Chapter 40 Infiltration
The main reason why Nancheng is poor may be that the south of Longyuan City is mountainous and the road is difficult to travel.
Even the official road outside the city is still winding and winding. Therefore, even merchants from the south would give priority to entering the city from the east and west. Over time, the east and west cities were spun out, and Nancheng became a gathering place for poor people, and the public security situation became increasingly worse, gradually forming a vicious cycle.
Go out of the south gate and walk along the official road for seven or eight miles, and you will see one of the many peaks. It looks short and ordinary, so much so that it does not deserve a name. On the back slope of this unknown mountain peak, there is a cloth village.
You can see the plaque hanging above, which is called "Longsheng Buzhuang".
...
Early in the morning, Ling Yuanbao hurried to the station again, picked up Liang Yue, and brought him here.
“Oh, it’s so big.” Liang Yue raised his head and said.
Instead of calling it Buzhuang, it is better to call it Mountain Villa. It is nestled in the greenery of the middle of the mountain, covering almost the entire hillside.
"It is absolutely abnormal for this cloth village to be in such a remote place!" Ling Yuanbao frowned and said, then turned his head, "All our manpower has gone with the inspection department, and we have called you here again. , please.”
"It doesn't matter." Liang Yue smiled.
For the Zhen Chang case, he is more enthusiastic than Ling Yuanbao, and he should thank the other party for allowing him to participate.
"You have spent so much effort to inspect the Ministry of Work. How much hatred do you have?" Liang Yue knew that the Ministry of Punishment was in the Ministry of Inspection, but he did not expect that he would invest so much effort and spend so much time.
How long has this been going on?
Of course it’s impossible to have no clue, it’s just possible that he’s holding something back.
"It's normal for you imperial guards to be far away from the court. You don't know this." On the way up the mountain, Ling Yuanbao told him, "The right prime minister is in charge of the officials, households, and rites, and the left prime minister is in charge of the army." This is true in name, but... each department will have its own power."
"The Right Prime Minister is from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and everyone is promoted by him. Therefore, the Ministry of Personnel is his territory, and he obeys his advice. However, the two ministers of the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Hubu are relatively less disrespectful to him. The same is true for Mr. Zuo Xiang. . But the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry are not so obedient."
"The Left Prime Minister is not as good-tempered as the Right Prime Minister. Needless to say, Mr. Qi, the minister of the country, can't be shaken by anyone; Lu Yuanwang, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, is the current head of the country. Concubine Lu is very popular in the palace, and he is not easy to deal with, so he has endured this for so long. Once there was a problem in the Ministry of Works, and the Prime Minister Zuo gave a death order, and the Ministry of Works had to be dug out. "
"There is quite a chaos in the court..." Liang Yue listened. As he spoke, he nodded thoughtfully.
"Of course, it's hard to find a more chaotic place in the world." Ling Yuanbao said, "My father wouldn't let me enter the court, but I wanted to join the army, but he wouldn't let me, so I... ”
"What?" Liang Yue's words stopped abruptly when he heard her halfway through.
"Hey, it's nothing." Ling Yuanbao changed the subject and raised his hand to point: "Look!"
The two came to the top of the mountain on the other side and looked down. I saw long bamboo poles set up in the cloth shop, hanging colorful cloths, waving in the wind, and colorful satin filling the sky. It's such a big manor, but you can't see anything inside.
Even if you stare at it for a long time, you will feel a little dizzy.
For a while, I only saw two carriages entering from the front door and going out from the back door to go down the mountain. I can't tell where it is, but it's definitely not a normal cloth shop.
"There seems to be some kind of formation. It seems like we have to go in and take a look." Ling Yuanbao put his hands on the awning and looked at it for a long time, and then said.
"If there's a fight, Ling Baotou, you have to look after me more." Liang Yue immediately reminded me, and he was prepared to hold his thigh in advance.
"Don't worry." Ling Yuanbao patted his chest, "We are partners!"
Liang Yue nodded and said: "That's right! We are the best partners."
……
After several contacts with Liang Yue, Ling Yuanbao feels more and more that this person is useful... It's like she has a brain that grows outside. If she doesn't take it with her when she goes out, she always feels less smart.
And others are kind and willing to help me.
But she is not someone who does not know anything in return. As the saying goes, you help me and I will help you.
Ling Baotou gave Liang Yue a guarantee before he came. From now on, whenever he needs anything, she will definitely be the first to come!
Liang Yue is also very happy to have a friend like Ling Yuanbao... He has inevitably offended some people overtly or covertly during this period. It is definitely a good thing to have such a friend.
