"Yes, it won't do any good if they make a fuss. We only need to compensate for the losses, and this matter will be reduced to a major issue." Shen Tan said, patting his thigh.
Lin Jue smiled and said nothing, and Shen Tan frowned and said, "But Mr. Lin, this is a lot of money. If we really compensate according to the price, we will get at least 30,000 taels of silver."
Lin Jue smiled and said: "For me, this is just spending money to buy equipment. This is my original intention. I can still get thirty thousand taels of silver. I just want this thing to be safe and sound. If we do it, we won’t leave any hidden dangers. Moreover, this will allow this batch of equipment to be transported out of the city. If we don’t do this, even if we get this batch of equipment in Hangzhou, how to transport it out of the city will still be a big problem. .”
Shen Tan, tall and tall with his big finger, praised sincerely: "Young Master Lin is Mr. Lin. He is indeed unparalleled in resourcefulness. This method seems to be the best method at present."
Lin Jue said: "Commander Shen thinks it will be a good achievement, but I want to remind you of a few points. First, the person who proposes to transport this batch of old equipment to the capital cannot be you. It must be the young prince or the prince who proposes it to the weapons department. In this way , after the incident comes out, you have nothing to do with it. Therefore, the reason for transporting the equipment is very important. Secondly, the person transporting the equipment must be the person you trust the most. You don’t need to tell them about the matter, as long as you do it even if they have Don't talk nonsense if you are suspicious. This depends on Commander Shen's ability. Thirdly, the transportation route must be by land, not by water. Otherwise, the matter will not be done. These three points must be achieved, every Details are related to success or failure, so we cannot take it lightly."
Shen Tan swallowed his foam and nodded: "Young master is very thoughtful. The second and third points are not a problem. I will personally escort him for easy control. I, Shen Tan, think that I am not a bad person, but there are a group of people who are devoted to me. Brother, even if they have doubts afterwards, they won’t say anything. But this first point is not easy. How to make the prince and young prince take the initiative to request that this batch of materials be transported away? These trivial matters are usually not done by the prince and young prince at all. Concerned. Also, after they found out about it, it was still difficult to explain?"
Lin Jue said: "There is no need to explain, just keep it hidden from both ends. Naturally, they won't make any noise when they get the money to compensate. Prince, you just keep it hidden here. They think the things have arrived safely, so they won't bother to ask about it." If it was really leaked, you could use the fear of punishment as an excuse. You just said you were worried about punishment, so you borrowed money to make up the hole. With your status and identity in the palace, the prince and the young prince will not do anything to you. .But the reason you mentioned that the prince or young prince should take the initiative to send this batch of armor supplies to the capital is not easy to handle. I have a solution here, but I don’t know if it will work..."
"Master Lin, please speak." Shen Tan asked hurriedly.
Lin Jue said: "Tell the young prince or the prince that you heard that Yan Zhengshen is investigating the origin of the military supplies that Haidong Qing has hoarded on the island. Just say that there are rumors that some of the equipment flowed out from the prince's palace. Yan Zhengshen is secretly investigating this matter. I think that the prince and the young prince will take this news very seriously after hearing it. They will definitely ask you about the management of the armor in the warehouse on weekdays. Just tell them that although the management of the warehouse on weekdays is strict, But we can’t prevent someone from being lured into selling old equipment for profit. Because the weapons department’s inventory is not strict, and sometimes the quantity is short, it is considered normal. Then you will still have 800 old equipment stored in the warehouse. Tell them and they will definitely send away these more than 800 sets of old equipment and materials."
Shen Tan said in astonishment: "Is this done?"
Lin Jue smiled and said: "It's almost the same. I think they will contact the Ordnance Department immediately and request that this batch of armor materials be transported away."
Shen Tan smacked his lips and said, "I don't understand."
Lin Jue smiled and said: "It's very simple. According to the rules, these more than 800 sets of old equipment should be transported to the Ordnance Department, right? Staying in the palace warehouse is against the rules. When the prince and the young prince learned that Yan Zhengsu was secretly Investigate this matter, and there are rumors that the pirate equipment may have leaked from the palace. The prince and the young prince must reorganize the storage of equipment, and will ask you to strictly control the access of military supplies. Why? Because they I don’t want to be entangled with Yan Zhengsheng. Magistrate Yan is a ruthless person. If he learns that the management of military equipment and materials in the palace does not comply with the court rules, it will not be a good thing. The prince and the young prince absolutely do not want this to happen. , it must be resolved in advance without leaving any clues."
Shen Tan opened his mouth wide and was speechless. What Mr. Lin was thinking in his mind had never occurred to him. If he thought about it carefully, it was really the case. The prince and the young prince never wanted to get into trouble with this matter. trouble.
"This is asking me to deceive the prince and the young prince. I have never done this in all these years. I have to deceive and conceal them from the beginning to the end." Shen Tan smacked his lips and sighed.
