Li An took a few steps forward, walked to the entrance of the cave, looked inside carefully, and found that it was very dim, and he couldn't see what was going on at all. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The opening of the hole is not large, and only one person can crawl into it with his waist hunched, and because it is too dark inside, the situation is not very clear, so it makes people feel a little worried.

"The hole is too small, keep digging, dig the hole bigger, at least so that people can walk in with their waists straight."

Li An was worried that the hole was too small and the oxygen content in it would be insufficient, so he asked to dig the hole bigger and let more air pour into it, so as to ensure that people could enter.

"Yes, General."

Dozens of recruits, armed with tools, began to work on widening the opening.

Li An looked at the medical team recruits standing aside and asked, "You found this hole?" ”

"Yes, General, a few of us originally planned to climb up from here to collect medicine, but we stepped on a big hole in a stone, we dug it casually, and found that it was getting bigger and bigger, so we hurriedly reported it to the top."

Li An nodded, took a few steps back, carefully observed the surrounding terrain, and suddenly made a new discovery.

He suddenly felt that this East Valley did not seem to be a masterpiece of nature, but full of traces of artificial carving.

At least, the valley wasn't originally that big, and it was artificially enlarged, and the area around the cave was enlarged.

"Have you noticed that the East Valley has been artificially expanded, and it didn't have such a large area originally."

Li An looked at several confidants and expressed his opinion.

The confidants and generals obviously didn't pay attention to this problem, and hurriedly looked around.

"The cliffs here are unusual, they do look like they were carved by hand, but they are a few years old, and the traces are hidden by trees and climbing vines."

"Yes! At least the entire south side of the valley has been excavated. ”

"I really didn't expect that the valley here was dug by hand, but why did they dig a valley here? Is it evacuation? Or seclusion? Or is it because of this cave? ”

"It can't really be a treasure cave!"

The generals also gossiped.

Li An looked at the recruits who were digging deep into the hole, and said softly: "Whether it is a treasure cave or not, it will be clear when you go in and see." ”

The recruits dug very hard, and soon, the entrance of the cave, which was originally only three feet square, was enlarged several times, and more sunlight was allowed to enter the cave, and the situation inside was much clearer.

"Big brother, the rock wall inside seems to be blackened by fire, it seems that someone once made a fire here to cook."

Li Kunxiong guessed.

"No way, it shouldn't be so dark to make a fire for cooking, it's like a fire."

"If there is a fire, someone must have been burned inside, the body is gone, and the bones must still be there."

Seeing that the entrance to the cave was large enough, Li An ordered: "Light the torch and go in and have a look." ”

Several recruits were ordered to light torches, and Ang Lee picked up one and led the way into the cave.

"Big brother be careful, the situation inside is unknown."

Li An said disapplausively: "It's been so many years, what danger can there be, come with me." ”

Under the leadership of Li An, all the henchmen raised their torches in turn and slowly walked into the cave.

At this time, the cave had been ventilated for a long time, so Li An was not worried about suffocation, besides, they were still holding torches? As long as the torch is not extinguished, it means that the oxygen in it is sufficient, and there is no need to worry about suffocation.

Walking into the cave, Li An found that the space inside was much larger than he imagined, the straight passage was two zhang wide and more than one zhang high, and the top was carved into an arc in order to increase the bearing capacity.

The walls here are not rocky, but blackened, and look like they have been caught in a fire, and there is a sense of oppression when people walk inside, and because of the isolation from the outside world, the air inside is very cold, and the outside is a hot summer, and the inside of the passage is like a cold autumn.

The passage is nearly 100 steps, and after walking this 100-step passage, what is presented in front of Li An and others is a huge space with a radius of 20 zhang, and at the top of this huge space, seven rays of light actually shoot in, so that the whole space is not too dark.

In other words, this space is ventilated to the outside world, and people can survive here.

However, the scene of this space shocked Li An and the others, and a white skeleton fell to the ground horizontally, looking quite terrifying.

Li An roughly counted, the number of these bones is more than a thousand, and what is the reason why these people died here? This problem, Ang Lee and his henchmen naturally have no way of knowing.

