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Cao Guo's face turned pale, and he was stunned. After a while, he murmured, "No way! Mr. Ma is such a bold person, how could he..."

Qiu Qing snorted, "These black market merchants are licking blood at the edge of their knives to survive. Which one doesn't eat people and doesn't spit out bones? I'll give you back the generosity. If he is really bold, why didn't he give you 400 taels at once in Jingzhao?" silver?"

Hitting the nail on the head, Cao Guo couldn't say a word anymore. He was not a fool, and he knew that he had stepped into the gate of hell with one foot.

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Qiu Qing immediately took Cao Guo south to Xiangyang, and sent someone back to inform Zhong Huan to arrest Jiuye of Dacheng Inn immediately.

When Zhong Huan got the news, he didn't startle the snake immediately, but sent someone dressed as a businessman to stay at Dacheng Inn, but the shopkeeper of Dacheng Inn said it was full.

Zhong Huan reported to Wang Hao, Wang Hao felt a little strange, Jingzhao City would only be full of inns during the imperial examination, and the inns in the city were not full, let alone outside the city.

Both of them felt something was wrong, and rushed to report to Chen Qing.

"Do you think there is a problem with the inn?" Chen Qingxiao asked.

Wang Hao nodded, "It's very strange and unreasonable. We suspect that it is an intelligence point from the Kingdom of Jin or the imperial court!"

Chen Qing pondered for a while and asked, "Is there really a loophole in this kind of ticket making?"

"Yes! The key is to recognize the vote but not the person. If the two parties make an appointment, they can indeed withdraw money twice in the two places at the same time. Take advantage of the time difference, or make some improvements. For example, the secret seal not only has numbers, but also increases by half. A piece of jade pei."

Chen Qing shook his head, "In this case, the half piece of jade pei left behind will have to be sent to Jingzhaolai again. There is no point in making tickets, and it is no different from flying money in the past!"

"But without Yu Pei, there are still big loopholes."

Chen Qing was really helpless, he knew where the problem was?Without computer networking, without telephone, without telegram and fax, some things cannot be realized, and there must be a time difference in information, so there must be loopholes.

Chen Qing sighed, waved his hands and said: "Forget it, the ticket production will be suspended first! You go to arrest Dacheng Inn, don't miss anyone, be careful that they escape through the hole."

"We must not disappoint His Highness!"

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The Dacheng Inn is located outside the south city gate, less than one mile away from the city gate. It is a large inn covering an area of ​​five acres. This is also the advantage of running an inn outside the city, covering a large area.

In the evening, [-] inner guard soldiers surrounded Dacheng from all directions, and the spy in charge of monitoring said to Zhong Huan, "Commander Qi, there are people in the inn, but none of them have come out all day, it's very strange!"

Zhong Huan immediately ordered: "Assault, those who demand to be caught alive, those who resist will be arrested with a big net!"

A strong soldier kicked open the gate, and hundreds of soldiers rushed in.

There were not many people inside, the shopkeeper, three clerks, and more than a dozen guests, not even a whole city was fully occupied. There is obviously a problem with how full it is.

Several guests inside the inn resisted, but it was useless. Five hundred inner guard soldiers were dispatched, but they were only arrested. Surroundings were also controlled to prevent escape through secret passages.

Chen Qing really guessed it right. Behind the inn is the Caohe River. Under a stone arch bridge in the Caohe River, two men got out of a big hole. They were immediately spotted by the surrounding soldiers. The soldiers rushed up, pushed them down, and tied them up with ropes. stand up.

Chong Huan looked at the dozen or so people and asked coldly, "Which of you is Master Jiu? Stand up!"

"I'm!"

A man raised his hand, it was the one captured in the cave outside.

"Who are you?" Zhong Huan asked again.

The man of Master Jiu said proudly: "We are in the black market business, specializing in exchanging silver. His Royal Highness Yong has always acquiesced in our existence. Why should we be arrested?"

Chong Huan asked with a sneer, "If I'm not wrong, you are Wang Ping, and you are responsible for leasing the twenty ox carts."

The man's face changed, "I can't understand what the general is saying? What twenty bullock carts, I'm at a loss!"

"General, a carrier pigeon is flying!" The soldier pointed to the sky and shouted.

The man turned pale with fright, rushed into the yard, put his hand in his mouth and whistled. The carrier pigeon circled twice and flew away again.

