Chapter 120 Mountains of Gold and Silver!
Wang Zezheng was talking to his father Wang Yong and Liu Xin, and suddenly heard a loud roar in the courtyard outside the hall, Liu Xin, who was in the hall, suddenly felt a little itchy in his ears, and he didn't know which one shouted so vigorously outside, but he should be a person who is closer to Wang Yong.
Hearing the shouts outside, of course Wang Yong knew who it was, but he also glanced at Wang Ze suspiciously and asked, "Da Lang, why does it sound like Bo Fu's voice?" Isn't he fighting the Japanese people in Qinjin now? You sent him a message back? ”
Without waiting for Wang Ze to answer, Wang Yong said to himself: "Okay, it's okay to come back, Bo Fu, this kid hasn't been home for almost a year since he left last year, your third uncle and third aunt have long missed him, and it's good to come back and reunite with your family!" Let's go out and see what's going on! ”
From the beginning of that voice outside, Wang Ze turned to ashes and could hear that it must be Zhu Bofu's voice, but I don't know why he suddenly came back from Jeju Island, and he still sounds so happy, I don't know what happy events happened to make him so excited.
Wang Yong took the lead, Wang Ze followed Liu Xin out of the lobby, and as soon as he got out of the 'door', he saw a black-armored young man standing in the courtyard more than a dozen steps away, who else could it be if it wasn't Zhu Bofu, it was really this guy.
Now Zhu Bofu is also fourteen or fifteen years old, because he doesn't like to study with his father Zhu Rui, but he has learned a good martial arts, and his height has risen to seven feet, and he is a beautiful young man.
I saw that Zhu Bofu was wearing a set of black 'colored' fish scale cowhide armor, which was not the ordinary cowhide used to make leather armor before the cottage, but the rhinoceros leather that was 'traded' from the cottage and the Southern Dynasties, which was inlaid with a steel sheet like fish scales, and there was a heart guard in the front and back of the heart.
Although it is not too heavy, but it is enough to weigh more than ten catties, this leather armor was made by Wang Yong when Wang Ze led the army back to Jeju Island last summer, and the leather armor was still a little big at that time, and now it looks a little tight, it seems that Zhu Bofu has not grown much in the past year.
However, when Wang Ze saw Zhu Bofu's outfit, he secretly slandered in his heart, "The big summer is still wearing black 'colored' armor, it's really a 'sassy' bag!" Wang Ze would never admit that he was jealous of Zhu Bofu's handsomeness than himself.
As soon as Zhu Bofu saw Wang Yong and Wang Ze walking out of the hall, he hurriedly walked towards the two, and then Wang Ze found out that the person who had been bowing his head behind Zhu Bofu was Gu Bin, didn't he go back to Jeju Island on his orders last month? Why is it back this time?
"Brother Bo Fu, why did you come back all of a sudden?" Wang Ze patted Zhu Bofu's shoulder with some surprise, Wang Ze is now about four inches shorter than Zhu Bofu, he and his height have been much closer, and he doesn't want to increase the gap a lot now.
Zhu Bofu squeezed his eyebrows and whispered to Wang Ze: "Of course, there is a great good thing, don't worry, I will give my father a salute first!" ”
While speaking, the guy ran to Wang Yong with a smile: "Father, I haven't seen you for a long time, you are still a treasure sword, we have occupied such a large territory, I miss you if I haven't seen me for so long······!"
Wang Ze "······"
Zhu Bofu's sycophant Wang Yongle bloomed, not that Wang Yong likes to listen to sycophants, but that Zhu Bofu, who has not been seen for a long time, is still close to him, and he is not alienated because of the change in his status.
He laughed and patted Zhu Bofu's shoulder (it seems that Wang Ze's love of patting his shoulder is also genetic) and said to him: "I haven't seen my uncle for a long time, Bofu, you are still so sweet-mouthed, but what is the joy of you and Gu Bin coming back this time?" ”
Zhu Bofu pretended to be mysterious and said to Wang Yong and Wang Ze: "Look, I'll surprise you right away!" As he spoke, he shouted outside the 'door' of the courtyard, "Bring everything in!" ”
As Zhu Bofu's voice "door" just landed, he heard a heavy footstep outside the "door", and the sound of wooden boxes hitting the frame of the "door", and then I saw one or twenty big men carrying things and walking in, and a group of four people carried a total of five large boxes. When he arrived in the yard, he carefully bent his knees and squatted down, and slowly put the boxes down, Wang Ze only felt that the ground was 'banging', and several boxes fell to the ground.
