Escort

Chapter 426 What crime is slander in our Great Yan dynasty?

The navy's warship soon arrived at the merchant ship, and everyone silently looked at the dozens of dark iron cannons on the opposite deck, as well as the officers and soldiers densely armed to the teeth, and then looked back at their side, completely still In the age of weapons, the only catapult weapon is the slingshot, and the gap in equipment makes everyone feel desperate.

A moment later, a high-spirited military officer jumped onto the merchant ship with a dozen of his subordinates, looked at the masters standing there motionless, and immediately lowered his face.

A person who looked like a deputy next to him was very winking, and immediately shouted when he saw this, "Bold and unreasonable, your ship has been detained by the Dayan navy, why don't you kneel when you see Lord Lu!"

Everyone exchanged glances, and someone boldly stepped forward and asked, "Ahem, my lord, I don't know...why did the navy seize our merchant ship?"

"You don't know?" The deputy sneered, and was about to speak, but turned his head to see that Master Xu was frowning at him, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. How could he be so confused, and accidentally steal the limelight from his boss, leaving the boss without compulsion? It can be installed, which is a taboo in the workplace.The deputy hurriedly reined in his horse, and returned to Master Lu without saying a word.

Looking at Lord Lu again, his complexion really improved a lot. He stroked his beard and said slowly, "Three days ago, the Dayan Marine Division received a report that someone was smuggling gold on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. I specially led people to patrol around Yunmeng Lake." , Sure enough, I saw you sneaky people."

"Your Excellency, you are really clever." The deputy never forgot his own job, and he was flattering, but he immediately noticed that everyone's faces became weird.

After a while, Escort Zhang couldn't help but speak first, "Uh, Mr. Lu, the relationship between you and your boss is a bit... not very harmonious."

"Huh?" Mr. Lu was in a state of complacency, and when he heard this, his face suddenly changed, and he said in surprise, "How do you know this?"

Everyone looked down at the floor. Isn't this kind of thing obvious? No matter who comes to search this batch of gold, although it can be credited to the emperor, it is also equivalent to enmity with all the princes at the same time. Now it is certainly refreshing. But when the new emperor ascends the throne in the future, the new and old hatreds will be counted together, and there will be no good end to the cliff.Thinking about it this way, everyone looked at Mr. Lu unconsciously full of sympathy. This guy probably offended his boss, otherwise he wouldn't have such a bad job.

Mr. Lu was terrified by everyone's stare, and he knew that there must be something tricky in today's matter, but after thinking about it for a while, he knew that he must have no way out. Now that he has been sent here, even if he knows that there is a pit in front of him, he can only go in. Jump, otherwise he can't explain to his boss at all.

Master Lu gritted his teeth and waved, "Search for me."

"Gold smuggling?" A look of worry appeared on Qianqian's face. She didn't expect that the navy would make such a sudden move this time under the banner that all the gold mines in the Great Yan Dynasty belonged to the imperial court. For private mining of gold mines, if someone discovers gold mines, he must report to the imperial court. After that, the imperial court will send people to explore the reserves of gold mines, and give certain material and spiritual rewards to the gold mine discoverers. If gold mines are mined privately, If found, they will be beheaded.

So how can the government determine whether a batch of gold was mined privately or by the court?The easiest way is to look at the color. It is impossible for the gold content in the market to reach 100%, which will be mixed with certain other metals, and the government's purification process is ahead of the folks. The gold content of the gold smelted by the government is higher than that of the private sector.

However, the problem with the batch of gold unearthed in the treasure house of the Great Zhou was just the opposite. It was not of insufficient quality but of too good a quality. In the end, Huangfuyuan was to blame for this matter. In the treasure house of Yanzhou, this led to a serious shortage of gold reserves when Dayan was founded. In addition to frantically looking for gold mines to make up for the loopholes, Emperor Taizong had to use some small means. The gold content of Dayan Dynasty was relatively large. Slight gap.

In other words, the fineness of the gold in the otaku's hands is indeed different from that of the imperial court, which is more troublesome, unless you explain that this batch of gold comes from the treasure house of the Great Zhou, but in this way, the imperial court will have more reason to collect it Return to the treasury, and in order to prove yourself, you need to take out the other half of the treasures.

Qianqian glanced at Master Kuxuan who was not far away. Kuxuan stood there quietly without saying a word. No one thought that this old monk was the most ruthless person.

Now there are two ways for the otaku, either admit that you smuggled gold, the advantage of doing so is that at least half of the treasure can be preserved, but the end is likely to lose your head, or you confess everything and hand over all the treasure, so In the end, you will probably only get a symbolic reward of tens of thousands of taels of silver from the imperial court, and a certificate of honor for the good people of Great Yan.

Everyone looked up at Escort Zhang, wondering what his final choice would be.

"Ha." The otaku raised his eyebrows, "Don't look, I don't know which of these two roads to choose." Then he turned his head and said sincerely to Master Lu, "Master Lu, you have to trust me. There is no gold on board at all, it is obvious that someone is jealous of our beauty and deliberately framed us." While talking, he glanced at Master Kuxuan intentionally or unintentionally.

Damn it, you can say such narcissistic words in such a grand manner, Mr. Lu is completely shocked by someone's shamelessness.

Ku Xuan at the side shook his head, "Benefactor Zhang, why do you have to use your tongue, no matter how much you argue, the 180 million taels of gold is now in the cabin, Master Lu just needs to go down and take a look. What else can you say then?"

The otaku asked very seriously, "Lord Lu, what kind of crime is slander in our Great Yan Dynasty? Can you be shot?"

Mr. Lu has two big heads, "Okay, okay, stop arguing, you two, I will know who is right and who is wrong when I enter the cabin, don't worry, I will not wrong you A good person, of course, will not let a bad person go." Having said that, but judging from the reactions of everyone, Mr. Lu already has the answer in his heart, the matter of gold is probably true, and the kid in front of him is just being stubborn. , but the amount of 180 million taels still surprised him. With so much gold, the background of these people must not be simple. No wonder this hot potato was thrown into his hands in the end.

Mr. Lu was a little preoccupied, but he still did not forget his duty. He led people into the cabin, and Master Kuxuan, the otaku and others followed behind him.

The first floor is the passenger cabin, and everyone did not stop, and went straight down to the second floor. From here onwards, including the two floors below, are the cargo cabins. Many people still saw mountains of gold here half an hour ago, but when everyone When I walked in, there was nothing left but an empty space.

Master Kuxuan's expression changed drastically, as if he had seen a ghost, "This...how is this possible?!"

(End of this chapter)