Chapter 258: The Line of Jinmaru

‘Pu!’ The old eunuch in gray was thrown to the ground, stirring up a thin layer of dust. The man in white took out his handkerchief and wiped the white oil paint on his face. It turned out to be a handsome young man. He raised his head proudly and bowed to King Qing and said, “This eunuch came out of the Eastern Palace and was intercepted by another man in black in front of Wang Zhongsi’s mansion. He was captured by his subordinates on the way to escape. Now he is here to hand over the order.”

"Submit order?"

King Qing Li Cong walked up to the old eunuch and kicked him. Seeing that he was still unconscious, he couldn't help but sneer: "What did he do to Wang Zhongsi's mansion? Who else is that man in black? Is there anything he has taken away? You can't answer so many questions. Can you get a half-dead person to hand over the order?"

"this......"

A trace of shame appeared in the proud eyes of the young man. He was called Xing Jian, a famous killer in the Jiangnan area. He was invited by King Qing for a large sum of money. He is currently temporarily appointed as the guardian of the Qing Palace. This person is cruel and ruthless. If there is no special explanation, he will never leave any survivors. Those who hear about it in the Jiangnan area will be disgusted.

Xing Qian was scolded by King Qing. He glanced at the old eunuch, and murderous intent suddenly appeared in his eyes. Without saying a word, he carried his vest and walked out.

Li Cong looked at his back and couldn't help but smile proudly. He patted his palms. A thin and dry old man turned out from outside the screen with a smile, "I'm right!"

Li Cong personally brought him a cup of tea and said sincerely: "Mr. Wang really has a good vision. I forced Xing Yanluo to take action only once a day with just one word."

Mr. Wang was a Taoist priest whom Wang Tianbao met in Zhongnan Mountain in the sixth year of Tianbao in Qing Dynasty. The two of them had an affair, so the Taoist priest returned to secular life and became military advisors. Since he entered the Qing Palace, he advised Li Cong to put Bao on the Yang family. Li Cong spent a lot of money to please the Yang sisters. He was betting several times, which made Li Longji very happy and his disgust towards him gradually faded. In October last year, his salary and land were restored, and Li Cong also followed the advice of Military Commander Wang.

Military Commander Wang gently stroked his long white beard and smiled: "This Xing Qian has never failed since his debut. He has always been arrogant and cannot coax or ask for such people. He can only use excitement. With excitement, he will definitely do the things perfectly. Your Highness will wait to see the confession."

Half an hour later, a blood-stained confession was placed in front of King Qing, and Xing Jun said lightly: "This confession is true, but others are dead."

Li Cong picked up the confession and looked at it, then handed it to Wang Junshi. He looked it a little twice and frowned and said, "It seems that the prince must have hidden the secret letter to Wang Zhongsi in the golden pill. If he can get this letter, the position of the prince will most likely be difficult to guarantee."

"It's a pity that the man in black got it first." Li Cong said regretfully.

Military Secretary Wang put the confession on the table and smiled slightly and said, "That may not be!"

Li Cong was excited and said, "How do you say this?"

Wang Junshi bent his index finger and said, "Didn't it be written above? Shortly after throwing away the Jinmaru, the man in black turned around and chased after him. I guessed that the man in black must have not found the Jinmaru, so he thought he had been fooled and chased him again, so the man in black probably didn't get the Jinmaru."

Speaking of this, he saw that Xing Jun had some insight in his eyes and couldn't help but smile and said, "What did Mr. Xing think of? Why don't you say it?"

Xing Qian thought of seeing a thin figure on the scene, and he recalled the little beggar he saw at the gate of the house, and had a plan in his mind. He ignored Junshi Wang and bowed to Li Cong, "I only completed half of this matter, and my other half should be done."

Li Cong was overjoyed. He took a silver medal from his waist and handed it to Xing Jian and said, "With this silver medal, you can call the people in my house at will."

Xing Qian refused to answer, turned around and left. When the person was about to disappear, his cold voice came from a distance, "I, Xing, have always been alone in doing things and never need help from others."

