Back cover in the warehouse.

Everyone looked in the sound and saw Fang Wen find a small cloth package from a pile of cotton trousers and jackets.

When I opened the package, there was a brass cylinder about a ruler long, and the shape was like Li Mingyue's silver water cup.

Zhao Hao is now considered a cultural person, so he naturally recognizes that it is the paper tube used by literati to hold manuscripts and calligraphy.

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

"Why didn't you notice it long ago?" Zhao Hao asked.

Gao Wu and Cai Ming looked at each other.

"Young Master, these are the cotton pants and jackets we wore when we left Jinling. When we arrived at Shandong, it was too thin." Cai Ming replied:

"The young master changed all of us in Linqing. The brothers have been through hard times. The cotton trousers and jackets we replaced are still new, so they packed them up and prepared to wear them when the spring is over... they have never been opened."

"Um."

While rubbing the exquisitely crafted copper cylinder, Zhao Hao closed his eyes slightly, recalling the situation that day.

He remembered that Wu Ji in Tongzhou gave them two luggage carts, one containing the luggage of his father and son and disciple, and the other containing the men of Caijiaxiang. The first one was expensive, and it followed Zhao Hao and the others. At that time, they were surrounded by men of Caijiaxiang, and the other party had no chance to touch them.

But the latter carriage followed the last, completely unprotected.

It was probably the chased knight who could not escape, and at the moment when both sides intersected, he inserted the copper tube into the pile of cotton trousers and jackets...

Zhao Hao slowly opened his eyes and his eyes fell back to the copper tube.

Then he said to the three of them in a deep voice: "You have found nothing today, no matter who asks you, you must say this."

"Yes!" The three of them responded quickly.

They all have brains, so they naturally know that what the other party is looking for when the dead soldiers are dispatched is absolutely of great importance.

If you don't do it well, you will kill everyone.

~~

Zhao Hao ordered Gao Wu to strengthen his vigilance tonight to prevent the other party from making a comeback.

Although he knew that the possibility was not high, after all, it was less than 2 miles away, so I am afraid that no one would have the courage to make a big fuss.

But it’s better to be careful. If you are anxious, you will jump over the wall, right?

Then he went back to the room and closed the door, sat cross-legged on the kang, put the copper tube upright on the kang table, and looked at it for a long time.

Watch it or not?

In the end, he decided to read it. Anyway, he told someone that he didn't read it, and the other party would definitely not believe it.

To put it bluntly, even if we die, we have to be a wise ghost?

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

He was relieved when he heard the rustling sound of paper. This meant that there was no venom, poison powder, etc. inside...

I carefully checked the copper tube and confirmed that there was no mechanism that was launched as soon as I touched it.

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

Then he poured out two booklets from it, and one of them was embedded with several golden alien seals with gems of different colors.

Zhao Hao first put the weight of the seal, and found that it was pure gold. Looking at the luster, it should have been cast for a while.

The gems embedded on the seal handle are five red, green, blue, yellow and black. Each piece is only the size of a small fingernail and is arranged in the shape of a five-pointed star.

Then he saw that the seal surface had been dyed red by the ink paste, which was obviously a thing in use, and then he identified the words on the seal.

"The Great Song Dynasty...The Kingdom...The Hui...The King...The Seal."

"Is there a King of Hui in the Song Dynasty? I heard that there was Huizong..." Zhao Hao muttered, threw the inexplicable seal aside, and then looked through the first book with gloves.

I saw the cover that read "Jiajing Forty-five Years of Silk Clothing Purchase Account". When I opened it, I found that the above was no different from the account book of the store at that time, all of which were entered from a certain place on a certain year, month and day.

But just such a thing that seems to be the same as an ordinary account book makes Zhao Hao's little face turn green.

It's like the account recorded in early February:

On the first day of the lunar month, 3,320 pieces of plain silk were entered from Jiulong Mountain, and 1,100 pieces of white silk were entered... to Japan.

On the third year of the Chinese New Year, one thousand seven hundred white silk pills were entered from Guishan, three thousand large flying pattern yarns, two thousand middle flying pattern yarns, and one thousand yarns... to Japan.

On the fifth day of the lunar month, two thousand pills of red silk came into Wuzi Mountain, six hundred pieces of plain silk, and one thousand three hundred pieces of flower silk... to Luzon.

On the sixth day of the lunar month, one thousand five hundred pieces of flower silk came from Taohua Mountain, six hundred white silk pills, five hundred colored silk pills... to Jeju.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, from Yiyue Mountain, the original color cloth was five thousand ends, and the dyed cloth was five thousand ends... to Japan.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, one thousand pieces of white crepe silk came from Dazhu Mountain and five hundred and ten pieces of colored satin... to Japan.

~~

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

Whether it was going to Luzon or Japan, all of them were smuggled in the forty-five years of Jiajing!

Zhao Hao made a quick calculation. My goodness, I smuggled 200,000 taels of silver in ten days. No one would have to take a hundred Tang Dynasty ships to load them, right?

Moreover, February is still the off-season. This year, I am afraid that I will smuggle tens of millions of taels of silver? This is just a textile business...

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

In fact, at this point, Zhao Hao's face turned green.

But when he flipped through another thin booklet, he was immediately in a bad mood...

It turned out to be the payment record book of this super smuggler, which clearly states the flow of each payment.

Including payment time, payment amount, payment bank, payer's account and payee's account...

Although most of the payees are pseudonyms, the names of ticket numbers such as the Wanyuan number Songjiang semicolon, the Hengtongji Hangzhou semicolon, and the Wanyuan number Wuxi semicolon all use real names.

As long as the government takes this account book and compares the accounts of those money houses, it is easy to track down the real flow of these huge sums of money from those accounts with pseudonyms.

After all, you should rest assured that the money is in your own account. Let the person in charge make a transition, but it will only cover the eyes and ears, and will eventually be given to the real master.

~~

Zhao Hao suddenly took off the gauze that was used as a mask and gasped heavily.

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

He was absolutely sure that this was the account book of the maritime merchant!

Although it is only a small part of the accounts.

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

Then the entire Southeast private trafficking network can be uprooted...

The imperial court was so poor that it could not make a fuss, and they all started to eat the food of the emperor.

Otherwise, we would not have ignored Taizu's legacy and still open seas to trade.

Isn't it just a poor man?

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

Zhao Hao seemed to see the scene of people rolling in the southeast coast and bloody storm.

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

Shocked by this terrifying scene, Zhao Hao was completely timid.

He decided that he had never seen this thing before.
Chapter completed!