The literary giants of the late Ming Dynasty began by copying books

Chapter 299 Buried Gold

Everyone docked at the small pier by the village in the middle of the night, and together they secretly transported several boxes back to the yard occupied by Liu Xiangxin. After closing the door and counting, they found that most of them were gold ornaments, and a small part were jewelry. The value of silver was very high for Gao. Yin Lai said it was too low, so he basically didn't bring any with him, but he did bring a lot of copper coins to spend on the road.

Finally, it was calculated that the money brought by Gao Yin was worth about 10,000 taels of silver. Wang Wenlong said to Liu Xiang: "If Lord Liu Hai wants to develop on the shore, he must not let people know that you killed Gao Yin. It is easy to play with antique jewelry." If someone discovers the origin, why not give it to the Japanese men under you and let them sell the stolen goods? If someone discovers the origin, it will just be them who are responsible for killing Gao Yin."

Liu Xiang thought for a while, nodded and said, "Mr. Jianyang is still thinking carefully."

Liu Xiang set up a pot in his yard, melted all the gold and silver jewelry and utensils, and made earthen cakes. He did not keep any of the remaining jewelry and distributed it all to the Japanese pirates who contributed.

Wang Wenlong stayed in the village and inquired for a while. After confirming that the news on the market was that Gao Yin was killed by Japanese pirates and that no one suspected him, he asked Liu Xiang to send away the Japanese pirates and prepare to leave the village.

When Wang Wenlong left the village and went north, Liu Xiang gave him a box of gold cakes. In Wang Wenlong's previous life, silver had become a by-product of industrial processing, and the output was very large. One gram of silver on the market only cost a few yuan, while one gram of gold cost four yuan. Five hundred dollars.

However, the gold-silver conversion ratio in the Ming Dynasty was far less high than that of later generations. About one tael of gold could only be exchanged for 10 taels of silver. The box of gold that Wang Wenlong received weighed more than ten kilograms and was worth about three thousand taels of silver.

Wang Wenlong only came up with an idea, and Liu Xiang led people to actually implement it. In the end, Wang Wenlong was able to share 30% of the profit. For him, this business was considered fair.

Wang Wenlong's outing this time was kept secret. Even the servants and maids in the same group only thought that Wang Wenlong was kidnapped by pirates and taken to the village. After revealing his identity, he was released. They didn't even know that Wang Wenlong had ever left Putian.

Wang Wenlong stood up awkwardly and said, "Well, you go and eat first."

Shen Yixiu hurriedly ran to close the door, then turned around and asked, "No one else knows about this, right?"

Shen Yixiu saw Li Guoxian hugging Wang Wenlong and crying. He didn't know what was going on. The two got into the carriage together and muttered for a long time. When they rested for the night, Wang Wenlong saw that Shen Yixiu's eyes were also red, and he refused to leave while eating. To see him.

After Li Guoxian learned about this, he was restless all morning. When he was resting on the roadside at noon, Li Guoxian grabbed Wang Wenlong aside and asked, "Does Gao Yin's death have anything to do with you?"

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Back in Fuzhou, the market in Fuzhou was still in chaos due to the chaos among the people and the murder of Gao Yin.

When Wang Wenlong returned home, he thought it was strange that he suddenly took out so much gold after Gao Yin's death, so he decided to slowly clean up the money and spend it again.

Wang Wenlong said: "Keep your voice down."

After much thought, Wang Wenlong decided to hide the box of gold in his bedroom.

Wang Wenlong shook his head and said: "He has done many evil things, and he will die if he does any injustice."

The two wives didn't know what Wang Wenlong was doing these days. They just felt that everyone felt much more relaxed after he came back. It wasn't until they left Xinghua Mansion that Li Guoxian accidentally heard someone talking and found out that Gao Yin had died in the past few days. , I was stunned by Wang Wenlong's reaction in the past few days.

"Ms. sir, I made peanut soup for supper." Shen Yixiu came to ask Wang Wenlong to eat, and saw Wang Wenlong wrapping his hair in a piece of coarse cloth and picking at the cracks in the bricks.

Shen Yixiu reacted instantly and ran to open the box. When he saw a box of gold cakes, he was instantly surprised and said, "Did you really kill Gao Yin?"

"No one will say anything." Wang Wenlong said.

Shen Yixiu nodded and quickly rolled up his sleeves to work with Wang Wenlong.

