Celebrating more than two years of peace in the world

Chapter 125 Unfolding Layout of the Underground Scroll
There should be a result, Fan Xian looked at Yu Xiaoxiao, Yu Xiaoxiao also looked at Fan Xian, their eyes met.

Fan Xian's words just now seemed to hurt Xiaoxiao a bit, and at this moment, the way she looked at Fan Xian changed slightly.

"You mean, the bottle is in your hands now." Yu Xiaoxiao said.

At this moment, Fan Xian's face was much calmer. He looked at Yu Xiaoxiao and said with a smile, "I thought I would see a smart person when I came in. I didn't expect you to ask such a stupid question."

Yu Xiaoxiao didn't talk to Fan Xian, she looked at the person who didn't pay attention to him with wrinkled eyes, and there was a little doubt in her eyes, she wasn't sure if Fan Xian was really under Yu Ping'er's control However, she could not ask the other party to give her a definite reply, so what she had to do now was to gamble with Fan Xian.

She bet that Yu Ping'er was not in Fan Xian's hands, or that Fan Xian didn't dare to tear up her ticket.

"You're thinking about it." Fan Xian raised his eyebrows and said, "But thinking about it, I used to think that in the entire Qing Kingdom, except for the eldest princess Li Yunrui, there would no longer be a woman who could surpass her. Now it seems that, I was wrong, people who can plan strategies for such a huge place are really smart people."

"You are able to make the first murderous industry as big as Xiuyutang next to the capital city, and become transparent at the feet of the emperor, so that no one can turn a blind eye. To be honest, I admire you very much." Fan Xian said, "But I think the problem is that you are still too confident about yourself, and even reached a certain level of conceit, so this is your current problem."

"My question?" Yu Xiaoxiao said to Fan Xian, who burst out laughing, "Don't you think that with such strength, you are qualified to stand in front of me and criticize me? Let me tell you, Fan Xian There are still many things you don't know, too many for you to imagine, and the Overwatch Council can't control everything in this world, so if you continue to be rampant, I will really set my mind to kill you."

"It seems you've made up your mind." Fan Xian shook his head helplessly, "Then I can only put all my eggs in one basket."

Yu Xiaoxiao looked at Fan Xian and didn't say another word. She was silent for a moment, sat on the chair, continued to face the account book in front of her, and began to read it carefully. After a while, Yu Xiaoxiao calmly said , "It's almost time for you to go, I will have someone send you out."

Fan Xian looked at the woman in front of him and smiled, "Up until now, do you still think that you can control the overall situation and do it at will?"

"That's natural, this is my territory, and my power here is so great that you can't imagine." Yu Xiaoxiao snorted directly, "Come here, send it out."

Fan Xian understood what she meant. The other party sent her out directly because she didn't want to use force, and she still maintained the posture of not wanting to turn against Fan Xian. Fan Xian, she felt that Fan Xian couldn't make any waves, so she didn't pay attention to it at all. Even Fan Xian, who had mastered the core, wouldn't do anything.

So she wasn't afraid that Fan Xian would continue to live, she thought that Fan Xian's survival would not bring her any danger, that's why she did this.

Fan Xian was very clear about her state of mind.

After she finished calling, two men holding bronze utensils appeared on Fan Xian's left and right sides. The two of them didn't show any expression, and they didn't make any unnecessary movements after they walked over. They directly raised Fan Xian's hands.

At the same time they raised Fan Xian's arms, Fan Xian's hands went up. At this moment, a puff of white powder flew out from Fan Xian's waist, filling the surrounding air, and Fan Xian Taking advantage of the situation, he took out a pill from his waist pocket and put it in his mouth.

There was a mess of weapons hitting the ground, and Fan Xian stood quietly in the room without saying a word.

Looking outside, no one was alarmed. When he turned his head, the white powder mist had dissipated, and the remaining three people fell to the ground.These drugs were given to him by Fan Xian's fellow apprentices and brothers from the three places when he first entered the Northern Qi Dynasty, but he did not expect it to come in handy now.

These drugs are very effective. Without Fan Xian's antidote, it would not be a problem to be able to sleep for a full ten hours. Therefore, as long as Fan Xian ensures that no outsiders come in, everything here can be investigated carefully. investigation.

But before that, Fan Xian was not in a hurry, he first sat where Yu Xiaoxiao was originally sitting.

