Chapter 76: 20,000 to 30,000 Elite Troops

Everyone worked together to translate.

In order to improve efficiency, instead of translating word for word from front to back, we select a centralized translation of the same page.

Qin Zhaoyue was calm and collected. He held a plate of dried apricots and watched the show while chewing them.

With the products of Chiyan County, it is difficult to have enough food to eat, and this is brought from Mingyan County.

Yes, it’s not appropriate to eat at this time, but I can’t sleep anyway, so I’ll just make it.

As for helping with the work... Bah, impossible, absolutely impossible.

Zhao Qingshan, Jiang Mingyuan, Yaoguang and Suimo translated together, while Yinzhe sat at the bottom, flipping through the "map" page by page at a fairly fast pace.

After turning to the last page, he closed his eyes, memorized it for twenty or thirty breaths, then stood up and left the room.

When he came back, most of the booklet was gone from his hands. I guess he had handed it over to his subordinates.

"Want to eat?"

Looking at the food plate pushed in front of him, Yinzhe was stunned and motionless.

Yaoguang, who was working in the hall, couldn't help but look up. It would be fine if the Sixth Princess didn't help, but did she treat this as a tea party in the boudoir?

Her master has a very cold personality and never eats snacks. Besides, Xuanji Guard will never eat anything of unknown origin when on duty... Hmm?

The next moment, Yinzhe reached out and picked up an apricot from the plate and stuffed it under her veil.

His cheeks twitched, clearly he'd eaten! How could that be?!

Yaoguang glanced over and quickly lowered his head to work, but the scene just now lingered in his mind:

Something's wrong. This is very wrong!

Yin Zhe withdrew his gaze, still with that cold and indifferent look, "Thank you, Your Highness."

Qin Zhaoyue waved her hand and said, "It's generous. Eat as much as you want."

Although he seemed casual, he was actually glancing at her veil.

The veils in other costume dramas are just decorations, and you know what they look like as soon as they appear. But the one worn by Yinzhe is really not transparent at all.

Apart from the eyebrows and eyes, I can't see anything else.

"Not all Xuanji Guards will wear veils, right?"

"Won't."

"Wouldn't it be boring to wear it all the time?"

"Not boring."

Qin Zhaoyue raised an eyebrow, "Not boring? That shouldn't be the case..."

"Do you know that if you do this for a long time, your skin tone will be divided. Most of your face will be pale, and the skin above your eyebrows and eyes will be dark. It will be difficult to apply makeup evenly."

"I don't use makeup."

"Hey... then you can save a lot of money."

…

Yaoguang lowered his head while working, but his pupils were actually shaking.

The Sixth Prince was actually chatting with Lord Yinzhe... and he even responded to every word! What on earth is wrong with this world?

"how so!"

Just, how could this happen, huh?

Yaoguang looked up in confusion. This was not right. Why did Zhao Qingshan say this? He didn't understand his own master.

Zhao Qingshan was seen clutching the manuscript in his hand tightly, his whole body shaking uncontrollably, even wrinkling the paper.

Everyone turned their eyes and noticed the name that had just been copied: Qi Zhen. There should be another character after it, but he only wrote the stroke of "一" and then stopped.

The translation is more than halfway done, and everyone knows the general composition of this secret file, which is divided into three parts.

The first part is a list of some people's names, which is naturally the list of people involved in illegal mining;

The second part is the amount of illegal mining estimated by Zhao Hengjiang;

The third piece is hope, or what one wants to exchange for this secret file.

The sheet of paper Zhao Qingshan was holding in his hand at this moment belonged to the first part, which was the list of thefts.

It turned out that the second character "震" was not translated by him, and he recognized the name when he was about to add the third character.

"How could it be! How could it be him…"

Thinking he had found some crucial evidence, Yinzhe whispered, "Who is it?"

Zhao Qingshan raised his head, his face full of shock. He pursed his lips and answered, "Qi Zhenyuan..."

This is the Uncle Qi he mentioned, who was also a military general like his father.

The two men had a close friendship and supported each other to gain a foothold in the mine.

After his father was trapped in a flooded mine, he took even better care of him.

After listening to his story, no one showed any significant emotional fluctuations.

Illegal iron ore mining is a big deal. There are so many people involved in it at the mine. A mere miner should not be of much help to the case.

"Push up the translation."

"yes!"

Zhao Qingshan finally let go, smoothed the paper, and added the last word "远" stroke by stroke.

After the interlude, it took about two quarters of an hour to finally complete the translation of all the secret files.

The first list is also divided into different parts, and the participants are confirmed to be county magistrates, smelting magistrates, and officials of all ranks, a total of eleven people.

This was nothing surprising, especially since Yinzhe had already confirmed that the county magistrate was involved. It was to be expected that Chiyan County would be corrupted from top to bottom.

The second is a list of people with major suspicions, and the Uncle Qi that Zhao Qingshan mentioned is on the list.

As for the last one, there is only a code name: Lame.

This code name was recorded three times in a row, which shows that he must be a key person.

Either Zhao Hengjiang has not yet found out the identity of this person, or he has something else to hide.

After completing the translation, Zhao Qingshan still couldn't believe it.

"Uncle Qi and I live together. If he was a serious suspect, why didn't father warn me?"

Qin Zhaoyue rolled her eyes. "I'm worried that your acting will be bad. Why else..."

Illegal mining of iron ore is like hanging your head on your belt, and secret investigations are even more dangerous. The danger is self-evident.

Surrounded by wolves and not knowing who to trust, it was completely reasonable for Zhao Hengjiang to hide it from Hao Daer.

Even though he knew it was unlikely, Yinzhe still asked, and the answer he got was as expected: Zhao Qingshan had no idea what "lame" was.

There are many people with mobility problems in the mines, so it is difficult to identify a specific person using this metaphor.

Yinzhe stopped asking questions and picked up the second part of the translation to look through it.

She had previously thought it was corruption, but after checking the mining account books, she had a clear idea of ​​what was going on.

There are not many records in the secret files, which are just rough statistics he made after participating in illegal mining.

After many attempts, we came to the conclusion that the total amount of illegal mining should be comparable to the amount of ordinary mining.

Yinzhe's chest rose and fell slightly, and even her veil fluttered.

The mine in Chiyan County is a medium-sized one, and the account books record an annual iron ore production of about 120,000 kilograms.

Because it is a high-quality ore vein, the iron content can basically reach between 50% and 60%.

After smelting, every hundred kilograms of ore can eventually produce twenty-eight to thirty-two kilograms of pig iron.

If we calculate it as 30 kilograms, it would be 36,000 kilograms a year.

A set of Ming Guang armor consumes 40 kilograms of iron, a standard horizontal sword weighs 8 kilograms, and an arrowhead weighs three kilograms.

That would be nine hundred sets of Ming Guang armor, or four thousand five hundred swords, or one hundred and twenty thousand arrows.

If this continues for seven or eight years...

Yinzhe's eyes were sharp. There were at least 20,000 to 30,000 well-equipped elite soldiers!