Chapter 154 Gold Mine

Li Zhen said thoughtfully: "In addition to the hundreds of thousands of taels found in Rili City, there are more than two million taels without a source. This is really strange, and there is too much gold inside."

"Will it be the sunny treasury and their salary?" Wang Can speculated: "After all, they are launching a war, so it is possible to pay more, and we have indeed found a lot of gold and silver printed with Linyi's words on it."

Fang Yiai shook his head and retorted: "Just 50,000 people, can you get more than 2 million taels of silver? If Lin Yi was so rich, they would have become prosperous long ago. Who would have destroyed whom with the Tang Dynasty? And there is so much gold in it, can Lin Yi still pay the gold to pay the salary?"

"Then there is only one possibility." Li Zhen picked up a gold ingot from the box and said slowly: "Look at how long does this gold take to be cast?"

“No more than one month at most…”

Fang Yiai took it and recognized it. As the saying goes, real gold is not afraid of fire refining. The fire on this gold ingot is so obvious, but in fact, it has been a long time since one month has been refining. The gold ingot has only been refined for ten days at most.

“That’s right.”

"What's the meaning?"

Li Zhen did not answer, but continued to ask Wang Can: "When you searched in the city, have you ever seen equipment such as an alchemy furnace that can contain gold?"

"No, that's not." Wang Can thought about it. There were only a few blacksmith shops in the city, but there was obviously no alchemy ability there.

"That's strange, where did their gold melt..." Fang Yiaihua said halfway, and thought of something, and suddenly stopped.

"Your Highness, are you talking..." This time, even Baili Changsheng's voice changed. He stared at his eyes wide and his voice was sharp: "What do you mean is there a gold mine nearby?"

"What? Gold Mine?"

"Where?"

"Oh my God!"

"I haven't seen a gold mine yet!"

"..." Baili Changsheng was too inappropriate and did not pay attention to the surrounding environment. He made a guess, which immediately attracted a lot of discussion - this is a gold mine, and the gold produced in it...

"Okay, stop arguing, what if there is a gold mine here? We..."

Before Li Zhen could finish his words, he was interrupted by the stinky brat who was running. He ran and shouted, "Your Highness, we have caught a Linyi transportation team. They are transporting gold. We are going to make a fortune."

"Is there really a gold mine?"

"This transport team should be the one who contacts Rili and the Gold Mine?"

"I finally understand why so much food is stored in Rili City."

"It turns out there is a gold mining team here."

“…”

Fang Yiai was even more excited and asked repeatedly: "Your Highness, do you really have a gold mine?"

"This is already obvious, isn't it?"

"Gold mine..." Fang Yiai murmured, her eyes blurred, and she was obviously trapped in some kind of imagination.

Baili Changsheng also asked with great enthusiasm: "Your Highness, do you want to go and have a look?"

Li Zhen nodded and said, "Of course, I have seen the gold mine too much, and this is the first time I have seen it."

"Boy, where are you catching?"

The brat immediately said: "Just outside the city now, Your Highness, please follow me."

On the open space outside the city, there were a group of soldiers in the Everlasting Camp wearing camouflage uniforms (don't ask me where the camouflage uniforms came from). There were three large carts in the middle, each cart with several large boxes on it, and the ruts were very deep, and it was obvious that the goods in the box were extremely heavy.

Next to the car, there were dozens of people dressed in Linyi soldiers, squatting on the ground dejectedly, looking at the car unwillingly.

Li Zhen didn't even look at these people, but climbed into the car and opened a box casually. The golden light suddenly appeared in Li Zhen's eyes, almost shaking his eyes.

"It's indeed gold. It seems that there is really a gold mine nearby." Fang Yiai said: "The only question now is where is this gold mine."

"This is not a problem at all." Baili Changsheng pulled out his long knife and put it on a man who looked like a leader: "Tell me, where is your gold mine? Otherwise... my knife is very sharp."

This leader looks strong and arrogant, very tough and difficult to mess with. Who knew that he was just frightened by Baili Changsheng's knife and immediately became a pug: "Sir, please spare me, please spare me, I said, the gold mine is in a valley fifty miles away. As long as you spare me, I will take you there."

"Very good, your life is saved." Baili Changsheng withdrew his knife: "You are not leading the way?"

"Yes, yes, please come with the adults and villains."

"You are here to guard the Changsheng Camp, come with me." Of course, more than 5,000 people could not bring them all. This time, Li Zhen only brought the Changsheng Camp. Compared with the other camps, Changsheng Camp may have a little weaker combat power, but he was born for the jungle and was more adapted to jungle marching.

It took at least five days to walk at the speed of Li Zhen before, but now someone leads the way, and in order to transport gold, Rilien opened a logging path out. But even so, more than a thousand people walked for a whole day before they arrived at the place.

The defense of the gold mine is very strict. There are thousands of troops alone, and countless coolies carrying heavy baskets, coming and going in the valley. There are also supervisors with whips and ferocious faces patrolling back and forth to see who is lazy, and they will be whipped up...

After a charge, the army guarding here was attacked by the Changsheng Battalion - the Changsheng Battalion's combat effectiveness is indeed weak, but compared with the young army, it is still a first-class strong army outside.

The gold mine became Li Zhen’s personal belonging.

However, to everyone's disappointment, this gold mine is just a small mine and is about to run out.

"What a pity, it's a waste of time." Fang Yiai said disappointedly.

Li Zhen had a different opinion: "To be precise, it should be our luck."

"What does your Highness mean?" Fang Yiai said in confusion. The gold mine was gone and he had a waste of time. Why did he become lucky?

Li Zhen smiled slightly: "I'll ask you, if this is a super rich mine, what will we do next?"

Fang Yiai said without hesitation: "Of course, I continue to mine."

"But this is within the enemy's territory, and the lives and safety of miners are always threatened."

"That's even better, we'll just send troops to garrison."

"Then how many troops do you want to station?"

"Of course the more, the better."

"But we only have five thousand people. If we have fewer people, we can't resist the enemy's attacks. If we have more people, it will affect our next plan. Anyway, it will definitely not be feasible to give up long-term plans for a gold mine, and I will definitely not agree."

"This..." Fang Yiai was silent.

"Do you understand? This at least allows us to avoid a dilemma." Li Zhen said: "Okay, since it is a small mine, then forget it, let's withdraw."

"yes."
Chapter completed!