Jiang Wan'er took a sip of the porridge and snorted lightly: "That Duan Youde is in collusion with Shu Kingdom."
"He has a favorite concubine who gave birth to an only son, who is now in the imperial capital of Wu."
"In the past few years, he privately sold pig iron to the State of Wu every year. The lowest amount was 20,000 catties, and the highest was 30,000 catties."
“Everything came out of his arms.”
"Those corrupt officials you investigated earlier were actually the result of his tacit approval and instigation."
Hearing this, Zhao Hao's eyes widened in disbelief.
"How is this possible?"
"After your imperial edict arrived, Blue Bird interrogated all corrupt officials, both big and small, but not one of them betrayed Duan Youde..."
Jiang Wan'er snorted, "With such a long period of time and such widespread corruption, as the governor of the state, is it really possible that Duan Youde doesn't know anything?"
"Do you think this is possible?"
Zhao Hao said: "Although I also think it is impossible... but it is true that no one has explained that the private sale of pig iron is related to Duan Youde."
Jiang Wan'er said calmly, "This is the cleverness of him, or rather the female prime minister of Wu."
Zhao Hao's eyes moved: "Did Xie Daoxun do this?"
Jiang Wan'er nodded slightly: "Besides her, who else could have arranged this so cleverly?"
Seeing Zhao Hao's eyes full of curiosity, Jiang Wan'er said, "Duan Youde, these corrupt officials are all fueled by someone."
"But Duan Youde never touches these things."
"That takes him out."
"Even if there are some problems, as long as one or two people die in place of each other, nothing will be affected."
"If we hadn't built a smelting workshop and taken over the mining area, no one would have discovered it."
Zhao Hao was completely stunned: "How did you find out all this?"
Jiang Wan'er said softly, "Just throw him into the Sky Prison, use some tricks, and he'll tell you everything."
"After checking later, I told him the same thing."
Zhao Hao shook his head speechlessly: "Xie Daoxun, you are so amazing! Even the leaders of my party can become their people!"
Jiang Wan'er glanced at him and said, "Eat quickly, and go back quickly after eating."
Zhao Hao rolled his eyes: "I won't chase you away like that!"
After drinking a bowl of porridge and eating a boiled egg, Zhao Hao asked, "When will His Majesty issue an order to arrange my marriage with Yongning?"
Jiang Wan'er snorted, "Why, you can't wait any longer?"
Zhao Hao said: "That's not what I meant. Don't we need to prepare in advance? That's why I just asked."
Jiang Wan'er glared at him and said, "Just go back and wait."
After they had almost finished eating, Zhao Hao was still driven away by Jiang Wan'er.
Originally he wanted to stay and stay a little longer.
After coming out of the palace, I went directly to the first floor.
He did not stay overnight on the first floor, but returned to the mansion.
He just came back and he doesn't want to go back home. I won't let him go.
Besides, I haven’t seen my dad yet!
As soon as he came back, the servant at the door hurriedly said, "Master, the master has been waiting for you. He asked you to go to the study as soon as you come back!"
Zhao Hao was shocked when he heard this: "My goodness, what time is it? My dad hasn't slept yet?"
After saying that, he hurried to the study, and sure enough, the light was still on.
I went up and knocked on the door twice, and Zhao Wenxiang's deep voice came from inside.
"Come in!"
Zhao Hao hurriedly pushed the door open and went in, then closed it again.
Then he saw Zhao Wenxiang sitting behind his desk, handling the mountain of official business in front of him without even raising his head.
"father!"
Zhao Hao called out softly.
Zhao Wenxiang slowly raised his head and waved at him with the hand holding the pen.
"Come sit down and talk."
Zhao Hao nodded, walked quickly to the desk, pulled the chair away a little, and sat half of his butt on it.
"Dad, how have you been lately?"
In front of his father, Zhao Hao didn't dare to act rashly and was even more reserved than in front of his queen.
Especially in a place like the study, face to face with my dad.
It becomes even more restrained.
Zhao Wenxiang said without even raising his head: "Wait a moment."
Zhao Hao nodded and watched his father handle the official business at hand.
About a quarter of an hour later, Zhao Wenxiang let out a breath, put down the pen in his hand, and slowly raised his head.
Seeing Zhao Hao's appearance, Zhao Wenxiang frowned slightly.
Obviously, he didn't expect that Zhao Hao would become so much thinner and darker.
"I heard from your mother that you are even thinner this time than during the Chinese New Year."
“It’s true.”
"Well, you've suffered a lot."
Zhao Hao shook his head: "It is very hard, but I mainly want to finish building the workshop as soon as possible so that I can come back earlier."
Zhao Wenxiang nodded slightly: "Is everything almost done now?"
Zhao Hao said, "Yes, if there is no accident, I don't have to go there later."
Zhao Wenxiang asked: "Once this workshop is completed, how much can the steel production be increased?"
"Before you left Beijing, you said that you could reach 300,000 kilograms..."
"Is it really possible?"
Thinking of the number that Zhao Hao reported at the beginning, he still feels incredible!
Three hundred thousand kilograms!
All the mining areas in Dagan added together have less than 100,000.
He really couldn't imagine why his son dared to mention such an astronomical figure.
However, this little brat of mine seems to be able to create miracles.
Since you dare to say that, you can probably do it.
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