Lin Jue smiled and said: "There is really no choice but to aggrieve Commander Shen. Of course, as I said before, I don't want to force Commander Shen to do this. I just want this matter to be resolved smoothly. Of course, if Commander Shen I am willing to set fire to the palace's warehouse so that there is no place to store these things, and I can have a good reason to send away this batch of equipment. However, there are so many houses in the palace and the space is so big, I am afraid that it will be burned down. It only takes one house.”
Shen Tan staggered and almost fell to the ground. What kind of bad idea was this? He actually set fire to the palace's warehouse. Is this crazy?
"It's a joke, it's just a joke. The atmosphere is too tense. Let's relax, hahaha." Lin Jue laughed, and Shen Tan rolled his eyes.
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A large house on the east side of Gongyuan in Beicheng, Hangzhou is busy. Several chief and deputy examiners in charge of the autumn examination are sitting next to a long desk. On the desk are stacks of examination papers. A dozen clerical servants are busy beside them. Going back and forth, moving stacks of exam papers here and there, I was very busy.
It has been nearly twenty days since the courtyard was locked. All the officials, clerks and handymen who were in charge of examinations and marking have been trapped in this courtyard for more than twenty days. During these more than twenty days, they were not allowed to go out. , no contact with outsiders, no side contact with the outside world, to put it bluntly, it is not much different from going to jail. The official in charge of the examination is a minister sent by the Ministry of Rites of the imperial court, and the four deputy examiners are from Zhejiang and Zhejiang. There are several Xue Zheng officials on the road. The rest are clerical servants specially equipped for this autumn examination. They are all officials and clerks from Xue Zheng Yamen in various places.
Due to the large number of candidates for this Autumn Examination, it would have taken more than twenty days to finalize the list of admitted candidates and prepare for the release of the results. However, at this time this year, there are still nearly two dozen candidates piled up on the long papers of several examiners. Thousands of test papers. This is the result after five examiners screened them day and night for several rounds.
At this time, the choice of any test paper will determine the fate of a candidate, and the progress urges them to speed up. The results will be released within three days, so the next screening must eliminate at least one
Most of the candidates are selected, which is an extremely careful process. Therefore, today's screening will be very cruel.
Hu Yongpei, the Minister of Rites, is about forty years old and has a thin face. As an official sent to an important place like Liangzhe Road to preside over the autumn imperial examination, he knows that his responsibility is huge. Liangzhe Road has always been the most popular candidate for the imperial court.
The large number of candidates and the high quality of candidates in this place are unmatched by other places. Therefore, being sent here to preside over the major examination shows that Hu Yongpei's status in the Ministry of Rites is also very important.
But Hu Yongpei has been very troubled these days. The reason is that before coming to Hangzhou, someone said hello to him and told him that a Hangzhou candidate named Lin Jue must succeed this time and asked him to find a way to operate.
The person who greeted him was Wu Chunlai, the director of the political affairs hall. Hu Yongpei understood that Wu Chunlai's words could not be violated. Although he was not below Wu Chunlai in terms of official rank. But who was Wu Chunlai? He was Lu
The famous person next to the prime minister. Prime Minister Lu valued him very much and cultivated him deliberately. Wu Chunlai is very hopeful that he will be promoted to one of the political advisors in the near future. This person is not comparable to him. Hu Yongpei really wants to be the head of the Ministry of Rites.
I also followed Wu Chunlai's path. Now that Wu Chunlai has made this request, I have to do it.
However, cheating in the imperial examination was the biggest taboo in this dynasty. Hu Yongpei, who was in the Ministry of Rites, naturally knew that this matter was not trivial, and he might have his head confiscated. The Ministry of Rites sent propaganda teams to various places to preach about cheating in the imperial examination.
Hu Yonghao presided over the compilation of the documents of the case. He naturally knew how many people had lost their heads and how many people had their homes confiscated due to imperial examination fraud in the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, Hu Yongpei was worried.
Because of this, he did not dare to act rashly during the Qiu Wei Examination. Indeed, he checked the dormitory number of the candidate named Lin Jue, and also went to the dormitory No. 138 of D.
He looked at the appearance of the young man named Lin Jue. Originally, if he wanted to successfully admit Lin Jue, he had to find an opportunity to hint Lin Jue to write an essay on the examination paper as a mark that he could identify when marking the paper, and then
He was admitted. But during the examination process, he never found a chance to communicate with the person named Lin Jue.
During the three days of the autumn exam, he once went to Lin Jue's dormitory as a patrol, intending to secretly explain to Lin Jue in the middle of the night. But what annoyed him was that that
Lin Jue actually fell asleep at night, and when he got closer, he was snoring like thunder. Other candidates were holding candles in the middle of the night and thinking hard about answering questions, but this person was better off, going to bed as soon as it got dark, giving himself no chance.
