Jinyi champion

Chapter 843

Acting in front of Yang Shen, Zhu Hao seemed "unfamiliar" with Tang Yin.

Yang Shen was naturally satisfied with Zhu Hao's move.

The two continued to eat.

Zhu Hao said: "Yuxiu, with my humble opinion, or if there is something inappropriate to say, I really can't help it, I have to tell you."

Yang Shen looked at Zhu Hao, and couldn't help frowning, you kid didn't drink today, why are you like a drunk drunk?Is this trying to be a talker in front of me?

"Yongxiu, you don't have to talk about it, let me talk about it."

Zhu Hao interrupted what Yang Shen was about to say, and sighed, "To be honest, I regretted it after taking down the batch of pig iron. I was wondering if this might be a trap set by Jin Yiwei in advance?"

Yang Shen frowned and asked, "Why do you think so?"

Zhu Hao shook his head and sighed: "I figured it out, those pig irons are worth at least tens of thousands of taels of silver in the market, and such valuable things are actually piled up in the mine waiting for my people to seize them?"

After hearing this, Yang Shen couldn't help being puzzled.

Zhu Hao picked up the chopsticks, but put them down lightly, turned his head, and said seriously: "Now even your father is involved, but Mr. Tang is at the right time... Could it be that they are sure to eat us?"

Yang Shen smiled, and said in relief: "Jing Dao, you think too much, no matter whether Jin Yiwei set up a trap, these iron students can't fall back into their hands, Daming is currently lacking in military equipment everywhere, with this batch of pig iron to build The weapon will definitely become like a tiger with wings... My father has planned a strategy, as long as we don't let Jin Yiwei take it back."

Yang Shen is very confident in this matter.

Whether he is a conspiracy or not.

The pig iron fell into our hands, and that was a great achievement. As a Shoufu University scholar, what conspiracy or not should my father consider?Father dared to go directly to Uncle Huai Rou, and then put pressure on Yongpingwei, because he had already made a decision to seize this batch of pig iron and let the emperor know how powerful the civil official group is.

Zhu Hao had a look of comfort on his face: "That means, even if things get serious in the future, your father will be able to suppress the matter, right?"

"En." Yang Shen nodded.

Zhu Hao breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest and said, "Then I'm relieved. In the past few days, I've always been restless, and after thinking about it, I always feel that something is wrong. After hearing what you said, I can finally sleep peacefully."

Yang Shen said with a smile: "You can put your mind at ease... Although you are now obeying the orders of the household department, you have paid a lot for this matter, and my father will not forget your achievements. fully guaranteed."

Zhu Hao smiled wryly and shook his head: "I don't value official career, as long as I don't make me take too much responsibility, you know, I just want to live a stable life, even if I become an official, I also want to be safe and secure. , A Taiping officer who eats and waits to die. You can say that I have no ambition, but it is too difficult to come from such a background."

Yang Shen nodded in understanding, and then asked, "How is your family doing recently?"

"Are you asking about my uncle? He's in Nanjing, and I don't know what's going on with him. I'm the magistrate here, and he's a guard in Nanjing. I haven't contacted him recently," Zhu Hao said.

Yang Shen nodded.

He originally wanted to find out about Jinyiwei by asking about Zhu Wanhong's situation, but now he realized that Zhu Hao's official position did not seem to have much connection with Jinyiwei's Zhu family, so it was useless to ask.

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Yongpingwei's commander, Li Tong, still wants to show off Huairoubo's face.

What's more, standing behind Huairou Bo Shi Zan is the chief assistant of the current dynasty. This is definitely not a big man who can be offended by the commander of the local guards. He was able to dispatch manpower, mobilized five centurions, and took a large number of Lifu, mules and horses to Yaozi Mountain to transport pig iron.

For the sake of caution, Yang Shen did not go there in person, but Yang Ping, who came to send a letter to Yang Shen, brought a few people to supervise.

On Zhu Hao's side, Jiang Shantong, the magistrate of the prefecture, was sent here.

Jiang Shantong was very confused, Yang Shen asked him for manpower, he raised some, and now the magistrate suddenly assigned him to take a large number of civilians to drive wheelbarrows and carriages to the mine, he didn't know what he was going to do .

As an assistant official in a government, he seldom has the task of doing chores, but now his immediate boss Zhu Hao and the son sent by the backer both gave orders, so he had to take people to Yaozi Mountain.

Two days later.

The news came that the people of Yongping Guard successfully found the batch of pig iron and were escorted by the men and horses of the guard. A large number of laborers pushed the wheelbarrow, drove the pack horses and carriages, loaded with pig iron, and transported it to the nearby guard station overnight.

Unexpectedly, this morning, when the court meeting was held in Fengtian Hall, Sun Jiao directly mentioned in the court hall that there was a large amount of pig iron stored in the Yongping Mansion Iron Mine without greeting anyone in advance, and did not give a performance in advance. thing.

"...Your Majesty, the old minister has found out that there is a large amount of unsmelted pig iron in the Yongping Mansion Iron Mine, and the army is short of weapons. The old minister implores Your Majesty to transfer this batch of pig iron to the northwest for military supplies."

Sun Jiao didn't mention where the news about him came from, nor did he mention whether it was related to Zhu Hao, but only said that there was such a thing, which sounded reasonable.

But at the critical moment, when Sun Jiao brought up such a topic, Yang Tinghe at the side felt that he seemed to be being targeted.

