Main Text Chapter 214: Private Coinage

"My lord, shall we let these soldiers from Yunzhong County surround us?"

Wei Chou followed Lin Muyu and chased into the big tent of the Chinese army. His face was full of anger and said: "We adopted the tactics of encircling but not attacking to encircle Huofu Mountain, but now we are also besieged. Yinshan City The food and water that we had were unable to be brought in at all, and now we are in the same quagmire as the knights' lodge on Huofu Mountain, we must make a decision, my lord!"

Lin Muyu turned around abruptly, with murderous intent in his eyes, and said, "Wei Qiu, think about it, why do people like Bai Lao protect the Knights' Inn like this?"

"this……"

Wei Chou was stunned, and asked cautiously: "Your Excellency, you don't suspect that Governor Hu Tiening of Cangnan Province is also in full collusion with the Knight's Hotel, right?"

"Collusion is not necessarily the case, but there is a relationship of interest."

Lin Muyu held his head up and exhaled, and said: "If there is no huge interest, Hu Tiening would not need to mobilize the troops like this, even at the expense of us, the imperial army. This can only show that they want to protect Huofushan. There are some secrets hidden in the library that he wants us to know!"

Wei Chou suddenly realized: "My lord, if this is the case... we must take action."

"Um."

Lin Muyu nodded and asked, "How much food and grass do we have left?"

"It can last up to two days, and the water is no longer enough."

"We dug more than a dozen wells on the spot. Our terrain is low, and there are green hills around us except Huofu Mountain. It is not difficult to dig out water."

"yes!"

"besides……"

"What else is there, my lord?" Wei Chou turned to look at him.

"Help me find a set of casual knight clothes. I'm going to explore Huofu Mountain tonight to see what kind of secrets are hidden in this mountain. Let Hu Tiening do this."

"My lord, you are in danger alone, I'm afraid it's a bit..."

"Don't persuade me, I've made up my mind."

"Yes, my lord!"

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In the middle of the night, the cold wind howled on Huoaxe Mountain.

"rustle……"

Amidst the rustling sounds, gourd vines ooze out from the rock formation, and Lin Muyu clutches a gourd vine tightly, using the characteristics of Wuhun to climb up the cliff in the north of Huoax Mountain. This cliff is unusually steep. It is a completely vertical natural barrier, so the rangers on Huoax Mountain may not guard here, after all, ordinary people cannot climb up from here.

In the cold night, Lin Muyu's sword-shaped eyebrows were stained with a touch of frost, but there was a smile in his eyes under his eyebrows. He was dressed in a samurai costume, and the medal he was wearing was also green. Hanging a hundred meters in the air, he climbed step by step by leaning on the gourd vine. Fortunately, the gourd vine was born from his heart and perfectly fit his body, so there was no need to worry about the thorns on the gourd vine stabbing him, even when Lin Muyu When the palm of the hand grasped the gourd vine, the surrounding thorns quickly waved away and became invisible, which looked very mysterious.

"brush!"

With a light jump, he landed on the fiery red rock. The Dragon Spirit Sword was wrapped in a black cloth and held behind him. Lin Muyu was very familiar with the Knight's Mansion, so he didn't have any fears. He strode over, not far away. At the place, more than a dozen samurai are guarding the periphery of Beishan.

"Who is it?" One of the San Xia hastily raised his longbow.

Lin Muyu hurriedly raised his palm and said with a smile: "Don't pull the bow, brother, I have a stomachache and I'm too embarrassed to solve it on the top, so I went to the edge of the cliff to solve it, my own family!"

Under the moonlight, the San Xia saw his attire, couldn't help laughing and said: "Damn, I'm startled, boy, you are a bit unfamiliar, new here?"

"Yeah, it's been less than a month since I came here."

"No wonder it looks unfamiliar, which team are you in?"

Lin Muyu was taken aback by this question, but fortunately he was more alert, and said with a smile: "I was brought up the mountain by Master Luoshan Tiezun, and now I am following him as a personal guard."

There are at least a hundred Tie Zun on this mountain, and the turnover of personnel is frequent, and these rangers may not know every one of them, so this lie is very appropriate!

"Oh, it turned out to be the brother that Master Tie Zun brought up the mountain, come here, do you want to drink some wine to warm up?"

"Thank you, big brothers, but I have to go back immediately. Master Tie Zun was injured when he went down the mountain to attack today. I have to take care of it!"

"Okay, brother, you've worked hard!"

...

Passing the pass smoothly, Lin Muyu walked along the mountains and forests, but saw that the rangers along the way were all listless like wilted eggplants. It seemed that the two blows of water cutoff and attack failure had almost lost their morale. It's a pity that Hu Tiening has made new moves, otherwise the Longdan Camp will definitely be able to conquer Huoax Mountain with a small loss within three days.

At this moment, a group of scavenger men holding torches suddenly appeared in front of them, escorting about 20 people who looked like peasants through the corridor, and went straight to the other side of the cliff. He yelled and cursed: "Hurry up, mother, I missed today's construction schedule and see if I don't peel your skin!"

