Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 435 Ledger

In the afternoon, a few people from the machinery factory brought gas machines, water pumps, and water pipes.After the gas generator was running for an hour, the diesel engine finally started, and the water pump began to pump out the well water continuously, and directly drained it into the moat.

In less than two hours, the water in the well was drained.The swarthy bottom was exposed.Several powerful flashlights used by the police shone down together, and the iron box that Gou Er sank on the night of Day D suddenly appeared under the light of the powerful flashlights.It was intact and sank squarely at the bottom of the well.

"Get it up quickly!" Lin Baiguang excitedly said.

Wu Xiang agreed, and was about to climb down after installing the rope, but Mu Min stopped him:

"After a while! The water has just been drained, and there is likely to be a lack of oxygen below."

After waiting for a while, he tried to hang down the burning candle again, and then he let Wu Xiang slide down the rope.Then an indigenous worker went down to help tie the box with a rope buckle, and then he lifted it up bit by bit with a hand hoist.

The box was very heavy, and Lin Baiguang estimated that there were a lot of belongings inside, so the caretaker pulled up those who went down first, so as not to break the box and fall in the middle - the underground area is narrow, there is no place to hide, and it must be killed.

Careful along the way, he finally lifted the box up and put it wet by the well. Lin Baiguang checked it carefully—it was said to be an iron box, but it was actually made of hardwood and iron, and the outside of the box was intact.Even the hanging lock is fine,

However, the box was just soaked in water like this, and most of it contained only gold and silver, so it couldn't be a letter or something.Otherwise, it will be blamed if it is not soaked...

Thinking of this, he was slightly disappointed. Although the treasure was good, it was not what he wanted.

Having said that, let's get the box back first.Immediately, the box was loaded onto the car and pulled back.

The box was opened in the special room of the Internal Affairs Committee. Mu Min was very curious and wanted to see what this ancient treasure was, so she took a hammer and smashed the lock, opened it. Looking at the box, the inside was well sealed with oilcloth and grease, and the box itself was also made very tightly, and it was lined with a thick layer of animal skin, which was rough and hard to handle.

"It's wolf fur." ​​Mu Min had handled the case of illegal trade protection of animal leather, so he recognized it at a glance, "Gou Er is really meticulous in preventing cold and moisture."

When the wolf skin was opened, there was no box full of golden treasures. Instead, there were packs of large and small packages carefully sealed with oiled paper. Mu Min was about to open it, but Lin Baiguang stopped him suddenly:

"Don't tear it down."

"?" Mu Min was puzzled.

"It's better to invite people from the Planning Commission to be present." Lin Baiguang said, "Register while opening the seal, and there is a certificate."

Mu Min remembered only after he reminded her that there was no one else here except her and Lin Baiguang. If something happened in the future, wouldn't it be hard to tell.

"I was too quick. The lock should not be broken until the people from the planning committee arrive at the scene."

"It's not a big problem, it's too late now."

Immediately called the planning committee, and after a while, Sun Xiao came.He brought special documents for counting the loot.

Immediately, the sealed oil-paper packages were opened one by one, counted and counted, and the things taken out were various, including gold ingots and silver ingots of different sizes, stacks of gold leaves, Spanish silver coins wrapped in columns, and various pure gold coins. And inlaid jewelry, jeweled utensils and weapons - some with a distinctly exotic flavor.Sun Xiao took pictures one by one, numbered and registered.

There is a little water in the box, and there is some moisture, but the items are well preserved.This reassured Lin Baiguang a little - even if there were paper documents, the loss should not be too great.

After cleaning all the way to the end, there were two small iron boxes inside. This is a real iron box. The outside was wrapped and sealed with oilcloth for several layers.

Pry the box open, and there is another oiled paper package inside.Lin Baiguang opened one of them, revealing a stack of letter envelopes.He said excitedly:

"found it!"

Both Sun Xiao and Mu Min leaned over to look at it. Sun Xiao smiled and said, "It's really rare. I haven't seen you so excited in a box of gold, silver and jewelry. A few letters made you HIGH like this!"

"You don't understand this. A piece of paper is worth much more than these boxes of gold and silver treasures." Lin Baiguang patted the small iron box, "I dare say, Gou Er would rather lose all the treasures here than lose all the treasures here." I don't want to throw away this little box."

After the registration and bookkeeping was completed, the gold and silver treasures were picked up and transported away by the car sent by the Planning Commission, and the seized documents and materials belonged to the Political Security Administration.He called in some of the native interns from the General Guard to catalog the paperwork.

In addition to letters, there are many important things, first of all, a lot of account books.Lin Baiguang looked through it, but he didn't quite understand the style inside, so he decided to ask Sun Xiao to help.Although financial regulations are different in ancient and modern times, accountants are always more sensitive to numbers and rules.

