Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 5 The Four Great Pillars

He Liu has been inspecting hundreds of households for 20 years since he took over the world job at the age of 20.

20 years of experience have given him a keen sense of gold and silver treasures.It is said to be "smell", but it is not smelled with the nose. "Smell" is just a thought that flashes in the mind.

Often after such a strange thought flashed through his mind, He Liu would be able to find a mountain of silver worth tens of thousands.

"The smell of silver? Lao Liu, you're paranoid again!" Lao Hu said to He Liu.

He Liu smiled and said, "How many times has my paranoia come to pass over the years?"

Old Hu laughed aloud: "You and your dead father are really a virtuous person! But when you father and son are looking for money, your nose is indeed smarter than a dog!"

He Liu scolded with a smile: "You said that your dead godbrother is a dog? Be careful that your godbrother will come to look for you on that broken bed in your house at night."

Old Hu laughed: "I'm not afraid. These days, people are more vicious and terrifying than ghosts."

He Liu and Lao Hu returned to the courtyard.

Commander Ma Si of [-]% of the soldiers at the door looked bewildered: Didn't you say you can put a seal on it?Why did the two messengers go back again?

He Liu moved another twelve houses in the courtyard.

In the east room suite, He Liu suddenly stopped in his tracks.

In the suite of the east room, there are four thick brick pillars.Columns link the mezzanine atop the suite.

With his hands behind his back, He Liu stared at the four big brick pillars.

The outside of the brick column is coated with a layer of lime.

He Liu asked Lao Hu: "Do you think there is anything special about these pillars?"

Lao Hu replied: "The pillars and pillars of the officials' houses are all made of good wood. I heard that when Yan Shoufu built the new capital last year, the eight pillars in the hall were obtained from the deep mountains in Yunnan! Hundreds of The talent was transported to the capital. This Wan Anliang is an upright official, and he couldn’t afford good timber. It’s not surprising to use brick pillars to top the beams, and plaster the outside.”

He Liu said: "Ordinary apartments in the east room are flat. Isn't it strange that there is an attic above the main room?"

Old Hu said: "Before we scraped the wall and listened to the land, I had my brothers search the attic above. All the books and ancient books stored by Wan Anliang were placed in the attic. The attic was set up in the suite to store books, which is not grounded. , the book will not go moldy, which makes sense."

Old Hu thought for a while, and added: "Oh, by the way, I also asked the brothers to look through those books. There are no bank notes in them. Do you want to copy these bad books back to Beisi together?"

He Liu said to Lao Hu: "For such a big apartment, there is only one pillar to support the beam. Why are there four here? Take the lizard from the wall."

Lao Hu took out the wall tiger from the innocence box, and He Liu took it and knocked on the pillar.

Old Hu asked: "Is there any strange sound? Is this pillar hollow? Could it be that there are silver ingots in it?"

He Liu shook his head: "The pillar is a solid pillar."

Lao Hu took the wall tiger handed over by He Liu and put it in the innocence box.

The old nonsense said, "It's over! Since it's solid, you can't hide money in it!"

He Liu was thoughtful for a long time, then he slapped his head and asked Lao Hu, "What did you just say? Say it again."

Old Hu said: "Lao Liu, can you not be surprised? I said no money can be hidden in it."

He Liu asked, "What about the last sentence?"

Old Hu replied: "I said that since the pillars are solid - you can't hide silver."

He Liu patted the pillar: "Can't the solid ones hide money? Not necessarily?"

Lao Hu carried the innocence box on his back: "I said, old six, you are always suspicious, just like your father. I have been with your father for 20 years, and I have followed you for another 20 years. In 40 years, two generations copied There must have been a thousand officials’ mansions before, right? I’ve seen silver hidden in hollow pillars. But solid pillars? Is there room for silver inside?”

He Liu didn't answer, he took out the Xiuchun knife hanging from his waist.