Zhong Huan was furious, he was negligent for a while, but this man took advantage of him, he rushed forward and punched the man to the ground.

"Search for me, dig three feet to search!"

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The inner guard soldiers quickly found the secret room, and the soldiers cheered, "Found it!"

The young man struggled desperately, unable to hide his anxiety, trying to rush to the room where he had found the entrance to the secret room. The inner guard guarding him got impatient and knocked him unconscious with a stick.

Open the entrance and go down, below is a large cellar, surrounded by bluestone pavement, because it is too close to the Caohe River, there is some water seepage in the gaps of the bluestone, and the air in the cellar is very humid.

The soldiers found the [-] coins that had been cheated out. Dozens of boxes with the logo of the counter shop were neatly stacked in the corner. This place is less than a hundred steps away from the place where the cash boxes were boarded. Shipped away, actually returned at night.

In addition to the money from the cabinet shop, there is also a lot of silver, about ten thousand taels, which are also placed in the box.

At this time, a large number of wooden boxes and straw bales on the opposite side of the wall attracted the attention of the soldiers. They stepped forward to check, and they all exclaimed for a moment. They were weapons. The soldiers took out the weapons. It's swords and armor.

In addition, there were ten large wooden boxes. The soldiers pried open the wooden box, and they were all stunned. There were ten iron fire mines in the wooden box. Seven of them had empty shells, but three of them were complete iron fire mines, which were small Iron hedgehog, the waterproof wooden shell on it is still there.

Zhong Huan looked grim. This situation is too serious. This is not a black market merchant exchanging silver. This is an intelligence agency and must be reported to King Yong immediately.

At this moment, a soldier pointed to the sky and shouted: "The pigeon is still there!"

Everyone looked up and saw the pigeons were still hovering about [-] feet in the sky. The soldiers raised their crossbows to shoot. Zhong Huan shouted: "Don't shoot, let me do it!"

He raised a military crossbow, aimed at the sky, found the flight pattern of the pigeon, and buckled the hanging knife, the crossbow arrow went 'swoosh! 'Shooting into the sky, it just blocked the flight path of the carrier pigeon. The carrier pigeon couldn't dodge in time, and was shot through the body by an arrow. It wailed and fell from the sky.

The soldiers had picked up the carrier pigeon a long time ago, and ran to give it to Zhong Huan. There was indeed a letter tube tied to the leg of the carrier pigeon. Zhong Huan took out the letter and unfolded it. His face changed slightly, and he immediately ordered: "Take ten big boxes with you." , go back to the official office immediately!"

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Half an hour later, Chen Qing also rushed to the internal guard office. At the same time, the military department, firearms bureau and other official offices were also alarmed and rushed to the internal guard.

After Chen Qing read the pigeon letter, there was only one sentence on it, 'transport the heavy equipment to Shouchun quickly'.

This turned out to be Zhang Jun's autographed pigeon letter, which was beyond Chen Qing's expectation. Zhang Jun, who was so mediocre and incompetent, was so scheming and scheming to get Tie Huolei in his hands. If there is a ticket making incident, this batch of Tiehuolei is likely to be obtained by Zhang Jun.

Thinking of this, Chen Qing's back broke out in a cold sweat. It was really impossible to guard against it. He had taken such strict precautions, but there were still fish that slipped through the net.

What makes Chen Qing headache now is whether this batch of firearms is the first batch, or have some firearms already fallen into Zhang Jun's hands?If this problem is not clear, he will be restless.

At this time, Xie Ying, the manager of the Firearms Bureau, and Lu Wei, the Sima of the Military Department, came forward to report. Lu Wei bowed and said, "Your Highness, there is a serial number on the firearms box, which is easier to check. Let's check the records. These nine iron fire mines are large. It was issued to the Xihe Road garrison for training the year before last. At that time, a total of forty mines were issued to them. They returned six dumb mines, and the remaining 34 exploded. That is to say, the nine fire mines should have been used and exploded. Didn’t expect it to still be there.”

Xie Ying also bowed and said: "His Royal Highness, Jingzhao's system is strict, and the implementation is in place. There is no loophole to exploit, but the only loophole is the iron fire mine that was sent out before. Are they all returned according to the regulations? But now It seems that there is obviously a problem."

