The British government has been completely controlled. This time Liu Ziguang mobilized 2,000 troops and invited Xu Zengshou and Qi Zhenming to testify. The emperor had asked for permission in advance and would not give up until the source of the counterfeit banknotes was completely discovered.
, Liu Ziguang’s confidence in boldly searching the British Government House lies in the accurate information provided by Liu Mao Mao. The place where the counterfeit banknotes were printed was in the back garden of the British Government House.
In the back garden of the Duke's Mansion, beside a well with a white marble fence, torches were brightly lit. Liu Ziguang led the crowd and stood beside the well and said: "The secret is under the well."
This is a deep well, six feet in diameter. The walls of the well are made of green bricks. They are covered with moss, are smooth and moist, and difficult to climb. At the bottom of the well is a pool of autumn water reflecting the moonlight. The cold well water is also soaked with the Duke's Mansion.
The kitchen needs to keep fresh food refrigerated, and there are old and new pulleys and wooden barrels along the well, which look like they are frequently used.
This well is the water source for watering the gardens of the Duke's Mansion. It is also responsible for refrigerating food in the kitchen. It was there as early as the time when the Mansion was built. There is no so-called mystery at all. Seeing that everyone was confused, Liu Ziguang asked his men to
I took a lamp and put it in the bucket, and lowered it slowly with a well rope. When I got close to the water, the light was obviously drifting in one direction, as if it was being sucked in.
"There is a mechanism there." Liu Ziguang said, waving to the captain of the Flying Tigers, patting him on the shoulder and saying, "Go dig out these rats."
The captain followed the order and led several team members carrying short fire guns down the well while dragging the well ropes. When they got to the bottom of the well, they found an inconspicuous hole on the wall of the well and stepped in one by one. This hole was due to the
The relationship between angles cannot be seen at all from above.
After a while, there were several muffled sounds from underground, as if firecrackers were firing, and then someone below shouted: "Cracked!"
More Flying Tigers went down to the bottom of the well, and soon they lifted out several captives who were tied like rice dumplings and hung them to the ground with ropes. When everyone saw that these prisoners had ashen faces, depressed eyes, and chins.
They were beaten and dislocated. The most shocking thing was that their bare heads were all covered with braids. This was the standard hairstyle of the Manchus. Qi Zhenming and Xu Zengshou couldn't help but look at each other. They never expected that the British father-in-law would actually hook up with the Manchus.
, I remember that when Nanchang was investigating Zhang Jun, the two of them came out to protect each other, and even cost the lives of many Jin Yiwei. Now that things have happened, they can't help but be connected.
Liu Ziguang sneered and said: "Sir, let's go in and take a look at the unique wonders of this British mansion."
Qi Zhenming and Xu Zengshou were called to be witnesses. They had no choice but to pull the well rope and follow Liu Ziguang down to the bottom of the well. As for the eunuch in the palace, there was no need to come down to watch. He could just sit on top and wait.
It was very wide. Qi Xu and Qi Xu were both martial arts practitioners. They moved quickly and quickly went down to the bottom of the well. There was a small hole near the water. It was only for one person to enter and exit. Liu Ziguang climbed in first, and then Qi and Xu also followed.
I followed in. Although the entrance was small, the space inside was much larger. People could walk with their waists hunched over. There were two corpses lying on the ground, which had been sprayed by firecrackers into a hornet's nest. They also held short knives in their hands. The corridor was built with stone strips.
There was water coming out of the gaps, and there was a small raised platform on the wall, with a candle lit on it. The flickering candlelight and the sound of water dripping made the atmosphere here extremely weird.
Ten steps forward, there is an upward wooden ladder. After climbing up, it suddenly becomes clear that it is a spacious room, three feet deep and two feet wide. There is a printing press in the middle and ink bottles beside it.
, metal plates, blank papers and various instruments, as well as a large pile of printed banknotes that have not yet been cut, neatly stacked there, and a body with a blasted chest lying on its back on the ground, with blood already
The banknotes were soaked red, and the smell of blood filled the already poorly ventilated room, causing several adults to cover their noses.
"Two adults, please see, these are counterfeit Rishengchang 10-tael banknotes with a face value of hundreds of thousands taels. It was these counterfeit banknotes that caused this run. As soon as their machine was turned on,
Jinshan Yinhai is here. Although the counterfeit bills are Rishengchang's, the exchange is the hard-earned money of the common people. If shopkeeper Hu Da didn't understand the righteousness and was willing to bear huge losses to exchange all the counterfeit bills, this time
The turmoil will not be that simple, the whole country will fall into chaos." Liu Ziguang said.
Qi Zhenming and Xu Zengshou had nothing to say. The living reality gave them no reason to defend Britain, so they could only nod silently.
The underground printing house in the back garden of the British government was designed extremely cleverly. The entrance and exit were located at the bottom of the well, and the secret room was located under a bamboo forest. There were vents at the four corners, and four thick hollow moso bamboo tubes reached the ground for ventilation. This secret room was located above.
It had been built secretly by several generations of British public servants, but had never been put into use. It was not officially put into use until Zhang Jun's generation. I didn't expect that it was actually used for such a thing.