Twenty big men put down their things and went out, Wang Yong, Liu Xin, and Wang Ze looked at each other, not knowing which one Zhu Bofu was singing!
Without waiting for Wang Yong and Wang Ze to speak, Gu Bin took the initiative to open the first big wooden box, Wang Ze leaned forward curiously to take a look, and there were two 'very' large stones inside, but these two stones, one large and one small, looked dark and black, and they looked extremely ugly, I don't know what happened to Zhu Bofu who brought it back as a treasure.
Seeing that the stone was not very big, Wang Ze tried to take out a stone with a length and width of one and a half feet, but the stone was so heavy that he couldn't pick it up.
Although Wang Ze is only ten years old this year, he is about the same height as a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child, and he has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he can easily afford forty or fifty catties of stones, but the black stones in the box in front of him are so heavy.
"Gu Bin, Bo Fu, what's going on with this stone?" Wang Yong stretched out his hand and pointed to the stone in the box and asked Gu Bin and Zhu Bofu, the black stone in front of him didn't know what was precious.
At this time, Liu Xin stepped forward to glance at the stone, and suddenly said to Wang Yong with some surprise: "General, if you are not mistaken, I am afraid that this is two pieces of silver ore!" It looks like the taste is 'quite high'! ”
Over the years, Liu Xin has 'operated' the livelihood of such a large cottage, and he has not also thought of mining gold and silver mines, although the gold mines have not been found, but the small silver mines have still found two, and he has also seen silver ore, but the taste of silver ore that Liu Xin has seen before is far inferior to the two pieces in front of him, and he was greatly surprised.
Gu Bin glanced at Liu Xin, although he didn't know the person in front of him, but he should be a reliable person, otherwise he would not have participated in such a high-level meeting, so he no longer shied away, he said excitedly to Wang Yong and Wang Ze: "General, Xiao Langjun, you don't know, these are silver ores, and the high taste is very rare, and there is a silver content of fifty or sixty percent." ”
Wang Yong didn't understand Gu Bin's words yet, he was puzzled: "Of course, silver ore with such a high silver content and such a large size is rare, but it's not worth your trip, right?" ”
However, Wang Ze understood at once, and he excitedly grabbed Zhu Bofu's hand and asked, "Big brother, have you found a silver mine?" Over there? How much production? ”
Zhu Bofu was 'made' by Wang Ze's series of questions and didn't know how to answer, but fortunately, Gu Bin relieved him: "Xiao Langjun, you don't know yet, this silver mine was discovered by Brother Bo Fuxian!" ”
It turned out that after Jiang Chuan, Zhang Hang, Chu Honghang, and Meng Xian received Wang Ze's urgent report last month, they hurriedly led most of the troops back to Qizhou to prepare for a big battle with Northern Qi, so the land defense of all parts of the East China Sea, especially Qinjin, was 'handed over' to Zheng Kui.
Because Jeju Island and Qinjin are both islands, as long as the naval army blocks the water surface, the enemy's defense pressure is relatively small, but it is not easy to do it in the place where it is located on Cheung Chau Island and borders the Japanese Kingdom, and a large number of troops need to be stationed.
Zheng Kui did not dare to slack off when he was ordered to be in danger, and immediately led 15,000 militia to be stationed in the Iwami and Anyi areas that had long been occupied by his own side, and secretly exchanged guards with Zhang Hang, Jiang Chuan and others stationed here.
In addition to these militiamen brought by Zheng Kui, there were also 5,000 regular troops led by Han Wen and others and more than 1,500 cavalry of the White Wolf Battalion led by Yan Xiaowu, Xu Zheng, Zhu Bofu and others stationed here.
