King Yue held Mu Yunyao's hand on his chest: "Yao'er, I am very selfish, and I clearly know that this matter should not involve you, but I am reluctant to let you go, if we are successful, I am afraid we will You're going to die here, will you regret it?"
Mu Yunyao couldn't help raising the corners of her lips, tilted her head slightly, and looked at him with moist eyes without blinking: "If I regret it, will Fourth Master let me go?"
"Won't."
"Then I won't regret it. Besides, if you want to count our lives, it depends on whether they have the ability!"
King Yue couldn't help but chuckle, the stars twinkling in his eyes, every time he saw Mu Yunyao's winning appearance, he felt proud from the bottom of his heart: "Who was sent to rescue this time?"
"His Royal Highness King Yu."
"Second brother... With him around, our confidence will be greater."
Mu Yunyao nodded, and took out the purse embroidered with the ingot pattern from her sleeve: "Fourth Master, this was found in the cellar of the courtyard behind the Linjiang County Government Office. After you came here, what happened? what happened?"
Mu Yunyao still called King Yue the Fourth Master, but instead of calling you respectfully, it was changed to you. Neither of them said it explicitly, but they both felt that the title of Fourth Master had a special meaning to them. King Yue's eyes sank slightly, and he explained his previous experience: "I was ordered by my father to come here to check the shortage of salt tax, but when I arrived, I found that the salt tax prepared by the salt transport envoy and the yamen of various prefectures The account book is perfect, even the amount of tax and silver is completely correct, and no deficit is found at all.
Mark of. But I found that the person guarding the tax silver warehouse looked very nervous. After that, I quietly returned to the warehouse again without anyone noticing, and found that the so-called tax silver was all made of clay mixed with iron sand. It's just gilded with a layer of silver on the outside. "
"The two ingots of tax silver I found in the pond in Linjiang Garden were taken out by the fourth master from the warehouse?" "Well, every move I made in Jiangnan was watched closely, and the two ingots of silver were with me. It was too conspicuous to carry, so it was marked and placed in Linjiang Garden. Linjiang Garden was built by Zhou Huai, a salt merchant in Linjiang City, in order to contact salt merchants from all over the world and to please local officials.
The women have all been carefully trained and used alluring methods, and I don't know how many people are folded on it. "
Mu Yunyao raised her eyebrows slightly: "Fourth Master has the opportunity to hide the fake tax and silver in Linjiang Garden. Could it be that the salt merchant also invited you to Linjiang Garden and wanted to entertain you?"
King Yue was stunned for a moment, then smiled slowly: "Yao'er don't worry, whether it's body or mind, I'm loyal to you."
Mu Yunyao pursed her lips and smiled, secretly snorting in her heart: If King Yue had two hearts, she would have an extra life on her hands. "They wanted to use those means to please me, but after finding that I couldn't get in, they secretly drugged me and imprisoned me in the cellar you mentioned. During my detention, they thought I had escaped without a trace. The door, I relaxed a little bit of vigilance, and let me collect a lot of information. These salt merchants were frightened by the previous salt tax case in Yangzhou City, and they wanted to find a backer, so they hit the King of Jin. Worried that King Jin would disdain to accept them, he thought of pulling King Jin into a boat first, so in the name of filial piety, he secretly sent the salt tax, tax and silver to a city in Kyoto.
Part of it was handed over to the King of Jin for flower use. "
Mu Yunyao suddenly thought: "No wonder King Jin spends so much money." Bai Dulai so much money, naturally he doesn't feel bad. "Seeing that King Jin accepted them, the salt merchants became more courageous. They sold illicit salt in Jiangnan, secretly raising the price of salt, and wanted to earn back the lost silver. They just stared at the fat in Jiangnan. , far more than King Jin alone, we let King Ling discover Jin through the same name
After the actions of the king and the salt merchants, he secretly found a way to expose the matter. In addition, you and I reached out to Yang Lian, which made the salt merchants panic. So he came up with a method of forging salt tax account books and forging salt tax and silver. "
Mu Yunyao couldn't help but sneer: "These people are really daring." "The amount involved in the salt tax, tax and silver is too large. If the court investigates, even if the nine clans will not be implicated, the three clans will not be able to escape. Anyway, they have already taken the risk once, and this time, with King Jin behind the back, they are more confident.
They just wanted to sink the boat carrying the salt, tax, and silver on the river. After King Ling found out, he wanted to make things worse, so he wanted to make Linjiang flood. Later, when the matter was exposed, the father would be furious. It can also make King Jin be reviled by the people all over the world. "
Mu Yunyao's eyes were cold and cold: "In order to make things bigger, to target the King of Jin, and even disregarding the lives of so many people on both sides of the Linjiang River, this King Ling is really cold-blooded." "I didn't expect that eldest brother would put the cart before the horse. However, compared to controlling people's hearts, King Ling is no better than King Jin. A spy appeared by his side and told King Jin of the plan and the plan. King Jin took the plan and even I calculated it, and wanted to take advantage of King Ling's hand. After killing me, blow him up
The embankment thing is poked out. "
Mu Yunyao thought about it carefully, and was a little puzzled: "Fourth Master, according to what you said, it has been more than 20 days since the river's dykes burst, and King Ling and King Jin have never been seen making trouble, and even there are not many rumors. …”
"Because they couldn't find each other's evidence, something went wrong when they blew up the embankment, and the river was too fierce. The people of King Ling and King Jin were killed and injured a lot, which caught them both by surprise."
"It's such a big thing, isn't there any useful evidence left?"
King Yue smiled slightly: "Of course there is, but I hid it."
Mu Yunyao was stunned for a moment, and then her eyes widened: "The Fourth Master is hiding?" King Ling and King Jin broke their heads, but they didn't want King Yue to profit from it. This is really a mountain higher than a mountain. "Well, in fact, I would like to thank you. Before, you asked Liuliang to send three letters. One of them explained your guess, and let me pay attention to the Linjiang River embankment. The other two letters imitated the handwriting of King Ling and King Jin respectively. I won the trust of others. After I found out that the salt tax, tax and silver were fraudulent, I asked people to investigate the facts.
A salt merchant attached to the King of Jin, while looking for craftsmen who forged official silver. There are a lot of official silver, and a lot of clay and iron sand are needed. I started from private kilns in various places and found some clues, so I came to Yishui City overnight. "
"Could it be that the fake tax silver came from Yishui City?" "Well, because the matter is too urgent, after I came here, I didn't dare to delay at all. Using the letter you gave me, I traced out an important physical evidence and burned it. The mold used for counterfeit tax silver is what King Ling has been looking for."