Daqing Criminal Division

Fourteen days, child time.

With the topographic map of the fortress going up and down, as well as measures such as removing the cell door, Baltu had already gone to show Duan Xiao their secret cell on the top floor of the prison in advance.

When the gate of the old fortress vault buried in the vent of the prison was slowly opened, it illuminated the eyes of Duan Owl who entered here to watch the goods, and his eyes were reflected in gold.

What appeared in his eyes was an extremely shocking and incomprehensible secret crime lair.

As far as the eye can see, except for Baltu's men who have taken off their prison uniforms and are bare-chested, making skillful templates to make money.

Entering a cell where no one would suspect them as a death row rower, counterfeiting money—it really was a seamless criminal scheme.

Except for the people, the inside is full of solid wooden boxes piled up along the top of the secret cell and pressed with white seals.

The ground and the top of the iron sheet are connected by bamboo tubes, and the distilled water flowing is used to cool down and shape the copper coins.

Water droplets fell down the walls, and most of the useless dregs and bitter water were drained out along the pipes on the edge of the fort, and then flowed into the adjacent agricultural land without anyone noticing.

Because the bitter water mixed with heavy metals is constantly watering those farmlands.

As a result, no matter what is sown in those fields, it is difficult to grow, which is why the prisoners always say that the rotten fields cannot grow crops.

Every link from distillation, pattern making, copper smelting, and coin casting.

The copper spoons and aluminum spoons that enter the Taipingfu from the slot every day will be transported here at night to complete the first step of high-temperature melting, and complete new quenching and casting in a fixed coin template.

Every step was completed by Baltu's group of 'prisoners' who watched drinking and gambling every day during the day, but actually entered the cell as death row prisoners to mint money.

As for the boxes that are finally packed and stamped with a note on the finished product, they are shipped out safely.

From top to bottom in the form of pig iron grids, the entire entrance of the prison is filled. The seal is a line of familiar ink pen approval "Taiping Mansion Prison Thirteen Days", indicating that this is the goods made here today, and in these parts there are still Inside the open box was Kangxi Tongbao, which stained the eyes of Baltu and Duan Xiao in gold and copper—that is, Arhat money.

After these pieces were wiped with vegetable oil by the subordinates, the completely old fake copper coins made a sound when they hit the ground.

It was like the sound of dense ocean tides, the real money circulating in the world was about to be replaced by these fake money, but no one knew it.

At this moment, Duan Xiao couldn't tell how much fake money was produced in the entire second-floor secret cell that was about to flow into the people, but it was substituted into the price of the dynasty.

The extent of the interest chain hidden behind this batch of copper coins that cannot be calculated at all is quite frightening.

Because if Duan Xiao did not make a mistake in his calculations, in the year when Shizu didn't fight wars, four copper coins could buy a catty of rice, and one tael of silver could be exchanged for a thousand copper coins.

This dynasty stipulates that the silver coins minted by successive emperors can be used in later generations, but in fact, the Kangxi Tongbao minted during the reign of Emperor Sejong has always been more valuable than the minted coins that are currently circulating in the world. Why is there such a value between currencies? Because the actual copper content and weight of each generation of Tongbao are different.

Mined copper is more expensive than aluminum and lead, and Tongbao with high copper content is the most expensive, so the benefits of casting fake Kangxi Tongbao are the highest.

Later, Baltu generously told him a shocking number.

"The fake Arhat money here, together with the copper we melted from the original copper plate for the first time, can be exchanged for about 460 million taels of silver outside."

Baltu talked to him confidently with a greedy expression on his face.

"460 million taels of silver?"

Standing in this secret factory, Duan Xiao couldn't help but look further away with his eyes squinted, expressing doubts about this number.

"Why, don't believe me?"

"This is just a rough calculation. As long as it can flow out of the source prison of Taiping Mansion, this batch of fake copper coins can flow into the north and south of the river in less than half a month. Because it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the fake, pawnshops and the official money minting bureau will accept it as it is. , tenants, and merchants use it in the world, and soon the exchange market between copper plates and silver will be completely messed up, and no one will be able to distinguish real money from fake money, and only us will benefit in the end.”

