Liang Wentong stretched out his hand and patted Gu Yaohua's shoulder twice: "Okay, don't talk about the past, you are just confused for a while, I don't think the other brothers will blame you, after all, they didn't die because of it......"

"No, they still died because of me...... Gu Yaohua said in annoyance, his face full of regret and pain, "It's in the mine outside Quzhou City!" ”

"What's going on?"

"That's one of the reasons you got into trouble?"

Liang Wentong and Sun Ning opened their mouths to ask questions almost at the same time, and then they glanced at each other, and then looked back at Gu Yaohua in front of them.

The expression on the latter's face distorted slightly, and after a moment, he muttered: "When we were punished for hard labor and came to the mines in western Zhejiang, we actually had a certain amount of psychological preparation, and we knew that life here must be difficult.

"I just didn't expect that the mine would be so dark, they didn't take the life of the slaves seriously, in the eyes of those stewards and overseers, we were just tools for mining, and the meaning of existence was just to dig out more ore and refine more ingots.

"We would be asked to go into a very narrow and deep tunnel, into which people could only crawl in, and use the most rudimentary tools to dig up the hard ore little by little, and sometimes at the end of the day, we could only dig up a few catties. And working day and night, all you can get is two blackened steamed buns and a few bowls of cold water.

"This pitiful amount of food can only be eaten after we hand in at least five catties of raw ore ore, otherwise we will only be hungry...... I have seen more than one mine slave starve to death because he had not been able to eat for days.

"And the overseers didn't take it seriously at all, and in a moment they dragged the dead man's body aside and fed it to the vicious dogs that were watching over us......"

When he talked about this experience, the fear and resentment in his eyes really couldn't be hidden at all, and the gloomy gaze was like two clusters of ghost fire.

I don't know if they were intimidated by the darkness in the mine he described, or affected by his expression, and the other three couldn't help but shudder.

No one expected that the mining field in western Zhejiang would be so dark, that it really regarded human life as a mustard.

Gu Yaohua's words continued: "If it's just like this, we can still hold on." At least we are young and have the strength to dig ore out of the pit no matter how difficult it is. However, the danger of the mine comes from the mine itself, because many of the pits have long since been crumbling because of years of digging......

"Just half a month after we were sent to the mine, there was a landslide of no small scale. Right next to the pit we were, an entire mine road suddenly collapsed, shaking the mine we were.

"We managed to crawl out of the crater where the rocks kept falling, and we still suffered a lot of injuries. When we came out, we saw that the pit with hundreds of miners next to it was completely gone.

"And for the hundreds of mine slaves buried underneath, the overseers who had also been frightened before, they turned a blind eye, but quickly drove us back into the pit to mine, and increased the production needed for that day, otherwise we would not have been fed."

With the narration, Gu Yaohua's expression became calm again, or numb: "Such a day, more than ten days passed, and then there were two more mine collapse accidents, although the scale was not as large as that time, but more than ten people died in the accident.

"It was then that we finally woke up to the fact that it was unrealistic to survive in the mines, and that the crater that would collapse at any time alone would be enough to kill us.

"And the ore we dug up with blood, sweat, and life ended up cheaper than those wealthy families, those dog officials and monks, is this really fair?"

In the face of his gritted teeth, Sun Ning and the others were silent.

Especially Sun Ning, there were even more monstrous waves in his heart, he really didn't expect that the seemingly rich and peaceful Jiangnan, in a place where the sun could not shine, actually had such a dark place.

It can be said that the prosperity of the entire Jiangnan in this troubled era is completely built on the blood, tears and tragic deaths of the thousands of mine slaves!

When some people are quiet in their years, they are destined to have a larger number of people carrying their burdens on their backs......

"Perhaps the vast majority of people in the mine have become numb and have lost the courage to resist. But our brothers did not lose their courage, especially after seeing Wang Laoqi and Chen Hu and several of them were also buried in the mine, but there was not even a single rescuer, we knew that if we wanted to live, we had to fight! ”

Gu Yaohua's eyes were full of murderous intent: "Actually, at that time, I didn't think that our uprising could really succeed, it was nothing more than killing some overseers and stewards who constantly abused us on weekdays.

"At that time, we only wanted to kill one without losing money, killing two to earn one. Then, on that rainy night, while the overseers and guards were all lazily huddled outside to avoid the rain, I took the remaining thirty brothers around me, and more than a dozen other miners who also wanted to fight, and attacked the wooden house where the guards were.

"These guys seem to be fierce and domineering on weekdays, but when it comes to fighting for their lives, they don't have that ruthlessness at all. More than 20 people, all with knives and guns in their hands, and bows and crossbows, were killed by us with the simplest shovels and shovels, including the two stewards who kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Then we set fire to the thousands of miners in the mine where we were, and organized them to attack another mine next to us......"

The rest of the words don't need to be elaborated on by him, Sun Ning can also think of it.

After years of resentment and anger, perhaps many miners did not dare to take the initiative to stand up against oppression. However, when someone really provokes an uprising, and burns the flames of war, and has a great chance of liberating them, these people will naturally rise up and resist, just to live, and must kill all the overseers and stewards around them.

When all the miners gather together and launch a counterattack against the guards who are actually less than one of them, these seemingly powerful guys can only be completely swallowed up by the surging tide.

"In this battle, it only took one day and one night to take down all the mines on the outskirts of Quzhou, rescued all the suffering brothers and sisters, and quickly assembled a team of tens of thousands of people, and then met the officers and soldiers sent by Quzhou to quell the chaos.

"As a result, they were not our opponents at all, and under our desperate battle, those thousands of officers and soldiers were simply vulnerable, and most of them even surrendered to us directly. And we also took the opportunity to take control of some county seats, and three days later, we killed Quzhou City! ”