However, the officials who were like his guards on weekdays looked at him with strange eyes at this time, and none of them moved.

The nephew of the county lord sighed in his heart, and was about to ask clearly, when he saw the county lord trotting in from outside, and couldn't help but wail: "Uncle! Uncle, save me! ”

"It's really you!" As soon as the county magistrate saw him, he stiffened as if he had been struck by lightning.

Mu Ling turned his eyes to see that the county master was only in his early thirties, and his body was a little thin and thin, and now an official robe looked a little big on his body.

It looks like a good official, not as good as those corrupt officials who are so rich.

But who knew that such a good official would have such a nephew?

If it is said that this nephew's family is doing evil everywhere under the banner of the county master, and the county master himself does not know about the unauthorized use of this wharf, that is, he has to say that he does not know, then no one believes it.

Liang Chu looked at it coldly and did not move.

The prefect who came in with the county lord needs to go back to Beijing every year to report on his work, and he is naturally a person who has seen Tianyan in the previous dynasty, and at this time, seeing the old god of Liang Chu sitting there, the three souls and six spirits of the prefect are about to be scared away.

It turns out that such a big man is here! Fortunately, I happened to run into such a thing! This has a great impact on his performance evaluation this year!

However, Liang Chu didn't seem to see him, and continued to drink tea.

The prefect didn't dare to make a noise, so he could only restrain his mind, looked at the county lord with a tiger face and said, "Can you tell me what the hell is going on?" ”

"This ...... This pier is not open to the lower officials! The wharf is now only used by the imperial merchants, because the imperial merchants carry the goods at different times, there has never been a special person here to watch, I think it is because of this, the little nephew will think that there is no one here to restrict, so he bought a ship to use the dock to load goods......"

"Who asked you this!" The prefect looked very angry, turned around and kicked the cargo boxes, and all the contents spilled out, "Look at this, what are these things!" Where the hell did it come from! ”

Swords and iron!

The county lord looked at the things on the ground in disbelief, then looked at his nephew, and pointed at his nephew with a trembling hand and said, "You, you—this, where did these come from!" ”

Where did it come from?

The nephew of the county magistrate turned pale, and he didn't know that he was doing these uncles. On weekdays, it is much more convenient for him to do business, and it is all because the errand man is accommodating in his uncle's face.

Originally, he couldn't do this iron business, but who told him that the canal would be repaired all of a sudden?

With a little effort, he was able to get the ship in and use it for himself to load the goods. And because although the canal has been repaired, the imperial court has not yet begun to officially use it, there will naturally be no officers and soldiers on the canal to check this and that, and there are many things that can be transported out more smoothly.

In this way, he began to do this iron business.

As for where it went, and how did he know who it was for?

However, he didn't know how to say this, let alone know that he couldn't say it.

It's all head-killing!

I originally thought that the canal would be fully opened, and I would never continue to do such business after completing this order, but I would have thought that I would be bumped into by someone for the last time!

Thinking of this, the county grandfather's nephew looked at Liang Chu hatefully, and he really couldn't wait to see a few holes in him!

Liang Chu didn't care about the light of his eyes, and drank tea leisurely.

The nephew of the county magistrate was very angry, but he had to hug the county magistrate's thigh and cry: "Uncle! My nephew was deceived, uncle! The nephew is just doing things for the imperial merchants, these things are sold by the imperial merchants to their nephews, they are very cheap, and then sold to the imperial merchants in the capital, although the price has doubled, it is also quite cheap. The nephew only thinks about what the imperial merchant does, which is naturally legal, where did he think that it would be like this! ”

"Imperial Merchant?" Liang Chu heard the key.

If he remembered correctly, there was an iron mine here. The iron that comes out of the iron ore is good and bad, and the good ones are used to make weapons and send them to the army, and equip the army. The inferior ones were confiscated into the government and sold to the imperial merchants to make kitchen knives, hoes and other farm tools, and there was no hindrance.

Because such iron tools are used to make swords, it is completely useless to go to the battlefield, and there is no need to care whether there will be wolf ambitions to rebel with these.

But Liang Chu never expected that this batch of swords, and even many previous batches of swords, would actually flow out of the imperial merchants?

The fact that the imperial merchant can do this iron business is originally a very profitable way. It can be said that this business is much stronger than his other businesses.

But even if it's such a way to make money, there are still people who give it to others to do?

Liang Chu's eyes suddenly contained a storm, but outsiders couldn't see anything, but they noticed that the momentum around him was becoming more and more fierce, making people's hearts tremble.

Mu Ling lowered his head and didn't know what he was thinking, and quickly raised his head.

"I think the quality of these swords is inferior, and these iron are the most suitable for hoes and kitchen knives, but they are too bad for swords. But if it was something that the imperial merchants wanted to transport, and it was transported to the capital, it must be equipped for the army. Just look at the quality of the swords used by the army over the years. And this imperial businessman colluded with the government to be shoddy, and he thought it was to fill his own pockets. ”

Mu Ling sneered, and it was easy to see the cattiness in this.

Good iron they keep to make better things and sell them at a higher price. And this kind of iron should be sold well, and a penny of goods can be sold for a profit of two cents, so why not do it?

Speaking of which, this trick is very clever!

In these years, there was no war to fight, and even the suppression of bandits was very few. Most of the soldiers raised by the imperial court are actually already eating idle meals, anyway, they don't have to fight, so what does it matter if the weapons are good or not?

Presumably, the officials and imperial merchants who developed the iron ore took advantage of this loophole and doubled the price of iron, but made more money.

And this money has nothing to do with the imperial court, and it is all given to these turtle grandsons themselves.

And they also found a scapegoat for themselves, even if they found out, they couldn't find their heads, and someone was already taking the blame for them.

After sorting out the twists and turns, even Liang Chu had to say that he was clever, but when such a method played on his head, he couldn't complain that his methods were more ruthless than these.