"We can earn tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of times more silver taels than these copper plates, and then exchange them for silver notes and grain. As long as these fake arhat coins and casting templates can be safely shipped out, gold and silver will only continue to flow, 460 Ten thousand silver can even be quadrupled, five times."

This sentence was extremely rampant, but Duan Xiao, who was listening on the side, knew that it was not a lie.

The darkness and conspiracy hidden behind this fake Arhat money is far greater than the impact of the fake money itself. Injecting stagnant water into the original living water will kill not only the drinker, but also everything in the water that depends on it. source of survival.

About why Baltu was able to control all the passages from the fourth floor to the top floor of the Taiping Mansion Prison, and will send his own people here in the reverse direction for five years, and finally completed this large amount of fake money casting.

Afterwards, Duan Xiao finally got a definite answer.

Because the group of people as cruel and ruthless as Baltu thought of a way early on.

And this vicious method—it was actually related to a legacy case that Sima Zhun and the others were investigating outside the prison that the informant had told him the last time he came to the prison.

"Do you still know her?"

"I heard that you had a great time in those few nights. You were the first to touch her. We didn't have time to touch her before. It's my preferential treatment for you."

Immediately, he led Duan Xiao out of the cell, and ordered his subordinates to open an iron door, and looked inside. Baltu smiled maliciously, where his finger was pointing.

It was a young girl with her feet chained, curled up in a corner of the cell in a daze without speaking, only a white obscene dress on her body, and the rest of her body was naked.

This is clearly a hostage.

As far as the eye can see, her lips are pale, and her unmarried hair is braided. Not only has she been imprisoned by these villains for a long time, her face, calves, and neck are covered with beating wounds.

And recalling the last time I saw her, this girl who was illegally detained here was still packed in a sack by Baltu and sent to him. Duan Xiao, who hadn't figured it out at the time, also vaguely guessed what she was in an instant. Who is it.

"This is the daughter of Wen Sui, the prison chief of the Taiping Mansion. She will be taken out of the prison by us on the night of the [-]th."

"We robbed her two months ago and detained her here again. Even the government has never known her specific whereabouts."

"Because she has been locked in a prison cell and no one can find her. In order to save her, Ama can only obey our orders. Therefore, on the [-]th day of prison clearing, the gates of the prison and the city will be opened for free. We open the door of convenience, this girl, and her Ama, who knows too much, will be resolved by you at that time, then no one in this world can stop us."

"Do you understand, Duan Xiao?"

That night, in the prison of Taiping Mansion, the dark cells on both sides were dimly lit.

Duan Xiao, who returned to the cell alone, didn't know what he was doing in the dark cell opposite, but he himself couldn't sleep.

In his hand is the last letter he received in the notch in the past few days before returning to the cell, the only reply since four or five days ago.

If the number on the disassembled paper ball is compared with the scale on the wooden funnel hanging on the outer cell, there will be someone who handed the paper ball to him when it gets dark the next day, and there are also people outside the prison. The action group on the side that receives the news will act together.

Just like the secret plan of Baltu and his group.

Right now, outside the prison of Taiping Mansion, there is also a web of spiders facing backwards.

The lives of the hostages are safe.

Mint money template and those fake money.

And the most crucial density rate and contract rate.

Everything is a two-party game that is warming up in advance for the upcoming life and death arrest.

— seven hours.

Seven hours later, it was time for the next prison escape riot and the government's reverse arrest to officially kick off.

Inside the prison, it was dark and cold, and the way forward was still somewhat unknown.

But for some reason, Duan Xiao, who squinted his eyes and had been pinching a piece of paper since just now, didn't seem to be wandering, but had an indescribable calmness and firmness.

Because it is behind the ball of paper that is about to be destroyed soon.

A one-word suffix after another number.

'Meow'.

When Duan Xiao just opened it and saw the end, he was seeing that word, but it was this simple but relaxing word, which made it rare for him to close his eyes and rest for a while before this night.

And on the other side of Duan Xiao, who was lying on his back against the wall, there was a half body lying in the darkness, a figure who didn't know what to think, humming softly for someone.

