Chapter 165: Mining Gold

"Come on!"

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

Approaching the bottom of the mountain, the crowd rushed down with shouts.

Unexpectedly, the situation of hand-to-hand combat did not appear, and the foot of the mountain that should have surrounded the water was deserted?

What about the Tartars? What about the Dali Army?

When they climbed over the slightly towering mountain in front of them, everyone who saw the scene in front of them was stunned!

The people behind couldn't see it, so they had to move sideways to see what was going on, but everyone who saw it stood still, and the more this happened, the more anxious the people behind became, and soon they spontaneously lined up in several long horizontal columns.

There was a wide depression in front of it, but now it was covered with the corpses of the Tartars and the Dali army, and these corpses were stacked one after another, and I don't know how many layers there were.

The place that was originally overgrown with weeds seems to have experienced a huge explosion, and the turf has disappeared, turning out a lot of earthy yellow dirt.

This time, the Dali army dispatched 20,000 people, and the Yuan army sent 40,000 people, and now they are all dead?

Everyone's emotions are the same complex, and they have already gone down the mountain desperately with the mentality of dying, but they unexpectedly found that the enemy was all dead!

Everyone stared at the corpses with wide eyes, and their mouths were inhaling cold air as if they were in a dream.

Zhao Rui's side has just finished fighting, and for this war, the number of enemies is huge, and Zhao Rui has also made a bloody investment. Not only did it consume countless bullets, but it also threw two empty boxes, and there were only two left*** were also hit by Zhao Rui on the enemy who wanted to escape.

At this moment, more than 60,000 Tartars and the reinforcements of Dali were killed and wounded!

The 100,000 people who suddenly appeared on the mountain just now startled Zhao Rui, thinking that there were still so many people in the enemy, but they didn't look like clothes.

Zhao Rui took the binoculars and saw that it was a group of ordinary people, and the person among them was his apprentice Ma Yue.

Putting down the binoculars, Zhao Rui carried the talisman and shouted loudly: "Ma Yue! I'm here to save you! ”

Only then did everyone see the army on the opposite side, and they thought to themselves who had such a high-pitched voice.

Ma Yue had surprise on his face, heard Zhao Rui's voice, and immediately looked surprised again, and shouted to everyone on the left and right: "It's Zhao Rui who is here!" It was the prince who brought troops to save us! He was the one who killed all the Tartars! Hahaha! ”

How can Ma Yue not be crazy, such a long wait, so many people's persuasion, so many times of self-denial and self-persuasion, Ma Yue is now more excited than anyone else!

Big tears fell, and he didn't realize it, hugging the three brothers of the Xiong family around him one by one.

"Haha! Here it comes! He's coming! My master is here! ”

Only then did everyone realize that everything in front of them was true, Ma Zhenren's master was really powerful, and his army could destroy all the enemies!

"Great!"

"We are saved!"

"Aha......"

100,000 people shouted with joy regardless of their image, venting their depressed feelings for many days, and some even fell to the ground in a coma.

Zhao Rui arranged his subordinates and walked over by himself, and people looked at him with a confident smile and involuntarily knelt down and bowed to Zhao Rui.

The gods descend to earth, and they should be worshipped!

Zhao Rui thought they meant gratitude, but it was too solemn.

Ma Yue, who had just wiped away his tears, was just about to speak, but he grabbed Zhao Rui's arm, his eyes were red again, and then he fainted.

"What's going on?"

Zhao Rui saw that they were embarrassed, and he really didn't expect that there was no food for a few days, and the Xiong brothers stepped forward to talk, and Zhao Rui understood what had happened in the past few days.

Ma Yue has really made a great contribution to Zhao Rui!

Knowing that these people were hungry, Zhao Rui hurriedly ordered the cook to bury the pot to make rice, they were too hungry for too long to eat hard food, so they made several large pots of gruel, and sent someone to call the people left behind on the mountain.

I don't know how many pots of rice porridge were cooked, and it didn't end until the food brought by Zhao Rui was exhausted.

Ma Yue also woke up leisurely at this time, and only after being fed did he feel that he had some physical strength, and pulled the three brothers of the Xiong family to meet Zhao Rui.

Zhao Rui heard that it was Ma Yue's brother who was naturally courteous, but he couldn't help laughing when he heard their names, and the three brothers of the Xiong family also felt that they were taken seriously, which made the prince so happy.

Then Zhao Rui ordered everyone to clean up the battlefield, and then burned the corpse to the ground. Then it was to return to the town, and the officers and soldiers of Longzhou and Guangyuan Prefecture were killed, but fortunately, the enemy army was eager to kill people and had not yet begun to plunder, and there was no material loss in the city.

is noncommittal to Zhao Rui in Longzhou, it is originally a barren county, and he has little interest. But the people of the two cities wanted Zhao Rui to take over the city, and Zhao Ruizhi was in Guangyuan Prefecture, so he agreed with Longzhou.

A team of 25,000 people was stationed here, and the people's sense of security was full, and Zhao Rui's mythical achievements were publicized everywhere, and it didn't take long for the surrounding counties to know that there was a prince so powerful, and more than 60,000 people of the Dali army and the Yuan army were wiped out unscathed.

Zhao Rui has explored the situation in the city and its surroundings in the past few days, and the more he thinks about it, the more he feels that he can't stay here for a long time.

