Chapter 19 The dispatch of the Nanban

"It's sunny and cloudless, it's really a good weather!" Wei Dong sighed loudly as he sat leisurely in the prisoner car.

"You kid is still in the mood to drop that half-pulled schoolbag, we are all dying of thirst!" Many people in the prison car complained to Wei Dong.

"Brothers, uncles, I think that good weather is better than rain! It's winter now, and if it rains, it will definitely freeze!" Wei Dong hurriedly explained to the people next to him.

"Boom, boom!" Immediately thunder rang out in the sky, and a heavy rain fell in an instant.

"Is this boy a crow?" the crowd complained helplessly.

"Ah, can there be thunder in winter? You can't blame me! At least now everyone won't be thirsty!" Wei Dong's mind was also a little short-circuited at this time.

"Boy, shut up, shut up!" Everyone was so frightened that they quickly covered Wei Dong's mouth, "This kid is really 'Wei Dazui', you have to quickly plug that stinky mouth." ”

can't blame everyone's fierce reaction, every time Wei Dong says something unlucky along the way, it will come true, this has already earned the name of 'Wei Dazui'.

Wei Dong shrank aggrievedly in the corner of the prisoner cart, the top of which had been covered with a straw mat to protect from the rain. The mood of everyone also began to stabilize, and seeing that Wei Dong was young, they did not embarrass him again. They are all fallen people at the end of the world, and what they need more at this time is to take care of each other in order to meet the suffering they are about to face.

Twenty days ago, Wei Dong was dozing off in the haystack of his cell. Suddenly, he received a holy decree, the content of which was: God has the virtue of a good life, exempt Wei Dong from capital crimes, reduce him to slavery and serve as labor, and send him to the Nanban border mine for mining.

These days, the farther and farther south, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, Wei Dong only then felt the vastness of the Dajin Kingdom, and heard that he had to travel more than half the way to reach his destination.

There were twenty-five prisoner wagons in the group, each of which held about ten people, and a total of nearly three hundred slaves. They are poor civilians, who cannot afford to pay their debts, and they are willing to slave themselves. They are all poor people who have been charged to Nanban to mine, and they will never have the chance to return to Kyoto, and it is their fate to die in a foreign land.

Everyone in the prison car knew their fate in the future, and Wei Dong was also planning for the future at this time.

I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't come up with an ugly person. Forget it, if you come to it, you can only take one step at a time.

After driving slowly forward for nearly 20 days or so, he finally entered the Lingnan boundary. It is full of hills, dirt slopes, and the terrain is rugged and potholes, making it extremely difficult for prisoner trucks to drive. Anyway, it was not far from the mine, so nearly 300 slaves were escorted by 100 soldiers to go on foot.

The mountain roads were rough and the trees were messy, and it was easy for people who were not familiar with the roads to get lost, and there was even more miasma in the woods, so the soldiers were not afraid that anyone would run away.

But the escape still happened. On the fourth day of entering Lingnan, two days away from their destination, three slaves escaped while pooping and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

The soldiers did not shout or chase, but only gathered their personnel and distributed 'bitter tea'. It is said that this is a kind of antidote often used by local people to prevent miasma, and the taste is extremely bitter but can quench thirst and detoxify.

Wei Dong held a small bag of 'bitter tea', thought of the three people who had just fled, shook his head and sighed, "No wonder those soldiers didn't chase after them, I'm afraid they didn't have good intentions!"

The mood of the crowd was very low, perhaps because of the thought that the three escapees were dying, or because they were about to enter the mine in two days, which was rumored to be purgatory on earth!

After nearly two months, I finally came to the southernmost Tujing Mine Cave in Dajin Country-Panlong Mine Cave. Earth crystal is the mineral needed by the 'gods', and the Panlong Mine Cave is not just a mine, but a defensive fortress in the southernmost part of the Dajin Kingdom, which is to prevent the invasion of the Southern Barbarians.

From a distance, the mountains are treacherous, and there is a clear difference from the small hills next to it. Defensive fortresses built against the mountains are scattered throughout the mountain range, like a coiled dragon. At the foot of the hill is the location of the mine, where two large towers stand, which are firmly guarding the gates of the mine and checking the entry and exit of outsiders.

The mine's supervisor, General Chen, who was the chief soldier of the entire mine fortress, gave a brief welcome speech to the new slaves, but his words were full of threats and intimidation.

After finishing the speech, the distribution of personnel began. Although Wei Dong was young, his body shape already had the physique of an ordinary adult, so he was assigned to Group C of Tianzihao. Although the labor intensity is very high, the conditions for food and accommodation are significantly higher than those of the local brand.

Wei Dong's cultivation at this time was already in the middle of the third realm, and he could easily lift two or three thousand catties of objects with his arms, which was not a big labor intensity for him.

The leader of Group C is a middle-aged slave surnamed Guo who treats his subordinates very harshly. The slaves in the mine were divided into three thousand-strong teams: heaven, earth, and man, among which the Tianzi was the most powerful, and the earth and human were slightly behind. Each 1,000-man team was divided into four groups: A, B, C, and D, each with 200 to 300 slaves.

Wei Dong's Group C has added thirty new slaves this time, for a total of two hundred and eighty people. has become one of the largest groups, and Team Leader Guo is even more triumphant today, showing off his might in front of Wei Dong and other newcomers.

"You are all newcomers, there are some things that General Chen has just said at the gate, I won't repeat them!" "Team Leader Guo stood in front of the newcomer and said loudly, "As long as you work hard, the food and accommodation conditions here are still very good, and there is also the accumulation of points here, as long as you perform well, you can be promoted, you can be promoted to a team leader like me, or even a captain, and if you perform particularly well, you can return your slave certificate and let you go back." ”

At this point, the slaves below were already whispering with joy. Team Leader Guo looked at the reaction below with satisfaction, waved his fist, and said, "Then let's work hard!"

At this time, General Chen was holding a letter in his study, and scolded disdainfully, "Phew! It's good to die!

It turned out that he had just received a secret letter from the capital, "The emperor has died!" The holy queen is pregnant, and she is about to give birth to an heir, if it is a man, she will be made emperor, and the holy queen will hang the curtain, and if it is a woman, then the holy queen will be on the verge of court. ’

"Alas, the great country is going to make people!" General Chen sighed, "Because no matter who is in the dynasty now, it is not General Chen's favorite", "It was all caused by Li Jianmin's brute!"

"Well, General Chen noticed that there was still a letter in the envelope of the secret letter, and he shook it out and looked at it carefully, 'Oh, I see!'