Qianquan Mountain is today's Kyrgyz Mountains, spanning Shiguo and Bakhna. It contains rich gold and silver mines, which has made Shiguo and Bakhna rich, but it has also brought them disaster. Small countries have
Wealth without the ability to protect oneself will eventually become a meal for big countries.
So we often see some farmers who pick up rare treasures and hand them over to the state without hesitation. Many people will scold them for being stupid, but they don’t know that this is the wisdom of life. Rare treasures often do not bring wealth to ordinary farmers.
It's the murderous intent of the voyeur.
Li Chenghua led a thousand cavalrymen along the valley between the vast and majestic mountains of Qianquan Mountain, and time seemed to be nomadic between forests and grasslands.
King Alian introduced them to a guide. The guide was a businessman in his fifties. He was the leader of the palace guards at that time. He had accompanied King Alian to visit the mines of the Holy Sisters, and later went there twice alone, so he was more familiar with the terrain.
King Alian said that the mine is relatively close to Talas City. Only now did Li Chenghua know what she meant. It was just that it was relatively close to Julan City. Julan City was thousands of miles away from the mine, while Talas City was five hundred miles away from the mine.
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Who knew how the Saintess could transport gold coins to such a distant place, and how the operation of thousands of people and tens of thousands of camels did not leak any information.
On the one hand, it shows the loyalty of the guards of the Saint Sisters to Jinshan Ling. On the other hand, it also shows that Jinshan Ling is ruthless. If she cannot keep her position in the Saint Sisters, she will completely destroy it.
The internal struggle within the Saintess Society began a few years ago. The establishment of the army was a big hole dug by the Saintess elders for Jinshan Ling, so transferring wealth was Jinshanling's plan for a rainy day, completely cutting off the roots of the Saintess Society.
Li Chenghua's team has been walking in the Qianquan Mountains for five days. There is a gurgling river at the bottom of the valley, with undulating grasslands on both sides, slowly extending to the mountainside, and then there is the forest area, mainly pine trees. After the forest area, there is the snow-capped mountains.
Snowy mountains, thick snow covers the top of the mountain, and the snow melts in summer, bringing abundant water to the valley.
"Zaire, how far is the mine?" Li Chenghua couldn't help but ask.
Zaire is the name of the guide, and his Chinese name is Shi Jingtang, a name full of historical stench, but it happened to him.
Zaire put his hand on his heart and saluted with a smile: "Reporting to General Li, this is Wanzu Gorge, the longest canyon in Qianquan Mountain. If you walk about a hundred miles further, you will enter the Mine Valley."
"Is this place connected to Qianquan Canyon in front?"
Zaire nodded: "Completely connected, it and Qianquan Canyon form a large '十', which is the Chinese character for ten."
Qianquan Canyon is a north-south grand canyon and an important strategic artery. Although it is not as long as Wanzu Gorge, it is far more important than Wanzu Gorge.
"When we go back, we don't have to go back the way we came. We can just go directly to Qianquan Canyon."
Zaire smiled and said: "It's relatively close to Bahan via Qianquan Canyon, but it's far to Shiguo, but it's the same thing for General Li."
"What are those people doing?"
Li Chenghua pointed his horsewhip ahead. There were only a few tents set up by the river, and dozens of people were groping for something in the river. They seemed to be nearby herdsmen.
"Are they digging for gold?"
"Probably not! I've never heard of gold sand in the river."
Zaire immediately went to inquire, and came back not long after and said: "Someone picked up dozens of gold coins in the river in this area. The news came, and everyone nearby came to look for it."
"Anything gained?"
"Very few, only a dozen found!"
He opened his palm, and a Sogdian gold coin appeared on it, "This is what they found. I exchanged it for them with ten silver coins."
Li Chenghua carefully looked at the gold coin that still had cold water and low temperature.
She had already guessed the origin of this gold coin. It should be that the team transporting the gold coins had an accident. A bag of gold coins accidentally fell into the river and the bag broke. After the soldiers picked it up, there were still a small number of gold coins left in the river.
