Chapter 519
According to the information, Zhao Bing knew that Pu Shougen had three legitimate sons, and dozens of them were from the side room. "Δ �
The second son was Shi Si, who was in charge of the private soldiers of the Pu family and was also in charge of the official title of 10,000 Yi soldiers. After Pu Shougen became the governor of Fujian, his family affairs were basically handed over to him. This person was insidious and cunning, and he was ruthless in his work. If the Quanzhou Xueye said that Pu Shougen was the mastermind, then he was the executor. Think about it, the Quanzhou royal family was a descendant of the royal family. Before, the Pu family had to respect them even if they were dissatisfied with them. It was familiar to them and they made money together in business. However, Shi Si broke the captured royal family one by one and suffered all the torture and died, but he turned against him and refused to live in others. It was very consistent with the nature of a profiteering businessman, and Pu Shou Geng also trained him as a business successor.
The youngest son Junwen was not sure whether he was a low-key person or did not like being an official businessman, but he was like an idle person at home, and he only had a idle job in the mansion. He lived in a simple and easy way and knew very little about him. He was not in the mansion when he broke through the Pu Mansion. It is said that as soon as they arrived in Quanzhou, Pu Shougen hurriedly sent out of the city by Pu Shougen. Others thought that Pu Shougen was to prevent the city from being broken, and the family was washed away by blood to leave a son to continue the incense. As for the children born to the concubines, they were not very young, and they had no prospects. Perhaps they were suppressed by the eldest family and divided into the mansion early after they became adults. There were no outstanding talents, but they were all arrested and waiting for inquiries. In the end, they could not escape death.
Now the Pu family's legitimate descendants were not caught, and the eldest son went out to sea. The second son was obviously surrounded in the mansion but escaped without knowing it. The third son was sent out of the city and hid in a manor or villa. He could not find his trace for a while. He cut the grass without removing the roots, and the spring breeze was blown back. His family has an amazing business acumen and extremely cumbersome connections. He will rise again in just a few years and will still be enemies with the Song Dynasty. If they don't kill them, they will not be able to tell them. They will leave great troubles, and at least make a great contribution to the Yuan court's fiscal revenue...
"Master Zheng, is there any clues about how Shi Si escaped?" As soon as Zheng Huchen arrived, Zhao Bing temporarily put down the work of signing and stamping at hand, and asked in the inner room. He looked at him with a pair of panda eyes and knew that he had not slept all night.
"Your Majesty, my subordinate interrogated many servants and private soldiers in the Pu Mansion last night, and got a clue to find the secret passage where Shi Si fled, but the secret passage was damaged in the middle and could not be tracked!" Zheng Huchen replied.
"Oh, don't even Sun Shengfu know about this secret passage?" Zhao Bing asked in a little surprised.
"I don't know, and I don't know where I secretly tell you. My subordinates don't think they are lying!" Zheng Huchen said.
"Oh, no one believes this old ghost!" Zhao Bing nodded. He knew that Zheng Huchen's words "It's not like lying" were basically a conclusion, but Sun Shengfu didn't know how much hardship he would suffer.
"The subordinates suspected that only Pu thieves knew more than one secret passage. Some captured Pu Mansion private soldiers admitted that he had sent the murderers recruited from the mansion to the folk pavilion in the back garden before the inner palace was captured, but they did not see them coming out. The subordinates had checked, and there were no such people among the captured servants and the dead and injured. Then they led people to investigate. Sure enough, there was a secret passage leading to a silver building outside the mansion, but there was already a deserted building!" Zheng Huchen said.
"The cunning rabbit has three holes!" It is not uncommon for wealthy families to have secret thoughts, but the Pu family obviously lacks a sense of security. It must have been continuously built by the heads of the past dynasties one by one, so that Sun Shengfu didn't understand it. This caught up with the Sanpang family. "The secret passage that Shi Si escaped was probably also leading to the city. People were allowed to take care of the flood gates outside the city, so they could not escape. You immediately mobilize people to lift the covers and dig the secret passages open, and I don't believe that I can't find the place where he hides!"
"Your Majesty, I have thought about it, but the project volume is too large. The secret passage collapsed more than ten feet and was very narrow. It only allows a single person to pass through, and it will take more than a month to clean it up. What's hateful is that this secret passage has built houses and courtyards through the streets and alleys. It is very difficult to dig them out!" Zheng Huchen said with a wry smile.
