"Huh?" Even though Yang Lei was very interested in treasures, but after two successive disappointments and fell directly to the bottom, he now felt that the possibility of treasures here was relatively small, maybe Chen Ziyang said this to comfort himself.

"Okay, okay, you don't have to comfort me, I'm still the same sentence, if it doesn't work, let's go back and get the wooden sword and car beads and sell bracelets. If you think the money is small, it's a big deal that we can bring out some of these weapons here, these steels are still good. ”

Seeing Yang Lei's self-defeating virtue, Chen Ziyang smiled slightly and said, "Let me ask you, in ancient times, if you wanted to form an army to fight, you needed something. ”

"This ...... First of all, there must be people, many people, the more people, the better, if you fight in the era of cold weapons, there are still advantages in the number of people, and then it is to give these people weapons, as for armor or something, it would be best if there was, and it would be barely okay if there was none. ”

"You're right, but you're ignoring the most important point, the more people the better, and the sharper the weapons, the better, but there is another point, that is, these soldiers have to eat well, and naturally there is no way to fight when they are hungry. Didn't the ancient art of war say that before the soldiers and horses moved, the grain and grass went first, and this is the truth.

The amount of armor was very large, and I roughly calculated that it should be able to arm an army of 200,000 people. And the number of weapons here is also very large, you can also see the scale, these boxes are densely placed, and they are all full, and it is estimated that the number of weapons is enough to arm an army of 200,000 people.

Since Yuan Tiangang had all the armor and weapons ready, how could he not prepare food and grass? If there is not enough food, these 200,000 people, no matter how well armed they are, will not be able to fight.

An army of 200,000 people, food alone, needs to consume 300,000 catties a day. 300,000 catties of grain, it's just a day's amount, how can a month's grain cost 10 million catties.

I don't need to say much about what the concept of 10 million catties is, you must know that there were no air and trucks in those days, and all the grain needed to be transported by trolley from the place where the grain was hoarded.

A trolley can probably transport one or two thousand catties of grain, 10 million catties, it needs 10,000 trolleys, it also needs 10,000 soldiers in carts, and then counting the escorts, the team alone needs at least 30,000 people.

These more than 30,000 people also need food on the way to deliver food. In ancient times, although a lot of grain stations were built, for the sake of safety, these grain stations were usually far away from the battle line, and it took ten days and half a month to transport.

That is to say, just for the escort of a month's worth of grain and grass, the soldiers who escorted it will consume 500,000 catties of grain, and counting the loss on the road, 90% of the grain that can be transported to the front line is good. This makes the army's need for food even greater.

Yuan Tiangang thought so carefully, the armor and weapons were all ready, it was impossible for him not to think of the grain and grass. Judging by the way he stacked his weapons and armor, he was ready for long-term storage.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to store grain here, and then after a long time, all the grain will be destroyed, so he will definitely store his military pay and use it to buy food for his army.

In addition, it is impossible for soldiers to give Yuan Tiangang their lives in vain, they also need military salaries, and the military salaries issued by 200,000 people every month are not a small amount.

Yuan Tiangang naturally knew this. As the national teacher of the Tang Dynasty and a military staff officer, he can be said to know everything about marching and fighting, and he will definitely be very well prepared. So I guess there must be a lot of gold and silver treasures hidden here.

And judging from the signs since we got here, no one should have been here before, so those military salaries must still be stored somewhere here. And the amount of treasure here is absolutely staggering. ”

After listening to Chen Ziyang's words, Yang Lei's eyes widened. Yes, this is not so much a treasure as an ancient arsenal, and since all the armor and weapons are there, there will be a salary.

At this time, Yang Lei came to his senses, and he didn't need Chen Ziyang to speak, he asked directly to Shangguan Kangning: "Shangguan Kangning, how is it, have you found the female worm of the Sun Moon Nose Worm?" ”

Shangguan Kangning shook his head, although the two ground green insects were even more agitated, but the two insects were still staring in one direction, it seemed that the sun and moon nose worms might not be on this island in the middle of the lake, and it was very likely that there was a third island in the middle of the lake. And it may be where the military pay is piled up.

During the previous search, several people almost opened all the boxes here, but the boxes were full of weapons, and there was no shadow of the sun and moon nose worm or military pay.

felt that what Chen Ziyang said made some sense, and several people all set their eyes on Shangguan Kangning. All of them realized that as long as they found the next island in the middle of the lake, it would be their time to make a fortune.

After using the bottle containing the ground green insect as a tool to indicate the direction, several people followed Shangguan Kangning and walked in the direction indicated by the ground green insect.

"Huh?" After coming to the edge of the second island in the middle of the lake, several people used flashlights to shine in the direction pointed by the green worm, trying to find the shadow of the third island in the middle of the lake, and it was at this time that Xu Xiaoyuan suddenly shouted.

"In the water...... There seemed to be something in the water, and just now my flashlight shone a large black shadow, and the shadow seemed to move, and after my flashlight shone there, the shadow shook violently, and then disappeared. Xu Xiaoyuan stared at the end of his flashlight beam and said.

Several people became nervous, and they hurriedly looked in that direction, but except for the light of Xu Xiaoyuan's flashlight, there was nothing else there at all, only the lake water that emitted a trace of heat.

So the other five people hurriedly shook the flashlights in their hands, and the range of the flashlight was much wider, shining above the water, and kept searching. But after looking for a while, no one found anything unusual underwater.

"Aunt Daoyuan, are you mistaken, there is nothing there, it looks so dark, are you dazzled?" Yang Lei asked.

"This ...... I'm not sure, it was too fast, I just vaguely saw something under the water, and after a while, it was gone, maybe I was really wrong, maybe what I saw at that time was just a splash on the water. Maybe I really made a fuss. Xu Xiaoyuan said with some embarrassment.