Looking around, he naturally knew that the things here were very important.

He was not in a hurry.

Yu Xiaoxiao was scheming, it was impossible for her not to know Fan Xian's strength, and it was also impossible for her not to know that Fan Xian's control over poison was very terrifying.

The so-called knowing oneself, knowing the enemy, and winning a hundred battles, it is impossible for Yu Xiaoxiao to reach out and touch her bald head and have nothing.

So when looking at the things in front of him, Fan Xian can't act emotionally, he needs to be able to distinguish right from wrong.

He was afraid that there were some things that she deliberately let him see.

Opening the account book that was originally opened on the table, it was an account book for the daily business of Xiuyutang. Fan Xian looked carefully and saw the two largest expenditures. The first one marked on it was daily personnel consumption. , while the second is information loss.

In this era, Fan Xian had also seen the account books of Yishiju and Baoyuelou. Yishiju also had this information loss. At that time, no one understood what it meant. Later, Fan Xian asked this question after Qu Han was taken in. Qu Han The answer given was a bribe.

In other words, the so-called daily personnel loss this month alone cost nearly 8 taels of silver, while information loss cost 12 taels. Can withstand tossing.

But thinking about it, they don't have to pay for it themselves, whether it's dark flowers, dark water or dark heads, they just rely on the betting money at that time to pay, and they can also get a commission from it.

As a professional casino, Xiuyutang's large profits come from commissions and bankers' take-all. The service fees for maids and wealth boys are just enough to subsidize daily personnel loss and information loss.

Different from information, Fan Xian understands the loss of daily personnel very well. The piles of corpses he saw just now are all daily loss of personnel. It seems that they are still very strict in controlling this personnel. Fan Xian was a little surprised.

Looking at the account book in front of him, Fan Xian fell into deep thought again.

Fan Xian was not surprised at this stage of the matter.So he didn't get the joy of victory. At this time, he looked at the account book in front of him seriously, and felt more and more that things were not that simple.

After thinking about it seriously, I came to a conclusion that even if there are a thousand maids and a rich boy, it is impossible to have such a daily loss of personnel, even if it is at most from the western frontier or the Northern Qi to the north of the ice field The delivery of maids and wealth boys in the village cost only a hundred taels of silver, and counting the money given to their parents, it would cost 20 taels of silver for a full dozen, so it would not cost as much as [-] taels a month.

Fan Xian had seen their food on the way here, clear soup with little water, no piece of meat, the food expenses of these 2000 people were only a hundred taels of silver a month, how could it be so much?Want to reach 8 taels?
Fan Xian tried his best to think in his mind, and suddenly, he understood something.

Could it be...

Fan Xian thought of a very scary question. With such a price, they might be able to do a lot of things, and it wasn't their staff consumption, but their staff growth. It's just that they changed their name!
This is the cost of food and weapons and equipment for the private army!

Sure enough, this place is not in Xinyang, although the Eldest Princess will mobilize a group of troops to station outside Xinyang, but that is not the exact location to raise private soldiers, but the exact location should be here!

Suddenly, Fan Xian looked at the handbook in front of him, and understood the purpose here.

Turning to look at the unconscious Yu Xiaoxiao, it turns out that she is also the lackey of the eldest princess Li Yunrui.

But their correct affiliation should be the second prince Li Chengze. During the conversation with Fan Xian just now, she didn't seem to know that the eldest princess and the second prince were on the same line.

While learning about the account books, Fan Xian's thinking became clearer and he immediately understood a lot of things. This is what he analyzed. Although it may be deliberately put here for Fan Xian to see, Fan Xian still doesn't think there is any fraud here. , since it is a private army, then it is not a problem for him to take over. After all, Xiuyutang will be handed over to the eight thousand black cavalry to clean up.

Right now, Fan Xian can't run in vain, he intends to continue to investigate.

At this moment, footsteps came from outside the door.

Fan Xian stood up immediately, and quietly approached the side of the room, hiding himself in a position where he couldn't see it when he entered the room, and clenched the dagger in his hand.

The person who entered was none other than the person who escorted him over just now, the young leader.

The leader entered the room alone. He stopped by the screen and looked at the three people lying in front of him. He wasn't surprised at all. At this time, Fan Xian had already touched the man's vest with the dagger. .

