On the second day of Zhu Erfu's death, Wang Qi took advantage of Yinxiang's short-term negligence and committed suicide by biting his tongue, but his younger brother was not as blessed as him, after Wang Qi's death, Yinxiang took care of Wang Mo and others more and more tightly, they couldn't find a chance to commit suicide at all, under the endless torture and the double pain of not being able to die, Wang Mo's spirit finally collapsed, and he said everything he knew about Lu Dao.

In the forty-second year of Kangxi, the then Hangzhou Mansion Yin was a person of Yinxi, and by an occasional chance, he found that there were a lot of pure gold iron ore hidden in the ground not far from the West Lake, different from ordinary iron ore, this kind of pure gold iron ore was only a few in the entire Qing Dynasty, and the blade made by it was particularly sharp, and such a mine was found for the first time in the south of the Yangtze River, and the most amazing thing was that there was actually a ground fire near the pit.

He reported the matter to Yinxi, but for some reason Yinxi didn't tell the court, but chose to hide it. This lasted for five years, until the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, when Yinxi suddenly ordered him and Wang Qi to be responsible for digging and digging wells in the mine, and recruited a large number of blacksmiths.

As for what exactly Yinxi is going to do, as well as the location of the mine, Wang Mo doesn't know, because he has always been in charge of external affairs, and Wang Qi is the real person in charge, and he is also the one who really gets Yinxi's trust.

As early as before, when they asked Chen Yuanjing to search door to door to lure Wang Qi and them into the bait, they had already heard that many blacksmiths were recruited by a mysterious person to go to other places to strike iron with a very high salary, and now they can finally be matched.

In this matter, Yinxi invested millions of silver taels, which cost a huge amount of money, and the things he planned must be extraordinary, and it may be related to the stability of the society.

Yinzhen remembered that in the forty-seventh year of Kangxi, it happened to be the year when Yinzhen was reprimanded by Kangxi in public as a cheap maid of Xin's library, and it was this sentence that made Yinzhen forever disqualified from competing for the prince, and even if he did it in the future, it would only be to make a wedding dress for others.

This is definitely an incomparably deep blow to Yinxi, who has been thinking about it for so many years, although on the surface it seems that he has accepted this result, but no one knows what he really thinks in his heart.

What's more, the matter has been investigated at this point, and there is absolutely no reason to give up. After a detailed discussion with Chen Yuanjing, although he has a secret purpose, this matter is related to the elder brother, and it is not appropriate to make a big noise, but it is still necessary to use the power of this Lord Yin to secretly track down the nest that Yinxi secretly built underground.

Chen Fu Yin had no reason to disagree, and ordered the officials of Hangzhou Mansion to secretly search around the West Lake, and not let go of any suspicious places.

Under such an almost inch-by-inch search, even the most hidden things could not be hidden, and one day at the end of October, the mine was found, just a few miles southwest of West Lake.

On this day, Yinzhen, Yinxiang and Chen Yuanjing led the yacha, who was generally on guard with swords in their hands, and entered through a cave covered by grass and trees, which was the only entrance to the mine.

At first it was a very narrow road, only one person was allowed to pass, and it was extremely steep, and in this dark tunnel, one of them would slide down without paying attention, because they walked very slowly.

At first, I didn't feel anything, but the further down I went, the hotter I felt, and when I got to the back, everyone's heads were already sweating, and their breathing was a little heavy, but this also confirmed that the words of earth and fire were true, and this place should have been very underground.

All the way down, I don't know how long I walked, finally there was a bright light, and there was a faint sound of ding dong will come, and occasionally there will be extremely loud movements, which is somewhat similar to what they heard in the West Lake. Yinzhen was in good spirits, his feet were a little faster, and he walked about another pillar of incense time, and his eyes suddenly brightened, Yinzhen was the first to see it, and Rao was still shocked by what he saw in front of him.

In front of them was a hole in the ground with a radius of hundreds of zhang, the hole was full of spears and swords and other blades, and there were many men shirtless, beating the red-hot iron hard, they did not use the stove to make a fire, but directly used the earth fire, these earth fires are different from the usual orange-red flames, but are blue and white, obviously the temperature is extremely high, the iron is as soft as soon as it is thrown in, but these iron pieces are very strange, no matter how they burn, as long as they leave the flames, they are as hard as ever.

The blacksmiths polished the pieces of iron and threw them into the cold water, and beside them were all kinds of weapons, spears and short swords, steel knives and arrows, all kinds of things, and this was clearly a place for private weapons.

The blacksmiths were stunned for a moment when they saw Yinzhen and the others, and when they saw the heavily armed Yacha, they were even more helpless standing there, not knowing what to do.

"This official is Yin Chen Yuanjing of Hangzhou Mansion, and now I order you to get up and put down the things in your hands and stand to the side, otherwise this official has the right to kill you on the spot for the crime of treason!" Chen Yuanjing endured the turbulent waves in his heart and stepped forward and shouted, in this case, he is undoubtedly the most suitable one.

Those people were just ordinary blacksmiths, how dare they slack off when they heard this, they hurriedly threw the things in their hands, and stood aside in fear, waiting for Chen Yuanjing to ask.

"Who told you to gather here to make weapons privately, do you know that this is a serious crime, not to mention that your own life is difficult to protect, and your family will be harmed!" Chen Yuanjing frowned tightly, some people under his rule wantonly made weapons privately, but as a parent official, he didn't realize it, and it was really difficult to escape the crime of dereliction of duty.

Chen Yuanjing's words frightened those blacksmiths into their souls, and they knelt down and begged for mercy, and one of them dared to climb forward a few steps and said in a trembling voice: "Back to the old man, this matter has nothing to do with the small people, please ask the big master of the blue sky to learn clearly!" ”

Under Chen Yuanjing's questioning, they told how they came here, and it was no different from what they had heard before, someone found them who made a living by striking iron in the city of Hangzhou, and asked them to leave the shop with silver taels several times higher than the market price, and specially minted iron for him for two years.

Ironsmithing is a very hard work, but the silver tael is not much, especially those blacksmiths who are not well-known, and the hard work of the day is only enough for food and clothing. Now that he heard that he could earn a large sum of money, he was naturally moved, and agreed to the man's request without asking too much.

Each of them had been hooded before they came, and they didn't know where they were, and it wasn't until here that they had hired them to build weapons. Although they knew that this was a fatal matter, it was no longer up to them to call the shots, and those people would not allow them to leave, so they could only be forced to stay here.

During this time, there were people who tried to escape, but without exception they were all captured, tossed and thrown into the fire, and they saw with their own eyes a large living person being burned by the fire, leaving not a trace of ashes behind. From then on, they completely gave up the idea of escaping, and obediently did things here.