Daqing Criminal Division

"Squeak-"

A bunch of copper keys strung together in a ring were turned in his hand. When an iron cage was opened in front of him, Liertai was walking in the cell with a strong figure and some bruises and bruises on his face that had not faded from the beating. in the aisle.

In the past four or five days, he didn't come to the prison to patrol frequently, humming an obscene kiln tune, and on his waist were the other keys to open the sixteen cells.

As he passed by, streaks of light hit the top of his long braided hair, and it was faintly visible that there was a piece of iron sheet fixed on the top of the cage.

Apart from the temporarily empty cells on both sides, there are only dark instruments of torture hanging on the walls.

But when the middle-aged prison chief, who has always been irritable and irritable, followed the usual rules, waiting to pass the corner on one side and go to the slot on the other side, he suddenly felt something unusual behind him.

【'——,——'】

"Who? Who's there?"

I don't know who followed him, but Lie Ertai, who guessed that there would be no one in this prison who was so daring enough to come to plot against him, immediately stared back coldly with his eyes wide open.

There was nothing behind him, and there was no one in the darkness.

It seems that it was all his illusion just now. Seeing this, the cell leader Lie Ertai also silently spat a little furiously, looked back and forth, but also planned to turn around and continue walking towards the slot, but at this moment Then, the unexpected happened.

Because the moment he turned around, a thin and flexible black figure suddenly sprang out from behind him, strangled his neck again, locked his arm and strangled Lie Ertai's forward pace.

At the same time, another black figure who had been hanging upside down on the roof of the cell silently, waiting to ambush him here also appeared together with the person behind him.

The two looked like they were together.

Because the two people's action steps are exactly the same, the strength of the punches, including the methods of ambush and attack, are very similar, and they don't know where they came from, and who is waiting here to assassinate Liertai.

Realizing that something was wrong, Lie Ertai's expression changed, he was so frightened that he immediately turned his head and wanted to struggle and resist.

But when he drew out a hand to resist viciously, the other party had expected it early in the morning and restrained him again. Seeing this, Lie Ertai punched the person in front of him, stretched out his foot, and simply put the person in front of him. Stumbled to the ground together.

On the slippery and icy ground, Lie Ertai fell heavily together with the man attacking from the rear.

He was tall and fierce, and he said 'uh——" With a roar, Liertai turned over and grabbed the thin and thin shadows' necks, fought with him, and raised his fists in the darkness to try to resist.

Unfortunately, the skill of the other person who helped the person behind him to ambush him was obviously superior to him.

Not only that, but the next three moves to his arm, calf and elbow, the two people hiding in the darkness were not polite, they just worked together to knock Liertai to the ground, and forced him to cover his mouth The nose fainted at once.

Rolling his eyes, Lie Ertai, who fainted immediately, fell to the ground in an instant.

The book and a large bunch of cell keys in his hand and belt also fell to the ground, making a crisp sound.

The man whose jailer uniform was messed up because of the fight with him before was reluctantly relieved. At this time, the other guy who jumped down from the top with him had already greeted him, and the two quickly He dragged the key on the ground together with Liertai to a nearby cell.

"I said in advance that what we are doing now is against the laws of the Qing Dynasty. People who illegally hijack the government may be held accountable by the Taiping government office afterwards, but where do you want to temporarily hide people? I don't know. I know exactly what's going on in this prison."

The thin black figure in a gray-red jailer uniform asked.

"They are already in prison, so what are you afraid of?"

"In the cell No. [-] Lushi [-] on the left side of the fourth floor, just go in and lock the door with the door plug. I heard from Killing Cai that the Chaozhou prisoner named Yu Donghai who was originally locked up in it had dysentery. It has been transferred out for fear of infecting other people, and now it will be temporarily empty for three days."

"Three days, there will almost be movement over there."

The black shadow in prison uniform also replied.

"Then you are planning to hide Liertai and use the most risky method, right? But there are a lot of them, and it will take manpower to directly break through."

The black shadow in the jailer's uniform said again, thinking about it, he was still a little worried.

Regarding this question, the black shadow in the prisoner uniform did not say a word, but he avoided one of the questions and only answered the other person.

"I have other ways. Just take care of your own side. Also, can you help me? I have never taken off a man's clothes."