But the other party was calm that Fan Xian had never seen before. He said calmly, "What's wrong with them?"

"Because of my drug, I won't wake up for a while," Fan Xian said.

"You didn't see what I gave you?" said the leader.

Fan Xian was startled, and then it rang. When I entered the door, this kid punched me. At that time, Fan Xian felt that something was wrong. Thinking about it now, Fan Xian frowned, reached into his arms, and touched a note.He skillfully unfolded the note with one hand and saw a line of writing.

"Private army, please think twice before acting!"

Looking at the note, Fan Xian turned his attention to the person in front of him, "Who are you?"

"If you know it, you know it. If you don't know it, it's not time to know it." The leader said, "I enter here according to the time to inspect, and I will not be in the next shift. Every hour, a person comes in to inspect. , a total of four inspection posts, the place of inspection is here, and then I go to the next place, which is the armory, and the second person will come here, you can kill him, because no one will find out, after all, the armory is There are no people, only the guards in front of the gate, and the guards change every hour, so they won't find out."

"Then when the third person comes, you can also kill him, because I was patrolling the central area at that time. When the fourth person comes, you have to leave, because the central area is the place connecting Xiuyu Hall and the lower part, that When the second inspection does not reach the central area, someone will find out, and after questioning, they will come to you, so you have three hours to do these things." The leader said, "I lost my key, it's a big deal It's just a lot of punching and kicking, months of confinement, but if you can do it, it's all worth it."

Fan Xian looked at the leader, but he didn't speak at the moment.

"I'd rather go to the underworld than stay here. Everything here is too scary." The leader sighed, turned around and walked out. When he went out, he whispered, "Your friend I brought it back for you, and I have already killed that woman, no one knows how you got in, so be careful and don't get into trouble."

"Because you have a problem, I will die." The leader said, "Even if some of you are not dead, I will kill you with all my might. Secrets, if there is no benefit, no one can Believe."

After all, he walked out, and instead, two familiar figures appeared in front of Fan Xian.

Fan Xian did not stop the leader from leaving.

"My lord!" Qu Han was startled, "I didn't expect the Overwatch Council to have people here! You are amazing!"

Fan Xian shook his head, "He's not from the Overwatch Council, but I always feel that he has a purpose in helping me."

"This person is more reliable, I don't think there is any problem." Yu Zhenzi said, "Where is this place?"

"It's the boudoir of one of the bosses of Xiuyutang." Fan Xian said.

"The one on the ground?" Yu Zhenzi pointed to it.

"Yes." Fan Xian replied, "Let's look for it, maybe there will be clues."

Qu Han nodded, and Yu Zhenzi also started to search.

Fan Xian was a little worried. After all, he was a person he had never met. He suddenly appeared and offered a helping hand, which made Fan Xian feel a little strange. Possibly, but it shouldn't be a big problem for two ninth-rank masters to go out together.

Just at this time, Fan Xian heard a voice.

"Huh?" Qu Han looked at the account book that Fan Xian had read just now, and asked.

Fan Xian immediately walked over and asked, "What's the matter? Did you find anything?"

"This...is wrong in the account!" Qu Han looked at it suspiciously.

"Is it in the account?" Fan Xian frowned. He actually didn't know anything about business, so he was at a loss when he looked at those account books. He could only understand if there was any problem with the large amount.

Qu Han nodded, "Incoming accounts have to be equal to outgoing accounts, but that's the problem. If you look at last month's accounts, the total accounted for is 73 three taels of silver and 430 coins. It is the total entry, and then looking down, this is the loss of 58 taels of expenditure, this is the loss of 8, plus this, this, and this.”

Speaking of this, Qu Han's light left hand grasped an egg, then nodded, and said, "This is a total of 69 eight taels of silver and twelve characters, that is to say, there are 730 five Passed 14 essays, but disappeared."

"You..." Fan Xian raised his eyebrows, "You calculated this after reading it all?"

"Yeah, how long does this thing take?" Qu Han looked at Fan Xian puzzled, and then continued, "Look again, no matter what kind of expenditure it is, it's all in bits and pieces, except for this The two places, the loss of personnel and the loss of information, are full expenses, and we usually say that this is the fake account called the smallest pediatrics.”

"Fake accounts?" Fan Xian was puzzled.

