Chapter 165: No judgment on the outcome of the conjecture

Prince Ning is Li Xun's father, if you really want to know something, just ask the palace guards who are guarding Li Xun's side, why do you have to send someone here to investigate, let alone make it bad,.

After some torture, the captive finally couldn't bear it anymore and told everything he knew.

The guards were relieved after hearing it, it turned out that it was not for the people who came over the master, it was just a coincidence, there was a place where marble was produced on the Taihu Lake side here, and there was an account in the official mansion at the beginning, and then I don't know what happened, the account was gone, and only the word stone was written in the booklet of the house.

As for what kind of stone, it is not clear from the booklet, this stone can be sold for money, and there is also copper ore, which is also recorded in the account.

The people don't know that there is no account in the government, and it is impossible to come to report to the official, even if they reported before, they had to go to the county first, and the consequences would be needless to say.

The marble is not processed locally, and the copper ore is also not processed locally, it is all transported away, and the person who was caught in the shipment does not know where it was transported, which seems very mysterious.

Since the government is not allowed to know, it must be transported secretly, and after Zhang Zhong arrived in Shuzhou, the two mines did just that.

Good luck tonight.,The result was discovered.,The people who were arrested don't know much.,Only know that there are people in the capital behind this matter.,As for who it is, it's not clear.,Some say it's a certain prince.,Some say it's the king of the county.,Some say it's a big family.。

On the contrary, the person who was arrested also listened to what others said, so after being arrested, he casually said that a prince wanted to scare people, but he said who was not good, not that it was the prince of Sining.

After the guards got this information, they immediately passed it on to Zhang Zhong, and when Zhang Zhong heard that someone was selling marble and copper ore, he was shocked and hurriedly asked people to catch the delivery team.

As a result, when the guards rushed over, they found that all the people had run away, leaving only dozens of trucks with goods parked there, and the traces on the ground were very messy, and it was night, so it was impossible to track at all.

How do they know? came back and continued to torture the arrested people, only then did he understand that the original transporter was very careful, and every time a scout sent out had to go back within the specified time, and there was no news for more than half an hour, it meant that something was wrong, and he would rather make a mistake than take any risks.

When the man had exceeded the time, the people there noticed that something was wrong, and sent out a horse to approach cautiously, and when they saw the light of the torches here, they immediately went back to report it, but the people ran away, leaving only six thousand worth of goods.

Everything is inferred from what the people who were caught.

Zhang Zhong nodded at this time, and said suddenly: "Understood, I understand, no wonder the local taxes are getting less and less, they are all transported away and sold elsewhere, check, I don't care who is behind the back, as long as I meet it, I will check, send someone back to tell Xiaobao and Juan Juan, and then transfer people to rush over, I will go to see the place where marble and copper ore are produced." ”

After the order, Zhang Zhong went back to sleep in the tent, and the guards arranged the patrol squad one by one, not daring to be careless at all.

In fact, Zhang Zhong really wanted to chase over now to see how the stones were excavated there, but when he came out, his son and daughter-in-law told him that if he was in danger, don't rush over, and wait for the people to arrive.

Zhang Zhong is very obedient, the whole family can't do without him, and he doesn't know what will happen if he really chases the place, in case a few hundred people surround him and attack, his family will be over as soon as he dies.

When I came, I had to travel for a day, and it didn't take much time for the people who went back to report the news, and the three horses were alternately ridden, and it only took an hour and a half to return to the house.

Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan haven't slept at this time, the two of them are making generators, that is, using copper coins to wrap magnets, in addition to making the bulb light up, it can also electrolyze something, the simplest is electrolyzed water, once it is formed, it can provide oxygen, for hospitals, and can save people at critical times.

This job is not easy to do, and the density and power of the winding are not graspable, so I can only make one out first to see if it works.

Just finished winding one, and before the test could be tested, the guards came back, and after Zhang Xiaobao arranged for more people to go over, he was not interested in looking at the generator on the table for a while.

"Xiaobao, which prince do you say it will be?" Wang Juan guessed for a while and didn't guess, so he had to ask Zhang Xiaobao, who was also contemplative.