At this moment, the face of someone who stayed up most of the night in the cell was sharp, as if he had changed.

The two eyes, one black and one gray, are as bright as light against the deep and thick eyebrows.

The placket was open with two buttons, and at the junction of the forehead and the bridge of the nose, there was a fearlessness that could see through the dangers of the world. A strand of curly and scattered hair was hanging by the ear, and a long braid was draped over half of his shoulder.

In the palm of his hand, he was holding a piece of black tassel jade. On the front was the word Zhen Guo Feng En, while on the back there was only a single engraved word.

'Jade'.

It's just that for things like songs, you can't forget them after singing to someone once.

What happened that night.

Nobody knows.

But the two identical songs seem to ring in the hearts of different people.

In the dark, everything is still unknown, and no one knows where the 'spider' is hiding this time.

"———"

——The mystery is being solved.

……

Fifteenth.

night.

unitary hour

There was a strong wind that night, and the crows outside gathered on the top of the fort, their crows disturbing the hearts of the people.

It was getting dark now.

The surrounding walls wrapped in pig iron and the farmland were dimly lit, and it was hard to see whether there was any murderous intent hidden behind the pale white mist.

Most of the ordinary prisoners who had closed their eyes in their cells, and the guards patrolling on the watchtower above the fort, didn't know what kind of conspiracy and escape was about to happen.

Through the step-by-step peeking into the prison from the outside, an absurd and chaotic image of all beings in the prison quietly happened this night.

The voice in the human voice disappears at this moment, only the twisted and deformed mouth and body movements of the human are amplified like animals in the perspective.

On the fourth floor, the infanticide Cai Wang Xiaoliu and his like lived in square cells like rats and ants, or curled up on dirt beds and slept soundly, or lay half dead on their backs in the group cells and sang songs.

On the third floor, the ferocious hyena-like jailers had nothing to do. They gathered around smilingly to gamble and eat money in the middle of the night, but they didn't even do basic external patrols.

On the second floor, the concentrating cell, which was supposed to be bustling as usual, was filled with darkness, and there was no one around. There was a trace of weirdness and silence in the air, as if everyone had fled overnight.

"—!"

At the very center, hung a beast-shaped lock, and the iron fence that blocked the four-storey cell was shaken by the wind.

——The prisoners on the fourth floor are still sleeping soundly without knowing anything.

In the shadows, the sound of human footsteps came from an unknown place, but disappeared strangely.

——The guards on the third floor were still slapping the table, laughing and eating wine.

In the middle, on the wall covered with instruments of torture, a wooden funnel dripping water "tick tick tick" until the scale of the third quarter of the unitary hour is filled.

At the edge of the funnel, there was a small stream of water overflowing from the wall to the ground. The sound of the water became the only movement in the cell. There was a sudden silence all around, and then, a shocking explosion sounded like "touch—" at once.

This was accompanied by an explosion of strong dust splashes, which originally originated from the east side of Cell [-] on the edge of the second floor.

The iron fence door used to prevent the escape of the prisoners on the second floor was the first to be violently blasted from the inside, and it was broken and fell to the ground like tearing up a piece of the most fragile rice paper.

First, four or five pairs of black shadows carrying heavy solid wooden boxes came out majestically from the dark place, and then the people behind followed.

There were nearly 30 people in this group, not including those who had gone underground through the secret passage.

Everyone was covered with a black cloth scarf, and changed the prison uniform, only showing a pair of fierce eyes, and the tattoo of the green spider on the back of the hand that was no longer concealed.

It can be seen that the leaders are two thugs with yellowish braids.

They are four points six before Baltu, and five points five.

And as the shadows under the group of black cloth towels left the cell in front of them with a majestic posture, and the lime slipped from the wall below, the jailers, who had realized that something was wrong, also ushered in A wave of 'black cloth towel' attacks.

The first victims are the bottom three floors.

Because before the group of jailers who were drunk came to their senses and their faces changed drastically, and they wanted to pick up the torture tools and sabers on the wall, a black figure leading the way and a fast-firing gun approaching their foreheads from behind appeared just like that. .

This black shadow can vaguely see who he is.