The black shadow in the prison uniform who gave the other party a crutch also replied blankly.

"It's as if I've taken off a man's clothes before. Who has ever taken off a man's clothes in this life? OK, hurry up."

"Ah."

After finishing this short conversation, since the key to the cell they had snatched from them was already in their hands, any temporarily vacant cell next to them could be directly opened to let Tibetans in.

They just moved.

One of them wiped the footprints on the ground, and the other took off Liertai's clothes and boots as quickly as possible.

It was also after these two bent down together to lift Liertai on the ground together, quickly changed the clothes on him into a prisoner's uniform, and locked his hands and feet with iron chains, and then rolled up the prisoner's uniform that he had taken off. Good to take away.

But at the moment when the faces of these two guys who had completely cleaned up the scene in the blink of an eye were illuminated by the light of the prison, who they were was exposed.

One of them was half kneeling on the ground in a sloppy prison uniform, with jingling iron chains on his feet.

One black and one gray eyes are shining in the dark, the face is often lazy but now very energetic, but the face is turned into ashes and it is not easy to forget.

Because he just hid on the top without saying a word, and didn't come down until Liertai resisted. It was also his overwhelming punch just now, which made Liertai, who was originally excellent, faint to death .

Yes, that's right, it was someone named Fucharzi.

The other one was not a face-to-face person, because this person in a thin prison uniform had appeared in previous incidents several times before.

He was the one who rushed to chat with Duan Xiao for the first time and sent someone over there.

He was also the one who received Balturi privately and ran up to deliver the news.

He used to be dressed as an inconspicuous jailer, so even Duan Xiao only regarded him as a jailer that can be seen everywhere in the prison of Taiping Mansion.

But looking at it this way, this courageous young man with thin shoulders, a pointed nose, and a hair hanging by his ear, is a young man who is born with a somewhat listless hunchback at a young age.

He and Fucharzi knew each other clearly, because their skills really seemed to come from the same place, and there was an inexplicable consistency.

And carefully traced back how these two guys could still connect in the cell.

But I still want to talk back to the day of the seventh day.

On that day, Fucharzi saw an aluminum spoon in the notch, and the matter of the aluminum spoon aroused his doubts and thoughts. After returning from the incident, he was lying in the cell and kept thinking about the matter. .

At this time, the iron door of the cell on the far east side seemed to be opened, and he heard footsteps outside, and then a figure like a 'jailor' stopped behind him.

At that time, the first appearance of this black shadow made him silent for a moment.

But after seeing clearly who this person pretending to be a prison guard was, Fucharzi's expression also paused.

"Liu Shi'an?"

"Well, 'Bafang', long time no see."

The young man with a neat thin braid and who spoke politely to him also replied in the same way.

"How did you get here?"

It's not surprising to see this, but Fucharzi asked again.

"The fake file made by Changling, Agui tied up the one who was going to come on the way. I also have a mission, but I didn't expect to run into you just in time."

The young man answered again.

"What about them?"

"They all have other things to do, so this time it's me."

The conversation between the two of them was very small from the beginning to the end.

When this young man named Shi'an and named Liu Yong came, he had already cleared up all the dangers behind him, and he would leave as soon as possible after a while, so it was not difficult to say that.

"What are you doing here?"

"Oh, because Ah Gui found something in Taiping Mansion on the night of the [-]th."

With half of his long arm resting on the door, Liu Yong, who was maintaining a conversation with him, stood outside the row of iron fences in the light of the prison, with his shoulders straddled, and replied in a serious tone.

"what."

Hearing this, Fucharzi sat up with one hand propped on his knee, leaning against the wall of the prison with the light on his face and listening to him.

"It's okay to tell you, six boxes, the seals are full of '[-]th batch of Taiping Mansion Prison No. [-]', the source should be here."

"In it are those things that we have checked for a long time, that is, those things that Sejong was taken away by those 'spiders' from Suncheon Prefecture on the night of 13 years."

"Although not all of them, their current appearance has roughly changed, but Ah Gui said that he absolutely did not admit his mistake."

"You have come into contact with the 'spider' people in Jiangning and Hangzhou twice before, and you should also understand the danger and mystery of this group of people. They are in the dark, and we are in the light. Many times we can't catch them, but This time, it may be an opportunity."

