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- In the warehouse behind the courtyard.
Everyone looked around and saw Fang Wen finding a small cloth parcel from a pile of cotton trousers and jackets.
Opening the package, there was a brass cylinder about a foot long, similar in style to Li Mingyue's silver water cup.
Zhao Hao is now considered a cultural person, so he naturally recognizes that it is a paper tube used by literati to hold manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings.
The men in Caijia Lane are all from Qiu Ba, so of course this thing has nothing to do with them.
"Why haven't you noticed it earlier?" Zhao Hao asked.
Gao Wu and Cai Ming looked at each other.
"Sir, these are the cotton trousers and jackets we wore when we left Jinling. They are too thin when we reach the border of Shandong." Cai Ming still replied:
"The master changed us all into thick winter clothes in Linqing. The brothers all came here during the hard times, and the cotton trousers and jackets we replaced were still new, so we packed them all up and prepared to wear them again when spring begins Never opened it.¡±
"Um."
Zhao Hao stroked the exquisitely crafted copper cylinder while closing his eyes slightly, recalling the situation that day.
He remembered that Tongzhou Wuji gave them two luggage carts, one containing the luggage of his father and son, master and apprentice, and the other containing the belongings of the men in Caijiaxiang. The first carriage with valuable items followed Zhao Hao and his companions. At that time, he was surrounded by men from Caijia Lane, and he had no chance to touch him.
But the last carriage followed behind, completely unprotected.
Most likely it was the knight who was being chased. Seeing that he could not escape, at the moment when the two sides crossed paths, he inserted the copper tube into the pile of cotton trousers and jackets
Zhao Hao slowly opened his eyes and looked back at the copper cylinder.
Then he said to the three of them in a deep voice: "You didn't find anything today. No matter who asks you, you must say so."
"Yes!" The three of them responded in unison.
They all have brains, so they naturally know that what the other party is looking for by sending out dead soldiers is definitely of great importance.
If one person doesn¡¯t do it right, everyone will be killed.
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Zhao Hao ordered Gao Wu to be on guard tonight to prevent the other party from coming back.
Although he also knew that the possibility was unlikely, after all, the Forbidden City was less than two miles away, and he was afraid that no one would have the courage to make a fuss.
But it¡¯s better to be careful. Dogs will jump over walls when they are anxious, right?
Then he returned to the room, closed the door, sat cross-legged on the kang, put the copper tube upright on the kang table, and looked at it for a full cup of tea.
Should you watch it or not?
In the end, he decided to just watch it. Anyway, if you tell someone you haven¡¯t read it, they won¡¯t believe it.
To put it bluntly, even if we die, don¡¯t we have to be a sensible person?
Thinking of this, Zhao Hao reached out and grabbed the copper cylinder, shook it first and listened to what was going on inside.
He was relieved when he heard the rustling of paper, which meant that there was no poison, poisonous powder or the like inside
I carefully checked the copper tube, and determined that there was nothing to launch in the launch.
The boy who was poisoned by the TV series covered his mouth and nose with gauze, put on leather gloves, and finally gritted his teeth and unscrewed the copper cylinder cover.
Then he poured out two booklets and a golden special-shaped seal embedded with several gems of different colors on one side.
Zhao Hao first measured the weight of the seal and found that it was actually pure gold. Looking at the luster, it must have been cast for some years.
There are five gems embedded in the handle of the seal: red, green, blue, yellow, and black. Each piece is only the size of a small fingernail and is arranged in the shape of a five-pointed star.
?Looking at the surface of the seal that had been dyed red by the ink pad, it was obviously something that was in use, and then he recognized the words on the seal.
¡°The Great¡ Song¡ Guo¡ Emblem¡ King¡ Seal.¡±
"Is there a Huiwang in the Song Dynasty? I only heard that there was Huizong" Zhao Hao muttered, threw the inexplicable seal aside, and then flipped through the first booklet with his gloves on.
