Baijiaxing was kept at a distance by the crowd because of what he had just announced. He waited until the crowd dispersed before finally entering Chu's house.

"Boss! When did you come back?" Bai Jiaxing asked while looking at the plaque that read "Jing Jie Jie Filial Piety".

"I arrived last night. Why did you come here?" Chu Qing said.

"Just in time for you to come back, I've learned some information and told you about it."

"Let's go into the house and talk."

Chu Qing took Bai Jiaxing to the main hall.

Baijia

, just saying that they have a lot of slag."

"They smelted a lot of iron ingots, but they said that the blast furnace was broken, which affected the output of iron ingots. That means that the iron ingots were not accounted for after they were smelted. Where did all the iron ingots go?" Chu Qing asked.

"Boss, it's the Meng family!"

"Meng family?"

"Yes, my people saw that the steward of the Meng family took away two carts of iron ingots three nights ago, and each cart was pulled by two mules."

"Four mules?" Chu Qing asked in surprise.

Mules have better endurance than horses. If used for transportation, mules are more cost-effective than horses. If four mules are needed to transport a carriage, excluding the weight of the carriage, two tons of iron ingots will have to be transported!

What is the concept of two tons? The saber of an army soldier is less than one kilogram. Calculated as one kilogram, two tons is two thousand kilograms, that is two thousand sabers! There are only 500 people in an army battalion. These iron ingots are enough to arm four

Camp!

Chu Qing took a breath: "The Meng family is quite courageous!"

"Boss, we didn't dare to stop them because we didn't know who ordered them. I sent a few smart boys from our group to follow them," Bai Jiaxing said.

"Where are they?" Chu Qing asked.

"We have entered Xinlunzhou."

"Well done! Keep in touch with them. I have to go to Xinlun."

A quarter of an hour later, Chu Qing arrived at the director's office and went directly to see Deputy Jiang Qianhu.

"Is the information accurate?" asked Chiang's deputy Qianhu.

"Exactly! My boys are following," Chu Qing said, "They are just my workers, so they can only follow."

"In this way, you take twenty people with you and make sure to find out the transportation route of these iron ingots. You must have both witnesses and physical evidence."

"I obey my orders!" Chu Qing accepted the order.

This is the most appropriate thing for Chu Qing to do. After all, her people have been following her, and Chu Qing is also one of the people in the board of directors who is most familiar with Xinlun Prefecture.

Chu Qing ordered twenty people from his office and set off. His own special operations team was followed by Chu Yuan.

………………

At the same time, Brother Wei Chengyi was having a dispute with the parachute leader of Xinlun Prefecture, Deputy Han Qianhu.

The reason was that Deputy Han Qianhu marginalized the fifteen detectives originally sent from Jizhou within one month of taking office.

These fifteen detectives were originally Chu Qing's subordinates and played an immeasurable role in the national war, so they have always been the backbone of the business in Xinlun Prefecture. Now they have been adjusted to some unimportant positions.

Immediately afterwards, Deputy Han Qianhu informed Brother Zhuizi that he could return to Jizhou, saying that Xinlunzhou did not need so many people.

Because there was a task to investigate the smuggling of iron ingots first, Deputy Qianhu came here by air. Brother Zhuizi was afraid that the news would be leaked before the matter was investigated clearly, so he did not explain it to Deputy Qianhu.

So at first, they just refused and said that some things had not been completed, so they did not leave. Today, Deputy Han Qianhu directly ordered them to leave. Brother Zhuizi had to inform them about the investigation.

Deputy Jiang Qianhu thought to himself: "I am here just for this matter. How can I really give you a chance to investigate? Whoever you are, as long as you have anything to do with this matter, stay away from me!"

During this period, Brother Zhuizi tortured the prisoners of Voss and learned that they were entrusted by the Meng family in Jizhou to seize the Baoqingsheng North Inn as their trading and inventory location.

Because the Meng family couldn't buy a warehouse, they united with the people of Vos and wanted to use this method to destroy Chu Qing's business, so that they could not do business here and had to leave.

But Zhang Mingyu was following the caravan of the Meng family in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was the Meng family in Jizhou that caused harm to Beizhan. The connection between the two, as well as the route they used to transport iron ingots, is what Brother Zhuizi has been investigating.