The second city of Guangyuan Longzhou is too far to the north, and it is far away from Yongping Village, even if it is a fast horse, it will take a whole day, and when there is a crisis on both sides, it will not be able to take care of it, and everything is really cold.

But how to fix the gold mine? That's yellow and clear gold, isn't it too bad to abandon it?

Zhao Rui told Ma Yue about this concern, and Ma Yue blinked and said, "Isn't it okay to dig it all out and take it away?" ”

"Huh?"

Zhao Rui didn't expect to be able to operate like this, and asked in surprise: "How much manpower does it take, and we don't have so much food to supply!" ”

"It doesn't matter if we don't have food, don't we have gold?" Ma Yue looked at Zhao Rui with a smile.

Zhao Rui was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding, always thinking that he would use his own people to mine, but in fact, if the amount of gold is sufficient, he can hire the surrounding people to mine.

And the Song Dynasty has realized the employment system for hundreds of years, which is nothing, and when the surrounding people can come to mine to make money, they can just solve the grain themselves.

"Okay, Ma Yue, that's a good idea!" Zhao Rui gave a thumbs up and praised, feeling that Ma Yue was really a person with a more active brain.

"Where ......" Ma Yue waved his hand modestly and said: "This is because the master didn't think about it, and I have lived here for many years, and I have thought about it many times!" ”

"Haha! I see......

I don't know when I will contact the enemy again, Zhao Rui did not delay, and immediately found someone to spread the news.

Originally, the surrounding area was also poor and bad, and I couldn't earn a few dollars from farming, but now I heard that there is no limit to the number of people mining gold mines, and many strong laborers from many families have come, if it weren't for Zhao Rui's early statement that he didn't want women and children, it is estimated that the whole family will definitely not be a few.

Compared with the Jiaozhi people, the Song people came more, which came from the fact that the economy was more developed, and naturally their minds were a little more lively, and many of them wanted to hide some gold, which was more cost-effective than farming.

However, Zhao Rui had already mentioned this, and arranged tailors in the mine on the first day, sewed all the pockets of these people's clothes, and instructed them to wear pocketless clothes next time.

At the same time, a whistleblowing system has been introduced, and in addition to rewarding those who report gold, those who hide gold will be detained here all the time, and they don't have to think about going home until the gold is mined.

Zhao Rui doesn't care too much about some of the ones that hide a little bit of gold dust, hidden in shoes, socks, and hidden in his mouth, as long as it's not a large piece of gold.

If the water is observed, there is no fish, Zhao Rui still understands this truth.

More and more people came to work in the mines, and the output increased day by day, and the alchemy furnaces were busy day and night, and the gold stored in the warehouses was also increasing.

The court of the Chen Dynasty learned the news of the occupation of Guangyuan Prefecture, which was equivalent to missing a source of gold, and he hated it even more, so he wanted to take Guangyuan Prefecture back, but only a few nearby states and counties only gathered a team of nearly 10,000 people.

So the 10,000-strong Jiaozhi army embarked on a journey to crusade against Guangyuan Prefecture, because Zhao Rui's deeds were spread too widely, and the court knew that it was not Zhao Rui's opponent of 25,000 people, so they came up with a trick to let them pretend to be civilians and enter Guangyuan Prefecture City in batches, disguised as hired miners.

I want to gather in the city and then launch an attack.

But Zhao Rui had already thought of this, and each batch of workers was dispatched to a distant mining area, and they were sent home in batches before dark.

During this period, several generals of the 10,000-strong team have been looking for flaws, but after the double consideration of Zhao Rui and Ma Yue, how can they leave more obvious loopholes?

To put it bluntly, the IQ of these people is simply not enough!

After four or five days, Chen Jiong did not receive any news, so he sent someone to inquire, but there was no progress at all.

Chen Jiong was about to explode when he heard about it, was this his own payout to organize people to help Zhao Rui? So he ordered the 10,000 men to return to their respective cities to make another decision.

Chen Jiong wronged Zhao Rui at this point, Zhao Rui's side pays wages every day, and these Jiaozhi soldiers can't sit still when they return home with their wages.

After all, going to mining is more profitable than being a soldier!

As a result, many Jiaozhi soldiers got rid of their military registration and went to Guangyuan Prefecture to work.

Ma Yue realized that these people didn't come for two or three days, and they all appeared all at once, which was really a strange thing.

After questioning in batches, more than 1,000 people said that their wives had children, more than 3,000 said that their parents were seriously ill, and other reasons were even more varied.

When Ma Yue and Zhao Rui were talking, they said it as a joke, which provoked Zhao Rui twice, and he didn't take it seriously at all, saying that he would like to thank Emperor Chen for his strong support for his mining career when he had a chance in the future.

While the two were talking and laughing, Zhao Gong knocked on the door and entered, looking at his more dignified face, both of them knew that there was a military situation, so they calmed down and listened to his report.

"Young Master, Counselor Ma." Zhao Gong saluted and said: "Our people in the suburbs of the north have already discovered the spies of the Yuan army in disguise!" ”

Ma Yue followed Zhao Rui, and Zhao Rui made him a staff officer of the whole army.

Zhao Rui and Ma Yue looked at each other and laughed, and they even felt a little relaxed.