Ministry of the Treasury is the Ming Dynasty Treasury, divided into Taicang grain depot and Taicang silver depot two parts, Taicang grain depot in the capital, Tongzhou two places, generally known as the Beijing warehouse, Tong warehouse, the so-called “capital reserves, all in the Taicang”; and Taicang silver depot is located in the capital, generally known as the Taicang, Taicang silver depot.
Taicang silver warehouse is said to be located in the capital, but based on flood prevention, waterproof, anti-theft, security considerations, the location is still remote a lot.
Zhu Pingan and Gao Rui were on their way to the Taicang Silver Vault.
“Last year, when the Ministry of Works repaired the city wall, I was ordered to come to the Taicang Silver Vault to support the material silver, one incense stick of time further on is the Taicang Silver Vault, I’m familiar with this section of the road, so Ta-Jen Zhu doesn’t need to worry.”
Gao Rui, a Langzhong from the Ministry of Industry’s Department of Secretarial Affairs, slightly lowered his horse’s speed, stretched out his horsewhip and pointed to the distance, and said to Zhu Pingan.
“Then I would like to thank Senior Gao for leading the way.”Zhu Pingan rode on the killer black horse and thanked Gao Rui.
Of course even without Gao Rui leading the way, Zhu Pingan was able to find the location of the Taicang Silver Vault, after taking on the errand of auditing the Taicang Silver Vault, Zhu Pingan had already consulted the relevant canonical books and had the location of the Taicang Silver Vault in mind.
“Ta-Jen Zhu is polite.”Gao Rui smiled brightly, clamped the belly of his horse slowly and chronically, and Zhu Pingan drove alongside him, reminding Zhu Pingan, “Taicang Silver Vault is the national treasury of my Ming Dynasty, and it is heavily defended, can Zhu Pingan bring the relevant paperwork with him? If there are no relevant documents, I’m afraid that they won’t let us in even if we talk our heads off.”
“Ever since I took over the errand, I have been carrying the relevant paperwork close to my chest.”Zhu Pingan patted his chest and said.
“Hehe, it’s still reassuring to work with Lord Zhu.”Gao Rui listened and spoke highly of Zhu Pingan.
Zhu Pingan naturally made a modest remark.
“Oh yes, last time I went to Taicang Silver Vault to withdraw material silver, I also heard a rare thing. You said that this Taicang Silver Vault is heavily guarded, so it can be said that not even a fly can get in, yet there was still a theft.”Gao Rui said while steering his horse.
Hearing that there was a theft in the Taicang Silver Vault, Zhu Pingan could not help but be greatly interested, riding his horse close to Gao Rui, listening carefully with interest.
“Things happened about the year before last, which year our capital downpour, many places in our capital flooding, of course, Taicang silver warehouse site selection has long been prepared for such a situation, selected the site in the high ground, there are a variety of water conservancy measures to prevent flooding, but I did not expect that the reservoir area is still accumulated two fingers of rainwater deep. According to reason it shouldn’t be ah, so the Taicang silver depot related officials began to check all kinds of water conservancy measures, and then found that it was the drainage hole blocked.”Gao Rui slowly preached, “Since it was the drainage hole that was clogged, then it was necessary to urgently dredge it to prevent the waterlogging from eroding the silver vault. Guess what was found while dredging the drainage hole?”
“Oh, what was found?”Zhu Pingan asked curiously
“When dredging the drainage hole, two corpses were found, two people with their heads on top of each other, and two gold ingots in the middle of their heads.”Gao Rui stretched out two fingers and said.
“It’s two thieves? People die for money, birds die for food.”Zhu Pingan understood, but was still a little puzzled, how did these two thieves die in the drainage hole with their heads in the middle, could it be that the stolen goods were not shared equally?
“Your Excellency Zhu is worthy of the Scholar’s talent, he guessed it at once.”Gao Rui praised.
Zhu Pingan touched his nose and laughed bitterly, just now you are having a burglary, it’s obvious that the ones in this drainage hole are the burglars.
