The old shopkeeper looked left and right, and then squinted and looked at Zhang Yue carefully, and then whispered: "Look at you as a businessman, it's okay to pay the bill with dog's head gold, but I have to remind you that you can't exchange a large amount of money in one place, otherwise you will be arrested by the government, don't say that I hurt you!" ”

"Of course!" Zhang Yue smiled and agreed, just to test it, not wanting that the shops here really have dog head gold, so he secretly gave Li Deliang a look and asked him to follow.

The shopkeeper took them to a tent room, told them to wait outside, and then went into the house, and after a while he came out with a small bag, and weighed it with a small scale, and handed it to Zhang Yue and said: "This is fifteen taels of dog's head gold, you have collected it, and next time you can come again if you have good mountain goods!" ”

Zhang Yue took the money bag and looked at it, took out a thumb-sized piece of gold and pretended to be surprised: "Shopkeeper!" You're not in the right shape, fake, aren't you? ”

"Nonsense! A pit out of ...... How can there be a fake? The shopkeeper suddenly realized that he had lost his words, and immediately fell there.

Zhang Yue didn't speak, turned around and closed the door, Li Deliang stood behind the door very cooperatively, and smiled maliciously. Zhang Yue walked to the opposite side of the shopkeeper and sat down, took out his bronze medal of forbidden army status from his arms, put it in front of the shopkeeper, and stared at him coldly.

"You ...... What are you ...... Praetorian Army! The shopkeeper picked up the bronze medal and looked at it, startled, and quickly put it on the table like a biting hand.

"It's good to understand! Do you know how to speak? Zhang Yue said aggressively.

The shopkeeper's expression was cloudy, and he wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve uneasily, and whispered: "The military master wants the villain to say, but the villain's life is ...... safe."

"If you don't say it, it's not safe now, say it! This official guarantees that you are safe! ”

"In fact, the villain doesn't know the inside story, this dog's head gold is all flowing from the hands of the county officials......" The shopkeeper said tremblingly.

"Which little official?"

"The county officials have it in their hands, and the villain is only familiar with the prison, and he lives not far from my house!"

"Excellent! I'm waiting here, call a guy to call the warden! ”

Not long after, the prison really came, it was a middle-aged bearded man in his forties, named Li Dayou, and he naturally couldn't go back when he entered the store.

Zhang Yue asked some questions, and finally figured out that the name of Fangcheng County Commander was Chen Shouyu, who was also a guy who was greedy for money and good goods, and often deducted salt silkworms from households and increased taxes. One of the people who couldn't pay their taxes fled into the mountains and hid, but the result was ...... He actually picked up a piece of dog's head gold, and went back to the city to find the county official to pay taxes, which attracted the attention of Chen Shouyu, and asked the household to take people to the mountains to look for it, and found a gold mine, but he didn't dare to mine it openly, so he reported it to the state government. So, a lot of dog's head gold was smelted.

What a bunch of dead people! This alone is enough to take people, Zhang Yue found that things were a little difficult to handle, and he commanded into Tangzhou, maybe before he arrived, people rolled up and ran away. But now, none of this matters, and a specific location for the mineral deposit must be found.

"You lead the way, the official wants to go into the mountains to take a look at the gold mine!" Zhang Yue ordered Li Dayou to be imprisoned.

Li Dayou was helpless, crying with a sad face, so he had to agree.

Zhang Yue immediately arranged for Li Deliang to lead his own soldiers to stay in the store and watch the shopkeeper in case he ran out to report the news. Then he drove Li Dayou into the carriage, drove out of the city with Yang Shouzhen and the others, and headed for Fangcheng Mountain, thirty miles north of the county seat.

It was dark when he walked halfway, the lantern was hung in front of the carriage and continued to hurry, and finally arrived at the place in the middle of the night, and saw a large manor in front of him from a distance, Zhang Yue stopped the carriage, and had to sigh that the small people had no foothold in these years, and the landlords were strong and strong, and the manor economy had taken shape.

"Where is the mine? Is there anyone to watch at night? Yang Shouzhen grabbed Li Dayou by the collar and dragged him out of the car.

"It's in this big mountain, there are several mountains to climb, the road is very difficult to walk, I think it's better to enter the mountain tomorrow morning!" Li Dayou explained.

"Whose is that Zhuangzi?" Zhang Yue understood Li Dayou's thoughts, probably wanting to rest.

"The people who live there are all miners, and I know the foreman inside, so it's okay to stay here for one night."

"No! Find a nearby village to spend the night! "It's really inconvenient to go into the mountain at night, but the Zhuangzi can't go either, it's not good to alarm them, this prison is not honest.

Let Li Dayou lead the way, the village soon arrived, and the borrowed family was a farmer, the old man in his fifties, happily provided dinner, and packed up the room for them to live in. Zhang Yue inquired with the old man and learned that the strong men of all families in the nearby township had been requisitioned into the mountains to mine.

The next day, Zhang Yue clearly felt that the warden Li Dayou was thinking carefully, so he simply tied his hands, and the two big slaps led him honestly to lead the way, and the sheep intestine path was twisted and twisted, and it was difficult to walk, and he finally arrived at his destination after walking all morning.

The three of them stood on the top of a hill and looked out into the depression below, where the crowd came and went like ants to carry the ore, and the hammer of mining clanged and clanked, and occasionally the shouts of the foreman and the cry of the people.

"What's the name of this place?" Zhang Yue asked.

"Niutou Village!" Li Dayou replied nervously.

"Look! They seem to be going to leave work, just in time for no one, let's go down and have a look! As he was talking, someone blew a trumpet in the valley below, and Yang Shouzhen said in surprise.

When the people were finished, Zhang Yue greeted him, took Yang Shouzhen and Li Dayou down the hillside, and saw that there was a large piece of flat land in the depression, the area was very large, and there was a cliff at the foot of the mountain in the north, the cliff surface was layered, and there were cracks one after another, a layer of gray and black and a layer of golden, dazzling light, and it looked very pure.

Li Dayou swallowed his saliva very unproductively, Zhang Yue reached out and slapped him on the head, and said in a low voice: "Look at what, take the ore quickly, take a few pieces for me and leave." ”

Zhang Yue was not idle, stepped forward and picked up a few small pieces and put them in his pocket, took another big one in his hand, quickly shouted to stop the two, and left with the ore sample.

When he went back, he didn't delay any longer, drove the carriage back to Fangcheng County, and repeatedly told the warden Li Dayou and the shopkeeper, Zhang Yue took Yang Shouzhen, Li Deliang and other ten personal soldiers back to Wuyang County.

After waiting for two or three days, Wen Yuankai came back, he naturally didn't find any mines, but he also collected a lot of black village materials of Li Yanzhang, the assassin of Tangzhou, it is said that the weapons and armor workshops are mostly distributed in the area of Shangma County in the west of Tangzhou, and no evidence of selling armor has been found, but it is enough to have private gold mines.

Wen Yuankai immediately wrote the chapter, and Zhang Yue sent Zong Jingcheng to return to Tokyo with the chapter and the gold ore sample, and handed it over to Wang Yanai of Menxia Province, because he seemed to be in charge of the case.

The two packed up and were preparing to go south the next day, just in the evening of this day, He Fujin, who went to Shannan Dongdao to take up his post, passed through Wuyang County with hundreds of personal soldiers.