Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 619 Leave
"Miss is asleep." Chunliu immediately realized that this person's secret visit late at night must have important news to share, and immediately said, "I'll wake her up right now."

"No need!" Wu Zhixiang said unexpectedly, "Tell Ms. Pei immediately that Lu Yizhong, a bad guy with a rotten gut, has already sent a note to Nanhai County, asking them to issue a ticket to arrest Ms. Na. Please avoid your lady quickly. gone."

Chunliu originally thought that Wu Xiucai was just a greedy and lustful dude, but he didn't expect to have such a chivalrous heart at a critical moment.I couldn't help feeling hot in my heart, and gave a blessing:
"Thank you, Mr. Wu, Gao Yi."

"You don't have to thank me. I'd better tell your lady to find a place to hide. Once in the prison, even the gods will have to peel off their skin! And her affairs are too big, no one can protect her!" Wu Zhixiang said. Putting on the veil, he quickly turned around and disappeared into the darkness.

The news that Nanhai County wanted to arrest Pei Lixiu quickly spread to Guo Yi.Although he didn't know why she was caught first instead of himself, Guo Yi believed that the time to retreat had come.If you can't catch Pei Lixiu, you will turn to catch yourself.

He thought for a moment, and then asked someone to call Sun Chang:
"Send people to Ziming Building immediately, and evacuate people according to the plan. I don't want the clumsy goods. The guys from other places go to the shopkeeper Sun to hide. Ask some unscrupulous men to go to Ziming Building tomorrow morning. Block the local guys back nearby. Don't go to the store."

If Nanhai County can't catch the real master, it will probably arrest a group of guys who are still in the building to hand over to them -- there is no need for them to be involved.

Guo Yi gave Sun Chang a brochure and seal, "This is an account opened in Delong in the name of Sun Kecheng. You give it to him to pay everyone's settling expenses."

"Understood, I'll do it right away!" Chang Sun left in a hurry.

Guo Yi is packing things, processing documents, and transferring objects.Unconsciously, the sky was already slightly bright, and I was very hungry.Get someone to bring you breakfast.Originally, he had a dedicated cook, but he dismissed them a few days ago.Now he and the rest had breakfast in the common room.

During the meal, Sun Chang came back in a hurry to report: everything has been done.

"Hurry up and eat too. Go to Zizhenzhai later and tell shopkeeper Shen that the business will be stopped today. He himself had better go to the countryside to avoid it. To avoid being caught in a catastrophe."

"Yes!" Seeing that the entire Zichengji had become empty, Sun could not help but feel uncomfortable—this disaster happened for no apparent reason! "My lord, can we come back?"

"Of course." Guo Yi said calmly, "We will be back in a few months."

"Yes!" Sun Chang was full of confidence, but he didn't know where the confidence came from?In his opinion, Australians just know how to work and make money, and they really can't compete with Daming.Could it be that they are going to Beijing to find a way out of the boss?While thinking wildly, the servant quietly came to report: Someone asked to see me.

"No see." Guo Yi said.Now there is no need to flirt with anyone anymore.

"Someone said something urgent!"

"Who is it, where is the post?"

"The visitor refused to say anything, only said that the matter was urgent, and he could only have an interview with Dongzhu Guo."

"Okay, let's see each other."

The person who came was a middle-aged man who looked like a scholar. After seeing the ceremony, he looked at Sun Chang hesitantly.

"I have a confidential matter to report."

Sun Chang quickly backed out.

"To tell you the truth." The middle-aged man lowered his voice, "I came here by order to tell you that the Guangzhou Mansion has been ordered to send all the proprietors and the three shop owners of Zizihao to you in the morning. Imprisoned."

Guo Yi raised his eyebrows in surprise: he had expected to be arrested and seized, but he didn't expect that someone would come to inform him.

He also has certain friendship arrangements in various yamen on weekdays, but so far only inaccurate news has flowed out.This is the first time I have heard such clear news.

"Thank you, sir, for coming to tell me!" Guo Yi said, "I don't know who your lord is? There will be a big thank you in the future!"

