Chapter 398: Unexpected Gain
As the main city of the Long family, Xunyang is not a small county town. The registered people alone have a total of 50,000 households, and the population is more than 300,000. Even if it is placed in the Central Plains, it is considered to be a large population, and in the southwest, it is only under the Kunming state.
In this way, the city is naturally very dense. If you really want to follow what Xiao Chengzhi said, you can find the whereabouts of the silver warehouse in a carpet style. Not to mention whether it will disturb the whole city’s panic. The time and manpower alone are terrifying. Moreover, if things are leaked, there may be many variables, which is really not a wise choice.
So Xiao Chengzhi said this, and Li Ling and Sun Bi naturally would not find the silver vault according to his proposal, but instead deduce their possible location based on the current clues.
At this time, a detailed map of Xunyang City was laid on the table in front of the three of them. The map was drawn extremely finely, and almost marked the specific location of each building in reality. It was regarded as the most important drawing in the city. This was also an extremely important object found by Sun Bi and his friends in the Feilong Building, which ordinary generals and officials could not see.
"Let's think about what choice we would make if we were Long Tianxiang." Sun Bi said, his fingers constantly moving on the map, "This is where the silver vault is located, this is Longjia Fort, and these two are military camps..."
Li Ling's eyes slowly looked on the map as he moved his fingers, and said, "If I were him, these silvers were not only related to whether he could seize power, but also to his life. Naturally, the more hidden the better. But at the same time, it must be convenient enough to take out the silver at any time."
"Yes, these silvers were not decided by him earlier. When Long Sihai and others wanted to use them, he had to withdraw them in time, and there was no delay. If it was a small pen, it could be taken directly from the bank warehouse. After all, there were still tens of thousands of dollars there, but if the number was large, it would be different."
Xiao Chengzhi also said: "And, when the tax banks in various places were collected and transported to Xunyang, he had to hide them from everyone and sent them to the bank treasury openly, but in fact he hid them in his own warehouse - at least this has been the case in the past two years - but how did he do this?"
"From this point, the location of this secret library is actually very easy to judge." Li Ling's fingers first struck the Long Family Fortress, "This is the focus of the whole city. Many powerful figures in the Long Family will focus on this, so he will never risk hiding silver here."
"It's not the north, but the west is full of houses, with many people and eyes, so it's even more impossible for him to take the risk of setting up a secret warehouse here. Moreover, according to the people in the bank bank, they usually transport silver into the warehouse, and they never enter from the west."
"The northwest can be ruled out, and only the southeastern sides are left..." Xiao Chengzhi said as soon as he spoke, but was interrupted by Sun Bi and Li Ling at the same time: "No, you have forgotten this area in the city, that is, this area near the silver vault."
"This area is mostly home to wealthy merchants and families. Could it be hidden in their private warehouses?" Xiao Chengzhi immediately became energetic.
"It should be unlikely. Who would be so bold that the rich family in the city would help Long Tianxiang privately hide money under the eyes of the Long family? You must know that Long Sihai still had everything in the city at that time." Li Ling immediately opposed.
Xiao Chengzhi frowned and said, "Where can you hide so much money? Is there any secret room in the silver treasury?"
While listening to their conversation, Sun Bi kept patrolling the map. At this moment, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and locked his eyes on one point: "I thought of it, it was probably here!" As he said that, his finger had already pointed, and at the same time, Li Ling's finger had also been pointed out and said, "It's here!"
The two fingers fell to one point at the same time, which made Xiao Chengzhi stunned, and then he shouted softly: "Are you talking about the military camp in the city?"
Yes, the place they are referring to at this moment is located in the city, only two streets away from the Yinku. In this Xunyang City, there are four military camps, located in Longjia Fort in the south, east, north of the city, and in the city.
Among them, the southeast sides are used to protect the safety of the city wall. The Longjia Fort is naturally to protect the last fortress. As for the military camp in the city, its purpose is to control public security in the city and protect important places such as the granary and silver warehouses.
What's more important is that the military camp in the city has always been under the jurisdiction of Long Tianxiang, because he has always been doing odd jobs in the family, such as the grain bank and the daily public security matters in the city, he was all handled by him. In this way, the soldiers who are not very strong in combat are naturally under his command.
"Hide the silver in the military camp? Isn't that getting more and more people are more confused and easy to reveal the truth?" Xiao Chengzhi asked in confusion.