Chen Qing nodded, and said to Lu Wei and Xie Ying: "Tomorrow, the Department of the Military Department and the Firearms Bureau will carry out a comprehensive investigation, and then prepare to set up a joint investigation team to go to various places to check whether any fish slipped through the net, and then only leave a blueprint for me. All the blueprints were destroyed, leaving only [-] iron bull fire mines, and all iron dogs and iron hedgehogs were also destroyed, not a single one was allowed to be kept."

"Your Highness, it is more practical to deal with the warship Iron Fire Thunder!"

Chen Qing shook his head, "There is enough fire oil, but the hidden danger of iron fire thunder is too great. Once it is successfully imitated by Jin Guo, we will be passive."

"Understood, I will start a thorough investigation tomorrow."

At this time, Chen Qing asked Wang Hao and Zhong Huan to come up again, and said to them: "The person behind the scenes is actually Zhang Jun, which is really beyond my expectation. You have to do two things next. First, you must follow the clues First, remove all the forces that Zhang Junan has planted in our territory, and wipe them out completely; secondly, we must interrogate the principal. I want to know whether there is only one batch of Tie Huo Lei, or whether Zhang Jun has already obtained it. This is very important. , Everything about this batch of iron fire mines must be investigated.”

The two bowed in agreement.

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The next morning, Lu Qingshan was invited to the official room by Chen Qing.

"Your Highness is in a hurry to find a humble job?"

Chen Qing said with a smile: "I have been busy since I came back, and I don't have time to ask about your situation. I heard from the princess that the counselor also wants to buy a house?"

Lu Qingshan was a little embarrassed and said: "This must be what my wife told the princess. In fact, it is not buying a house, but a replacement. Don't I have [-] acres of land in the new land in the south of the city? But my family prefers the atmosphere in the east of the city. We I also fancy a house, which is an eight-acre mansion. The other party asked for [-] guan, and later talked about [-] guan. Then I wanted to sell part of the land in Nancheng to raise money. After the seller heard about it, he came to me and said that he didn’t need to pay him I think it is acceptable to exchange his eight-acre house for my ten-acre shop, but my family is unwilling to accept it, so the family has been arguing about it for a long time."

Chen Qing said with a smile: "The south of the city has the advantages of the south, and the east of the city has the advantages of the east. Some people like the south of the city, and some like the east of the city. It depends on personal preference. In fact, Counselor Lu can balance it out. You don't have to give him all the shop land. , keep one part of the land for shops, and use the rest to make up for it with residential land, so I think it will be acceptable to all parties."

Lu Qingshan smiled wryly and said: "It's hard to buy harmony with a thousand dollars. I decided not to buy the house in the east of the city, and then divided the [-] mu of land in the south of the city equally among my three sons. Counselor Jiang promised to find an official house in the east of the city for me." , and that solves it."

"All the family agree?" Chen Qingxiao asked.

"All agree that the three sons were born to the old wife, and His Highness also knows that I don't have a concubine, so I have a bowl of water, and everyone has no objections."

What Chen Qing admired most about Lv Qingshan was that Lv Qingshan did not take concubines, lived with his wife for 40 years, gave birth to three sons and a daughter, and the daughter married the second son of the former Prime Minister Li Guang. Lu Qingshan has something to do with it.

Chen Qing didn't ask Lu Qingshan about his family's affairs, but just casually exchanged a few words of pleasantries, and Chen Qing immediately turned the topic to serious matters.

"Counselor Lu should be very familiar with Zhang Jun!"

Lu Qingshan nodded, "Of course I am familiar with him, I have worked with him for many years."

"What about him? I mean his ambition."

Lu Qingshan smiled slightly: "It is estimated that His Highness was also deceived by his appearance. He is very greedy, embezzling military pay, reselling food, annexing land wantonly, and his rent is 60 shi a year. Even the emperor thinks he is a I am imitating Xiao He, deliberately destroying my reputation to eliminate taboos, but in fact, he successfully deceived the emperor, he is very ambitious, almost all the rent and food he gets every year subsidizes the army, I have impeached him long ago, but The Son of Heaven didn't believe it, so Qin Hui spoke nice words to him again."

Chen Qing sighed and said: "I just found out yesterday that he was plotting against my Tie Huolei and almost succeeded. I'm afraid this person is a wolf disguised as a dog who will treat me hard when I least pay attention." Take a bite."

"Your Highness is right. He is such a person. He pretends to be mediocre and incompetent, so that you can slowly dispel your guard, but he will definitely seize the opportunity at the critical moment. The reason why he is reused by the emperor is because he It was the first Qin Wang's army to respond to Liu Miao's change, and his reaction was extremely swift, and he was able to save him!"

