Get the trap system at the beginning and unify the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 123

Chapter 123

Gao Shun only stayed in the barracks for half a day, that is, after eating lunch, he took a few people out again.

His goal this time is still the same as last time, to find a big pawnshop to find out who made the video in his hand and where it went.

As long as we figure out these things clearly, the investigation will naturally come naturally.

"General, this is the place. This pawn shop is quite big."

A group of four walked to the door of a pawnshop, Tan Liu looked at the big signboard above the pawnshop and said.

There were people coming and going at the door of the pawnshop, it looked like a regular place, not the pawnshop they went to two days ago.

"Okay, let's go in." Gao Shun said.

There are many people in the pawn shop, all kinds of people, merchants, hawkers, farmers, and some officials with low positions, either pawning items, or wanting to buy something, it is lively.

As soon as they entered, a young man came up to greet them.

"Guest officer, do you want to be a pawn? Or do you want to buy something? Or do you want to redeem the previous pawn?"

"What about your shopkeeper, I have something to ask your shopkeeper." Gao Shun said.

"This..." The young man showed embarrassment, this is not something he can decide, if every customer who enters the store says this, then the shopkeeper will be very busy every day.

At this time, Gao Shun showed the handwriting Cao Cao gave him.

Originally, this operation was used to go in and out of various military camps to facilitate investigations, so Gao Shun carried it with him all the time, and he didn't lose it in prison yesterday, so it just came in handy now.

"This is Cao Gong's handwriting. I am a general under his command. He asked me to come to your shopkeeper to check some things and report them as soon as possible."

As soon as the little guy did it, his face turned pale, and he quickly went to the shopkeeper to explain the situation. The shopkeeper also looked at this side, gave a few more instructions, and then hurried over.

"I wonder what the generals need help with?" The shopkeeper asked cautiously.

"Help me find out which craftsmen made these things." Gao Shun signaled Tan Liu behind him to open the box.

Tan Liu took the order, and as soon as the box was opened, there were a variety of accessories inside.It will appear in front of the shopkeeper.

"This, these are some good treasures." The shopkeeper is also a veteran, so he couldn't help but picked up a few pieces of jewelry and looked at them carefully in front of his eyes: "This workmanship, this texture, this color, this is not something that ordinary teachers can make." Ah, it’s not easy for the general to get these.”

Gao Shun didn't answer, but said, "Can you tell which workshop made this?"

"The general is asking the right person." The shopkeeper said proudly:

"The little old man has been working in this pawn shop for 30 to [-] years. The treasures he has handled are not tens of thousands, but thousands of them. Which one has the best jade, which one has the best jewelry, and which one has the best jewelry? , the little old man can remember it by heart."

Gao Shun nodded invisibly, and a gleam of joy flashed in his head.

He was afraid that the shopkeeper of the pawnshop didn't know the goods. If the shopkeeper brought it over and asked three questions, where did he get the clue?

I am an ordinary person, I can only see these things, they are good-looking and valuable, and I don't know anything else.

But now it seems that the shopkeeper in front of him should be a knowledgeable person who speaks clearly and logically, so the possibility of finding the murderer behind the scenes is much greater.

The shopkeeper didn't brag about himself, he knew what he valued, if he couldn't handle it well, the generals in front of him were not easy to talk to.

He first lifted a hairpin, held it up high, facing the sun, and looked at it carefully for a long time. From time to time, he even moved close to his eyes, looked carefully, and praised a few words, then put it down and lifted a string of bracelets, using his calloused hands Touching it carefully, I couldn't help feeling: "Good things are really good things."

"Old man, don't be silly, tell me which workshop this is, we still have things to do." Tan Liu couldn't hold back his temper, and said.

"Don't worry, general, I'll tell you the details right now." The shopkeeper said, and after reading it several times, he was sure: "This must be the work of the skillful hand workshop in Dongtou. Making jewelry is a must, if you don’t believe me, let me tell you in detail.”

Then the shopkeeper proudly said a lot of words that Gao Shun and the others couldn't understand. The sentences contained many professional terms, and from time to time, two sentences of local dialect were added, which made everyone confused.

Then Tan Liu said impatiently: "Okay, don't brag, are you sure it's from that workshop? What kind of skillful workshop?"

