The Golden Age Chapter 580: Xie Mu

There was a dead silence in the hall, Qin Xiao frowned and asked: "When did you die?"

"Master Mao, it is up to you to talk about this matter." Jiang Xiaochun looked at an official next to him: "You know this matter best."

The man immediately arched his hand and said, "Bo Maolu, deputy chief of the low-ranking bank, Lord Bo committed suicide." This Maolu was more than 40 years old and looked rather honest and respectful, and said: "April On the twenty-fifth, it was discovered that the silver stock was missing on the same day. Master Bo, who knew that he was very guilty, found a rope and hanged himself while we were not paying attention. The body was still parked here temporarily and two guards were sent, but. ..... It has been half a month, although some medicinal materials have been used on the corpse, it has also been decayed."

"Sure he committed suicide?"

"When Master Bo was discovered, many people in the silver library saw it." Mao Lu cautiously said: "After the incident, Commander Jiang personally inspected the corpse and was determined to hang himself."

Jiang Xiaochun nodded and said: "This Jiang can testify. Jiang has carefully checked the corpse, and there are no other injuries on his body. He is determined to be hanged and died."

Qin Xiao and Chen Xi looked at each other and asked Mao Lu, "Mao Lu, how did you discover Ku Yin's disappearance? Please elaborate."

Mao Lu thought for a while, apparently clearing up his thoughts, and said very cautiously: "Return to your lord, the two sources of silver in the inner library are mainly the dark shops of the inner library in the south of the Yangtze River. In the early years, here in the south of the Yangtze River. There is no inner warehouse. The silver in Jiangnan’s inner warehouse is directly transported to Kyoto. After the princess took over the inner warehouse, she ordered to operate secretly in Jiangnan, and chose to set up an inner warehouse in Lingyan Mountain as a shop in the inner warehouse. To operate silver, every six months, the administrators of the three states of the Yangtze River will collect the accounts of the shops under the name into a book, and then send the profitable silver to the internal inventory. If the shops have large transactions that require cash turnover, they can also Transfer money from here."

Everyone at the scene looked at Mao Lu, knowing what he said, also let Qin Xiao and others understand the operation of Jiangnan Neiku, so that it can facilitate the investigation.

"The princess ordered that Jiangnan Neiku’s deposit of silver should not be less than 500,000 taels. So even if the silver is transferred from here to Kyoto, Jiangnan Neiku has never been less than seven years ago. Five hundred thousand taels of cash." Mao Lu deliberated his words, lest he could make a mistake in his words: "However, the business in Jiangnan is prosperous, and the cash stored here, in recent years, the cash on the accounts has been at one million taels. Above, there is no shortage of silver in Kyoto, so the princess ordered that the minimum deposit in Jiangnan Neiku is changed to one million taels, and the excess will be sent to Beijing every year."

"Although the Jiangnan Neiku is to prevent the Neiku shops from using silver, in fact they have bought more and sold more in these years. A large amount of cash is stored in the warehouse, and only a small part of it is occasionally transferred." Mao Lu said. Slowly: "Everything was fine, but just last month, Hangzhou suddenly received a big deal. It was a business negotiated with Nanyang people. It needed 100,000 horses of silk, and it would be in August this year. I prepared the goods before and shipped them away. The cost price of silk this year is four or two and seven silver per horse. To purchase one hundred thousand taels of silk, you will need four hundred and seventy thousand taels of silver. Nanyang people paid a part of the deposit, and the manager of the store in Hangzhou also Nearly 200,000 taels of silver were collected from various shops in Hangzhou, but together, the difference is about 200,000 taels of silver from 4,700,000 taels."

"So Hangzhou has to transfer 200,000 taels of silver from Neiku?" Qin Xiao asked.

Mao Lu nodded and said: "Exactly. Silk is sold to Nanyang people for eight taels of silver, so if you do this business, you can get a surplus of about 300,000 taels after all expenses are eliminated. Naturally, Bian was very happy. The manager of Hangzhou got permission from the princess, and came to Neiku in person, brought a vehicle, and prepared to take 200,000 taels of silver from Nekura. With the princess’s permission, Neiku would naturally ask for a transfer. Yin, the manager of Hangzhou brought people here on April 25th. The bank opened the bank that afternoon and wanted to withdraw money from the bank, but suddenly found that the bank's deposit of silver had disappeared... ..!"

Qin Xiao immediately asked: "Mao Lu, please make it clear that the silver deposit was found to disappear on April 25. On April 24, will there be a problem with the deposit of silver in the treasury?"

"This...!" Mao Lu hesitated for a while before saying: "On the eighth day of April, the Suzhou general manager had to allocate thirty thousand taels of cash. The thirty thousand taels of silver was allocated to the Suzhou manager."

"I asked about April 24th, is there still money in the silver library?" Qin Xiao looked directly at Mao Lu.

Mao Lu shook his head and said: "This...I don't know about this humble job. The silver vault is an important place. The silver vault can only be opened when it is in and out of the warehouse. When it is in the warehouse, the amount of silver will be counted. , It is recorded in the account book, and after it is stored in the bank, it will be sealed up. When leaving the bank, the bank silver box is also removed from the bank. After the count, the number is allocated. You can’t open the treasury. And the silver treasury has two keys. In addition to Lord Bo, you also have one for the humble post. You need two keys to unlock the treasury to open the treasury."

