Daming: At the start of the showdown, Lao Zhu was stunned

Chapter 180
There has always been a saying in China: If you want to get rich, build roads first.In order to attract people from Yingtianfu to Suwangzhuang, Zhu Su spent a lot of money to repair the official road from Yingtianfu to Suwangzhuang with cement for free.

Although no definite economic benefits have been seen for the time being, and in Zhu Su's eyes, the concrete road is still very rough, but at this time he was able to return from Yingtianfu to Zhuangzi quickly, thanks to this concrete road. The merit of the Tao.

Seeing that it was Zhu Su, the guards on duty at night immediately opened the gate of the villa, and a group of people rushed down like a gust of wind. Zhu Su didn't get off his horse, and went straight to the cement kiln on the back mountain.From a distance, the cave dwellings on the mountain are like neatly arranged boulders in the night.There are two groups of people confronting each other on the road, one party is led by an official in green robes, that is the fifth-rank member of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang Meiying.

"It's His Highness Fifth!"

"His Royal Highness is down!"

Someone shouted.Zhu Su reined in his horse and dismounted under the protection of Di Meng. Yao Guangxiao, who was wearing back his black clothes, came up to meet him, and said to Zhu Su in a low voice: "Your Highness, this man will stick to this place so that I won't let me enter the kiln for a look. It must be Something is wrong."

Zhu Su's heart skipped a beat. Seeing that Mei Ying was stern and inward despite being blocked in the road, he had some bad guesses in his heart.Nodding his head and ignoring Mei Ying, he walked around to the cement kiln.

"Your Highness!" Mei Ying, with a pale face, actually stopped Zhu Su. "The fire in the room is not extinguished, His Highness is a body of a thousand gold, the officials dare not let His Highness put himself in danger!"

"Your Highness, please wait a moment, wait until the subordinates put out the fire before..."

"...The fire is still there?" Zhu Su sneered and turned his head to look inside, only to see that there was no fire in the dark hole inside, and a sneer sneered from the corner of his mouth, "Mei Langguan, could it be that you deceived me to be blind and deaf?" ?”

"There is neither fire nor shout in it. You tell me the fire is not extinguished?"

"This Mei has a ghost in his heart! Our boy just entered the cement kiln, but he kicked him out under the name of the rioters who have fled and quickly pursued him." Li Rong was furious. "We led people to chase him in the direction he pointed for a while, but there is no thief? This guy has clearly done something wrong, afraid of being caught by me!"

"Oh?" Zhu Su raised his eyebrows, this guy even dared to lie to Li Rong?Turning to look at Mei Ying, the more she looked, the more she felt that the other party must be hiding something.He shouted in a deep voice: "Mei Ying, get out of the way!"

Mei Ying's face was covered with cold sweat.The monk surnamed Yao has no official or position, so it is not a problem for him to suppress him; this murderer surnamed Li is a thousand-family man, so he just managed to stop him with his face.

But the one in front of him is His Majesty's most beloved son-in-law and a serious prince.Although this prince is usually good at speaking and not very dignified, but he is a fifth-rank member of the Ministry of Industry, what capital does he have to win in front of a prince?
But remembering the disaster she had committed, Mei Ying had no choice but to bite her lip. Although her legs were shaking like sifting chaff, she still said: "His Highness...His Royal Highness's golden body..."

"Although there is no fire inside, but the poisonous smoke... I really can't..."

"Catch him." Zhu Su didn't talk nonsense with this guy, and directly ordered Wu Wangwei.Di Meng agreed behind him, and came directly to cut Mei Ying's hands behind his back.Regardless of Mei Ying's loud shouts and struggles, she directly said to Li Rong: "Li Qianhu doesn't have to worry too much in the future. If there is any matter in this Huangzhuang, I will naturally take care of it. Now go into the kiln with me to see what happened!"

Li Rong answered loudly.He was temporarily lent to Zhu Su by Li Wenzhong, but he was not a direct descendant of the Zhu family, so he was naturally more worried about those who went to the court on weekdays.He felt a little ashamed to hear the slight blame in Zhu Su's tone, but now he didn't care about those thoughts, and led dozens of soldiers into the cement kiln together with Zhu Su's Wu Wangwei.