"That's natural, the little old man's eyesight is still fine." The shopkeeper vowed.

"Okay, got it."

With a wave of Gao Shun's hand, Tan Liu closed the box, and a few of them went out to the skillful workshop at the east end of the city that the shopkeeper said.

The reputation of Qiaoshoufang is not small, but the few outsiders are not very clear about it. Even a child of a few years old can tell about Qiaoshoufang.

After all, Xudu was not very developed at first, and it only started to prosper after Cao Cao came. There are only a few famous shops in the city.

Qiaoshoufang is one of them.

A few people walked in, and a guy came up to talk to him just like before.

Gao Shun directly showed the handwriting, and said straight to the point: "I am a general under Mr. Cao, and this is a handwriting. I have something to ask your shopkeeper, so come and see me quickly."

Soon the shopkeeper of the so-called Skillful Hand Workshop stood in front of Gao Shun.

There was no way, Cao Cao's reputation was too great, as soon as Gao Shun showed his handwriting, no matter what the shopkeeper was busy with, he had to put down what he was doing to see Gao Shun.

This can be regarded as a certain degree of prestige, Gao Shun thought in his heart, and said: "Let's see if this batch of goods was transferred from your place some time ago."

The shopkeeper was taken aback for a moment, and then he saw the box in Tan Liu's hand and the many accessories inside, and he had some thoughts in his heart.

Could it be that a customer found something flawed and dissatisfied after buying something, so he wanted to come to return the product, but why did the returned product still carry Cao Cao's handwriting?

The shopkeeper was puzzled and didn't dare to ask, but whispered: "It's from us, I don't know if the general is..."

"Yes, then do you know who bought these things?"

"This..." The shopkeeper had a hard time. They make hundreds of jewelry every day, and they don't know how many of them are sold. How can they tell which video was sold and who sold it? ?

Seeing that the shopkeeper was silent, Gao Shun knew in his heart that most likely the shopkeeper had no answer, so he said, "I'm not trying to make things difficult for you. Almost all the items in this box were bought by one person. Think about it. Who bought a large batch of accessories at once?"

"The general is talking about our regular customers here. Every time they come here, they buy dozens of pieces. Let me think about it." The shopkeeper frowned and thought hard for a while before he said: "We The ornaments here basically have three purposes, one is to pay tribute to the palace, which is something used by the royal family.

The second use is to keep them for bulk sale, and some small households will get them from us if they want to buy one or two.

The third type is some big families with more financial resources and wealth. They often purchase goods from us on a regular basis and take away a batch of goods every once in a while. "

Gao Shun nodded, according to what the shopkeeper said, the black hand behind the scenes can only appear in the third purpose.

First of all, it is impossible for the emperor to harm him, because he was really just a nobody before, and it is impossible for Liu Xie to hear about it.

Not to mention that he is the emperor, he is actually an emperor whose power has been emptied, but if he wants to kill a person, he doesn't need to use the lowly means of buying some soldiers.

The second use is also impossible. It is impossible for someone to collect dozens of small households and gather them together, and then use them to bribe people. This possibility is extremely low.

Then the problem is those rich families in the third use, they use these jewelry to buy and kill people.

"Which big families are there?"

"It's hard for me to say." The shopkeeper's face showed embarrassment.

It's not that he doesn't know, he must be clear about this kind of thing, even if he can't remember it himself, it is recorded in the account book.

It's just that these things can't be disclosed casually. If it makes people unhappy, it's not a responsibility that a small shopkeeper can bear.

"It's okay, didn't you see that this is the warrant that Mr. Cao gave me? What are you afraid of if he ordered me to come?" Gao Shun reassured.

The shopkeeper nodded, hesitated and finally said: "Since the general has said so, then I will not hide it.

Those big customers basically come to pick up the goods once every half month or once a month. The Cao family, Xiahou's family, and Wang's family are the three main ones, and the others are some subsidiary companies, which are not as good as these three. "

Gao Shun's face showed a look, he knew the Cao family and Xiahou's family were nothing more than Cao Cao's clan and Xiahou's clan, but what about the Wang family?Is there any high-ranking official named Wang?It seems not.

