"Alas!" Liu Dao sighed heavily, making Hosokawa Mochiyuki's heart beat a few times.
He hurriedly asked: "Sir, have things changed?"
Liu Dao neither said yes nor no. He just looked up at him and said, "This is really troublesome for you. It wasn't until I went to inquire about it that I found out that the Governor's Mansion kept food in several granaries.
.And they don’t even know how much grain is stored in other grain depots.”
Hosokawa Mochiyuki's eyes lit up when he heard this. He had never thought about asking how much food the Governor's Mansion had, but he had always found nothing. Now when he heard Yanado's words, he suddenly understood. It turns out that the Governor's Mansion works in this way.
Concealing the amount of grain, it is no wonder that he could not find out the total amount of grain.
By storing grains in such a dispersed manner, as long as you don't check out the grain storage in all the grain depots, you won't know how much grain there is in the Governor's Mansion. But how easy is it to check out the grain stocks in all the grain depots? The more times you do one thing, the more times you do it.
, then the risk of the purpose being exposed will be greater, and it will be easier for the Governor's Office to detect it.
"Since Mr. Liu has already found out the news, this level obviously failed to stump you. I wonder if you can tell me what kind of clever trick you used to find out the news?" Hosokawa Mochichi said.
Zhi looked at Liu Dao with a smile and asked curiously.
Liu Dao laughed and said: "You are also lucky. The captains guarding these grain depots all have a close relationship with me. I made several excuses to invite them one by one. Then I got what you want.
I have found out the information, it is really difficult for you to handle this matter."
Hosokawa Mochiyuki immediately understood that only people like Ryuudao could find out the information about the amount of all grain stocks. Such information would not be told to you unless you are a very close person, let alone
All the information was found out.
Holding his fist towards Liu Dao, Hosokawa Mochiyuki said solemnly: "Please tell me, Master Liu. Don't worry, sir. As long as you are willing to tell the truth, I will definitely not disappoint you as I have promised."
After Liu Dao heard this, he didn't say anything and just looked at him with a smile on his face.
Hosokawa Noriyuki suddenly burst into laughter, turned around and took out a wooden box that was exactly the same as last time, pushed it in front of Liu Dao, and said, "My lord, please take a look."
Liu Dao felt eager, so he opened the box and took a look. Yellow gold cakes were placed inside the box, and they were still the same number as last time, one hundred taels.
This old boy is really willing to spend money. Liu Dao glanced at the other party and immediately laughed and said: "It's easy to say, easy to say. In fact, you don't have to take it out so eagerly. I can't trust others. It's difficult."
Don’t you still believe me?”
Noriyuki Hosokawa kept a smile on his face, but he said with disdain in his heart: "If you believed me, why would you keep it in your mouth and not tell me? You had to tell me the news only if I took out the gold.
What do you mean? And even now, you still can’t bear to leave gold.”
However, Hosokawa Mochiyuki was eager to know how much food there was in the Governor's Mansion, so he didn't bother to argue with Liu Dao. He smiled and cupped his hands and said, "Please don't hesitate to tell me."
Now that the money has been obtained, Liu Dao no longer hid it, nodded and said: "You'd better prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone."
"Why is this?" Hosokawa Mochizuki was confused.
"I'm afraid you won't be able to remember it for a while, but I will only say it once. And even if someone says this is what I said in the future, I will not admit it." Liu Dao said with a stern face.
Hosokawa Mochiyuki lowered his eyes, thought for a moment, nodded and said, "Sir, please wait for a moment and come back as soon as you go down."
"Go." Liu Dao nodded in agreement.
Hosokawa Noriyuki immediately went out and ordered someone to prepare pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Soon, he came to Liu Dao with pen, ink, paper and inkstone and put it down.
Said: "Sir, can you speak now?"
Liu Dao nodded, no longer hesitated, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear clearly: "There are six grain depots in the Governor's Mansion, A, B, C, Ding, Wu Ji. Among them, the grain depot in the A-type warehouse contains about 200,000 shi.
"
Hosokawa Mokiyuki was listening to Yanagata's words attentively, but after listening to it, he suddenly paused and asked doubtfully: "Why is it an approximate number? Didn't your Excellency get an accurate number?"
Liu Dao was stunned when he heard this, because these numbers were told to him by the captain guarding the grain depot, and he didn't think about it carefully. Now when Hosokawa Mokiyuki asked him, he didn't know how to answer.
A breath was held in his throat, but he couldn't speak. Within a few breaths, Liu Dao's face turned red from holding it in.
In the end, I could only say dryly, "That's what they said when they told me. Do you still want to know? If it's still too late to regret it, you can take this thing back."
Saying that, Yanado was about to push the wooden box to Hosokawa Mochiyuki.
Hosokawa Mochiyuki immediately stretched out his hand to block it, and said with a smile: "Since it is an agreed upon matter,
, how could I go back on my word? Your Majesty, just tell me the news. As long as the information you tell me is not false, it belongs to you."