Because there were too many things, I invited a few time travelers who are good at ancient Chinese to help clean it up.The first is to register the letters. These letters are classified and bundled according to the names of the letters. Lin Baiguang read from the archives the documents on the situation of the Gou family after the capture and interrogation of the Gou family. , in order to check the name and identity of the caller.

Regrettably, with the exception of some letters, most of the letters are either unpaid or replaced with codes, either "Nanhai Liweng" or "Qiongshan Old Man", or "Zhimeitang" or "Wuxuan". Classes, some simply have only one monogram.I really can't tell who is who. After comparison, I found that many names were also found in Gou Da's correspondence.

It would be great if we could know who these names refer to-at least we can send someone to inquire.Lin Baiguang estimated that, judging from Gou Dagou Er's mobility, most of these people were in Qiongzhou Prefecture and Leizhou, and would not go too far.

He ordered that all the documents and materials seized in Goujiazhuang should be brought over and combined for analysis.

Lin Baiguang couldn't help for the time being. He asked people to add calcium carbide lamps in the meeting room, and brought tea and food, as well as enough ice cubes.He himself was studying the information he had obtained in his office, trying to piece it together and find out the trajectory of Gou Er's activities in Qiongshan.

Every hour, he sent the correspondent to the conference room to inquire about the progress, and returned to always: "Nothing special has been found yet."

At around ten o'clock in the evening, I finally made my first major discovery: Sun Xiao brought a ledger.

"If this booklet is thrown in Guangzhou, there will probably be an earthquake in Qiongzhou's officialdom."

"What good stuff?"

"It's a bribery account." Sun laughed and gave him the account book.

It turned out to be an account book for giving favors and gifts, and it is the same thing as the "gift account" that the state and county officials have to bargain for as usual when handing over.It is nothing more than the information of various officialdom figures that need to be managed and the amount of various regular silver presented by the "Three Festivals".The Gou family brothers can't do this kind of business for long without the support of the government. Even if there is no collusion, they have to manage it as usual to buy peace.

Gou Er's "Bill of Human Relations" is very detailed. Lin Baiguang took a quick look and found that there were five teams in Lingao County, Chengmai County, Danzhou, Qiongshan County, and Qiongzhou Prefecture in Hainan, and there was Xu Wen from Leizhou. In the list of all officials in the county, each official has personal information such as birthplace, department name, and birthday. In addition to the official himself, there are also information on their family members and children.Written in great detail.There are many changes in this ledger, and some names have been crossed out. Not only the time of resignation, but also the reasons for resignation are noted on the back: promotion, resignation, transfer, death, conviction, etc.

At a rough glance, it is clear at a glance the movements and bribery prices of local and surrounding official circles from the first year of Tianqi to the seventh year of Tianqi.

On the above, the information of Wu Mingjin, Wu Ya and other main figures in Lingao official circles are also available.There is also a feeding standard of three festivals and one life.

Lin Baiguang was not as excited as Sun Xiao, he had seen something similar before.

"No, because this is just the bottom book of the unspoken rules of officialdom." Lin Baiguang said, "Gifts such as three festivals, one life, and two respects of ice and charcoal were considered legitimate income for officials in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The emperor and I knew the following Those who are officials have this—the one who can’t make waves. You need the real book of big bribes.”

"I thought it was a ticking time bomb..."

"It's nothing in this time and space, it's useless." Lin Baiguang thought, but this thing is still very useful, at least it's a data sheet that can be used in officialdom.It is of great significance for intelligence personnel to enter the officialdom of Ming Dynasty in the future.

"Is there a real record of bribery?" Lin Baiguang was more concerned about this.

"It seems to be there, but it's useless. They all use codes." Sun Xiao turned out another booklet.

This is the real account of bribery, how many years, months, and days, how much money and property were given to a certain person for a certain thing, what to do, and what the result is, clearly written.But the names of so-and-so above are all codes used when writing letters.Can't see who it is.

Lin Baiguang noticed that the last time he bribed was in April of the seventh year of Tianqi, when Gou Er bribed someone and asked him to speak to Wu Mingjin, not to let his son Gou Chengxuan cheat in the routine county school exam.Thus preserving the reputation of a scholar.

"It's a pity." Lin Baiguang studied it a bit, "But judging from the tasks entrusted, these people should be officials—at least they are people who are very close to officials."

"It's a pity that we don't know who it is, otherwise they will have to listen to us obediently if they have this set of information."

"Hehe, things are not that simple." Lin Baiguang has been in the officialdom for many years, and he knows that this thing can be said to be useful or useless, depending on the current situation at the time, "But we can use it. The key is to know who is who."

(End of this chapter)