"The Wang family, can you tell me more about it?"

"Actually, there's nothing to say. It's estimated that I just got here and don't know about it. This is not difficult to find out." The shopkeeper said:

"The Wang family has only risen in recent years. They used to do small businesses. I don't know what happened in the past few years. Fortunately, the business has grown bigger and bigger. They also have a few thick thighs. There are people in the shopping mall, so the development will naturally be fast, and it will make many people jealous.

Wanghui, the head of the Wang family, is called half a city. A person's property can be worth half a city. This city may not be Xudu City, but it should be no problem to describe some small cities in this way.

And the wife of the Patriarch of the Wang family has followed him all the way for many years, and the two are very affectionate.

As for Mrs. Wang, she quickly likes the accessories in our Skillful Hand Workshop, so the owner of the Wang family orders a large number of accessories for him every month, just to win his favor. "

After the shopkeeper finished speaking, he felt a little emotional: "Who knew that the Wang family would actually get rich, and Mrs. Wang is said to be named Hou, and I have the same surname, maybe we were still the same family hundreds of years ago..."

"What do you think Mrs. Wang's last name is?" Gao Shun suddenly noticed something and asked.

"The surname is Hou. It is said that he was sold to the Wang family. It's just that the players at that time hadn't made a fortune yet. Who knew that they would become rich later..."

Gao Shun didn't pay attention to what the shopkeeper said. He focused all his attention on the statement that Mrs. Wang's surname was Hou.

Hou, Hou Cheng, Mrs. Wang, Wang Bancheng.

With a sudden clap of hands, they all matched!

No wonder he was assassinated as soon as he arrived in Xudu. It turned out to be an old enemy. The Mrs. Wang probably had some relationship with Hou Cheng, and from the next batch of troops, he could naturally get news about Hou Cheng, so he asked his husband It is also reasonable to avenge my brother.

As for the Patriarch of the Wang family, he was not short of money. With a wave of his hand, he exchanged dozens of jewelry for the soldiers of the army.

He is nicknamed Wang Bancheng, and naturally it is not for nothing, and it is normal to have a few high officials behind him, otherwise he would not be able to have such wealth in this many cities, and he would not be feared by others.

So the Ting Wei named Zhang Lin naturally has him.

So he can also put someone in the cell and assassinate him.

Everything is right, everything is so reasonable, in Goldman Sachs' view, all the problems have been solved, and the murderer behind the scenes in front of him is the Wang family.

"Go, go back."

Gao Shun didn't talk too much, and the group went back with their suitcases.

"Where is the general going next?" Tan Liu asked: "We haven't found the murderer behind the scenes yet? How can so many people be sure about what the shopkeeper said?"

"No need to look for it, I already know it."

"What?" The three looked puzzled.

"You have also heard what the shopkeeper said just now. Let me ask you what is the last name of Mrs. Wang?" Gao Shun asked.

"Wang Bancheng? That Mrs. Wang seems to be surnamed Hou, what's wrong?"

"What's Hou Cheng's last name?" Gao Shun asked again.

"The surname is Hou..." Tan Liu's eyes widened suddenly: "General, you mean that Mrs. Wang wants to take revenge on you, because he has something to do with Hou Cheng?"

"Mostly so."

"But the general is a bit far-fetched, just judging from the same surname." Wang Cong said suddenly.

"I think so too, so we can't go to the Wang family to arrest people with great fanfare. What we need to do now is to seek help and approval from higher-level people." Gao Shun said: "That is to go to Cao Cao Tell him about it and see how he judges.

If he agrees with the result of my cracked case, then he has to return Zhang Liao's military power to him.

If he doesn't agree with my result, then let him decide what to do. Anyway, I have handed over the biggest suspect to him, and he kept saying that he would stand up for me.

As for the Wang family, they should not dare to do anything in a short period of time. After all, the emperor already knew about this matter, and the emperor knew that those backers behind him would naturally be beaten. Woolen cloth? "

"But general, what should you do? Shouldn't you take revenge after being assassinated several times?" Tan Liu said.

"It's natural to take revenge when I go back. It's just that my ability is not enough to support me to take revenge. It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge. When I have enough ability in the future, I will naturally bring this matter up."

(End of this chapter)