The bandit was terrified, "Yes, it's Wang Chi."
Yu Jinshu's eyes darkened. "Wang Chi, the owner of the Wang Family Tea Factory."
The bandit nodded. "Yes, that's him. He said the young mistress of the Wang family mansion had sent the head of the textile factory to prison for execution, and he was sure he couldn't escape either. So he came to us, saying that the Wang family mansion had very strong security, and asked us to bring more than 200 people to capture the young mistress and Wang Zeqing, the only male in the Wang family."
Ye Nankun said coldly, "Wang Chi, I will make sure he never sees the sun tomorrow."
Yu Jinshu said, "The tea industry is very complex, and this matter needs careful planning."
Ye Nankun looked at his woman and smiled. How come this girl hadn't shown any fear after going through such a big situation? She was actually still thinking about making a good plan.
A group of carriages and horses traveled on the night road with torches and arrived at the town to rest at the hour of Yin.
However, Yu Jinshu did not travel with the carriage. She and Ye Nankun went directly to the tea mountain, while Zhan Qi and several guards accompanied them.
They also took the leader of the bandits, Pangolin, with them to the tea mountain.
The road to the tea mountain was dangerous, so they went up the mountain at daybreak.
The Wang family’s tea factory is halfway up the mountain.
This tea factory was visited by Wang Baoshan's father before. After his father's death, Wang Baoshan took over the family business and didn't care much about the tea factory, so he never came here.
Qin never left the house, and only Wang Chi would send the profits from the tea factory to the Wang family mansion before the New Year every year.
There are thousands of acres of tea plantations, but the profit is only three to five thousand taels.
Qin didn't understand either. Every time Wang Chi came to the Wang family mansion, he would say that there was drought and insect pests, and the tea harvest was poor.
As we walked up the mountain and passed through tea plantations, we found that the plantations were well maintained and did not look like the harvest was poor.
They passed through several villages where tea workshops were roasting tea.
Yu Jinshu had learned about this before coming here. Generally, tea farmers would pick tea leaves at noon when the sunlight is the best, then come back and dry them for two hours, and then start making tea all night long in the evening.
The tea factory will regularly collect tea from farmers and pay them according to the weight of the tea.
After the finished tea arrives at the tea factory, it is basically selected according to its quality.
Ye Nankun took Yu Jinshu to several tea farmers' homes to inquire about the situation.
According to tea farmers, Wang Chi is very strict in the management of tea planting. He requires tea farmers to do a good job of pest prevention in the tea garden every day, and he also built canals specifically for the tea mountains. Water shortage and drought are extremely rare in the tea mountains.
However, Wang Chi was very stingy and paid the tea farmers very low wages, which was barely enough for them to survive.
When it comes to whether tea is profitable or not, the tea farmers all agree that Wang Chi has made a lot of money for the Wang family, at least tens of thousands of taels of silver a year.
After coming out of the tea farmer's house, Ye Nankun said, with so many tea mountains managed so well, according to the current price of tea which is as expensive as oil, it must make at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver a year!
Yu Jinshu was shocked. There were hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, but Wang Chi only sent three to five thousand taels of silver to the Wang family mansion every year.
She said, "That's enough. Tie me and Zhan Qi up!"
Zhan Qi replaced Wang Zeqing, and several guards disguised themselves as Pangolin's men and sent Yu Jinshu and "Wang Zeqing" to Wang Chi.
Every time Wang Chi delivered money to the Wang family mansion, he was only in the front yard and he had never seen Wang Zeqing.
Several guards had already changed into the bandits' clothes and put on their headscarves at the place where they robbed.
The bandit leader Pangolin took them to the large mansion built by Wang Chi in the mountains.
What a great mountain villa! It is as big as the official residence of a second or third rank official. The small bridges, flowing water and gardens built against the mountain are even more beautiful than the back garden of the city palace.
Pangolin said that Wang Chi married thirteen concubines and kept them in this house. These women gave birth to five sons and eight daughters for him. He was really rich and had a large family.
Yu Jinshu had previously checked and found out that Wang Chi was the son of Wang Baoshan’s grandfather’s younger brother, and was closer to him than Wang Fugui.
However, no matter how close they are, they are generations apart and cannot be considered direct relatives.
Pangolin brought the tied-up young lady of the Wang family mansion and the only male in the Wang family mansion to Wang Chi.
Wang Chi is in his forties, tall and thin, with a black beard on his chin and a pair of narrow eyes that look particularly shrewd.
He was wearing a yellow robe with gold weaving. Was he going to be the king of the mountain?
Only the city lord can wear the yellow robe with gold webbing.
When Wang Chi saw Yu Jinshu, his eyes widened and his mouth drooled. "Young Madam, such a beautiful young lady, it would be a shame for you to be a widow in the Wang family mansion. From today on, you will be my twenty-fourth concubine."
Wang Chi immediately ordered his servants, "Go prepare a courtyard for the young lady, and set up some red silk and red candles. Tonight, I will spend my wedding night with the young lady."
Ye Nankun, who was watching the show on the beam in the hall, was so angry when he heard Wang Chi say these words that he wanted to jump down and skin Wang Chi alive.
Anyone who dares to covet the city lord's woman will definitely not survive.
Jinshu said that no matter what Wang Chi said or did, he could not show up without her permission.
Unless Wang Chi endangers her life.
The Pangolin asked, "Master Wang, I've brought you two such important people. Where's the 1,000 taels of gold you promised me?"
Wang Chi certainly didn't dare to offend such a vicious bandit. He said with a smile, "One thousand taels of gold, I will certainly not give you a single ounce less. Wait a moment, I'll go get you the gold."
Wang Chi left the front hall and went to the backyard.
Ye Nankun quietly came down from the beam and followed all the way.
After Wang Chi entered a courtyard, he did not allow any servants to follow him. He walked in alone and locked the gate.
Ye Nankun guessed that there was a vault in this yard, and this was Yu Jinshu's intention in sending him to the door.
If the tea mountain really had such a good harvest, then all the money earned by the tea factory would have been swallowed up by Wang Chi.
There were no banks in this era, so it was impossible to save money. So much money would definitely be saved by Wang Chi.
If we catch Wang Chi by force and he refuses to tell us where he hid the money, the mountains and the land are so vast, and if we can't find it, we will lose a lot of money.
Therefore, Yu Jinshu packed himself up and sent himself to the door, and asked Pangolin to ask Wang Chi for the money and try to find where Wang Chi hid the money.
After seeing Wang Chi enter the yard, Ye Nankun went into a side room.
There was no one guarding the yard, which showed that Wang Chi did not trust anyone.
Ye Nankun was at the window of this room. He wanted to poke a hole in the window paper, but he found that the window was covered with a layer of wood on the inside, making it impossible to see what was going on inside from the outside.
There was some movement inside, and Ye Nankun quickly hid.
After a long while, Wang Chi came out of the room with a heavy box on his shoulder.
Obviously, there are one thousand taels of gold in this box.
Look at Wang Chi, he has some skills, otherwise he can carry the heavy 1,000 taels of gold without any effort.
Ye Nankun did not dare to underestimate Wang Chi.
Wang Chi carried the box out of the yard and locked the gate from the outside.
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