Chapter 373 Miaozhenzi desperately refuses to recognize
Nowadays, the minerals of cinnabar are decreasing year by year, and the cost of mining has increased. They are transported from Yunnan, Guizhou and other places to Beijing. The freight and labor costs are very expensive, so that every ounce of cinnabar is equivalent to ten taels of silver. This is only one thousand taels of silver. This is only one month and only silver for cinnabar. Not to mention the other medicinal materials such as Zeng Qing, magnet, saltpeter, alum stone, talc, feldspar, asbestos, mica, lead mother, arsenic, salt, lime, vinegar, wine, as well as medicinal materials such as Ganoderma lucidum, poria, jujube, raspberry, aparagus, soapberry, dodder, vermildew, chicken blood vine and other plants.
The most expensive one is gold, which is a real gold that is not adulterated at all. The emperor knows how much gold it takes to use. Every time he eats elixirs, it is like eating gold. Every time he wastes a furnace of elixirs, he doesn’t need to mention how much the emperor feels distressed!
So from this point of view, you can't spend so much money on a pot of elixir?
Then...where did the money go? Where did the things go?
Emperor Jiajing is a smart emperor. How could he not know that he was fooled by someone as a sucker!
At that time, his face turned gloomy as if water was about to drip out of it!
Seeing this, Lu Bing seized the opportunity to "inadvertently" the Jinyiwei found out that the secret room at the bottom of the Danfang had been informed to the emperor, and asked the lower-head man to move all the things found in the secret room to the emperor. Jiajing saw that his eyes narrowed into a slit, and his forehead was leaping around, and his teeth were clenched. Lu Bing and others leaned down on their heads and couldn't see Jun Yan. However, Huang Jin, who was standing beside him, saw clearly. He had been serving Jiajing for many years, so he naturally knew that the emperor was extremely angry.
"It's a disaster! This time, I'm afraid Miao Zhenzi's life is out of control!"
Huang Jinjing stood there and lowered her head without saying a word, but her heart was secretly thinking.
"Miao Zhenzi will die if she dies, and she can't drag us down!"
Huang Jin is now in charge of the internal officials. He is in charge of all the emperor's imperial use. The name of this alchemy house is also in charge of the incoming and outgoing materials. Many of the things that Miao Zhenzi is greedy have been in private into his pocket. If not... how could he get on Miao Zhenzi's broken ship?
Now that this situation is happening, Miao Zhenzi is definitely in trouble. It would be better if His Majesty chopped his head in anger. If he was handed over to the Jinyiwei for interrogation, then I really don’t know what these people will have to find out?
Thinking that his Dongchang Factory Mansion had been fighting with Lu Bing in secret, Lu Bing had already secretly hated him, Huang Jin couldn't help but fight a cold war.
"Lu Bing won't take the opportunity to drag me into the water!"
This ability to make something out of nothing is even better, not to mention that it is a skill that makes something out of nothing!
Thinking of this, he lowered his head, his eyes kept circling, and suddenly a loud shout beside him.
“Bold!”
"Crazy..."
With a sound, the emperor indeed raised the table in front of him, and the things on the table scattered all over the floor.
"His Majesty!"
When the emperor was angry, the people in the hall knelt down. Others had to think about it. Huang Jin didn't have to think about it, and his knees bent down. Jiajing turned around and shouted at Huang Jin.
"Go...go and call Miao Zhenzi!"
"yes!"
Huang Jin was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly withdrew and went to summon Miao Zhenzi himself. However, the confidant eunuch around him disappeared. Huang Jin arrived at the Wentian Pavilion where Miao Zhenzi was. When Miao Zhenzi heard that the Jinyiwei found the secret room, he knew that something was wrong. He was as anxious as the frightened bird. He wanted to run away, but he didn't dare to. He could only wait for the emperor's imperial edict in this place!
He couldn't understand. The entrance to the secret room was a piece of stone slab that was thick, and it was hidden in a hidden place. After the explosion, he went there himself. After searching for a long time, he found the place. How did the Jinyiwei find the entrance to the secret room in a mess!
Miao Zhenzi looked cold when she saw Huang Jin coming, and knew that she was finished. She laughed bitterly,
"Eunuch Huang, we didn't succeed in one move before, now the revenge is coming!"
Huang Jin looked around and saw that they were all their confidants, so he lowered his voice and said softly.
"I told you to be more restrained, but you were accidentally careful!"
Miao Zhenzi shook her head and said,
"It's not that we were accidentally, it's that the alchemy furnace made people tamper with it. There was a lot of saltpeter and sulfur added to it. My disciples didn't know anything about it and put it in according to the original portion..."
Speaking of this, Miao Zhenzi's eyes showed fierce light, and his cold eyes swept across his panicked disciples.
"This is someone who bribed my disciples and secretly used a trick. If I can tell who betrayed the master..."
He stared at the slightest and grinning posture of the crowd, as if he was about to drag out the man who betrayed him in the next moment, and pounced on him and bit off his nose.
Huang Jin curled his lips when he saw this.
"National Master, at this time, what's the point of use? I'd better think about how I passed the moment!"
Sneer! It turns out that all the people in the world are scoundrels. When you harm Lu Bing in the past, wasn’t it also a secret trick?
