Jinyi champion

Chapter 844 The Fix

Jiang Mian understands that for Yang Tinghe, the chief assistant who holds great power, the procedure is not important, even if Yang Tinghe privately asks the local government to transfer the pig iron away, as long as the batch of pig iron can still be used in the Northwest armament, then Yang Tinghe is not at fault , will also gain higher prestige in the ruling and opposition parties.

Dare to fight against the emperor's power for the sake of the country, what kind of integrity is this?
But many things cannot be as smooth as Yang Tinghe imagined.

Yongping Fucheng.

That day was the second day after Yongpingwei transferred the pig iron, Yang Shen went to the magistrate's office to inquire about the case for a day, and was planning to look at the case again at night to see if the previous case of raiding the mine was reported truthfully, saying that Jinyiwei knew the law and broke the law, or As Sun Jiao said, push on Di Yi in the Northeast...

Just at this moment, there was a hasty knock on the door outside.

Yang Shen got up to open the door, but when he saw Yang Ping coming in with a burly man, he immediately became wary.

Yang Ping introduced: "My lord, this is Li Tong, the commander of Yongpingwei."

Yang Shen frowned endlessly: "Why are you here? Didn't things go well? I don't know what to avoid? What's the matter, just find someone to communicate in secret. What do you want to say here? Come in!"

Yang Shen was very afraid of being seen.

Even if everyone knew that Yang Tinghe had secretly appointed Huairou Bo Shi Zan to do this, Yang Shen still had to avoid any contact with the local garrison and not let the Yang family be involved in this incident of "stealing" pig iron.

When the two entered the room, Yang Ping had a nervous expression on his face: "My lord, something happened. The pig iron that was originally transported to various places in the guardhouse disappeared overnight!"

Yang Shen shook his body: "You...you say it again! Then can a large amount of pig iron disappear out of thin air?"

"Yes."

Yang Ping had no choice but to turn his gaze to Li Tong.

Li Tong knelt down with a "plop", and kowtowed like garlic: "Humble and incompetent, people everywhere have stepped up their guards, but overnight, the pig iron hidden everywhere was empty as if it had never been there before. The people in the warehouse didn’t even know about it, they have already tortured the guards everywhere, but there is no clue for now.”

Yang Shen was a little dazed.

With his intelligence and wisdom, he never thought that things would develop to this point.

That's millions of catties of pig iron, not hundreds of catties or thousands of catties. Can this evaporate out of thin air?Are you kidding me?
Yang Pingdao: "My lord, our people also went to the scene to see it. When the iron was transported into the warehouse, our people followed in secret. It is reasonable to say that such problems should not have occurred. Some places where pig iron is stored are still in the warehouse. The station, but I don't know why..."

Yang Shen thought for a while, and sternly reprimanded: "There must be an inner ghost! For the past two years in Yongping Mansion, Zhang Bingyong has been the magistrate. He must have bought your Yongpingwei Military Academy. Li Tong, how do you handle this job?" of?"

Li Tong continued to kneel on the ground, with an annoyed expression on his face: "It's been less than three months since I took the humble job..."

Yang Shen was very irritable.

Why didn't you expect this crop?
He suddenly remembered Zhu Hao's previous worries. Zhu Hao once mentioned that the development of the matter was a bit unimaginable, like a trap carefully arranged by Jin Yiwei.

But he didn't expect that the trap was dug so deep that he, Yang Shen, might not be able to climb out after falling into it.

"Go and investigate again! I'm going to the magistrate's office now!"

At a critical moment, Yang Shen could only think of Zhu Hao.

After all, Zhu Hao is the magistrate of the local government, and he has important people who want money and money, and relationships are still important. If the batch of pig iron is lost, the situation may not be easy to control, so we can only trouble Zhu Hao.

Yang Ping asked: "Then... do you want to notify the master?"

Yang Shen said angrily: "Are you crazy? The most urgent thing now is to get the pig iron back quickly! Now it is not a question of who owns the pig iron, but someone wants to take this opportunity to criticize my father for guarding and stealing himself! And you Li Tong, if you If you can’t find the item, I think you are waiting to be punished by the court!”

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……

Yang Shen went to find Zhu Hao overnight.

Zhu Haozheng was leisurely, reading a book in the study, and when he learned of Yang Shen's visit, he didn't go out to greet him, but asked someone to welcome Yang Shen to the study.

"Brother Yongxiu, tonight's dinner wasn't enjoyable enough? Why don't we have some hot pot tomorrow?" Zhu Hao laughed.

Yang Shen said with a dark face, "It's a good thing you can still laugh, that batch of pig iron is lost."

The smile on Zhu Hao's face froze immediately, and he asked in surprise, "What?"

Only then did Yang Shen tell Zhu Hao exactly what Yang Ping and Li Tong had reported to him.

After hearing this, Zhu Hao seemed annoyed: "I just received a letter from Mr. Sun. He told me not to mess around, saying that this matter might be of great importance, and told me not to do something that would never be redeemed in order to show my integrity. I also thought about it, with the help of my father and many civil servants in the court, it should be fine. Why... have you checked it? There is no ghost? If such a large batch of pig iron is to be transported away, there must be no traces. ?”

At this time, Yang Shen, sitting there also felt a kind of pain that he could not love.

Ever since he arrived in Yongping Mansion, he felt that he was taking the initiative everywhere, but he didn't know that he was already determined by others, and he was led by the nose without knowing it.

