The severity is equivalent to smuggling arms to other enemy countries in modern times.
Xiao Lingyue felt a little frightened.
She couldn't help but look at Zhan Beihan. He was the person in charge of the military power of Northern Qin. He should know the seriousness of this matter best. Moreover, if it was smuggling iron ore, it would be like stepping on thunder in Zhan Beihan's area of responsibility.
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The man's face has never been so cold and solemn, the sinister and cold light in his eyes makes people's scalp numb, and there is a murderous intention all over his body!
Even if this murderous intention is not directed at her...
Xiao Lingyue couldn't help but swallowed secretly, and said bravely: "Calm down first, it's just a guess now, we can't be so sure."
Zhan Bei said coldly: "Which of your eyes saw that I am not calm?"
Xiao Lingyue: "..." I'm really sorry.
She saw it with both eyes!
On this issue, she did not argue with him about her attitude. She said matter-of-factly: "Even if it is really iron ore, there are still many doubts."
"First of all, Hulang Mountain is not far from the capital, and the iron ore is not an ore that is buried deep underground and is difficult to find. If there really is a mine, why have the people in the Ministry of Industry responsible for exploring the veins found nothing over the years?"
"Secondly, iron ore is just a mineral stone, not a ready-made iron block. Mining the original iron ore is a big project that requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. A mere bandit village has this ability.
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"Finally, even if these bandits do find iron ore and mine the ore, how will they smelt the iron? How will they transport it?"
"Northern Qin and Southern Yan are not right next to each other. There is a Wei State in between!"
"How did Nanyan know that there was iron ore in Hulang Mountain? How did it connect to the bandit village and how did it buy the ore? Even if both parties paid and delivered the goods, the most important question is how did the Nanyan people get the ore out?
Northern Qin? The border line of Northern Qin is not just a decoration, but such a serious problem has not been found out?"
"In summary--"
Xiao Lingyue narrowed her eyes slightly and said in a serious and cold voice: "If the iron ore is fake, then nothing is true."
"If it is true, this is not a matter of a bandit camp colluding with Nanyan! There must be a 'worm' in the Northern Qin Dynasty who is secretly cooperating, and his status is not low!"
After listening to her analysis, Zhan Beihan narrowed his eyes and said, "You do know the internal affairs of the court very well!"
Don't look at this woman talking about iron ore.
A lot of information was revealed from her words.
For example, she knew the difference between iron ore and iron tools, and she also knew that the Ministry of Industry was responsible for detecting ore veins.
The six departments of the imperial court are the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Punishment, and the Ministry of Works.
The Ministry of Industry ranked last.
This is the most inconspicuous and easily overlooked department among the six.
But in fact, the responsibilities of each of the six ministries are very important. The Ministry of Industry is responsible for the country's civil construction, water conservancy projects, machine manufacturing, mining and metallurgy, textiles and other government-run industries.
The Ministry of Industry was responsible for the construction of the emperor's palace and the palaces of the ministers' homes, building bridges, controlling floods, and paving roads.
In addition, the Ministry of Industry is also responsible for the smelting and measuring of some national silver coins.
In other words, the exact weight of one tael of silver in ancient times was also determined by the Ministry of Industry.
Among them, the machine manufacturing that the Ministry of Industry is responsible for also includes military weapons, knives, swords, guns, halberds, arrows, armor, saddles, etc.
And these - these are not things that ordinary people can know!
Xiao Lingyue's casual remark that "the Ministry of Works is responsible for exploring the mines" has clearly revealed that she is well aware of the basic responsibilities of the six ministries of the DPRK and Central Government, and at least knows the scope of responsibility of the Ministry of Works. Popular "" This chapter has been completed!