After looking around, I found that there were only a few traces of fire in the shanty where some craftsmen lived, and most of them were fine. Does it look like there was a big fire?
In some of the small workshops used to develop the Jenny machine in the depths, the first version of the Jenny machine that was finally made has indeed disappeared.It was still a mess inside.

Soon, Li Rong caught several sneaky men holding torches, and bound his hands before Zhu Su.

"You sneaky ones, what are you going to invite?" Zhu Su asked in a deep voice.

"I'm wronged! I'm wronged!" Before Zhu Su could use any torture method, those men shouted loudly. "We are all good craftsmen registered in the Ministry of Industry! It was Mrs. Mei who made us set fire to the shed, but we haven't done anything yet!"

"Lord Su, we have been wronged..."

After asking, I found out that before Mei Ying rushed to stop Li Rong's military households, she had asked several of their confidant craftsmen to burn down the sheds where the craftsmen lived on weekdays with torches.But they are all honest artisans from generation to generation, and they are not ruthless military households and bandits.If the fire goes down, not only the shed they live in will also be implicated, and they don't know if they will burn people to death, so how can they be ruthless to do such murder and arson?

Just when he was hesitating, Zhu Su led someone to break in.

"Officer Mei Lang." Zhu Su took a long breath, his face under the torch seemed more and more uncertain. "It's just a small fire, why do you have to say it's a big fire?"

"Hastily set fire to the house, what are you trying to cover up?"

"Your Highness! Your Highness!" Mei Yi, who was thrown to the ground by Di Meng, only knew how to kowtow. "My uncle is the Marquis of Runan, who is in the same court as you and Prime Minister Hu!"

"You can't kill me, you can't kill me!"

Zhu Su only felt irritated for a while.The bad premonition intensified in his heart, and finally he couldn't maintain the posture of the fifth prince who ignored world affairs, and shouted at Mei Ying:
"Shut up! If you dare to talk nonsense again, I will chop your head off!"

Mei Ying froze all over, and finally didn't dare to beg for mercy, her whole body trembled with tears and snot.

"Tell me. What are you hiding. What happened tonight on the kiln?"

"On the kiln...on the kiln..." Mei Ying seemed to be extremely frightened by Zhu Su's sudden outburst, and she couldn't speak clearly and didn't know what to say.Li Rong was quite experienced, he picked up Mei Ying like a chicken, and slapped Mei Ying twice, Mei Ying's cheeks puffed up, but she spoke sharply again.

"Today on the kiln... there are refugees who are making trouble, those refugees who have just been conscripted into the kiln these days."

"They burned down a few shacks and ruined some cement. When the officials hurried over from where they were staying, General Li and the others were there, but the rioters had disappeared."

"Those cements are going to be sent to the north these days. Xiaguan... Xiaguan is worried that the court will blame him, so he wants to make the matter bigger, so as to cover up this crime..."

"Refugees making trouble?" Zhu Su narrowed his eyes. "The refugees are making trouble, why did they take my new loom?"

"How could those refugees know what's so special about that loom, isn't it you..."

"Xiaguan..." Mei Ying smacked her lips a few times, and continued:

"Your Majesty once complained in front of them. His Highness didn't know how to be sympathetic to us, but he took a loom for women so seriously."

"Perhaps... maybe they want to destroy the loom that His Highness values ​​so much, and to express their grievances, I don't know..."

Zhu Su's face turned pale.That barely makes sense.The most worrying thing is that things like cement recipes have leaked out, but cement production has a strict assembly line process according to its own regulations.Each worker in the assembly line only knows the process he has handled, and it is impossible to know all the formulas.It doesn't matter if it's just a few new refugees, as long as they don't know the whole process of cement firing.

Then just go back to the small workshop and check if there are any broken pieces of the Jenny machine, and you can rest assured.

Just as he was about to try Mei Ying again, he caught a glimpse of a dog galloping on a horse from the corner of his eye.He flew off his horse and trotted to Zhu Su's side, and whispered a few words to Zhu Su.

Zhu Su's face turned pale, and his mind suddenly brightened up.

Turning her head suddenly, she looked at Mei Ying who seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"The surname is Mei! Tell me the truth!"

"The rules of the assembly line set by the king, have you followed them faithfully!"

(End of this chapter)