Chapter eight hundred and fortieth three first step
Zhu Hao acted in front of Yang Shen and seemed "unfamiliar" with Tang Yin.
Yang Shen was naturally satisfied with Zhu Hao's move.
The two continued to eat.
Zhu Hao said: "Yong Xiu, I have a humble opinion, or there is something inappropriate to say, and I really can't help it, so I have to tell you."
Yang Shen looked at Zhu Hao and couldn't help but frown. You didn't drink today, so why are you acting like a drunk? Are you trying to act like a chatterbox in front of me?
"Yongxiu, you don't have to tell me, I'll do 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 did some calculations. Those pig irons are worth at least tens of thousands of taels of silver when they are brought to the market. Such valuable things are actually piled up in the mine waiting for my people to seize them?"
Yang Shen couldn't help but become confused after hearing this.
Zhu Hao picked up the chopsticks, then put them down gently. He turned his head and said with a serious face: "Now even your father is involved, but Mr. Tang is just in time... Could it be that they are sure to kill us?"
Yang Shen smiled and comforted: "Jingdao, you are overthinking. No matter whether it is a trap set by the Jinyi Guards or not, this batch of pig iron cannot fall back into their hands. The Ming Dynasty is now in short supply of armaments everywhere. With this batch of pig iron, weapons can be made."
, it will definitely be even more powerful... My father is strategizing, as long as we don't let the Jin Yiwei take it back."
Yang Shen is very confident in this matter.
No matter if it is a conspiracy or not.
When the pig iron fell into our hands, it was a great achievement. As the first assistant bachelor, what conspiracy did my father need to consider? If my father dared to go directly to Huairoubo and put pressure on Yongpingwei, he had already made a decision to seize it.
Send this batch of pig iron to let the emperor know how powerful the civil service group is.
Zhu Hao had a somewhat comforting look on his face: "That means that even if things get serious later, your father will be able to suppress this matter, right?"
"Yeah." 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 been feeling restless. After thinking about it, I always feel that something is wrong. After listening to what you said, I can finally sleep peacefully."
Yang Shen smiled and said: "Just put your mind at ease... Although you are now obeying orders and acting with the Ministry of Household Affairs, you have made great efforts in this matter, and my father will not forget your achievements. Your career will definitely be better in the future."
Fully protected."
Zhu Hao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I don't care much about official career, as long as I don't have too much responsibility. As you know, I just want to live a stable life. Even if I am an official, I still want to do that without worries."
It’s dangerous to be a peace officer waiting to die. You can say that I have no ambition, but with my background, it’s really difficult.”
Yang Shen nodded in understanding and then asked, "How is your family doing lately?"
"Are you asking about my uncle? He is in Nanjing. I don't know what happened to him. I am a prefect here and he is a guard of thousands of households in Nanjing. I have not been in contact recently." Zhu Hao said.
Yang Shen nodded.
He originally wanted to explore the background of Jinyiwei by asking about Zhu Wanhong's situation, but now he discovered that Zhu Hao's appointment as an official did not seem to have much connection with the Zhu family of Jinyiwei, so it was in vain to ask.
…
…
Yongpingwei commanded Li Bo, but in the end he still had to sell Huairou Bo's face.
What's more, the person standing behind Huairou Bo Shi Zan is the chief minister of the dynasty. This is definitely not a big shot that a local guard commander can afford to offend. Even if they don't ask him to mobilize troops to help through the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion, Li Bor can only
He was able to dispatch manpower, mobilized five hundred-man teams, and brought a large number of laborers, mules and horses to Yaozi Mountain to transfer pig iron.
For the sake of caution, Yang Shen did not go there in person, but Yang Ping, who came to send a message to Yang Shen, took a few people to supervise.
Zhu Hao sent Jiang Shantong, the governor of the government.
Jiang Shantong was confused. Yang Shen asked him for manpower, and he raised some. Now the prefect suddenly assigned him to take a large number of civilians to drive wheelbarrows and carriages to the mines. He didn't even know this.
What to do.
As an assistant official of the first government, he rarely had to do odd jobs, but now that his immediate boss Zhu Hao and his son sent by his backer had given orders, he had to take people to go to Yaozi Mountain.
Two days later.
When the news came, the people of the Yongping Guard successfully found the batch of pig iron and were escorted by the guards. A large number of people pushed the wheelbarrows, drove the pack horses and carriages, loaded the pig iron, and transported it to the nearby guard station overnight.
Unexpectedly, that 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 Prefecture Iron Mine without greeting anyone in advance or making any announcements in advance.
thing.
"...Your Majesty, I have learned that there is a large amount of pig iron that has not been deeply smelted in the Yongping Prefecture Iron Mine. The army is currently short of weapons. I sincerely request your Majesty to transfer this batch of pig iron to the northwest for military supplies."
Sun Jiao did not mention where his information came from, nor whether the incident was related to Zhu Hao. He only said that there was such a thing, and it sounded reasonable.
But at the critical moment, Sun Jiao brought up such a topic, and Yang Tinghe on the side felt that he seemed to be targeted.