Because on his body, you can still see the forest tiger tattoo that hasn't faded.

Duan Xiao, who was ordered to get rid of the gang of jailers who were in the way, didn't want to say anything about it. He just hid his face in the cold darkness, and tilted his head coldly through the black cloth to threaten him.

"Get out of the way, we're going out."

"...You, who are you! What the hell are you trying to do! This is the Taiping Mansion prison! Do you still want to escape from prison!"

One of the thin, red-and-black jailers who had received benefits from Baltu before boldly spoke up, but before he could finish his sentence, the one holding the flintlock directly pointed at him at gunpoint. Let him get up.

"bump--"

There was another violent gunshot from the muzzle hitting the ammunition.

The young jailer who had appeared several times before flew out with his back to his body and screamed in coordination.

The blood polluted the ground in an instant, and the other cowardly guards were terrified when they saw this, holding their heads like dead people who had lost their souls, they took out the keys and let the escaped gangsters manipulate them .

As soon as Duan Xiao came up, he directly 'solved' a jailer.

Seeing this, the rest of the spiders also believed that this guy might really be a desperado, so afterward, Duan Xiao raised the flintlock gun in his hand, turned his head and pointed down, and then spoke to them.

"Go to the bottom four floors and deal with the other prisoners and that Fourzi." The group of 'spiders' also followed.

the second quarter of the unitary hour

Up and down the fourth floor is also in chaos at the moment.

Because the group of prisoners who realized that there was a change in the prison were still locked in the cell and could not escape, so they could only frantically fall into fear and kept banging on the door.

These guys are dead or not.

They are all worthless to them to escape tonight, but now the one person Duan Xiao has to 'solve' is still on the fourth floor.

He also waited at the bottom, and waved his hand to signal others to surround a certain cell on the westernmost side. Before Duan Xiao and other escapees blocked someone inside, a hand suddenly raised a copper spoon from inside. It broke into everyone's sight.

The man was vaguely a shadow.

When he ran out, he also covered his face with a black cloth towel, and his skills were exceptional.

When he ran away, the fourth floor was already surrounded by a group of escaped prisoners, but after this man confronted Duan Xiao at the door, he was able to kick up with an amazing skill, directly disrupting their pace. Escape toward the corridor on the fourth floor.

Blocking it with his arm, Duan Ou seemed to realize that he was going to escape, so he shot coldly.

But in vain, the man turned his head and gave him a vague look when he left, and escaped through the prison door like a ghostly black shadow, with a long braid being lifted by the wind behind him.

Duan Xiao and the other escapees were a little unexpected when they saw this, but in the next second, Duan Xiao, the only one who saw the man's face clearly and looked at him, had already opened his mouth.

"That Fourzi escaped. I'm going to kill him now."

"Is it Fourzy? I didn't see his face clearly just now."

One of the escapees from the spider organization who followed him was suspicious.

"That's right, it's him. I know his face even when I turned to ashes, and I saw the eagle tattoo on his body."

As soon as Duan Xiao finished his convincing words, no one around continued to question them. For fear of causing trouble, if this 'Fu Erji' escaped and leaked their plan, it would be the real trouble tonight, so he went directly from the fourth floor Surrounding him, the members of the spider organization and Duan Xiao surrounded him as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, although this person has some skills.

But he couldn't escape further under tonight's situation.

Because after about two or three hundred steps, he was overtaken by Duan Xiao, who had no intention of staying alive tonight, and the two of them passed through the prison like a gust of wind, and when the other party was about to break through the iron window under the fortress The instant the box hits.

Duan Xiao kicked the opponent's strong back.

The fleeing 'Fu Erji' was kicked to the ground at once, and he punched Duan Xiao's neck and head twice with his own fist. Pushing him away, he got up again and wanted to escape, but he pointed the flintlock gun at the back of the shadow that climbed up the window and buckled the gunpowder chamber.

"bump--"

The fire hit Duan Xiao's face, and shot the opponent accordingly.

The black figure clutching his chest in obvious pain was knocked out of the window frame by the impact of the gunpowder, and blood was splashed on Duan Xiao's face and the surrounding ground when it fell.