Zhu Si frowned and said: "Of course the iron mine produces pig iron, otherwise would it produce copper? The mine I sent people to open, the pig iron produced will naturally be distributed by me. If it is used for the northwest frontier defense...does it make the palace go up and down?" Drink the northwest wind?"

The emperor's tone was very aggressive.

Sun Jiao argued, "But Your Majesty..."

"Please, Sun Qing's family."

Zhu Si seemed to be getting impatient, "Since the beginning of last year, how much money has been transferred to me by the Household Department? As the Minister of the Household Department, you should be very clear. I will ask you now, don't the whole palace need to spend money?

"The official land and the imperial store have now been taken care of by the household department. It has been two months? I don't seem to have seen a penny! Now I have handed over the iron mine of Yongping Mansion to the household department to take care of it. Are you not planning to hand over the account to me in the future, and you will also confiscate the things produced by the mine before?"

After Zhu Si finished speaking, the scene was completely silent.

For an emperor to be as embarrassing as Zhu Si is, it's a miracle.

As the emperor, it is not enough to manage some industries by yourself. The courtiers proposed that the Ministry of Households must supervise them. After the Ministry of Households took over Huangzhuang and Huangdian, they have not transferred silver taels to the internal treasury until now on the grounds of checking the accounts of the past years. Then procrastinate, use reasonable means to drag out the emperor's patience.

Now the emperor didn't even keep the iron mine, and the household department still had to compete with the emperor for what the iron mine had produced in the past.

No matter how I heard it, I felt that the household department was bullying the little emperor.

When Zhu Si said this, he seemed to be angry, but he calmed down a little after casually, and his tone was relatively calm, and said: "Sun Butang doesn't need to come to ask me for it, the batch of pig iron was seized by your son-in-law Zhu Jingdao, People from Jinyiwei are still looking everywhere. Sun Qing’s family, the magistrate of Yongping Prefecture must have reported this to you, right?”

The ministers present were in a daze. This matter is actually related to the prefect of Yongping Prefecture?

Yang Tinghe at the side couldn't help but glance at Sun Jiao.

Regarding the batch of pig iron, Yang Shen reported that it was Zhu Hao who led people to investigate and seized it. The emperor should know about it, but now that Jin Yiwei can't find where the pig iron is hidden, why didn't the emperor directly issue a decree, Ask Zhu Hao to hand over this batch of pig iron?Do you have to spend so much trouble to let Jin Yiwei look everywhere?
Yang Tinghe suddenly felt that he had made a mistake.

Previously, he thought the same as Yang Shen, thinking that if Jin Yiwei lost a large amount of pig iron, he probably wouldn't report it to the emperor, because it involved a major deficit, who wants to take responsibility?

But now it seems that the emperor knows all about it?Then why didn't the emperor directly issue an order to ask Zhu Hao for it? Could there be something tricky about it?
This is looking more and more like a trap.

But this kind of superficial trick is nothing to Yang Tinghe, so he sneered.

Sun Jiaodao: "Your Majesty, this matter was not reported by the magistrate of Yongping Prefecture, but... the head of the household department dispatched earlier, after arriving at the mine, checked the accounts in detail and reported it. The accounts checked were all provided by Jin Yiwei. The local prefect has not yet contacted the household department. The people sent by the Ministry will contact you."

Zhu Si said coldly: "Don't keep thinking about profiting from me! I don't know where this batch of pig iron is now, and I will order it now to have the prefect of Yongping Prefecture hand it over! This is what I got from mining someone , no one can have any idea about this batch of pig iron!"

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The court discussion on this matter came to an end temporarily in the emperor's harsh words.

This disrupted Yang Tinghe's deployment.

After the court meeting was over, Jiang Mian and Yang Tinghe returned to the cabinet to check in. Jiang Mian was curious and asked, "Did Jiefu know about this early on?"

Jiang Mian is considered a genius.

Sun handed it over to report, but Yang Tinghe kept silent, so he could see that Yang Tinghe knew about it and did not report it, maybe it was behind it.

Yang Tinghe said: "If there are no accidents, this batch of pig iron has been transported away by Yongpingwei."

When Jiang Mian heard this, he was a little worried: "Doesn't that mean that even if His Majesty orders it to the prefect of Yongping Prefecture, he won't be able to hand over this batch of pig iron?"

Yang Tinghe glanced sideways at Jiang Mian: "Do you think this batch of pig iron should be returned?"

"That's not it."

Jiang Mian said, "But this doesn't look like your style of doing things. I think it should be you who mentioned this matter to His Majesty in the court today."

Yang Tinghe felt a little annoyed: "I planned to report to His Majesty after the dust settled, but Sun Zhitong preempted it...or he was stuck at a critical time point and insisted on preempting it while waiting." play."

"Ha ha."

Jiang Mian smiled wryly.

Think about it.

If Yang Tinghe wanted to report, he had to wait for the matter to be confirmed, otherwise it would be tantamount to telling the emperor in advance of the whereabouts of this batch of pig iron.

But just because of a time difference, Sun Jiao played in advance, putting Yang Tinghe in the position of a "thief".

You took the thing, you report it first, and you are right, but if others report the loss first, it will be useless for you to say anything.

Yang Tinghe said: "But it's nothing serious, I will let Yongpingwei take the initiative to report this matter and inform the local magistrate of the transfer of pig iron. Then I will find some ministers to report and persuade Your Majesty to use this batch of pig iron for the northwest frontier defense." .”

(End of this chapter)