Zhu Ge was leisurely on his face, but he was surprised in his heart Fei Bian's ability, the deputy director actually made a room in the money village to connect with him.

He inquired about the whereabouts of Gorrant, Zhan Jie and Lang Chun, and recently in Fog Shadow County, he put on makeup and prepared to find Fabian as soon as possible, and after coming out for a long time, he found a mark on the street, which led him to the money bank.

He asked Fabian how he did it, but Fabian refused to reveal it, saying only that he would have the opportunity to teach him again in the future.

The matter of the levy of labor in Fog Shadow County could not be concealed from the eyes of the secret spies of the Security Bureau, and all kinds of news and data were collected into Fabian's hands, which he encrypted and then sent back to Giant Sheep City through special channels.

The merchant ships of the Nanming Jewelry Company are one of the channels through which the Security Bureau transmits information, and the merchant ships of the Ming family will dock in the riverside cities in the Fog Shadow County to replenish food and daily necessities on board, and Fabian will arrange for someone to contact the crew who had been bought earlier and carry some camouflaged items.

The Fog Shadow County can block the people and ships in its own county, but it can't prevent the ships from other places from going to Juyang City, so they have to increase their patrol efforts, and once they find the Shaodian people, they will be detained, and the local people will be released.

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Bite!

A few sparks leaped out and flashed around in the dim darkness.

It was a hole the size of a basketball court, and there were a few oil lamps hanging on the walls of the cave, and the light was not enough to illuminate the hole, and the people inside could not see three steps away.

About a hundred people were wielding hoes in the cave, digging for the dirt under their feet, and one of them hoeed a hard object and sparked, and all the people in the cave stopped.

"What is it? Did you find it?" asked a male voice by the edge of the cave excitedly.

The man who had picked up the hard object squatted down, picked up the floating soil with his hands, and touched a cold and hard object, "I can't see clearly, my lord, please come and light a fire." ”

Whew, a torch was lit.

A strong man in leather armor sits on the edge of the pit.

He stood up with a torch in his hand and violently pushed away the man in front of him, "Get out of the way, get out of the way! ”

The others stopped what they were doing and craned their necks to look at the strong man, the light in the cave was so dim that they could only see around the torches, and their eyes followed the strong man's movements.

The strong man walked up to the man who was squatting on the ground and kicked it over, "Don't get out of the way, if it's really that thing, I'll give you more food tonight." ”

"Thank you, sir, thank you, sir!" the man on the ground crawled to the side as he touched his aching buttocks.

The strong man took a step forward and crouched down, shining a torch on the ground.

A black, metal-like thing emerged from the dirt, with many edges, and the surface was dark and non-reflective, as if covered with a black veil.

With a smile on his face, the strong man reached out and grabbed the object, and pulled it hard, but the thing didn't move.

"Hahaha, I've found it! It turns out that there is really a black crystal iron ore underneath! I Lao Zhang was the first to find it, and the heavy reward promised by His Royal Highness the Prince is mine. "This strong man's surname is Zhang.

Black crystal iron was originally known as magic crystal iron, and later humans replaced magic with black, it is a metal that is a bit like a crystal, the texture is hard and contains dark energy, and it can form an energy protection film after smelting. Five thousand years ago, it was the favorite metal of the demons, and it was used to make armor and weapons, which can greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the demons.

During the period when the demons ruled the ground, the black crystal iron on the Shenyuan Continent had been exhausted, and it could not be found when the humans ruled, only some were seized from the demons, and they had long been used up by now.

Humans do not use dark energy, black crystal iron can only be used to make armor, armor with energy protection film can resist the attack of fighting energy and magic power, even if the energy is exhausted, it can defend against armor-piercing heavy arrows, and it is the top armor.

Nowadays, the countries on the mainland can't see the armor made of black crystal iron at all, and occasionally one or two pieces will cause a scramble, and people without strength dare not let people know that they have black crystal iron armor.

This cave is nearly a kilometer below the Diyan Lake, and the strong man surnamed Zhang is the overseer of the Tongbei Empire, and the people who dig the ground are all Qi laborers.

After Qi Guo attacked the lake in the lake, Ji Yu sent people to explore the bottom of the lake, and after determining several locations, he asked Qi Shao to send laborers to dig tunnels from the lake, dig to a place 100 meters deeper than the bottom of the lake, and dig to the determined places, dig to those places and dig down.

The supervisor surnamed Zhang is in charge of one of the points, and the other points have not found black crystal iron before this, you must know that Ji Yu promised to reward the first person to find black crystal iron with 100,000 gold coins, and he can make a fortune now.

"What? there's black crystal iron at the bottom of the Earth's Eye Lake!" Wu Yi couldn't believe his ears. There were a large number of secret agents in the Qi State mixed in the crowd digging holes, and the news that the overseer surnamed Zhang had found Black Crystal Iron soon spread to him.

Qi Shao, who was sitting across from him, asked a little strangely, "What is Black Crystal Iron?" Even the king had never heard of such a thing.

"That's a good thing!" Wu Yi knew about Black Crystal Iron, so he explained it to Qi Shao one by one.

"No wonder Ji Yu instigated us to attack the Diyan Lake, he deceived Gu at the beginning, saying that he wanted to know where the bottom of the Diyan Lake led, and it turned out that the real purpose was to find the black crystal iron ore!" Qi Shao suddenly woke up.

