It was actually late at night when Mao Sui entered the palace, but when Zhao Dan was asleep, he got up and summoned Mao Sui as soon as possible.

Mao Sui's eyes were covered with blood, but he was extremely excited. He respectfully presented the materials in his hand to Zhao Dan: "Please look, this is the confession I received after interrogating Mu Mo and Guo Kai."

After taking the material, Zhao Dan immediately noticed a small red dot on the white paper. After pausing for a moment, Zhao Dan did not say anything, but looked at the confession.

As he looked, the expression on Zhao Dan's face gradually became solemn.

Things are much worse than Zhao Dan himself imagined.

In recent years, due to the official squeeze of the Guo family's ironware production, a large number of ironware produced in the Guo family's ironware workshops have been unsold.

Under such circumstances, Guo Kai did not reduce production, but quietly transported the unsold iron tools to the Zhao-Qin border to trade with the Qin people.

The specific transportation route is to transport east and west from Handan to Jinyang, then from Jinyang to Lishi, and finally cross the Yellow River to smuggle to Shangjun.

It is worth mentioning that these iron tools are not just agricultural tools, but also a large number of iron weapons.

Although there is definitely a gap between the iron weapons in the Guo family workshop compared to the refined iron weapons improved by the official smelter of Zhao State, Guo Kai will definitely not be able to escape the charge of smuggling weapons.

According to Guo Kai's confession, over the years, the Guo family has smuggled weapons and armor that can equip 40,000 people to the Qin State, especially in the past two years, the Qin State's demand for these weapons and equipment has reached its peak.

Zhao Dan knew why. Qin State lost two major iron ore production areas and smelting bases in Yiyang and Nanyang in recent years, so the iron production capacity in Qin State has shrunk so much.

Although the Qin army mainly relies on bronze weapons to conquer the world, this does not mean that the Qin people have no demand for iron tools.

Although Guo Kai's smuggling amount was very huge, it was not too unexpected to Zhao Dan's expectations. After all, after Guo Kai escaped, Mao Sui immediately arrested Guo Kai's large number of confidants who had no time to escape, and from their mouths he also had enough understanding of the smuggling business.

What really made Zhao Dan feel sad was that from Handan to Jinyang, he had to pass through several counties of Zhao along the way. At the normal speed, it took about a month to go through countless Zhao checkpoints.

But even in this situation, the smuggling business that Guo Kai did was quietly hidden from Zhao Dan, the king of Zhao State for several years. Even the supervisors who set up Miao Xian, who were responsible for monitoring Zhao's domestic situation, were unaware of anything.

What does this mean? This means that not only the officials of Zhao State along the way may be the beneficiaries and participants of this smuggling line, but also means that the supervisory guards have been completely infiltrated and have not played the supervisory function they should have in this matter!

Zhao Dan put down Guo Kai's confession with a gloomy expression and picked up another confession from Miao Mo.

Miao Mo is one of the many adopted sons of Miao Xian, the founder of the Supervisory Guard. He is also an insider of the Supervisory Guard. He is also responsible for the supervision affairs of the Datong Iron Mine Smelter in Zhao State. Such a guy's confession will definitely tell more about the situation inside the Supervisory Guard.

Zhao Dan was not wrong at all.

In Miao Mo's confession, it not only clearly explained how many officials in the supervision guard helped Guo Kai conceal this matter, but also told me how Mu Mo secretly stole secret recipes from the smelter in recent years and sold them to Guo Kai at a high price, thus allowing the Guo family's ironware workshop smelting technology to continue to improve.

However, the money sent by Guo Kai was actually not enough to make Mu Mo squander during the two months he returned to Handan every year, so Mu Mo came up with another move, which was to make a deal with the Huns.

As the people of the grassland, the Huns, who had no smelting technology, were very eager for the iron tools of Zhao. For this reason, they did not hesitate to send a large amount of precious medicinal materials to Miao Mo. Miao Mo then took these precious medicinal materials in Handan and made a big profit.

Miaomo's trading objects were very wide, covering all major tribes of the Huns. Even the current Huns Longqi Shanyu were Miaomo's trading objects.

What shocked Zhao Dan was that in the past few years, more than 50,000 pieces of iron weapons and armor were secretly sold to the Huns by Miao Mo, enough to equip a unit of 20,000 people.

"It turns out that this is how the Huns were able to defeat Donghu..." Zhao Dan suddenly understood.

Logically speaking, the Huns should have risen only a few decades later, but with the large number of weapons and armor sold by Miao Mo, the Huns' equipment level made a great leap forward, so they were able to defeat the two powerful enemies of Donghu and Yuezhi so early in advance.

Seeing the materials, Zhao Dan had already included Guo Kai and Miao Mo in the dead.

It is very rare to be able to collude with enemies and sell off the country to this level.

Zhao Dan suppressed the anger in his heart and continued to watch.

In the following content, the main content is the list of supervisory officials who had an affair with Guo Kai and the Huns, as well as local officials, as explained by Guo Kai and Miao Mo.

The list was densely filled with long lists, and at a rough look, there were at least hundreds of them.

What made Zhao Dan even more angry was that there were at least hundreds of people in the supervision guards just about the list involved in Miao Mo's confession.

This supervisory guard has been penetrated into a sieve!

It is not just the supervisory guard, but also the number of local Siko officials who were bribed.

Obviously, Guo Kai used Siko and Zhao Bao's guise to open many convenient doors in the local area. It can even be said that many people turned a blind eye to what Guo Kai did because of Zhao Bao's face.

"Bastard!" Zhao Dan finally couldn't bear it anymore and punched heavily on the table in front of him.

After several minutes, Zhao Dan calmed down his mood and said in a deep voice: "Mao Sui!"

Mao Sui did not dare to neglect and said loudly: "I am here!"

Zhao Dan took the paper and pen, wrote a warrant on it, and then took out his seal and stamped it heavily.

"Mao Sui, you hold this order and ask the Yulin Army to transfer 500 people to you, and then ask the local government to cooperate to take down all the people on this confession by me and take them back to Handan for interrogation!"

Mao Sui was overjoyed. You must know that Zhao Dan's meaning was obviously to bypass Si Kou and Zhao Bao and hand it over to Mao Sui to handle it.

As long as Mao Sui completes this matter, it will definitely be a great achievement.

So when Mao Sui took the warrant from Zhao Dan, his voice even became a little trembling due to excitement.
Chapter completed!