The firearm warehouse on the mountainside was rising with blue smoke, and the military craftsmen put the prepared nitrification gunpowder into the iron tube.
These barrel walls are engraved with the blasting device in the seal script "Produced by the Third Year of the Yuanwu Engineering Department", and the inner layer is sealed with fish glue and waterproof.
The worker on duty holds a bronze ruler and carefully measures the depth of the blast hole. According to the "Minery and Metallurgical Rules", three blasting points must be arranged for every ten feet of excavation, and the spacing error must not exceed half an inch.
"put--!"
As the order flag waved, the prisoners closed their ears and retreated to the safety stone chamber. The shock waves were conducting along the rock formations, and the entire mine trajectory was trembling.
When the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, Zhao Sanlang and others were immediately driven into the blasting area and used a dustpan woven bamboo strips to clean up the gravel.
The experienced veteran union deliberately slowed down and let the new Qiang slaves rush forward - those rocks that were scattered by gunpowder could fall from the rocks at any time.
As noon approached, the explosion sounds in the depths of the mine cave suddenly became dense. Military craftsmen were experimenting with new "mother and child thunder", trying to increase the ore breaking rate by 40%. As the frequent mountain tremors, Zhao Sanlang's pickaxe suddenly drilled through the rock wall, and dark red spring water gushed out.
According to the "Mining and Metallurgical Technique", this is an ominous sign that opened the underground Yin River. The supervisor waved his whip and drove everyone forward. It was not until the three prisoners were swept away by the torrent that they hurriedly finished their work.
Zhao Sanlang took the opportunity to hide the bronze crossbow machine into the vine basket for transporting ore. He remembered that the stonemason of his fellow villager said: The drainage gate at the end of the culvert is equipped with fine iron gears. If the crossbow machine can be used to jamm the shaft...
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Almost at the same time, the sound of the abacus Wang Xu's abacus was clearly sounding in the hall. He was in contrast to three sets of account books: the "Grain Book" presented to Changling on the surface, the "Region of Service" that deals with the censor's inspection, and the "Black Book" hidden in the dark grid of the wall.
The first snow falling outside the window frame made the "death of illness and death" look particularly dazzling.
"Sir, the night shop in the border city has sent a ticket for October." The confidant lowered his voice and handed it on the wooden box, which neatly contained fifty horse hoof gold, each of which was marked by the "Hexi Horse Gang". According to the black market of private slaves, each of the strong Qiang slaves was worth thirty pieces, and the iron tools reported to be damaged by the armory...
The sudden sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded in the mountains, and the jackdaws perched on the roof of the tower flew away.
Twenty riders, Xuanjia Ti cavalry, broke through the smoke of metallurgical. On the military post road outside the three hills, several copper-clad four-wheeled carts rushed over with thin ice. The black flags hung on the roof of the car show the identity of the "dismissal envoy" sent by the official department, and the gold-inlaid talismans played a fine and clear sound in the bumps.
When the call of a change of tune came from the window, Wang Xu felt a chill on the back of his neck, and the ivory cutter in his hand fell to the ground. He rushed to the window frame and saw the fox fur of Li Chongtai, the mining supervisor, trembling on the observation stage. Even if the other party was a practitioner with the five realm of spiritual consciousness, it would be difficult for him to fall into a sudden panic.
"According to the imperial edict to inspect the mines in Hexi!"
The voice of the inspector Meng Yan smashed into the palace with the north wind. The Qin Law and the Law stipulated that "all the performances in the end of the year must be investigated suddenly", but this year's major plan should be clearly in the twelfth lunar month!
Wang Xu grabbed the desk "Black Book" and was about to put it into the charcoal basin, but he saw a layer of strange green frost floating on the surface of the bamboo slips - this is the "yin talisman" specially made by the engineering department. It will reveal the secret text when it encounters fire. There is no doubt that it means that he has been targeted and has enough evidence.
He fell down on the pedestal, and the thought of "leaving out of Didao, passing Yanzhi Mountain, and escaping Qin's territory" flashed in his mind. Thirty miles away, there was a fast horse he had asked the slave capturing team to prepare in advance, but those barbarians were really trustworthy when the incident was exposed and there was no more profit.
