Chapter Seventy-Five: The Gold Mine
Rajah? Or the king of Koshizawa?
The real reason for the defeat at Shunyang Pass last year was that it was impossible for it to be widely spread outside because it involved the emperor's relatives and relatives, and because it was too embarrassing.
However, Ruan Bai has his back against a leader of Shunyang Pass and a prince of Pingxi, and he knows some inside information.
King Yue Ze actually looked about the same age as Chu Hao, and he thought that King Yue Ze was a little old man like his emperor brother.
Ruan Bai turned his head to look at the young man's natural baby face, and at this time, facing Chu Hao's lack of confidence, he even became cautious in his gaze, as if he would jump into the rabbit hole at any time.
Chu Hao glanced at Ruan Bai helplessly and sighed silently. How could his second dog get lost casually and provoke such a No. 1 person? Last time, too, I was able to recognize a sworn brother when I wrote a letter.
But now is not the time to entangle Ruan Bai's physique, but ......
"Your Highness, this should not be your fiefdom." King Koshizawa's fief is near this area, but it's not here.
The candlestick shook violently and almost fell to the ground. King Koshizawa stammered and explained, "This king ...... This king has bought, bought. ”
Of course, it is possible to buy land.
Chu Hao asked so much, not to question the legitimacy of King Yue Ze's ownership of the land, but mostly for the little bit of sour vinegar that remained in his heart.
"In this case, the ministers will retire first."
Of course, Ruan Bai is included.
King Yue Ze looked at Ruan Bai and saluted him, feeling that a friend he had finally made was gone.
Of course, there will be no friends in the palace. Who could he consider a friend in that kind of place? Who can consider him a friend?
As for his gradual growth, he is a powerless and powerless prince, but he has an empty title. The only thing I can do is to be careful and not make mistakes. It wasn't until he reassured the imperial brother that he picked a place that was not bad, and he took care of his own life, so as not to fulfill anyone's wish to "be killed by the Huns by accident" or something.
A teenager who knows that he can have such a horse will definitely not be simple, and it will not have anything to do with his ordinary background; But when he saw Ruan Bai who had entered the passage yesterday, he still couldn't help but be a fellow practitioner......
It's a pity that Ruan Bai asked him to go to his house to play just now.
Ruan Bai looked at King Yue Ze, who was hiding in the corner and couldn't see his expression clearly, and suddenly asked, "Ah Qing, why don't you send me?" ”
When he came in, he didn't take this road. Obsidian is still on the other side.
Yesterday, he just wanted to find someone to ask for directions, and followed the traces of people's activities all the way, but he didn't expect to find traces of the mechanism. It's not a trap for hunters to catch their prey, it's a real trap. He was suddenly interested, relying on himself to be half an expert, and he touched such a ...... Well, a rabbit hole with a tortoise shell on its back.
Although the owner of the rabbit hole is timid, the little rabbit is obedient, opens the door, and is quite hospitable to people.
When the cowardly rabbit Yue Zewang heard Ruan Bai's words, he raised his head sharply in disbelief, blinked his eyes twice, opened his mouth but couldn't speak. Didn't Ruan Bai know that he was the king of Yueze? Why do you still call him Aqing? Can they still be friends?
Chu Hao held Ruan Bai's hand tightly, and said in a low voice, "Don't mess around." Even if he only got a glimpse of this bunker now, he knew that the people who built it were not simple. According to his understanding of Ruan Bai, the person who designed and built this bunker for Ruan Bai to make Ruan Bai so "familiar at first sight" must be King Yue Ze.
But what if King Yue Ze has an unknown talent in this regard? No matter how small and transparent King Yue Ze is in the royal family, he is also the younger brother of the current emperor. Especially when the emperor's little old man ascended the throne, it was not smooth sailing, and the bloody wind and rain in the middle directly damaged the prince at that time, plus the suppression of the vassal kings in various places over the years......
Don't look at a dragon chair, these people can fight to the death; But when necessary, if you don't know the so-called blood and family, you can also make a good fuss.
In short, it is better to deal less with such people.
The muddy waters in the capital, he didn't want his second dog to get involved at all.
Ruan Bai looked at Chu Hao's unprecedentedly stern expression, then looked at his rabbit friend, and said, "Big Fat and Obsidian are still inside." ”
King Yue Ze's eyes lit up, and he said smoothly for the first time after seeing Chu Hao: "Come with me?" ”
Chu Hao took a deep breath: "Bother the prince to lead the way." ”
"No, don't bother." King Yue Ze waited carefully for the three people and one dog to follow, and then turned around and walked into the real bunker.
