"What did you say?" Liu Che was suddenly shocked and dropped his eyeballs.

It's unbelievable that this kind of thing can happen to Dahan!

"Aren't those thieves all fools?"

"I don't know if I'm stupid or not, anyway, I don't seem to be very shrewd about doing this thing!" Liu Ponu smiled and said with disdain on his face.

"If you grab dozens of new plows and don't hurt anyone, of course the imperial court won't make a big move, but they dare to grab more than 3,000 plows, and kill all the people in the workshop?" Liu Che's face was still full of shock, and then he sneered: "Hmph, it seems that I haven't used the knife for too long, so much so that some people feel as if I can't even lift the knife!" ”

In Liu Che's view, this is not just a matter of more than 3,000 new ploughs.

But no matter from which aspect, this eucalyptus should be the earth-shattering eucalyptus that can definitely rank first in the criminal case since the founding of the Han Dynasty.

How much are more than 3,000 plows worth?

One is two hundred dollars, with a total value of six hundred thousand dollars.

If you just count the money, it may not seem like a lot, but what if you add four or five hundred lives?

Although the deceased did not have an official identity, they were indeed members of the workshop, and the person in charge of the workshop had an official status, and they were semi-official anyway.

Therefore, this is no longer just a question of money or not, this is a provocation to the imperial court and the authority of Liu Che, the emperor.

"If you can easily loot a convoy of four or five hundred people, the other party must have thousands of people, right? Even if there weren't, three or five hundred people would have it. Liu Che continued to say slowly: "So many people gathered together with weapons, and the government didn't react at all!" ”

"Spread my will, let Yangzhou Assassin Shi immediately take Lujiang Taishou and Yuzhang Taishou back to Chang'an, and imprison all the Xunyang Order and Chai Sang Order, and pass on my ......"

Liu Che ordered angrily, suddenly thought of Liu Ponu, and then stopped.

"What do you think about this?"

What do I think?

With your eyes, of course......

Ahem, Liu Ponu only dared to say this in his heart.

"There was such a big incident in the governance of the land, and they didn't react at all when there was such a big movement, regardless of anything else, it was not wrong at all to treat him for the crime of negligence!" Liu Ponu first affirmed Liu Che's handling method, of course, if it was Liu Zhi here, I am afraid it would be a different scene.

As Liu Ponu said, whether it is the Han Dynasty or other dynasties, the government has a strong sensitivity to that kind of large-scale gathering without any basis and no evidence.

Don't think that there aren't many people in the government and you can't pay attention to so many places.

What do you do?

Not only do they manage their villages, but they also monitor for anomalies.

The elders of Lizheng Township can be said to be all over the Han, where there are people, there are them, and they know better than anyone else what the flow of people is in each village.

Even if they are scattered and unarmed people, as long as there is an obvious abnormality in the flow of people, they will let people go and ask.

And Cao Yun is the most common mode of transportation over there, and the flow of people and facilities on the shore are also very perfect.

You say it's not strange that thirty or fifty people hid there and didn't find out, but is this something that thirty or fifty people can do?

And according to the report of the boatman who escaped, the number of thieves was unknown, but at least more than 100 people, which means that they were lurking there at least in the morning.

So in any case, they can't escape the charge of negligence in any way.

As for the rest......

"But I don't think there is a need to rush to deal with them first, the top priority is to find these thieves first, recover the new plows that have been robbed, and try to make these new plows as able to catch up with the next farm work." Liu Ponu said slowly.

"They are robbing boats, the target is so big, it is still easy to find them, this is not in conflict with dealing with those officials!" Liu Che directly rejected Liu Ponu's suggestion.

If the thieves don't go ashore, it's naturally difficult to track.

But where can they go if they don't go ashore?

Isn't it possible to take those new plows and go to the bottom of the river to farm?

Not to mention the fact that there are more than 3,000 new plows on board, and if so many new plows want to go ashore, they must find a dock.

That river was originally the main channel for Cao Yun, and there were so many ships coming and going, as long as the imperial court gave an order, the corresponding clues would soon be found.

Therefore, there is no conflict between finding someone and dealing with officials.

Besides, this kind of thing happened under their noses, how could Liu Che believe them next?

Besides, Liu Che is not unavailable, just send a royal historian to mobilize the local garrison to investigate this matter, simple and rude, fast and effective!

"In fact, there is no need to be so troublesome, they will definitely not use all of the new plows themselves, in other words, if they are for their own farming, they will not come to grab this new batch of plows."

"What farmer would do such a headless thing for two hundred dollars? Besides, they don't need to take out the two hundred dollars in one go, all the accounts are laid out on the surface, and the calculations are clear, although the people are illiterate and uneducated, but they can still calculate this account clearly. ”

"And the people who snatched the new ploughs must not be doing it for their own cultivation, so no matter what their original intentions were, their purpose must be to sell the new ploughs."

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"But what they don't know is why we send so many people over to hand over, unless there are their spies within the workshop, but no matter what, this is the first batch of new plows that appeared in Yangzhou, as long as the new plough is found in Yangzhou, we can find the plow seller, as long as we find the plow seller, the rest of the things will be easy to do!" Liu Ponu said unhurriedly.

There is iron on the new plow, and it is precisely because of the iron that Liu Che was entangled at the beginning.

