The shopkeeper laughed, "I'm afraid, but for 50 million taels of silver, it's worth it no matter what. If you really can't think of fighting, Ziqi Tower is always with you."
"However, at this moment, do you dare to offend our Ziqi Tower?"
"Once the news reaches Beijing, the three of you and the officials will be in ruins."
Mu Hao had no words to retort, "I will inform the leader, but please help arrest him first and catch him within two days."
The shopkeeper shook his head, "This man is very alert. I heard he ran away when he saw you. And his Qinggong is really unique. It is absolutely impossible to catch him within two days."
Mu Hao gritted his teeth, "All three of our families will be dispatched. I don't believe he is in the sky and won't come down."
The shopkeeper was funny, "He hid in the mountains, why are you still burning the mountains?"
"Even if the mountain is burned, we must force him out."
"Okay, you go ahead and burn it. We won't accompany you crazy. I only promise to help you suppress the news until you send me the banknote."
"Okay, farewell."
"Go slowly and don't see me off."
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Mu Hao frightened everyone when he brought the news back, and then blushed with anger.
Fifty million taels of silver, how could this be given!
If they don't give it, they will have to fight the court desperately. Can they really do it?
Everyone had no choice but to send the news back to the headquarters and give the leader a headache.
Chen Henian from Feihe Escort went to his friend Bao Shun and informed him of the price of Ziqi Tower.
Bao Shun, the spy leader, almost vomited blood after finding information about the Purple Air Tower, but he did not dare to let the three Qingyun Sect families go to the Purple Air Tower to start a war.
Because of the incomplete information, although the information about the Purple Air Towers in each city is known, it is only what the Purple Air Towers put on the surface for others to see.
Secretly, we don't know how many killers there are in Ziqi Tower, where their lair is, where the vault is, or where the personnel are trained.
Yes, if there is a real fight, we will definitely be able to follow the clues and uncover more information.
But as soon as the fight started, Ziqi Tower took the matter to the capital without waiting for the information to be obtained.
It was just 50 million taels of silver. This was too much money, and even he didn't dare to force the three families to come up with this money.
In front of fifty million taels of silver, his head and the lives of his whole family were no longer a problem.
The emperor can do it, and so can these guys.
Now, all he can do is leave to prevent the other party from jumping over the wall.
If these charlatans kill him and the officials without proof, then the court may not touch these charlatans for the time being.
After all, they are both big gangs with a large number of people, and there are too many involved. If another Tsing Yi Sect is forced to appear, it will be a great pleasure for the court.
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Bao Shun ran away under the pretext of contacting manpower, and it was already half a day after the three sects and gangs, Qingyun Sect, Feixiang Gang, and Green Sand Society, received the quotation from Ziqi Tower.
Everyone was angry and anxious, and they were really going around in circles.
While dispatching people to capture Goatee, they also arranged a meeting place for an interview.
By the time we met, it was already late at night.
The focus of the tripartite talks is money, but no one wants to take too much.
When I was thinking about it, I forgot about the government. Those officials have money. As long as they are willing to take it, fifty million taels is not a big amount.
After thinking about it, the three parties also figured out the purpose of the Purple Air Tower. The Purple Air Tower was not only trapping them, but also officials from the southeast area.
After the three parties figured it out, they contacted the people in Tongcheng and asked them to notify the city guard of the price of the Purple Air Tower.
This is not only a matter for the three parties, but also a matter for officials.
The city guard received the news in the middle of the night and was hit with fifty million taels of silver. He felt no sleepiness at all.
The city guard yelled and cursed, but he had no choice but to contact others.
At the same time, he contacted other gangs related to him and notified them to collect money.
When the various gangs received the notice, they were naturally unwilling.
The city guard didn't care and let the three families of Qingyun Sect suppress and negotiate.
Relevant officials received the news, one by one, and one by one suppressed the group.
By the morning of the next day, most of the official circles and most of the world in the southeast were in motion.
The relevant officials still knew the real news, but the Jianghu side did not dare to release the news, and treated it as just collecting money from members.
The Jianghu gangs are not convinced, but their strength and power are not good enough. They want to fight but feel that it is not worth it. They can only agree to the job, but they have to negotiate the price.
Officials from various places communicated with each other and agreed on their respective prices.
Then each of them discovered that the forces at their disposal combined, the individual money was far more than what each place had to pay.
So he pretended to negotiate concessions, quickly collected the cash, and handed over what was due to Ziqi Towers in various places.
The rest was naturally stuffed into his own pocket, which can be said to be a huge waste of money.
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In the evening, Ziqi Tower collected all the money and sent a message to the city.
The shopkeeper of Tongcheng quickly informed the three parties and the city guard that Ziqi Tower has now received the money and will abide by the agreement and will not disclose the information. At the same time, he will suppress the Jianghu people related to Ziqi Tower from spreading the news to the capital.
But there is no guarantee that someone will insist on his own way, but I guarantee that it will not happen within ten days.
Because there are no homing pigeons, if you want to deliver the message, you can only travel far away.
The three parties felt a little relieved after hearing this, and now they are waiting for the news to see when they can catch the goatee.
It's just that thousands of people have been searching in the mountains for almost a day and a night, but they still can't find it, and the hope of finding it is getting slimmer.
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Naturally, Yamazaki would not sit still and wait for death. After getting into the deep mountains and old forests, he headed north.
When he met a village a few miles north of the Yangtze River, he tore off his beard, tied his hair into an ordinary bun, and pretended to be an ordinary person.
Then he tore the cloth on the bushes, pretending to be careless and ruining the clothes.
Then he went to buy clothes from the villagers, and he changed his appearance from a charlatan with a goatee to a boy from a farmer's family.
When three families from Xuancheng City in the north of the Yangtze River, Qingyun Sect, Feixiang Gang, and Green Sand Society came out of the city to look for him, he entered the ferry outside the city majestically and boarded the Feixiang Gang's big ferry. , heading east.
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the other side.
Shandai also rode a fast horse eastward, bought a carriage carriage from a carriage shop in a big town, and converted eight horses into four carriages.
I had nothing to pack, so I bought a lot of silk to pack them. Those things would retain their value and could be sold no matter where they were.
Then go east, and as agreed in advance, if something happens, we will meet in Hancheng, one of the central cities in the southeast.
Precisely because she had made arrangements in advance, Shandai was not worried about her brother Yamazaki at all.
Although his martial arts skills are not good enough, in terms of his mind, Yamazaki can defeat those three gangs by himself.
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Qingyun Sect, Feixiang Gang, and Green Sand Society searched for two nights and one day, but could not find any trace of Goatee.
No one can bear it anymore and has no choice but to stop.
The unusual movements of the three families and the blackmail by officials also aroused the curiosity of interested people.
But the news has been blocked and has not been released yet.
However, the senior executives and officials of the three companies were in a difficult situation and could only passively wait for the court's wrath with fear and uneasiness.
Normally, Beijing would have received news on the third day, but this time no news came to Beijing.
Precisely because there is no news, we can only wait passively while having a headache trying to figure out how to deal with the above investigation.
They don't dare to fight, but they don't want to escape.