But the existence of gold coins suddenly brightened her heart, and the hard work of these days' journey was wiped away at this moment.
Three days later, they finally arrived at Saint Maid's mine, which was located in a small valley. There were more than twenty abandoned smelting sites along the way, showing that the scale of mining back then was very large.
When we reached the end of the valley, there was a huge mountain in front of us. The mountain was steep and straight. Halfway up the mountain, there was a huge boulder weighing more than 100,000 kilograms.
There is a passage dug out on the mountain, which can accommodate a camel. The passage extends to the front of the boulder, which means that there must be a gate behind the boulder.
"Behind that big rock is the mine gate!" Zaire pointed to the gate.
"Have you ever been in a mine?" Li Chenghua asked.
Zaire shook his head, "When I came here, I was still mining gold, and it was heavily guarded. There were originally more than a dozen large tents down there, and I went directly into the big tent."
Li Chenghua no longer needed a guide at this time. She led a dozen people up the mountainside and came to the boulder, which stood like a small mountain on the cliff.
Judging from the surrounding situation, no one should have been here.
There are two ways to remove the boulder. One is to pull with a rope. Hundreds of people pulling the rope together from a distance may be able to pull the boulder down the cliff.
Another way is to use explosives. For Tang Jun, this is of course the best way.
Li Chenghua immediately ordered the installation of iron fire mines.
Fortunately, they were well prepared and brought dozens of iron fire mines and two firearms soldiers.
The two experienced firearms soldiers quickly found a huge crack in the boulder, which was half a foot wide at its widest point. They found two flat iron fire mines, with the match rope outwards, and stuffed as many two as possible along the crack.
The Iron Fire Thunder was inserted very deep.
Then with a wave of his hand, everyone moved away. A soldier lit two match ropes in the crack with a long stick torch, and immediately ran towards the mountain road. After running for dozens of steps, he lay down on the slope of the mountain road, using his shield.
Cover your head.
"Boom! Boom!"
Two 40-pound iron fire thunder exploded almost at the same time. The huge explosion shock wave blew the hill-like boulder into two halves and rolled down the mountainside.
‘Boom!’ There was a muffled sound, the ground trembled and dust flew up.
After a while, the smoke and dust cleared, and everyone walked into the valley again. They saw that the huge rocks on the mountainside were gone, leaving only a semicircular iron gate one foot high and eight feet wide.
The iron door couldn't be pushed open, but there was a keyhole on it. Li Chenghua poured a little oil into the keyhole and slowly inserted Jin Shanling's necklace pendant. When Li Chenghua took the necklace, he guessed it was a key.
, because it is not pure gold, but copper is plated with gold.
How could Jin Shanling hang a copper necklace? There is only one explanation: it is a key.
As expected, the three-sword copper ring was inserted into the keyhole, and with a slight twist, there was a 'click!' and a series of machine sounds came from inside.
After pushing the iron door hard again, the iron door was slowly pushed open along the rails.
This is a mechanism composed of countless thick iron bars. The two thick iron bars are like door latches, holding up the thick iron door from the inside. Use the key to open the mechanism, and the two iron bars will be pulled back by the iron chain.
The door latch disappeared.
Without a key, it is much more difficult to open a thick iron door than a huge stone at the door.
After letting the air flow out for a moment, Li Chenghua led dozens of soldiers and lit torches and walked in.
Although it is an abandoned mine, you can still see the gleaming remains of gold ore on the stone walls. The gold content is quite high, and it is definitely a super-high-grade gold mine.
After walking dozens of steps, their eyes suddenly brightened, and everyone exclaimed. A palace-like hall appeared in front of them, and there were mountains of sheepskin bags in front of them.
These bags have only been stored for two years, and are very new and strong. When you open a bag, you will find that it is full of shining gold coins, including Sogdian gold coins, Da Shi gold coins, and Da Qin gold coins.
Li Chenghua was overjoyed. This would be Datang's greatest wealth, and she had found it.
