Start with detective Li Yuanfang

Chapter 683 The Godly Skill of Torture That Made Qiu Shenji Have an Unemployment Crisis
"It's hidden enough..."

Under Xiao Hei's guidance, Li Yan came to Tong Guan's seventh house, which is also the most secretive stronghold.

Compared with the mansions in the first six blocks, this place is just ordinary people's houses. Most of the places are inhabited by civilians. They also provide daily food supply. The five godsons are only responsible for guarding the secret room at the back.

That is to say, the cats and cats under Xiao Hei's command did not attract attention. Instead, the officers and soldiers searched, and the five eunuchs hid in the secret room, and they couldn't find it here.

Li Yan turned into a half-human, half-ghost state, floated in, and saw five eunuchs sizing up Jiaozi, showing concern.

"Boss Jia, can you get money for this handover? Just this piece of paper is worth [-] coins. I always feel uneasy!"

"Don't worry, this is a Jiaozi issued by the Chuanxia Guild. Although [-] guan is a lot of money, it will not lose the reputation of the six major chambers of commerce. Even when the adults are around, they trust it."

"But after the adults left, they didn't admit it..."

"Businessmen are like this, not to mention that we didn't get the gift from the adults, only the receipt, so naturally we can't get the money. Now that we have the gift, I'm not afraid they won't give it to us!"

Li Yan listened silently.

Jiaozi, which appeared in Sichuan in the early Song Dynasty, is considered to be the earliest banknote in the world, but behind this is not an advanced civilization achievement, but a forced and helpless move.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, it has been extracting and looting as much as possible in terms of tax collection, especially when it eliminated the southern regime. Among them, Sichuan was the most plundered. After the destruction of Houshu, all its gold, silver, silk and satin were transported to Bianjing. , This is understandable, the key is that even the copper coins were not spared, and they were all moved to Bianjing, so that the people in Sichuan didn't even have to use copper coins, they could only use iron coins.

And iron money is too heavy. For example, to buy a good silk or a horse at that time, you need [-] Wen iron money, which weighs more than [-] catties, which is equivalent to carrying a big living person on your back to buy things. Sichuan's paper industry was developed, and with Feiqian as a reference, paper money like "Jiaozi" was born among the people, and peasant uprisings broke out at the same time.

After Song Ting skillfully suppressed the peasant uprising, he also deeply felt that it would not be possible to continue like this. In order to stabilize the region and promote commercial circulation, he began to implement the combination of government and business, and "Jiaozi" has been recognized by the government since then.

This is the same as the emergence of Feiqian after the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty. It has a specific background and development factors. With the lessons learned from the past, Sichuan merchants used "Jiaozi" in turn during the Song and Xia Wars. ", earning ten times the profit from the court, and storing the copper coins obtained, so that there was a money shortage in the court.

The key point is that the money that was looted into Bianjing at the beginning was basically also burned in the fire of Rongwang Palace, which is quite ironic.

This is the background of the times. Up to now, the scope of use of jiaozi has gradually exceeded Sichuan, and now it is used all over the country. Although it is impossible to replace copper coins, it does have a certain market.

This has an inseparable relationship with the promotion of the Chuanxia Guild in the six major chambers of commerce.

At this time, Li Yan looked at "Jiaozi" at a close distance, and found that the paper, printing, and pictures were all excellent, and the seal of the Chuanxia Guild was anti-counterfeiting. Compared with the Jiaozi used by ordinary people, it was only five hundred characters and consistent There are two denominations, which are issued internally by the chamber of commerce. One can be worth [-] guan, which is very convenient for heavy gold transactions.

Of course, for the ancients, ten thousand family fortunes turned into twenty pieces of paper, which really made people feel uneasy. The head of the five eunuchs, Boss Jia, was full of confidence on the surface, and the first sentence after stabilizing people's hearts was: "Tomorrow, Xiaowu will go to the Chuanxia Guild and exchange it for a thousand guan."

The face of Xiaowu who was named changed slightly: "Boss, Yang Jian and Lan Congxi's people have been searching for our whereabouts these days. I'm going alone, I'm afraid there is no one to take care of me..."

Jia Lao said: "You haven't shown your face in the palace before, Yang Jian and Lan Congxi's people don't recognize you, why worry?"

Xiao Wu frowned and said, "That being said, they suddenly started searching for our whereabouts, and the thieves found us again, so I'm still worried..."

Boss Jia said in a deep voice, "Are you worried that someone among the five of us will leak this information?"

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere suddenly became solemn, and the four eunuchs looked at each other with scrutiny and doubt in their eyes.

Only Boss Jia was unmoved, and said coldly: "After your lord dies, the only ones who know the secret are the five of us. If we get suspicious again and civil strife breaks out, how many of us will survive?"

"I said the same thing to the western thieves, and I said the same thing to you. We can live until now because we are not greedy. Each of us has a fortune of one hundred thousand. Going back to the countryside to become a rich family and a gentry, enjoying life for a lifetime, is no better than hiding in this small house. Is it much stronger inside the house?"

"I don't care who leaked the secrets before, but now that the transaction is officially opened, if anyone dares to disrupt the situation again, don't blame me for not being nostalgic!"