This is not entirely clear.

But Liu Yong knew that Fucha Erji should understand what he meant.

Because of the "that incident" back then, not only they were personally involved, but everyone including Fucharzi was deeply involved in it.

Among them, Fucharzi was the most affected.

Because of this, the truth of this matter is extremely important to each of them.

"So, since I bumped into you today, let me pass on something to you by the way."

"The 'spider' hidden inside the Taiping Mansion Prison will also be an opportunity for us this time."

"As one of us, you don't have to wait any longer."

"It's time to reveal the identities of all of us Costin, and repay the old and new hatreds to these people back then."

"The time has come, and it's time for you to face your 'true self.'"

——"Bafang Erji, the arrest plan is about to begin."

……

"We have and have accurately calculated."

"——The copper coins issued by the imperial court since the 13th year of King Sejong have a dense rate and contract rate, so the copper coins we make are not fake money, but real... Kangxi Tongbao copper coins."

When the time returned to the other side again, Baltu, who was in the secret cell of the prisoners gathered here, said that.

Duan Xiao, who maintained a confrontational relationship with the other party, paused abruptly.

In the closed cell, the surrounding light was very weak, and a beam of light from the top of the hair of the two of them illuminated half of Duan Ou's face squinting at people from the side.

But it also set off the bright red blood stain between his eyebrows that had not been wiped off with a dry cloth, making it extra pale and weird.

"Baoye, are you joking with me? What do you mean by 'real' Kangxi Tongbao copper coins? Such a big deal? Did I hear wrong?"

Leaning forward and putting one hand against the corner of the cold table, Duan Xiao, who expressed a strong desire to listen, raised the corners of his mouth, and couldn't help but hit the square solid wood tabletop.

His other hand was still resting steadily on the square tea table that was used for negotiation and negotiation between the two of them, which is common in prisons, but there was a strange sense of familiarity from the bottom of his heart that enveloped him.

"Do you think I'm joking with you, Duan Xiao? I'm talking about a really big deal with you."

Seeing his uncontrollable 'excitement', Baltu only sneered triumphantly and looked at Duan Xiao's nervous and hyperactive hand, and continued as if trying to appease his overly excited and fanatical emotions.

"You are a Jinshi, but you have not been an official. You should not be a person who sticks to stereotypes. Your intelligence and knowledge should be used to do more useful things. For example, join us and serve I work."

"Oh, so what does 'we' mean, Papa?"

Duan Xiao, who was almost getting together with him to plan this conspiracy, showed interest and excitement in his eyes.

Between the two of them, the red-edged and yellow-bottomed Langhao rice paper with one line of the simplest yet most entry-level score calculation formula is still there.

But the three proportional scores above have already revealed the secrets of the business plan of this group of people who have been hiding in prison for many years.

Pretend to be prisoners from all over the country and go to prison to secretly mint money in the prison. Those copper spoons and aluminum spoons that are constantly being circulated are the raw materials they reserve for casting money, and the place where the fake copper coins are actually stored is exactly where everyone is. prison.

But when Duan Xiao was thinking about it quickly, it was hard to imagine how this group of people did all this secretly behind the back of the government and the court.

Since this dynasty has privately minted money for many years, since the time of Sejong, many people melted copper coins at home and added aluminum products to cast them again. The bureau imposed heavy penalties for this.

Anyone who mints money privately among the people will be fined a hundred if they fake it.

Since then, the actual weight of each circulating coin and the ratio of copper to aluminum have been strictly controlled, which caused a sensation.

But after many years, the private minting of money has been basically controlled due to the government's current control of the ratio of minting money and the secret control of coin circulation, but it has never been heard that such a large-scale gang concentrates on making copper coins.

The most important thing is that even if there are folks who are proficient in chemistry and arithmetic, it is impossible to easily calculate the density rate and contract rate of official copper coins.

Because the calculation of the density rate and the contraction rate requires years of actual calculation process, it is generally concentrated between two extremely small numbers with very small differences, which may not be the slightest difference with a scale.

But although the difference is very small, the actual difference between the two copper coins still exists.