"Yes, this kind of account is not directly spent in the quota, but someone left directly with the entire amount of silver." Qu Han said, "This way, it also shows that these two accounts are both It was taken by someone in charge."

Fan Xian was confused.

"To put it simply, it's like you and I are running a shop together. The two of us agree that you take 500 taels of silver every month to buy goods, and I only ask for the quality and quantity of the goods. No matter, and I can assure you, if your 500 taels of goods come according to my request, then I can sell you 800 taels." Qu Han said, "Then our books will say, 500 taels Silver, buy goods, and look, here, here, and here, every place, every month, their fixed expenditure is 20 taels of silver."

Fan Xian suddenly realized, "So, there are more than one or two bosses in Xiuyutang?"

"It's more than that." Qu Han said, "This month's fee is 14 taels of silver that disappeared inexplicably. Last month it was nearly 690 taels, but last month, it was only 20 taels. Every month The inexplicable disappearance of silver, what does this mean?"

"Someone is taking money," Fan Xian said.

"And it's a person they can't stop, who is taking money endlessly." Qu Han explained, "I guess there is only one person for this person."

Fan Xian looked at the time, and it was indeed the case, "It's the second prince. That's right. In March of this year, I destroyed Baoyue Tower. Before that, there was no shortage in the account books, and since April, there has been a deficit. , this cannot be a coincidence."

"This is the second prince's treasury." Qu Han said, "And I can tell you clearly, my lord."

Fan Xian looked serious.

"The 12 is for Xinyang," Qu Han said.

"How do you know?" Fan Xian looked at Qu Han.

"Because it's here." Qu Han pointed at the bottom of the 12 taels of silver, where a line of words was written, "360 taels, Xinyun."

"This Xinyun is the transportation fee in Xinyang. Of course, 360 taels is a bit much, but it is true, because I often receive such a huge amount of expenses. When I was in Danzhou, it ranged from [-] to [-]. The amount of the letter will also be marked below." Qu Han explained.

Only then did Fan Xian understand, and he said, "Accordingly, Li Yunrui will have nearly 20 taels of silver in his account every month."

"My lord, if I'm not wrong, the Cui family is only a small part, right? No matter how big the Xiuyutang is, it's all a spectacle on the bright side. Among such spectacle activities, there are nearly 20 taels, so ..." Qu Han hinted.

Fan Xian understood that the Cui family's income was nothing more than minor details, because this time the princess did not send anyone to stop the march, and Fan Xian also felt a little strange about this business. After Qu Han's reminder, Fan Xian understood something The eldest princess just wants to use inaction to make Fan Xian think that everything about her has been ruined by Fan Xian, and she has no power to resist, but what she doesn't know is that when Fan Xian came back from Beiqi, Then I got the news that the Ming family is the eldest princess' biggest backing.

"In other words, it's okay to raise a group of private soldiers with this money, right?" Fan Xian asked.

"My lord, do you know the exact amount of silver taels that the Ministry of War reports to the Ministry of Households and withdraws in one year?" Qu Han asked.

"I heard from my father that it should be 170 million," Fan Xian said.

"This is the total amount used by the army of the whole Qing Dynasty. Then you think that even if he spends 50 taels, she spends 5 taels a month, which is 45 taels. This is a month, my lord." Qu Han said.

Fan Xian was shocked!
"500 million!" Fan Xian looked at Qu Han and said in shock.

"Yes, but it's not that exaggerated. After all, our army in the Qing Dynasty still has a farming system, and there are a lot of trophies. In addition, the taxes are all from the army. I roughly estimate that if we really want to support a country's army, It needs about 1000 million taels of silver a year."

"But this is a country, not an army, so if we do the math, there should be an invincible army in Xinyang," Qu Han said.

Fan Xian was disappointed. This was a shocking event for the whole country, so of course we couldn't be careless.

"We don't have any evidence for this matter yet." Fan Xian said helplessly.

"Isn't this evidence?" Qu Han asked in surprise.

"I'll take an account book to tell the emperor that the eldest princess is raising a private army? Don't you want your head?" Fan Xian looked at Qu Han in surprise.

Qu Han felt a little helpless, she smiled awkwardly, "That's right."

When the two were studying the account books, Yu Zhenzi suddenly said, "Come and see, what is this, why have I never seen it before?"

