The copper box looks very chic, and it is locked, giving people the feeling that there is a treasure inside, at least, Ang Lee and others think so. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"General, this chic copper box is still locked, and it must be a valuable treasure inside."

"The gold here is all packed in wooden boxes, and this copper box must be a more valuable treasure inside."

"What could be a treasure more valuable than gold?"

Li An grinned and looked at Li Kunxiong, who was holding a hammer: "Kunxiong, smash it." ”

"Yes, big brother."

Li Kunxiong answered, raised the sledgehammer, and slammed it into the big lock on the copper box.

"Click......"

There was a crisp sound of metal breaking, and the big lock was smashed open.

Li Kunxiong gently lifted the copper box, and his eyes suddenly straightened, which was an extremely surprised look, which showed that the items in the box were completely unexpected by him, and far beyond his expectations.

Li An and all the henchmen and generals under his command suddenly held their breath and looked at the inside of the copper box curiously.

"It's a weapon, it's a weapon."

"This weapon is like a crossbow, but it's very different from the one we usually use."

"This crossbow is actually all bronze, and it looks very delicate, but the string has been broken and cannot be used."

"In this crossbow clip, there are also ten featherless crossbows made of copper, this is the Zhuge Repeater, that's right, this must be the Zhuge Repeater mentioned in the book."

"The last general has heard of the Zhuge Repeater for a long time, but then I heard that it was lost, is it really the thing in front of you?"

The Ministries will be amazed and excited.

Li An has naturally also heard of the Zhuge crossbow, which is a very powerful weapon, according to the record of "The Biography of Zhuge Liang", brightness is longer than ingenuity, profit and loss crossbows, wooden oxen and flowing horses, all out of their minds.

Note quoted from "Wei's Spring and Autumn Period": Liang made eight affairs, seven precepts, six fears, and five fears, all of which have rules and regulations to discipline their courtiers. And profit and loss of the crossbow, called the Yuan Rong, with iron as the arrow, the arrow is eight inches long, a crossbow and ten arrows.

These records are enough to prove that the Zhuge Repeater, that is, the Profit and Loss Repeater, was indeed designed by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, and made by craftsmen.

"Zhuge repeater should be wooden, and the crossbow bolts fired are also iron and wooden, this set of crossbows and arrows are all copper, and the cost must be a lot, it seems that it is not used for war, but for collection and commemoration, but if it is really wooden, it may have become a pile of powder now, just like an arrow shaft."

Ang Lee smiled and gave his own judgment.

"Big brother, but how to explain the tens of thousands of copper tufts over there just now? Is it all for collecting? ”

Obviously, in the era of the appearance of Zhuge repeater, iron weapons have completely replaced copper weapons and become the main force on the battlefield, arrows should be iron, only in the Yin Shang era will appear copper arrows, and if these copper arrows are all used for collection, there is no need for so much, besides, the wooden arrow shafts are rotten, such a large number should be used to prepare for war, and copper arrows are used to prepare for war, which makes Li An difficult to understand, is the price of copper cheaper than iron?

"General, there are hundreds of copper arrows at the bottom of this chest, all of which should have been made for this repeater."

"There are hundreds of all-copper crossbow arrows, are they used for combat?"

Ang Lee took out a few all-copper crossbow arrows, and tried the elastic copper crossbow arm, and suddenly found that his judgment was wrong, and this all-copper crossbow was probably used for combat.

'Fighting with copper arrows is really enough for local tyrants, but after all, there is a gold mine here, and the owner of the gold mine is definitely not bad for money, and there is only a copper Zhuge repeater, perhaps the highest status person can use it, the combat significance is not great, and the symbolic meaning is very huge. ’

Li Ang always felt that the copper repeater was too bulky and far less portable than the wooden repeater, and the elasticity of the copper crossbow arm was still not as good as that of wood or bamboo, which would have a certain impact on the range of the crossbow arrow.

"General, here are hundreds of damaged wooden Zhuge repeaters."

Li An walked over gently, picked up a decayed Zhuge repeater, nodded and said, "That's right, these are wooden Zhuge repeaters, which have completely decayed, it's a pity, there are hundreds of them!" Underneath this is a copper-tipped wooden crossbow, but unfortunately the rod has rotted. ”

"Big brother, it seems that the leader uses a copper Zhuge repeater to fire all copper crossbow arrows, while the rest of the people use wooden Zhuge repeaters to fire wooden crossbow arrows."