After hearing this, Liu Dao reluctantly took back the wooden box. Then he continued: "The grain warehouse of size B has about 180,000 dan, and the size of C is D."
After finishing speaking in one breath, Yanado sat quietly on the chair, waiting for Hosokawa Mokiyuki to stare at the number on the paper.
After a while, Hosokawa Mokiyuki let out a long sigh and raised his eyes to look at Yanagata.
Seeing this, Liu Dao immediately said: "I can swear by my ancestors that everything I said is true. Now, can I leave?"
Liu Dao hugged the wooden box tightly with his left hand. Now that he had told the other party all the news, he was a little worried that the other party would regret it and deliberately said that his news was false and would not let him take away the gold.
Hosokawa Mokiyuki saw all of Yanato's actions. The more nervous Yanato became, the more he became certain that the news that Yanato gave him was true.
Suddenly he burst out laughing, breaking Liu Dao's nervous expression, and said openly: "Your Excellency, you can leave at any time. If you don't mind, I can send someone to take you back."
"No, no need." Liu Dao immediately refused. If he asked the other party to send him back, wouldn't there be a risk of revealing the relationship between him and the other party? And the other party must also know this, but he has to say this without knowing it.
What kind of peace of mind is it?
"I'll just go back by myself. I'll say goodbye now."
"Your Majesty, please." Hosokawa Mokiyuki had no intention of keeping Yanado any longer. He didn't even have time to say polite words to send him off, and just let Yanado leave on his own.
And Hosokawa Mokiyuki had more urgent things to do, which was to tell the master the news immediately.
Hosokawa Mokiyuki quickly picked up the paper recording the grain depot and the amount of grain, and left directly in the opposite direction to Liu Dao. Before Liu Dao could even walk out of the back door, he had already boarded the carriage and headed towards
Go to the station.
When he saw Reiko Komatsu, she was meditating with her eyes closed. Hosokawa Mokiyuki didn't dare to disturb her, so he had to hold his breath and stand aside.
After a while, Komatsu Reiko slowly opened her eyes, looked at Hosokawa Noriyuki, and asked, "Do you know how much food there is in the Governor's Mansion?"
"Yes, please take a look, Master." Noriyuki Hosokawa nodded quickly and handed the paper over.
While handing it over, he explained: "It turns out that the Governor's Mansion stores grain in six granaries.
Each grain depot is separated from each other, and no one knows how many other grain depots there are and how much grain is stored in each grain depot. It’s no wonder that before, my subordinates never got the slightest bit of news."
Komatsu Reiko's beautiful eyes were bright, and she looked at the contents written down on the paper. Then she raised her head and asked: "Since these six grain depots don't know each other's news about other grain depots, how can Liu Dao He De be able to find out?"
Do you know the news about all the grain depots and the amount of grain stored in each grain depot?"
Hosokawa Noriyuki immediately laughed reservedly and said: "It's Master's luck to say that this Ryudao is actually a life-and-death friend of the six captains. He also took advantage of their trust to get this information."
"Oh? That's it." Komatsu Reiko showed a satisfied smile, and her icy-muscular fingers slid over the paper, and she quickly calculated the amount of food stored in the Governor's Mansion.
"Is there a total of 930,000 stones?" Komatsu Reiko said to herself, and then she pondered without saying anything.
Hosokawa Noriyuki always had a question in his heart. When he saw his master thinking about something, he tentatively said: "Master~"
"Huh?" Komatsu Lingzi came back to his senses. Not only was he not angry, he also said happily: "You have made a great contribution this time. If you want to ask anything, just ask."
"Thank you, Master." After hearing the meritorious service, Noriyuki Hosokawa immediately bowed to Reiko Komatsu.
Then he asked doubtfully: "There is one thing that I don't understand. The information provided by Liu Dao is all ambiguous. Why is the master sure that the food stored in the Governor's Mansion is 930,000 shi? To be honest, when I heard Liu Dao
When he told this information, I even doubted whether he had not found out the information at all and was using these things to fool his subordinates."
Komatsu Reiko immediately smiled when he heard this and said, "These news are true."
Hearing his master's affirmation, Hosokawa Mochiyuki was even more confused and could only look at his master blankly.
Seeing his expression, Komatsu Reiko smiled slightly and said: "The grain stored in the grain warehouse is always coming in and out. As long as it is not the person who manages the grain warehouse, it is impossible for anyone to know exactly how much grain is stored in the grain warehouse.
.If a lieutenant guarding the grain depot can give an accurate number, then I have to doubt the authenticity of this news. Now such an ambiguous number can actually prove that the news he gave you is true."
"But if the amount of grain stored is not accurate, is it still useful?" Hosokawa Noriyuki couldn't help but ask.
Xiaosong picked up the piece of paper as if it were a treasure, and said with a smile: "Of course it is useful, how could it not be useful?"