Chapter 305 Ransacking Jia’s Treasury

The government office is located in the most lively and prosperous West Street in Beijing.

The streets here are very wide, and the ground is paved with very flat bluestone slabs, which can accommodate seven or eight carriages traveling parallel to each other at the same time.

There are many shops on both sides of the street, all of which are wooden two-story structures. There are occasionally three-story luxury restaurants and inns.

The whole street is very lively, and there are countless hawkers walking and selling on their shoulders, or setting up stalls on the street, with a variety of food and entertainment.

And on this street, there is a building that is very special.

There are two very majestic stone lions at the door. There are several stone steps between the stone lions. Go up the stone steps and you will be facing a gate.

There are wooden fences surrounding the gate on both sides, and a large drum as tall as a person is surrounded on each side.

On the plaque on the gate, the four characters "Beijing Government Office" are greatly inlaid.

Such a majestic and solemn place is naturally the Kyoto government office responsible for public security in the capital.

There were several government officials standing in front of the government office, and no one dared to set up a stall on the street in front of the government office.

Qiao Ran just glanced at the door and continued walking forward.

We reached the end of the street and turned into a narrow alley. There were several beggars in ragged clothes huddled up, tremblingly munching on the cold steamed buns they had received from beggars.

Qiao Ran stepped forward and handed over a pack of hot meat buns she had just bought.

A moment later, Qiao Ran appeared on another street.

This is not a commercial street, but a very quiet residential street.

This street is not far from the lively West Street, but because there are no shops here, it seems very quiet. Compared with the bustling West Street just now, it is a completely different world.

Every residence here is divided into large courtyards with very tall blue brick walls. Each courtyard is owned by a well-known family in the capital, who is either rich or noble.

Qiao Ran had already disguised herself when she left the Juxian Building. At this time, she had changed into men's clothes, her hair and face had also changed, and she was dressed like a servant from a wealthy family. She walked calmly from the street to the middle of the street. , stopped outside the high wall of a house.

She looked around calmly. It was lunch time and not many people came out.

I only saw the side door of a house in the distance open. Two young men who were shopping entered and closed the door without even looking this way.

Seeing that there was no one around, Qiao Ran gathered her strength and jumped onto the high wall.

She landed in a yard that had obviously been uninhabited for a long time. There was not much popularity here. Although the weeds in the flowerbed did not grow wildly, they did not seem to have been carefully taken care of.

Qiao Ran's goal was not here. She jumped up to a large tree with sparse leaves in the yard. Her movements were so light that not a single snow or yellow leaf fell down.

Fortunately, the color of her clothes is similar to the color of the rustic tree trunk, so it's not easy to spot her if you don't look carefully.

From among the sparse branches and leaves, Qiao Ran raised her eyes and looked at a nearby yard.

I saw that the courtyard was very exquisite. Although the courtyard was not very big, it was fully equipped with pools, pavilions, rockeries, flower gardens, etc. The rows of wing rooms were also decorated with carved beams and beams, which were exquisite and luxurious.

Qiao Ran smiled sarcastically in her heart. Being able to buy such a large courtyard in the city of Kyoto, where land is at a premium, and decorate it so luxuriously, it seems that the owner of this courtyard has made a lot of money!

After exploring the terrain, Qiao Ran jumped down from the tree, jumped onto the wall on the other side, and climbed into the yard next door.

Most of the servants were probably waiting for the master to eat at the moment. Except for what looked like the dining room, where servants and maids were constantly coming in and out, there were not many people in other places.

It didn't take much effort for Qiao Ran to find a house with a thick door and several large locks on the door. It was so obvious that it was the warehouse.

She observed from a distance and determined that there were no secret guards here. There was only a man dressed as a guard at the door of the warehouse, holding a big knife, leaning on the pillar, and dozing off little by little.

Qiao Ran quietly approached the man, took out a small porcelain bottle and shook it in front of the man's nose, then helped the guard who was completely asleep and leaned firmly against the pillar. From a distance, it looked like He stood there dutifully upright.

Qiao Ran quickly took out her master key - an ordinary slender hairpin, opened the heavy lock in a few clicks, and entered the warehouse.

As soon as he entered, Qiao Ran was dazzled.

As expected of a capital official, he was also the Kyoto government official with the most money to make. Compared with Jia Tongpan's wealth, the warehouses and inventories of other county and government officials were nothing to mention.

In the large warehouse, there are not only gold and silver jewelry, but also many precious jades, porcelain, famous calligraphy and paintings, landscape screens, coral pearls, rare medicinal materials, expensive silks and furs, and original copies of famous works.

There were dozens of boxes of gold alone, and hundreds of boxes of white silver ingots.

There was even a large stack of banknotes in a wooden box. Qiao Ran didn't have time to calculate how much money there was.

Qiao Ran didn't know what the treasury would look like, but looking at this small Tongpan Mansion warehouse, there was such a dazzling array of precious properties. Was this a smaller version of the treasury?

I really don’t know how many dirty things Jia Tongpan did and how many bribes he accepted to accumulate so much wealth.

Since they were all ill-gotten gains, it shouldn't be an exaggeration for her, Qiao Ran, to take them away, right?

Qiao Ran was not polite at all, and did a big sweep, including the wooden shelves and boxes, and put them into the space, leaving only an empty warehouse with only a trembling little mouse in the corner.

This time she didn't set fire to the house. This was the capital after all, so it would be too conspicuous.

Anyway, Jia Tongpan's property was obtained through corruption and bribery, so he didn't dare to report to the officials what property he had lost.

Compared to this Wu Shamao who can continue to make money, no one with a little bit of brains would cause a commotion in the city over the lost property that they don't know if they can be recovered.

Jia Tong is determined to suffer this dumb loss!

However, he will definitely send someone to search carefully in an attempt to recover his belongings and catch the thief who dares to steal his warehouse.

But, what does this have to do with her, a little village girl who was ordered not to enter the city and could only wait for death in the cannibal Devil's Valley?

Qiao Ran re-locked the big locks and left Jia Tongpan's mansion without a trace.

Having gained a lot, she changed into the clothes she wore when she entered the city in an alley not far from the Juxian Building, and returned to the Juxian Building.

Shopkeeper Chen was waiting anxiously, but when he saw Miss Qiao finally coming back, he hurried forward to greet her:

"Oh, you're back! Have you bought everything? I'll have someone take you back and pick up the peppers on the way."