noffsinger Chapter 118 Closing down the casino
Chapter 118 Closing down the casino
Since Huang Yi sent a message to check the warehouse at night, the captains and centurions in the camp were also alarmed. Nanchen specially asked people to wake them up and count the goods together. The result can be imagined. The new leaders were furious and cursed. What kind of black-hearted thing actually emptied the silver salary of the North Camp, which did not care about their lives.
After a thorough inventory, everyone was shocked and anxious. There was a big corrupt official in their North Camp. There were only a few people who could come into contact with these people on weekdays. Just thinking about it, they knew what was going on. What should they do now? How can they get back the three to four months of silver salary gap? What should they do if they can't get it back? For a while, everyone was in a panic and hated those parasites. Those who originally had respect for Pan Niusheng suddenly felt like they had eaten a fly. It was not poisonous but it was uncomfortable. The little respect they had for him was vulnerable in the face of this ironclad fact and instantly turned into hatred and anger.
Nanchen could see clearly their anger, so he took away the account book. He also tried to calm people down, "Before we find out the truth, keep it secret for now. Once we find out, we will announce the punishment uniformly. Pay attention to the movements of your men. Go out for training as usual tomorrow. Can you do it? I will take people to investigate and try to recover the embezzled silver."
"Yes! General!" everyone responded.
"Okay, let's go back and change the lock of the warehouse. Remember to report any unusual movements!" Nanchen left with his four guards, and the camp returned to peace.
Hei Yi and Hei Er interrogated Pan Da Kui in an abandoned thatched house.
"Pan Da Kui, what is your relationship with Pan Niu Sheng?" Pan Da Kui, who was awakened by the cold water, was trembling all over. He was extremely scared. Could it be that there was murder for money in this dilapidated place?
"Have mercy, have mercy, I am his relative, please spare my life, Mr. Pan will pay to redeem my life." Pan Da Kui just kowtowed and begged for mercy in panic. He didn't even dare to look at who had kidnapped him here.
"Hmph, I think we should just kill him. Who knows if that old guy Pan Niu Sheng will be willing to give money?" Hei Er said in a deliberately vicious voice.
"Ken, Ken, Ken. His family is rich. He owns casinos, shops, and the army's money is also in his hands. He also lends money to gamblers, and the interest rate is very high. He has 3,000 new salary every month to lend in the casino, and he can't even lose money... My dear, everything I say is true. Send a letter to my uncle, and he will definitely give you money. As long as you spare my life, the money will be given to you! Woo woo..." Pan Da Kui was greedy for life and afraid of death. He thought he was meeting a desperate criminal who was asking for money and a way to survive, so he threw out the proof that Pan Niu Sheng could give him money without hesitation. Woo ~ He also came out to report the news and encountered this disaster. Uncle Pan should pay to save him!
Hei Yi and Hei Er looked at each other, and Hei Er raised his hand and knocked the man unconscious again, then carried the man away and went to report the mission. It was time to clean up the Pan family casino!
Hei Yi and Hong Yi arrived at Nan Chen's residence at the same time. They looked at each other in surprise. Did they both find out the news and come to report? Hong Yi thought that the big guy Hei Yi was not as stupid as he imagined. Hei Yi thought that the little guy Hong Yi was still as smart as ever. While the two exchanged glances, they thought about the business and straightened their attitudes.
Hei Yi told Pan Da Kui all the information he got from interrogating him, saying that it was effortless and this was a breakthrough that came right to him.
"Very good. Put him in solitary confinement in a secret cell. Also, make him write a complete confession and have him put his fingerprints on it!" Nanchen calmly added the follow-up measures. He then looked at Hong Yi, "How are you... doing here?"
"I think I have figured out the secrets of the casino. I even know where they hide the silver!" Hong Yi got verification from Hei Yi and confirmed the problem with the casino again.
"What do you mean?" Nanchen and Hei Yijun looked at him.
"We won't find anything in the casino, and there won't be too much money. Even if we get caught, we won't lose anything. Their people hid the money in a secret room in a house, and my people are lying in ambush there. So I suggest that our action team start from the house at the back. The front one must be sealed, after all, it is the evidence of his crime! The people in the camp will lead the team to carry out the mission!" Hong Yi suggested.
"Will the loud noise in front scare away the people behind?" Hei Yi expressed his opinion.
"Idiot, I'll take action from the back first, without anyone knowing and I'll take action from the front at dawn, for everyone to see! He won't be able to complain, no matter whether he has evidence or not." Hong Yi always uses his bandit logic to do things, as long as he is confirmed, he will do it, and there is no need to follow the rules!
