The sun rises, and it shines very warmly on you. The bright yellow light is a completely different color from the blue sky, white clouds, green mountains and green water. The white mist in the vast mountains has not yet dissipated, floating and rising everywhere. The valley below the mountain
The running water shone with golden light, and this moment showed an unprecedented tranquility. Tang Cheng and Dice were lying among the trees, chatting and enjoying the sunshine, while observing what was going on in the valley ahead.
The jade mine that Tang Cheng ordered to seal with explosives that day was in this valley. It had not been there for a long time. Tang Cheng, who was hidden on the hillside, did not directly order to enter the valley, but chose to observe here for a while. However,
They have been enjoying the sunshine here for a long time, but the valley is still silent, and there seems to be no danger. Who is willing to risk his own life? Tang Cheng is obviously not such a person who is willing to take risks. After stopping the dice,
, Tang Cheng decided to observe for another half an hour before making a decision.
The soldiers on the front line are taking risks every day, every minute and every second. Maybe because they are used to life and death, Dice doesn't think anything of it, but this is Tang Cheng's order, and he doesn't dare to disobey it. "Follow him.
You said, if you want to survive or let your fellow countryman survive, you must listen to us, otherwise we will kill you first." Zhao Liang in the bushes was threatening Matsuda and others in Japanese, and the Japanese prisoners were tied up in a string.
They either nodded repeatedly or looked disdainful, but none of them dared to glare at Zhao Liang.
After leaving yesterday's battlefield, Matsuda and others, who were tied up in a string with ropes, followed Tang Cheng and the others as they stumbled through the woods. There were two people who did not want to follow, and they were all stabbed into bloody gourds by Tang Cheng with bayonets. They faced each other.
Seeing the bloody bodies of their companions hanging from the tree, Matsuda and others wisely chose to cooperate. The group of Chinese soldiers in front of them were different from the Chinese soldiers they had seen in the China war zone. These people were not so nice to the prisoners.
Half an hour later, the valley was still silent. Tang Cheng waved, and Dice took Liu Shitou out of the bushes and followed the hillside into the valley. There were no Japanese troops as expected, nor the ambush that Tang Cheng was worried about, entering the valley.
They quickly found the entrance of the cave that had been blown up by explosives that day. They arranged for Dice and Tan Fei to lead their own men to set up a warning at the entrance of the valley. Tang Cheng personally went into battle and forced Matsuda and the others to move rocks to confirm the location of the cave entrance. More than 20 unarmed people
The prisoners were all strong men, and they quickly cleared away the large piles of rubble that blocked the entrance to the cave.
"This is it. At that time, those Burmese people said that their jade was mined from here. Let your people go in and have a look. If it doesn't work, we will return to the camp immediately." The entrance to the cave has been found, and the gravel blocking the entrance has been found.
It has been cleaned up, and the next thing will be left to the people brought by Cai Jincheng to complete. Tang Cheng didn't understand what jade mining was about. He originally thought it was similar to coal mining, just digging out a hole.
Then people went in and just looked for ore veins to excavate, but now they find that this is not the process.
Looking at the stones brought out from the cave by the people brought by Cai Jincheng, Tang Cheng smashed them and kept silent. These people brought by Cai Jincheng were all knowledgeable people. In front of them, Tang Cheng could not get involved at all.
"Let's take a look, this is the raw jadeite. Before the outer skin is rubbed off, no one will know whether there is jadeite inside or what the quality of the jadeite inside is." Cai Jincheng grabbed the jadeite on the ground.
A stone was handed to Tang Cheng. If Tang Cheng hadn't seen a bit of emerald green on a broken stubble, he would have thought that what he was holding was just an ordinary stone.
Now that it has been determined that jade can be found in this cave, it will be easy to handle. Under the pressure of Tangcheng, Matsuda and others were dragged naked into the cave. Under the guidance of those brought by Cai Jincheng, they used
Use simple tools to mine the jadeite rough, and then carry it out of the cave piece by piece. "Old Cai, this is too slow, just use explosives, blow up a large piece, and just ask them to directly push out the stone. Your people just confirm,
This can make it faster." Seeing that the prisoners were moving too slowly, Tang Cheng called Liu Shitou to fill the cave with explosives.
There was a muffled sound of "boom", and a thick smoke spewed out from the cave. When the smoke faded a little, Matsuda and others were driven into the cave again, and a lot more stones were carried out. Tangcheng and the others were in the valley
The place was filled with explosives and covered with rocks. They were busy until it was almost completely dark. The people brought by Cai Jincheng had also identified dozens of rough stones containing jade. "Come on, don't tell me now that these things are worth anything."
How much does it cost? We have to wait until the things are shipped back to Kunming and handed over to my sister. No matter how good you say now, I can’t see the money."
Seeing Cai Jincheng coming over to talk to him again, Tang Cheng hurriedly avoided this guy who was already a demon. Throughout the afternoon, Cai Jincheng had nagged Tang Cheng's ears many times, saying that these were definitely emeralds.
