When the overseer of the Mint heard the shout, he hurriedly stepped forward to check, and after carefully identifying it, he nodded again and again, "It's gold, and there is a gold mine in it!"

There are gold mines in the mountains!

When the Mint heard about this, they were immediately overjoyed.

Copper ore can be used to craft copper coins, but gold ore can be used to smelt gold nuggets.

Although they are all making money for the imperial court, the latter is obviously more valuable, not to mention that the salary will rise with the tide, and the imperial court will also reward the upper and lower levels, and they will properly even have fame and fortune!

"We need to report this matter to Lord He, Lord Wan, and Governor Qu."

He Yanxiu and Wan Mingjun were both recuperating, and the person who acted for all affairs in the Mint at this time was a man named Chang Hongwen.

"You two, hurry up and go down the mountain to report to the prefect's office, and besides, you should also quickly check how much gold there is here?"

If the amount of gold is huge, the matter must be reported to the imperial court as soon as possible.

"Yes." The men below were commanded to do their own things.

The news of the discovery of gold in the mine also spread quickly.

At first, it spread throughout the mine, then to the government office, and soon to every corner of Hedong Province, and then, even several surrounding prefectures and counties, all knew that gold had been found in the mountains under the jurisdiction of Hedong Province.

"Gold mines, this old nose is expensive."

"No, what is refined is gold, one tael of gold and ten taels of silver, and one tael of silver is always copper coins, and this can be refined into one tael of gold, which is equivalent to ten pieces of money."

"Tsk, this is much faster than minting copper coins, and it's expensive, so the court must be very happy."

"This is natural, it must be praised, this prefect and the people sent down by the superiors, I am afraid that they will all be added to the ranks."

"I heard that several court officials almost died when the mine collapsed in the previous mine, and this time they found gold in the mine, and they can be regarded as a blessing in disguise."

"What's more, it's a blessing from heaven......

Because of the discovery of gold in the mines, there were more guards guarding the mint, and because the gold smelting was more complicated, the previous smelting furnaces were not enough, and new smelting furnaces needed to be built, and a new batch of craftsmen came into the mines.

In the valley, it seems to be more and more lively.

At night, when the craftsmen rested, only the night watchmen patrolled back and forth, the footsteps of the people walking back and forth, and the "crackling" of the flames as the torches burned.

"A few masters."

A man with a slumber figure, who seemed to be old, and whose body was biased, carried the food box in his hand and went to the guards on patrol.

Seeing that this person was dressed and wore an apron, and seemed to be a member of the room, the guards relaxed their vigilance, but also asked, "Why don't you sleep so late, what are you doing here?"

"Remembering the hard work of the masters at night, the buns with sauce and meat were steamed in the room, so that the masters could eat a bite, and their stomachs were not empty at night."

As the man spoke, he opened the wide food box in his hand, "It's still hot this time, a few masters eat it while it's hot."

A few days ago, I steamed steamed buns, it was also sauce meat, it tasted good, everyone didn't eat enough, they were very worried about it, and now they saw the steamed buns with sauce meat, and they were rewarded to these guards on duty at night, so they didn't shirk, and each took two to eat.

Seeing that there were steamed buns to eat, the guards also came over one after another to get the steamed buns.

For a while, this bun had the intention of being robbed.

"It's all there, it's all there, there are a lot of buns, you must eat it while it's hot."

The middle-aged man greeted as he handed out the buns to the guards.

When the guards each took the buns and nibbled on them, the man nodded and walked to the room.

The two sauce meat buns went down to their stomachs, and they drank another sip of tea, and the feeling of fullness in their stomachs brought people a full sense of happiness, and the guards continued to patrol with satisfaction.

"Whew!" One of the guards suddenly fell to the ground.

Immediately after that, there was one, two, three......

All the guards fell to the ground in all directions.

The thin figure who had been leaning back on his feet stood up again, stood up straight, and picked up a torch that had fallen to the ground, and the light of the fire reflected on his cheek, and he could see a conspicuous scar on his cheek.

The man dug out the lamp oil that had been hidden for a long time, carried the jar, and sprinkled the lamp oil on the nearby tents, the door panels of the houses, and even sprinkled it several times along the vicinity.

It wasn't until he had poured all the four cans of lamp oil that he threw the torch in his hand on the lamp oil.

But......

The fire did not burn as quickly as expected, turning the place into a sea of fire, but when the fire hit the ground, it made a "zilala" sound and was mostly extinguished.

This is......

The man leaned over, took the jar of oil to his nose and sniffed it.

It's the smell of lamp oil, so why can't it burn?

The man wrinkled his eyebrows, grabbed another torch from the rack next to him, and threw it on the tent.

It still hasn't burned.

What's going on!

The man's face changed suddenly, and he touched the fire fold on his body again.

"Don't bother, this fire can't be burned."

The door creaked open, and He Yanxiu walked out of the house, followed by Qu Zhiwen, Wan Mingjun and others.

The other doors were also wide open, and the guards surrounded the man, and the guards, who had already been stunned by the sweat medicine, also got up, pulled out the steel knife in his hand, and aimed it at the man who was surrounded by layers.

The man's face was gloomy, he looked at the people in front of him, gritted his teeth and sneered, "It seems that this is the invitation to enter the urn."

"Not really." He Yanxiu denied it.

"Oh? What is that?" The man shouted angrily.

"It's a turtle in an urn."

Such a person is not worthy of the title of king.

Man, "......"

You are the soft-shelled turtle, and your whole family is a soft-shelled turtle!

The man was annoyed in his heart, took out a soft whip from his waist, stomped on the ground with his left foot, and the whole person rose into the air, and the whip in his hand was even more aggressive, and went straight to He Yanxiu.

Sure enough, it was coming at him!

He Yanxiu sneered.

Several guards around him immediately took action, using the swords in their hands to block the soft whip in the man's hand.

Nearby guards swarmed up and scuffled with the man.

The man was obviously strong in martial arts, and a soft whip made him wonderful, and the soft whip was densely embedded with steel needles, which glowed with cold light under the firelight.

Seeing that even in the face of a group of people, the man still had the upper hand, and even after looking at the gap, he was still rushing to He Yanxiu.

"Protect Lady He!" Qu Zhiwen shouted.

The guards immediately swarmed up again to protect He Yanxiu.

But the man took a "thunderbolt" out of his bosom and threw it at the feet of the people.

"Boom!"

The smoke was everywhere, and it was already white in front of me.

Everyone waved their sleeves to try to clear the smoke as soon as possible.

When he regained some visibility, he saw that the steel needle whip in the man's hand had already rushed straight to He Yanxiu's front door!