"I don't want to tell you who is Bidong, but I just want to tell the host: leave cleanly, don't leave any documents behind. Don't panic, the Guangzhou mansion will come tomorrow." After saying these few words, the visitor got up and said goodbye.

Although Guo Yi didn't know who this person was, his words were [-]% reliable.What he said was the key point, what do you mean don't leave objects and documents? Apparently, the people who sent the envoy were afraid that leaving something important in the purple font would harm his interests.

Although he couldn't guess who it was for a while, this person must be someone in the officialdom, and his position is not low.Didn't the last sentence: "Don't panic, the Guangzhou government will come tomorrow" clearly tell him that he can run for a whole day today, and even walk away with people swaggeringly?
Thinking of this, Guo Yi suddenly became enlightened, and immediately ordered people to gather all the people staying on Huifu Street.

There are 40 people supporting the façade in the Zhaizi, Zizhenzhai, and Zichengji on Huifu Street.Most of them are outsiders and cannot go home for a while.Guo Yi has already made an agreement with Sun Kecheng, and these people will be handed over to him for placement.

"Everyone came out of their hometown and came here to work for our Zizihao. This is our fate." Guo Yi said, "Zizihao has never treated you badly. Your monthly and year-end dividends are the first in this city of Guangzhou. One copy. Our purple shop has always been a well-behaved business in Guangzhou: we never do anything illegal. Not to mention the imperial grain and national tax, even the service of the adults and officials has never dared to pay less. This time everyone is afraid I also know: the government will not let us do business safely, and will seal up this shop..."

Many of the guys have shed tears. They have been here for as little as a year, and as many as they have been working for almost three years.There are many large fonts in Guangzhou, but there is only one who can be as considerate as Zizizi. Not only is the monthly schedule better than other places, but the bonus is distributed according to ability at the end of the year, and the store takes care of sickness and medicine. Develop coffins to buy cemeteries for funerals, and bring family members to the outer cabinet: Even if the elderly, children and women are not able to work, they can arrange light work and pay a few months to survive.

Such a benevolent owner is now being forced to close down. Everyone is not fair for the experience of the owner, but also thinks that the road ahead is boundless, and feels bleak.

"It doesn't matter if the shop is closed. As long as our people are still there, Zizihao will always be there." Guo Yi said loudly, "At least three months, at most half a year, I, Guo Yi, will come back, and I will stand Here, standing here—" He originally just wanted to calm down, let everyone not break up, and wait for them to come back, but now he thought of the days and nights he and his colleagues spent in Guangzhou, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. I don't know how to say the time, so I paused and said, "Let everyone set off firecrackers to reopen the shop!"

After all, he took care of developing six months' wages for everyone, and paid travel expenses for those who were willing to return home temporarily.Those who don't want to go back first work at Sun Kecheng's place.

The guys took the money and reluctantly left in batches one by one.Guo Yi didn't have time to feel sad, so he quickly took people to search everywhere to see if there was anything important missing.I was busy until the sky was about to turn on the lights, then I quietly changed my clothes and mixed with the crowd to leave.

In the meantime there were other warning signs - a broken black crock was left at the door of the Welfare Street mansion.This is a signal sent by his eyeliner in the yamen of Nanhai, Panyu, and Guangzhou in one prefecture and two counties at a critical moment, indicating that the government is about to be unfavorable to him.

The entire house and property on Huifu Street and Ziming Building were completely vacated at this time, leaving only two men and ten powerful bodyguards guarding each place.

"Everyone is gone?" In a warm pavilion, a middle-aged man in a brocade robe and jade belt, who described a stalwart, asked casually while flipping through a book.

"Back to the old man, there are only a few bodyguards looking at the house now."

"Have the people from Nanhai County been mobilized?"

"No."

The middle-aged man reading is Li Fengjie, the governor of Guangdong.Early this morning, the magistrate of Nanhai County personally came to ask him for instructions: Lu Yizhong gave him a hand, asking him to arrest Pei Lixiu immediately.Do you want to do this matter?
On weekdays, the county magistrate would not come to ask him for instructions.There is absolutely no reason to refute the praise of the painting by the governor's subordinates to arrest individuals.But it's a different matter if it's Dongzhu Guo's concubine.