Originally, Zheng Kui's secrecy work was 'quite good', and the Japanese people on the opposite side did not find out about the secret evacuation of Zhang Hang, Jiang Chuan and others. However, he didn't want to because of the power struggle between the Soga clan and the Monobe clan in the Japanese dynasty, Soga Inamime urgently needed the support of his family's military exploits, so Soga Yongde, who commanded the Japanese army, had no choice but to lead the army to attack.
This attack found that the combat effectiveness of the army on the opposite side had greatly decreased, and at first Su Yongde thought that it was caused by the illness of the Central Plains people because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil, and later learned that the current army was all militia, so he had the courage to 'fat' up and Zheng Kui has 'engaged' several times.
Fortunately, even if he is a militiaman, he is also sharp, strong and strong, not comparable to the small body of the Japanese people, plus Zheng Kui used gunpowder weapons regardless of the cost, and after the thunderbolts were used up, he used the local bamboo of the Japanese country to fill the homemade gunpowder "to make a new gunpowder "weapon----rocket.
In this way, the soldiers under Su Yongde suffered many more casualties than the militia, so after Zheng Kui retreated more than ten miles to redeploy the defense, he did not continue to pursue.
Anyway, the military merits he wants to achieve are already there, if he continues to attack, how can he replenish the dead soldiers, you must know that the current Wa State is extremely lacking in youth and strength after several successive defeats, and it is difficult to continue to replenish the army for Su and I.
In the following month, Zheng Kui and Su I used De to confront each other on the front line of Iwami and Anyi, and the two sides fought from time to time, so the White Wolf Battalion where Zhu Bofu was located came in handy, and many times carried out surprise attacks on the small troops under Su I Yongde, and made many meritorious contributions.
During an encounter with the Japanese army, Zhu Bofu's subordinates successfully overtook the Japanese to their aunt with a new type of rocket weapon, and Zhu Bofu found that some black ore was 'exposed' in the place where the rocket exploded.
At that time, Zhu Bofu didn't know what these things were, so he muttered, and it turned out that a soldier from a miner's family under Zhu Bofu recognized that it was silver ore.
At that time, in order to keep it secret, Zhu Bofu only brought a small piece of ore, and reburied the place where the explosion was blown up, and all the soldiers were told to keep it secret.
Fortunately, the soldiers of the White Wolf Battalion were all young people under the age of twenty, and most of them were educated in the cottage, and their loyalty was very high, and they all knew that according to the custom of the cottage, they were also very well rewarded for being soldiers who discovered silver mines together.
When he returned to Daying, Zheng Kui, as the head coach, knew that after discovering the silver mine, he also attached great importance to it, and such a silver mine was still such a high-grade 'Lutian' silver mine, isn't this a gift from Haotian God to himself?
So Zheng Kui took the opportunity of launching several battles to secretly mine a batch of large pieces of silver ore, and then asked Zhu Bofu to quickly return to Sanqi with the two pieces of silver ore he picked out to ask Wang Yong and Wang Ze for help.
After listening to Gu Bin's narration, Wang Yong couldn't help but praise: "Bo Fu is amazing!" You've solved a problem for us this time! As he spoke, he turned to Wang Ze and said, "Da Lang, you quickly arrange for Jiang Chuan and them to go back." You are really poor and tossing this time, in the future, they will specialize in defending Jeju, Qinjin and other places, and in the future, no matter how dangerous Qizhou is, they can't be transferred back! ”
After Wang Yong finished speaking, he found that Wang Ze didn't react at all, his eyes were dull, and the corners of his mouth were still drooling, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
This will Wang Zezheng think of the silver mine that Zhu Bofu said, what kind of silver mine is this, this is clearly a silver mountain! This must be the legendary Iwami Silver Mountain, it is said that the Japanese people discovered this silver mountain after mining for 800 years, and the highest taste ore has a silver content of more than 80%, and the purity of many silvers is not so high!
Rich, rich! Wang Ze now has only one idea in his mind, as long as he masters such a silver mountain, then he can issue silver coins on a large scale in the future, by the way, in addition, it seems that there are also a lot of copper mines in the country, which is also money!
Just when Wang Ze had hysteria, he suddenly felt a crisp sound in his head, it turned out that Wang Yong was looking at himself helplessly, Wang Ze hurriedly wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and asked, "What's wrong with Daddy?" ”
"I said that you should quickly arrange for Jiang Chuan, Cao An, Zhang Hang, Chu Honghang, and Meng Xian to return to Qinjin as soon as possible, otherwise such a large silver mine will be discovered by the Japanese people!" Wang Yong said angrily that his son is really powerful, but sometimes he is a little out of tune.