In Jinyiwei, not everyone can match the Xiuchun knife.Only hundreds of households and above can wear it.The Xiuchun Knife, like the Flying Fish Clothes, was a gift from the imperial court.

He Liu actually took the Xiuchun knife bestowed by the imperial court as a mason's brick knife.

A thick layer of lime was pasted on the outside of the four big brick pillars, and He Liuzu spent a few sticks of incense before digging out a brick.

When the brick was pulled out, He Liu just stayed there.

Lao Hu patted He Liu's shoulder: "Lao Liu, why, have you lost your soul?"

He Liu put the Xiuchun knife back into the scabbard: "Old Hu, this is Wan Anliang's method of hiding money... a good method!"

Old Hu asked He Liu: "Can you stop playing charades?"

He Liu pointed to the pillar.See for yourself.

Through the gap in the brick that was cut out, Lao Hu could see the white flowers inside the pillar.It turned out to be silver!The silver has melted into the brick seams!
Old Hu exclaimed: "Could it be that this Wan Anliang used silver to cast a silver pillar inside the brick pillar?"

He Liu nodded: "That's right! The silver pillars on the inner layer are integrated with the brick pillars outside. So we scraped the wall with a tiger on the wall and thought it was a solid pillar!"

Old Hu was so startled that his jaw almost dropped to the ground: "Let's not talk about whether there is any silver in the other three pillars, just use silver to cast this pillar. How much silver do you get?"

He Liu shook his head: "The amount of silver comes second. It's not uncommon for us to see two million taels of snowflake silver piled up in eight cellars in the house of Ren Jianbo, the inspector of salt in the Huaihe River, copied ten years ago. It's just that the ten thousand How did An Liang cast silver into pillars to deceive others? How clever is this method?"

He Liu walked out of the east suite, and asked the commander of Wucheng Bingma Division and the member of the Criminal Department: "How many people are there in your Wucheng Bingma Division and Punishment Department?"

The commander replied: "We have [-]% of our soldiers and Masi has [-] soldiers here."

Yuanwailang from the Criminal Department replied: "We have twenty servants here in the Criminal Department."

He Liu nodded and said to himself, "A total of 100 people? Well, it should be enough. Lao Hu, you take people to Nanshi to buy twenty hemp ropes that are as thick as a child's arm."

Old Hu replied: "Of order."

After Lao Hu left, He Liu returned to the east suite.He drew out the Xiuchun Knife, and cut out a brick on the other three pillars!

Among the four brick pillars in the entire east suite, there are actually four solid silver pillars hidden!
He Liu had countless doubts in his heart.

Building these four silver pillars and transporting them into this small courtyard will definitely cause quite a commotion!

Jinyiwei Beizhen Fusi is responsible for supervising all officials.Wan Anliang, a high-ranking third-rank official, would be followed by five or six subordinates of Qianhu, the Northern Division's surveyor, whenever he went out or returned home.

In front of the all-pervasive Jin Yiwei, concealed the truth and transported four large silver pillars into this small courtyard?

This is simply impossible.

Even if these four silver pillars are transported into this small courtyard, it will take a hundred people to erect them, right?Just this little east suite?Can there be hundreds of people standing?

How did this servant Wan do it?
Also, isn't this Wan Shilang a well-known upright official?Where did you get this huge amount of silver?
Is it framed?When the DPRK and China are united against dissidents, during political struggles, there will indeed be people who will frame things. He Liu has seen too many things framed over the years.

At the time of Lord Hongwu, officials who embezzled 60 taels had to pick up the real grass.

In this dynasty, the harsh criminal law of 60 taels of skin and grass can only be seen in the annals of history.

But accepting a few thousand taels of bribes is still enough to lose the official and lose his head.

Therefore, it is usually 2000 taels of silver to be planted, and it costs 5000 taels of silver.

These four silver pillars must be cast with more than 10 taels of silver, right?Anyone who uses more than 10 taels of silver to frame him will definitely be fascinated by eating shit.

Countless questions floated in He Liu's mind.

(End of this chapter)