"That may not be. There are military disciplines in the military camp. As long as the constraints are well, most people may not know what is hidden in the camp." Sun Bi said immediately.
Li Ling also said, "Brother Sun said (because Sun Bi's insistence was also for his safety. Even if he knew his identity, Li Ling still called him a friend instead of being called the Seventh Prince). And there is one thing we cannot neglect. There is actually a great warehouse for collecting silver in this military camp."
Xiao Chengzhi reacted very quickly this time. After all, he always stayed in the military camp. A light flashed in his eyes and blurted out: "Army!"
"It's the armory! Except for some important generals, ordinary soldiers are not allowed to approach it at all. Moreover, the place is large enough. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, even if it doubles, it's more than enough to put it there!" Li Ling nodded, "If I were Long Tianxiang, I would choose to choose the secret library here!"
"Also, the people who transport silver come out of this camp, including vehicle boxes, so whether it is transporting the silver from outside or taking it out from inside, it is quite convenient here. Because no one knows whether these silver car boxes are filled with silver when they enter and exit from the military camp." Sun Bi made the final addition.
Then, he and Li Ling looked at each other and both laughed. Unconsciously, the relationship between the two, who already had a good relationship, was one step closer. This was because of this rare tacit understanding and such a co-star, he was really a confidant.
This tacit understanding made Xiao Chengzhi a little envious, and he muttered unconsciously: "Are you two brothers, or are you my cousin and I brothers..."
This made the other two people stunned, and then laughed at the same time, and then Xiao Chengzhi laughed too. The relationship between the three young people became closer, and the so-called friendship was caused by mutual cooperation again and again, aggravated.
Since the inference has been made, Li Ling and the others will naturally not delay any further. Xiao Chengzhi immediately led his men to the military camp in the city with Li Ling.
To this day, there are still a large number of Long family soldiers stationed in this military camp. They still maintain security in the city under the surveillance of the Dingxi Army, but they are naturally much more low-key than before. So when they saw a Dingxi Army suddenly arrive, they were frightened from the generals to the soldiers, fearing that they would blame others for taking them.
Xiao Chengzhi didn't say much to them, but just asked the commander in the camp and asked him to take him to the armory. The commander naturally did not dare to neglect. He quickly led the way and led them to a large warehouse where the door was closed and there was a military soldier guarding it outside.
"Have anyone entered the door these days?" Li Ling asked before they wanted to open the door.
The commander quickly replied: "If you want to know, sir, there is no. In fact, the small armory here rarely gets close to people, because there are already strict orders from the superiors, and only a few people can enter..."
"Oh?" Li Ling was even more convinced when he heard this. Obviously, there was another reason for this.
Xiao Chengzhi lost his patience and immediately waved his hand: "Open the door and go in and take a look, you guys are here."
With a few shouts, the closed warehouse door was pushed open. Just by looking inside, you can see that the space inside the warehouse is huge, much larger than the silver warehouse.
Then, Xiao Chengzhi and Li Ling led a team of troops into it. The soldiers behind were skillfully lit the torches to light the light, and instantly illuminated the dark warehouse. In this way, all the objects stored in it were exposed to everyone's eyes. There were indeed a lot of weapons stored here, but the number of armor, swords, guns, bows and arrows is still a bit sparse compared to such a large space.
However, hundreds of large wooden boxes neatly stacked in front occupied more than half of the warehouse. Seeing this, everyone's expressions were excited, and Xiao Chengzhi moved quickly. He immediately stepped forward, lifted the lid of one of the boxes, and then cheered: "It's true that there is silver!"
With his shout, the soldiers became more and more happy, rushed up and opened the box lid one by one to check. Then they kept shouting: "This is also a silver..."
After a while, all the boxes were opened. Under the light of the fire, the entire warehouse was covered with silver, which showed that the amount of silver hidden in the warehouse was to secretly hide the silver that should have been stored in the warehouse here.
After a subsequent count, the specific amount of silver was released, which was 879,200 taels, more than 300,000 more than the one on the bank account of the silver treasury. Obviously, the extra ones must have been obtained by Long Tianxiang through other means, but now they have been in vain for the Dingxi Army.
With this large sum of money, the previous military, government and civil affairs were no longer difficult, and Li Ling could relax, which was really a surprise gain.
Chapter completed!