Fan Xian and Qu Han looked at each other, and hurried over. They were both surprised when they saw what Yu Zhenzi was holding.

"Like a token, or..." Yu Zhenzi looked at the thing in his hand wonderingly.

Fan Xian immediately took it into his hands. He looked at it carefully, and then said slowly, "I don't know either."

The three looked at each other, at this moment, Yu Xiaoxiao on the ground made some noises, she was about to wake up!

"Hmm..." In a trance, Yu Xiaoxiao let out a hum, and it seemed that Yu Xiaoxiao was about to get up.

When Fan Xian was planning to do something, he didn't expect that Qu Han would take the vase next to it and shine it on Yu Xiaoxiao's head. Because the floor was carpeted, there was no sound.

"Kara..."

A broken voice came out, and Fan Xian looked at Qu Han in front of him in surprise, and was speechless for a moment. Sure enough, there was no mercy between women.

"What's the matter, my lord?" Qu Han clapped her hands. It didn't match the cowardly look in the pile of corpses just now. She turned her head to look at Fan Xian, "I'm afraid she wakes up and sees us."

"Nice job." Fan Xian looked at Qu Han calmly and gave him a thumbs up.

Qu Han smiled, turned her head and continued to study the things in Yu Zhenzi's hands. She asked, "Where did you find this?"

Yu Zhenzi pointed to the box in front of him, "This box is exquisitely crafted, and the craftsmanship is pure. It looks like something used by a nobleman. I just opened it."

Fan Xian put his eyes on the top of the box. He looked at the box solemnly, and didn't say anything. Fan Xian was wondering, is this a token that can mobilize private troops?But after thinking about it, Fan Xian still felt that he didn't know what to do, because even Yu Xiaoxiao couldn't reach this stage where he could command the power of the private army.

But the token in front of him was not the main thing, so Fan Xian began to invite everyone to read those books together. There were a lot of books on the case and books in other places, so the three of them started to work together.

There are a lot of books, and the three of them have been studying over and over again, but there is no progress, and Fan Xian's thoughts have been wandering at this time, and he is still holding the key given to him by the leader just now. There are all kinds of keys on the keys, and they have different shapes and shapes. Fan Xian seems to be able to understand what some of the keys are for, so he silently memorizes the feel of each key so that he can use it as quickly as possible. way to touch the key.

The leader gave Fan Xian three hours to come here to collect evidence, presumably the leader also knew that there would be something here.But just as the three of them were searching, footsteps came from outside the door!

Fan Xian immediately grabbed Qu Han. Qu Han didn't hear the sound from outside, and Yu Zhenzi had already stood still. Fan Xian immediately approached the screen, but the strange thing is that at this time, it was not long before the leader left. Reached an hour's time.

The voice of stopping came from outside the door, it was a maid who said slowly, "Miss, it's time for dinner."

It's food delivery.

Fan Xian breathed a sigh of relief.

"Miss?" The maid echoed again.

At this time, Fan Xian was afraid that she would not come in, so he immediately mentioned Qu Han.

But Qu Han didn't listen to Xiaoxiao's voice too much. Even if she wanted to pretend to be a voice, she had no direction, but the matter was here, and there was no way to end it if she didn't pretend, so she could only give a soft hum.

The maid walked in slowly. Before Fan Xian could make a move, he heard the sound of shattering coming from in front of him. Fan Xian looked over in surprise, only then saw a vase falling in front of him in a split state. Fan Xian He was surprised to see that the maid was holding a tray in her hand, and it fell down slowly.

He calmly turned around, and Qu Han grabbed another vase at this time, Fan Xian quickly stopped him and said, "Don't talk about this one."

"Ah?" Qu Han hesitated at this moment, she looked at Fan Xian in embarrassment, "Oh...then..."

"Put it down, miss." Fan Xian said helplessly.

Only then did Qu Han put the vase in his hand aside.

Fan Xian sighed, walked up to the maid just now, lowered his head to check her breath, and still breathed.

Looking at the maid on the ground, Fan Xian first checked the medicine in her hand. At this moment, he became suspicious, but it didn't take long. There were already four people lying on the ground. The house seemed to be full of people.

"Look, my lord, this maid is wearing a veil." Qu Han said.

"I came up with a plan." Fan Xian looked back at Qu Han, who was startled and blushed slightly.

(End of this chapter)