That is to say, this iron mine produces eighty thousand jin of pig iron every year.
Yet when the scrap iron increases, the amount of normal iron decreases—could someone be mixing normal iron into the scrap to sell it?
Perhaps Fourth Brother discovered this and was murdered for it.
But just selling some pig iron for personal gain shouldn't be enough to kill someone.
No, wait, this is iron we're talking about!
Who would buy pig iron on such a large scale?
And from what I see in these accounts, this trade has been going on for more than a year. Who needs such a continual supply of pig iron?
Chen Jie pondered and then said to Zhou Chu, "Let's go, Old Zhou, grab the ledger, we're heading to North Mountain Iron Mine."
"Alright."
Zhou Chu didn't know what Chen Jie had discovered but carried the ledger and left the house.
At this moment, the Twelve Eagle Guards followed, and the whole group headed straight to North Mountain Iron Mine.
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