
"Then if it is really these two demons who did it, please ask the Taoist Master to take action afterwards." Seeing this, Mr. Shao'an Mansion did not force Lu Xingshi. He did not have the ability to force now, so he could only plead.
"Don't worry, Mr. Fu. If there is evidence, I will definitely help." Lu Xingshi did not refuse this time, and regarded it as a way to gain merit and scare the monkeys.
Those monsters and monsters may not work with all their heart, so the best thing to do is to scare them, so that they don't follow the rules one by one.
Lord Shao'an felt sad in his heart: "I don't know when this dynasty's protection will be restored. I miss you, the great Lord, but now...sigh." ’
When the dynasty's protection was still there, how could demons, monsters and evil spirits dare to enter the city? Ascetics like Lu Xingshi respected him even more, instead of him being so groveling now and having to beg others for anything he wanted to do.
(End of chapter)