Li An nodded and said: "That's right, it should be like this, in addition to the Zhuge repeater, there are also a large number of ring-headed knives, spear heads, and rotten wooden shields, which were prepared by the owner of the mine to defend against foreign enemies, but this place was still captured by foreign enemies after all, and a large number of bones outside should be the traces left by the fight, but what happened at that time, we have no way of knowing, and we can only make some reasonable speculations based on the existing situation here." ”

All the confidants nodded again and again in full approval, very sure of Ang Lee's opinion.

"General, what should I do with these weapons, are they placed here?"

"All the copper cluster heads were transported to the baggage regiment to make arrows, this copper Zhuge crossbow and all-copper crossbow arrows were also transported to the baggage regiment, recruiting reliable skilled craftsmen, and immediately starting the imitation work, the Pingnan army very much needs the Zhuge crossbow This is a sharp weapon to kill the enemy."

"Yes, General, I understand."

Li An and his henchmen continued to search in the cave for a while, and based on what they found, they made more reasonable speculations, because it was too cold inside, and after holding on for a while, everyone slowly left and walked towards the entrance of the cave.

When Li An and his generals walked out of the cave, it was already completely dark, but no one from the onlookers left, and a pair of curious eyes looked directly at the entrance of the cave, and whispered something.

"The general is out, the general is out."

The onlookers reminded their companions in a whisper, and looked at Li An and the others who walked out of the cave.

Seeing that the recruits had been standing at the entrance of the cave, and almost no one had left, Li An was stunned for a moment and scolded: "Why are you still standing here, aren't you hungry?" All back to camp. ”

When the recruits heard this, they were really hungry when they touched their stomachs, and left one by one and walked in the direction of the camp.

"This group of recruits is quite curious."

Li An looked at the sky and ordered: "Immediately transfer fifty soldiers of the Longwu Army to guard the entrance of the cave, put a horse around it, and set up a temporary tent next to it, we must ensure the safety of the mine, the treasure in it is extremely important to my Pingnan Army." ”

"The general can rest assured, he has handed over the humble position."

A captain received the order and immediately went to transfer the soldiers and horses of the Longwu army.

"Someone, stop."

Li Kunxiong found a black figure, which was approaching quickly, and scolded loudly.

"It's me, it's me."

Li An heard it, it was Nan Jiyun's voice, after he joined the Pingnan Army, he was assigned to the reconnaissance team of the special regiment, stationed in Xigu, and this is Donggu, what did he suddenly come to do?

"Nan Jiyun, why don't you stay in the West Valley, what are you doing in the East Valley?"

Ang Lee asked loudly.

Nan Jiyun looked excited: "General, I heard that a cave was found in Donggu, so I ran over to take a look." ”

"There are caves in the East Valley, and it has nothing to do with you, your job is to train, understand?"

As a general, Ang Lee must teach Nan Jiyun a lesson and let him know what he should and should not do.

"I understand that"

Nan Jiyun grinned and looked in the direction of the cave: "General, this is a gold mine!" ”

"Nan Jiyun, how do you know this is a gold mine."

Since walking out of the cave, Li An and his generals have not revealed that it is a gold mine, how could Nan Jiyun know, is it a casual guess.

Nan Jiyun thought for a moment: "General, this may be the Shu Kingdom Gold Mine five hundred years ago. ”’

"The gold mine of Shu five hundred years ago? Nan Jiyun, tell me what you know. ”

Ang Lee felt that Nan Jiyun must know the origin of this gold mine.

The generals of the Dragon Martial Army also looked at Nan Jiyun curiously, waiting for an answer.

Nan Jiyun said: "General, if my expectations are correct, this mine should be the gold mine ordered by Prime Minister Zhuge of Shu State. ”

"Go on."

"General, it is said that five hundred years ago, Shu craftsman Tong Tie discovered a gold mine, and reported to the Shu State Zhuge Prime Minister, Zhuge Cheng was actively preparing for the Northern Expedition at that time, heard that the gold mine was greatly delighted, and personally summoned Tong Tie, see Tong Tie Yu Xuanang, is a rare talent, that night canonized Tong Tie as Si Jin Lieutenant, responsible for mining the gold ore found, and mobilized a thousand miners for him to drive, in order to prevent the bandits from making trouble, Zhuge Cheng transferred three hundred yuan crossbow soldiers from his own guard, responsible for guarding the gold mine."

"And then?"

The appetites of Li An and all the generals under his command were aroused, and they wished that Nan Jiyun would not breathe and be able to finish all the situation in one breath.

