"Father-in-law Jiang, the time is almost up, if it's too late, I will miss the time for you to return to the palace!"

"Our family knows, thank you Lord Meng for reminding me!"

"Lan Rong, our family is going back to the palace, it's late, and the palace gate is about to close."

"Father-in-law Jiang, please tell the Queen Mother, the women miss her old man very much." Jiao Lanrong revealed her true feelings.

"Okay, if you say, we will bring it!"

"Our family is leaving."

Jiao Lanrong bowed slightly, and watched Jiang Xiong open the door and leave, a little distracted.

"Finished talking, Grandpa Jiang?"

"Thank you Lord Meng today, the Queen Mother, our family will give you good words." Jiang Xiong has relapsed a little.

"Thank you very much!" Meng Yan smiled, it's good if you don't go back to complain, then you still expect you to say good things to me?

"Then our family will leave?" Jiang Xiong didn't want to stay longer, standing with Meng Yan, he felt full of thorns, and he was particularly uncomfortable.

"Then the official won't send it!"

"Don't send it, don't send it......" Jiang Xiong walked forward quickly, and walked outside the yamen without stopping.

"Your Excellency?"

"What did both of them say?"

"It's all here, and some of them didn't hear clearly, so they marked them with spaces." Lin Tianxing handed over a stack of letterheads.

"Back to the check-in room!" Meng Yan put away the letterhead and said.

Although this record is incomplete, and there are still a lot of keywords missing in some places, however, the general meaning, Meng Yan understands that Jiao Lanrong married Bai Xinyuan for something.

This thing is still a must-have thing for the Empress Dowager Sun.

This is strange, Bai Xinyuan is just a pastry master who used to be in the imperial dining room for two days. A chef who can make pastries, what treasure can be worthy of Empress Dowager Sun so exciting, and she also sent her most trusted palace maid out of the palace to commit herself to him?

This doesn't make sense, could it be related to Jingci Immortal Master?

That was his titular mother, and of course, he was also suspicious of this background.

There is no such rumor in history at all, but there is a legend that the current emperor is not from the grandson, and there is indeed such a legend in the history of later generations.

It is said that the current emperor is the "son of the palace man", the child of a palace girl held by the queen. Then he said that he had a child of his own. The boy eventually became the crown prince and the emperor.

No matter how you look at it, it's like listening to a legendary story, just like the legendary civet cat changing the prince during the reign of Renzong of the Song Dynasty.

This can only be heard as a story. No matter how stupid the emperor is. Nor will it let a child who does not belong to him. Or isn't it a child of the Heavenly Family to be the emperor?

Then he is a big disgrace, and he has no face to see the ancestors and ancestors below after his death, not to mention that Xuanzong did not die early. Instead, he has been an emperor for ten years, and he was eight years old when he ascended the throne recently, and after eight years, can he still figure it out?

So if the legend of "Gong Renzi" is true, there is only one possibility, this child is also Xuanzong's, but her mother came from a humble background and let the queen take the opportunity to oust Xuanzong's original queen!

However, this is still a bit unreliable, anyway, the only one who knows the truth may be Empress Sun herself, but she may not say it until she dies.

Aunt Sai and Guo Nu are not parties to the case, if they knew the cause and effect of the matter, they would not have been able to investigate for so many years without a definite result?

"What the hell is it?"

It's like a treasure right in front of you, you can see it, but you can't touch it, you don't know what it is, it's a very tempting thing.

Bai Suxin, will she know, if Bai Xinyuan really left something important, according to common sense, he will definitely sue his daughter.

But it is also possible to choose not to tell sù and bring the secret into the coffin, which is a kind of protection for Bai Suxin.

Meng Yan really wanted to ask Bai Suxin for clarification, but he couldn't do it, and he had to pretend that he didn't know about it at all.

"My lord, it's time to get off duty, the curfew has been restored in this capital, and if you don't go home, you will be seen by the soldiers patrolling the streets, it won't look good."

"Got it, this official is on duty."

"Mr. Cai, Tianxing, clean up, let's go home from duty today!" Meng Yan commanded.

"Got it!"

The matter over there in the warehouse of this craftsman division was handed over to Tang Xiao to deal with, otherwise, he would really lack skills.

"My lord, the elder of the Beiyafu begs to see you!"

"It's so late, Uncle Fu still has something to look for me?" Meng Yan just put the file in order and prepared to pay it.

"The villain Fu Sinian has seen Master Meng!"

"It's Si Nian, Uncle Fu asked you to come to me, what's the matter?" Meng Yan looked at it and was still an acquaintance.

"Lord Meng, my lord asked you to go to Beiya!"

"Now?"

"Yes, now." Fu Sinian nodded.

"Okay, you wait for me, I'll call two people to go together!" Meng Yan thought about it, Fu Xiaochen must have something important to call him over at this time.

Meng Yan called Cai Jin and Lin Tianxing, and the three of them followed Fu Sinian to Beiya.

"Uncle Fu, it's time to get off duty, if you have something to do, just go to the house and say it, you have to come to the yamen, it's time for a curfew on the street in a while!" As soon as Meng Yan entered the door, he complained.

"You have a dragon token, and you're still afraid of curfew?" Fu Xiaochen smiled, "Sit down, I don't have any good tea here?" ”

"Uncle Fu, I'll drink boiled water!"