"How many people are needed?" Nanchen supported Hong Yi's approach of one open and one secret. They sealed off the North Camp openly, no matter how many people there were. They even pretended not to know that the house at the back was also their stronghold and would not investigate!
"Red and Black are enough!" Red One and Black One smiled at each other.
"It's Mao time in another quarter of an hour, hurry up! I'll bring people to seal off the casino as soon as Chen time arrives!" Nanchen gave the order!
"Yes!" With a few whooshes, the person disappeared without a trace. This was the time when people were sleeping and difficult to detect. It was the right time to do something. In a moment, the two teams were in place under the cover of darkness. As long as someone in the three houses fell asleep, the room with the secret room was carried aside with the bed and the person. Several figures quickly entered the secret room. Huh! It was just a secret room, not a secret passage, otherwise we would have to search for it again.
Move! Move out boxes and boxes! Take away the ill-gotten gains.
Move! Move out bags and bags! Take away the embezzled money.
Move! Take away the banknotes, the land deeds, and the house deeds.
A street away from the house, two carriages were parked. The drivers, Black Ten and Red Ten, only saw shadows flashing out of the dark alley, carrying boxes and sacks onto the carriages and leaving in an instant. The two teams went back and forth five or six times! Finally, the secret room was cleared. Red Two and Black Two, who were responsible for the rear, carefully knocked on the corners of the secret room to confirm that there were no partitions, and then came out to restore the bed to its original position. They also led people to search other rooms and the house in detail, left a secret sentry nearby, and left!
As soon as the Mao hour arrived, the two thousand men of the North Camp, Hong Changxing and Li Peihong, led elite soldiers to immediately surround the casino, arrest people, search, confiscate gambling money, and tie people up in a string and drive them out of the casino, and take them to the North Camp in full view of the public. After looting valuables, they also put big seals on the front and back doors.
At the same time, an official notice was posted saying, "Pan Niusheng, the former garrison commander of Beiying, took advantage of his position and colluded with others to embezzle Beiying's property and silver, amounting to more than 30,000 taels of silver, which he used to open a casino and lend money illegally. The amount of profit was huge, and the whereabouts of the money are still unknown. We are still investigating the whereabouts of the money. We hope that those who know the situation can provide clues to Beiying or the government. There will be rewards!"
The elite soldiers guarding the door saw the crowd gradually gathering around them and read out the notice loudly on purpose, and at the end they did not forget to complain. All their wages had been embezzled, and they had not paid the wages for several months. How could they explain to their parents at home? They came out to serve as soldiers to protect the safety of an area, but they were plotted against in this way. It was simply unscrupulous!
"Oh, your conscience has been eaten by a dog. You deserve to be killed for taking such a large sum of money!"
"No wonder my son hasn't come home for a long time, it turns out he has no money to go home"
"You dog official, you deserve to be killed!"
For a moment, the crowd was excited and talked a lot.
The soldiers did not forget to flatter and loudly announced, "If you have any clues, please provide them. Help the North Camp recover the losses, and there will be rewards!"
The people who woke up in the back yard were shocked to hear that the casino was closed and the people were arrested. They heard that there was a reward for the loss, so they retreated in fear, hiding from the crowd and running away. They had been living a luxurious life for the past few years and could not be arrested! Escape was their only thought!
Coincidentally, the old housekeeper who woke up a quarter of an hour later heard the news and ran to the front two courtyards to check but couldn't see a single person. He quickly locked the courtyard door and ran back to his room. He wanted to check the secret room but was afraid that someone would find it during the day, so he simply locked the door of his room and the courtyard door. He also ran away, hiding away from this dangerous place, and would find a chance to come back and move away later.
A scandal of closing down the casinos spread all over the city. Later, the Northern Camp claimed that their finances had been embezzled and that the money confiscated from the casinos was less than one-tenth of the money. They went to Pan Niusheng and his colleagues' families to inquire about the situation, saying that the embezzled money must be recovered, otherwise they would be imprisoned for life. Their families were also panicked, fearing that their shops would also be closed down, and everyone hid money privately.
As the detention time went on, the psychological defenses of these people became more and more broken. The lackeys gradually broke down and confessed what they had done over the years and how they had embezzled money. As required, they were sentenced to one year in prison and their illegal gains were confiscated. As the testimonies were placed in front of Pan Niusheng, he finally confessed that he had embezzled Beiying’s property and used his position to lend money to the casino. The culprit pleaded guilty, and the case was finally closed. Beiying not only recovered the embezzled part, but also the huge fine, which Nanchen allocated to Beiying as construction funds. These are all later stories!