Chapter 81: The Truth
Wang Guo waited left and right, and finally waited for Jiang Shen and them to come back.
Wang Guo felt a burst of joy in his heart.
Catch it, catch it, this Li Si grabbed a silver ingot casually, once it was checked out that there was no problem, he would have a reason to send some benefits to Lu Guo!
Look at Li Si again, yo, your eyes are closed?
That's right, anyway, this thing can't be caught at once, so it's better to blind it with your eyes closed!
Li Si's attitude is worth encouraging!
As for feeling that this person doesn't seem to be as obscene as before? Maybe it's an illusion, after all, the outnumbered Baishan Army wants him to be difficult to get into the hall of elegance.
The people had arrived, and after an order, a group of people returned from the restaurant to the place where the silver was examined.
One million taels of silver were neatly stacked, and according to the standard of fifty taels and one ingots, this silver was also 20,000 pieces, which were divided into ten piles and piled up in the treasury.
"Li Si, you can go, grab a piece and come out, don't have too much pressure." Wang Guo smiled.
This is Wang Guo's true words, just grab a piece casually, why have too much pressure, anyway, the widow doesn't want this batch of silver to really find out the problem.
As long as the problem with this batch of silver is not found, Lu Guo will definitely not give Haiguo a good look, and Haiguo will have to say good things and pay a sum of money as compensation for unwarranted suspicion. This road to death is near.
However, Li Si listened to it in his ears and was deeply moved.
In the conversation between Lu Zixu and Jiang Shen before, he already knew that this test of silver can be related to the authority and dignity of a monarch!
Those present must be under the greatest pressure on the king.
But even so, Wang Shang still smiled on his face and comforted himself not to have too much pressure.
A generation of heroes, do they have such courage?
The soldier dies for his confidant, and today, I, Li Si, will gamble on the dignity of my generation of dog thieves, and I will also arrest the problematic silver!
Li Si slowly closed his eyes and entered a very mysterious state.
It was a child who didn't have enough to eat, and it was a landlord's bankhouse.
Li Si wanted to take a silver ingot from it. If you get it right, you can have a full meal; If he takes it wrong, he will still have to starve, and he will even be caught by the landlord, so there will be no chance to make a move next time.
The silver and him form a kind of echo.
For Li Si, who was poor at the time, silver was life and the hope of living.
He closed his eyes and felt the temperature of silver, but also the temperature of life.
He grabbed the first piece of silver and held it tightly in his hand. The silver is very cold, and there is a very stable sense of balance in the hand. The texture of this silver is very uniform. It is impossible to adulterate.
Li Si put the silver back. He came again to the second heap of silver.
According to Lu Zixu's explanation to him, because the order in which these silvers were placed was placed in the order in which the envoys of the Lu State were delivered.
So, if there is a problem, it should be a part of the same pile of silver, so just pick a few in the pile and feel it.
Li Si stretched out his hand to the second pile of silver. The silver is very even, and it's still fine.
Pile 3, Pile 4...... The sixth pile.
Li Si stretched out his hand and grabbed a piece of silver from the sixth pile, closed his eyes, and felt it carefully.
He held the middle of the silver, but always felt that the side near his body seemed to sink a little, as if it had a little weight, and it was pressed on his chest.
This kind of pressure made him feel that if he was to shun this piece of silver, the child who couldn't eat enough would really have no chance to eat again.
The difference in weight is so subtle that it is difficult for even those who are interested to find the subtle imbalance at both ends of the silver.
But Li Si knew that this weight gap really existed. Because he has been a thief for more than ten years, he has touched more things, and he feels that there must be a gap.
There's something wrong with this piece of silver!
Li Si opened his eyes and looked determined.
"Melted!"
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When the silver melted, the silver water was mixed with a touch of black.
it, isn't it, the silver can still burn?
Now it was Wang Guo's turn to be dumbfounded.
Of course, he knew that it was not the silver that was burned, but that there were other substances besides the silver in the ingot.
Isn't it, there is really a problem with this silver, and Li Si can catch it directly?
"What's going on, messenger?" Wang Guo looked at the envoy of the Lu State.
Big brother, please, just give me a reason, and the widow will cooperate with you to suppress this matter!
But in the ears of the envoy of the Lu State, Wang Guo's words were like a question.
When he saw that Li Si was going to melt the piece of silver, he was already panicking, and now that Wang Guo asked again, he fell directly to his knees.
"Hai-kun! This matter is not kind to my Lu country. Our country of Lu is anxious to restore the economy, so in this million taels of silver, 300,000 taels of iron and lead are mixed ......"
Wang Guo waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need to continue.
Damn, you've recruited them all, what else can the widow do for you?
Therefore, the result of all this has to be borne silently again......
Wang Guo shook his hand, "Go back to the palace!" ”
As long as the widow can't see it, this backstab doesn't exist......
I also blame the widow himself, what reason is not good, I have to pull a silver with insufficient purity, and as a result, I lifted a stone to shoot myself in the foot, this silver is really not pure enough!
And that Lu Guogong, if you are short of money, you are short of money, and the widow has not collected the account, why do you have to send some fake silver, and let the widow guess correctly?
Hey, it's uncomfortable.
……
The next thing, since the envoy of the Lu State has been recruited, Wang Guo can't control it anymore.
With Li Si's beginning, Lu Zixu inspected the remaining silver and also had a direction.
In a few days, the silver was counted.
Of these million taels of silver, 400,000 taels were made into pure silver ingots, which were placed in the front and last conspicuous positions by the envoys of the Lu State, so Lu Zixu couldn't draw them out no matter how he checked them.
The remaining 300,000 taels of silver were fused together with 300,000 taels of iron and lead to make adulterated silver ingots.
The density of iron is less than that of silver, and the density of lead is greater than that of silver, and the two metals are combined in a certain proportion to neutralize the density of silver, so that those adulterated silvers are no different from real silver in size and weight.
Moreover, pure iron and pure lead are also silver, although the color is different from silver, but it is enough to confuse the real thing.
In fact, if it is pure iron or pure lead, it will be silver, and even if it is melted, the envoy of Lu can still find some reason to justify it.
But after all, Lu Guo is somewhat unsightly to do this kind of thing, and he is in a hurry to do it, so there is a little difference in purity, and in the end there are impurities, just like the usual iron tools, and such a substance as black appears.
Silver naturally does not appear this color, and it is this kind of mottling that makes Li Si feel the slight gap with his hand, so this is a chain reaction, and finally the envoy of the Lu State is planted.