When Mao Sui entered the palace, it was actually late at night, but when Zhao Dan, who was sleeping, learned that Mao Sui was here to supervise the affairs of the thieves in the guard, he still got up and summoned Mao Sui as soon as possible.

Mao Sui's eyes were bloodshot, but the whole person was extremely excited, and respectfully presented the materials in his hand to Zhao Dan: "King, please see, this is the confession obtained by the minister after interrogating Mi Mo and Guo Kai." ”

Zhao Dan took this material, his eyes immediately noticed a small red dot on the white paper, and after a slight pause, Zhao Dan did not say anything, but looked at this confession.

Looking at it, the expression on Zhao Dan's face gradually became solemn.

Things were much worse than Zhao Dan himself imagined.

In the past few years, due to the official squeeze on the production of the Guo family's ironware, a large number of ironware produced in the Guo family's ironware workshop has been unsalable.

Under such circumstances, Guo Kai did not cut production, but quietly transported those unsalable ironware to the Zhao-Qin border to trade with the Qin people.

The specific transportation route is to transport things from Handan to Jinyang, then from Jinyang to Lishi, Lin Cheng, and finally cross the Yellow River to smuggle to Shangjun.

It is worth mentioning that among these iron tools, there are not only agricultural tools, but also a large number of iron weapons.

Although there is definitely a gap between the iron weapons in the Guo family's workshop and the refined iron weapons improved by the official smelter of Zhao State, Guo Kai will definitely not be able to run away from the crime of smuggling weapons.

According to Guo Kai's confession, over the years, the Guo family has smuggled at least 40,000 weapons and armor to the Qin side, especially in the past two years, the demand for these weapons and equipment has reached a peak.

Zhao Dan knew why, Qin State had lost the two major iron ore mining areas and smelting bases of Yiyang and Nanyang in the past few years, so now the iron production capacity in Qin State has shrunk to the point that it is not good.

Although it is said that the Qin army mainly relies on bronze weapons to fight the world, this does not mean that the Qin people have no need for iron weapons.

Although Guo Kai's smuggling amount is very huge, this is actually not too unexpected by Zhao Dan - after all, after Guo Kai escaped, Mao Sui immediately arrested a large number of Guo Kai's henchmen who did not have time to escape, and they also had enough understanding of this smuggling business from their mouths.

What really chilled Zhao Dan was that Handan traveled thousands of miles to Jinyang, and he had to pass through several counties of Zhao State along the way, and it would take almost a month to walk at a normal speed, passing through countless Zhao State checkpoints.

But under such circumstances, the smuggling business done by Guo Kai was quietly concealed from Zhao Dan, the king of Zhao State, for several years, and even the supervision guard established by Zhao Dan and ordered by Mi Xian to be responsible for monitoring the internal situation of Zhao State was unaware.

What does this mean? This means that not only are the officials of Zhao State along the way likely to be the beneficiaries and participants of this smuggling route, but also that the supervision guard has been completely infiltrated, and they have not played the supervision function they should have in this matter!

Zhao Dan put down Guo Kai's confession with a gloomy face, and picked up another confession from Mu Mo.

As one of the many adopted sons of the founder of the Guardian Guard, the man of the Guardian Guard, and an insider of the Guardian Guard, he was also in charge of the supervision of the Zhao Guo Datong Iron Ore Smelter, so the confession of such a guy would certainly be able to tell more about the inside of the Inspectorate.

Zhao Dan was not wrong at all.

In this confession of Mu Mo, it not only clearly explained how many officials of the Supervision and Guard helped Guo Kai conceal this matter, but also told how Mu Mo quietly stole the secret recipe from the smelter and sold it to Guo Kai at a high price in the past few years, so that the smelting technology of the Guo family's ironcraft workshop continued to improve.

However, the money sent by Guo Kai alone was not enough for Mu Mo to squander in the two months he returned to Handan every year, so Mu Mo came up with another trick, that is, to make a deal with the Huns.

As the people of the steppe, the Huns who did not have any smelting technology at all were very eager for the iron tools of the Zhao State, so they did not hesitate to send a large number of treasures and medicinal materials to Mu Mo, who in turn sold these treasures and medicinal materials in Handan, and made a lot of money.

The trading objects of Mu Mo are very extensive, covering all the major tribes of the Xiongnu, and even the current Xiongnu Du Longqi Shan Yu is also the trading object of Mu Mo.

What shocked Zhao Dan was that in the past few years, there had been more than 50,000 pieces of iron weapons and armor that had been quietly sold to the Huns by Mu Mo, which was enough to equip a 20,000-strong army.

"It turns out that this is how the Huns were able to defeat Donghu's ......," Zhao Dan immediately understood.

It stands to reason that the Huns should have risen decades later, but with the large number of weapons and armor sold by Mumo, the Huns' equipment level has made a great leap forward, so they were able to defeat the two strong enemies of Donghu and Yueshi so early in advance.

Seeing the materials here, Zhao Dan's heart had already classified Guo Kai and Mi Mo into the scope of the dead.

It can be said that it is very rare to collaborate with the enemy and betray the country to this extent.

Zhao Dan suppressed the anger in his heart and continued to read.

In the following content, it is mainly the list of supervision and guard officials who had affairs with Guo Kai and the Huns, as well as local officials, as explained by Guo Kai and Mu Mo.

The list is densely packed with a long list, and at a cursory glance there are at least hundreds.

What made Zhao Dan even more angry was that just the list involved in Mi Mo's confession was at least a hundred people among the guards.

This guard has simply been infiltrated into a sieve!

It's not just the inspectors, but also a large number of local officials who are bribed.

Obviously, Guo Kai used the guise of Si Kou Zhao Bao to open a lot of convenient doors in the local area, and it can even be said that many people turned a blind eye to Guo Kai's actions just because of Zhao Bao's face.

"Bastard thing!" Zhao Dan finally couldn't bear it anymore and slammed his fist on the table in front of him.

After a few minutes, Zhao Dan calmed down his mood and said in a deep voice: "Mao Sui! ”

Mao Sui didn't dare to slack off, and said loudly: "The minister is here!" ”

Zhao Dan took a pen and paper, wrote a warrant on it, and then took out his seal and stamped it heavily.

"Mao Sui, you hold this warrant, let the Yulin Army transfer 500 people to you, and then let the local government cooperate, and all the people on this confession will be taken down by the widow and brought back to Handan for interrogation!"

Mao Sui was overjoyed in his heart, you must know that Zhao Dan obviously meant to bypass Si Kou Zhao Bao and hand it over to Mao Sui directly.

As long as Mao Sui does this well, it will definitely be an out-and-out achievement.

So when Mao Sui took the warrant from Zhao Dan, he even trembled a little because of his excitement.

"Please rest assured that the minister will live up to the king's high expectations!"