“That’s right, these two are the burglars, and they just died at the scene of the burglary, as for the head over head, that’s interesting. It turned out to be one of the thieves want to go to the Taicang silver warehouse to steal silver, but in the way of Taicang silver warehouse guarded tightly, he made all kinds of means, have not been able to get in, had to put the idea of hitting the drainage hole. However, this drainage hole design consider this point, the design of the narrower, but the thief was thin, but also a ruthless, froze two days of hunger, desperately from the drainage hole to squeeze in, clothes are worn out, rubbed blood all over the body, but also really let him to squeeze in.
The thief squeezed into the silver warehouse, but also good luck, after he found two gold ingots. This put the thief happy bad, he knew also can not be too greedy, just take the two gold treasure on top of the head, and from the drainage hole back to drill.
Unfortunately, his good luck had run out up to this point. Just as he climbed halfway, he found that there was also a person on the opposite side who climbed in, this was another thief, he also wanted to climb through the drainage hole into the silver storehouse to steal silver, not realising that someone else had already made the first move, so the two thieves encountered each other in the middle of this drainage hole.
Drainage hole is too narrow, positive crawl, or desperately worn body to climb in, crawl backwards, is an impossible thing. The drainage hole is narrow and it is impossible to turn around. Two people so head to head, clamped two ingots of gold, died in the drainage hole.
If it is not heavy rain drainage hole blocked, the silver bank officials let people to dredge the drainage hole, but also can not find these two thieves it, these two people still do not know how many years to be in the inside of the head to head it. You say, why bitter, have hands and feet, do what is not good, to go to be a thief ……”
Gao Rui while leading the way in front, while the voice of Zhu Pingan, both taunted and sighed at the encounter of the two thieves.
Yeah.
But money moves people’s hearts.
Zhu Pingan slightly narrowed his eyes, through the story behind, Zhu Pingan found the problem, these two thieves stole two large ingots of gold, died in the drainage ditch so long, this Taicang silver warehouse actually delayed the discovery of the theft? Two ingots of gold is not a small amount of money ah.
It seems that this Taicang silver warehouse security is only external, internal management problems ah, if the management is also as strict as that security, two gold ingots disappeared, why the delay was not found, until the heavy rain water found it.
“Lord Zhu, after crossing that ditch in front, the Taicang Silver Vault is close at hand. I know there’s a path that can cross that ditch, Ta-Jen Zhu you can follow closely, old brother I’ll go ahead and lead the way, driving driving driving ……”
Gao Rui stretched out his horse whip and pointed to a rather deep ditch in front of him and said, with that said Gao Rui then lifted the horse’s reins left and right forcefully, his right hand waved the horse whip smoothly and increased the horse’s speed to charge forward.
“Ride, ride, ride ……”
Gao Rui harnessed his horse’s voice along with the sound of hooves, almost reaching the realm of unity between horse and horse, riding faster and faster.
Throwing the whip, pulling the reins.
Suave and elegant, his breath swallowed ten thousand miles like a tiger.
If this Gao Rui had given up literature and turned to martial arts, he would have been a tiger general who rode the sands.
Zhu Pingan followed Gao Rui closely behind, but his riding skills were no match for Gao Rui’s, and his killer black horse was no match for Gao Rui’s big horse, so he was soon pulled away from Gao Rui.
“This path is a bit narrow, Lord Zhu you can be careful.”Gao Rui’s voice came from the front.
“Thank you, Lord Gao for reminding me.”Zhu Pingan thanked towards Gao Rui’s back.
Gao Rui leaped his horse and raised his whip, displaying exquisite riding skills, by the time Zhu Pingan steered his horse to the path, Gao Rui was about to dash across the ditch.
When he was about to cross the ditch, Gao Rui pulled the horse’s reins, and the steed underneath him leapt, quite like Liu Bei’s horse leaping over Tanxi in those days.
Horse like flying!
Oh!
People are flying too.
I don’t know whether it is because the horse lost its hooves, or for whatever reason, when he was about to leap onto the ditch, Zhu Pingan only heard a horse neighing, and then saw Gao Rui along with the steed underneath him fall into the ditch.
There was a loud bang.
In the next second, one person and one horse were already at the bottom of the ditch, and one of Gao Rui’s legs was still being pressed underneath the horse, and both the person and the horse were in a state of pain ……
Well.
Zhu Pingan tugged his lips breathlessly.