Zhu Si frowned and said: "The iron mine produces naturally pig iron. Otherwise, would it also produce copper? The pig iron produced by the mine that I sent people to open must naturally be distributed by me. If it is used for northwest border defense... Should the palace be asked to do so?
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 impatient. "Since the beginning of last year, you should be very clear about how many coins the Ministry of Revenue has allocated to me. As the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, you should be very clear. I'm going to ask you now, don't the royal palace need any expenses?"
"The official land and the imperial store have now been handed over to the Ministry of Household Affairs. It has been two months, right? I haven't seen a penny yet! Now I have handed over the Yongping Mansion Iron Mine to the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In addition to not being able to hand over to me in the future, are you going to confiscate all the things previously produced by the mine?"
After Zhu Si finished speaking, there was now silence.
It is strange for an emperor to be as shameless as Zhu Si.
As an emperor, you can't run any business by yourself. The court officials proposed that the Ministry of Revenue must supervise it. After the Ministry of Revenue took over Huangzhuang and Huangdian, it used the excuse of verifying the accounts of the past years and still does not allocate silver to the internal treasury.
Then drag it on and use reasonable means to drag down the emperor's patience.
Now the emperor can't even keep the iron mine, and the Ministry of Revenue still has to compete with the emperor for what the iron mine used to produce.
No matter how you listen to it, you feel like Hubu is bullying the little emperor.
When Zhu Si said this, he seemed to be angry. After casually speaking, he calmed down a little, and his tone was relatively calm, and he said: "Sun Butang doesn't need to come to ask me for it. That batch of pig iron was seized by your son-in-law Zhu Jingdao.
People from the Jin Yiwei are still looking everywhere. Sun Qing’s family, isn’t this matter reported to you by the prefect of Yongping Prefecture?”
The ministers present were confused when they heard this. This matter is actually related to the prefect of Yongping Prefecture?
Yang Tinghe on 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 the investigation and seized it. The emperor should know about it, but now the Jinyiwei can't find where the batch of pig iron is hidden. So why doesn't the emperor directly issue a decree?
Ask Zhu Hao to hand over this batch of pig iron? Do you have to go through so much trouble and let Jin Yiwei search everywhere?
Yang Tinghe suddenly felt that he had made a mistake.
Previously, he had the same idea as Yang Shen. They felt that if Jinyiwei lost a large amount of pig iron, they should not report it to the emperor, because it involved a major deficit, and who wanted to take responsibility?
But now it seems that the emperor actually knows about it? Then why didn't the emperor directly issue an order to ask Zhu Hao before? Is there something fishy in it?
This is looking more and more like a trap.
However, this kind of superficial trick was nothing to Yang Tinghe, so he sneered in response.
Sun Jiaodao: "Your Majesty, this matter was not reported by the prefect of Yongping Prefecture, but... the head of the Household Department who was sent earlier arrived at the mine, checked the accounts in detail and reported them. All the accounts checked were submitted by Jin Yiwei.
"Please note that the local magistrate has not yet contacted the people sent by the Ministry of Household Affairs."
Zhu Si said coldly: "Don't always think about profiting from me! I don't know where this batch of pig iron is now. I will issue an order now and ask the prefect of Yongping Prefecture to hand it over! This is what I got from finding someone to mine.
, no one can take advantage of this batch of pig iron!"
…
…
The court discussion on this matter came to an end temporarily with the emperor's harsh words.
This disrupted Yang Tinghe's deployment.
After the court meeting, Jiang Mian and Yang Tinghe returned to the cabinet room for duty. Jiang Mian asked curiously, "Jiefu, did you know about this early in the morning?"
Jiang Mian is considered a human spirit.
Sun handed it over to report, but Yang Tinghe remained silent. He could tell that Yang Tinghe knew about it but did not report it, and perhaps he was behind it.
Yang Tinghe said: "If nothing else happens, this batch of pig iron has been transported away by the Yongping Guards."
When Jiang Mian heard this, he suddenly became worried: "Doesn't that mean that even if your Majesty issues an order to the prefect of Yongping Prefecture, he won't be able to hand over this batch of pig iron?"
Yang Tinghe turned his head and looked at Jiang Mian: "Do you think this batch of pig iron should be returned?"
"That's not true."
Jiang Mian said, "But this doesn't seem like your style of doing things. I think you should be the one to mention this to His Majesty in the court today."
Yang Tinghe was a little worried: "I planned to wait until the matter was settled before reporting it to His Majesty, but Sun Zhitong beat me to it...or maybe he was stuck at a critical time point and insisted on being the first at this moment.
Play."
"hehe."
Jiang Mian smiled bitterly.
It’s right to think about it.
If Yang Tinghe wanted to report it, he had to wait until the matter was completed, otherwise it would be equivalent to telling the emperor in advance the whereabouts of this batch of pig iron.
But just because of the time difference, Sun Jiao came forward in advance, putting Yang Tinghe in the position of a "thief".
You took the thing and reported it first, so you are justified, but if someone else reports the loss first, it will be in vain for you to say anything.
Yang Tinghe said: "But it's no big deal. I will ask Yongping Wei to take the initiative to report this matter and inform the local magistrate about the transfer of pig iron. Then I will find some ministers to report it and persuade your majesty to use this batch of pig iron for northwest border defense.