The fire came unexpectedly.

It is said that three guards were ungrateful when guarding the money treasury at night and ate barbecue at the door. As a result, charcoal chips were blown to the money treasury and some cloth stored there was dry. When the weather was discovered, the fire had spread. Although he tried his best to rescue, he still burned the money treasury cleanly.

Although copper coins and silver are not afraid of high temperatures, many of the copper coins have been burned black in this fire, and the handwriting on them is difficult to identify. Some are silk, cloth, etc. purchased by the prefect's office. These were burned to ashes without exception. After counting the losses, the fire burned nearly 100,000 taels.

In anger, the prefect Xie Yu put the three soldiers who were leaving behind and were imprisoned.

However, the losses have been caused and the problem cannot be solved.

The redemption work has to be suspended.

As a result, the people in the city who did not have time to exchange for fake money gathered at the prefect's office and surrounded the yamen. Finally, Xie Yu had to explain in person, saying that he would reopen the exchange point in three days to ensure that all the fake money in everyone's hands could be exchanged out.

Privately, he looked for Fan Xiaodao and Zhao Xing asked for help.

"There is still a gap of nearly 400,000 yuan. The money has been almost over before. You two want to help me."

"There are still many people from the Jiangnan Mint Bureau in the prison. It would be better to let them open two furnaces and recast the burned coins. This will solve some of the urgent problems. As for the rest of the money, there are still many wealthy families in the city. The adults will not let them go and follow our previous actions."

Xie Yu said: "You want me to blackmail them?"

Fan Xiaodao said: "That's not the case. You can 'borrow' some silver from them first, and return it to them when the finances are abundant."

There are many wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan.

As Xie Yu's identity, he asked them to "borrow" some silver coins to help the prefect overcome difficulties. Xie Yu's kindness will be the opportunity to meet the court's procurement, construction of water conservancy and other projects in the future, and then find a way to make them earn money back. Xie Yu has been in the officialdom for a long time and is well aware of this. It is not difficult to solve the problem of this 100,000 taels.

Xie Yu said again: "I'm afraid it's too late."

"What's too late?"

Xie Yu said, "Now that Your Majesty's 60th birthday is approaching. The batch of birthday gifts and tributes I purchased were all in the money warehouse. A fire burned clean. I wondered if I could take out some of the silver and copper coins recast by the Jiangnan Mint Bureau first and plug these holes first?"

When Fan and Zhao heard this, they remained silent.

There was a gap of 400,000 yuan. If the emperor's birthday gift was filled, the shortage of silver would be huge.

Zhao Xing didn't want to care about it anymore. Anyway, this matter had nothing to do with Liushemen, so he said, "Sir, you are the official of your parents, so you will make the decision on this kind of thing."

Xie Yu smiled and said, "Don't you discuss this with you first. If you have no objection, then follow this first."

It was said to be a discussion, but it was actually just a message.

After all, he was the prefect of Jinling, and his fourth-rank official position, and Liushemen was just a yamen under him. Where was their turn to give their opinions? The two of them came to Jinling to investigate the fake money case under the order of the prince, but until now, they have been involved in the prince, which they did not expect.

It was the end of June in summer, and the Mint case was nearly a month ago.

The imperial envoy sent by the imperial court has not arrived yet.

If they were quick to rush, from the capital to Jinling, it would take at least three or four days, and at most six or seven days. But they had been on the road for nearly a month. I heard that they had arrived in Huaibei. After all, they were imperial envoys. Every time they arrived at a prefecture, the local parents and officials were forced to welcome the people, eat and drink for a few days, and then drink to practice. They pretended to be full before leaving the city, and they had to go back and forth. When they first left the city, the four imperial envoys brought only more than a hundred people, but after leaving the Shandong territory, the imperial envoys team had reached three or four hundred, and the extra were temporary hired coachmen, and the carriages were filled with the sincere love of the men of government officials in various places.

The group went south and made a lot of money.

But Fan Xiaodao was worried about the fake money. The copper coins burned by the fire have been re-furnished by the Mint. Although the money was brand new, it was lost by nearly 20%. In addition, Xie Yu took out another 100,000 hangs from it, and the gap has reached 550,000 hangs.

After reopening the exchange point, many people still come to exchange for the iron tin money every day.

Although most of the fake money was circulated in Jinling, many of them were circulated to nearby prefectures. These people were relatively late to get the news, but they gradually came to exchange it. Soon, the money squeezed from those in Heishui City had been spent, but the people who came to exchange it were still in a constant stream every day.

And after that, although there were not many people, there were several large exchanges every day.

Fan Xiaodao found it strange. Logically speaking, those who hold large amounts of fake money should exchange it as soon as possible after posting a notice. In order to not come for the first ten days, but when it comes to the back, when it is all sporadic exchanges, there are more people who exchange such large amounts of money?

Zhao Xingdao: "Unless the fake money in these people's hands was originally from the mint and was not circulated to the market!"

Fan Xiaodao was so angry that he cursed, "In order to prevent the people from being deceived, we used real money to recover fake money with good intentions, but these people simply used fake money to exchange it for real money. It seems that in addition to those in Heishui City, there are also a group of people in the market who are secretly shipping!"

Zhao Xingdao: "There should be a result soon."

As expected, half an hour later, Gu Dachun came back and replied, "In the past two days, we have followed several large orders of more than 100 taels, and there are about seven or eight people. Each time, they bring about fake money from about 50 to 100 taels to exchange at several outlets in the city."