This difference is the most critical manufacturing secret of the imperial court's control of copper coins and silver, which is equivalent to a secret data protected by the entire country.

Because in the previous dynasty and the earlier book "Zui Shu", some folk mathematicians discussed fractions and their operations.

The most well-known record on this aspect is Zu Chongzhi, a mathematician in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. He once studied the size of the circumference and was famous in all dynasties.

And the way he used to express a minimum number at that time was to choose two specific fractions.

Among them, one is 335113, which is called the dense ratio, and the other is 227, which is called the approximate ratio. The dense ratio is the best approximation of pi in fractional form with the numerator and denominator within one thousand, and it was the highest achievement at that time.

And when this method of using two fractions to represent smaller than natural numbers was also developed after that.

As for the routine operations between fractions, the denominator is generally multiplied by the rest, and the numerator follows. Such a specific algorithm also gives ordinary people a concept of denominator and numerator.

Therefore, this group of people must have secretly calculated the official secret rate and agreement rate for Kangxi Tongbao's coin casting.

This crucial number is their secret weapon.

But how did Baltu master the secret rate and contract rate of money making that only the imperial court knew.

What kind of power and ability are hidden behind this group of people, Duan Xiao can't think deeply about all this.

But in the next second, seeing Bartu on the opposite side raised his head and smiled, stretched out his strong muscles and bones, dipped his dark-skinned palm into some of the bisexual water in the nearby copper pot, and wiped away the stains Way to scrub behind his ear.

During this process, Duan Xiao stared motionlessly behind his ears with cold eyes.

The cyan wolf-shaped tattoo floating on the surface of the skin became invisible little by little, and finally revealed a black tattoo that was familiar to Duan Owl.

--spider

It's a green spider with a flower back.

"We are 'spiders,' and 'spiders' are us."

At this moment, the heartbeat began to speed up silently due to the spurt of blood, Duan Xiao's eyes were pitch black.

But it also reflects and captures every change in the shrinking greedy and ferocious face of Baltu in the center of the pupil.

He had a premonition that these words would soon involve a past event that he could never forget, so Baltu, who was stroking the black spider under his ear, spoke just like that.

"Everyone knows that the real price of copper coins is different for each emperor who ascends the throne. The more chaotic the world, the less valuable the money is, and no amount of money will work. Money is the most valuable thing."

"To tell you the truth, five years ago, we were not in the state of being trapped in a prison with no escape. I have a group of even more amazing people helping me."

"Most of the copper coins we use to make money today came from a robbery and bloodbath in that glorious and rich place five years ago. Afterwards, I escaped alone, and it was the same. Only then did I think of a good strategy. Come here to this unknown prison, and get rid of the government's pursuit immediately, once and for all.'

"Where were you?"

Duan Xiao stared at him word by word and asked.

"In the 13th year of Sejong, outside Suncheon City, Shenwu Gate, we used explosives to blow up the Shenwu Gate and robbed everything we wanted."

"We used to call it, 'Five, Pig, Man'."

It was also when Baltu said the last sentence that the long box facing Duan Ou opened in response.

The handful of dark and dangerous things placed inside were also suddenly exposed to the eyes of the two who were negotiating a deal.

Without warning, Duan Xiao's dark eyes stepped back and squinted under the cold light.

Immediately afterwards, the seemingly calm and calm fingers resting on the bottom cooled down because of the sudden clarity in front of his eyes, and then he recognized what Baltu had shown him.

Because he was right.

The thing that was placed in the box was actually a gun barrel wrapped in a gloomy shape, but the outline could still be clearly discerned...

gun.

The muzzle then fired.

Made in the previous dynasty and carried forward in this dynasty, the caliber is [-]mm, the barrel length is [-] meter, and the total length is [-] meter. The range can reach the legendary [-] bows.

The firecracker ammunition in the gun barrel is shot out, and the person who is shot will be seriously injured or killed.

Not to mention the ordinary prison guards in the Taiping Mansion Prison, even Duan Xiao's skill is impossible to escape such a gun. As long as Baltu shoots, he will be killed on the spot.

Then, in front of Duan Xiao himself, Baltu, this villain who not only has so many supernatural powers in the No. [-] Prison of Taiping Mansion that he owns his own coin-making factory, but also owns guns independent of the government.

