In the second hall of Longyou County, there was a brown hemp rope on the coffee table, Zhang Wenxi and Luo Dongyan opened their eyes and looked at it carefully, for fear that they would expose their ignorance in front of Qin Shaobao if they opened their mouths rashly, but it could be seen that this was all a fake hemp rope.

"Ahem," Zhang Wenxi couldn't help coughing dryly, and arched his hand towards Qin Lin: "Forgive the official for being clumsy, I can't see any way, dare to ask Qin Shaobao, isn't this, isn't this just a hemp rope?" ”

Qin Lin took a sip of the tea bowl in his hand, and when he heard the words, he slowly paused the tea bowl on the coffee table, and nodded with a smile: "Yes, it is a hemp rope." ”

Yes? Zhang Wenxi and Luo Dongyan stared wide-eyed, completely confused, or Zhang Wenxi asked tentatively: "Xia Guan read ancient books, and mentioned that in ancient times before Cangjie made characters, the ancestors used to tie ropes to remember, could it be that a few knots tied on this rope also represent a certain meaning?" ”

Qin Lin shook his head slowly, there are indeed a few knots on this rope, but it can't be used to remember, as for the information it hides, it has to be interpreted from another aspect.

"This hemp rope was taken from the copper coin," Qin Lin paused, and then said: "It is it that strung up a thousand privately minted Wanli Tongbao, and this official found it in the pillow box of the Du shopkeeper, and the edges of several coins have traces of wear and tear caused by inspection!" ”

Du's shopkeeper had leaked his mouth before his death, as the principal of the Wufeng maritime merchants who were sent to buy copper coins, some time ago, this old guy was very likely to find any clues in Longyou County, but it was a pity that he was cautious and cautious, and did not leave a detailed written record, let alone mention his discovery to the four guys.

Qin Lin checked the account book of Du's shopkeeper, and although he found clues of this guy's embezzlement, he couldn't find his information in Longyou County.

However, in the pillow box of the shopkeeper Du, in addition to the scattered silver and a pile of loose money, there are also brand-new Wanli Tongbao that have always been untouched, and the edges of several of them bear the wear marks left by the inspection, and it is easy to identify from the place where they have been worn out, which is a private coinage with a serious shortage of copper.

Qin Lin analyzed that the shopkeeper Du put the money in the pillow box, and took the trouble to test the quality, which had the meaning of being used as evidence - maybe the shopkeeper Du wanted to report the situation and ask for a reward from the owner of Wufeng Jin Yingji, of course, it was possible to have other ideas, but unfortunately with his death, only Lord Yama knew what he thought before his death.

But this copper coin was carefully placed in the pillow box by the shopkeeper Du, and the color was very new, so it was definitely not the copper coin circulating on the market, but the copper coin that he got through some channel and just flowed out of the hands of private miners!

In other words, this string of coins can better reflect the original information of private miners than the copper coins that have been circulated and sold many times on the market and have been "polluted" by successive users!

Qin Lin pointed at the hemp rope: "Take the hemp rope as an example, the copper coin has always weighed six catties, and when the money hole rubs against the rope, the hemp rope will decay and break, and the user will replace the new hemp rope, but the museum can be sure that the hemp rope of this string of money has not been replaced, because the official has seen some relatively new copper coins in the warehouse of the Wufeng Maritime Merchant, and the hemp rope used is exactly the same as this one." ”

"What Qin Shaobao means is that hemp rope is produced in our Longyou County?" Luo Dongyan asked such a sentence very reluctantly.

Of course, hemp rope is a handicraft, and the hemp rope in different places has different materials and weaving methods.

Qin Lin nodded, "In the past few days, this official has ordered the official school to go to Longyou County and several nearby states and counties to buy hemp rope, and bring it back for comparative study, and the result is that only the hemp rope produced in Gui County is the closest to the hemp rope used to mint copper coins privately. ”

After that, Qin Lin nodded, and Lu Yuanzhi took out a roll of white cloth and unfolded it, nailed with various colored hemp ropes of all sizes, and each rope was marked with the name of the place, Jiande, Lanxi, Jinhua, Suichang, and of course, Longyou was indispensable.

Zhang Wenxi curiously picked up the hemp rope and looked at it carefully: "These hemp ropes seem to be almost the same?" Well, Qin Shaobao must not misunderstand, when he was a young man, he studied the scriptures hard in the cold window, and his eyesight was quite poor, so he was naturally not as wise as you. ”

Qin Lin was amused, and glanced at Lu Yuanzhi, and the fat man smiled evilly and took out a copper cylinder that was slightly thicker than his thumb, and the cylinder was equipped with transparent glass mirrors at both ends.

"Hehe, do you think that our Brother Qin's eyes are really refined in the furnace of Taishang Laojun?" Lu Yuanzhi had a smile in his stomach and put the cylinder on the coffee table.

Zhang Wenxi had some insight: "Presumably this is the clairvoyant mirror made by Qin Shaobao?" The previous time, General Yu Zhigao Yu and Shen Yourong Shen Guerrilla crossed south from Zhejiang Province to Fujian, and had a very pleasant conversation with the lower officials, and they had seen this kind of magical thing in their hands, so they knew that it was from Qin Shaobao's hand. ”

Qin Lin heard the words and took a look at Zhang Wenxi again, in this era, civil officials think very highly of themselves, and often look down on military generals, Zhang Wenxi actually talked very happily with the two military attaches who crossed the border, it must be that he is very interested in military affairs.