After walking a short distance, the cave opened up and even grew brighter.
Ruan Bai had already seen this scene, and he also knew that the principle of refraction was used. Looking at the huge cave completely inside the belly of the mountain, there are actually various intricate passages to the outside, some are vents, some are old and maze, and some are serious passages.
King Yue Ze showed him that there were some fixed or semi-fixed copper sheets distributed in some passages, which could bring in light from the outside world, and it should be dawn outside.
Unlike the candlestick, which is a little bit of a fire, these rays from the outside world quickly illuminate the inside of the bunker. Stone rooms, paths, and even neat patches of farmland, and even some corners have been planted with seedlings and flowers. A small river runs through it like a crescent moon, and there are a few lotus leaves floating on it.
It's not a big place, and it's not exquisite. In the eyes of Chu Hao, who is accustomed to seeing carved beams and paintings, this place really doesn't look like a royal family lives.
Ruan Bai leaned into Chu Hao's ear and whispered, "It's all Ah Qing alone, it's amazing, right?" "There's also a hot spring pool in there!
Chu Hao couldn't believe it: "Alone?!" He subconsciously felt that it was impossible.
It can be seen that the stone chambers and the like that are now presented in front of them are all rebuilt on the basis of the original cave. The farmland is quite natural, but the stone chambers are all flat and neat, and even have rounded corners! Not to mention King Yue Ze alone, there are hundreds of laborers, and it is also a big project to make it what it is now.
Ruan Bai knew that he didn't believe it: "I'll tell you when I go back." "King Yue Ze is a humanoid treasure mountain, which is extremely worth excavating.
Also through a zigzag road, much smoother and wider than the one that Chu Hao came in before, obsidian was already waiting at the door, and when the group walked out, Ruan Bai turned around and greeted King Yue Ze: "Ah Qing, I'll come to play with you in two days!" ”
King Yue Ze was stunned: "Ah......" and then replied loudly, "Okay! ”
Ruan Bai gave the obsidian to Chu Hao and urged him to hurry back to the barracks. He went around a circle and took Chu Hao and Zhang Daniu to find their two horses.
It didn't take long for the genius to dawn at this time, and according to the speed of obsidian, Chu Hao would not be late for long even if he was late when he returned to the barracks.
Chu Hao looked at Ruan Bai and let out a long sigh.
Obsidian didn't know why, snorted, and seeing that Chu Hao didn't have any instructions, he began to let go of his speed after trotting a few steps.
When Chu Hao rushed back, he was left alone in the General's Mansion.
Mu Qianhu's ridicule came as soon as he opened his mouth: "It seems that Chu Qianhu is tired, let us wait for this old bone." ”
Chu Hao didn't even bother to deal with him, he just saluted General Cao, made amends, and then joined the pre-war deployment meeting.
With the advancement of time, the movement on the grassland side changes three times a day, and the financing of various military funds on its side also needs to be updated in real time. Speaking of his logistics, he has unknowingly been taken over by Ruan Bai, and he is much better than several other thousands of households in terms of quantity and quality. Of course, some of them were secretly made by Nguyen Bai, such as a small number of medical kits, and he is currently stepping up his training for his subordinates......
Obviously, when he should be so busy that he hit the back of his head, Ruan Bai can still be idle to find children to play with or something, and he also found King Yue Ze!
General Cao originally wanted to ask Chu Hao about the medical kit, but when he looked up, he found that Chu Hao's face was not an ordinary hideous face, and he turned a corner: "Everyone, please look at this thing......" Forget it, let him explain.
The medical kit is very small, no better than the one Ruan Bai prepared for Chu Hao, and it can be called a necessary artifact for killing people and setting fire on home travel. There was only a roll of sterilized bandages, some first-aid medicine such as gold sore medicine. But the role, there is no need for General Cao to specifically explain, the people sitting here are all veterans who have accumulated years, and there is nothing they don't understand.
