Chapter 521

The captain of the Personal Guards stated the shopkeeper's intention in one sentence.

"Shipments of high-quality ironware all need to be registered with the Personal Guards. You registered for high-quality, but what you shipped out was inferior.

We suspect you of smuggling high-quality ironware. Come back to the jail with us and explain it properly!"

The shopkeeper fell to his knees with a thud.

Smuggling high-quality ironware?

This charge was not light; it was equivalent to selling superior weapons to an enemy country.

Those who dared to do this were mostly spies from enemy countries.

Qin Mu began to take this matter seriously.

High-quality ironware could circulate unimpeded within Great Qin; there was simply no need to smuggle it.

Only those that needed to be transported out of the country would be smuggled.

But there were exit inspections everywhere at the borders; how could this high-quality ironware be transported out?

If it couldn't be transported out, why would the shopkeeper smuggle it?

Leading ten thousand people to kneel and worship.

There must be something wrong somewhere!

At this moment, the Personal Guard commander Zhang Xian came over.

He was a subordinate general of Yue Fei and recognized Qin Mu, his whole body jolting. He jumped off his horse, knelt on one knee directly, and performed a military salute.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

Your Majesty?

The team of Personal Guards behind Zhang Xian were all shocked and knelt on one knee in unison.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

This shout was mighty and majestic, shaking half the street.

Consequently, half the street was stunned.

Your Majesty?

Wu Li Ke ripples, the common people began to kneel and pay homage one after another from a center point.

The shouts surged Wu Li Ke a tide, continuous and endless.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!"

For ordinary common people, being lucky enough to see the Emperor once was worth bragging about for a lifetime.

Moreover, the one they saw was Qin Mu, the eternal Emperor with achievements that were unprecedented and unparalleled!

Excited and thrilled, some even fainted on the spot.

The sounds from further away were still coming continuously, sounding a bit blurry.

"Greet...ings... Your Majesty!"

This momentum moved everyone present, and the common people were moved by their own voices. They had never imagined that the mountain-shaking shouts of ten thousand people could be so heart-stirring!

Qin Mu was also moved; he heard the love of these people for him in their shouts.

Facing these subjects who loved him, Qin Mu said only one sentence.

"Mighty is Great Qin, the Holy Dao prevails over the world!"

Zhang Xian immediately ordered the Personal Guards behind him to repeat this sentence three times in unison.

"Mighty is Great Qin, the Holy Dao prevails over the world!"

This sentence was Qin Mu's summary of Great Qin.

It told the world that Great Qin was walking the path of the Holy Dao.

The Holy Dao is Wu Li Ke dancing with a shield and axe, showing the world a dance of blades and shields, putting virtue first while maintaining military deterrence!

Tens of thousands of people in the West Market followed and roared.

"Mighty is Great Qin, the Holy Dao prevails over the world!"

Amidst the giant roars, the crowd was agitated, deeply proud of the current style of Great Qin!

Incredibly proud to have such an Emperor!

Qin Mu didn't Wu Li Ke sensationalism very much; after saying this, he let the people turn their inner voices toward the shopkeeper.

How could the shopkeeper know that this person was the Emperor on an incognito visit?

He was scared out of his wits!

Kneeling on the ground, he kowtowed repeatedly to beg for mercy.

"Your Majesty, this humble commoner has a loose tongue and offended you just now. I beg Your Majesty to forgive me!" What Qin Mu wanted to ask was not about the offense, but the crimes the shopkeeper had committed in secret.

"I ask you, to which country were you planning to sell the high-quality ironware you hid?"

"This..."

After being roared at.

The shopkeeper instinctively didn't want to say.

But after hesitating for only a moment, he spoke.

In front of the Great Qin Emperor, feeling the overwhelming pressure, his defenses collapsed instantly. "Replying to Your Majesty, those... high-quality ironware were to be sold to Tianzhu."

"Tianzhu?"

Qin Mu understood immediately.

Tianzhu was vigorously developing agriculture, and the demand for high-quality farm tools was very large. Therefore, there might be more loopholes, making it impossible to supervise every single item.

"Transported to Tianzhu, and then brought back to Great Tang through the Great Tang fleet?"

The shopkeeper was already shaking Wu Li Ke chaff from fear.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me! This humble commoner was only following orders from above, just to transport the high-quality ironware to Tianzhu.

The rest of the matter has nothing to do with this humble commoner!"

Qin Mu already had a rough understanding of the matter.

They wanted to use the loophole of Tianzhu to secretly transport Great Qin's high-quality ironware back.

But the Embroidered Uniform Guard in Jiangnan had not reported this matter.

This meant that these high-quality ironwares were not being sold as farm tools among the people in Jiangnan.

Since they weren't being sold, the greatest possibility was that they were being transported to a secret place and reforged into weapons!

"Whose servant are you?"

The shopkeeper had long since been scared out of his wits and said whatever came to mind.

"Replying to Your Majesty, this humble commoner is a person of the Changsun family. I have been running a shop in this West Market since the Great Tang period."

Shen Wansan had acquired eight or nine out of ten aristocratic shops, and there were still some that refused to sell.

It seems this was one of them.

That old fox Empress Zhangsun Zhangsun Wuji was truly calculating.

He had planted such a shop here, and finally, he had put it to use.

.......Begging for flowers...0

Qin Mu turned his head and swept a faint glance at those few foreigners.

"You, which country are you from? How do you not know the Great Qin Law?"

After arguing for so long, those few foreigners had also understood long ago.

They were not entirely innocent in being cheated this time.

"Your Majesty, we are Byzantine merchants. Because of the war, our country is in urgent need of high-quality ironware.

This time, seeing that there was high-quality ironware openly sold in Changancheng, we wanted to buy it back to our country to forge into weapons.

We really didn't know the Great Qin Law!"

This group of foreigners was quite honest and confessed very clearly.

They even talked about the pressure of the war in their country.

Great Qin was the only one in the world that could smelt high-quality ironware.

Any country would covet such high-quality ironware.

It's just that these foreigners didn't know that even if they bought this high-quality ironware, they couldn't take it back.

"Considering this is your first offense, all goods will be confiscated. You may go."

It was just confiscated Wu Li Ke that?