"Hehe, since there is a black crystal iron ore at the bottom of the Earth Eye Lake, then a share of Qi Guo is indispensable!" Wu Yi was thinking about a series of follow-up reactions brought by this news, "Ji Yu will definitely come to you to talk about the distribution of black crystal iron ore, it is impossible for him to move the mine back to the Tongbei Empire, and he has to rely on the manpower and material resources of our country to mine black crystal iron ore." ”

"Distribution?Diyan Lake is now the territory of Qi State, and the things buried under it are all the products of Qi State, and the black crystal iron ore is the mineral of my Qi Country, does Ji Yu want to buy it with money? Why did Lone allocate it to him?"

Hearing that black crystal iron is so precious, Qi Shao's eyes were red, and he was extremely reluctant to share it with others.

After removing Qi Shuang, Qi Shao was finally able to control the Qi Kingdom, and he became more and more like a king, and the battle of Diyan Lake consumed a lot of money, and the funding of the Tongbei Empire was not enough to fill the financial gap, and Qi Shao was already dissatisfied with Ji Yu.

"Don't forget that he represents the Tongbei Empire, and we also turned against Cao Guo, Cao Guo knew that the matter of Black Crystal Iron would definitely fight back wildly, once the Northern Empire was also offended, how could we keep the Diyan Lake?

Besides, without Ji Yu and them, we can't find black crystal iron ore, and we can't mine such a precious mineral deposit. It is impossible for us to monopolize the black crystal iron ore, and what should be given to others is still scored. Wu Yi persuaded.

"Then," Qi Shao's face changed a few times, "How much do you want to give them?"

"Well, let's wait for Ji Yu to come over and talk, and see what the attitude of the Tongbei Empire is. Wu Yi didn't dare to speak casually.

Compared with the Tongbei Empire, Qi is the weak side, and it is not easy to negotiate with the strong side.

Within half a day, Ji Yu came to the palace to ask to see Qi Shao.

After greeting for a while, Ji Yu said: "I really didn't expect that His Majesty the Great Emperor got the clue of black crystal iron ore, and I also want to thank the laborers of your country for working hard for so long, I believe you know the value of black crystal iron."

At the beginning, our agreement was to jointly manage and develop the Diyan Lake, so we should participate in the mining of black crystal iron ore, and the Tongbei Empire will pay half of the mining cost, and I will ship half of the black crystal iron back to China. Naturally, the shipping fee is also paid by our country. ”

Qi Shaomu kept his face silent, and Wu Yi said: "Half of it, black crystal iron is my country's mineral, we don't lack the cost of mining, you want half of it with a mouth, your country's appetite is inevitably too big, right?"

"Black crystal iron is so precious, other countries just spend money to buy it, and Gu will not sell it to them, in view of the agreement negotiated with your country earlier, Gu can consider selling some of it to your country. Qi Shao still couldn't hold back the words in his heart.

"Huh. Ji Yu had a smile on his face, "I can understand your thoughts, but the Tongbei Empire pays the most attention to the spirit of contract, and any agreement signed will be meticulously implemented."

Don't forget that it was we who helped your country defeat the Cao State and seize control of the Earth's Eye Lake, and that without His Majesty the Great Emperor's years of research, my people would not have been able to find the location of the Black Crystal Iron Mine.

Black crystal iron is precious, but there are more precious things in the world, such as territory, life, dignity, etc., and it is not worth losing more precious things in order to get it. ”

"Are you threatening Lone?" Qi Shao's face sank.

Wu Yi's mouth was open, and he swallowed back his words when he saw that he didn't have time to stop Qi Shao.

"I can't say that, I'm just reminding the king that I didn't force your country to sign an agreement at the beginning, do you want to tear up the agreement now?" Ji Yu's smile did not change, but his tone became tougher.

"We certainly won't tear up the agreement. Wu Yi hurriedly said.

This time it was Qi Shao's turn to swallow the words back, and he couldn't refute the teacher's face.

"But after all, the black crystal iron is different from the other outputs of the Earth Eye Lake, I believe that all countries on the mainland will be jealous of this mineral deposit, your country wants it, and the Gu Yuan Empire also wants it. If the news leaks out, it will be a question whether or not black crystal iron ore can be mined. ”

"What do you mean?" Ji Yu couldn't laugh anymore.

Other countries will definitely not sit idly by and watch them mine black crystal iron ore in Diyan Lake, not to mention anything else, once Meng sends troops to help Cao Guo, then they may not be able to defend Diyan Lake. Even if the Tongbei Empire wanted to send more troops south, the Gu Yuan Empire would try its best to obstruct it, and it was unrealistic to rely on the strength of the Tongbei Empire and the Qi State to fight against the entire continent.

"I mean that half of your country is too much, and we will discuss this again, and give your country a maximum of 30% according to my king's wishes. Wu Yi held up three fingers.

Qi Shao's cheeks twitched, and Sancheng was also distressed.

"Impossible!" Ji Yu couldn't sit still, "In order to let your country occupy Diyan Lake, we funded so many weapons and equipment, and also sent the Blood Leopard Division to participate in the war, obviously talking about joint development, but now we are only given thirty percent, and I can't explain it to His Majesty the Great Emperor when I go back." ”

"How can it be? I believe that the emperor of your country is reasonable, and maybe he will need 30% if he can agree. Wu Yi didn't say it to death.