Zhang Xiaobao looked up at Wang Juan and said, "Which prince is not, several princes and the emperor and grandson of the unification have all been watched by Li Longji, who dares to make small moves at this time?" Don't want to live anymore? It is estimated that it is a certain family, or several families, or it may be a certain county king.

According to this, it is not impossible for the county king and the family to unite, who knows, just wait for someone to ask, what to do, what to do, the big deal is to hand over the matter to Li Longji and let him deal with it personally. ”

"Then aren't you afraid that Li Longji will really complain about us when he really wants to face his son?" Wang Juan asked worriedly.

"I have to tell him this matter secretly, you still want to put it on the surface, and the clan also needs to be faceless, I only now understand why they didn't continue to do it after a small move that didn't succeed, and the reason why they didn't make trouble for Dad anymore was because Dad didn't find out about this secret.

They thought that by providing more taxes to my father this year, my father would be negligent in the past, but unfortunately, people are not as good as heaven, so my father has to go over and walk around.

My guess is that in the beginning, there was a lot of tax here, because of the discovery of marble, that is, marble ore, and copper ore, and the previous digging was less, and the tax collected was more than usual, and people did not pay too much attention to it.

At that time, the official may not want to be greedy, or he may have kept an eye on it, and sold this matter to others, and when he got the benefits and was promoted, the new officials began to be controlled, after all, an official was not enough to do too much, not to mention that there was no good production in the account, how much can a stone be worth? ”

Zhang Xiaobao used a pen to draw a schematic diagram for Wang Juan on paper as he spoke, there are many aspects, and some are unclear and marked with question marks.

Wang Juan picked up the pen and ticked the map, and said: "Then why do you have to reduce the tax, are they still reluctant to sell marble and copper ore?" If I were them, I'd keep the tax equal. ”

Wang Juan thinks that the person behind him is stupid, does he really think that if he pays less tax, he will be fine? How about now, I was targeted, otherwise it would be impossible to send Zhang Xiaobao's father over, just to clean up people.

Zhang Xiaobao looked at the picture with his eyes, knocked his hand on the table up and down, and said after a while: "There are several possibilities, the first is that the person who does things is really stupid, and this situation is not easy to appear."

The second possibility is that people are in urgent need of money, and they really can't give it, and if they want to survive this period of time, they will say that the secret is very safe before it is exposed, and the entire state of Shuzhou has been bought, what can you do with a thorn history? How many thorns will think that my dad is just hanging around like this?

First threaten when you take office, and then compromise, just like what happened to my father, it will be easy to do, but ordinary people don't know about the two mines, they just think it's a stone, such as my father, then give some face first, this year's tax is more, everything is easy to do. ”

"I know, often speaking, they should take out the profits of the two mines, let's just say that there are more stones in stone minerals, and this year is a good year, and then give your father an explanation, but as soon as we come, we will start to help the local development of hinging, so that after doing this, the tax will inevitably be more, and they don't need to take money out at all."

They have a careful mind, secretly transport the ore out, as long as we can't find out, they can continue to make a fortune, it seems that we are really the nemesis of the bad guys, fate, all fate. ”

As soon as Wang Juan mentioned it by Zhang Xiaobao, he analyzed part of the content.

Zhang Xiaobao laughed twice, "Of course, isn't this work for you, only those who don't want to catch and can't catch, and there are no things that can't be caught and caught wrong, in fact, it's all to blame us, not to be a good person, it's troublesome, it turns out that there are more bad people than good people."

Also, the third point is that there are more forces that share this interest, don't look at the tax is only tens of thousands less, then when it is really divided, it is enough for the people below the various forces to spend, and no one wants to make less money, and the result is that the rent tax will not go up.

Fourth, the interests are too great, for example, the copper content of copper ore is high, and a lot of waste stones can always be dug out when digging in the past, but now it is all good copper ore, and the waste stones are sold less, so the tax will be less, and they don't want to give up this part of the profits, and the name of a stone production is on the account.

There can be as many or as few stones, for them, the most important thing to complain about is the assassin who raised the tax before, if he didn't raise the tax, how could there be such a troublesome thing? ”

Zhang Xiaobao can understand people's feelings, money, who doesn't want it, but he can't treat it as if he didn't see it because he understands, if he changes an emperor, he may be able to turn a blind eye, isn't it just taxes, his own family can improve the living standards of the local people, and he can satisfy the thoughts of the imperial court.