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and asked: "If I want him, a poisonous snake, to bite the imperial court hard, is there any way?"

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Lu Qingshan said for a while: "Your Highness really intends to do this?"

Chen Qing said lightly: "Everything I do and every word I say is thoughtful."

Chen Qing is actually beating Lu Qingshan, although Lu Qingshan is his wife party, but he still has to consider for the court in many things, as if he has not changed from the role of the court minister.

This made the other counselors a little dissatisfied, of course Chen Qing wanted to find an opportunity to beat Lu Qingshan.

Asking Lu Qingshan to make suggestions for Zhang Jun's matter is actually forcing him to express his opinion.

Lu Qingshan was helpless, thought for a while and said: "Zhang Jun proposed to the court more than once to build a Jiangbei Navy. In fact, he most wanted a navy to control the waterways of the Yangtze River. His Highness took some of the ships from Zhenjiang Mansion and handed them over to Zhang Jun. Zhang Jun will definitely occupy these warships, and even seize more warships."

"But what excuse should I use? I can't just say that the warship is given to him for no reason, and he dare not take it."

"Your Highness, just tell Zhang Jun that the warships of the imperial court are threatening Donghai Island, and we need to weaken some of them, and then make a deal with him. We want the salt markets in Suizhou, Yingzhou, De'an Mansion, Hanyang Mansion, and Xinyang Army. His private salt is withdrawn, and then we can hand over the ship to him, make a game with him, let him snatch it, and finally expose this game, the imperial court will not hate us, but will only hate Zhang Jun deeply."

Chen Qing nodded, "This method is good, you can try it."

Lu Qingshan saluted, "Farewell to my humble position!"

Chen Qing asked again with a smile: "Will the counselor remind the court because of his guilt?"

Lu Qingshan was startled, "Your Highness thinks I will remind the court?"

Chen Qing nodded, "Frankly speaking, I always thought that Counselor Lu would remind the court."

Lu Qingshan's eyes were gloomy, he bowed silently, and retreated.

Chen Qing watched Lu Qingshan go far away, today has already hit him, if Lu Qingshan still doesn't know what to do, then he will dismiss him directly, his subordinates will absolutely not tolerate people who are loyal to the court.

At this time, Chao Qing reported at the door, "King Neiwei is asking to see you!"

"Please come in!"

Not long after, Wang Hao hurried in, knelt down on one knee and saluted, "See Your Highness!"

"Please get up! Please get up!"

Chen Qing asked him to get up, and asked with a smile, "Has the result of the interrogation come out?"

Wang Hao nodded and said: "The principal's mouth is so hard that he can't pry it open, but his subordinates have confessed everything, and we have obtained all the confessions we want. It is true that they got the first batch of fire mines from Qin Dynasty. The state got it."

"Who betrayed it?" Chen Qing asked.

"Your Highness, this incident is a bit unbelievable, because our capital was originally in Chengji County. They went to Chengji County to investigate information, and they accidentally learned that there were nine obsolete iron fire mines in the warehouse of Chengji County. They bribed the warehouse. I bought it for a hundred guan, and it was just delivered to Jingzhao ten days ago, and it was going to be shipped out in two days, but we discovered it."

Chen Qing was shocked, "Why is it in the warehouse of the county government?"

"I don't know about the lowly position, even if I question them in detail, they don't know either."

"Then did you send someone to Chengji County to investigate?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, Zhong Huan took people to Chengji County last night, and we are worried that there are still omissions."

After a pause, Wang Hao said again: "Then this morning, the boss explained everything, maybe he figured it out, everything he knows is also known to his subordinates, and he doesn't want to die."

"What is the identity of this principal?" Chen Qing asked again.

"His name is Zhang Kuang, and he is Zhang Jun's nephew."

"How many people have seen Tiehuolei?"

"Only Zhang Kuang has seen it. He even went to Chengji County in person. He didn't show it to anyone. He nailed Tie Huolei to death in a wooden box. It is said that he has studied them carefully and is going to transport them back in person. Shouchun."

"Are you sure only he has studied it?"

"I have asked other people about it, so I can be sure."

Chen Qing nodded, "Except for this Zhang Kuang, all other spies of Zhang Jun, including those from Xiangyang, will be sent out of the country as gifts."

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