"Then I'm in trouble. Don't say that I have to open my eyes even when I go out!" Zhao Bing immediately felt angry when he heard this. There were no large machinery such as forklifts and hooks in this era, and he had to demolish houses and rift houses. The workload was large enough. If there were a few more forks in the middle, he would have to get the nickname of "demolition of the whole city". He had to encircle all the Pu clans in the mansion and confiscate the family and destroy the clans, the killers had no financial owners and could not get the reward, so they would not risk their lives to find trouble. But now Shi Si, who has mastered the killers, has also run out, and he must have the money in his hand, otherwise he would die first.
"It is because my subordinates are incompetent and cannot share your worries!" Zheng Huchen apologized, "I have already cast nails everywhere in Quanzhou City. As long as Shi Si does not leave the city, he will be captured as soon as he appears!"
"It's not that simple. Pu Shougeng has already decided that we will attack Quanzhou this time to make money, so we won't stay for a long time. He has to redeem his life with money again and again. And Shi Si knew that we were looking for him everywhere, so how could he show up? He only needed to hide for ten days and half a month, and once we left, he would be safe. So there is no need to waste manpower!" Zhao Bing waved his hand and said.
"Your Majesty makes sense. If he doesn't move, we really can't find out whereabouts!" Zheng Huchen thought about it, there were tens of thousands of houses in Quanzhou. If you want to search carefully, it is almost impossible under the current circumstances.
"Is Junwen's whereabouts? I can't catch this one, and I must not let him run away!" Is the arrest of Shi Si too big? Zhao Bing wondered if the young man could be caught?
"Your Majesty, that Junwen is the most unprosperous person in the Pu family. He is neither in power nor in charge of wealth. He is stuck in the mansion all day long and only knows how to read and paint as a pleasure. It is not a threat to us. The most urgent thing is to focus on Shi Si!" Zheng Huchen said in confusion.
"This is a bad statement. I think that is a big fish..." Zhao Bing waved his hand and said.
Zhao Bing then expressed his suspicion. He believed that with Pu Shougeng's cunning, he had built countless secret passages in his family, so he would definitely have a backup plan when doing things. Junwen was probably the secret spell he had laid, or it could be said to be a spare tire. Of course, his suspicion was not entirely based on guessing, but because Pu Shougeng's work violated common sense and showed too much abnormality.
I thought that when the Song army had just arrived in Quanzhou and had not yet completed the encirclement of the city, Pu Shougen should have had the opportunity to leave the city. However, he did not leave, nor did he let the army in charge of the Pu family's business and private army leave. If he had the confidence to defend the city at that time and thought that he could wait until Suodu led his troops to rescue the siege, why should he send a son out of the city? According to common sense, he must be in case the city is captured, and the Pu family can still leave the family business. In view of ordinary people, he should choose a smart and capable son to leave, but Pu Shougeng made the Pu family's most unreliable and considered a waste by outsiders to leave the city first, which makes it difficult to say.
In this way, there is only one explanation that can make sense, that is, Junwen is not a waste as outsiders think, but should be the best one among the brothers. Pu Shougen hid him in order to wait for this day, as the hope of the Pu family's comeback, so he will ensure that he is foolproof when the crisis comes and send him out of the city first.
In order to ensure Junwen's safety, Pu Shougen attracted the attention of the Song army. Not only did he keep Shi Si, who was regarded as inheriting the Pu family's business empire, he even sacrificed his life and gave up the final opportunity to escape from the Pu Mansion. In order to make people misunderstand that the Pu family had no ability to resist, he admitted his failure. It can be said that Pu Shougen's plan was very perfect and meticulous. At first, he blinded everyone and attracted their attention to Shi Si. But he met Zhao Bing, who also liked to keep a backup plan and made perfect plans, allowing him to see the flaws through the layers of fog.
In addition, Zhao Bing also knew that modern rich people would not put their eggs in a basket to invest in the east, so as to prevent them from losing money once the investment failed and losing money. He went through the past, and sailing was an industry with extremely high risks. I think Pu Shougeng would not concentrate all his property in one place to store it, and he would have to hide it in several places to prevent accidents.
