Thinking about it, Wang Huayong fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Wang Huayong came out of the room early and stood in front of Han Xiao's door next door for a long time, not daring to knock on the door.

After a long time, Wang Huayong made up his mind, gritted his teeth and stepped forward and knocked lightly on the door panel a few times, but there was no response, which made Wang Huayong confused.

When he came to the hall downstairs and saw the shopkeeper, Wang Huayong asked directly: "Shopkeeper, did the guest next door to the old man leave last night?" ”

The shopkeeper said, "I'll leave before dawn!" ”

"Oh!" Hearing this, Wang Huayong was in a state of frustration. Seeing that the wealth of the sky was about to arrive, he didn't want to fly away from his hands like this, and Wang Huayong's spiritual head collapsed suddenly......

On the other side, Han Xiao got up before dawn, and as soon as the city gate opened, Han Xiao led people straight to the Yalu River opposite.

Along the thick ice on the Yalu River, Han Xiao and others led the horses and used a full pillar of incense to reach Yiju in the territory of Goryeo on the opposite side.

"My lord, which direction shall we go?" Not long after he stepped ashore, his Jinyi lieutenant asked Han Xiao.

Because less than ten miles into the territory of Goryeo, everyone saw that the originally white snow was full of footprints, and they couldn't tell where to go.

It is also said that the customs of Goryeo are the same as those of the Great Zhou, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the eldest daughter and the youngest daughter-in-law have to go back to their parents' homes to visit relatives, so the footprints everywhere on the ground disturbed Han Xiao's pursuit target.

"There are so many trafficked Goryeo women, they are also afraid that they will be discovered by the Goryeo government, and they will definitely be hidden in inaccessible places!" Han Xiao said directly, "Get the map!" ”

After carefully looking at the wrinkled mountains and rivers on the map, Han Xiao pointed in one direction and said, "Less than twenty miles further from here, there is a mountainous area that is inaccessible, if it is not surprising, those people will definitely hide those Goryeo women there." ”

After speaking, Han Xiao got on his horse and ran in this direction......

"Second Prince, this neighborhood is covered by universities, where can I find gold mines? Let's go back! "In a mountainous area in the northwestern part of Uiju, dozens of people wearing mink furs and riding green horses were running back and forth on the mountain road, and one of the guards persuaded the second prince.

I don't know who I heard about it, but the second prince heard the news that there was a gold mine in this mountainous area in Yiju City yesterday afternoon, and he brought people over early in the morning, before he had time to eat breakfast.

But in this vast white area, the mountains and ravines are covered with snow, and even if there is a gold mine, it cannot be found.

The second prince said, "What do you know? If gold is found here, do you understand what it means to me? ”

It turned out that the king of Goryeo wanted to seal the fief of the second prince to Uiju, but it was impossible to seal all the land of the entire Uiju to the second prince, otherwise the people would have no way to live.

Therefore, for the second prince, it is particularly important to choose which place in Yiju is the fief.

If he hadn't heard of the gold mine, everything didn't matter to the second prince.

But if there is a gold mine here, that's another story.

In addition, the second prince had to discover the gold mine before the Goryeo court knew the news, and then begged his father to canonize it to him after returning to the capital.

At that time, as long as the father's will is officially issued, even if the ministers of the court and the central government oppose it, even if his prince and brother are unhappy, everything is already a foregone conclusion, and no one can change anything.

But if the time drags on for a long time, when the court knows the news, and the second prince wants to beg the king of Goryeo to canonize his fief here, it will be difficult.

Crucially, this mountainous area is much more barren than the rest of Euiju. In other words, if the second prince begged the king of Goryeo to canonize this place to him before discovering the gold mine, in case the gold mine could not be found in the future, wouldn't the second prince want to cry without tears?

Therefore, the second prince had to find out where the gold mine was before the canonization, and he had to come here for the New Year.

At this time, a caravan came from the south to the north, and soon arrived in front of the second prince and the others.

"Stop!" Looking at these people, the second prince's eyes narrowed and asked, "What are you doing?" What are you doing here on this snowy day? ”

An old man in cyan silk clothes walked out slowly, and said to the second prince: "The inferior person is a merchant from Liaodong in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there is an urgent batch of goods to be transported back, so he braved the cold to hurry. ”

"It turned out to be a merchant from the Heavenly Empire!" After listening to the old man's explanation, the second prince showed a smile on his face and said, "In that case, then you can go over!" ”

After speaking, the second prince signaled his subordinates to let him go.

"Smack!"

Not long after, a stone suddenly fell from a carriage passing in front of the second prince.

Looking at the stone, the second prince's eyes couldn't help but light up, and then he stepped forward and bent down to pick it up.

Holding it in his hand and carefully identifying it, the second prince's eyes couldn't help but narrow, "Gold ore!" ”

Muttering a sentence in his mouth, the second prince still glanced back and forth at the personnel of the caravan, and then shouted, "Come on, take down all these people for me!" ”

The men of the caravan were startled, thinking that they had encountered robbers.

The old man in front of the team leader stepped forward and said with a smile: "This son, we are the caravan of the Anyi firm in Liaodong, and we have been going back and forth between the Great Zhou and Goryeo for many years, and I don't know that the son is from that mountain, and I will definitely give a generous gift when the time comes." ”

The second prince did not pay attention to the old man's narration, but stared at the old man for a long time, and then went back and forth in the carriage.

After a long while, the second prince got out of the carriage, squinted his eyes and asked the old man, "Where did you pick up these gold ores?" ”

"What gold ore?" The old man was puzzled, "Childe is just afraid that he has misunderstood, these are just ordinary stones, I don't know who put them in the car!" ”

"Ben Gongzi is so easy to deceive, don't you even know if it's gold ore?" Seeing the old man playing dumb riddles with himself, the second prince was a little angry, "Hurry up and say it, otherwise you will feel better." ”

The old man felt that he had encountered a hard stubble, and he didn't know where to pick up a few stones, so he insisted that it was gold ore, so that he could plant it for himself, and then give them an excuse to do it.

The urine of these bandits and bandits, the old man felt that he had already seen through it, so he became more and more tough, and said: "This son, I'm afraid you don't know the background of our host, let me tell you, our host is the ...... of Liaodong."

Before the old man finished speaking, he felt a chill in his stomach. Looking down, he didn't know when, the bandit in front of him had stabbed a dagger into his stomach.

Soon, the old man collapsed to the ground.

The second prince threw down the dagger, took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood on his hand, and said coldly to the other caravan personnel: "Who dares to play dumb riddles with this son, this is the end!" ”

As he spoke, the second prince instructed his guards: "Interrogate them one by one, and if anyone dares to hesitate, kill them immediately!" ”

"These bandits will definitely kill us all, destroy our corpses, don't believe them, brothers, let's run quickly!" In the caravan, I don't know who shouted, everyone broke free from the guards' custody and ran north one by one......

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