While Fusu was writing the memorial, Zheng Xuan returned home with his hands clasped in front of him, as if holding something in his hands, with a cold look on his face.
Just walked into the house.
Then he saw Zheng An coming up to him.
Zheng An said nervously: "Aweng, are you okay?"
Zheng Xuan snorted coldly and said in a cold voice: "Inspector Shi's side has fooled you, but you still have to block those irons."
Zheng An let out a long sigh of relief.
He didn't dare to go out today and stayed at home all the time, fearing that the Railway Administration would find out something. Fortunately, the supervisory history was not found out.
Enter the house.
"Brother," a middle-aged man in the room said.
"Zheng An asked you to come?" Zheng Xuan frowned. This person is his younger brother, Zheng Sheng.
Zheng Sheng said with worry on his face: "Such a big thing happened to my uncle, how could I not come? Besides, I was the one who dug this trap."
Zheng Xuan shouted:
"You still know?"
"If it weren't for you, would Zheng An have been able to get those wrought irons? Can he get those armors that are enough for the Yi tribe?"
"I was too indulgent to you before!"
"If you weren't my brother, I would have brought you to justice long ago!"
"It's really lawless."
Zheng Sheng had a sarcastic look on his face, but he didn't care at all. He said, "Brother Zhong, now that things have happened, it won't help me if you tell me. I'd better think of how to fool this matter."
"I didn't think so much at the time."
"Brother Zhong, you are in charge of iron. What's wrong if I get some iron?"
"With so much wrought iron coming in and out of the Railway Administration every day, who would just stare at the hundreds of kilograms of wrought iron I took away?"
"Moreover."
"Zheng An wants it, how can I not satisfy it?"
"Building iron armor is indeed my problem, but how do I know what happens next?"
"Now that the world is at peace, it is not a big deal to fight a few pairs of armors. Who would usually hold on to this? In fact, it is all the fault of those historians and Washington. If it were not for them, there would be no such thing.
What trouble!"
Zheng Sheng didn't feel that there was anything wrong with what he did.
Zheng Xuan's eyes flashed with anger.
After causing such a big disaster, are you still making excuses?
Zheng Xuan cursed angrily:
"shut up!"
"What virtues do you have that I don't know about?"
"If it weren't for me, your position as an engineer would have been long gone!"
"You are still talking so loudly, do you know what the concept of iron armor is?"
"rebel!!!"
"If outsiders find out, let alone you, none of us in the Zheng family can escape, we will all die!"
"Fortunately this time it was just an iron check."
"In addition, their investigation was not rigorous, so no problem was found for the time being. If the problem was discovered at that time and they were investigated in detail, do you really think that the court would not be able to find out what you made of iron?"
"Do you really think I can cover the sky with just one hand?"
"You are all taking advantage of my status to act recklessly outside. Do you really think that I don't know anything? It's just that I chose to turn a blind eye before. I, Zheng Xuan, fought my way up from the ranks of soldiers.
Yeah, what haven’t you seen?”
"I just don't want you to be like me before."
"But this time you went too far!"
Zheng Sheng's expression changed slightly, and he stood aside with a blushing face.
Zheng Xuan snorted coldly, and did not continue to scold Zheng Sheng. He said: "This matter is not so easy to solve. Now the amount of wrought iron collected by the government offices has decreased. The wrought iron in various counties and counties cannot be moved. The only ones that can be moved are workshops and government offices.
of wrought iron.”
"Due to the weather, workshops and offices applied for very little wrought iron."
"The hundreds of kilograms of wrought iron you used this time are not easy to plug, and there must be no big flaws. Otherwise, once the government office or the workshop discovers it, you will be prepared to be prisoners for the rest of your life."
Hear the words.
Zheng An and Zheng Sheng's expressions both changed.
Zheng Sheng said in confusion:
"Brother Zhong, are you so difficult to deal with?"
"We only used less than forty or fifty kilograms of wrought iron in total. Can't you just make a few changes in the account books? If it doesn't work, just deduct a little of the wrought iron from each county. Anyway, they are not in Xianyang. Who knows how much it is?
Or less?”
Zheng Xuan looked at Zheng Sheng coldly.
He snorted coldly:
"You want me to die."
"The county's wrought iron must not be touched."
"The county's wrought iron is related to the spring plowing in the future. This is directly linked to the county's county guard and the county magistrate's year-end assessment. You want me to provoke them?"
Zheng Sheng immediately fell silent.
Zheng Xuan said in a deep voice:
"If we want to fill this gap, we can only find ways from workshops and government offices."
"Zheng Sheng, you work at the workshop. If there is a situation, I can know it as soon as possible and solve it as soon as possible. But we don't have many choices."
"This inspection indeed found no problems."
"But in order to fill the vacancies, the Railway Administration approved some documents in advance, which also resulted in not so much data that I could change."
"Mainly focus on this bamboo slip."
Zheng Xuan took out the bamboo slip hidden in his sleeve.
Zheng An and Zheng Sheng looked over.
Zheng Xuan continued:
"This bamboo slip was sent today. The supervision history was not found. It was also the documents on this bamboo slip that helped you fill in the loopholes. Now that the other documents have been filed, we can no longer do anything. We can only find a solution from here.
Already."
Finished.
Zheng Xuan rolled his sleeves and went to the study.
Zheng An and Zheng Sheng also went to the study room.
Zheng Xuan unfolded the bamboo slips and scratched out the documents that had been registered at the Railway Bureau. The bamboo slips, which could not remember much content, now provided him with less and less space to operate.
Zheng An also looked over.
He didn't understand this, but he saw a familiar name in this bamboo slip.
Qin Luoheng!
Zheng An was immediately stunned.
Then I took a closer look.
Then he said:
"Ah Weng, there is Qin Luoheng up here."
Zheng Xuan frowned, "Qin Luoheng? Who is he?"
Zheng An said anxiously:
"That's the Qin Shizi who was in the prison yesterday."
"This is the person I lost to. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have lost at all yesterday. However, why would the government office give him a grade?"
There was a strange color in Zheng Xuan's eyes.
He took a careful look at the bamboo slips and indeed found this document on the bamboo slips. It said that the Gong Yamen had applied for Qin Luoheng's special license for thirty kilograms of iron to forge ironware.
Zheng Xuan frowned and said:
"Why is it a charter application? Or is it for private use?"
Zheng Xuan secretly guessed, but he couldn't figure it out.
Zheng Sheng said:
"Maybe it's the government office that's pretending to be public for private gain."
"This government office is quite courageous. It's so blatant. Even I don't dare to do this. How could they dare?"
Zheng An whispered:
"Aweng, why don't I take those irons off his head?"
"The iron he got is private. The imperial court does not allow private individuals to own iron, so it is possible that the iron he got was dirty. Even if we took all of it, he would not dare to say anything."
"Besides."
"Aweng, you can approve it first, and then Father Ji, go and cut off this part of the iron. By the way, I want to ask the government office what kind of iron tool Qin Luoheng wants to make. We can just fool him. Does he really dare to
Go sue us?"
"This is a private railway!"
Zheng Sheng's eyes moved slightly, and he felt a little moved.
The county's iron cannot be moved, but the iron gap in the iron government office is dozens of kilograms. If it is not repaired from other places, sooner or later the secret will be exposed. Qin Luoheng's private railway is too attractive.
and......
If they really take up all of them, most of the vacancies will be filled.
Zheng Xuan's expression flashed, but he still said cautiously: "The government office is not so bold. Since they dare to apply, there must be a reason."
"perhaps......"
"This is the reward given to Qin Luoheng by the government!"
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
I went to get my third injection today, which was a bit delayed.