Tongji is more than 100 miles away from Helin, is a typical mountainous area, within the lofty mountains, but hides rich mineral deposits, after the founding of the Han Dynasty, began to vigorously develop, the rich mineral deposits in Liaodong were excavated one by one, Tongji Iron Mine, which ranks second in the entire Liaodong iron mine, is also the most important supplier of military industry in Jishi County.

After the ore is dug out, it is transported to the iron smelting plant located at the foot of the mountain, and after the initial smelting of crude iron, it is then transported to Jishi County for deep processing, and Tongji County, because of the existence of this iron mine, has become a prosperous place second only to the county town and forest. Tens of thousands of workers and their families form a very distinctive group in this county.

However, in the past few days, Tongji County has been filled with a tense atmosphere, Tongji iron mine miners rioted, they are only ten miles away from Tongji City, it can be said that it is close at hand, and Tongji County, except for more than 100 policemen who maintain law and order, there is nothing.

When the news came, Tongji County ordered Jin Xiu in despair, can only call on the county men to take up arms, walk on the city wall, and this county lived, most of them are Han people, including many businessmen from other places, with military experience, under the call of Jin Xiu, finally organized a team of more than 2,000 people. But Jin Xiu understood that these people were not an army, and if those miners on the mountain were defeated, they would not be able to resist at all, not to mention that the other party was several times the number of his own, and they all had strong and powerful laborers, and what was worse was that they had the gunpowder needed to open the mine. Jin Xiu believed that the gunpowder must have now fallen into the hands of these rioters.

Jin Xiu passed three days in fear, but the rioting miners did not go down the mountain except for the detention of the manager of the Tongji Mine, the overseers stationed by the county, and the business personnel of the Jishi City Arsenal, which made him surprised and worried, and did not know whether the other party was going to make trouble.

Despite this, Jin Xiu will never dare to slack off. In the past few days, he has been lying on the city wall with his clothes, Tongji is not far from Helin, the messenger has already arrived, reinforcements will appear at any time, every more hour, Jin Xiu's heart will be put down.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder in the distance, and as a large flag appeared in the field of vision of everyone in the city, bursts of cheers suddenly broke out in the city, which was a fluttering yellow dragon flag.

"Reinforcements are coming!" Cheers. Rippling from the city, Tongji County, which had been nervous for several days, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Jin Xiu also exhaled heavily, fortunately, it came very quickly. He leaned on the head of the city, looking at the Yellow Dragon Banner, his originally ruddy face turned a little pale in an instant, and his hands trembled unobediently.

What makes the golden embroidery lose its normalcy is naturally the distinctive Yellow Dragon Flag, because this flag has nine gold wire borders.

"The king himself is here!" Jin Xiu **.

The gates were wide open. Jin Xiu led the officials of the Hefu to welcome out of the city gate, and for Jin Xiu, he never imagined that one day, he would face the supreme ruler of this huge country in person.

Above the city. The crowd of people who volunteered to set foot on the city roared with joy, waving their weapons and shouting long live the king. Looking at the intact city wall, Gao Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're the Golden Embroidery?" Turning over and dismounting, Gao Yuan looked at the one in front of him with two black circles under his eyes. A middle-aged man with a nervous and excited look in his exhaustion.

"The humble position is the golden embroidery of the county order of Tongji County." Jin Xiu said in a trembling voice.

"You are guilty of such a bad incident under your rule?" Gao Yuan threw the horsewhip to He Weiyuan on the side and asked lightly.

Jin Xiu trembled, fell to his knees, "The ministers deserve death, the mob riots of Tongji Iron Mine, the lowly position is ignorant, and the response is at a loss, please punish the king." ”

Gao Yuan snorted, "You are guilty, but whether you deserve death or not should be investigated by the procuratorate, and then judged by the court, not by me." However, for the sake of Tongji City, you are not without merit. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, but Tongji City is intact because the mob did not come down the mountain to attack, otherwise it would ......" Jin Xiu knelt on the ground and gritted her teeth, but she still told the truth.

Gao Yuan was stunned, and couldn't help but glance at this county order, and secretly said in his heart, it is not without merit.

"Let's go to the city! God, you immediately arrange for people to go to Tongji Iron Mine, since the miners rioted, but did not go down the mountain or enter the city, it should not be for no reason. "High and far-reaching.

"Yes, the minister will arrange for someone to go up the mountain immediately." Cao Tianci bowed and said.

"Dasha, take over the city defense immediately, and make arrangements in case of emergency."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Three thousand young guards were stationed, and more importantly, the legendary king of the Han Kingdom actually appeared in Tongji in person, which immediately reassured everyone in Tongji County, and the previous panic was empty, and everyone crowded on the street, hoping to see the king's demeanor, but since the king entered the city, he went to the county government and never showed up again.