Because this underground lake is formed by the gushing of underground hot spring water, there are often bubbles floating up from the bottom of the lake, and these bubbles burst on the surface of the water, causing the surrounding lake to ripple, and the slightest mist on the surface of the lake is indeed possible.

But Chen Ziyang felt that this matter was not so simple. From the moment he left the first island in the middle of the lake, he felt that something was wrong. The transparent and glowing fish that surrounded the people as they waded through the lake were not a single one.

At that time, Chen Ziyang asked everyone to pay attention to their feet, but nothing happened. And now Xu Xiaoyuan said that she saw something under the lake before, although it is indeed possible to be wrong, but if she is not wrong, things will not be fun.

At this time, Umbrella Shishuai noticed that there seemed to be a dark shadow in the distance, which seemed to be the location of the third island in the middle of the lake.

This shadow is not the same as the shadow that the second island in the middle of the lake looks at from a distance, it is not so obvious, and it is easy to ignore if you don't look closely. Probably because of the distance, the outline of the black shadow looked very blurry.

After once again asking everyone to be aware of the danger that could be underwater, the six of them left the arsenal and continued to walk along the hot spring lake into the distance.

The more he walked forward, the clearer the outline in the distance, and Chen Ziyang could see it clearly, the scale of this third island in the middle of the lake was much larger than the previous two works, and at this distance alone, the shadow area of the island in the middle of the lake was much larger than the first island.

The sound of "......" splashing sounded not far away, Chen Ziyang hurriedly shone the flashlight in that direction, and at the same time, two beams of flashlight also shone together, it seems that Chen Ziyang was not the only one who heard the sound.

Three flashlights illuminated the water very clearly, but there was nothing but the ever-expanding ripples.

"Maybe it's a big bubble." Umbrella Shi Shuai said with some uncertainty.

"Speed up and save you more dreams at night." Chen Ziyang's heart was filled with a feeling of unease, although until now, a few people had not seen anything strange appear, but he felt that this place should not be so simple.

Although this place is very secretive, it is unlikely to find this place without a treasure map, and even if someone comes here by mistake, they will be blocked from the nine armors and will not find this glowing underground world. But this is also too smooth, Yuan Tiangang has hidden so many treasures here, it is impossible to stop setting up some anti-theft mechanisms.

As the team continued to move forward, a faint smell of sulfur wafted into the nostrils of several people. In addition, the bottom of the lake is no longer black and black, and the color is much lighter.

When he was about to reach the third island in the middle of the lake, Chen Ziyang saw a few half-naked stones outside the water surface covered with some white substance, these things are hard to the touch, and it is very laborious to get them down, it is estimated that the minerals in the hot spring water are formed by the precipitation of minerals all year round.

It seems that this is the edge of the real hot springs, and the lake water that the previous few people have waded through is only the outer part of the hot spring water, so there is no smell of sulfur in those places.

Although the smell of sulfur can poison people if they smell too much, the smell of sulfur here is relatively light, and several people have not shown mild symptoms of poisoning, so it seems that the air here is safe for the time being.

After walking here, Chen Ziyang realized that the area of this underground space was far larger than he had imagined, otherwise the air here would have been filled with the smell of sulfur.

"My goodness!" Chen Ziyang's train of thought was interrupted by Yang Lei's shout, and then he looked ahead, and at this time, several flashlight beams shone on a large area of yellow and white.

"Haha, gold!" Yang Lei, who was walking in the forefront, quickened his pace, and after wading a few steps into the water, he rushed to the third island in the middle of the lake, and the others followed closely to the island.

This time Yang Lei was really happy, he finally found the treasure he dreamed of. Pieces of gold and silver, as well as a number of jewels and jade, were piled up on the island.

Although the luster of the gold and silver has dimmed a lot due to the constant exposure to the steam and air of the hot springs, and the surface of many of the silver has turned a little black, it is still difficult to hide the charming luster of these things.

Seeing these things, Chen Ziyang finally breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, his worries were completely solved, and the rest of the matter was to deal with the Dragon Digging Society and avenge Wang Lele.

When Yang Lei desperately loaded things into his backpack, Chen Ziyang carefully observed the third island in the middle of the lake.

The island is shaped like a small volcano jutting out of the water, the perimeter of the island is relatively flat and low, and there is a relatively high earth bag in the middle of the island.

All the treasures were laid out on the lower ground around the dirt bag, and the dirt bag looked black and should have been all stone.

After seeing that there seemed to be no danger here, Chen Ziyang focused on these treasures again. At this glance, he found a very strange place.

The thickness of these treasures piled up on the ground is not very thick, only a thin layer, but the area is very large, even if a few people carry it a hundred times, it is impossible to move it all.

What's weird is that there are all kinds of gold and silver in all shapes.

There are gold cakes, gold bars, gold bricks, and gold ingots spread on the ground, and even gold ingots have several styles, which are not uniform at all, and the color difference between these gold and silver is very large, and it seems that the percentage of gold and silver is also different.

At first glance, Chen Ziyang came up with an idea, that is, these gold and silver should be things of different ages, definitely not minted in the same period, or even in a dynasty, and it is possible that the age of each other is very far apart.

After thinking about it for a while, he understood why. Although Yuan Tiangang is a national teacher of the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible for him to get so much wealth, but he has another identity, that is, a feng shui master.

It is estimated that these things were taken out by Yuan Tiangang from the tombs of different dynasties and accumulated here little by little, so the styles of these gold and silver will be very different.

As soon as the flashlight beam turned, Chen Ziyang saw that there was a box in the middle of this treasure pile, which looked very abrupt.

(End of chapter)