Yang Youji pulled out his knife and stared at Gao Hongtu. Gao Hongtu, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun", took a deep breath, got out of bed and walked slowly to the window, as if to calm his emotions.

Xia Nan opened an account book, which recorded the accounts of bribes to officials at all levels in Guangdong, which was not unusual, but there were records of bribes to officials in Xiangyang. Bribing people in the government doesn't seem to be a big deal, and Gao Hongtu is so nervous, obviously not for this. He put it down and picked up another.

The second book is still similar content. When he turned to the third book, his eyes widened as he saw what it contained.

Gao Hongtu stared at him, saw his expression, knew that he had seen what he didn't want people to see, sighed secretly, closed his eyes, and prepared to shout, even if they were both defeated, they couldn't let these two people leak out a word.

Xia Nan seemed to know his thoughts, put down the account book, and shouted in a low voice: "Wait, I still have people outside the door, the one outside the door can be ten with one, and it is not a problem to kill with this account book, even if you leave us, it will be useless." Do you want to try the consequences, Boss Gao?"

Gao Hongtu squinted his eyes and said quietly, "Why do you think I want to keep you?" If I wanted to call someone, I would have shouted it a long time ago, so why wait until now. ”

"That's because of this!" Xia Nan raised the ledger in his hand, "You quietly leave the bedside, in order to distance yourself from your woman, so that even if we want to kill someone, there will always be a chance for the two of you to shout and warn; Second, you are closer to the window, so that you can call someone at any time to burn the jade and stones, so as not to leak the contents of the account book. ”

Gao Hongtu closed his eyes, as if there was nothing on his face, in fact, his heart was no longer calm, and his thoughts were guessed.

originally thought that these two people were just ordinary revenge or robbery, and they were easy to deal with, but they didn't expect that when the account books were involved, it was not a matter of losing property, and their own lives, and even dozens of people in the Gao family, were in danger.

Xia Nanyang raised the ledger: "When I saw the record of bribes to officials in Xiangyang, it was very strange. You are a merchant in Guangzhou, and your hands have reached out to Huguang. Of course, your boss Gao's business is big, even if the business goes to the capital, it is your ability. However, it is recorded in this account book that in the third year of Chongzhen, you traded with a person named Gao Yigong, bartering goods, he provided gold, silver jewelry, antique calligraphy and painting, and you provided knives and guns, soju, wound medicine, cotton cloth, the price of this transaction seems to be very favorable to you, jewelry and antiques are completely cheap! ”

Gao Hongtu didn't say anything, but clenched his fists, as if he was deaf to this passage.

"How can you get so many jewelry and antiques for no reason, how can you be in a hurry to sell them at a cheap price, and only need goods such as knives and guns, soju, wound medicine, and cotton cloth? Let's assume that jewelry and antiques are all looted from homes and houses, and knives, guns, wounds, and medicine are all necessary for marching and fighting. The equipment needed by the imperial army was naturally allocated by the Division, and the team that needed to buy such items in large quantities privately could only be the rebels and rebels in Shaanxi who were close to Hubei! I heard that the leader of the homeless people is named Gao Yingxiang, known as King Chuang, what does this high merit have to do with Gao Yingxiang? ”

Gao Hongtu could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, and interrupted him: "Don't say it again!" ”

The last trace of luck in his heart also disappeared, and the other party could peel back the cocoon and analyze the items and places traded so thoroughly, he must have already known the answer.

Xia Nan stared at Gao Hongtu and said word by word: "Funding anti-thieves is the crime of raiding the house and destroying the door!" ”

Gao Hongtu's face gradually turned pale, he took two steps back, sat down on the bed, lowered his head and asked, "What good will it do you if I was raided and destroyed?" Make a price, how can you let this matter go? ”

Xia Nan didn't answer him right away, and thought about it in his heart. The purpose of his trip was to kill Gao Hongtu, and his motive for killing him was to prevent the Gao family from getting involved in the cotton cloth business. Now that there is a big bargaining chip in the ledger, it is a waste to just prevent Gao Hongtu from meddling in the cotton cloth business, after all, this is something that can make the Gao family full of copied and beheaded - the imperial court's prevention of the rogue is better than that of the Houjin, Chongzhen himself and the bigwigs in the court think that the rogue is a big problem, like the Gao family's behavior of directly funding the rogue with a transaction, if Emperor Chongzhen knows, I am afraid that even the ancestral grave of the Gao family will dig up the corpse.

Xia Nan decided to understand Gao Hongtu's motivation for doing this first, and then make plans. He asked bluntly: "Boss Gao's business is booming, why do you want to have a relationship with the thief?" It really doesn't make sense. ”

grabbed the handle in the other party's hand, and Gao Hongtu had no intention of concealing it, telling the ins and outs of the situation.

It turned out that Gao Hongtu was not a native of Guangdong, and his ancestral home was Mizhi, Shaanxi. In the fifth year of the Apocalypse, because Shaanxi suffered from disasters and poor harvests for many years, Gao Hongtu came to Guangdong to join relatives, learn to do business, and married the daughter of a local businessman as his wife, and became the head of the shop in a few years.

And the opportunity for him to really make a fortune and become a giant businessman came from his hometown of Shaanxi: after the Shaanxi uprising, Gao Yingxiang and others were surrounded and suppressed by the official army, lacking medical treatment and medicine, and not being able to eat a lot of jewelry and antiques looted in their hands. Gao Yigong was sent out by King Chuang to trade with merchants, and inadvertently got in touch with Gao Hongtu through his fellow villagers in Shaanxi. Gao Hongtu was very bold and transported a batch of medicinal cotton cloth to Xiangyang, where he traded with Gao Yigong, and took advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune. After eating the marrow and knowing the taste, from the seventh year of the Apocalypse to the third year of Chongzhen, he traded a total of four times, and the jewelry and antiques shipped back were sold at a good price in Guangzhou, and he used the money to open a money bank, and became one of the top merchants in Guangzhou.

Xia Nan had all his thoughts: "The thieves need medicinal herbs to heal their wounds, they need to replenish knives, guns and weapons, and the soju can be drunk and disinfected, so cotton cloth is used to make clothes?" ”

The army of displaced people does not produce anything, and they all rely on robbery for food and clothing, and the team is huge, and tens of thousands of people are coerced at every turn, and the consumption is huge, and there must be a great demand for medicinal materials, cotton cloth and other items. It is no wonder that Gao Hongtu is doing a good job in running the money village, and he has to annex Zhang's cloth shop, which not only takes a fancy to the good sales of Qiongzhou cloth, but also takes a fancy to its large shipments and can supply the needs of the Liukou. Your grandmother's, how much silver I have worked so hard to make to make the cloth is sold, and if you swallow it, you will get it in exchange for golden gold and valuable jewelry and antiques, and the gap is too great.

Knowing the ins and outs, Xia Nan had an idea. He stuffed the ledger into his arms and said to Gao Hongtu: "To tell you the truth, I am the Qiongzhou merchant who supplied Zhang's cloth shop, and I thought of sneaking into your Gao Mansion because I was afraid that you would collude with the eunuchs to annex the cloth shop." As for what you want to do, you should be able to guess. ”

Gao Hongtu smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid it's just to kill me Gao and resolve the crisis of Zhang's cloth shop, right?" As long as I die, my son is still young, and there is no successor to the Gao family, it will fall apart, and naturally no one will come to rob you of Zhang's cloth line. ”