Chapter 112: Purging the Traitors
They whisper during operation and discuss the secrets of their processes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info no longer opens the yellow light when doing key operations, and operates in front of the yellow shu to show him.
Ding Youdi knew that these people must have taken the benefits of Huang Shu and began to sell the secrets of the process to Huang Ming.
Ding Youdi wanted to report Huang Shu, but he was afraid that he would offend the other employees in the kiln who had already taken refuge in Huang Shu, and he would be collectively framed by them in the future.
Finally, on March 7, Huang Shu found Ding Youdi and invited him to Jixian Building, the largest restaurant in Fanjiazhuang, to have a drink. On the wine table, taking advantage of the strength of the two bowls of soju, Huang Shu leaned into Ding Youdi's ear and whispered that he would pay a hundred taels to buy him the secret of this process. As long as Ding Youdi agreed, Huang Shu immediately gave him fifty taels of silver, and then Ding Youdi told Huang Shu what the materials to add to the crucible were, how many catties at a time, and what the key was! After saying everything, I will operate it in front of Huang Shu tomorrow, and Huang Shu will give another fifty taels of silver to Ding Youdi.
One hundred taels of silver, enough for Ding Youdi to buy two small villas in Fanjiazhuang.
Ding Youdi was also shocked by Huang Shu's generosity, and he was in a trance for a few seconds, but soon he found the backbone: this thing can't be done!
In this chaotic year, he betrayed the owner, what can he do with a hundred taels?
To buy dozens of acres of dry land to plant? In these years, the gentry and the royal family did not pay the field endowment, and the field endowment was all pressed on commoners like Ding Youdi. I can't grow a few taels of silver in the soil all year round, and I have to suffer from the exploitation of the officials, and I am tired and tired, and I have to go hungry every year when the green and yellow are not harvested!
Looking for an errand elsewhere? Who will hire someone who betrays the owner? Even if others don't know their details and hire themselves, the errand that can get one or two or five dollars in these years can be regarded as burning high incense. Usually such errands are heavy physical work and can exhaust people. An errand like the one provided by the Lord of Ethics will never be found again.
What's more, the Lord of Ethics is not easy to get along with, betraying him, he can't get along in Tian0jin, he can only fly away!
Ding Youdi is not a greedy person, he is very calm, he knows that taking this hundred taels of silver is harming himself.
But Huang Shu was very arrogant, he patted Ding Youdi's shoulder, and said coldly: "We spent this lot of money on your secret recipe, we are really moving, if you think about it, you know that we are not small!" If you don't cooperate, I promise you won't have a good life. We can't move you in Fanjiazhuang, I guarantee that you will break your hands and feet as soon as you get out of Fanjiazhuang! ”
Listening to Huang Shu's words, Ding Youdi's heart was cold, and a fine sweat broke out on his back.
Could it be that he really can't keep such a good job, so he can only take the hundred taels of silver and fly away.
Ding Youdi is not a cowardly person, he took a wine glass and thought about the time of tea, and then made up his mind. He is determined to keep his good life and deal with this Huang Shu to the end. He pretended to agree to Huang Shu, accepted Huang Shu's fifty taels of silver, and told Huang Shu that he was purchasing arsenic, and adding fifteen catties to the crucible each time.
Huang Shu was overjoyed, kept saluting Ding Youdi's wine, and finally went back after being half drunk.
Ding Youdi didn't go back to his villa with the silver, he went around Fanjiazhuang, and after making sure that no one was following him, he rushed into the command office.
The soldiers guarding the door did not let Ding Youdi enter the door at first, but when Ding Youdi took out fifty taels of silver from his arms and said that someone was going to steal the secret recipe of Fanjiazhuang glass, those soldiers hurriedly went in to report. Soon, Ding Youdi saw Master Ethics walk out in person.
The moment he saw the integrity of the adult, Ding Youdi understood that his good life in Fanjiazhuang had been saved!
Looking at the fifty taels of silver, Li Zhi believed Ding Youdi's words, someone was stealing his own formula.
Li Zhi couldn't imagine that he was fortified layer by layer, and there were still people who tried their best to steal their own formulas. I gave the first three or two months of money to this kiln, but I didn't expect him to be grateful to himself, but instead joined forces with people outside to get the glass formula. Who is coveting their own recipe and wants to produce profitable glass?
Li Zhi asked Ding Youdi and Huang Shu to be with him, and he sent people overnight to secretly keep an eye on Huang Shu to see who was in contact with him.
Two days later, there was news at the whistle, and four outsiders who pretended to be in the rice and noodle business contacted Huang Shu every day to spread the news outside the city. Li Zhi asked people to keep an eye on these fake rice and noodle merchants to see where they were spreading the news.
After following the whistle for a few days, it was finally figured out that these rice and noodle merchants had entered Lu Siqi's house. Lu Siqi is the boss of Longsheng, one of the eight major business houses in Tianjin, and the cousin of Chao Pichang, the chief military officer of Tianjin.
It turned out that the person who was the general soldier wanted to copy his own glass. This Lu Siqi likes to make friends and watch dramas the most on weekdays, and he looks like a Ren Xia, he can't imagine stealing the formula to start so ruthlessly, and thousands of taels of silver are sprinkled in like this. This momentum is obviously to prepare the recipe for glass in one go.
Li Zhi's official position is small, and he can't move Lu Siqi, but he can still deal with the Diao people in his territory.
Li Zhi gave an order, and the family members went out to arrest Huang Shu and the fake rice and noodle merchants, and put them in prison for interrogation. Under the torture, several Diao people quickly confessed to the main messenger and the employees who had been bribed. The main messenger was indeed Lu Siqi, and several fake rice and noodle merchants reported directly to Lu Siqi's younger brother and took the silver to do things. And with this silver, Huang Ming has already bought off eight workers in the No. 1 kiln of the glass workshop.
Li Zhi immediately arrested the eight workers suspected of betraying him and tortured and interrogated. In the end, the prosecutor determined that these eight people had indeed sold the secrets of their work. These secrets have been passed on to Lu Siqi through Huang Shu, but fortunately, the three core procurement personnel have not been bought, and the workers who add saltpeter to remove color have not been bought, and Lu Siqi can't produce glass with limited information.
But the outcome of the interrogation still made Li Zhi very angry. He supports these workers with high salaries, but these workers repay themselves with food and pickpockets.
Li Zhi ordered Huang Shu, the fake rice noodle merchant, and eight workers who sold the recipe to be shot en masse. The crime is to communicate with Jiannu and leak military information. Li Zhi arranged it a little and came up with some false evidence, pointing to the nine workers and Lu Siqi's personnel fornicating with Tartars. Relying on this evidence, Li Zhi sentenced thirteen criminals to death.
The ethics officer has the power to kill the lawless person who holds the money and grain of one party to catch the thief. The crime of revealing the secret recipe of the merchant was too small to be killed, and Li Zhi simply said that these people were captured.
It's not that Li Zhi is ruthless, it's really not that he is not fierce, and he can't deter the crumbs. The nine workers, including Huang Ming, knew the steps of glass production, and they had already had different intentions, so it was impossible for them to stay in the glass workshop to continue their work, and it was impossible to dismiss them and let them spread the production methods of the glass workshop outside.
With Li Zhi's high salary, he naturally has to take responsibility. Leaking secrets is the end of it.
Hearing that Li Zhi sentenced his four fake rice noodle merchants to death, Lu Siqi did not make any noise, and it seemed that he did not want to expose his stealing of Li Zhi's formula, and he was unwilling to tear his face with Li Zhi.