In order to dispel Liu Che's doubts, and also to facilitate management, Liu Ponu deliberately added a production link when manufacturing.

That is, each new plough is engraved with a steel stamp with the unique symbol of each county, and the method of marking is so simple that there is no need to tell them why they are marked this way.

Just give them a template and ask them to follow the stamp.

Liu Ponu used the simplest initials, such as the new plough assigned to Lujiang County and Yuzhang County, there will be two letters on it, respectively YL and YY, Y represents Yangzhou, L represents Lujiang Lu, in addition to the two letters followed by Arabic numeral numbers.

At the time of distribution, it is distributed according to the number segment, and when it is sold, it is registered to ensure that the control of the new plough can be accurate to the individual.

The workshop sent someone to hand over and did this job.

Of course, not so many people had to go every time, and there were not so many people in the workshop who could come to do this every day, mainly because the local officials were taught to master the registration of this code, and at the same time, the new plough should be checked every year during the slack period to make sure that the new plough was indeed in the hands of the people.

If there is a large-scale deficiency, it proves that there is a situation and needs to be reported immediately.

At first, this was just to prevent some people with ulterior motives from using the iron on the new plough to build weapons and do bad things, but later it was found that this could not only be strictly controlled, but also ensure the safety of the new plow.

Each new plough has its own number, and it is registered with the government at the time of purchase.

This also leads to the fact that if someone's new plough is thrown in the field and not taken away, no one will steal it, because he will not use it if he steals it, and you can know how the new plough came from just by looking at the number.

Even if it is from other counties, they don't dare to take it out and use it, who has a new plow and who doesn't have a new plow, others don't know, can their own village still not know?

Although the Han law stipulates that as long as the crime committed by relatives is not a crime of treason, relatives should cover each other, but the government also told Li Zheng that if he found that there was a new plow under his rule or suddenly there was more new plough and did not report it, he should be punished.

Don't ask how Li Zheng knows if they bought it, if they buy a new plow, Li Zheng will get the corresponding list when he goes to the meeting, and when the harvest is time, Li Zheng will organize these people to prepare the corresponding grain to repay the loan.

So you have a new plow, and Li Zheng didn't get your repayment list from above, do you know where your new plow came from?

In this way, the workshop is just one more process, and the effort is still worth it.

Therefore, not to mention that there has not been a new plow in Yangzhou, even if Yangzhou is full of new ploughs, it is easy for the imperial court to find these new ploughs, it is nothing more than a little more effort to make people check again.

"My concern now is that they're hiding this new batch of plows and not selling them!" Liu Ponu still voiced his worries.

"Do you suspect someone would be on guard to steal?" Liu Che frowned, and instantly understood what Liu Ponu meant.

"It's not that there is no such possibility, it's not difficult to understand that the people fall into the grass, but the workshop has investigated before, the river basin is safe, and there has never been such a large-scale water coward, so it is a bit of a problem for so many people who know how to water to suddenly fall into the grass, not to mention how do those water cowards know our route?"

"It is not excluded that there is news of their spies leaking in advance in the workshop, but most of the newly recruited workers in the workshop are front-line manufacturing workers, and all the people who are currently in charge of management are supported by Lantian Workshop, and you say that they can buy off the craftsmen of Lantian Workshop, which I really don't believe it."

"With such an exclusion, there are only three people left who know the route, Jingzhou Workshop, Jingzhou, Yangzhou!"

"The other party is a smart person, he chose the place to do it in the boundary river area that has just entered Yangzhou, and it is in the boundary between Xunyang and Chaisang, so if we want to check, we must check Yangzhou, Lujiang County and Yuzhang County, as well as Jingzhou and Jiangxia County, these places may be where they appear."

"Since the other party muddied the water at the beginning of the fight, it is naturally impossible to be unprepared later, so it is not so easy to track down, and even I suspect that even if we start from the boat, it will be difficult to find ......clues," Liu Ponu said.

"No matter how difficult it is, I have to investigate, hundreds of lives, is it because they muddy the water, I won't investigate? I just turn the big men upside down, and I want to find out these bold thieves, even if they die, I will whip their corpses fiercely! Liu Che clenched his fists tightly with both hands and said viciously.

The reason why Liu Ponu suspected that someone was guarding and stealing was not completely unreasonable, how to say that there were four or five hundred people on the ship, and as a result, a lazy boatman survived, could it be that four or five hundred people were fools, and they didn't know how to flee when they were in danger?

Definitely not, even if he is a person who doesn't know water, when his life is in danger, he will subconsciously jump into the water.

At least no one wants to be killed before they drown, but no one can escape, which means that the other party is a group of well-trained thieves.

You let the thieves train every day?

I'm sorry, if you say that Liu Ponu looks down on people, then he really looks down on people.

"I think now the imperial court should attack in an all-round way, on the one hand, I ordered to use the most severe attitude to apply for the Yangzhou assassination, so that he strictly investigated this eucalyptus, and at the same time the imperial court assigned the imperial history to Yangzhou to secretly investigate this eucalyptus alone, on the other hand, I asked the little mule to step up the production of more than 3,000 new plows to be transported to Yangzhou, no matter what, no matter how big this eucalyptus, how bad the nature, the imperial court must ensure that Yangzhou can have more than 3,000 new plows can be put into use before the agricultural busy, so as not to make the people feel that the imperial court is unfair......