Zhao Sanlang in the alley felt that the ground was inexplicably quiet. In the past, it was already the node for the fifth batch of gunpowder explosion. Several alert prisoners began to move towards the culvert, but were forced back to the mining surface by the sudden influx of crossbow armored soldiers.
"According to the imperial edict, check it! Those who act without action will kill the three clans!"
Amid the clanging sound of the black iron armored clothes colliding, Meng Yan stepped into the hall on the deer-skin strip that the miners could never see in their lifetime. On the bronze edict board he held in his left hand, nine golden tiger talismans reflected the stinging of Wang Xu's eyes - this means that the entire garrison army in Longxi County could be mobilized, with a total of 170,000.
"Duke Wang Xu." Meng Yan's voice was like a sword blade that had been quenched with ice. "The "Xiaolu" says, 'Hidden households and don't have the same debts as the second Jia'. Can the 19-die mouths that are falsely reported by you can be worth tens of thousands of dollars to atone for your sins?"
The Cangcao forced himself to squeeze out a flattering smile, and was about to bring out the prepared speech of "recruiting civil servants", but he saw the lacquer box presented by the other party's entourage, lying on the Yaxing Deed that had just been sent to the border city this morning.
The seal of the cinnabar at Qiwei was not dry, and it was written: "In September, Dinghai, the Persian Jiannu lost 30 to the Great Yuezhi, three hu of Yi Coral, and five Persian dancers who lost 20 to the elite and strong slaves..."
Meng Yan stroked his fingertips through the signature "Daxia Shang Zhiqian" on the contract, and suddenly changed to elegant words:
"Since you have an old relationship with the 'Red Sea Chamber of Commerce' in Seleuc, you can tell that before the war in the Haixi countries began, the Pygmys, Kushi people, and Nubians and other slaves had always been the most recent far-reaching quotations?"
Wang Xu's blood almost completely solidified when he heard the word "Zhuo Yunsou". These information about the Western Yiguo that came from Sai Zong and Ding Ling Business Travel should have been top secret cross-border trade networks, but at this moment they were calmly revealed from the imperial inspector.
He walked with his knees and wanted to hug the hem of the inspector's elf, but was hit by the copy of the "Black Book" thrown out by the other party.
"The Law of the Stable Garden stipulates that more than a hundred private traffickers have broken carriages." Meng Yan leaned over and pulled out the jade pendant from Wang Xu's waist. This ornament carved with a totem of the totem of the Hexi Horse Gang was the token of the leader of the Hexi Horse Gang. "But if Dingling's smuggling route in the north of the Mo, it may save the life of the clan."
An explosion came from the firearm warehouse on the mountainside, and Meng Yan's pupils shrank slightly - the loud noise did not come from gunpowder, but the movement of Li Chongtai secretly sneaking into the mine cave and trying to destroy the privately cast weapons.
He turned around and made a gesture to the adjutant. The soldiers immediately carried them into the entire set of torture instruments for questioning: from the "tiger claw comb" that specializes in dealing with corrupt officials to the "camel nails" used to force conceal the secret stakes of the Western Regions, each piece was covered in a dark brown color that was not cleaned.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! "I'll give you a moment." This sixth-level master from the Marquis' Mansion threw the secret account scroll on the case. "In addition to Yuezhi and Ding Ling's intelligence network, it writes out all the intermediaries who handle the slave trade, especially the ship owners who exchange with Jiezhi and Lixuan."
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In the smelting area on the southeast side of the mine, thirty-six blast furnaces smelting copper and tin spewed blue smoke day and night. Each furnace is embedded with a hydraulic blower regulated by the Industrial Bureau. The torrents brought by the Yellow River tributary drive gear sets accurately control the wind pressure to the standard value of the "three-inch water column".
Zhao Sanlang, who was deep in the alley, clenched the bronze crossbow in his crotch. He noticed that the whip of the supervisors had become much sparse, and was replaced by the dense sound of armor hitting at the end of the mine.
Several prisoners exchanged their eyes, and the sound of gurgling water at the drainage outlet of the culvert suddenly became clear and audible.
