Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 227 IQ Gap

"Sun Erniang?!" The others heard Xu Qing mutter, thinking that Sun Erniang was behind the scenes, and immediately searched in their minds, which of the stores they checked in the past was named Sun.

Xu Qing sneered, if it was Sun Erniang, it would be fun.He said: "No, no, it has nothing to do with Erniang Sun."

"Oh, so it wasn't, it scared me to wait, could it be that Second Niang Sun is hehehe..." Zhu Yiyang had a smirk on his face, which meant that Master Xu hadn't slept all night, and suddenly thought of Second Niang Sun, could it be his concubine who was away?Just now Xu Qing talked about nasty jokes at the banquet, Zhu Yijiang also knew that Xu Qing could take jokes.

Xu Qing shook his head and laughed loudly: "Haha, no, let's talk about the case..."

"Okay, Mr. Xu, you said that we followed the footsteps of the car and boat shop, what's wrong?" Zhu Yijiang and the others asked serious questions, as if asking for advice.

Xu Qing nodded and said: "It's good to follow the footsteps of the car and boat shop, because judging from many cases, most of the people who were robbed were businessmen and scholars. These people either had guards around them, or they looked poor. Bandits would not rashly choose this kind of person to commit a crime. Therefore, this is not a robbery on the road, it must be that there are thieves guarding the tree, or pretending to be a guard porter, or opening a black shop to drug, specifically plundering merchants passing through the border. The feet are the easiest to do this."

Zhu Yijiang replied: "Your Excellency's words are true. We also guessed the same way. There are many routes for merchants and merchants. We followed this to investigate, but there was no clue at all. I have never heard of the nearby counties. There are rumors of a black shop. Finally..."

"Since it's a black shop, only people can go in and no one can come out..." Xu Qing raised his hand to stop Zhu Yijiang, then took a file from his hand and said, "Can everyone read this case?"

Everyone looked at each other, and the clerk quickly took over the file and flipped through it a few times. Xu Qing had folded the corners of the file, so he read it quickly.After reading it, the official said: "This is a case two years ago. The businessman from Hangzhou wanted to transport the goods to Yangzhou, but because of the heavy rain on the road, he didn't notice it for a while, and fell ill with wind and cold. After getting sick, wait a minute, let me Take another look..."

Afraid of missing something, the literary official hurriedly flipped through the volume and read to each other: "This businessman has found an inn to rest, fearing that the business will be delayed, so he ordered the accompanying assistant to carry the goods one step ahead by land, and he only rested at the inn with an old housekeeper. , On June [-]th, the merchant recovered from his illness, and the master and servant left the inn, but there was no news of it.”

Xu Qing nodded after listening, saying that he was right and nothing was left behind.Then he picked up another volume and said to the official: "Look at this volume again, it describes the process of your investigation."

The official went on to read: "At that time, the prefectures and counties sent yamen servants to interrogate the inn shopkeeper, the merchants in the shop, as well as the ferry and the carriage and horse shop, but there was no news of the two masters and servants. Our army also sent people out to investigate, but they had no clue. ..."

Xu Qing interrupted the civil official's words and said, "Then, you have come to the conclusion that the master and servant disappeared out of thin air, right?"

Zhu Yijiang heard Xu Qing's words and sighed: "As Master Xu said, although it is so strange that I can't believe it, there is no other explanation."

Xu Qing squinted at Zhu Yijiang, nodded with a smile, and said, "That's right, it's written in the paper that this merchant from Hangzhou is a silk merchant. Oh, by the way, when is this raw silk usually mature and go on the market?" Xu Qingsi The body is not diligent, the five grains are not distinguished, and it is somewhat unclear when these crops mature.

Zhu Yijiang replied: "Raw silk is used to be produced and sold in April and May. I don't know what it has to do with this?"

Xu Qing laughed, as if he had verified one of his conjectures: "April and May, between April and May, good!"

"What's wrong?" Everyone asked together.

"Raw silk went on the market in April and May, that is, when the silk merchants were selling silk, the price of silk had almost dropped. The merchant must be eager to sell the silk, so he hurried all the way from Hangzhou to Yangzhou. But the merchant did not expect to be in such a hurry. There was heavy rain again, and he fell ill on the road, and he couldn’t go on the road by himself, fearing that he would be beaten by his peers, and the price would be too cheap, so he ordered his staff to rush to Yangzhou first.”

The civil official looked at the file, but seeing that Xu Qing didn't look at it, he almost recited the case backwards, and couldn't help admiring it from the bottom of his heart.

Xu Qing was 20 years old before coming to the Tang Dynasty, and he was five years old after the Tang Dynasty. According to science, Xu Qing's body is at the time that modern people can remember most—the age of the college entrance examination.That is to say, Xu Qing's spirit has undergone the best tempering twice, and he used the most mature thinking and the most vigorous mind, so his memory is a bit better than ordinary people's.

These days, he has also read the Confucian classics that ordinary students study. Although he is not familiar with it by heart, he can still get a general idea of ​​it.When I read the dossier just now, I was highly concentrated. It can be said that I can see ten lines at a glance and never forget!

Zhu Yijiang asked anxiously: "So what if the price of silk has dropped, and what if he is eager to sell silk? What's so strange about it?"

Xu Qing smiled, and took another file and said, "The silk merchant's case was from the year before last, and this case was from last May."