"General, there are more than a thousand corpses and bones here, as well as the remains of weapons, it seems that there was a bloody battle here."

"That's right, there are two corpses here hugging each other tightly, and the dagger in the hand of one corpse is still there, and it is inserted in the heart of the other corpse, it is a fight."

"It's okay, there's a fight here, it's a vendetta? Or is it for the sake of robbing the treasure? ”

Li An shook his head slightly: "We have no way of knowing what happened here, but by wiping off the black ash on the rock wall, we may be able to get some answers." ”

As he spoke, he pulled out the dagger at his waist and scraped the black ash off the rock wall.

"Is a golden stone a gold mine?"

At the moment when Ang Lee scraped off the black ash of the rock wall, everyone's eyes lit up.

The golden rock wall, which makes everyone immediately think of a gold mine, and only when this was once a gold mine can we better explain why someone would merge here and grab the right to mine the gold mine, perhaps the best reason.

"People die for money, birds die for food, it seems that the bones in here are all for this gold mine."

Li An shook his head lightly and sighed.

"Big brother, there is a skeleton here, and there is a piece of gold in his hand."

Li Feiyu forcibly broke the fingers of a corpse and took out a small gold nugget with golden light from it.

Ang Lee took the small nugget and found that it was an irregularly shaped smelted gold nugget, as if it had just been taken out of the furnace and had not yet been cast, which seemed to prove that this should be a gold mine, and it also had smelting facilities.

Around this hall, there are six passages leading in six different directions. Because the light is not very good, it is not clear what is inside these six passages.

Ang Lee paced a few steps down the hall, felt something under his feet, crouched down, and picked up the object under his feet.

"Residues from the combustion of thermal oil, and coking coal particles."

Ang Lee is no stranger to these two things, and he recognizes them at a glance.

Coking coal is an important material used to smelt gold ore and purify it, but what is thermal oil used for? Also used for smelting?

No, the oil was deliberately ignited with the intention of destroying the mine completely. ’

Ang Lee quickly made a new judgment and slowly stood up.

"Let's split up and see what else is here?"

Li An gave an order softly, and all the henchmen and generals, in groups of two or three, went to different tunnels to see what was inside.

"Big brother, this charred guy seems to be a furnace, there was one in our White Wolf Village back then, and it belonged to the blacksmith in the south of the village."

Li Kunxiong held a torch and found an important big guy from an inconspicuous corner.

Li An walked over quickly, and after a closer look, it really looked like a furnace, although it was very damaged, but the general appearance was still there.

"That's right, there are furnaces, there are gold nuggets, it is enough to show that this is indeed a gold mine."

Ang Lee felt that he had found a big baby, and he was very excited.

"Big brother, the furnace of Blacksmith Zhang's house in our White Wolf Village is placed in the yard, just build a small pergola, they actually put the furnace in the cave, it seems that it is to prevent being discovered!"

Li Kunxiong speculated.

Li An smiled and nodded slightly: "It is indeed possible, but Blacksmith Zhang put the furnace in the courtyard to cool down, and the situation here is the same." ”

"What the eldest brother said is that it is indeed very cold inside this cave, and the gold in the furnace is really much cooler than outside."

Li An smiled at the corner of his mouth, waiting for the return of all his henchmen with peace of mind.

"General, it's a mine, the rock wall is shining, it's a gold mine."

"General, one of the tunnels we checked out is also a gold mine."

"General, so are ours."

Five groups of men and horses returned one after another, and all of them were gold mines, which made Ang Lee more sure of his judgment that this was an abandoned gold mine, and it was obviously worth continuing to mine.

"Big brother, why haven't Shouyu and Erniu come back yet?"

Five groups of people returned one after another, and after a while, Lifei Shouyu and Zhang Erniu had not returned.

"Looks like they should have made a bigger discovery."

Ang Lee knew that there would be no accidents between the two of them, and they must have been dragged down by an important situation.

"Big brother, let's go over and have a look?"

The generals were no longer afraid, but full of curiosity.