Nan Jiyun took a breath and continued: "Tong Tie really lived up to expectations, and after being appointed, he immediately entered the mine with a thousand miners and three hundred yuan crossbowmen, and mined a large amount of gold for the Shu Kingdom, so that Prime Minister Zhuge could have a steady stream of financial resources and continue the great cause of the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains." ”

"Oh, it turns out that Zhuge Kongming was able to go out of Qishan six times, all thanks to this gold mine, so what about in the future?"

Nan Jiyun continued: "Later, Prime Minister Zhuge died of illness, Tong Tie continued to work for Jiang Wei, and provided him with a large amount of gold, so that Jiang Wei was able to conquer the Central Plains nine times and inherit the legacy of Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, but unfortunately, Shu produced a dou who could not afford it, and finally failed to recover the Central Plains, but was attacked into Shu by Wei generals Zhong Hui and Deng Ai, and Shu was defeated. ”

"The defeat of Shu is indeed very regrettable, and then what?"

"Because the gold mine is related to the lifeblood of Shu and is the top secret of Shu, ordinary people don't know the location of the gold mine at all, Jiang Wei is unwilling to fail, and wants to revive Shu Han, so he has been keeping this secret and not letting the soldiers of Wei know the existence of this gold mine."

"What else?"

Li Ang was hung with an appetite and continued to ask urgently.

Nan Jiyun scratched his head: "General, I know this, more information, I can only ask Tong Tie's descendants." ”

"Tong Tie still has descendants, who is it?"

Li Ang asked urgently.

"General, it is the Tong Sanpang who broke into the barracks, once, he was drunk, so he told these situations, and he also said that as long as he found the gold mine operated by his ancestors, he would be rich, but they looked for several generations, and searched all the mountains and hills of Luzhou, but they couldn't find it, but they didn't expect it to be here."

Nan Jiyun is also happy, this is called stepping on iron shoes and finding nowhere to get it without effort, Tong San's fat ancestors have been bent on finding gold mines for generations, but they were inadvertently discovered by Pingnanjun, this may be destined in the dark!

"What does Tong Sanpang do now?"

"General Hui, he opened three liquor stores and five copperware shops in Luzhou City, in addition, he also ran a mine outside the city, mining copper ore, and there were more than 500 miners."

"Tong San Fat? He is still a rich man. ”

Li An smiled at the corner of his mouth and looked at Nan Jiyun: "Nan Jiyun, you go back to sleep immediately, and set off tomorrow to invite Tong Sanpang to Luzhou City." ”

"Yes, General."

Nan Jiyun answered, turned around and ran back to Xigu.

"Big brother, I really didn't expect that the cave here turned out to be a gold mine in Shu, or was mined by the ancestor of Tong Sanfat, haha!"

"No matter who used to belong here, it now belongs to Datang."

"Regarding the question of the cave being abandoned here, ask Tong Sanfat tomorrow, maybe it will be clear."

Soon, fifty heavily armed soldiers of the Longwu Army arrived at the entrance of the cave and immediately began to set up defenses, and the horses and tents were gradually erected.

Li An touched his stomach, felt hungry, and after checking that there was no problem with the defense of the cave entrance, and explained it in person, he slowly left with all his henchmen.

The discovery of the gold mine here is a great surprise for Li An, with this gold mine and the gold nuggets that have been smelted inside, Li An no longer has to worry about the issue of military salaries, and he can also improve the weapons to his heart's content, so that the combat effectiveness of the Pingnan Army can become stronger, and then better deter the entire southern direction of the Tang Dynasty, so that the young people can honestly accept the rule of the Tang Empire.

After eating and drinking, Li An took a short walk outside the tent, thinking about how to mine the gold mines, and after returning to the camp, he wrote a letter to the emperor Li Longji, reporting the difficulties encountered by the Pingnan army and the discovery of gold mines, but because he did not take a careful inventory, Li An did not report the scale of the gold mines and the inventory of smelting gold nuggets, so that Li Longji knew that there was such a thing.

For the profits of gold mining, Li An is a complete layman, and Li An does not understand the management experience in the mining process at all, so it is inevitable that the gold mine will not be able to mine the gold mine with maximum efficiency, and the gold mine will be completely handed over to the knowledgeable people, and directly divided, it is a good idea, Tong Sanpang is a good partner.

However, since Ang Lee does not know the cost proportion of gold mining, he does not know how many points to do. This gave Ang Lee quite a headache.

"It's really not good, so I'll cheat Tong Sanfat." (To be continued.) )