Everyone was puzzled when they saw this, and the official asked for them: "These two cases are separated by nearly a year, why did Mr. Xu compare these two cases? Could there be something in common?
"Yes, this is the case of the disappearance of a scholar from Fuzhou. This person was going to Suzhou, but a bridge on the way was broken by a mountain torrent, so he had to take a detour."

Xu Qing clapped his hands and laughed loudly, "That's the strange thing."

As if they had found a clue, several people hurriedly compared the two models together. You clicked and I took a look, but they didn't find anything strange about what Xu Qing said.

Everyone looked at Xu Qing with a confident smile on his face, obviously not deceiving them.But where are the clues? !

Zhu Yijiang couldn't help but feel a wave of intellectual suppression rushing towards his face. They all said that the three cobblers were the best Zhuge Liang, but now seven or eight of them are not as good as Xu Qing alone!The gap was too huge, Zhu Yijiang obediently presented the dossier and said, "I also ask Mr. Xu for advice."

Xu Qingdao: "This bridge is an official road, and its strength must be good. Last year at this time, it was washed away by the flood, which means that the rain was heavy. You see, the businessman also suffered heavy rain on the road, so he stayed at the inn , Got it? Haha..." Xu Qing smiled complacently after finishing speaking, and picked up a glass of cold wine on the table to take a big sip!
"Oh! I understand!" After a while, Zhu Yijiang slapped his legs and laughed, "I understand! Mr. Xu is so wise!"

He looked at Zhu Yi and said, "The general is not easy. I still don't understand it. I ask General Zhu for advice."

Zhu Yijiang said triumphantly: "Master Xu must have seen from this that the merchant's master and servant died after being hit by a mountain torrent on the road, and then disappeared out of thin air. It turns out that is the case, no wonder there is no corpse... Hehe, Master Xu... ..."

Before the chief executives and civil servants had time to flatter them, Xu Qing spit out a sip of wine. Looking at the reaction, it was obvious that Zhu Yijiang's words were wrong, and the chief executives covered their faces to stop the words from their mouths.

On the contrary, the literary official was as careful as a hair, coughed, and covered up for Zhu Yijiang: "Master Xu really deserves to be the No. It was broken by the flood, so what happened to the shortcut?"

Zhu Yijiang curled his lips, guessing wrong, then picked up the two files and flipped them left and right, at this moment his eyes lit up again: "No, no, when this businessman recovered from his illness and left, the surrounding counties were all sunny, It is impossible for him to encounter mountain torrents when he leaves. Even if the official road is washed away, he should be able to leave at this time, and he is out of stock."

Xu Qing hummed for a moment, nodded and said: "Actually, the heavy rain washed away the official road and blocked the road with mud. At least half a month can't take trucks, and people can't leave for seven or eight days. But the businessman heard the news , should be very happy."

"Oh, what do you say?" Wen Li and Zhu Yijiang both began to ponder, as for those generals, they could only open their mouths in surprise. The two pondered for a while, and suddenly their eyes lit up, and they looked at each other with a smile and said, "Could it be Master Xu?" That is to say, the official road has been washed away, and it is necessary to detour for several days to walk from the official road. The merchant's goods have already been sent to Yangzhou, and their silk industry counterparts have not, and they will not be able to catch up with him, so his Raw silk is the only one in Yangzhou and can be sold at a high price, so happy?”

Xu Qingdao: "That's right, put yourself in the shoes, if you were this businessman, what would you plan at that time?"

This is life experience. They are all old fried dough sticks. They don't know where they are. Everyone said in unison: "I must hurry to Yangzhou and tell the buddy to let Si sell at a high price, not to sell cheap."

Xu Qing nodded and said: "Well, the official road cannot be used, but other country roads and dirt roads up the mountain are barely accessible. The businessman is an old generation, so he must know a lot."

In ancient times, the rural road was the road at the door of the house, and the villagers repaired it themselves, but the official road had to be repaired by the government, so the rural road was restored quickly, and the official road was restored later.It's just that the country roads are intricate and complicated, and "old horses" are needed to get through.

Everyone couldn't help being shocked at the same time, and asked: "Then it's troublesome, the country road has seven turns and turns, how did you check?"

Zhu Yijiang clapped his legs and said, "Oh! That's all, I'll let my subordinates go to each village to investigate, so I won't be afraid that they won't show their feet!"

The generals clasped their fists and said: "It's all at the command of General Zhu. If you don't take down those ferocious beasts, I won't return them!"

"Well, if you have brothers, don't be afraid of his many villages!" Zhu Yiyang asked the official in high spirits: "From Qiantang to Yangzhou, how many villages are there along the way, Zhuangzi?"

"Ah?" The civil servants couldn't help but panic. The so-called villages refer to natural villages. Three or five households are a village, and a hundred or eight households are also a village. There are registered ones and unregistered ones. How many are there?Even the local people-friendly officials can't count. How can the civil servants explain clearly, but he is also quick-witted. Since he didn't know, no one in the lobby knew, so he fabricated a number: "General, yes, there must be three or four. Thousands?"

"Ah?" Zhu Yijiang and the boss were all surprised, when did they find out like this.Some of the gangsters escaped from the army, and they couldn't investigate with great fanfare.

Everyone was splashed with cold water, and they all looked at Xu Qing unconsciously, what should we do, fortune teller?

"You don't need to check the village. The merchants take the mountain road." Xu Qing smiled, looked at these people, and slowly pointed to a map on the hall and said: "From here, to here, and then to here, the roads in these mountains , there must be a hidden bandit village."

(End of this chapter)