Each of these peasants carried shovels on their shoulders, and they looked sallow and emaciated.

Lin Muyu couldn't help frowning, without thinking too much, quietly posted it, mixed in and became a member of Sanxia, ​​escorted the civilian husband together, and continued to work in the middle of the night, there must be some invisible secret in such a hurry.

Sure enough, after bypassing a small mountain peak, the front was brightly lit, and about 100+ samurai holding swords acted as guards standing in front of a cave, and the cave stretched all the way to the depths of Huofu Mountain. Ding Ding Dang Dang", Lin Muyu immediately concluded that this is a gold mine!

Huofu Mountain is actually a huge gold mine, this is too sensational!

"Go down!"

Pushing the peasants one by one into the mine pit, Lin Muyu also followed a group of scatterers, and saw that the mine was full of torches and scatterers acting as guards. The entire Huoax Mountain seemed to be hollowed out soon. The walls are densely packed with miners clinging to it, using hammers, shovels and other tools to jingle the minerals in the mountain.

Under the torch, some ores can faintly see the color of gold. Although they are impure, they are indeed gold mines.

Lin Muyu couldn't help taking a deep breath, at this moment, a bearded samurai looked at him and asked with a smile: "Little brother, look at your face, are you new here?"

"Yeah, what's the name of this big brother?"

"Just call me Da Niu."

"Ha, Brother Big Niu, you are also in charge of guarding the mine today."

"Yes!" Da Niu nodded, looking greedily at the carts of gold mines below, and said, "If all the gold is turned into gold coins, hehe... each of us can marry Qiba The daughter-in-law of the room!"

Lin Muyu's heart sank, and he said with a smile: "Brother Big Niu, do you know that these gold mines are used to mint coins?"

"nature."

Da Niu waved his arm and said with a smile: "Otherwise, why do you think that old fox Hu Tiening in Wugu City sent troops to reinforce us when Huofu Mountain was besieged?"

Lin Muyu was relieved, and said, "I'm new here, so I don't understand these rules... Could it be that Hu Tiening wanted these gold mines and minted coins privately?"

"Yeah, otherwise what do you think?"

Daniel said with great interest: "Since ancient times, people have died for wealth and birds for food."

"But as far as I know, there is an imperial law that prohibits officials from minting coins without permission..." Lin Muyu said hypocritically.

Daniel rubbed his nose and said, "Do you think that old fox Hu Tiening is a vegetarian? This Huofu mountain has been mined for nearly a year, and the amount of gold coins that have been melted out is more than 10 million. Hey …The current Hu Tiening is very rich, otherwise he would not be able to purchase maids, war horses, and weapons in large quantities!"

"Does he even dare to buy war horses and weapons?" Lin Muyu laughed in astonishment: "This Hu Tie Ning is really bold."

Daniel smiled and said, "That's natural. The total number of troops in Cangnan Province is nearly 120,000, and the most elite of them is the 17,000-man Flying Cavalry Battalion under the command of General Long Qianlin under Hu Tiening's command. It is said that the horses of this Flying Cavalry Battalion are all excellent horses from the Western Regions, and the weapons are all made by famous craftsmen, all black iron weapons, hmph... Looking at the entire empire, which army can be compared to it in terms of sophistication?"

Lin Muyu secretly smiled, I am afraid that his gentian battalion can compete?

It's just that Hu Tiening is really daring, he dared to collude with the Knights Hotel to mine gold on Huofu Mountain, what audacity!

Lin Muyu sighed deeply, and said, "I don't know how many gold coins we can get, but it costs a lot of money to marry a wife in the countryside now!"

Daniel smiled: "Don't worry, by the way, what's your boy's name?"

"Lin Zhi."

Daniel immediately patted Lin Muyu on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Brother Lin Zhi, the Great Game Envoy promised us long ago that we will 'move' after mining the gold mine in Huofu Mountain, and each brother will have at least one thousand gold coins." The reward, hey... the girls in the country are also cheap now, you can marry one for 100 gold Yin coins, you are so young and strong, you have no problem marrying a five-room wife, hahaha..."

Lin Muyu smiled shyly: "Brother Big Niu was joking, I'm so innocent..."

big cow:"……"

...

At this moment, an excited voice suddenly came from the depths of the mine: "We dug it...we dug it..."

"What did you find?" Lin Muyu was taken aback.

The voice in the depths responded immediately, and said with a big smile, "Lord Jin Zun, we have already dug out a white diamond, hurry up and tell the Great Game Envoy that we have finally dug up a white diamond!"

Lin Muyu was taken aback, and immediately went down the rope with a group of scavenger men. By the light, he found a group of miners surrounded there. The pyramid-shaped spar appeared in his eyes, is that the legendary white diamond?

What is the difference between a white diamond and a diamond?

People in this world don't admire diamonds, but they seem to admire white diamonds. What is the use of these shiny white crystals?

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