Now we have just begun to get some clues: the border control checkpoint for entering and exiting the caravan seems to have people from the Meng family inside to handle it. Before it is too late to continue the investigation, Deputy Chiang Kai-shek is about to drive them away.

Brother Zhuizi did not dare to reveal more information. He only said that he was investigating the smuggling of iron ingots and suspected that the Meng family in Jizhou was involved, so the people from the Jizhou Council were investigating in Xinlun Prefecture. There was nothing wrong with it.

Deputy Han Qianhu was thinking in his mind:

"The smuggling of iron ingots has always been the business of the Meng family in Jiangnan. Mr. Wu, the governor of North Town, and the Meng family in Jiangnan are related, so they have always assisted. How could they find out about this kind of thing?"

Also thought:

"The cancellation of the mutual trade with Dong Lun and Worth countries in the past two years has cut off business in Jiangnan. Now that the mutual trade has finally reopened, the Meng family in Jiangnan is smuggling iron ingots nearby. The Meng family in Jizhou must help. They have already found out

The Meng family is in trouble and must be interrupted."

Then Deputy Han Qianhu said:

"Oh, this makes it clear to me, haha, it's just that Xinlun Prefecture was originally managed by the Jizhou Council, but now I am fully responsible for it."

"Then if Wei Baihu comes here to handle the case, he needs the Jizhou Office to issue an official letter for joint handling of the case."

"But now that the procedures are not complete, you'd better go back and recover before we talk." Deputy Han Qianhu smiled, and his attitude seemed very friendly."

These words made Brother Zhuizi choke up. This formality is indeed necessary for official business, but time is tight now! It takes four days to go back and forth, and how much things are delayed!

Deputy Han Qianhu had this idea in mind. Four days were enough for him to notify the Meng family in Jizhou and let the Meng family make arrangements.

But what Deputy Han Qianhu didn't know was that this time the Meng family in Jizhou had independently obtained a batch of iron ingots and planned to smuggle them themselves, and they had already shipped them to Xinlunzhou.

Because Meng Pei, the head of the Meng family in Jizhou, felt that he did not get much benefit from spending so much effort to help the Meng family in Jiangnan, and he was still not welcome as a side branch there.

Since it's a thankless task, why not continue to help Jiangnan and do your own business at the same time? It's the same way, why don't you get a share of the pie?

"Where are they?" Meng Pei asked.

"We have already arrived in Xinlunzhou. It's time to change the carriage and cargo box." The steward replied. The steward following the carriage this time was his son.

"Sir, our caravan has also entered Xinlun Prefecture. Then we only need to load the iron ingots into the caravan's trucks. If we go quickly, we can reach the border tomorrow night, and it will not be as slow as noon the day after tomorrow."

"Okay!" Meng Pei patted the armrest of the chair, "If this errand is completed, your son will be responsible for this stall!"

The housekeeper bowed and thanked him repeatedly. He was responsible for this stall, that is to say, the business of smuggling iron ingots, and his son was responsible for it full-time. That was a fat job! There was a lot of money to be made!

Xinlunzhou.

Chu Qing worked hard all the way and soon arrived at the border of Xinlun Prefecture. From here on, her boys in No. 108 Village would catch up with her team from time to time to report on the situation.

By the time they arrived at Baoqingsheng Beizhan, they had already learned that eleven carriages from the Meng family in Jizhou had joined the team transporting iron ingots.

"How big a caravan are they trying to pretend to be?" Chu Qing muttered.

"Boss, the caravan going to Voss can be a small caravan with a dozen vehicles, or a larger caravan with dozens of carriages. Each car usually has two mules and a driver, but the Meng family's caravan this time

Each car is equipped with a driver and three guards." A boy from the third team answered.

"That is to say, they have gathered forty-four people now." Chu Qing glanced at his team. There were forty-two people, almost the same.

"Where is Wei Chengyi?" Chu Qing asked the boy from Beizhan.

"Master Wei also got news about the Meng family's caravan. He was afraid that the defenders at the border checkpoint were members of the Meng family and that he would be unable to stop them, so he took his men to intercept them near the checkpoint."

Chu Qing was shocked. This is not possible. Brother Zhuizi only brought ten men, and currently there are forty-four people in the Meng family. It is unknown how many more have not arrived.

"Just eleven of them?" Chu Qing asked worriedly.

"We also followed twenty people." The boy from Beizhan replied.
Chapter completed!