There were quite a few Jiang Hu people who followed along to watch the excitement. At this time, everyone saw that people from all sects were about to leave, and naturally they would not stay any longer, so they bid farewell to Ling Tianmen together.

Li Baolu, the current head of Ling Tian Sect, had to get up and send people out of the bamboo forest, and then turned back after sending them far away.

It's just that the representatives of the various sects are still staying at Lingtianmen, and they are waiting for the competition between Anji and Bai Yitang tomorrow.

But before that, there is still a big thing to do, Bai Yitang has to take all the guards to the warehouse of their house to clean out the books and other things accumulated inside.

This time Gu Jingyun followed, and brought Zhao Ning out with him. The group turned around half of the mountain and shuttled through the dense forest, but the strange thing was that even though weeds were overgrown, the mule cart they brought could always pass through the white forest. A road led by one family.

In this way, a group of people walked and cut grass to a mountain wall.

That's right, it's the mountain wall. The head guard twitched the corner of his mouth and turned to look at Bai Yitang, saying: "There is no way before."

Bai Yitang looked at the mountain wall intertwined with vines and tried hard to recall the location of the mechanism that his master brought him to open back then.

Although he was the one who gave the order for disaster relief every time, the people from the secret door who came to withdraw money and goods came by themselves, so he hadn't been to this place for many years.

In addition, this plant grows too fast, if the road is still there, he almost thinks that he has gone to the wrong place, really, why are these vines growing so lush?

Bai Yitang groped on the stone wall for a long time, finally found those small bumps behind the vines, quickly touched the six irregularly distributed bumps in a certain order, and after a while, the stone wall "rumbled" as if unresponsive. "'s open.

The guards opened their mouths.

Gu Jingyun withdrew his gaze. Even with his eyes, he couldn't see Bai Yitang's movements clearly. It seemed that he didn't have to worry about the way of opening the door being learned.

But if the agency doesn't limit the conditions, it is possible to unlock the password by trying one by one. After all, there are only six points in total, but the order is different, so there are not many possibilities.

Bai Yitang seemed to know what he was thinking, turned his head and smiled at him: "This is not a random click, it's okay to press the wrong one the first time, but if you still press the wrong one the second time, then the preset mechanism here is not a decoration. .And press the wrong button for the third time within three months, there is a stone door behind the stone wall, and that stone door will be completely closed, unless you know the second unlocking code, you will not be able to open it.”

"The patriarch of Lingtianmen really took great pains."

Bai Yitang said sadly: "This is not set up by the patriarch, but by his subordinates."

King Ni didn't value extraneous things like money, the money just flowed to the victims through his hands.

But his group of subordinates are different, they belong to the master after passing through the hands of the master, and the master uses the heart of the master for those poor people, but does not allow others to covet them, so the security measures are well done.

A group of people waited outside for an hour, and waited until the smell had almost dissipated before entering with torches.

The entire mountain seemed to be hollowed out, and the torches in their hands could not reach the side. It was not until everyone walked through the entire cave and put on torches that they realized how big the cave was.

The chief guard stared wide-eyed at the traces on the ground, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and asked, "Hero Bai, was this place full of boxes before?"

This cave is bigger than a national treasury. If it is full of gold and silver, how much will it cost?

Unexpectedly, Bai Yitang nodded, "That's right, I stole the gold and silver here, and it was also accumulated by our ancestors."

The head guard asked dully, "What about the money?"

The cave is very clean now, and it looks empty at first glance.

Bai Yitang pointed to the dozens of boxes in the corner of the wall and said, "No, they are all there."

The guards took a hard look, only to find the boxes in the shadowy corner in the distance.

The guards ran up to open it, only to find that it was full of account books, account books of dozens of boxes!

Bai Yitang took out an account book from the outermost box, flipped through it, pointed at the account on it, and raised the corner of his mouth, "No, this is the account book for the Henan government when the Yellow River burst its embankment five years ago. Every county, The number of people rescued by the township and village, the money and food, cotton and linen, medicinal materials, etc. are all recorded one by one. I think the local county annals should be able to find the records even if there is no detailed account, and it is not difficult to verify."

"And it was only five years ago, and the people who were affected by the disaster are still there, so it's easy to approve." Bai Yitang threw the ledger into the hands of the chief guard, picked up another one, flipped through it and threw it into his arms, "These are all The relief in the villages along the Yellow River is much the same. I was still in Qiongzhou when the Yellow River broke its embankment. When I received the news, I thought that it would be impossible to count on the emperor to rescue the disaster. Central Plains, it is better to dispose of all the money left in the door, so I ordered someone to transport the money. Looking at it today, my original decision was really correct. Otherwise, the Yellow River would not be the only ones fleeing here and there. It’s a disaster. If there is no uprising and a civil uprising or something, I’m afraid it won’t stop.”

The chief guard's expression was ugly, and the faces of the guards were even more complicated, because they knew that Bai Yitang was right.

A large sum of money was allocated to repair the embankment where the Yellow River broke its embankment in the past two years, but the embankment was only repaired, and it collapsed as soon as the summer flood season came.