Tang Cheng was already tired of hearing how much the rough stone was worth. "You are too boring. We are the only people here. If I don't talk to you, why don't I talk to those Japanese soldiers?" Cai Jincheng bit.
He smoked a cigarette and looked sideways at Tang Cheng, but his tone was lifeless.
"You can talk to whoever you want. I don't have time to chat with you right now." Tang Cheng responded to the occasion by taking out a map and spreading it out on a big rock, using the light of the bonfire to calculate on the map. "
We just defeated a Japanese squadron yesterday. I deliberately let the deserters go, just to let them take the news to Magao. According to the time and speed, those defeated soldiers should have brought the news to Magao. Although I don’t know yet.
How many Japanese troops are there in Gao, but I think they will definitely mobilize their troops to go north to the Red Soil Slope, so we have to move faster and we can’t worry Mike."
"I find that you are free. There are more than 200 people on Mike's side and a large amount of supplies to support them. As long as the Japanese army does not have aircraft and artillery, it will be difficult to break through Mike's defense line. It is also a big event for us here. Look, these
But it's all money. As long as it is transported back to Kunming, you can get a lot of money." Cai Jincheng grabbed a fist-sized jade stone and gestured to Tangcheng to count the money. It looked very philistine.
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Tang Cheng shook his head and stopped talking to Cai Jincheng. He packed up the map and got up and went to the mouth of the valley to replace the dice and came back for dinner. He didn't know if it was Cai Jincheng's idea. When Tang Cheng was replaced and returned to the valley, he found that there were many torches burning in the cave.
, the Japanese prisoners were lining up to carry stones out of the cave. "Anyway, idle time is idle, and it's not time to sleep yet. I'll let them work a little longer. You don't allow that, right?"
Cai Jincheng bravely took the responsibility, but Tang Cheng ignored the matter. The people doing the work were all Japanese soldiers, and Tang Cheng had no reason to stop it.
More and more stones were carried out of the cave. The people brought by Cai Jincheng could no longer check every stone, so they had to resort to clumsy methods, using the hammers and chisels they brought to knock on the edges of the stones one by one.
If you can tell that it is jade, you will keep it; if not, you will ignore it. You will be busy until the moon reaches the zenith, and the banging in the valley will end. However, the jadeite rough stones selected by Cai Jincheng's people have already been piled up.
A big pile.
"What else can we do? Just carry them on your back. We have about 40 people including these prisoners. If everyone carries some on their backs, I think they can all be taken away." Cai Jincheng originally thought of leading his people to stay here and continue digging.
He was digging a mining hole, but he didn't expect that Tangcheng had already made plans to blow it up and seal it completely. "Don't forget that we are soldiers after all. There are plenty of opportunities to make money. We can't spend all our time thinking about how to make money. I
There are still more than 200 brothers in Hongtupo, and I can't ignore them."
Cai Jincheng's reaction to Tang Cheng was just a smile, thinking to himself, if you weren't greedy for money, why did you bring us here to look for jade? Cai Jincheng could only mutter these words in his heart, he didn't dare to tell Tang Cheng
Cheng said this to his face, because out of the corner of his eye, he had noticed that Liu Shitou had opened the holster of the pistol on his waist. The people Tang Cheng brought out this time were all people who knew the basics. Don't look at the lack of people, but they all
They are brothers who can trust each other with their lives. If Liu Shitou heard Cai Jincheng say bad things about Tangcheng, he might actually shoot Cai Jincheng. After all, this is a battlefield, and a few people would be dead.
A piece of cake.
Liu Shitou's move to draw a gun was stopped by Tang Cheng's eyes. Anyway, Cai Jincheng was introduced to him by his brother-in-law Huang Hanju. If Cai Jincheng got involved in his company, it would be difficult for his brother-in-law Huang Hanju to answer to the Cai family in Kunming. After all,
The Cai family is also quite powerful in Kunming. "Lao Cai, don't forget, Myanmar not only has jade, but also gold. I heard that the Buddha statues in the Burmese monk temples are all made of gold, and they are comparable to jade."
It's easy to take action." Not wanting to fall out with Cai Jincheng, Tang Cheng had to change the topic, and sure enough, Cai Jincheng immediately became interested.
When the expeditionary force failed to withdraw from Burma last year, a large number of soldiers from the expeditionary force looted villages and monasteries in Burma during the retreat. The British reported such things to the expeditionary force headquarters. Lambgar training
The battalion and Kunming Airport also participated in the discovery of gold Buddha statues on returning soldiers many times. Cai Jincheng was a well-informed person, so how could he not know about this?
"I have a map of Myanmar here, which was printed by the British. There should be temples in various parts of Myanmar marked on it. If you look carefully, we might also have the opportunity to follow the army to counterattack south. Then we only need to raid a few Myanmar temples.
It might be faster than digging a cave to make money." Tang Cheng easily coaxed Cai Jincheng and took the map handed over by Tang Cheng. Cai Jincheng couldn't wait to run to the bonfire to open it and study it carefully, but he didn't know that Tang Cheng and Liu Shitou were both
People have been laughing so hard that their stomachs hurt.