Chapter 154: Gold Mine

Li Zhen said thoughtfully: "In addition to the hundreds of thousands of taels found in Rili City, there are more than two million taels that have no provenance, which is really strange, and there is inevitably too much gold in it." ”

"Could it be the treasury of the Rili and their salaries?" Wang Can speculated: "After all, they are waging war, it is possible to pay a little more silver, and we did find a lot of gold and silver printed with Linyi characters on it." ”

Fang Yiai shook his head and retorted: "50,000 people, can there be more than two million taels of silver?" If Lin Yi was so rich, then they would have developed a long time ago, and they couldn't tell who would kill whom with the Tang Dynasty. And there is so much gold in this, can Lin Yi still use gold to pay his salary? ”

"Then there's only one possibility." Li Zhen picked up a gold ingot and took out a gold ingot from the box, and said slowly: "Look at it, how long has it been since this gold was cast?" ”

"Up to a month's ......"

Fang Yiai took it and identified it, as the saying goes, real gold is not afraid of fire refining, the fire on this gold ingot is so obvious, in fact, a month is already a long time, this gold ingot has only been refined for ten days at most.

"That's right."

"What do you mean?"

Li Zhen didn't answer, but continued to ask Wang Can: "When you searched the city, did you see alchemy furnaces and other equipment that can hold gold?" ”

"Not really." Wang Can thought about it, there were only a few blacksmith shops in the city, but they obviously didn't have the ability to make gold.

"That's strange, then where is their gold smelted......" Fang Yi Aihua said halfway, thinking of something, and suddenly paused.

"Your Highness, do you mean ......" This time, even Baili Changsheng's voice changed, and he saw his eyes widen wide, and his voice was sharp: "You mean to say that there is a gold mine near here?" ”

"What? Gold mine? ”

"Where?"

"Oh my God!"

"I haven't seen a gold mine yet!"

"......" Baili Changsheng was too out of shape to even notice the surrounding environment, so he said his guess, which immediately caused everyone to talk about it - this is a gold mine, and what is produced in it is gold......

"Okay, don't make any noise, what if there's a gold mine here? We ......"

Before Li Zhen finished speaking, he was interrupted by the stinky boy who was rushing over, and I saw him shouting as he ran: "Your Highness, we have caught a convoy of Linyi, they are all transporting gold, and we are going to make a fortune." ”

"Is there really a gold mine?"

"This convoy should be the one who contacted Rili and the gold mines, right?"

"I finally understand why there is so much food stored in Belvedere."

"It turns out that there is a gold mining team here."

“……”

Fang Yiai was even more excited, and asked again and again: "Your Highness, is there really a gold mine?" ”

"It's pretty obvious, isn't it?"

"Gold mine...... Fang Yiai muttered in his mouth, his eyes were misty, and he was obviously caught in some kind of imagination.

Baili Changsheng also asked quite excitedly: "Your Highness, do you want to take a look?" ”

Li Zhen nodded and said, "Of course, the king of gold has seen a lot, but this is the first time I have seen a gold mine." ”

"Stinky boy, where are the people you caught?"

The stinky boy immediately said: "Just outside the city now, Your Highness, please come with me." ”

In the open space outside the city, surrounded by a group of Changsheng battalion soldiers wearing camouflage uniforms (don't ask me where the camouflage uniforms came from), in the middle were three large carts, each of which had several large boxes on them, and the rut marks were very deep, obviously the goods in the boxes were extremely heavy.

Next to the car, there were dozens of people dressed as Linyi soldiers, who were squatting on the ground with their heads downcast, looking at the car unwillingly.

For these people, Li Zhen didn't even look at them, he directly climbed into the car, opened a box casually, and the golden light suddenly appeared in Li Zhen's eyes, almost dazzling his eyes.

"Sure enough, it's gold, it seems that there is really a gold mine around here." Fang Yiai said: "The only question now is where is this gold mine. ”

"That's not a problem at all." Baili Changsheng took out a long knife and put it on a man who looked like a leader: "Tell me, where is your gold mine?" Otherwise...... My knives are sharp. ”

This leader looks strong and arrogant, very tough and difficult to provoke, who knows that he was just frightened by the knife of Baili Changsheng, and immediately became a pug: "My lord spare my life, my lord spare my life, I said that the gold mine is in a valley fifty miles away, as long as the adult spares my life, I will take the adult over." ”

"Good, your life was saved." Baili Changsheng withdrew his knife: "Don't you lead the way?" ”

"Yes, yes, please come with the adults."

"You are here to guard, and the camp of victory will come with me." Of course, it is impossible to bring more than 5,000 people over, Li Zhen only brought the previous Changsheng battalion this time, compared with the rest of the battalions, the Changsheng battalion may be a little weaker in combat effectiveness, but it was born for the jungle and is more suitable for jungle marching.

Fifty miles of road, according to Li Zhen's previous speed, it would take at least five days to walk, but now someone is leading the way, and in order to transport gold, the Rili people opened up a logging path to come out, but even so, more than a thousand people walked for a day to reach the place.

The gold mines were heavily defended, with thousands of troops alone, and countless coolies carrying heavy baskets to and fro in the valleys, and overseers with leather whips and hideous faces patrolling back and forth to see if anyone was lazy and went up with a whip......

After a charge, the army guarding here was attacked by the Changsheng battalion - the combat effectiveness of the Changsheng battalion was indeed weak, but it was compared to the youth army, and it was still a first-class strong army outside.

The gold mine became Li Zhen's personal belongings.

However, to everyone's disappointment, this gold mine is only a small mine, and it is about to be exhausted.

"It's a pity, run for nothing." Fang Yiai said with some disappointment.

Li Zhen has a different opinion: "To be exact, it should be regarded as our luck." ”

"Your Highness, what do you mean by this?" Fang Yiai wondered, the gold mine is gone, and he has run for nothing, how can he become lucky?

Li Zhen smiled slightly: "Let me ask you, if this is a super bonanza, then what will we do next?" ”

Fang Yiai said without thinking: "Of course, I will continue to mine." ”

"But this is an enemy country, and the lives of miners are threatened at all times."

"That's better, we'll just send troops to garrison it."

"And how many troops are you going to garrison?"

"Of course, the more the merrier."

"But we only have 5,000 people, if we send less, we can't resist the enemy's attack, if we send more, it will affect our next plan, anyway, to give up the long-term plan for a gold mine, this is definitely not feasible, and I will never agree."

"This ......" Fang Yiai was dumbfounded.

"Got it? At the very least, this avoids a dilemma. Li Zhen said: "Okay, since it's a small mine, then forget it, let's withdraw." ”

"Yes."

(End of chapter)