Chapter 131: Smuggling

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When Luo Shijingyin led the Jingzhao guards to surround the Crossbow Workshop Department, the officials of the War Department and the Ordnance Supervisor still didn't understand what was going on!

It wasn't until Luo Shijing checked and copied the secret tunnel of the Crossbow Workshop that the bodies of Wang Qi and Tao Bin were found in the Crossbow Workshop Department. Wu Jianuo, the chief supervisor of the armament, only knew that such a major incident had occurred under his jurisdiction, he couldn't sit still, it was over, everything was over!

There was a particularly large case of bow and crossbow smuggling in the Crossbow Workshop Department, and the Crossbow Workshop Department ordered Wang Qi and Cheng Taobin, the ordnance supervisor, to commit suicide in fear of crime......

Such news spread all over the Dayong court, and even many officials sneered: How is this possible?! Dayong's strict supervision of bows and crossbows is well known, how could there be such a huge smuggling case? - But when they saw the gloomy face of Bian Zhihe, the secretary of the military department, they were all silent.

The smuggling incident of the Crossbow Fang Department occurred because it involved sensitive weapons in the army, and it could only be handled by the Ministry of War, and neither the Dali Temple nor the Criminal Department were allowed to interfere.

Emperor Changtai ordered Bian Zhihe, the secretary of the Ministry of War, to find out the truth of the matter within three days, verify the amount of smuggling, and recover the bows and crossbows circulating in the black market, and at the same time ordered Jingzhao Yin Luo Shijing to assist in the matter.

Bian Zhihe looked at the secret passage of the Crossbow Workshop Department, and his face was full of vegetables. How easy is it to find out the truth of the matter within three days?

The officials of the Treasury Department followed this secret passage and found that the exit was a ruined Zhuangzi. This Zhuangzi is ownerless. Although the people of the Treasury Department found a lot of bows and crossbows in Zhuangzi, they didn't know who the smuggler was and who took the stolen goods. And who sells the stolen goods?

Except for Wang Qi and Tao Bin. Who else is involved? And Wang Qi and Tao Bin are already dead, and Lin Weili, the prison priest mentioned by the Criminal Department, judged that these two people committed suicide. Then inquire about the officers of the Ordnance Superintendent. I don't know anything at all, all the key clues are broken, and Bian Zhihe can't find anything at all.

As soon as the three days passed, Bian Zhihe replied to Emperor Changtai, saying that the time was too short, and only a batch of bows and crossbows were recovered, as for the people behind the smuggling. I really can't find out, so I ask the emperor to forgive you.

In fact, during Bian Zhihe's investigation, the second prince and the fifth prince successively rumored that the third prince was the person behind the scenes, and the tunnel was dug by the Three Princes' Mansion - Bian Zhihe believed that all this might be related to the three princes. But there is no evidence that the three princes are the ones behind the scenes, and the three princes have been keeping filial piety for the Empress Dowager Ciyi in the palace, what does the matter of the Crossbow Workshop have to do with him?

In fact, Bian Zhihe also has his own selfishness. Because of Concubine Mu's relationship, he didn't trust the news of the Second Prince's Mansion and the Fifth Prince's Mansion at all, even if it was really related to the Third Prince's Mansion. Without conclusive evidence, it was impossible for him to tell Emperor Changtai such rumors.

The smuggling incident of the Crossbow Fang Department is, to a certain extent, a scandal in Dayonghe and the Ministry of War, and Emperor Changtai and Bian Zhihe both want to close the case as soon as possible, so as not to have more officials and ordinary people question the loopholes in the supervision of weapons.

After Bian Zhihe pleaded guilty to Emperor Changtai. Emperor Changtai also pushed the boat down the river, and put all the charges of smuggling on Wang Qi and Tao Bin, and judged that Wang Qi and Tao Bin planned the smuggling of bows and crossbows in order to collect money.

It was only the lack of effective supervision and supervision of the ordnance supervision that gave Wang Qi and Tao Bin an opportunity to take advantage of it, which led to the loss of state property, and the chief ordnance supervisor Wu Jianuo, the chief secretary Chen Yihua, and other officials were removed from their posts and investigated.

The ordnance supervisor experienced the smuggling of the crossbow workshop department, and then the weapons production and other matters mainly belonged to the ordnance department of the Ministry of War, and the ordnance superintendent gradually withered away, and finally was removed in the 42nd year of Changtai, and withdrew from the historical stage of Dayong, which is not mentioned later.

"Fortunately, after the accident in the canal house, I immediately forced Wang Qi and Tao Bin to commit suicide, otherwise things would not have gone so smoothly." After Shangguan Yongping learned the final result of the bow and crossbow smuggling case, he sighed that he had escaped but also had palpitations.

After listening to Shangguan Yongping's words, Xian Maoxin and the others had nothing to say, this was actually a move to survive, which was not a fortunate thing. Although Wang Qi and Tao Bin committed suicide, and although the Three Highnesses took it out, the loss of the Three Princes' Mansion is immeasurable! When he thought of the genius craftsman who had been robbed, he felt both remorse and regret, and he felt an unstoppable pain in his heart.

Shangguan Yongping also remembered the mansion by the canal, it seems that someone is eyeing the Three Princes' Mansion, and even such a secret place has been exposed!

Who kidnapped that genius craftsman? The Three Princes' Mansion had lost such a genius in making weapons, and Shangguan Yongping couldn't forgive himself. But now that the smuggling incident happened, he didn't dare to search Jingzhao Craftsman on a large scale, so he had to temporarily act as if nothing had happened.

