Zhao Anling fiddled with the golden ball and was surprised, and when he heard what Bai Liyan said, he was busy asking:

"Master Hou recognizes this thing again?"

"Exactly, although this thing is a hand stove, it is the culmination of craftsmanship. It is called a mechanical gyroscope, supplemented by a compass, which can be fixed forever, and it is very exquisite. This is the second time Benhou has seen this thing. ”

Bai Liyan remembers the first time she saw a smoker made of the principle of a mechanical gyroscope, a stove in the shape of a hand stove, or a gilded hollow flower and bird spherical silver incense burner unearthed in the early years of the Tang Dynasty in the museum in her previous life.

When I opened the eight copper boxes, I found that there was nothing, and when I opened the ninth one, I couldn't open it or move it.

"Deputy Marshal Qiyu, this copper box is very heavy, and it can't be opened." The soldier said.

"Wait for Ben Shuai to see for himself."

Bailiyan bent down and squatted down to take a closer look, the copper box was very seriously corroded, but it really shouldn't be said that there was no gap at all in the seams. Continuing to look at the ground, I was surprised to find that there were cracks in the ground.

"Jiang Jie, give me bishou."

"Oh."

Jiang Jie handed over the bishou, and Baili Yan inserted it into the gap and dug out for a while, but found that the copper box had gone all the way deep into the ground.

"Come on, this copper box goes deep into the ground and digs down along the copper box."

"Yes!"

The soldiers took shovels and shovels and dug down on the spot, digging about a foot and a half deep before the copper box was exposed. The three big men moved together, but they still didn't move.

"Deputy marshal, this copper box is weird, and it still can't be moved."

"What the hell, get out of the way, Ben Shuai will take a look."

Retreating left and right, squatting down, carefully checking the clues by the firelight, and continuing to dig to the ground with bishou, he found that there was a hole in the ground of the copper box, and a very thick copper chain was dragged in the hole, and the chain was very tight, and it was always connected to the bottom of the copper box.

Seeing this, Bai Liyan suddenly thought that this box was mostly solid, and it was cast in such a shape, it must be for the copper chain underground, and it was likely to be a trap mechanism underneath.

If you take away the treasures outside one after another, and then open the copper chest in the stone room, and finally find this copper box that cannot be opened, the greedy person will definitely try to "open" the copper box and take the treasure inside.

Thinking of this, he continued to grope for a while, and finally found that there was a crack in the buried soil layer of the copper box, and the upper layer could be rotated, because of perennial corrosion, it was very difficult to twist. Bailiyan loosened the entity and did not dare to move again.

Recalling the eighth empty box just now, it must have been a scheming set up by Chai Bi to drive those greedy for money to knock over the ninth box so as to trigger the mechanism.

Seeing Bailiyan fiddling for a long time, Zhao Anling asked carefully:

"Master Hou, can this box be opened?"

"Don't open it. This box is a solid object made of copper, and there is a huge copper chain in the ground, which cannot be moved, but its upper body can be rotated. ”

"It's so mysterious, it must be the cover door left by Chai Bi, what Hou Ye said is reasonable, or it is better not to move. In this case, after I have seen the other stone chambers, I should hurry back to the camp, if I delay for too long, it will be troublesome. ”

"Well, that's what I mean. If you are greedy, you will lose, and then go to other stone chambers to see. ”

Bailiyan asked people to take away the copper slips, jade mahjong and strange hand stoves, backfilled the soil dug up by the copper box, and then left the stone room, and then went to the other six, the other stone rooms have terracotta figurines, lacquerware, murals, niches and other things, and there are few valuable things left.

Bailiyan only let people select dozens of pieces of the best color from the terracotta figurines and take them away for the funeral of King Xian in the future, and finally took away five pairs of exquisite niches.

Speaking of which, they are all the majesty of the Son of Heaven, a thousand-year-old antique, and in this world, there is absolutely no more extravagant funeral specification than this pomp.