As he said that, he took out a list from his arms and handed it to the two of them.

Fortunately, they were careful and kept records when they exchanged. When the exchangers exchanged iron and tin coins, they left a stub. Originally, if these people exchanged a few hang coins every time, their actions were very difficult to find out. Maybe it was coming to an end recently, and they also knew that the money warehouse had caught fire. The exchange quota in the past few days has increased, which has aroused the vigilance of the Six Doors.

Sure enough, in the past half month, the amount exchanged by these eight people has reached 20,000 yuan.

There must be a problem!

If you receive fake money in a normal transaction, you will definitely exchange it with all the money as soon as possible, but they will be broken into small amounts and multiple times. If there is no trick, that would be strange.

Zhao Xing asked: "Where are people?"

Gu Dachun said: "Every time they exchanged the money, they would go to the Donghuang Temple in the north of the city, and then get the money to exchange it for another outlet. Now Li Qiao and his brothers are staring at each other in secret."

Zhao Xingdao: "Bring your brothers and act now!"

Luo Chengdao: "Do you want to report to the magistrate first?"

"It's too late, don't let them run away!"

Fan and Zhao came to Donghuang Temple with more than 30 constables.

Donghuang Temple is located in the north of the city. The place where the temple is worshipped is Donghuang Taiyi. Now His Majesty believes in Taoism, so this kind of temple is very common in various prefectures and prefectures. When he arrived, it was already evening. Li Qiao saw Fan and Zhao and came to see him.

Fan Xiaodao asked: "How is the situation?"

Li Qiao replied: "There are eight people in total, and they all entered the temple half an hour ago."

"action!"

Fan Xiaodao and Zhao Xing were wearing casual clothes. He went up to slap the door. An old Taoist priest came to open the door, "What's wrong with this layman coming?"

Fan Xiaodao said: "We brothers passed by and saw the Taiyi Temple of Donghuang. They admired each other and wanted to come in and burn incense."

Lao Dao said: "Two, we do not worship the gods of the Eastern Emperor Taiyi in our temple."

"Isn't this Donghuang Temple?"

Lao Dao said: "Yes, we worship the younger brother of Donghuang Taiyi, Donghuang Taier. You are afraid you will be disappointed."

Fan Xiaodao said: "We are all family. Since we are here, let's burn incense together."

"We're closed today, why don't we come back tomorrow?"

Fan Xiaodao said: "It's probably too late tomorrow."

After saying that, I have to go in.

The old Taoist hurriedly stopped him in front of the door, "I won't see guests today!"

Seeing that he was so obstructed, Fan Xiaodao was too lazy to pretend, so he directly showed the Liushangmen's waist sign, "Six doors investigate the case, get out of the way!"

The old Taoist face changed drastically, he hurriedly ran into the yard and shouted, "The people from the government are checking!"

With him warning, there was a mess inside.

Zhao Xing took a quick step and tapped his acupoint. More than 30 constables rushed in and surrounded the inside and outside of the Donghuang Temple. In the distance, five or six black shadows wanted to climb over the wall while the night was dark, but they were kicked back by Gu Dachun and others who had been waiting there.

All eight people were arrested.

Holding your head with both hands and squatting in the corner of the wall.

At this time, there were fighting and shouting sounds coming from the backyard.

"Don't let him run away."

A white shadow ran from the backyard, rising and falling, and had already run more than ten feet away.

It seems to be a master!

Fan Xiaodao chased forward.

Seeing this, Zhao Xing picked up a stone, and then slammed the man on the waist with a "swoosh".

The man noticed the sound of the wind, waved the sword in his hand and cut the stone down twice.

It was this slowness that Fan Xiaodao had already caught up with him, Jinghong Sword was unsheathed and stabbed the man in white with one sword.

Dang!

The man in white had his long sword broken into two pieces by Jinghong's sword.

Fan Xiaodao kicked him off the wall with a force. Everyone came over with torches and surrounded him in the middle. Fan Xiaodao looked at the person coming and was stunned, "It's you?"

This person is Duan Jiangliu, the son of Duan Hongfei, the Dajiang Gang!

It turns out that during this period, the one who has been using fake money to exchange real money is actually Dajiang Gang!

This is not difficult to understand.

Now that Dajiang Gang has replaced the Cao Gang and become Xie Zhihua's right-hand man. Xie Zhihua instructed the Jiangnan Mint to make fake money. Such a good opportunity to make money, how could Dajiang Gang stand by? Dajiang Gang is mainly engaged in freight trade, and doing this kind of fake money trade is even more concealed.

Seeing this, Duan Jiangliu laughed, "It turned out to be Captain Fan and Captain Zhao! I thought I was attacked by thieves here, and I was thinking about running away!"

Because she was chasing Fan Huowu relentlessly, Fan Xiaodao was very unhappy with Duan Jiangliu and said coldly: "Run away? I'm late at night, I'm afraid I have other plans here, right?"

Duan Jiangliu said: "I came here to burn incense on a whim. I didn't expect to meet you. I wonder if you are here to handle a case or burn incense?"

Gu Dachun's voice came from the backyard.

"Sir, the top ten boxes of fake money were seized in the backyard, and several copper coins!"

Duan Jiangliu smiled and said, "Congratulations to Captain Fan for cracking the major case. During this period, Captain Fan has become famous in Jinling City, and is just around the corner! Don't forget me when the time comes!"
To be continued...