Volume VIII 1306 Golden Rebellion Army

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Wealth can stimulate the morale of the army, but wealth can also weaken the morale of the army, especially the too large wealth in front of the soldiers after the bloody battle, these soldiers who were still fighting bravely to kill the enemy a second ago, but now they have a different mind.

Gold, silver, and all kinds of jewelry were carried down one after another in front of the soldiers' eyes, and due to the tight time and heavy tasks, the Russian army did not have too many boxes to hold these gold and silver ingots, and most of the time they used open ammunition boxes to transport gold ingots down the mountain.

In the panic, the people forgot to cover the lid, the gold was shining in the flames of war, and the light could not be pulled out when it shone into the eyes of the soldiers, and the sound of soldiers swallowing saliva was everywhere along the way to transport the gold.

"How much do you think we'll get when we turn around?" asked a soldier in a whisper.

"God knows, but the commander said that the soldiers who broke through the enemy's fortress would be rewarded with a kilogram of gold!"

"Fart, where is a kilogram, I just saw these gold ingots, they are all ten kilograms of casting, it should be ten kilograms per person!"

Soon, someone joined in the discussion: "Don't talk nonsense, everyone gives ten kilograms? We have invested a total of 10,000 troops in that wave of charge just now, can we divide 100,000 kilograms of gold? Tell you the truth, these gold are all His Majesty's, the empire's finances are very tight, I am afraid that this gold will be shipped directly to the City of London, to finance, to pay off debts......"

The atmosphere suddenly became strange, if the gold was dedicated to the Tsar, then it was easy to say that the soldiers' feelings could be stabilized, but when they heard that the gold was going to be sent directly to London, the financial center of Europe, to give to the British, they were immediately unhappy.

"Why should we give our gold to those damned pirates, who are not rich in their occupation of the trade routes of the seas, greedy vampires!"

In this era, the education penetration rate in Russia was still very low, not only could not be compared with southern Europe, but even compared with the Qing Dynasty, these soldiers who had just gotten rid of serfdom were loyal and brave, but their brains were really not flattering.

They don't know what a bank loan is, they don't know what a state bond is, they don't understand the complicated interest rate, and what is state credit? Can they eat it or not?

This knowledge is completely alien to them, and they only understand a question with the most simple emotions, how can the gold we have robbed with our lives be given to foreigners in vain?

Little did they know that the Tsar had already drained the treasury in order to buy them slaves, and had borrowed heavily from European bankers, and that Tsarist Russia was already in a financial crisis.

Exxon didn't know that rumors spread among the population like a deadly virus, and that the more gold was brought down the mountain, the more the deadly virus spread, and in the end almost 20,000 Russian troops in Tangwanshan were talking about it.

The eyes of the people looking at the gold became more and more unkind, and the morale suddenly turned into a wave of anger at this moment.

Why should the gold we have exchanged our lives for nothing be given to foreigners?

Where is the reward promised in advance? Didn't you say that you should give gold?

This is all the gold of His Majesty the Tsar, are these officers going to be corrupt?

Damn, why is there so much gold, why can't it be shipped out?

Once the grass grows in people's hearts, it will go crazy and keep flying, plus Xiao Letian has hidden a lot of gold, and it has been transported for an hour, but there is no sign of running out.

The simple-minded soldiers were about to cry in distress, they never dreamed that there would be so much wealth! Many people were so anxious that they were about to cry, as if the gold was going to be delivered to the pockets of the British in the next second.

Under the influence of this complicated situation, the soldiers who attacked the fortress and the fortifications on the top of the mountain suddenly changed greatly, and the attack was no longer sharp, and several charges that were obviously able to break through were beaten back by the counter-charge of the Chinese, and the war bear suddenly turned into sheep.

It's a pity that Ackerson and the others have fallen into the joy of great wealth, and they are not aware of the psychological fluctuations of the soldiers.

He was completely unable to understand the thirst for wealth of the poor, just like a beggar who had never had enough to eat in his life and was always struggling to starve to death suddenly encountered a big meal, and the greed for food could not be described in words.

These young people from serfdom, from their childhood, childhood, and youth, grew up in a state of extreme poverty, not to mention that they had never seen gold, and they had never eaten enough.

Children who grow up in this environment, at first glance, see such a huge amount of wealth, it is simply impossible to resist the greed in their hearts, once the greed rises, it will make them forget their tasks, forget their current identity, and forget what they should do.

The night was dark, cloudy, there was no moon or stars in the sky, and in an era when humans could not use electricity, lighting could only rely on flames. The terrain of Tangwan Mountain is complex and covers a vast area, even if there are 20,000 people and two torches, it cannot illuminate this mountain.

The team transporting the gold soon had an accident, first someone stepped on the gravel, and the cannonball box carried by the two men was suddenly overturned, and the heavy gold nuggets were scattered on the ground with a crisp crashing sound.

"Damn, how do you walk?

"I'm sorry sir! It's so dark here that I can't see the road under my feet......" As the soldier explained, no one noticed that in the darkness he suddenly stretched out a hand, pinched a gold ingot, and dragged it into the bushes, and no one noticed it.

After a while, in the small forest not far from the mountain road, under the light of a kerosene lamp, the three soldiers greedily looked at the gold ingot in front of them.

"Ten kilograms! each of us will have a large piece, which will be enough for us to go home and buy a lot of fields in the future......"

"But how are we supposed to take it? We have to go to war in the Far East, and this thing is so big and heavy, how are we going to get it on the ship?"

"You're stupid! find a place to bury it, anyway, in the future, this island will also belong to our Russia, find a chance to dig it up again!"

"That's right, you're still smart, hurry up and dig a pit and hide the gold......"

Just as the three of them were digging a pit, one of them suddenly said, "Wait, why do you hide only one piece of gold? If you steal it once, why don't you steal it three times? Why don't you have a piece of gold? Why don't you share a piece of gold among three people?"

I'm stupid, gold is like a mountain, and it looks like it will be transported at least until dawn, so why should we hide a piece?

The three of them glanced at each other, smiled, turned their heads and slipped into the night again.

This is the mentality of the poor man who is getting rich, he must release half of his life's greed, at this time there is no reason to speak of, and military law has long been thrown into the Pacific Ocean.