Not only Tian Hongyu and Eunuch Yang are interested in the three properties of Zizihao, but there are also quite a few bigwigs among them.The magistrate of Nanhai County was deeply afraid that he helped Lu Yizhong arrest someone, so he got the property into Tian Guozhang's hands. rise.He hurried to report to the governor.

"If you want to arrest Lu Zanhua, you can arrest him, but you should take a look at the Yicang in your county. You should go and see the Yicang first." Li Fengjie said this in a tone-deaf manner.

"Yes, yes, the humble official understands." The county magistrate understood.

After the county magistrate left, Li Fengjie walked around the signing room a few times.A policeman was called over:
"You go to Guangzhou Mansion and ask them to prepare a lottery ticket and prepare to arrest Guo Yi and other Australian criminals!"

Then he called in another confidant to take care of him.

Now he hears that the servants he sent to report back, everything is in his plan, and he feels very proud.

"Hmph, let's see how you guys keep going." Thinking of Lu Yizhong's embarrassment in front of Tian Da that he couldn't explain, Li Fengjie showed a happy smile on his face.

On the second day, the officials of Nanhai County and Guangzhou Mansion launched a large-scale mobilization and sealed up all the residences on Huifu Street, Zizhenzhai, Zichengji and Ziminglou respectively.Of course, neither Guo Yi nor Pei Lixiu got any of them.Even Sun Chang, Shen Fan and other witnesses who were supposed to be "brought to the case" disappeared without a trace.Only a dozen bodyguards guarding the house were taken to the Yamen.Naturally, these bodyguards didn't know anything, they only knew that Dongzhu Guo had invited them to guard the courtyard.Sun Kecheng had already prepared the "big threshold" posts and money, and had the bodyguard come out before night.

All the city gates immediately drew shadows to arrest Guo Yi and others, but everyone knew that this was just a waste of effort.Anyone who knows the inside story of the seizure knows that the Australians walked very calmly, obviously planning it long ago.

Wang Zunde was extremely unhappy, and the search results were disappointing.Regardless of whether it was Huifu Street or the three Zizi shops, the seized goods were fine and soft, and there were a lot of Australian goods, but there were no important things such as paperwork and letters, and there was not a single piece of paper left in the land deed and house deed book!As for the characters among them, don't say "primary", there is nowhere to find even an important guy!
After hearing the report from the Guangzhou government, he knew that someone must have leaked the news.Can't help secretly annoyed.I wonder who this could be?It was Li Fengjie who ordered Guo Yi to be arrested. Since he wanted to arrest him, he would definitely not tip off the news.After much deliberation, I couldn't think of anyone who would leak the news.

Wang Zunde was very annoyed when he thought that there were people in Guangzhou who did not take the imperial court as their priority, but even tipped off the Australians.I wanted to investigate, but I didn't know where to start: the Governor's Office, the Governor's Office, Guangzhou Mansion and Nanhai County all knew about the seizure.There are hundreds of officials, big and small, in these four yamen, and anyone may know about this.

Could it be that the city of Guangzhou is full of traitorous people?Wang Zunde felt extremely worried.

At this time, Lu Yizhong came to see him and asked how to deal with the seized Kun thief property.

"How much property was seized?" Ever since someone secretly reported that Lu Zanhua had sent a private note to Nanhai County asking Nanhai County to arrest Pei Lixiu, Wang Zunde's trust in this Zanhua had been greatly reduced.He has never been used to people like Qi Wan, the minister of honor: he thinks that they either rest on the merits of their ancestors, or rely on the nepotism of women. Without real talents, they only know how to enrich themselves.He despises Lu Zanhua for mixing with this kind of person - this person is too ambitious for fame and fortune!

"Guangzhou Prefecture and Nanhai County are still being counted, and a detailed list will be submitted in a few days. Here is a brief list." Lu Yizhong's face was gloomy: he had guaranteed Tian Da, but he did not expect that the magistrate of Nanhai County would But he was not in the yamen, and other officials in the county either reasoned that there was something wrong or that the main hall was not there, so it was inconvenient to deal with it.It turned out that it was a day late to pick up people, and the Ziming Building was already empty.Afterwards, the yamen servants of the Guangzhou government came to seize it again.Not only was the offer completely in vain, but Pei Lixiu, whom Tian Da wanted, was also not caught.