It's a pity that Zhang Wenxi was wrong this time, although this thing is similar in appearance to the clairvoyant, and it is also made of the Western concave and convex lens obtained from the purchase of tribute, but the function is very different, and it can even be said to be diametrically opposite.

Qin Lin said with a smile: "Zhang Xun knows the clairvoyant mirror, and he really has a lot of knowledge, but what this official used this time is a microscope. The clairvoyant mirror is used for television, and the microscope is used to view small things, so please Zhang Xun press to see these hemp ropes! ”

Qin Lin instructed Zhang Wenxi how to use the microscope, and Zhang Wenxi also humbly asked for advice, and under Qin Lin's guidance, he fiddled with the microscope step by step, just like a teacher and student teaching.

Zhang Wenxi unconsciously regarded Qin Lin as a division commander.

Niu vigorously squeezed his eyebrows at Lu Yuanzhi, haha, have you seen the fat man, Qin Shaobao is going to accept apprentices again, and he is a serious Jinshi background, I am afraid that you will have to retreat in the future.

Lu Yuanzhi was really a little worried, standing on tiptoe and watching from the side, as the so-called concern is chaos, he didn't want to think about the background of the Jinshi, even if he worshiped under the Qin Lin Sect, he would definitely have to be used by the faction, where would he follow the autopsy and solve the case?

Luo Dongyan was shocked in his heart, Zhang Wenxi was not only born as a scholar, but also as a provincial governor, and now has the right to restrain the governor, and the future is unlimited, but he is respectful to Qin Lin, and treats each other with a teacher's courtesy, is it because of these miraculous skills and silver skills, or is it because Qin someone is related to Jiangling Xiangfu?

No wonder Luo Dongyan couldn't figure it out, if he understood the truth, he would not be able to do Zhejiang patrol with Zhang Wenxi, who was in the same department, he could only be the head of a county...... Under Qin Lin's guidance, Zhang Wenxi used this simple microscope to rotate and pull the lens barrel to adjust the focal length, and the originally blurred vision gradually became clear, and finally the mirror image of the hemp rope was magnified dozens of times and appeared in his field of vision.

"I saw it, I really saw it!" Zhang Wenxi lost the characteristic calmness of a civil official on the right path, and was shocked by the novelty he had never seen before.

Comparing one after another, the hemp rope that originally looked almost the same, the difference became particularly significant under the amplification of dozens of times, the thickness, texture and color of the fiber, the entanglement of the knotted rope, and the proportion of new and old hemp mixture, all of which were different.

Zhang Wenxi remembered that Qin Lin was still beside him after a while, put down the microscope embarrassedly, and sighed: "Cheng Zhu Lixue talks about learning from things, and the lower officials have worked hard before, thinking that they have to peek into the door, but now they can see Qin Shaobao, and they know that they are still far behind in these four words, and they are really ashamed." ”

Qin Lin smiled but said nothing.

Luo Dongyan hurriedly asked: "Brother Zhang Nian, is that hemp rope really produced in Huixian County?" ”

Well, Luo Zhixian is most concerned about this issue.

Zhang Wenxi also suddenly realized that everyone came here today not to talk about things, so he nodded solemnly.

Luo Dongyan's face became extremely ugly, and the curvature of the corners of his mouth was a little stiff.

"Why should Luo Zhixian worry?" Qin Lin smiled: "If the important culprits of the White Lotus Sect are caught in time, Luo Zhi County will not only not be negligent, but will have the merit of investigating the chaos and resolving difficulties. ”

Luo Dongyan smiled, only to feel that following Chief Qin, who was like a god, to handle this case, the chance of success was quite large, why didn't he think of this just now?

As everyone knows, bureaucrats have always been better off than less, not seeking merit but seeking no fault, Luo Dongyan has been mixed in the officialdom for a long time, and it is inevitable to go with the flow, and sometimes he acts subconsciously, and he doesn't even have time to think about it.

Luo Dongyan was just a mediocre official, and Qin Lin didn't have time to make friends with him, but after a few words, Luo Dongyan actively increased his surname, picked his head at the map, and carefully thought about whether there was any secret place in Longyou County that could be used as a place to privately mint copper coins.

"There doesn't seem to be such a place, huh? Qin Shaobao, Brother Zhang Nian, you two and so on, the lower officials will recruit a few capable old catchers to come and ask, they are ghosts in the ground, they must know! Luo Dongyan said, and rushed out like a gust of wind.

Lu Yuanzhi and Niu vigorously laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, this Luo Zhixian wanted to prevaricate at first, but they were fooled by Qin Lin, and they ran faster than anyone else at this time.

I didn't expect Luo Dongyan to recruit a few old catchers, when they heard such a place, they all shook their heads, saying that although Longyou County is mountainous, it is located in the center of the Jinqu Basin, and the mountains are not treacherous, they are all gentle and undulating hills, and there are no such inaccessible steep mountains and deep streams and strange caves.

"Well, maybe it's in a place you don't know, or don't even think of?" Qin Lin pointed his finger at his temple, thought for a moment, and then smiled: "Forget it, this official has already sent the Jinyi Official Academy out to investigate, and there will be results soon." ”

An old catcher quickly attached himself to Luo Dongyan's ear and whispered: "Qiqi Luo's parents, the young one who saw Qin Shaobao picked a lot of flowers in and out of the city. ”

Defloration? Luo Dongyan and Zhang Er King Kong were confused, and they didn't understand what Qin Lin was doing

(To be continued)