Yang Shendao: "We are investigating now. I suspect that the Yongping Guards under Li Tong may have been bought by Jin Yiwei in the past few years. You think Jin Yiwei has opened mines in the local area and has been in peace with the garrison. The guards ...Ah! I didn't think it through."

Zhu Hao smiled bitterly and said, "You want to say that this batch of pig iron was transported to the local guard in the forefoot, but was transported away by Jinyiwei's people in the back? Then where is the iron now? If this batch of iron can't be found, it will be a scapegoat." It's going to be held against you and me! Especially me, this batch of iron was seized by me, it's worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, if His Majesty pursues it, can I afford it?"

Yang Shen looked at Zhu Hao helplessly, with strange eyes.

You kid, are you still thinking about whether you can afford to pay?
Shouldn't you be worried about how Jin Yiwei will punish you?Take you directly to Fusi prison in Beizhen, torture you severely, and ask you to hand over the pig iron, and then you will shed a layer of skin if you don't die.

Zhu Hao said, "I'll let someone investigate."

"Wait a minute."

Yang Shen suddenly thought of something and stopped Zhu Hao.

Zhu Hao stood still, looking at Yang Shen.

Yang Shendao: "As you said earlier, if this matter is really a trap carefully designed by Jin Yiwei, then from the very beginning, they will be sure of everything. Since they are fully prepared, they will not let you find it easily..."

Zhu Hao frowned: "Brother Yang, what do you mean by that? Don't you want me to make a plea on my own, and take all the responsibility on me alone?"

"Um!?"

Yang Shen looked up at Zhu Hao, as if to say, how can you miss me so much?
Am I the kind of person who throws the pot away?
But after a slight pause, another idea popped up in his mind, how do you know me so well, kid?If you can sacrifice one of you to save my father and me, that would be great.

Yang Shen said: "I don't mean to sacrifice you, but we still have to sit down and discuss the long-term plan."

Zhu Hao said coldly: "Brother Yongxiu, I believed in you, so I told you about the seizure of pig iron. If I had known how to be flexible and told Sun Butang about this earlier, his letter would be very beneficial to me. Maybe I won't get involved in this matter! Now that the pig iron is gone, everyone will think that I am a member of the joint local guards and embezzled this batch of iron, so I can't justify it?"

"You... ugh!"

Yang Shen didn't expect Zhu Hao's reaction to be so intense, but he thought about it.

In the past, Zhu Hao didn't like to get involved in the right and wrong of the court. He thought that he could be an official and live a stable life. Who would have thought that Zhu Hao's wish would be fulfilled, and he finally became the magistrate, but he was still regarded as a pawn by several forces At the mercy of Zhu Hao, now such a large batch of pig iron disappeared after being seized by Zhu Hao.

This is not a question of whether he can be an official in the future, whether his life can be saved is another matter.

Zhu Hao said: "This matter must have something to do with Tang Yin's coming to Yongping Mansion. He came here to discuss things with me on the surface, but he was actually planning me! No, I'm going to see him!"

With that said, Zhu Hao got up and was about to leave.

Yang Shen quickly blocked the emotional Zhu Hao, and said, "If you go this way, you may fall into their trap."

Zhu Hao sighed, "I'm in a trap now!"

"Then I'll go with you!"

Yang Shendao, "After seeing Tang Yin, don't talk, let me do it, they will definitely pretend to be confused in front of us! If there are conditions, it's okay, if they don't, then they will die, you don't want to admit it There is such a thing."

Zhu Hao said, "Is it too late for me to deny it now?"

Yang Shen gave Zhu Hao a firm nod: "It's too late, you remember, my father will be there at any time, and he will try his best to protect you!"

"Ah."

Zhu Hao nodded, now he understands that Yang Shen, after arguing in front of him for a long time, still intends to sacrifice him, to clear the relationship between Yang Tinghe and this matter.

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The inn where Tang Yin stayed.

Because Yang Shen lived in a post station, after Tang Yin and Lu Song arrived in Fucheng, they directly found an inn to live in. They had nothing to do every day, which was completely different from Yang Shen's diligent investigation attitude. It seemed that he came to Yongping Mansion purely Play and relax.

He suddenly heard Zhu Hao and Yang Shen visiting together at night, but he didn't understand what was going on.

Because no one told him from the beginning to the end, the batch of pig iron was lost.

"you……"

Tang Yin didn't like to face Zhu Hao and Yang Shen at the same time.

He is the kind of straight-hearted person who is not good at acting in front of others, even if he wants to.

But now that Zhu Hao and Yang Shen are here together, he has to abide by the rules and show that he is "not familiar" with Zhu Hao in front of others.

Zhu Hao said with a smile: "Mr. Tang, knowing that you have good wine, I specially brought you a hundred-year-old wine...Can you invite us to sit in?"

Tang Yin said: "Wait a minute, I'll call someone first..."

"No need." Zhu Hao said, "When our master and apprentice meet, why should outsiders be present? Besides, Lu Qianhu has other things to do."

Tang Yin thought to himself, what tricks are you playing with?
It's fine for you to come by yourself, but you even brought Yang Yongxiu with you?
You just play me to death!

"come in."

Tang Yin stepped aside and let the two of them enter.

After Zhu Hao and Yang Shen entered the room, they looked around, as if the batch of several million catties of pig iron was hidden in this room, or there were some important clues in this room.

(End of this chapter)