At least, IQ and EQ aside, she is really good at fighting.
The two came to the side of the hillside and found a corner away from sight. Ling Yuanbao said: "I'll go in first to explore the way. If you don't have any problem, you can come in again."
As he said that, he jumped down. He jumped and entered the interior of Buzhuang in a blink of an eye.
After a while, she whispered inside: "Come on."
Liang Yue then jumped into the wall. As soon as he landed, he saw the pavilions in front of him, which was like a back garden. where. The two of them lowered themselves and walked along the corridor. There was no one here, and the two of them walked through the garden before arriving at the edge of the main courtyard. After a while, Ling Yuanbao waved his hand and said, "Hold your breath!"
Liang Yue immediately lowered his body with her, sticking to the bottom of the wall to hide his figure.
After a pause, he heard the sound of footsteps. There must be two people coming. Their footsteps were light and neat, and it sounded like they must have martial arts skills.
However, the tough Ling Yuanbao was naturally not afraid. She leaned closer and whispered: "You come out in a while to attract their attention, and I will deal with them from behind."
"Remember to stay alive. "This is Liang Yue's only advice to her.
Snap, snap, snap.
The footsteps circled and finally came closer. Liang Yue took a deep breath and rushed out suddenly, raising his hands high: "Everyone's eyes are on me! Let me announce something..."
< br>I saw two people wearing black robes and brass masks on the opposite side of an arch. The moment these two people saw Liang Yue, their eyes didn't even have time to show surprise, and a flash of light flashed behind them. Dark shadow.
Bang! Bang!
Ling Yuanbao's speed was so terrifying that Liang Yue almost didn't catch it with his naked eyes. She had already completed the circle, connected two palm strikes, one left and one right, and completed the shot like lightning.
The two men in black fell down, revealing Liang Yue's somewhat embarrassed face. He smiled and said, "I haven't had time to attract their attention yet."
"Fortunately, I have solved it." Ling Yuanbao slapped him. Two strikes.
The two men dragged the two men in black aside to a hidden jungle. Liang Yue said: "Wake one up first."
Ling Yuanbao slapped his mouth twice and directly blackmailed one of them. The man in clothes woke up and looked at Liang Yue with a grin.
"Huh? You..." The man in black woke up and was about to scream.
"Shut up!" Liang Yue took off his mask and saw the face of a man in his thirties, then covered his mouth: "Now we want to ask you something, if you answer everything truthfully It's okay, don't even think about lying. We will wake up the person next to you later and ask the same question again. If the answers are different, you two..."
There was panic in the man's eyes. He nodded quickly.
Liang Yue put down his hand and asked the first question: "What are you doing in this cloth village?"
"This...this is a bank." The man still said There was some hesitation, and then he met Ling Yuanbao's murderous eyes and said immediately: "A lot of money comes in every day, and a lot of money goes out."
"Do you recognize this?" Liang Yue flashed the golden silk in his hand.
"This is the certificate." The man said: "No matter who you are, as long as you come with gold silk, you can exchange it for silver ingots and take it away. One foot of gold silk can be exchanged for one thousand taels of silver."
Liang Yue Looking at the golden silk in my hand, I suddenly felt a little heavy.
As expected.
This is an underground bank that specializes in storing stolen silver of unknown origin. Gold and silk are tokens of exchange for silver. Since Zhen Changzhi also owns gold silk, it means that this place is also closely related to the corruption in the court.
This kind of underground bank should be able to exchange silver with gold and silk regardless of the identity of the owner, which provides convenience for many crimes.
It's hard to say whether it has anything to do with Zhen Changzhi's death.
He turned around and asked: "Who is the owner of this bank?"
"I don't know..." The man shook his head, perhaps to save his life, and added: "I I only know that Mr. Liu is in charge here, and we usually obey his orders."
"Where are the bank's bank account and account books?" Liang Yue asked finally.
"I don't know either...ah ah ah, all important things should be stored in the Privy Attic, but I really don't know if there is anything you want in there!" The man was about to shake his head again, then he looked Seeing the murderous look in Ling Yuanbao's eyes, he immediately pointed in one direction, "Go straight along this road, and that's the one in the middle."
Bang.
When he finished speaking, Liang Yue glanced at Ling Yuanbao and struck him with a knife, causing him to faint again.
"What to do now?" Ling Yuanbao asked habitually.
Liang Yue glanced at the two men in black and said: "Take off their clothes first."
"Hey -" Ling Yuanbao frowned: "You want to do it? What? ”
Liang Yue turned around and said: "Of course I changed into their clothes. What are you thinking about?"
(End of Chapter)