Therefore, Zhao Bing concluded that the Pu Mansion was not owned by the Pu family, and because of his nature, he would not give the property to others for custody. At present, he only trusted his son the most. He analyzed that he blocked the secret passage from the Pu Mansion to the outside of the city and must have intercepted most of the mansion. When Shi Si escaped, he must have taken away part of it, one for ensuring the needs of life, and the other for paying the killer's bounty. Another part must be in the mastery of Junwen, and it must be the most part. If Zhao Bing had to hide, it would not be less than 30% of his total assets, otherwise it would not be enough to support the Pu family's resurgence.
"Your Majesty is really quick-witted. I can't figure out if I want to break my head, the old thief Pu actually buried such a big nail." Zheng Huchen sighed.
"It's not that I'm smart, it's just that you have too many things to do, and you didn't expect this level!" Although Zhao Bing said this, he was still very helpful in his heart, and instead said, "The most urgent thing is to find where Junwen escapes and where to hide?"
"I think Junwen won't escape!" Zheng Huchen pondered for a moment, "One, he didn't know what the outcome of the war would be. Therefore, although he would choose to stay away from the battlefield, he would not be too far from Quanzhou; second, for the convenience of care, the treasure-hiding place would not be too far from Quanzhou; third, this batch of property must be quite large, and it would not be easy for him to take it away."
"Reliable!" Zhao Bing snapped his fingers and said, "I think he is mostly hiding in the Pu family's industry, and there must be a large enough place for convenient transportation."
"What Your Majesty said is exactly what your subordinates think. This is the only place that meets these conditions!"
"Yes, it's Baojue Mountain!" Zhao Bing and Zheng Huchen pointed their fingers at the same point on the map, and they thought of another place.
This place is located ten miles southeast of Quanzhou. Pu Shougen and his brother Pu Shousu built a Haiyun Tower. There is a blue pavilion downstairs. In the bay below is Wumo Shanao, which is specially used by the Pu family, and there is a road. There is also a large manor built in nearby Yunlu Village to live when they leave the city. When Zhao Bing led his troops, he only blocked the port and dragged hundreds of their large and small ships to the port in the south of the city to dock. He did not send troops to sweep the shore. Later, he suspected that they had a secret passage leading to this place, and sent troops to monitor it. Because of the abnormal movement, he withdrew his troops after breaking through the Pu Mansion.
"This guy is hiding really. It's ten miles away from our camp guard. It's not far from the enemy reinforcements camp that besieged the East Gate. Once attacked, you can not only hide there, but also ask for reinforcements to rescue. If we want to occupy it, we must use heavy troops." Zheng Huchen said with his beard.
"Do you want to spend this money together?"
"Your Majesty, I am willing to serve you, but I must not accept the things and things, so it will be up to your majesty's expenses!" The two were thinking about how to capture Junwen, but the little emperor suddenly said with a smile. Zheng Huchen had also cooperated with His Majesty many times, and he understood the intention as soon as he heard it. He wanted to secretly take this wealth as private money.
"With money, how can I just take it alone? The old rules are 70% of them and 30% of them belong to the Bureau of Affairs." Zhao Bing said.
"The expenses of His Majesty, who has been transferred to Qiong, have been given a wealthy gift from the Bureau of Affairs before. I dare not ask for it anymore. Just give your Majesty the instructions!" Zheng Huchen is also a sensible person. He knows that he cannot be greedy and must stop at the right time, otherwise it will not be wealth and honor, but disaster.
"Okay, I'm a little nervous recently, so I'm not polite." Zhao Bing nodded with satisfaction, "You are responsible for this matter. Use the staff of the Operations Team of the Bureau of Affairs and ask Zheng Yong to help the guards. Be careful to keep it confidential and never disturb them!"
"I understand, and I must have done the matter without knowing it. No one will be alarmed." His Majesty said a double sentence. Zheng Huchen couldn't understand why he immediately promised.
"Okay!" Zhao Bing smiled into a flower. He thought he would not get much oil and water when he went to war. Unexpectedly, Old Pirate Pu prepared it, but suddenly stopped smiling and said, "Just talking about him, I almost forgot the main business..."
Chapter completed!