The four eunuchs looked awe-inspiring: "Brother, don't worry, we will never leak any news!"

Jia Laodao: "Okay! Xiao Wu shows up the least, and I will exchange two Jiaozi tomorrow. On the one hand, it will verify the authenticity of this item, and on the other hand, it will also be used as travel expenses. After the transaction is completed, we will immediately divide the money and go back to each place. Understand. Yet?"

The atmosphere eased, and the four eunuchs nodded in unison: "All listen to Big Brother!"

Boss Jia said earnestly, "I'm going to sort out the criminal evidence handed over to the thief in the next few days. Go and rest!"

The four eunuchs went away in peace, and Boss Jia came to the three neatly arranged boxes and checked the case records inside.

Li Yanpiao was behind, sizing up this person.

What he said just now was really grand, if it wasn't for the fact that the eunuch surnamed Jia had hidden a magic weapon and his heart beat slightly faster when the news was leaked, it would have been more perfect.

What's more interesting is that Li Yan took out the compass he found on Ling Zhen, and found that there was a flashing light point, which corresponded to the person in front of him.

He has already verified that this compass cannot detect the aura of Youyoujia, but it can lock the position of the bronze medal of beast control, so there is a great possibility that the light point pointed by the compass must be a magic weapon refined by Jin Jingshan.

If this conjecture is correct, the magic weapon on Boss Jia's body also came from the Taoist blessed land who is good at refining weapons.

After getting these clues, Li Yan's eyes moved slightly, he drilled back to the ground, and began to recall Tong Guan's tone and voice.

"The evidence that really convicts the Wang family can be given to Xixia twice..."

"No! Divide into three times! This family guards the Daming Mansion. Although the main defense is the Liao Kingdom, if Xixia can use it, it will also be beneficial to the front line. Thirty thousand guan is not much at all!"

"Of course, what Xixia wants most is the stain of the generals of the Western Army. I hope to use this to instigate the generals and turn defeat into victory. The most valuable part of this can sell at least two to three hundred thousand guan. What a sum of money that is. It's a pity that I gave them to my uncle a long time ago..."

Boss Jia sorted out the crimes, talked to himself, and sighed slightly, until a hand suddenly stretched out from his side, picked up a case file, and looked through it.

He froze suddenly and subconsciously looked around.

A scalp-numbing scene appeared, and there was nothing around him, but the hand was still flipping through the file.

No arms, no body, just one hand.

Just as Boss Jia looked at the hand suspended in the air, and all the energy and blood in his body rushed to his head, a masculine and familiar voice suddenly sounded: "Are you worthy of me?"

Boss Jia showed disbelief, and said in a trembling voice, "Tong...Tong...Da...Master?"

The hand suspended in mid-air, still casually flipping through the record: "I never thought that I would have misjudged you before I was alive, and entrusted with a heavy responsibility, I will only know your true face after death!"

Boss Jia was finally certain that it was the voice of his adoptive father, his legs softened, and he knelt down on the ground: "My lord! My lord, please spare me!"

The palm suddenly disappeared, and the case file fell into the box with a thud, and the voice appeared in my ears instantly: "When I return to the world this time, it was Yan Luo who said that I have committed a lot of sins, and that if I don't want to go to the [-]th floor of hell, I will definitely die." Take those most implicated enemies, do you think I will spare you?"

A stench came from under his body. Obviously, for the eunuch who was already difficult to control, this kind of people's unresolved feud was too exciting. The only thing that made him hopeful was the deepest weapon that Tong Guan was going to bring. The enemy went down: "The young one was ordered by my uncle Jia Xiang, who let the young one steal these crimes secretly. If the adults want to bring someone down to redeem their sins, they should also bring my uncle. The young one is useless!"

Watching this confession at the speed of light, Li Yan happily discovered another major function of the secluded armor. In view of the ancient people's awe of ghosts and gods, this magic weapon is so effective in torture that Qiu Shenji is in danger of losing his job.

And Jia Xiang, the person behind this boss Jia, is also a famous eunuch. In the early days of Song Huizong, the five eunuchs Tong Guan, Yang Jian, Jia Xiang, He Fu, and Lan Congxi were the most powerful.

In this world, after Tong Guan's death, Yang Jian and Lan Congxi came to power, and the remaining Jia Xiang and He Fu seemed to be unknown, but they were able to arrange their own people among Tong Guan's godsons early on, which was also not easy.

Li Yan smiled coldly, and stuck out his palms: "Do you think Jia Xiang can escape? Only him is not enough, I need more sinners!"

Seeing two palms floating out of nowhere in front of him, those white jade-like palms did not look like flesh and blood at all, Boss Jia screamed in fright: "The money you saved in the Chuanxia Guild was embezzled by them. Take them down, my lord!"

Li Yan's hands still reached out firmly: "Not enough! Not enough!"

Boss Jia fell on the ground, trembling, and finally gritted his teeth fiercely, hissing: "The official murder of mother is a treason, this matter is absolutely true, and my uncle has also collected testimonies from the palace and is going to sell them to His Royal Highness Jian Wang. My lord, take the official house down!"

　Thanks to the book friends "Xianhe" and "Knowledge" for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)