"There is a strife in the Qin officials!" The veterans spat and used pickaxes and steel kilns to pry open the cracks of the rocks. Their "generational" code words lingered in the alleyway: "Before the beginning, the sluice wheel."
Zhao Sanlang touched the vine basket full of sharp ore, and a cold touch like a cold iron arrow came from his fingertips.
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Wang Xu's throat was rolling with sweetness, and he saw that the Xuanjia Tiqi outside the window had surrounded the granaries.
He knew Meng Yan's methods very well. When the other party was chasing the poison pill case in Yunzhong three years ago, he tied several old princes of Chen to a steamer and forced confession until the flesh and blood were separated, and he could still remain sober.
"The camel caravan of Dingling people... on the first day of the month, I passed by the west entrance of Yanhai..."
He trembled and took out the bone-made code cylinder from his sleeve. The spiral pattern engraved on the body of the barrel was the common secret phrase of the Great Yuezhi Merchants: "This is the communication key between Xiaguan and the shaman of Dingling Chile tribe, and can mobilize thirteen supply points in the north of the desert."
"As for the smuggling routes, there are three Beihai Line, Kingsoft Line and Hell Line. The goods are divided into five levels and eighteen levels, including Thracian Gladiator, Ural Reindeer, Masaget Witch, Gaul Blacksmith, Nubian Pearl Slave, etc. A-level goods need to be confined by the soul-locking chain refined by the Ptolemaic dynasty..."
When Meng Yan took the bone tube, he gently knocked his fingertips on the bottom of the tube, and three blood marrow jade rolled down to the palm of his palm - this gem produced west of the Pamir Mountains was a common token of the Dingling nobles.
He raised his foot and crushed Wang Xu's knees, and laughed as he heard the bones shattered, "The Duke is indeed well versed in the Qin Law. If you have an affair with foreign tribes, you should kill them, but I need you to walk through Hexi Road alive."
Suddenly, a camel bell sound came from outside the hall, and twelve white camels stepped on the smoke and dust in the mine. When the felt curtain of the yak hanging from the camel sedan was lifted, the snow in the sky was flying hundreds of feet wide in the sky.
Surrounded by more than a dozen Yuezhi and Sueden Hu merchants, Dingling old shaman Zhigala was wearing a ferret cloak. The cat's eye stone embedded in his eyes changed with the light. The golden wolf's thigh hanging between his neck and the Qin army's talisman that came from somewhere collided with each other to create the sound of gold and stone.
"Mr. Meng came faster than the eagle. Since this piece is useless, it is better to give it to my clan to sacrifice to the sky..."
His elegant language had a grassland accent, and his fingers like dead branches slashed across Wang Xu's limp body, but his eyes looked at an inconspicuous middle-aged tia behind Mengyan: "Speaking of this, the real person in charge of this trip should be yours, right?"
Meng Yan shook his sleeves away from the warrior Ding Ling who was trying to steal Wang Xu, and took a big step forward, giving way to the empress messenger who took off his black armor and exposed his yellow collar.
A master who has entered the seventh realm to move mountains, even if he is only a foreign tribe, needs to let strong people of the same level talk to each other.
Zheng Liren, who had long been "taken by Zhao Qing, specially appointed to preside over the development of the new slave trade route and also used this matter as a test of loyalty, will undoubtedly become the leader of the subsequent negotiations.
More specifically, this is the most common way to use Zheng Xiu when recruiting and training his higher-level subordinates, which is to use it. Although the inspector Meng Yan at the side seems to be a faction of the Menghou Mansion, it is actually considered a spy that the queen has bribed outside.
In name, the Thirteen Marquis of the Great Qin, which seemed to be independent and independent, had to accept some of the people placed by Yuanwu and Zheng Xiu, while obtaining these powers, so that many of the family members could devote themselves to their full support.
Therefore, in the eyes of insiders, Meng Yan should be called the bright line in this surveillance. The real dark line is probably a master with a strength that has surpassed the first entry into the seventh realm, but it has not appeared from beginning to end.
It has to be mentioned that after the courageous body god possessed him for a period of time, "Zheng Liren" did successfully enter the seventh realm, but a certain relative dilemma arose: because the cultivation is purely maintained by the laws of Zhao Qing's natal energy, once he leaves and exits, he will have a semi-permanent decline.