When you go to this gambling table, you will do everything. If you harm him, he will harm you. You are willing to accept the loss. At this time, you will still care about those details. It is indeed not a person who can achieve great things!
Miao Zhenzi was mentioned by Huang Jin, but her expression suddenly changed from resentment to depressedness.
"Eunuch Huang, now... I am really incapable of turning over by them!"
Huang Jin rolled his eyes when he heard this.
"Can you just recognize it like this? No matter how hard you do, you can't recognize it... You're going to move your head today, so you have to think of some slander and make a quibble to get through this level..."
After saying that, he lowered his voice and said,
"Don't worry... I've sent someone out of the palace to ask the little master for help. If you drag it on, you may say that the little master's reinforcements will arrive!"
Miao Zhenzi was really excited when she heard this.
"Little Ge Lao...Little Ge Lao, is he really good at saving me?"
"Don't worry... the little master is loyal!"
At this time, Miao Zhenzi was like a sutra that he was holding a life-saving straw for the drowning man, and he refused to let go. He immediately bowed to Huang Jin and said,
"My father-in-law is honest and righteous. Thank you for helping me. Miao Zhenzi will never forget her kindness if she turns over for a day!"
"Haha...it's easy to say!"
Huang Jin rolled his eyes secretly,
No, no, loyalty! If you weren't afraid that you wouldn't die happily enough, drag us all into the water, then you would want to save you!
In this case, either, you will kill you in one go, or you will be able to find a way to catch you!
Huang Jin brought Miao Zhenzi to Emperor Jiajing with a cold face.
"Your Majesty! Your Majesty! I am wronged.
Miao Zhenzi got Huang Jin and wanted to fight to the death. When he came up, he knelt in from the door of the hall, crying and crying, and how he looked like he was snot and tears. He didn't have the same appearance as the immortal spirit before!
"Your Majesty, I am wronged!"
Seeing him like this, Jiajing couldn't help but frown with a thick eyebrows, and looked disgusted.
"Miao Zhenzi, today, you still dare to shout for justice!"
As he said that, he pointed to the things that the Jinyiwei had moved out of the secret room.
"These things were found from the Danfang. What do you have to say?"
Miao Zhenzi cried,
"Your Majesty, these things are hidden by me. The storage of various medicinal materials for refining elixirs is extremely particular. I am afraid that it will lose its medicinal properties by baking it day and night by charcoal fire, and I am afraid that it will be far away and inconvenient to take it. So I mobilized my disciples to dig out a secret room underground to store medicinal materials..."
"Is that true?"
Emperor Jiajing sneered when he heard this.
"You are quite good at making up. There is a small secret room that does not work with the craftsmen in the palace. The national master secretly led the people to dig it out. Even I don't know. The national master is really good at it!"
Miao Zhenzi kowtowed,
"I have the crime of concealing the king, but there is no crime of deceiving the king. I have never moved any of the things in this secret room. They are all for your Majesty to refine alchemy. Please give your Majesty a clear explanation!"
"You...you haven't moved yet..."
Jiajing was so angry that he was so shameless that he opened his eyes and told lies. He reached out and picked up two accounts from the desk in front of him and threw them in front of him.
"You're so lucky that you didn't move... Where did the things on this account go?"
The account book fell in front of Miao Zhenzi. Miao Zhenzi didn't even read it, but still cried and said,
"Your Majesty is even more unfair! This alchemy is the most cost-effective material. It is common to burn a furnace of elixirs, which will cost eight or nine out of ten, or even damage them all. Your Majesty is also clear..."
If Emperor Jiajing said to be a king and was tempted by the court officials, he could fight ten, but when it comes to questioning the criminals, he would have sent Lu Bing a hundred streets. In anger, he was even more deviated by Miao Zhenzi's sophistry. For a moment, he couldn't find any words to refute him. He was so angry that he stared at him and turned his face to call Lu Bing.
"Lu Bing, you... take him down... to your Beizhen Fushi and give me a good review!"
Lu Bing was overjoyed when he heard this. He had been waiting for so long, and he was waiting for this sentence. He hurriedly stepped forward to respond.
"yes!"
Looking back, I was about to ask someone to take down Miao Zhenzi and his disciples in Wentian Pavilion, but I heard a report from the little eunuch outside.
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Works serves Lang Yan Shifan for your meeting!"
"Yan Shifan..."
The emperor was stunned,
"What is he here to do?"
After thinking about it, I still ordered,
"Please enter the palace!"
The little eunuch withdrew, and soon the fat white man with one-eyed came in. Lu Bing immediately looked gloomy when he saw him.
"Yan Shifan, what are you here to do?"
Do you want to save Miao Zhenzi from sin?
This is the evidence of the crime. Even if Yan Donglou can turn the world around, Miao Zhenzi will not be able to escape this time!
Yan Shifan came in but no one saw him. He first gave a great gift to the emperor and praised him.
"Your Majesty, I heard that the alchemy room in the palace exploded, injured several people in the palace, and damaged several palaces. The other palaces and lofts were damaged to varying degrees. As the Minister of Works, I should share your worries for Your Majesty. Therefore, I came to the palace to investigate the scene for Your Majesty and start repairing it!"
"oh……"
Jiajing looked at Lu Bing after hearing this.
"Yan Qing, I am loyal to you!"
Yan Shifan's head hit the ground and replied,
Chapter completed!