Seeing this, the other members of the spider organization hurried down to check.

But seeing the blood under the night, the 'corpse' had already fallen, and it was at this time that Duan Xiao, who wiped the blood on his face with his hands, said coldly.

"He's dead. I've aimed the gun at his heart. That's fine. Tell Four Fen Liu and them, and together with Ba Ye, we'll take the goods and the carriage and formally break open the prison door and leave. Wen Sui is still outside the prison." The trading place is waiting for us."

"it is good."

As soon as the words fell, the group of people who had violently escaped followed Duan Xiao and turned away.

Duan Xiao didn't look back when he left for the last time, but about half a moment later, with the sound of horses from the carriage that they had prepared earlier in the morning, about 67 prisoners carrying a piece of solid wood just like that from the bloody The prison of Taiping Mansion escaped.

the second quarter of xu

Divided into three waves, one of which was sitting in Baltu, divided into six, Duan Xiao and several members of the spider organization, took the hostage - the daughter of Wen Sui, the prison chief of Taiping Mansion, to the east gate of the main city of Taiping Mansion.

When the people in the carriage lifted the curtain of the carriage with one hand, what they showed was a face poking out in four quarters.

This is the main carriageway facing the city gate.

Because they are far away from the official road, no one will disturb their specific goods transactions except some street people at this time.

Five-fifths and five people are rushing to the vicinity of the Taipingfu Canal Wharf at this moment.

They agreed that after a while, Wen Sui's chariot and horse who came to redeem his daughter appeared, and Duan Xiao in the chariot shot directly, killed the father and daughter with one shot, and then took the template that Baltu had left at Wen Sui's place before. Take away and flee quickly.

But with the lighting of the streets along the streets, the lights in the main city seem to be a little too bright and noisy tonight.

Inside and outside, there are several circles of teahouses at this time, drunken guests are making trouble, and some people are arguing. From a distance, Baltu, who is sitting in the carriage, is also a little irritable when he hears the movement from the opposite teahouse.

"Why hasn't anyone come yet? What the hell is going on? Ba Ye is going to wait impatiently."

Si Fen Liu was expressionless, spitting at Duan Xiao's feet in front of Duan Xiao who was holding the hostage sitting behind him, and couldn't help but carefully picked up the quick-fire gun in his hand and glanced out.

"..."

Regarding this, Duan Xiao, who was waiting for someone to appear in the car with the three of them, said nothing.

But half a moment later, when Bartu, who had already become impatient and visibly irritable, almost cursed and killed the hostages in the carriage, a somewhat familiar carriage appeared vaguely in the night.

It's Wen Sui's car.

This made Baltu, who was staring straight into the distance, immediately show an expression that calmed down his anger.

Immediately afterwards, he waved his hand silently, and motioned for Duan Xiao to lead the people out of the car to the opposite car with Wen Sui.

In this regard, Duan Xiao remained silent.

Holding the unconscious girl in one hand, he got out of the carriage and walked slowly up to the carriage in the distance.

step.

two steps.

Three steps.

In the so-called 'Wen Sui' car on the opposite side, a pair of boots were vaguely exposed. Baltu, who had been staring at the action on the other side, vaguely realized that something was wrong. The next second, the black spider under the ear The trembling villain suddenly shrank his pupils and shouted upwards again.

"and many more--"

When Baltu said this, it was already too late.

three quarters of xu

Duan Xiao, who was still holding the woman hostage in his hand, twisted the gun in his hand without warning and pointed it at Baltu, then took the woman and Wen Sui in the car and took advantage of the situation to leave the scene.

A group of members of the spider organization who faced him and turned against him immediately shook their faces. They realized that something was wrong and looked up the teahouse, only to see dozens of policemen jumping down from the top together, and surrounded the place again.

Amidst this chaos, a roar of "Taiping Mansion Officials! All gangsters come down immediately!" came like this.

It can be seen that Baltu, who escaped by chance, did not obey, but directly roared sullenly and furiously, "Duan Xiao—" and directly drew out a flintlock gun in his hand to meet him.

"bump--"

The sound of gunfire resounded throughout the night sky of Taiping Mansion.

Now, it's a big mess.