Li Cong was stunned. He looked back at his military advisor and saw him shook his head and sighed: "I guess the man in black was either sent by Yang Guozhong or sent by Li Linfu. We can't think of it. Can't they think of it? The capital is not Jiangnan. Xing Qian is too proud of himself. Your Highness still has to arrange it secretly."

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There is a dilapidated Taoist temple in the northwest corner of Qinrenfang. The doors and windows are empty and the weeds are deserted. The Taoist temple has long been abandoned by the Taoist priests. Now this is a paradise for beggars. The sky is dark, and the thick fog like milk is denser. You can't see people ten steps away. In the back hall of the Taoist temple, more than twenty beggars were lying everywhere, snoring one after another, and sleeping sweetly. The head of Zhang Tianshi worshipped in the hall is gone, leaving only a broken mud body. Next to Zhang Tianshi, there is a big drum, which is more than one person tall. The skin on the drum has been stripped away, leaving a drum stand.

The young beggar was curled up in a drum stand at this time, widening his eyes and looking at the golden ball in his hand carefully. The golden ball was actually a model of an egg, divided into two layers inside and outside. One layer of egg shell on the outside was completely hollowed out, carved with flowers and bird characters, lifelike and ingenious. There was naturally an egg yolk inside, which was also made of gold. Although this golden egg was extremely exquisite, in the eyes of the boy, it was just a piece of gold, perhaps because of last night.

When the golden ball fell to the ground, the boy wanted to squeeze the depression into its original shape. Unexpectedly, as soon as he tried hard, the golden ball was divided into two halves, and a hole was also cracked in the golden egg yolk inside, and something seemed to be inside. The boy curiously scratched the crack with his fingernails, and the golden egg yolk also cracked in two halves. There was a roll of paper inside. The boy was disappointed. He thought it was jewelry, jade, etc., but he didn't expect it to be black and white words that he didn't know.

"unlucky!"

The boy muttered, stuffed the paper roll into Zhang Tianshi's broken neck, and then lay down happily to admire his gold. He slowly closed his eyes and began to look forward to his bright future.

Suddenly, he felt that his hands were empty. When he opened his eyes, the golden pill in his hand was snatched away.

"Master!" The young beggar sat upright and cried in panic. He saw an old beggar climbing up in front of him. He was squinting his eyes and looking at the well-made golden egg in his hand. He laughed and said, "I said, you kid didn't come to see me when he came back last night. It turned out that he had found the treasure!"

The young man was extremely regretful and almost pinched off the flesh on his legs. Why did he be so careless that he forgot the thief of this old guy. The master mentioned by the young man was actually Huazitou. The entire Qinrenfang was his territory. He made a living by exploiting other beggars. Every day when the beggars beg, they had to share nearly 40% of the things in his hands, and even a copper coin had to be kept. Last night, the young beggar came back too late. Huazitou had already slept and had no time to hand over the bill, but he discovered that the young man had a yellow Chengcheng thing in his hand early in the morning, so he took it away while he was unprepared.

"This is pure gold!"

A look of ecstasy ejaculation ejaculated in Huazitou's eyes. He had some knowledge and knew that the workmanship of this golden egg far exceeded the value of ordinary gold. This was absolutely extraordinary. He kept talking and asked excitedly: "Where did this come from?"

"I picked it up!"

The boy's heart became more and more desperate, but he still said unwillingly: "Master, give you half of it according to the rules, and you can give me the courage inside!"

Hanako was stunned, a despicable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He took out a handful of copper coins and threw them to him, "I'll give you the money, I want this thing!"

"Master, how can you do this!" the young man roared, "You set the rules. Are you not afraid of your senior brothers being upset when you do this?"

He jumped up, and regardless of being in the air, he rushed towards the old beggar. With a loud "boom!", the drum hit the ground, causing the beggars who were sleeping soundly on the ground to jump up in shock.

"You little bastard!" A large piece of oily skin was scratched on the old beggar's leg, and bloody beads were oozed. He was extremely angry and slapped the little beggar fiercely.

"Master, what happened?" Several beggars slowly surrounded him. When they saw the golden balls in Hanako's hand, their eyes were shining. Hanako's waist as if nothing had happened, he pointed to the copper coins on the ground and scolded: "This little bastard dares to steal my money. Come forward and beat me. It's best if you beat me to death. I'll reward you with this money."