Then he stretched out his hand to pick up the barrel of the gun, aimed at his eyebrows at close range with a playful smile, and then put his fingers to his mouth to shush.

"No. 15 Prison Clearance Day is the day when we have been entrenched here for five years and really escaped."

"Duan Xiao, as long as you are willing to help us transport out all the privately cast Kangxi Tongbao in Prison No. [-] in Taiping Mansion, this gun will be yours."

"There are three ammunition inside, this one, you help us kill Liertai who is guarding the prison exit."

"This one, you help us kill Wen Sui who will come to the prison at that time."

"This last one, I'll give it to you to use it on the night when we escaped together on the prison day, how about killing Fu Erji with my own hands?"

……

"Okay, deal."

After these words fell, the craziest but most adventurous prison escape plan between Duan Xiao and Baltu was set up that day.

The quick-fire gun held by Baltu on the table made it impossible for Duan Xiao, who was being aimed at, to disobey the gangster's half-baiting, half-threatening request to join the group.

All of this is just like a handful of crimson tools thrown up by Baltu on the table. People who gamble for their lives will never be afraid of such things. Apart from life and death, there is another fight and game.

"Afterwards, you will get the reward you should have."

"It will be your honor to erase the original tattoos on your body, get rid of your status as a death row prisoner who is now at the mercy of others, and change from a single forest tiger to a spider."

It was clear that he was set up to introduce him step by step to become an accomplice, and Baltu spoke to Duan Xiao with such malicious intentions.

"I hope so."

After saying this, Duan Xiao, who was leaning against the wall behind him, raised his eyes expressionlessly to express 'expectation' and gave him a high five.

For the next three days, until the eve of the fourteenth day.

An extremely dangerous and appalling gang escape plan was going on silently in No. [-] Prison of Taiping Mansion.

During the day, the prisoners in the Taiping Mansion Prison are still living in an orderly manner and completing their daily farming, but some of the hidden Baltu people have already put their escape plan into progress.

In this way, Duan Xiao replaced the existence of Cathay, the prisoner who died of copper poisoning, and became a member of this criminal gang that had been hiding in Taiping Mansion for several years.

The personal task assigned to him by Baltu was also from the beginning that Cathay Pacific was responsible for escorting the copper coins.

It turned into three groups of the two members of the spider organization - the thugs four into six, and five into five. Together, they brought down everyone in the prison, and left the prison to take their goods and leave Taiping Mansion safely.

And on the bodies of the three of them, there were also three sets of templates for casting Kangxi Tongbao.

According to Baltu, this set of counterfeit coin templates locked in the box is invaluable, because it is the counterfeit template that is closest to the actual quality of copper coins and the ratio of copper and aluminum obtained by them after five years of painstaking calculations and experiments, so they must be safely taken out of Taiping government.

The key to open the lock is the chain number lock with a strange and complicated structure on the lock.

The correct way to unlock the lock is to calculate the density and contraction rate of this set of fake coins that are closest to the real money through calculations.

This crucial number is the most important bargaining chip in this operation. If this is not obtained in the final arrest, then this series of operations may come to naught.

In addition, Baltu had more than one flintlock gun that could be used for murder.

But he didn't give any of them to Duan Xiao for the time being, and only let his eight subordinates who will be in charge of cleaning the prison door hold it.

Duan Xiao did not comment on this.

Because he knows that Baltu still has a bottom line of defense against him, and he also needs to truly disintegrate this group of people from within at the most appropriate moment.

It was also through this spider gang map that he completely informed himself of the entire prison escape and delivery plan as an accomplice, and now Duan Xiao, who has become a member of it, also understands what the gang's internal plan is——

——And that special day is finally a little bit closer to everyone now.

The author has something to say: Fractions appear in "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", and the pi calculated by Zu Chongzhi is the expression of fractions

The flintlock gun was a kind of firearm commonly used by the people during the Qianlong period.

Although these two things sound magical and have a magical impact of wtk, they really existed during the Qianlong period, and they were really widely circulated among the people. You can ask Baidu what this thing looks like.

And 34 years later, Qianlong will personally promulgate the ban on guns. This is also the famous Qianlong ban on guns in history.