But the current emperor is Li Longji, Zhang Xiaobao has to offend people when he knows that he can offend people, and it is better to offend others than to offend Li Longji.

So what we have to do now is to turn a blind eye and aim at it to see who will be unlucky, in the current situation, it is absolutely impossible to be unlucky for your own family.

Thinking about it, Zhang Xiaobao's hand stopped knocking on the table, but changed it to knocking on his face, Wang Juan saw it, understood, Zhang Xiaobao was going to calculate people again.

Wang Juan once again grieved for Zhang Xiaobao's opponent, can't he endure it for two years? I have to commit a crime against the wind, and I still use such inferior means, I often walk by the river, how can I not get my shoes wet, not to mention that I met Zhang Xiaobao's father today, even if I didn't meet it, I couldn't run.

The inner courtyard of the Zhang family has been divided into various places, and it is known that the local people have been raised, so many inner courtyards, will they not find out the situation? I must have been caught in two years, and I didn't run away.

"Xiaobao, I want to think now, what kind of things will happen in the process of struggle?" Wang Juan looked very excited, she loved to watch Zhang Xiaobao make a move, as long as Zhang Xiaobao moved, it was definitely impossible for the other party to resist.

"For the time being, there is nothing to do, but when our people pass, we will find that the building has been emptied, and the mine can't be dug up, it has all been filled, and if it were me, I could even open a paddy field on it, buy seedlings from elsewhere, and never show up again."

Zhang Xiaobao is familiar with such things, to be precise, he has done a lot before.

Wang Juan thought about it, felt that it made sense, and asked: "Then they just dodged it, but don't they want the mine?" ”

"Why not? According to what I said, people are farming now, do you dare to dig it up? If you dig it, there will be a lot of people who will come to stop it, and there will be disapproval from officials, and even the court will soon have an impeachment fold.

Even if you have deep roots, you have survived, and you are not afraid of the people, force digging, before you dig out, someone reported to the court in advance that they had discovered marble ore and copper ore, and estimated the output, this thing can be overestimated or underestimated, overestimated, then how much do you say my father should pay in taxes this year?

People fill it with expensive stones, how much effort does it take to dig into it? It's not the same as estimating at all, my dad can't get on the fold? Shang Jiezi said that the copper ore and marble mines here need to be cleaned up first, and the imperial court will definitely agree.

And then what? Let's dig stupidly, dig and dig and suddenly find that someone else has dug it here before, and the news immediately spread throughout the Tang Dynasty, and the most appropriate way to say it is that my father is for his own selfish interests, while saying to the court to clean up first, while mining hard.

My father is immediately sorry for the king, sorry for the people, the crime of bullying the king, the head may not be killed, after all, my family is reasonable (courtesy) and there is absolutely no problem with it, there is no need to count on Lingnan to go, even if I go, I can't let my father go to Luzhou, I estimate that Li Longji will get my father to Sichuan for the sake of fame.

If I have the opportunity to go and see it in the future, it's okay, but not now, so ah, this matter can't be solved in a short time, so wait. ”

Zhang Xiaobao said that he wanted to face such a form, and if he were him, he would do it like this, not bluffing people at all.

Wang Juan listened to Zhang Xiaobao's speculation, or Zhang Xiaobao's approach, and was really convinced, people, it's not good to be too smart.

knows what she knows, but she is unwilling, why should she be treated like this in the past? Depressed, I suddenly thought that the current statement is all Zhang Xiaobao's imagination alone, regardless of whether others can think of it or not, just if Zhang Xiaobao can figure it out, then there must be a way to deal with it.

"Xiaobao, don't tell me that there is no way at all, just wait, then it will be a shame, and it will be an international fraudster."

"Why is it a shame? Are you still from the special two? Do you have a way? Just wait, I really hope that they will farm on it, and the farming will be good, and they can set up a special experimental field, and send people to check the changes in the grain crops for twelve hours a day. ”

Zhang Xiaobao squeezed his eyes at Wang Juan and said, Wang Juan smiled, "Then I hope they will be smart and farm on it like you said." ”