"Si Nian, pour a glass of boiled water for Lord Meng!" Fu Xiaochen waved his hand and commanded.

"Yes, sir!"

"Black Tiger Mountain is here, and the East Factory is in a mess now, I'm afraid I can't take care of it." Fu Xiaochen sat down and said.

"Who's coming?" Meng Yan's eyes lit up, this was important news.

"Fourth, one zhang and three mothers!"

"Women?"

"Stone, don't underestimate this woman, she is a ruthless character, although this second jade-faced fox is a military advisor, but this Black Tiger Mountain boss Black Tiger only obeys this Hu Sanniang!" Fu Xiaochen said with a smile.

"This Hu Sanniang must have something extraordinary, and she was born very beautiful, right?" Meng Yan said with a smile.

"Beautiful as a flower, that's for sure. But their hearts are like snakes and scorpions, but their old five demon King Kong is in our hands, even if the black tiger comes in person, it will be difficult to save people from the edict! Fu Xiaochen said.

"They're going to rob the prison?" Meng Yan was surprised.

"Although they are bandits outside the gate, they are not so stupid, in the Beijing Division, if they dare to touch our Jinyi Guard, it will definitely be there is no return." Fu Xiaochen said.

"Well, this group of people has been running amok outside the customs for many years. There should be some insight in this way. Meng Yan nodded.

"That Wu Yougen you deliberately let go. We tracked and monitored, and only then did we find Hu Sanniang's traces. ”

"So we now know where they are, and they don't?" Meng Yan's eyes lit up.

"So to speak. But it's not certain. They have always cooperated with Dongchang. There's no guarantee that they won't get news from the East Factory. ”

"Dongchang is in chaos now, the new palm print eunuch has not come out, and no one cares about this matter." Meng Yan Road. "By the way, what kind of business are Black Tiger Mountain and Dongchang doing?"

"Smuggling salt and iron!"

"It's big business, how much?" Meng Yan asked.

"I don't know the specific number, but there are about 100,000 taels of salt and 200,000 catties of pig iron!" Fu Xiaochen said.

"How much of this pig iron can be smelted into weapons?"

"After refining pig iron into weapons, it is estimated that it can equip about 5,000 people!"

"Five thousand people, a lot, how many people are there in Black Tiger Mountain, can you afford it?" Meng Yan asked in surprise.

"Of course Heihu Mountain can't eat it, except for some smelting weapons, most of these pig iron are used to cast iron tools and iron pots, and at least one million catties of pig iron are needed outside the border every year, but the imperial court only gives Liaodong a ration of 100,000 catties of pig iron every year, and these pig iron casting iron pots and shovels and farm tools are not enough."

"What about the weapons of the Liaodong defenders?"

"If this doesn't come out of here, the military department will replenish a part every year to offset wear and tear and normal consumption."

"Liaodong's annual pig iron shortage must be at least 900,000 catties?"

"Far more than that!"

"It seems that the business of smuggling pig iron in Black Tiger Mountain must be very profitable, right?"

"Even if it is the worst Jin Railway, it can be sold for three times the price when it is transported to Liaodong, do you say it will be profitable?"

"Liaodong pig iron franchise?"

"Don't even think about this, this is in the palace, and the emperor's money bag is all on it!"

"Who is responsible?"

"The eunuchs guarding Liaodong Town are also lost." Fu Xiaochen showed a meaningful smile.

Meng Yan smiled, this family has been guarding Liaodong for decades, and it is a prince of a land.

The depth of the foundation and the breadth of contacts are really not comparable to ordinary people.

"Yishiha cracked down on pig iron smuggling in Liaodong, making the price of pig iron several times that of Guannai, bringing a large amount of income to the inner library every year, and the emperor trusted him very much."

In addition to a part of the profits from the pig iron monopoly that were handed over to the household department, most of the remaining profits went into the emperor's inner treasury, and as the emperor's private transfer, it naturally won the emperor's trust.

"Then Heihushan's business of smuggling pig iron with Dongchang won't affect the pig iron franchise?" Meng Yan asked.

"Some people are jealous of the huge profits in this."

"Wang Zhen?"

"Well, this matter was originally Cao Jixiang was in charge, but now Cao Jixiang has been devalued, and he has thought about it behind closed doors at home, you have arrested the old five demon King Kong of Black Tiger Mountain again, and the East Factory was almost abolished by you, even if the new East Factory Palm Seal Eunuch takes office, he will not think of it for a while."

"What does Uncle Fu mean?"

"This is also what Master Guo meant, Dongchang can do this business with Heihu Mountain, why can't we?"

"Uncle Fu, that's pig iron, iron is a sharp weapon of the country, if you let the clan outside the border go, cast weapons, and strengthen your strength, then it won't be the blessing of my border pass?"

"Of course, we can't buy them the best iron, and even if the weapons are not as good as ours, we can use these people to make whetstones for us." Fu Xiaochen said.

"What Uncle Fu said makes sense, once this business happens, no number of heads will be able to bear it!" Meng Yan Road.

"We don't do this business, others will leave, when the East Factory recovers, they will definitely cooperate with Heihu Mountain, this business is not a one-time deal, as long as it is not discovered, they can continue to do it every year, counting the profits of private salt, there will be at least 300,000 taels of silver!" Fu Xiaochen said.

"Maybe it's more!" Although Meng Yan is not very clear about the specific figures of the profits, he feels that it should be more than that. (To be continued......)