Wang Ze wiped his saliva, there was still an irrepressible smile on the corner of his mouth, and he said excitedly: "Pai, must be sent!" Such a silver mountain is our money bag in the future! As he spoke, he said to Zhu Bofu: "Big brother, are your boxes full of silver ore?" ”
Seeing that Wang Yong and Wang Ze were both stunned by the gift they brought, Zhu Bofu couldn't help but say proudly: "Of course not, only this one of the five boxes is silver ore, and you can take a look at the second box!" Saying that, Zhu Bofu and Gu Bin opened the second box again.
This time Wang Yong and Wang Ze's shock was even more powerful, this time the second box was full of golden gold leaves, although it was not full because of the weight, but the shock of a box full of gold was even more powerful.
"Big brother, you didn't find another big gold mine in Qinjin, right?" Wang Ze asked in disbelief, although he knew that the gold and silver production of the future Wa Kingdom was very powerful, but this was too against the sky, and it was said that there was a lack of currency just now, so he sent a silver mountain, not to mention that there was a gold mountain!
Looking at Wang Ze's shocks one after another today, Zhu Bofu was secretly refreshed, and he said to Wang Ze: "Da Lang, have you forgotten? At the beginning of this year, didn't you send Zhao Qin and Ling Cheng of the naval army to explore the sea route to the north respectively? Last month, when Zhao Qin came back from soaking in a hot spring on an island, he found a big gold mine, and there was more than one gold mine on it! ”
Wang Ze hurriedly asked, "Big brother, do you have a map?" You show me which place it is! As he spoke, Gu Bin took out a newly drawn nautical chart, which went north from Qinjin along the west coast of the Wa Kingdom to Hokkaido in later generations.
Zhu Bofu pointed to an archipelago not far from Izumo above and said to Wang Ze: "No, this is it, it's not far from the silver mine in Iwami!" ”
These islands seem to be the Oki Island of the later Wa Kingdom! I really don't know much about this small island Wang Ze, but anyway, it's our territory now, and it's a good thing to have gold.
Wang Ze 'rubbed' his eyes that were almost shaken by the gold and continued to ask Zhu Bofu: "What's going on with the boxes behind the eldest brother, you can finish it in one go!" ”
This time, Zhu Bofu stopped selling Guanzi, and opened the remaining three boxes with Gu Bin in one go, but this time the three boxes were full of 'messy' things, so that Wang Yong and Wang Ze didn't know what to say.
Looking at the 'messy' things in the box, Wang Ze reached out and took out a wooden box and opened it to see that it contained a dried radish, and immediately said angrily: "Big brother, why are you putting dried radishes in the box?" ”
At this time, I saw Liu Xin rushing to the front and taking the 'dried radish' in Wang Ze's hand, and after reading it carefully, he said loudly to Wang Ze: "Shizi, this is an old mountain ginseng that is more than 100 years old!" ”
Old ginseng? Wang Ze took a look at the box again, and there were dozens of identical wooden boxes. Seeing that there were still so many things in the box, Liu Xin leaned in to take a closer look, and took out the things one by one, "This is the best mink, there are dozens of them!" ”
"What, it's a bone knife made of the tusks of an arctic beast, it's too valuable!"
“······” Wang Yong and Wang Ze are relatively speechless, they feel that they are the soil buns they don't understand, seeing that Liu Xin is also a thief, he knows much more than us, shame!
"Ahem······" Wang Yong pretended to cough, and then said to Zhu Bofu: "Bofu, what's going on with these things?" ”
Facing the inquiry of the eldest father Wang Yong, Zhu Bofu replied with a smile: "Father, these things are all 'exchanged' with us by some tribes that Zhao Qin and Ling Cheng met in the place where they explored, and Zhao Qin also brought a messenger who claimed to be the Kuyi tribe, saying that he wanted to see Da Lang!" ”
"Oh?" Wang Ze said suspiciously, "Bitter envoy? Want to see me? ”