"Kill it! After entering the village, let everyone search for bandits in units such as Wu and Shi, be careful, don't be left alone, so that there will be attrition at this last time, people, it is enough to die of that bad ghost! Cao Zhen was full of unhappiness when he said this.

The war drums of the all-out attack sounded, and the five Zhenghuang Qishan Yue Banner soldiers of Cao Xiang's department set up ladders, climbed the wall, and then slipped down the log, just ready to fight, but saw that there was no one around to block the people, and everyone who could run was running into the village.

The flag soldiers effortlessly opened the gate of the village, and more than two hundred soldiers rushed in, Cao Xiang looked at the back of the fleeing robber and said with disdain: "The cottage is built on this small hill, and it is surrounded on all sides, did you run?" ”

Cao Xiang was not in a hurry at all, waiting for Cao Zhen to enter the cottage with the army, Cao Zhen gave an order: "Cao Qing stays here, not a single robber can be let go, and the rest of the people stay in formation and catch them alive!" ”

Cao Jun went straight to the cottage Juyi Hall, but saw that there was no one.

"Find me separately!"

Everyone kept the original team of more than 200 people, and began to disperse to search, Cao Ou looked up, and saw a spacious earthen house not far away, not like a bamboo house to live in, and led his men to kill the past, and was not attacked by anyone along the way, and soon came to the front of this big house.

The flag soldier did not need to be instructed, he consciously stepped forward with a flag soldier with a chopping axe, smashed the copper lock with the back of the axe, the two flag soldiers pushed the door, and the archer pulled the bow to aim.

"Squeak~"

The door was slowly opened, and the dim light shone into the room, only to see that it was full of wooden boxes, Cao Ou, open one of them, and see dense, a box of five baht coins, at least 10,000 pieces.

Then open the box next to it, it is also five baht money, roughly counting, there are no less than fifty boxes in the house, Cao Ou ordered people to open all of them, except for the first two boxes of five baht coins, the rest are boxes of purple and red "color" fine sand.

Cao Ou grabbed a handful and looked up suddenly.

It's metallic!

"Does anyone know what this is, how can it be put with money!"

Soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, shaking their heads one by one.

"Go to a Shi, inform Commander Cao! I found the money warehouse, and in addition to the five baht coins, there was also an unknown golden sand! ”

After a while, Cao Zhen came, here, he looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't recognize it, but Yu Kang next to him widened his eyes, and attached to Cao Zhen's ear and said: "This is copper concentrate sand!" As long as you refine it again, you can get red gold! ”

Red gold is red copper, Cao Zhen didn't expect to find so much copper ore and sand here, this is the herald running over: "Found it!" The robbers are hiding in a cave! ”

"Let's go!"

The warehouse was temporarily locked, leaving a few people to guard it, and the rest of the people went with the heralds, and Cao Jun gathered from all over the search to the northwest, and just saw a cave, he heard a voice like a duck from inside.

"What are you guys doing? Who's coming! that your Lord may come to me. ”

Cao Zhen took a closer look, hundreds of neatly dressed men, women and children in the cave were gathered together, next to them were carts loaded with ore, and there were pickaxes, sledgehammers, shovels, etc. on the ground.

At the other end of the cave, more than 300 people in tattered clothes, dirty faces, hemp ropes on their feet, thin bodies, and deep-set eyes shrunk together, looking at this place in fear.

I can't imagine a small cottage, but there is a copper mine hidden.

At this time, a body was short and fat, like a winter melon, and a middle-aged man wearing the county magistrate's uniform was spitting at Ma Zhong.

Ma Zhong didn't dare to reply to a word when he was scolded, and Yu Kang next to him looked at the figure of the other party, he had always been shy, and clenched his fists at this time.

"Huh! Yu Sashi! You're here! When the fat county magistrate heard someone coming in, he turned around and found Yu Kang in the crowd, looked at his hands clenched into fists, and sneered.

Yu Kang's fists clenched and loosened, his face darkened, his head lowered, and he said unwillingly: "Xiaguan has seen County Magistrate Zhu. ”

The county magistrate of Dwarf Winter Melon Zhu snorted coldly and smiled disdainfully, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by a sarcastic voice.

"Yo! Great official authority! The fat pig magistrate in the robber's den! Cao Zhen picked up the sludge in his nails, didn't even look at it, and said.

Where could County Magistrate Zhu, who has been an official for more than 20 years, be insulted by a teenager in person, and his face suddenly turned purple "color".

"Hehe, is this kidnapped or did you come by yourself? I said that Ah Weng couldn't see anyone when he handed over to him, so he was hiding here. Cao Pelican continued.

The county elder Zhu was panting heavily, and he was about to scold.

"Qiang~"

The ring head knife was pulled out, and Cao Pelican 'touched' the blade with his hand, as if he was chatting with a friend about how to kill chickens: "You said that the county magistrate, who has been kidnapped by the robbers for three months, will he have been killed by the robbers long ago!" ”

"You dare!" County Magistrate Zhu looked at Cao Peli, who was not as old as his son, and pointed his finger at him, his whole body trembling, like a water-filled leather ball shaking.

Cao Pelican carried the ring head knife and walked towards County Magistrate Zhu with a sneer, the other party was stubborn in his mouth, but he was extremely scared in action, his feet retreated again and again, and finally he tripped over a piece of copper ore and fell to the ground, falling into a rolling gourd.

"Haha! What about the fat pig arching the soil to find water to eat? Come on, come on! Let me cut off a pig's foot and roast it! Cao Pelican laughed.

Seeing that the other party was afraid, Cao Zhen waved his hand to stop Cao Peli, stepped forward to the county magistrate Zhu, and asked, "Aren't you transferred to Longchuan as the county magistrate?" Why are you still here? What about your family? ”

County Magistrate Zhu struggled to get up, with no image at all, and wanted to answer, but when he saw Cao Pelican wiping his neck with the ring knife, he was so frightened that he hurriedly said:

"The little general didn't know, Zhu was a native of Lingling, an ordinary Haoqiang from a humble background, entered Taixue at the age of seventeen, was elected to Lang at the age of twenty-five with excellent grades, and was selected as a lang in the palace for ten years, and prepared ten years of money, and the last dynasty was sent to Cao Song, so he was fortunate to be appointed as an official and served as the magistrate of Xinye County, Nanyang.

But just a few months later, the damned Cao Gelding sold the position of Xinye County magistrate to someone else, and I was forced to be transferred to a county in Wuling County as the chief, where I suffered from the Wuxi barbarians, survived for two years, and then transferred to the more remote and miasma-filled Zhenyang.

It's only been a few months, and someone has come to Zhenyang again, this time I was simply transferred to the most barren Jiaozhou, and I was appointed as the head of Longchuan.

I had to stay in the mountains! ”

Cao Zhen listened to County Magistrate Zhu's complaints to the imperial court, and the people had already walked to a blast furnace for refining raw copper ore.