It seems that this can be considered an interesting state, which gives her a more fundamental understanding of the characteristics of this stage.
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When Dingling Shaman's camel caravan confronted Meng Yan's subordinates, the rock walls of the mine cave at the foot of the mountain exploded, and the Yin River water rushing in the burrow flowed back into the tunnel, blending with the evaporated sulfur fog.
In the chaotic push, the bronze crossbow in Zhao Sanlang's arms slipped down accidentally. He was about to bend down to pick it up, but he was struck by a pair of turquoise-shaped cowhide boots at the moment when he touched the ground.
Looking up, it turned out to be a Hu Shang with deep eyes and high nose. His earlobes were engraved with the same stuffy totem as Wang Xuyuhuang, and the snake head and deer antler pattern were winding, which was exactly the same as the fake tripod pattern that Zhao Sanlang had seen on the Hedong Black Market six years ago.
That winter solstice, it was to exchange half a pound of rhinoceros horn powder for his high-fever daughter that he took the risk of melting half a tael of mint.
"Does the warrior with the shadow of the Gobi lone wolf in his eyes want to exchange this for freedom?"
Hu Shang whispered in a stiff Qin language, and an ancient gold coin minted during the Darius I slipped out from his sleeve, flying like a butterfly between his fingers: "Do you know? In Persepolis, there are two kinds of shackles hanging on the slave market - iron-cast locks and legs, and gold-casting traps people's hearts."
"Follow my Anmoko's horse team to Media, you can become a guest of honor for General Alshak in the province of Parthia - the guard formed by the Crescent Alliance, and are recruiting weapons designers who can penetrate the Seleucid armored vehicles and need talents who know how to transform Qin crossbows."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The shouts of soldiers searching in the distance came from the distance. Zhao Sanlang stared at Hu Shang's scimitar with rubies inlaid around his waist, and suddenly remembered what the old jailer said: In this ghost place, living people are cheaper than ores.
But what he didn't say was that ore would eventually be melted into weapons, and the hand holding a knife could change the fate of a bad person.
When Meng Yan's subordinates finally shot and killed Li Chongtai, who was unable to maintain the slash of flying swords, and rushed into the alley with a crossbow, they only saw the strange symbols painted with blood on the rock wall - this is the code word used by the Hexi Horse Gang to mark "tradable goods".
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The storm wind in the mountains rolled up Meng Yan's black cloak's sable hair. He raised his hand and signaled his followers to drag Wang Xu to the Guan Shitai. The commotion from the mine cave in the distance was deliberately ignored - this inspector obviously had a plan, and the three teams of heavy armored soldiers had already guarded the important roads everywhere.
"The strength of the Dingling people is limited after all. Even if they cooperate with the Scythian Kingdom and the Chu nobles, they still cannot control such a long business path. They should seek real strong support..."
"The Yuezhi has been surrendering to our Qin Dynasty for decades, but you still don't want to change your backer, which makes the emperor and the queen very dissatisfied!"
Zheng Liren jumped out of several sharp-toned whale sharks with sharp teeth on his cuff. They seemed to be only five or six inches long, but the breath they emitted seemed to be about to swallow the sky and the earth. They were so shocked that the cat's eye stone in the old shaman's eyes suddenly contracted into a vertical pupil shape, and were forced to mobilize the power of their natal objects:
"Have you forgotten how the camel caravan in Gaoquesai was destroyed three years ago? From Loulan to Baktria, the Qin Dynasty had to draw 70% points... 30,000 Dings were transported by the Jinshan Line every month, and the court could purchase them at a 20% discount at the market price. The source of goods west of the Yuezhi must be expanded to the west of the Zhizhihai."
Ding Ling's shaman's bone flute screamed, and twelve white camels bent their knees in response. He took off the wolf's thigh bones between his neck and threw them into the air. The bone pieces turned into a holographic map composed of various sand particles, outlining the long trade route extending from the Nile Delta to the Altai Pass:
"Thirty thousand a month, is the envoy joking? How could there be so many prisoners of war? Even if they defeat all the Greek city-states along the Black Sea, they are afraid they can't make up this number."
To be continued...