Tian Da was furious - this time he went to Guangzhou and failed to achieve anything, how will he explain when he goes back?Then he yelled at him in his house, and threatened to deprive him of his post of praise painting, which made Lu Yizhong very embarrassed.

Wang Zunde looked through the list casually. In addition to the real estate properties in Huifu Street and Ziming Building, there are also various commercial "money-making guys", chairs and benches, and some small machines with unknown uses...

Wang Zunde is not interested in these, what he cares about is how much property can be seized.

There were many treasures collected from several properties, but no silver.After reading it again, there is no gold or silver at all, except for the various goods left over, there are only some playthings and ornaments.The most valuable is the life-length glass mirror and mahogany clock in Pei Lixiu's room.

"No gold and silver soft?" Wang Zunde asked.He had originally hoped that the confiscated treasures would be used to reward soldiers during the expedition.

"Except for all kinds of goods, Xiruan only found hundreds of Jinluo women's clothing. There are also hundreds of silk and silk and cloth. There are also dozens of boxes of women's jewelry."

"What's the use of this!" Wang Zunde shook his head in disappointment. These things can't reward the army, let alone pay enough for the army.As for the value of the seized goods, it will take several months--and he knows that the officials below will inevitably have to pay for themselves when handling such things.He suddenly wondered whether a lot of gold and silver had been embezzled by the people below—but thinking that they would at most swallow half of it, he definitely didn't dare not place an order at all.

"I heard that the Zizi shop has a lot of contacts with various big names in Guangzhou. Is there no deposit in other places?" Wang Zunde asked.

"If you don't have an account book, you don't know the name and number, so you can't track it down."

"Hmph, immediately issue a notice requiring each company to clear the report by itself and pay it within a time limit. If you fail to report or pay within the time limit, the governor will never forgive you!"

"Yes." Lu Yizhong thought that the Governor would not be able to force the merchants to obediently hand over the Australian money by relying on bluff--not to mention, he would not buy it if he held it high.How much account book to have is still a proof.

However, it is too ugly if you really want to pay a penny.Lu Yizhong thought about it for a while, and no matter what, he would have to force the various brands that usually deal with Zizizi to show some money.In this way, fifty or sixty thousand taels of silver should be able to come out, which is certainly not enough for military pay, but it is still enough for rewards and rewards.

Lu Yizhong knew that he had lost Wang Zunde's heart by running for Tian Da this time.Decided to try to salvage a little on this matter.

When there was a turmoil in the city of Guangzhou surrounding the things left over from Guangzhou Station, Guo Yi and others had already withdrawn from the city.But they weren't too far away.Zhang Xin was sitting in the Dongguan branch of Qiwei Escort, directing the operations of the Escort.Now their main eyes and ears are the Escort Bureau.Some of the indigenous workers who were evacuated from Guangzhou also temporarily listened to his command and went out to inquire about the news.Especially the news about the actions of the officers and soldiers.

As for Delong Bank, Meng Xian was also ready for the transfer—although everyone judged that Delong’s danger was not great—he made backups of all the books.All the original documents were transferred to a secret location for storage, and the most important thing was a few secret exchange accounts, which were handled by Delong for the dignitaries in Guangzhou.Some materials can become good materials for censors to gossip if there is a little wind.For the sake of safety, Meng Xian also temporarily moved to a safe house in the city to hide first, and let the shopkeeper handle everything on the cabinet.

Others hid in various counties scattered in the Pearl River Delta and waited for an opportunity.Yan Maoda simply went to Leizhou to discuss the next step of sugar cooperation and trade with Vietnam with Leizhou station.

As for Guo Yi, he decided to take this opportunity to return to Lingao. On the one hand, he would report on his work and on the other hand discuss the next work arrangement with the Ministry of Colonial Trade and the Foreign Intelligence Service.

(End of this chapter)