Yuan Er smiled, meaning that you know, little grandfather.

Jiang Muyuan understands that it was Sun Rui who pitted Sun Zhen and asked Sun Zhen to provoke Sun Bi and make Sun Bi anxious.

Yuan Er smiled, the corners of his lips were flattened, the whole person looked more serious, and said in a deep voice: "After that, it was me and the fifth master who were negligent, and they all thought that the Seventh Highness was seriously injured and could only lie down to recuperate. ”

In fact, it was difficult for them to reach into the county king's mansion, there was a lot of space nearby, and suddenly another stranger appeared nearby, which attracted more and more attention.

"The Third Highness seems to have sensed Sun Bi's antipathy, and asked his relatives to quietly take the Seventh Highness out of the County King's Mansion in the rain, and when the Third Highness wanted to get out of the palace, we realized that the Seventh Highness was gone."

The rain was so heavy that the day was as overcast as the night, and the view was extremely obstructed.

When there was a situation in the mansion, it was difficult for Wu Ye and Yuan Er to determine whether it was Sun Zhen's disappearance that alarmed Sun Bi and Dong Zhiwang, making them anxious to raise troops; It was Sun Rui who was in a hurry to get out and exposed Sun Zhen's disappearance, so that the two had to rebel.

In short, Nanling City that day was in chaos.

Sun Rui rushed out with people before the city gate was closed, but almost all the officials in Beijing were detained by Dong Zhiwang.

Wu Ye and Yuan were short of manpower, and they took care of one or the other for a while, they were one step late, and they didn't keep up with Sun Rui and his party, and it would be difficult to turn Sun Rui out later.

Officials were detained, the prince disappeared, Sun Bi and Dong Zhiwang rebelled, and the people in Nanling City were panicked, and the entry and exit were strictly checked.

At that time, Yuan Er also wanted to send news to Tingfeng as soon as possible and tell Jiang Muyuan about the changes in Nanling, but after discussing it with Master Wu, he put it aside for the time being.

The manpower they can use in Nanling is not enough, and it is of little significance to withdraw another person just to deliver a letter.

Moreover, Jiang Muyuan is still in the north, even if he is quick to whip up, when the news reaches Jiang Muyuan's hands, it will be too late, according to the saint's temperament, nine times out of ten Jiang Muyuan will be transferred from the north to Nanling, they might as well find out more news here.

I have to say that they still inquired about a lot of things, at least the situation near Nanling City is much clearer than what the army knows at this time.

Looking at the map, Yuan Er said a few generalities, and said: "The Third Highness with the seriously injured Seventh Highness, should not go far, I have discussed with the Fifth Master, it is very likely to settle in this area." ”

Not only Yuan Er and Wu Ye will guess, but Sun Bi will naturally guess too, but wherever it is easy to search inch by inch, it must have been rummaged by Sun Bi's people a long time ago, only in this area, the cliffs are steep and the road is difficult to walk, and the heart is weak.

Jiang Muyuan stared at the area drawn by Yuan Er, he guessed that Sun Rui was waiting for him to arrive, so that Sun Rui would not move indiscriminately when he found a place to live, lest Sun Zhen really see the clues of his preparation.

"The secret in the mountains that His Highness Seventh said," Yuan Er sighed and said, "We have also thought of investigating, and it is very likely that it is mining." ”

Jiang Muyuan's eyes sank: "Iron ore? ”

Yuan Er nodded.

Jiang Muyuan held his back molars, and his eyes fell on the endless mountains on the map.

Rebellion needs soldiers, money, grain and grass, and weapons, and how can weapons be smelted without iron?

Illegal mining is a felony, and the number of minerals confiscated by the imperial court every year is numerous, even if there are bold and quiet transactions, the amount will not be too much, and it will not support the amount that Sun Bi needs to be the emperor of the soil.

Then he would have to mine on his own.

No one knew that in this high mountain far away from the emperor, there could be a large amount of iron ore.

Holding the mine, in time, there will never be a shortage of weapons.

"Sun Bi raised a group of private soldiers, managed iron mines, coolies seem to be found from the villages in the mountains, Nanling has many foreign races, scattered and uncivilized, do not understand the law, just ask for a bite to eat, they are the most suitable labor." Yuan Erdao.

This matter is extremely hidden, if it weren't for the fact that in order to turn out the old Guo Po and find the whereabouts of the children who were bought and sold, he walked to the village house in the mountains of Nanling and noticed some situations, they would not have guessed from here.

Jiang Muyuan pointed to the map and asked, "A whole vein?" How many points can be determined? ”

Yuan Er stepped forward and pointed to a few places: "I don't dare to say the situation of the whole article, but these places, eight or nine are not far from ten."

Moreover, we suspect that Sun Bi may have dug all the mountains through, and there are passages connecting them everywhere, and the entrances and exits are distributed in different places, and there are quite a few of them.

There may be entrances and exits or vents on the cliff wall that His Highness Seventh is climbing, but it is too close to the county king's mansion for us to get close to investigate.

The three caves of the cunning rabbit, Sun Bi will not be so stupid that only the gate of the county king's mansion allows him to enter and exit. ”

Sun Bi and Dong Zhiwang each take what they need and are in the same boat, but they can't always be of the same mind, and they both need hole cards.

But Sun Bi's mansion is in Nanling City, if Dong Zhiwang suddenly makes trouble, he can't fly.

In order to seek a safe retreat, it is imperative to dig through the mountain road, Jiang Muyuan feels that the inference of Wu Ye and Yuan Er is very reasonable.

Calculated in this way, it is very likely that there are no minerals under the feet of Sun Rui and Sun Zhen's hiding feet, otherwise, it is difficult to find those two people in the mountains and forests, and they can also surround that group of people and have nowhere to escape if they walk through the mountain road.

He said that where did Sun Bi get so bold, the good county prince didn't do it, but he had the intention of rebellion.

It was a mine so big under his feet, and as the days went by, his courage became fat.

Jiang Muyuan pondered for a while and said, "There are rumors in the capital that Sun Bi bought so many boys and girls for alchemy and longevity, what do you think?" ”

Yuan Er was stunned, he thought for a while, hesitated and shook his head: "It doesn't look like it." ”

Rebellion is ambitious, and alchemy for longevity is fundamentally brain disease.

A person's ambition can be disguised by pretending to be in the past, so that people don't see the clues, but a person's chatter will definitely not be able to hide it from others.

Yuan Er had observed Sun Bi a few times, and he didn't think this person was chattering.

"Maybe it's a private soldier?" Yuan Er guessed.

Jiang Muyuan raised his eyebrows and said, "It's a saying, most of those who have been raised and taught since childhood will be more loyal than those who are recruited with money." ”

The children who are bought and sold to Nanling are almost all two or three years old, and after raising them for a few years, they will not remember their parents and origins, they have nowhere to go, and they must rely on Sun Rui, who raised them.

Don't look at the young age of these children, Sun Bi didn't plan to start the army so early, he was purely forced out by Sun Rui.

If it is the same as in the previous life, when Sun Bi and Dong Zhiwang built Nanling into a paradise, it was already ten or twenty years later, and these children, big and small, were the time to be powerful.