The young couple picked up a few pieces of floor tiles, dug a small hole together, and then buried the box of gold. Gold is so dense that more than ten kilograms of gold is the size of a brick. Afterwards, Wang Wenlong padded the box with loess, installed floor tiles, and restored the floor to its original state. However, Shen Yixiu always felt that his secret would be revealed, so he looked left and right and said, "These bricks seem to be uneven, sir, can you tell?"

Wang Wenlong went to the copper basin, scooped out water, washed his hands, and washed the flower hoe. He looked at Shen Yixiu and said with a smile, "If you stand on that floor tile and walk twice more, everyone will be able to tell, let alone me."

He comforted and said: "Our family also has an income of several thousand taels every year. We will spend it slowly and spend it in a few years. It's just that we can't spend so much gold at the moment. Others won't doubt it."

Shen Yixiu nodded and said with a very serious face: "I will definitely not expose the secret." The expression on his determination to keep the secret for his husband was quite cute.

The next day Wang Wenlong came to the editorial office of "Xun Bao". Zhang Xie, the editor-in-chief of "Xun Bao" in Fuzhou, quickly came to greet him and said: "Jianyang, you are finally back."

Wang Wenlong nodded and said: "After a few days of delay, I also heard about Gao Yin's incident. Our editorial department has not suffered any impact, right?"

Zhang Xie said with lingering fear: "Gao Yin, who was under siege by all living beings, actually pointed the finger at our "Xun Bao" and sent many minions to the newspaper office to arrest people. Fortunately, you are not in Fuzhou and he has no effect in arresting our editor. Within a few days, he I am also surrounded by everyone, and it is difficult for me to torment us anymore, so I am finally not in too much trouble. Speaking of which, it is fortunate that Jianyang went to Xiamen first, otherwise he would definitely have been beaten by Gao Yinqu."

Wang Wenlong also looked happy and said: "Fortunately, there was no danger."

Zhang Xie looked around and said, "It's a good thing that Gao Yin was killed. I don't know where the people came from to express such evil for the Fujian people!"

Pan Xiu happened to come in at this time. Zhang Xie didn't think he was an outsider and smiled at him: "What do you think Bo Feng?"

Pan Xiu nodded and said: "Congratulations to Mr. and the newspaper for turning the crisis around." After a slight pause, he asked tentatively: "Didn't Mr. go to Xiamen and say he would be back in half a month? Why did it take so long?"

Wang Wenlong smiled and said: "I met a friend in Xinghua Mansion, and he stayed with me in the village for a few days."

Pan Xiu didn't believe it at all. Gao Yin wanted to accuse Wang Wenlong of Luo Zhi and had found him through the Dutch connections. He knew that Wang Wenlong almost walked past the gate of hell. How could he turn evil into good fortune so easily? Moreover, he also inquired about the cause of Gao Yin's death. Gao Yin and his group were killed by violent means without even a chance to resist.

After learning Wang Wenlong's "identity" and taking the above into account, Pan Xiu naturally suspected that Wang Wenlong was responsible for this matter.

But Pan Xiu didn't want to tell the Dutch all this news. The more he knew about Wang Wenlong's secrets, the more afraid he became of Wang Wenlong.

Wang Wenlong naturally didn't want to say more about this matter, so Pan Xiuai let him guess.

Gao Yin's death was such a big deal that the whole of Fujian had already become lively.

It only took five days for the news to reach the capital. Emperor Wanli was furious and ordered Fujian to thoroughly investigate the matter. He asked the Jinyiwei Nanzhen Office to bring several officials who were experienced in prisons and even brought a team of Tiqi. Bounce the place.

At this time, in April of the 31st year of Wanli, Zhu Yunchang, governor of Fujian, passed away.

Before Zhu Yunchang died, he was very glad that he did not send troops to rescue Gao Yin.

Gao Yin's reputation has fallen to the bottom after his death. Even Chen Xingxue, Gao Yin's former aide who had gone to Guangdong to serve as an official, was implicated. Zhu Yunchang's previous official reputation was good. If there was a person who protected Gao Yin in the history books before his death, Record, it can almost be regarded as self-destructive reputation.

After Zhu Yunchang passed away, Xu Xueju, deputy maritime patrol envoy, was promoted to governor of Fujian. Xu Xueju hurriedly returned from Zhangzhou to Fuzhou to take up his post. The first important thing was to investigate the cause of Gao Yin's death.

But Wang Wenlong and the others handled things neatly, so there was really nothing to investigate.

(End of this chapter)