A dozen beggars looked at the money on the ground, all with vicious smiles on their faces, and slowly surrounded the boy. The young beggar was extremely alert and pointed to the roof, "Beware! It fell down."

Taking advantage of the moment when everyone looked up, he 'rubbed' out of a hole at the foot of the wall, running like a wild dog in the weeds that were tall, and soon disappeared into the thick fog.

"Damn it! Let him run away."

Hanako was cursing and crawling up, as she patted the hand and pointed to the money on the ground and said, "You can divide these by yourself! I have something to do." With everyone's confusing eyes, he walked out of the Taoist temple with one stone, and his wealth was already exposed. The golden pill had to be disposed of as soon as possible, otherwise he would be assassinated by someone. The best way is to sell it. This golden egg is worth at least 500 jin, right! Sell it at the jewelry store in Dongshi City, and then deposit the money in the cabinet shop. Before he knew it, a large sum of money was obtained. The more he thought about it, he became more and more beautiful, and he dragged his lame legs towards Dongshi.

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In the East City, there were money deposits and withdrawals on the counters, and people were constantly flowing. If we only from the perspective of commercial banks, Li Qing's experiment was completely successful. The cabinets in the east and west cities had almost monopolized the banking industry in Chang'an, and the business was booming, and the money stored in the private sector had reached 50 million yuan. However, if from Li Qing's original intention, he used technical means to collect taxes directly and deprive local financial power, from this point of view, Li Qing's reform failed. Not to mention that the central bank has not been able to spread throughout the country, even the original pilot projects of Chang'an, Chengdu and Suzhou, in the seventh year of Tianbao, the taxes in the three places were restored to the original collection and management method, and were collected by local governments, and some local expenses were intercepted before handing over to the court.

The problem lies with Li Longji. He agreed to An Lushan's application in the sixth year of Tianbao, and did not set up a counter house under his jurisdiction. Since this opening was opened, applications from all over the country also flew towards the court. In the end, Li Longji had to modify the plan, causing Li Qing's reform to die halfway.

"Shopkeeper Qian, come and see this thing for me?"

Manager Qiu from the East City Jewelry Store hurriedly stepped into the gate of the counter shop and shouted from a distance. He was holding the golden ball in his hand. He followed Hanakotou closely behind him, staring at his treasure with a nervous expression. The owner of the jewelry store took him to the counter shop to withdraw money on the excuse of having no cash, but now he felt something was wrong.

"Is this the thing?"

The fat shopkeeper Qian poked his head out of the counter, pointed to the Jinmaru in his hand and smiled, "You are the shopkeeper of the jewelry store, why are you asking me instead?"

"I found this is a thing in the palace?" Manager Qiu leaned close to his ear and whispered: "This golden pill was sold to the East Palace two months ago. How could it be in the hands of a beggar now?"

"I'm sorry! I won't sell it anymore." Hanako came to grab it, but Jianke Qian was quick-witted and grabbed the Jinwan Pills first. Fang Xiaomi said, "Don't be anxious, this guest. Manager Qiu is worried that the purity of gold is not enough, so I'll identify it. After we verify it, it's better to estimate the price for you. How about it?"

Without waiting for the other party to agree, he handed the Jinmaru in. Hanakoto had no choice but to want it, but he was reluctant to let it go, so he had to stand aside and wait anxiously. After a moment, a friend walked out of the inner room and whispered a few words in the shopkeeper's ear. Manager Qian's face changed and pointed at the old beggar and shouted, "Come on, catch him!"

Five or six big men snatched from both sides at the same time and rushed straight towards Hanazitou. At this time, Hanazitou was so scared that he was so scared that he was secretly complaining. It seemed that the golden pill had a background, but he didn't even know that it was all blamed for that damn little bastard!

He didn't care about the pain in his legs, and jumped out of the door like a rabbit, but stepped on the air and rolled down the steps. At this moment, a cold star flashed in the thick fog. Huazi's head and body bounced for a moment, and then he didn't move any longer. When several big men grabbed him, he was surprised to find that a flying knife shot from behind and penetrated his neck. The big men looked up at the same time, and saw a vast fog in front of him, but there was no one.
Chapter completed!