Li An nodded lightly: "Shouyu, they must have made an important discovery, let's go over and take a look." ”

After speaking, he took more than a dozen henchmen under his command and walked towards the alley on the left.

"It's fine, it's a warehouse, there are a lot of things, weapons, gold nuggets, firewood, coke, a lot of the same, we have made a fortune."

Li Fei Shouyu hurriedly rushed over, his face full of excitement.

Li An was even more overjoyed, and said busily: "There are so many good things, let's go, go over and have a look." ”

A group of more than ten people quickly rushed to the location of the warehouse.

The warehouse was not affected by the fire, and it was filled with large chests, some of them wooden and some of them with a metallic sheen.

"Yes, you see, this piece is all coke, and that's the most placed item here."

"Well, that's right, it's all good coke, for smelting."

Li An picked up a piece of coke casually, put it in front of the torch and looked at it, with an excited face, although these cokes are not very valuable, but smelting gold is inseparable from them.

"Yes, here are the smelted gold nuggets, all of which have been molded, and thirty boxes are full."

Li Kunxiong picked up a box and grinned: "Big brother, this box is fifty pounds, obediently, you have made a fortune." ”

Li An touched a pile of gold, checked it, looked at the henchmen and colonels, and said softly: "Sure enough, it is a piece of gold, the amount is enough, this box has fifty pieces of gold, that is, five hundred taels, thirty boxes are one thousand five hundred gold, fifteen thousand taels, it seems that it is really a lot!" ”

The extreme excitement made Li An's eyes shine, and all the henchmen and generals were deeply shocked by the huge wealth that fell from the sky.

"Okay, what should I do with so much gold? Do you want to hand it over to the imperial court? ”

Li An hurriedly shook his head: "My Long Wujun is short of money, how can I hand over this money to the imperial court?" All of them were left behind for military pay and rewards, and with this gold, when the soldiers made meritorious contributions, they were not afraid of not having a reward. ”

"Big brother, what if the court investigates it?"

Li An smiled at the corner of his mouth, and said disapprerovitically: "What are you afraid of, I will personally write a note to Your Majesty, stating the financial difficulties encountered by the Pingnan Army, I believe Your Majesty will understand, and besides, we will not only keep this batch of gold, but also continue to develop the gold mines here and produce more gold." ”

Obviously, Li An knows the importance of his current position, and the entire Tang Dynasty court is looking forward to his own pacification of the turmoil, in this case, Li An continues to reach out to the court to ask for money, and the court has to find a way to raise it, and now, unexpectedly get a windfall, saving the burden of the court, Li An proposed to leave these gold for the purpose of quelling the rebellion, how can the court refuse.

"The general wants to continue mining gold?"

"With such a large gold mine, there must be a lot of absenteeism, so we have to ask Luzhou Thorn Shi to help recruit people."

"How should the wages for absenteeism be calculated, and how much should we share in the Pingnan Army?"

The confidants began to consider the details of the mine.

Regarding the opening of the mine, Li An has not completely thought about it, after all, no matter in his previous life or present life, he has never done such a thing, and his management experience is almost zero.

"So much gold, it's safe to put it here for the time being, the entrance to the cave must be guarded, at least fifty Longwu troops must be sent to garrison here, this batch of gold is very important to my Pingnan army, and it must not be lost."

"Don't worry, general, the humble post will be arranged."

Li An continued to walk forward and found some chests full of weapons, which contained various weapons such as ring-headed knives and bows and crossbows, but due to their age, most of the weapons were rusty and rotten, and they could not be used at all, which made everyone feel a little regretful.

"Big brother, the dozens of boxes of arrows here are all rotten, and there are only some arrows left, hey, these arrows are all copper, no wonder they can be well preserved."

Li An touched a copper arrow and nodded: "These dozens of boxes of rotten arrows should have tens of thousands of copper arrowheads, all of which were transported to the baggage regiment and used to make bows and crossbow arrows." ”’

Although I don't quite understand why the arrows here are all copper tufted heads, these copper tufted heads seem to be usable and not useless.

"General, there's a copper chest here." (To be continued.) )