Mu Qianhu was the first to shine and said, "This is a good thing!" With this, then how many fewer brothers do we have to die! ”
General Cao handed over the medical kit to everyone and said, "Although this medical kit is simple, you must know how it works. It's just that this thing doesn't look worth much, but if the whole army is equipped with one...... We don't have a lot of money for this. Cao had already handed over the fold to the imperial court, but the big battle in front of him was too late. ”
The medical kit has been passed on in everyone's hands, and the generals who originally looked at it all had glowing faces after seeing it, and their faces were stunned when they heard this, and then they were also helpless. The situation in Shunyang Guanzhong, no one knows better than them. Don't look at their usual life, but once they start a war, they can't afford to consume it at all.
If there was no such thing as Ruan Bai yesterday, Chu Hao might not have squeaked. Don't look at the fact that he has climbed to the position of a thousand households, and he still carries the identity of a prince who has almost been picked out, but in the military camp, these are useless, the key is to talk about qualifications. He has shallow qualifications, and it is not his turn to speak here.
But in the end, there is still a breath in the chest that can't be flattened, not to mention that Shunyang Pass is poor, but there is no army in the entire Great Zhou that is not poor. The annual expenditure allocated by the imperial court to the army has never been sufficient, and from the imperial court to the localities, layer by layer, how much is really left to raise troops?
But no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor enough for the few people sitting here. Not to mention anything else, one by one, thousands of households, is there anyone full of people under their names? Not a single one! But there are a lot of cases. All this extra part went into the pockets of these people.
Poor? Lao Tzu lets you know what it means to be poor! The mouths are said to be good, reluctant to bleed the soldiers, in fact, reluctant to bleed in their own purses!
"General Cao, I don't know how much this medical kit is worth?"
General Cao reported a number: "The rest is not troublesome, but this gold sore medicine, such a large amount is not easy to get." ”
Chu Hao nodded: "My subordinates have a reluctant request, I am willing to spend some money to equip my subordinates with this medical kit, too many are not good, it is still okay to have one for every ten people." ”
At the beginning of spring, he accepted more than 400 recruits, plus the original three or four hundred, almost 800 people. Not counting the larger number of auxiliaries, if these 800 people alone are to be matched, at least 80. There is always wear and tear in a war, and a complete set of at least a hundred sets is required, and in addition, the various medicines in it must be prepared at least three to five times the amount...... Roughly calculated, it is not a small amount.
Someone has to come forward for everything. Rising birds are always beaten.
But this time, none of the people present dared to fight. In terms of identity, whether the people are thousands of households, or the thousands of households with the most people under their hands; In terms of status, they are the real prince of Pingxi, and they will be the ironclad king of Pingxi in the future, to put it bluntly, their entire Shunyang Pass is on the territory of the king of Pingxi; In terms of force value, can anyone in the entire military camp beat Chu Hao?
That's not counting the master who has a general!
Therefore, this early bird should be a pawn. It's good if Chu Hao doesn't come to beat them, how can they beat him? Now it's just a little blood, and it's not impossible to grit your teeth, it's a big deal to find it from somewhere else.
As a result, the atmosphere lagged behind, and the rest of the generals said that they were also willing to look up to Chu Hao and buy medical kits out of their own pockets.
General Cao was very happy. He didn't mind matching his Cao family's army. His subordinates are all elite soldiers, and they are distressed when they die. It's just that Ruan Bai tossed out the medicine kit too late, and the problem for him now is not that he has no money to buy it, but that he can't produce so many things for a while if he has money.
Why don't he go talk to Ruan Bai at noon? By the way, you can rub a lunch meal.
If the noon time is too short to talk, we can talk about it in the evening, and by the way, we can have another dinner.
Well, that's it!
Ruan Bai was still riding slowly on the mountain road at this time, with a purpose that Zhang Daniu didn't understand at all, turning here and there, making Zhang Daniu's eyes dizzy.
"My lord, why don't we hurry back?"
"There's nothing to do when you go back, isn't it too early?" He had to look and try to build a road from his house to the gold mine/King Koshizawa, and it would be easy to dig for gold and transport gold.
"If you have any problems, go back first." Ruan Bai said to Zhang Daniu. The terrain of this place is good, and it should not be difficult to build a road, but there is such a huge karst cave underneath, and he suspects that it will not be a problem to hide 1,800 people.
King Yue Ze said at the time that what he developed was only a small part, and there were many layers underneath, and it was too complicated to go down, and he didn't dare to go down......
When the situation is stable, you must call Chu Hao to go on an expedition, and you must bring a rabbit. The appearance of the bunny being so frightened that he is covered in fur must be funny!