Since this well is often soaked with refrigerated food, Liu Maomao likes to hang out in the backyards of various princes and nobles. Her keen sense of smell guides her to go down to the bottom of the well to steal food, and the secret entrance at the bottom of the well triggers the cat's desire
Naturally curious, the people in the secret room thought they were hiding in the Duke's Mansion and under a well with unpredictable ghosts and ghosts, so they did not set up guards. So Liu Maomao started her big adventure and quietly sneaked into the secret room.
The printing workers were so sleepy after working for several hours, and the lights were dim, that they didn't notice her, and she stole a full-page printed banknote. Liu Maotai's advantage was that he was not greedy.
, I grabbed something delicious and fun and left without being discovered by others. After returning home, I took the uncut banknotes and presented them to Liu Ziguang, which triggered this sudden large-scale search.
The printing workers were all hard-nosed. After being broken through by the Flying Tigers, they resisted desperately and killed three of them on the spot. The remaining three tried to bite their tongues and commit suicide after being captured alive. Fortunately, the Flying Tigers had their jaws removed.
Otherwise, not even a single person would be captured alive in this operation.
If it is an ordinary case of counterfeit banknotes, it is not a shocking case. Using a large amount of lead and a small amount of silver to make counterfeit silver ingots or using a large proportion of lead to make counterfeit copper coins are common cases, and the scale is generally not very large.
A few tens of thousands taels is a big case. This kind of case is a regular private case and is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Punishment. To be honest, if the British company got a printing press to forge banknotes, it would not be a big deal. After all, they have a gold medal to avoid death.
However, once the Manchus were involved, the nature of the matter changed and turned into a crime of treason involving foreign affairs. Not only was the Ministry of Punishment unable to intervene, but the Jin Yiwei were not qualified to handle it. Now this case has been
It was returned to the Nanji Office, the highest investigative agency of the Ming Dynasty, for processing.
All the servants of the Duke's Mansion were gathered together for examination, and all the guests left their names and addresses, and were released after screening. Liu Ziguang saved face for Xu Zengshou at least, and did not detain the people. He just put Zhang Jun under house arrest.
Mr. Xu's mother-in-law did not take any coercive measures.
It was said that there was a suspicious opera troupe in Zhang Jun's mansion. The Nanchang interrogated all the servants overnight and searched all the rooms in an attempt to find these people. However, these legendary people seemed to have evaporated and disappeared, leaving only one person in the backyard.
A box of opera gear was found in a house, so they let the hounds sniff it and chase it. The hounds barked and chased them out of the gate. The bandits quickly mounted their horses and gave chase, only to find an abandoned carriage some distance away.
Madam Fuyang Hou was driving away from the car. Madam was stabbed in the chest and her blood flowed all over the ground. There were also the corpses of several servants lying around.
The members of the troupe unknowingly kidnapped Mrs. Fuyang Hou, disguised themselves as her servants and evaded the censorship of the Nanchang, and successfully sneaked out of the Duke's Mansion, then killed the witnesses and disappeared into the endless dark night of the capital.
No matter how the vast sea of people searched, the gangsters drove back bitterly and left the matter of cleaning up the mess to the Wucheng Military and Horse Division.
According to the memories of the soldiers at the door, Mrs. Fuyang Hou and her party were eight people in total, five men and three women, four servants, a coachman and two maids, plus the lady herself. When she went out, there was a beautiful and dazzling little maid in the carriage who answered the questions for the lady.
, her words were well-spoken and her voice was as mellow as an oriole, which left a very deep impression on the soldiers. However, this maid was not found in the corpse found at the scene. Combined with the troupe Xiaodan mentioned in the intelligence, we can identify this maid.
Huan is the culprit who kidnapped and killed the Marquise.
When things got to this point, the young British father-in-law could no longer hold on and honestly explained the whole story. It turned out that three months ago, by chance, he met a girl named Su Xiaoxiao.
This eccentric girl fascinated Zhang Jun and obeyed her advice. Although Zhang Jun was known as a non-mainstream member of the upper class society in the capital, she only relied on her own power and had no real talents. The little girl Su was sometimes mysterious.
Unpredictable, sometimes innocent and charming, unlike ordinary girls who are greedy for vanity, let alone Zhang Jun's title of Duke of the country. The more grapes he can't eat, the sweeter they feel. Zhang Jun pursues them crazily.
Su Xiaoxiaolai spent a lot of money but didn't even touch anyone's hands.
Su Xiaoxiao's identity is Xiaodan in the theater troupe. She told Zhang Jun that the theater troupe is just a cover-up. The real identities of these people are Jiangyang thieves. As expected, the members of the theater troupe including Su Xiaoxiao are very agile and have very good martial arts.
Gao Qiang, which made Zhang Jun even more fascinated by Su Xiaoxiao, a young and beautiful Jiangyang thief, it would be so exciting to tell the truth.
Su Xiaoxiao took the initiative to help Zhang Jun make a fortune. Although you are the Duke of the country, you don't have to worry about money at all, but who thinks it's too much money? What's more, it's a suggestion made by a beauty. There's no reason not to agree, so the troupe
In this way, they entered the back garden of the British government and placed the machine in the secret room at the bottom of the well. The troupe printed out fake banknotes, and the British government was responsible for underwriting the sales. The profits were split 50-50, and they watched the stacks of banknotes coming out of the well.
It was brought out from the bottom and exchanged for white cash. Zhang Jun felt happy. In fact, what made him even more happy was Su Xiaoxiao's flowery smile. The little girl said that as long as all the printed banknotes were cashed out,