¡°I saw on the cover that it read ¡®Silk Cloth Purchase Account for the Forty-Five Years of Jiajing¡¯. When I opened it and looked at it, I saw that it was the same as the store's account book at that time. It was full of information on a certain year, a certain month and a certain day, and the amount of certain items imported from somewhere.
¡°But just such a thing that looked like an ordinary account book made Zhao Hao¡¯s face turn green.
For example, the account in early February recorded:
On the first day of the new year, 3,320 pieces of plain silk and 1,100 pills of white silk were imported from Jiulong Mountain to Japan.
On the third day of the lunar month, I brought in 1,700 pills of white silk from Guishan, 3,000 ends of Dafei pattern yarn, 2,000 ends of Zhongfei pattern yarn, and 1,000 ends of combined yarn to Japan.
On the fifth day of the lunar month, I brought from Xiaowuzi Mountain two thousand pills of red silk, six hundred bolts of plain silk, and flowers.One thousand three hundred and ten bolts of silk to Luzon.
On the sixth day of the lunar month, 1,500 pieces of flower silk, 600 pills of white silk, and 500 pills of colored silk were brought in from Taohua Mountain to Jeju.
On the eighth day of the lunar month, I brought 5,000 tons of original-color cloth and 5,000 tons of dyed cloth from Mount Yiyue to Japan.
On the tenth day of the lunar month, one thousand pieces of white crepe silk and 510 pieces of colored satin were imported from Dazhu Mountain to Japan.
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Except for the two batches of goods sent to Luzon and Jeju on the fifth and sixth day of the lunar month, the rest of the goods in early February were all sent to Japan.
No matter whether you go to Luzon or Japan, in the forty-five years of Jiajing, everything was smuggling!
Zhao Hao made some calculations and found out that my good boy smuggled two hundred thousand taels of silver in ten days. It would have taken a hundred Tang Dynasty ships to load it, right?
And February is still the off-season. After this year, I am afraid that goods worth tens of millions of taels will be smuggled, right? This is just a textile business
Needless to say, these mountain names are used to refer to the suppliers.
In fact, up to this point, Zhao Hao¡¯s face is just green.
But when he turned to another thin booklet, he suddenly felt bad
That turned out to be the payment record book of this super smuggler, which clearly listed the flow of each payment.
Including payment time, payment amount, payment bank, payer¡¯s account and payee¡¯s account
Although most of the payees are pseudonyms, the bank names such as Wanyuan No. Songjiang Branch, Hengtongji Hangzhou Branch, and Wanyuan No. Wuxi Branch all use their real names.
As long as the government takes this account book and compares it with the bank accounts, it can easily trace the true flow of this huge sum of money from the accounts with pseudonyms.
After all, you can rest assured that the money is in your own account. Letting the person in charge make the transition is just a cover-up, and it will eventually be returned to the name of the real owner.
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Zhao Hao suddenly took off the gauze used as a mask and gasped for air.
"We're in big trouble now"
He is absolutely certain that this is the account book of a maritime merchant!
Although it is only a very small part of the accounts.
But Zhao Hao believed that as long as the court was willing to pursue the investigation, it would be easy to uncover those who colluded with maritime merchants for smuggling from these two purchase accounts and payment accounts.
Then we can uproot the entire smuggling network in the southeast
"The imperial court was so poor that it couldn't get rid of the problem, so it began to live in poverty.
Otherwise, he will not take care of Taizu's legacy training and still open a sea in business.
Aren¡¯t they just poor?
"If Emperor Longqing knew it, it would turn out that tens of millions, no, tens of millions of taels of silver were flowing into the Ming Dynasty from places he didn't know about
Zhao Hao seemed to see the scene of billowing heads and bloodshed along the southeastern coast.
??And it must also include the heads of his master, his apprentice and his son
Shocked by this horrific scene, Zhao Hao was completely frightened.
He decided to pretend that he had never seen this thing before.
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