"It's a pity that Luo Shijing brought people too suddenly, our people just evacuated in a hurry, and they couldn't find any evidence of the Three Princes' Mansion at all, and even the craftsman is still nowhere to be found, and the Three Princes hid him really tightly." Li Ke'an's tone was unwilling.

Originally, their people were still closely monitoring the Crossbow Workshop Department, but they didn't expect to be disturbed by Luo Shijing like this, and now that the third prince knows about the incident, it is impossible for others to get the slightest bit of news from the craftsman.

Shangguan Changzhi's face is not good-looking, although he knows that the third child did this smuggling thing, but the third child is also neat and clean, Wang Qi and Tao Bin died, he actually left it clean. That Bian Zhi and the others both openly and secretly helped the third child, and said that they couldn't find out who was behind the scenes.

But how could he let the third child pass this level so easily? Since the craftsman can't find it, then let the third child dare not use this person! He summoned Li Ke'an and gave such and such an order.

Although the case of bow and crossbow smuggling has been closed, the courtiers still have a lot of discussions on the matter, because there are many doubts about this fact.

Not long after, supervising the results of the trial of the imperial history Qian Weizhun against the Ministry of War, he listed many doubts, and made it clear that Wang Qi was originally a slave of the Zhou family, and I don't know whether the Zhou family was involved.

Wang Qi is the order of the Eight Rank Crossbow Workshop. is the in-law of the ordnance supervisor Cheng Taobin again, why has he become the slave of the Zhou family now? The courtiers felt that their thoughts were a little confused.

The Zhou family is the mother family of the three princes, is the three princes the people behind the smuggling? In such a situation. Zhou Yangxu, the servant of the ministry, defended himself, saying that Wang Qi had already redeemed himself and left his country. It has been more than 30 years since he left the Zhou family, and he has long had no contact with the Zhou family, and the Zhou family doesn't know what Wang Qi did.

Zhou Yangxu's rhetoric was also very fierce, accusing Qian Weizhun of questioning that Shangyi had other intentions and abused the power of supervising the imperial history and supervising hundreds of officials, and the two directly argued in the Xuanzheng Palace. Leave the courtiers dumbfounded.

Of course, such an argument is meaningless, Emperor Changtai reprimanded Qian Weizhun and Zhou Yangxu, and said that the smuggling of bows and crossbows ended here, and supported the results of the trial of the Ministry of War.

But it's intriguing. Emperor Changtai asked the Three Princes' Mansion to donate 30,000 silver for the production of bows and crossbows. The courtiers looked at each other, is this a punishment for the Three Princes' Mansion? Or something else? What's the matter with the three princes? None of them understood what Emperor Changtai's decision meant.

Let's turn the time back to the previous two nights, in the Zhongcui Palace, Rong Guifei was carefully observing the expression of Emperor Changtai. Guessing his mood and mood. Half an hour ago, Zhang Sheng, the leader of the inner chamberlain, told Emperor Changtai a piece of news, and it was only at this time that Emperor Changtai knew that there had been a genius craftsman in the Crossbow Workshop Department, but the whereabouts of this craftsman are now unknown, which is a great loss for Dayong!

Emperor Changtai naturally regretted it. couldn't help but tell Rong Guifei about this genius craftsman, after Rong Guifei heard it, she sighed a few words with regret, and gave Emperor Changtai eye medicine: "If there is really such a genius craftsman, why is the northern border uneven?" It's just that Wang Qi and Tao Bin committed suicide in fear of crime, it's a pity, otherwise they can find out the whereabouts of that craftsman......" This point, Emperor Changtai also deeply felt the same way, this Wang Qi and Tao Bin also died too early.

"But since Wang Qi was a slave of the Zhou family, it shouldn't be possible to cut off contact with the Zhou family all of a sudden, will the Zhou family know something?" Rong Guifei's words were brought back and forth, and they were transferred to the Zhou family, how much Emperor Changtai valued his own martial arts, she knew best.

Emperor Changtai will definitely try her best to find out about the craftsman, what she has to do is to insert a needle in Emperor Changtai's heart to lead Emperor Changtai to suspect the three princes, so that her child will have a chance to ascend to the throne.

Listening to Rong Guifei's words, Emperor Changtai also had an idea in his heart, and he was wondering if this craftsman was taken by the Zhou family and the third child.

Sure enough, on the second day, Emperor Changtai secretly sent an edict to Shangguan Yongping and asked about the craftsman. Shangguan Yongping listened to Emperor Changtai's question, and was very frightened, wondering how Emperor Changtai would know about this.

Of course, Shangguan Yongping didn't dare to say that there was such a person, he had secretly hidden this person, and now this person was robbed of such a thing, these are all things that can never be said!

"Father, the sons have never heard of any craftsmen! If it weren't for the Jingzhao officials talking about the crossbow workshop department, then Erchen wouldn't have known that there was a bow and crossbow flowing out of the crossbow workshop department! Please see it! Shangguan Yongping swore and said!

Emperor Changtai saw Shangguan Yongping's denial, and he was very unhappy. Selflessness shows selfishness, is that craftsman really hidden by the third child?

Looking at Shangguan Yongping's frank appearance, Emperor Changtai's suspicions became even heavier. However, Zhang Sheng and the military department had no evidence, and he didn't want to criticize Shangguan Yongping too much, so he didn't say anything, and was ready to let him push down.

It happened that at this time, there was a matter of money and only the matter of Shangshu, and Emperor Changtai took the opportunity to beat Shangguan Yongping, so he was fined 30,000 taels of silver.

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