Walking out of the tomb, I didn't realize that it had been most of the day, and the wine vat had been taken out and placed in the open space, and there was still a strong smell of wine wafting in the air.

"Jiang Jie, let the tomb be backfilled, filled tightly, and erected the epitaph on the mountain. No one is allowed to steal the treasures of the tomb without permission, and those who violate the order will be severely punished. ”

"Master Hou, there are still many gold and silver treasures in this tomb, don't want them."

"Don't want it, just transport these back to the army, especially these wine vats, but you must be careful, this vats of wine can't be bought for tens of thousands of inches of silver."

"Master Hou, can you really drink this wine?"

"It should be able to drink, and it's a royal old wine from a thousand years ago. Remember to let people dry the mud and then seal it with a new layer of mud, and don't go away with the liquor. ”

"No!"

From a physical and chemical point of view, as long as the wine does not react chemically with the glaze in the vat, there is no problem in theory, but the problem is a psychological disorder. After all, it's a thousand years ago, or it's a tomb of rice wine, and no one has a score in their hearts.

On the way back to the camp in the mountains, Zhao Anling was already thinking about the dozens of jars of thousand-year-old Chen.

"Master Hou, I, Zhao Anling, have no hobbies on weekdays, I only like to drink this old wine, and this thousand years of Chen Ke will score me ten cylinders no matter what."

"Okay, let's divide Mr. ten cylinders. However, it must be transported back to China in good condition first, and then it is necessary to customize the utensils and open them directly, so that the good wine cannot be hidden. ”

This time, a total of seventy-two jars of thousand-year-old were transported, and another wine jar was destroyed in the previous mountain, and each cylinder was sixty or seventy catties, which may be more.

Later, after being transported back to Xianguo Kaifeng, it was found that the rice wine wine has been cellared for thousands of years, the alcohol content is as high as more than 30 degrees, and the taste is mellow and thick, in addition to maintaining the unique mellow of rice wine, there is also the sweetness of the soju, and the flavor is very wonderful.

When he returned to the camp in the valley, it was getting dark, and the herald sent by Gu Zhong was waiting in the camp:

"Deputy Marshal Qiyu, there were rebels in Zhaocheng who defected to our army before and after Shen Shi, and now they are in a big camp outside the mountain."

"Oh, what is the title, and how many people are you carrying?"

"The leader is a thousand-commander named Han Qi, who brought more than 300 people to defect."

"It's coming really fast. Mr. Zhao, do you say this is a real drop or a fraudulent drop? ”

Zhao Anling twisted his short beard and hesitated for a moment:

"If it is a deception, it must have a plan. If it is really descending, there should be action according to the city. It's hard to make a conclusion for a while, but it seems that people have said something. ”

"Then we will rush back to the camp immediately and interrogate this person."

When the people returned to the camp outside the mountain, Gu Zhong had already surrounded the 300 people who had surrendered to Cheng in the Chinese army, and only Han Qi, the head of the commander, and a few others were taken to the tent for questioning.

"The last general will see the deputy marshal, Mr. Zhao!"

"General Gu is exempt."

"Vice Marshal Xie." After the ceremony, Gu Zhonghe and Han Qi and the others who were sitting on the side said: "This is the deputy marshal of our army, the famous Yongxing Hou, and I haven't seen it yet!" ”

Han Qi was looking at Baili Yan at this time, and he never expected that the deputy commander of the Xian Army, Bai Li Yan, was only thirty-five or sixteen. Han Qi and the others hurriedly got up and came to the center to salute:

"Han Qi has seen the deputy marshal of the Xian Army."

Bai Liyan sat back in the handsome seat, glanced at a few people, buckled the helmet on the case, drank unhurriedly, and said calmly:

"Why did General Han defect to our army?"

"The day before yesterday, I picked up the notice of the Xianjun Tiansa and came to defect."