"That means, before the manager of Hangzhou came, the last time the bank was opened was on the eighth day of April. On that day, thirty thousand taels of cash were allocated from the bank to the manager of Suzhou?"

Mao Lu nodded and said: "Exactly. Opening the library requires the key to a humble position. Before April 25, the last time I opened the library was on the 8th day of April." Looking at an official nearby, he said: "Legal officer Zhang I should remember clearly."

The official Zhang Ling said immediately: "The humble position is guaranteed by the head. On the eighth day of April, Mao Zhubo and Master Zhubo opened the bank together, and indeed only took out thirty thousand taels of cash from the bank that day. It was a humble position that day. Record the account books, the accounts can be accounted for, after the thirty thousand taels of silver are allocated, the existing silver in the treasury should still be 1.227 thousand three hundred taels."

"From the eighth day of April to the 25th of April, there are seventeen days in between." Qin Xiao said: "The bank has not been opened for these seventeen days. When the manager of Hangzhou comes over, you find that there is clearly More than 1.2 million taels of silver are in cash, but there is no silver in the treasury?"

Several people nodded. Mao Lu was also in the shop, but suddenly thought of something, he immediately shook his head.

"Mao Lu, what do you mean by shaking your head?"

"The humble post...The humble post meant to say that the cash in the silver treasury was missing, but not all of them disappeared." Mao Lu said nervously: "I checked it afterwards, the silver treasury...in the silver treasury. There are still seven or eighty thousand taels of silver."

Chen Xi frowned and said coldly: "Isn't all the silver in the bank missing?"

"No, there are more than 76,000 taels left." Mao Lu was stared at by Chen Xi's stern gaze, his back was hairy, and he dared not look at each other, and lowered his head.

Qin Xiao sighed: "The news we got is that more than one million taels of silver from the Jiangnan Bank disappeared overnight.

It now appears that the facts are quite different. First of all, there are seventeen days from the eighth day of April to the twenty-fifth of April. If you did not open the treasury, it does not mean that the silver disappeared overnight on the evening of April 24. Secondly, there is still Curry left. More than 70,000 taels of silver, not all of them are missing. "

No one dared to speak, and the room was silent again.

After a while, Jiang Xiaochun finally said: "Master Qin, Master Chen, Jiang can use a human head to guaranty. During these seventeen days, Neiku's guard has remained the same as before without any negligence. If you say that more than one million taels of silver is In the middle of this, the inner library was transported out of the main entrance of the inner library, and there were three checkpoints on the downhill road. Unless it was flying away from the sky, the inner library had so many eyes that it would never be avoided."

"I believe Commander Jiang's words, and I believe that your guards are very strict." Qin Xiao nodded and pondered, before asking again: "Commander Jiang, there is something I want to know about these two hundred people on the mountain. Many people, do they stay in the inner treasury all year round and do not leave?"

Jiang Xiaochun was taken aback, shook his head and said: "This is not the case."

"Oh?" Qin Xiao asked with a smile: "We don't understand the situation of Neiku, so I can't help Mr. Jiang to explain it."

Jiang Xiaochun said: "Most people in Neiku are not allowed to leave for half a step. Jiang's guards not only cannot go down the mountain all year round, but also stay for two years. During the past two years, Lazarus has been eating and drinking. Neiku, after two years have passed, there will be another man and horse for rotation. That man and horse will be directly selected and mobilized by the princess in Kyoto. The brothers who are now guarding Neiku will be able to rotate back to Beijing at the end of this year. After staying in Kyoto for two years, they will be transferred again for rotation."

Faixin couldn't help but said: "One stay is two years, it's really not easy."

"The soldiers at the border have worked harder than this." Jiang Xiaochun said: "Neiku guards are treated very well. The monthly salary is twice as high as that of the Kyoto Dragon Scale Guards, and they are full of food and drink, and there are fish. There is meat, and the princess once promised these guards that when they are older, after they are discharged from the army, the Neiku will still pay them old-age pensions, and even those with heirs can replace them as guards."

Qin Xiao thinks that, in this way, the Neku guard is indeed a good job. He can still lead the army when he grows old, and he also finds a good job for his sons to worry about food, although one stay on the mountain is two. Nian is indeed boring and depressing, but with such treatment, I am afraid that many people are willing to do this job.

The princess is very generous to Neku's guards, but it is precisely because of such superior treatment that these people can do their best to serve the princess.

"However, officials have days off." Jiang Xiaochun explained: "On the guard side, the generals above, including the school lieutenant, have four days off each month, and they can take turns down the mountain to rest. They are eligible. There are a total of seven guards on the Neiku side, and there are also six on the Neiku side who receive the same treatment."

"Retire for four days?" Qin Xiao suddenly thought of something, with sharp eyes, staring at Jiang Xiaochun and asked: "Commander Jiang, you mean that on the day of rest, 13 people in Neiku can go down the mountain and move freely? "

Jiang Xiaochun nodded and said: "That's right. These thirteen people have this privilege only because we are different from the others, not because of our identity, but because the two-year rotation does not include us. There is no princess’s command. We transfer away, and the 13 of us will stay in Neiku forever."