Xiao Lingyue stood up and looked at the cliff thoughtfully.
Zhong Ronggui explained it.
This cliff is their most secretive and important delivery location.
It will only be used when the delivery volume is large and there are special and important situations to ensure safety.
For example this time.
County Magistrate Li Bihuai suddenly died, the caravan was detained, and the imperial envoy who inspected the imperial tomb arrived early.
All kinds of unfavorable situations have collided together, but this time the transaction has more "goods" than before, so there must be no mistakes.
Zhong Ronggui was afraid of death and wanted to cancel the transaction.
But the real owner behind the caravan did not agree, and he ordered them to trade and changed the delivery location to this cliff, and the delivery method also changed.
Zhong Ronggui has never been here in person to deliver the goods, so he is not sure about the situation on the cliff.
Xiao Lingyue could only check it himself.
The iron ore transported to the cliff cannot disappear for no reason.
Since there are no traces of transporting down the mountain, it proves that there must be other simpler and more convenient ways to transport the iron ore away without knowing it!
How did it do it?
Xiao Lingyue walked along the cliff while thinking quickly.
If it is in modern times.
There are countless methods to use technological means to transport heavy goods from the mountain.
The easiest thing is to transport aircraft, followed by cranes, cable cars, and slide rails
But this is not the 21st century, but in ancient times, when all aspects are restricted, the method of transporting things is still above human and animal power. The most clever one is to build a hanging basket on the city wall and transport something up and down.
etc!
When Xiao Lingyue thought of this, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
You can use hanging baskets on the city wall, why not on the cliff?
It is also transported up and down, but the height is different. Just stretch the rope a little and make good use of the pulleys is not the same?
Xiao Lingyue suddenly thought of something, immediately walked to the edge of the cliff, and looked carefully with the fire tiles.
As expected.
On the rocks at the edge of the cliff, there are clear traces of rope friction, and even the rocks are grinding out shallow dents.
On the side of the cliff, there were many raised rocks. Xiao Lingyue used fire snippets to take a photo and soon found the same rope scratches at the bottom of these large rocks.
The picture gradually took shape in her mind.
After a carpet-style search, Xiao Lingyue found a man-made cave in the woods near the cliff.
The entrance of the cave is covered with many vines, and there is a unique cave inside.
Xiao Lingyue walked in with a fire note and saw the hemp rope piled up in bundles in the cave, hanging baskets, pulleys, iron rods and shovels and other tools for transportation.
There are even rope ladders, and all kinds of tools are very complete.
She couldn't help but mutter, "This is sufficiently prepared."
She squatted down and picked up a scattered hemp rope. The amount she bought was obviously wrong, which was much heavier than the normal hemp rope.
She used a dagger to cut the surface of the hemp rope, sure enough.
These ropes are mixed with iron wire, which greatly enhances the load-bearing capacity, and even things that are heavy-lifted will not break.
As for hanging baskets and pulleys, they are usually used by craftsmen when building houses.
Therefore, there must be some in the imperial tombs under construction.
I guess someone used local materials and stole these things from the imperial tombs and hid them here.