Cao Tianci decided to personally take people to Tongji Iron Mine. In this riot, there was a strange atmosphere everywhere, which made Cao Tianci want to see it in person.

Tongji Iron Mine is located in Mingfeng Mountain, only more than ten miles away from Tongji County, a cement road that can accommodate several carriages in parallel leads from Tongji County to the mining area, if the mob wants to attack the county seat, along this avenue, it can be reached in half an hour at most, with the state of Tongji County is almost undefended, this place should not exist for a long time.

Why didn't they come?

At the end of the road, Mingfeng Mountain appeared in Cao Tianci's field of vision, and the first thing that caught his eye was the gray brick wall and the tall chimneys, which were located in the smelting plant at the bottom of the mountain.

"What's that? Cao Tianci raised his horsewhip and pointed to the place and asked, beside him, a local intelligence officer of the National Security Bureau.

"Minister Cao, that place is a place where the miners live, and the miners and their families live there." Intelligence officials said. "Minister Cao, shall we just go over like this?"

Cao Tianci nodded, "If you don't go over like this, how can you pass?" ”

"Minister Cao, let's go and explore first, your identity is valuable, in case the other party plots against you?" Intelligence officials said.

"No need, these people must have other intentions, they are afraid that it was because the king went to Helin, so they suddenly launched a riot, otherwise they would not have been cowering in the mining area without moving, with their tens of thousands of strength, do you think there is any problem for them to take Tongji County?" Cao Tianci stared at the mining area that should have been smoky, and said. "We all know the information you've gathered in the past two years."

"Minister, since everyone knows about it, why hasn't it been dealt with? Dragged on to this day, causing such an incident? ”

Cao Tianci smiled bitterly, "Naturally, there are difficulties above, I originally thought that as the laws of the Han Dynasty became more and more perfect, there would be some restraint below, but now it seems that the king still thinks of some people too kindly, in order to make money, he really doesn't care about anything, this time you look at it, I don't know how many people want to lose their heads." ”

The intelligence officer also shook his head with a wry smile, still rushing ahead of Cao Tianci, beating his horse and galloping forward.

"Someone, stop." Above the wall, a row of dark-skinned human heads, armed with knives and guns, appeared vigilantly at the approaching men on horseback.

"The Minister of the Han Police Department, Cao Tianci, is here in person, which of you is the person in charge, let him come out and speak." The intelligence officer shouted.

The men on the wall looked at each other hesitantly, and one of the older ones stood up, "What kind of official is the Minister of Police?" Is there a county guard? ”

Cao Tianci and this intelligence officer couldn't laugh or cry, not to mention that Mao Dewang was just the county guard of a county in the Dahan Border District, that is, the county guard of Tianhe County, in front of Cao Tianci, he also had to give three points, but how can he explain it to such a man who lives in the countryside and knows nothing?

"I am the person next to the king, I can see the king every day, can the county guard see it every day? Do you say that I am big, or that the county guard is big? Cao Tianci stepped forward and said loudly.

The people on the wall looked at Cao Tianci, and the look of suspicion on their faces was even stronger, not for anything else, just because Cao Tianci looked too young, today Cao Tianci is only twenty-six years old, and he only married Princess Zhao a few years ago, such a young man said that his official son is older than the county guard, and the man on the wall does not believe it anyway.

"You don't want to lie to us, our eldest brother said that unless the king comes in person, none of us will see." The man yelled.

Cao Tianci chuckled in his heart, their motive was really to see the king.

"If you want to see the king, you must first lay down your arms, open the door and surrender, otherwise how will the king meet you?" Cao Tianci said: "Now the king is in Tongji County, and call your people in charge to come out, otherwise the army will arrive in an instant." ”

The man on the wall laughed and said: "The head has fallen off a bowl and a big scar, Lao Tzu is afraid of a fart, tell you, even if we die, we can blow this Tongji iron mine into ruins, the old men of the dog day will not let us live, and we will not let them have a good time." Get out of here, or you'll be done now. ”

As soon as the man bent down and straightened up again, he actually held a crossbow in his hand. Cao Tianci was taken aback, and took a few steps back. There are hundreds of kilograms of fried red in the Tongji iron mine, this is not a joke, the man said that the Tongji iron mine will be blown into ruins, but it is not just a threat, they are indeed capable of doing it.

"There are still your families here, your wives and children, can you do it?" Cao Tianci asked rhetorically.

"Anyway, I can't live, what can't I go, let's go together, and I'm not lonely on Huangquan Road. We know that we can't defeat the army, and we won't fight with the army, so we just want to see the king and ask for justice. Didn't the king say that he would treat all the people of the world equally? Why can't we be treated as human beings? The man on the wall yelled.

Cao Tianci took a deep breath: "Okay, if the king arrives, what do you say?" ”

"If the king comes to us, we will open the door and surrender immediately." A loud voice came, and beside the man, a big man appeared and said loudly. (To be continued......)