"We haven't been out for a year under this cave, and God knows what's going on outside, maybe he's forgotten the promise he made to us. The lanky man pouted.

The tall man lifted his pants and looked angry, "It's really fucking enough, digging out so much iron every day, and not giving us any more big son, God knows how much money the Huang family has made with us over the years." ”

The thin man then packed up his clothes, turned his head and whispered to the tall man, "You mean that the owner behind this mine is the Huang family?

"Guess!" the tall man shrugged, with a look that still needed to be said, "Don't you want to think about it, in Yizhou Road, apart from the Huang family, who can have such a big force to transport us death row prisoners here to mine silently?"

The thin man didn't speak, his expression thoughtful.

The tall man suddenly approached him, and said mysteriously: "I don't know when I will be the leader this day, Lao Tzu has done enough, why don't we escape together?"

The thin man took a step back in fright, subconsciously looked left and right, and saw that there was no one around, so he patted his chest and said, "You are crazy, if people hear it, we won't be able to eat and walk around." ”

The tall man didn't care, "What are you afraid of, no one else hears it here." ”

"Have you forgotten that the man who carved the words on his face last month didn't want to escape? Seeing that he obviously didn't take his words to heart, the thin man quietly pointed in the direction.

Somewhere, there was a skinny, skinny man mechanically pounding a piece of iron, and a word of torture was engraved on his forehead.

The tall man pursed his lips, obviously remembering what happened to the man, and after a while, he muttered unwillingly, "I quietly stepped on it a few days ago, and from this road, there are all stone caves extending in all directions, maybe there will be a way out." ”

"Don't be stupid, those roads have been tried many times, and no one has escaped, and if there is an exit, they will be blocked by them. The thin man sighed deeply and pushed the tall man twice, "Let's go, let's continue to pick up pieces of iron, if you see us lazy for a while, I guess we will be whipped again." ”

The tall man was a little unwilling, and walked away step by step.

Silence returned to the cave, except for the faint sound of hammering iron ahead.

Song Yanzhao quietly withdrew from the stone path with Mu Jin in his arms, returned along the mark he had made on the original path, and quietly erased the mark.

He was very cautious all the way, listening carefully to the movements around him, but he was thinking about what had just happened.

He never thought that in this cave that extends in all directions, there is iron ore, and there are people who mine it behind their backs, and they organize death row prisoners to mine it.

According to the law of the Great Zhou Dynasty, iron ore, gold and silver ore should belong to the imperial court, and the imperial court should send troops to supervise and mine them in a unified manner.

The tall man was right, the person who could quietly cover up an iron mine, not report it to the imperial court, and bring the condemned prisoner here to mine, must be a person with a large influence on Yizhou Road, such a person, except for the southwest, there are not many people who can do this on Yizhou Road.

Could it really be that the southwest weather did it?

If so, where does the iron ore end up? What is the use of the iron that is smelted here? Sell it privately, make weapons for profit, or do you have some other use?

Song Yanzhao remembered that Yizhou Road had been using iron money over the years, and although the imperial court had promoted copper coins and gold and silver several times, they had never been circulated on Yizhou Road.

Does the coin minting division, which is responsible for minting iron coins, have anything to do with this?

Many mysteries are rolling back and forth in Song Yanzhao's heart, and he has secretly investigated himself in Chengdu Mansion for a long time before, and he only found evidence of the crime of corruption and lax governance of the army in the southwest, but these are not enough to punish the crime compared to the military exploits of the southwest.

Compared with the military exploits of the small countries in Lingnan in the southwest, these incriminating evidences are simply a speck in his vast military exploits.

But Song Yanzhao felt that what the Southwest Hou was doing behind his back was definitely more than that, otherwise, he would not have made a gesture to hand over the Southwest Army after he took over the Praetorian Guard, and then hid in the mansion, pretending not to ask everything on Yizhou Road.

It was precisely because of this speculation that he made the decision to visit the Southwest Hou Mansion at night, but he did not expect to fall into the trap of the Southwest Hou and fall into the snake venom.

Mu Jin went up the mountain to collect medicine in order to save him, but accidentally fell off the cliff, he jumped off the cliff in order to find Mu Jin, but by mistake found that there was a big article in the cave.

Maybe he can start from this iron mine, Song Yanzhao thought to himself, if it wasn't for looking for Mu Jin, he would definitely not jump off the cliff, if it wasn't for jumping off the cliff, he might never be able to discover the secret here.

It was the same last time in Jiangning, I accidentally hit and found the corpse in the cave of Lei Gong Mountain, and this time it is again, Mu Jin, this girl must be the noble person of his life!

The corners of Song Yanzhao's mouth curled, and he kissed softly under the smooth forehead of the person in his arms, and the eyes of the person in his arms were closed, as if he was asleep, and there was no movement.

Song Yanzhao hugged him tighter with pity, strode forward, and soon returned to the original fork in the road.

Standing at the fork in the road, he remembered that the thin man had said that there had been people running before, and he had not found a way out at all, his heart sank slightly, he took a deep breath, and rethought all the routes he had passed.

From the cliff in the back mountain to the cave, and then to the route here, he recalled it in his mind, and when he opened his eyes again, his eyes returned to clarity, and he decisively chose a direction to move forward.

There are still many forks in the road in this direction, but this time Song Yanzhao did not hesitate, but followed a certain pattern through it, and after walking for more than half an hour, he suddenly saw a dazzling light in front of him.

Song Yanzhao was a little excited in his heart, Mu Jin hadn't eaten for a few days, he could go out a moment earlier, and Mu Jin could be saved earlier.

He strode towards the light, and as he walked up, he found that the sunlight was shining through the thick cracks in the vines, forming several beams of light.

He squinted, and could even see the dust dancing in the pillar of light.

Holding Mu Jin half in his arms, he pushed away the vine in front of him little by little, the vine was very heavy, covered with slender spikes, and the stinging was very painful on the body.

Carefully avoiding those spikes to prevent them from stabbing Mu Jin, it took a lot of twists and turns, and finally opened the vine rose, and a narrow hole appeared in front of him.

Coming out of the hole, the sun was shining outside, and the flowers were scented everywhere!10