In the back yard storeroom.

Everyone followed the prestige, only to see Fang Wen find a small cloth package from a pile of cotton pants.

When I opened the package, there was a brass cylinder a foot long, shaped like Li Mingyue's silver water cup.

Zhao Hao is now a cultural person, so he naturally recognizes that it is a note used by literati to hold manuscripts, calligraphy and paintings.

The men in Caijiaxiang are all from Qiu Ba, so of course this thing has nothing to do with them.

"Why didn't you find out earlier?" Zhao Hao asked.

Gao Wu and Cai Ming looked at each other.

"Hui Gongzi, these are all the cotton pants we wore when we left Jinling, and they are too thin when we arrive at the boundary of Shandong." Or Cai Ming replied:

"Childe changed all of us into thick winter clothes in Linqing. The brothers had all come through hard times, and these replacement cotton pants were still new, so they all packed up and prepared to wear them when spring begins...... It has never been opened. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Hao rubbed the exquisitely made copper cylinder, while closing his eyes slightly, recalling the situation of the day.

He remembered that Tongzhou Wu Ji gave them a total of two luggage carts, one for the luggage of his father and son's master and apprentice, and the other for the men of Caijiaxiang. The previous item was valuable, and it followed behind Zhao Hao's carriage. At that time, he was surrounded by the men of Caijia Lane, and the other party had no chance to touch it.

But the latter carriage followed last, completely unprotected.

Eighty percent was the knight who was being chased, and seeing that he couldn't escape, he inserted the copper cylinder into the pile of cotton pants at the moment when the two sides staggered......

Zhao Hao slowly opened his eyes, and his gaze fell back to the copper cylinder.

Then he said to the three of them in a deep voice: "You have not found anything today, no matter who asks you, you must say so." ”

"Yes!" The three of them were busy answering together.

They all have brains, and they naturally know what the other party is looking for, and it definitely has a lot to do with it.

If you don't get one right, you'll kill everyone.

~~

Zhao Hao ordered Gao Wu to strengthen his vigilance tonight to prevent the other party from coming back.

Although he also knew that it was unlikely, after all, the Forbidden City was less than two miles, and he was afraid that no one would have the courage to make a big fuss.

But it's better to be careful, the dog will jump off the wall when he's in a hurry, right?

Then he went back to the room and closed the door, sat cross-legged on the kang, rested the copper cylinder vertically on the kang table, and studied the tea for a long time.

To watch or not to watch?

In the end, he decided, let's see. Anyway, if you tell someone that you haven't seen it, the other party will definitely not believe it.

To put it mildly, let's just die, don't we have to be a ghost?

Thinking of this, Zhao Hao reached out and grabbed the copper cylinder, shook it first to listen to the movement inside.

When he heard the rustling of paper, he was relieved, which meant that there was no venom or poison powder in it......

He carefully examined the barrel again and made sure that there was no mechanism that could be fired at the slightest touch.

The teenager who was poisoned by the TV series covered his mouth and nose with gauze again, put on leather gloves, and finally gritted his teeth and unscrewed the copper cylinder cover.

Then he poured out two booklets from it, as well as a golden shaped seal with several gems of different colors embedded in it.

Zhao Hao first padd the weight of the seal, and found that it was actually pure gold. Looking at the luster again, it should have been cast for some years.

The gems embedded in the handle were red, green, blue, yellow, and black, each the size of a small fingernail, arranged in the shape of a five-pointed star.

Then he saw that the surface of the seal had been stained red with ink, and it was obviously something in use, and then he recognized the words on the seal.

"Big ...... Surname...... Country...... Insignia...... King...... Stamp. ”

"Was there a Hui King in the Song Dynasty? I only heard that there is a Huizong ......" Zhao Hao muttered, threw the inexplicable seal aside, and then flipped through the first booklet with gloves.

I saw that the cover was written 'Jiajing forty-five years silk cloth purchase account'. When I opened it, it was no different from the account book of the store at this time, all of which were some things from a certain year, a certain month, and a certain day.

But such a thing that seems to be no different from an ordinary account book makes Zhao Hao's little face green.

For example, in the first half of February, it was recorded in the account:

On the first day of the new year, 3,320 horses of plain silk and 1,100 pills of white silk were imported from Jiulong Mountain...... To Japan.

On the third day of the first month, 1,700 pills of white silk were entered from Guishan, 3,000 ends of large flying yarn silk, 2,000 ends of medium flying yarn silk, and 1,000 ends of yarn silk...... To Japan.

On the fifth day of the first month, from Xiaowuzi Mountain, 2,000 red silk pills, 600 plain silk, and 1,310 flower silks...... To Luzon.

On the sixth day of the first month, 1,500 pieces of silk were entered from Peach Blossom Mountain, 600 pills of white silk and 500 pills of colored silk...... To Jeju.

On the eighth day of the first month, 5,000 ends of primary color cloth and 5,000 ends of dyed cloth were entered from Yiyue Mountain...... To Japan.

On the tenth day of the first month, 1,000 pieces of white crepe silk and 510 pieces of colored satin were imported from Dazhushan...... To Japan.

~~

Except for the two batches of goods sent to Luzon and Jeju on the fifth and sixth days of the first month, the rest of the goods were sent to Japan in early February.

And whether it is going to Luzon or Japan, in the forty-five years of Jiajing, it is all smuggling!

Zhao Hao calculated a little, my obedient man, I smuggled 200,000 taels of silver in ten days, and it didn't take a hundred Tang ships to load it, right?

And February is still an off-season, this year, I'm afraid to smuggle tens of millions of taels of silver, right? It's not just a textile business......

Needless to say, these mountain names are used to refer to suppliers.

In fact, at this point, Zhao Hao is just a little green face.

But when he turned to another thin booklet, he was not good......

It turned out to be the super-smuggler's payment register, which clearly listed the flow of each payment.

Including the time of payment, the amount of payment, the payment bank, the account of the payer and the account of the payee......

Although eighty percent of those payees are pseudonyms, ticket numbers such as Wanyuan Songjiang Branch, Hengtongji Hangzhou Branch, Wanyuan Wuxi Branch, etc., all use real names.

As long as the government takes this account book and compares the accounts of those money banks, it is easy to trace the real flow of this huge sum of money from those accounts with pseudonyms.

After all, the money is still in your own account. Let the handler make a transition, but it is just a cover-up, and it will eventually fall under the name of the real owner.

~~

Zhao Hao took off the gauze used as a mask and gasped for breath.

"I'm in big trouble now......"

He was absolutely sure that this was the book of accounts of the maritime merchants!

Although only a very small part of the accounts.

But Zhao Hao believed that as long as the imperial court was willing to track down, it would be easy to find out those who colluded with maritime merchants for smuggling from these two purchase accounts and payment accounts.

Then the entire southeastern smuggling network can be uprooted......

And the imperial court, which was already poor and couldn't open the pot, began to eat grain.

Otherwise, it would not be in vain to ignore Taizu's teachings and still open the sea to trade.

Isn't it just poor?

If Emperor Longqing knew, it turned out that tens of millions, no, tens of millions of taels of silver would continue to flow into the Ming Dynasty in places he didn't know......

Zhao Hao seemed to see the picture of rolling heads and bloody rain on the southeast coast.

And it must also include the heads of his own master and apprentice, father and son......

Under the shock of this terrifying picture, Zhao Hao was completely stunned.

He decided that he had never seen anything like this.

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