"So, General Han is here for the bounty."

"Yes." Han Qi said simply: "The commander of a thousand people who leads the crowd to surrender to sincerity will get a thousand silver, so he should talk and count." ”

"General Han rest assured, Ben Shuai's words count, and he will never backtrack. But when you escape from Zhaocheng, what should you do with your family? ”

"Back to the deputy marshal, we are not natives of Zhaocheng, we were transferred from other counties the year before last, and our families are all in other counties. Besides, in this chaotic world, the family is not complete, and it is too late for his own life, where can he take care of his family, and ask the deputy marshal Mingjian. ”

"You understand people, that handsome asked you, according to the city is so heavily guarded, how did you escape from the city?"

"Back to the deputy marshal's words, the Xian army was only stationed ten miles away from the south gate and did not besiege the city, so the east gate and the north gate were occasionally opened. I hid outside the city for the night, and it wasn't until noon today that I had the opportunity to come and run. ”

"Then what are you doing with the east gate and the north gate?"

"One is to let the spies enter the city, and the other is that the reinforcements will land from Xingcheng in the near future, and the soldiers and horses in the city need to respond, and the two gates must be opened from time to time."

"You know very well, the Black Turban reinforcements have landed from Xingcheng, and you know all these secrets. Say, "What is your office in the city?" ”

"Under is the garrison of the warehouse, the transfer of grain and straw is well understood, and there is no grain and grass for the reinforcements, and the grain and grass in the city need to be received, so when it will arrive, there is a number in the heart."

"There is still geometry of the grain and grass in Zhaocheng, how many soldiers and horses of the Black Turban Army have landed in Xingcheng."

"The grain and grass can still be used for half a year for 30,000 defenders, and there are about 50,000 reinforcements this time, and 80,000 people will be used for two months."

"Fifty thousand! Are you sure it's 50,000? Bai Liyan asked.

"It's fifty thousand."

"Where are the soldiers and horses, infantry or cavalry, and when will they go ashore in Xingcheng."

"I don't know where the soldiers and horses are below, but it should be an infantry army, and they will go ashore in Xingcheng in five days at the earliest, seven or eight days at the latest, and it will take about two days to rush from Xingcheng to Zhaocheng."

"Then the city guard will have anyone other than Fang Ke?"

"I don't know much about the situation in the office, so I guess it's gone. Deputy marshal, I have said everything I should know, and I can't say what I shouldn't know, and I can't say what I should know, and I ask the deputy marshal to know it. ”

"You know each other. Since you have defected to our army, do you and your brothers want to join our army, or do you want to work as farmers in the future? ”

"The matter of the silver...... Han Qi asked carefully.

"The silver can be given to you now, if you are willing to serve the Xian army, after the war with our Xian army soldiers will be rewarded, if you are not willing to serve, disbanded on the spot, you and others will be temporarily placed in the territory of the Xian country, each person can get a subsistence land, and the silver can still be obtained."

"Oh...... Then what kind of field is that low-security field, why is there no notice on it? ”

"The subsistence land is the new law of our Xianguo, which has been implemented for more than ten years, but the people of the Xianguo country can get the subsistence land for life according to the number of acres of land per person. When the yield per mu of subsistence land is less than one stone five, no land tax shall be levied without war, and when it is higher than one stone and five stones, if it exceeds one stone and five parts, the tax shall be levied from one to six percent according to half a stone, one stone, one stone five, two stones, two stones, three stones, three stones, four stones, four stones, five stones, five stones, and more than five stones.

In addition to the subsistence land, each person can lease acres of land from the government for farming, and the money and grain obtained are paid separately. When the war subsides, the tax on leased land will be reduced to between 20% and 30%, and with the production of low-income land, those who work more will get more, enough for ordinary people to have enough food and clothing for daily life.

If you are willing to work, you can go to the official workshop to work, and you will only get more money and food than farming. ”

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