At that time, the fourth prince was in charge of the project. After the collapse of the embankment, the local officials did not report it to the court, but first notified the fourth prince, and the fourth prince came forward to suppress the memorial.

If it weren't for some officials risking their lives to go to Beijing to have an audience, I'm afraid the court would have to wait until after the civil uprising to learn the news.

The emperor doted on the fourth prince, and after the incident, he wanted to let the fourth prince pay for his crimes and allocated a large amount of relief money to let him take charge of the disaster relief. However, after the disaster relief food was sent to the disaster area, it all turned into mildewed food, and the amount was still small. Nearly half of the money was spent, and there were not a few pieces of silver left.

At that time, the situation was on the verge of breaking out, and the victims of the disaster had already gathered. The emperor had no choice but to let the treasury collect another sum of money for the prince to take to relieve the disaster.

But everyone knew at the time that if the prince went, he would be afraid of dying. The victims were so angry that they wished to tear up the officials and royal family sent by the court, not to mention that the relief money brought by the prince was so little...

But I don’t know whether it was the prince’s luck or there were so many kind-hearted people in the world. Rich businessmen, officials and people from all over Dachu began to donate money and goods to the victims, and some bodyguards transported them to the disaster area.

Because of food and resettlement, the emotions of the victims gradually stabilized. After the prince arrived, he personally went to the victims and completely suppressed the unformed civil uprising.

Because of this, the prince re-entered the court, and even pushed the grandson to the front, and began to build momentum for the grandson. Two years later, the grandson was able to go to Beijing to handle the case under the emperor's order to thoroughly investigate the corruption case in the south of the Yangtze River.

Unexpectedly, those people were arranged by Bai Yitang.

The head of the guard shuddered and looked at him with fear and horror. Bai Yitang was far away in Qiongzhou and could order so many people to serve him. That dark force...

Thinking of His Majesty's instructions before coming, the chief guard suppressed his doubts again. His Majesty said that Jianghu people like Bai Yitang should be smoothed over and not forced. Don't be a villain in vain.

The chief guard looked through the ledger and found that the most recent ledger was the relief for the earthquake in Qi County two years ago. At that time, the relief cost 17,453 taels, which was clearly recorded.

Then there is a summary at the bottom, all the money that Ling Tianmen entrusted to them has been exhausted.

The chief guard touched the part of the summary, sighed, waved his hand and said: "Put the account book into the carriage."

Whether these account books are true or not, and whether there are any balances, you will know when you go back and check.

Because Lingtianmen’s account books not only have expenditures, but also income. Coincidentally, the chief guard looked through it and found that the latest income was earned by Bai Yitang eighteen years ago, and several people who were stolen are still healthy. Kang, live with gusto.

The chief guard glanced at the stolen amount, smashed it, smashed his mouth, it seems that he is really greedy, otherwise he lost so much money, why didn't they report it?

It seems that the account book is pulled back and upwards, which is another turmoil.

These account books are considered confidential now, but Gu Jingyun didn't realize it at all. He sat cross-legged on the mule cart and picked one up to read. It's okay to read it by himself, and he showed it to his stupid apprentice, and taught him while reading it. .

For example, the official who was stolen is now in any position or has retired from his old age. He was in any position when he was stolen. According to his position at that time, he should have a yearly salary. ...

The chief guard wanted to stop him at first, but he was dumbfounded later on. It turns out that there are so many ways of corruption in this world. He has been a guard for more than ten years in vain. He only accepts some gifts and helps to collect some respect.

Even if the chief guard was like this, Zhao Ning and the guards were even more stunned. They almost rolled downhill as they walked. Bai Yitang also listened with relish, and turned to Li Baolu: "Qinghe has the potential to be a corrupt official. In the future, you Don't bother stealing from others, just aim at him and steal."

Gu Jingyun was not deaf, and when he heard the words, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly, he turned his head and said softly to Baolu, "I will entrust you with all our family's money, and you can steal whatever you want."

"Okay, okay," Li Baolu's eyes sparkled, "Don't worry, we won't be hungry."

"I believe this!"

Bai Yitang rolled his big eyes at the two of them, and turned away.

When the group returned to Lingtian Gate, it was already dark, and the chief guard was rather unwilling. He followed Bai Yitang all the way to Yazhou across thousands of mountains and rivers just to get these account books?

Is there no other secret for him to take back?

Good heart plug!

Seeing this, Gu Jingyun said to him, "I have something to ask you."

The chief guard immediately corrected his attitude, "Lord Gu, just give orders, as long as I can do it..."

"Of course my lord can do it," Gu Jingyun said with a slight smile, "I want my lord to help me transport some books back."

The chief guard was stunned, why is it transporting books again?

"what book?"

"It's very interesting for me to flip through some books in Lingtianmen. I have asked my wife to take some back to Beijing, but you know, we only have two carriages, and we have already brought enough things. It is impossible to load more books, so ..."

The chief guard nodded disappointedly, "No problem, it's just transporting the books..."

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