Ao Bai leaned against a tree and gasped frantically, he couldn't believe what he had just seen.

Those dozens of people, each carrying a bird gun on their backs! Not their handcuffs, but half-man-tall bird guns!

Li Hongji explained to him that the biggest advantage of their reed wheel handcuff is that it ignites quickly and is convenient to ignite, but the power and range are not as good as the arquebus, so the standard equipment of the Ming army is the arquebus instead of the reed wheel.

The standard weapons equipped by the army are always the most durable, cost-effective, and stable.

Dozens of firecrackers, is it really the Maritime Safety Bureau!?

Ao Bai is very entangled now, and he doesn't know whether to hurry back and tell Liu Yifeng about the dozens of firearms, or continue to take them to touch the bottom line.

In the end, he decided to stay, because he found out that the people of Dongshan Qianzhuang actually let the people go out to pan for gold. It's a good opportunity and he's ready to do something.

"Lord Xia, can you really find gold in this river?"

Xia Jie actually has doubts about this, and his concept of gold is still buried in the ground like other mineral deposits. But a large number of golden sand and golden lumps were indeed found in this camp, and the people also said that they were found in the river.

In Chinese history, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there has always been a historical record of gold in the river.

For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there is a record: gold is born in Lishui, and there are many people who know how to mine gold.

The Han Dynasty's "On Balance" has a record: Yongchang County also has Jinyan, slender as large as corn, in the water and sand.

The Book of Wei during the Northern and Southern Dynasties: There were more than 1,000 gold households in Hanzhong, and they often panned for gold in the Han water.

There are more in the Tang Dynasty, and there is no need to record it in literature, there are poems in it, such as Liu Yuxi's "Waves and Sands": the gold seal of beauty jewelry is all from the bottom of the waves in the sand.

The Song Dynasty's documentary record of gold panning began to moderate, mainly recording the gold production in Qi Province and the Lingnan region. After thousands of years of mining, the gold on the surface of the Central Plains has almost dried up. Second, both the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty lost Yunnan Province, a major gold-producing province.

The Ming Dynasty also had a documentary record of panning for gold in the water, and it was Song Yingxing's "Heavenly Creations", which recorded in detail how the people of Yunnan Province panned for gold in the water. However, the "Heavenly Creations" of this era are still just a lot of documents and drafts.

Xia Jie is literate, but he is not a big family, he is not from the bottom, he has no contact with gold panning, and he is indeed suspicious of using a gold panning plate similar to a dustpan to find gold in the river sand, until the skilled folk man really escaped to 3 small gold bumps.

"Tao, give me all Tao! The captives also brought me with them, tied ropes around their feet, and put them down to dig for them! ”

Not only Xia Jie's eyes were red, but the eyes of the explorers and firecrackers who followed to see the excitement were also red, such a large river beach, I don't know how much gold was found.

But the people are miserable.

After all, Liu Yifeng came from the era when the concept of human rights was popularized in later generations, which can be seen from the fact that he would take the initiative to fight for the interests of the people at the Nanyang level, formulate rules and regulations to protect the weak, and respect for human rights belonged to his DNA. Therefore, for the gold minfu, he basically arranged a rest time, and then he would also ask them to boil a large amount of hot water every hour, half of which was used to drink and the other half was used to soak the feet of the minfu, so that they would not lose temperature by stepping on cold water for a long time.

And Xia Jie doesn't care so much, let alone facing the people, facing the Han peasants in his homeland, he who claims to be a gentry class, he doesn't treat the Han peasants as human beings, and squeezes them to death. Now in the face of the people and prisoners, they don't look at them as people, and they announced on the spot that everyone has the task of panning for gold for a day, and if they can't reach it, they won't have anything to eat. Then there was no break, so they kept soaking in cold water.

The daytime in this mountainous area is only about 10 degrees, and if you soak in the water for a long time, you will really catch a cold. And whether you can find gold depends on luck, and you can't find it if you don't work hard to find it. As a result, most people caught a cold that night, and only 5 people had dinner.

Every night, Liu Yifeng asked Feng Shuo, Li Hongji and Ao Bai to boil water to let the people soak their feet, and the blood flow of the whole body accelerated after soaking a beautiful foot, and the whole person was warm, and they slept very well at night, and the people had long been used to it.

As a result, let alone soaking their feet now, they don't even have to drink cold water. The reckless people who guarded them also laughed at how they didn't drink enough during the day.

Grievances erupted among the people, and they were afraid of comparison, and they didn't care much about being controlled by another group of people, but they saw that this group of newcomers was also here to dig for gold, and they would inevitably continue to use them, and whoever was the master was the same. But now one is treating them as human beings, the other is treating them as animals, and no one will have a good opinion of these people.

When the camp first fell, there was a saying among the people that the men would definitely die when they had dug up their gold. But since Xia Jie just locked them up, gave them food and drink, and basically supported them except for asking some questions, the people who were willing to be lazy ignored that statement.

But now, this statement does not need to be rhythmized by anyone, and all the people have remembered it.

"What to do? These bastards don't treat us as human beings at all, and we don't have to wait for them to die in a month, I guess at least half of us will die of disease in a month! ”

"Woo woo, I think of Xiao Liu, last time I stepped on a stone and scratched, he personally helped me wrap my foot."

"Cry a fart, cry, damn, why didn't you cry when this group defeated Xiao Liu, and now you're crying!?"

Zhao Lao Wu is very excited now, because of the incident between Li Qi and Wang Ergou last time, he unknowingly became a loyal fan of Aobai, and now he can't see these people who have milk and are mothers.

"Okay, now it's time not to talk about this, hurry up and think of a way, I don't even have intuition on my feet now. If this continues, at most 5 days, our feet will be wasted! ”

Zhao Lao Wu took a deep breath, held back his disdain for these people, and said in a deep voice: "What else can be done, don't you see that they have dozens of firearms." Master Liu is only a dozen of them, I really don't know what the background of this group of people is, why there are so many firearms. ”

"Why don't we go and get in touch with Lord Liu's men?"

Zhao Lao Wu pondered for a moment, felt that it was feasible, and asked, "How to contact?" ”

"I'm panning for gold today very close to them, why don't I try to reach them while I'm panning for gold?"

"Okay, that's it." Zhao Lao Wu seemed to have become the leader of the people, patted the volunteer man and said, "It's up to you whether the brothers continue to suffer or not." ”