After confirming the seal's loss, the clerk truly didn't dare take on the responsibility for losing the nation's Ministry of War Seal. After all, this could be a crime of beheading and confiscating one's property.
So he simply found the spare box for storing the seal and stuffed it with five hundred copper coins.
This way, when the person in charge of keeping the travel seal returns and finds the weight unchanged, he wouldn't open the box to check whether the seal is still inside.
When the group returned to the Imperial Capital, the clerk had dinner with his friend who managed the warehouse and disclosed the insider details.
This person, also a reckless individual, for the fifty taels of silver given by the clerk, signed off on the travel seal without opening the box to verify when it was put into storage.
Finally, the already lost travel seal was just senselessly sent into the warehouse inside its box.
