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Li Ruoyu played with the ore in his hand and secretly said something interesting.

This thing is exactly metal ore.

Then he smiled and said, "We must be mistaken in some places."

"Where?"

Lieutenant Fan showed a thoughtful appearance. He often leads soldiers and knows the overall situation of the army outside.

When Shicai arrived here, after a closer look, there was a great discrepancy with the situation envisioned.

The three armed forces outside are merely food and grass, which is a terrifying number, let alone the tens of thousands of troops stationed on the spot.

Every day's eating and drinking Lazard, when combined, its consumption is an amazing existence.

but,

The weirdness here lies in this.

It seems that these people do not eat.

At least when they searched the entire camp, they didn't see any surplus grains and materials. Instead, a large amount of ore was stored in the large central tent.

After thinking about it, he couldn't help but say: "If you guessed it correctly, it shouldn't be troops stationed here."

Liu Changfeng reacted fiercely. No wonder there are so many unreasonable things in all this. Hearing Lieutenant Fan's words, he immediately sorted out the cause and effect.

"This group of dog thieves really have lost their money."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a middle-aged man who was covered in mud came in with a few people from the long spear team.

"Kneel," the soldier said.

Li Ruoyu waved his hand and said, "No, I probably know."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man became agitated. He knelt on the ground in spite of this, kowtowing his head over and over again, crying bitterly and said: "Your lord, you have to be the master for us."

This action shocked everyone immediately.

Li Ruoyu helped him up and said softly: "Say slowly, I won't kill you."

The middle-aged man raised his head suspiciously, but still knelt on the ground, saying: "The villain is named Zhang Xiaoer. He was originally the village chief of Zhangjia Village in the Tumang Kingdom. A few days ago, the Tumang Kingdom came to a man who can speak well.

The man called the villages around us and promised to give us generous rewards. No one would believe this kind of pie in the sky, right?

However, another fellow villager did get revenge.

We came under this temptation, and blamed us for being blinded by lard.

Speaking of this, Zhang Xiaoer cried again and said: "My whole family of six, old and young, were all deceived into here. Every day I help them mine, but they are not paid, and they cannot express dissatisfaction. Attitude, a few workers tried to escape last time, but they were found by guard soldiers, and they had their heads chopped off when they caught them."

"So you are all deceived?" Li Ruoyu said.

Zhang Xiao nodded twice and said: "I hope that the adults can call the shots for us."

If everything Zhang Xiaoer said is true, then it can explain why there are tens of thousands of people here, and it does not exist in the form of an army.

In the current world, there are about 500 people in one village, and more than 5,000 people in ten villages. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, the population that gathers is tens of thousands of people.

And they have more or less savings, and being tricked into mining by others can not only solve the labor force, but also solve the problem of food and drink.

What a messy move.

Li Ruoyu asked, "Where are the rest?"

Zhang Xiaoer said tremblingly: "They are still in the depths of the mine and are afraid to come out. After hearing the explosion from the port, we hid in advance."

"Since we are slaves, what are we afraid of?"

"Master Breton said, you are the remnants of the Principality. This attack was launched to restore the country, and we are members of the Tuman Kingdom. If you are caught, wouldn't it be a dead end."

Liu Changfeng said: "I don't see that Breton is still a magic stick.

By the way, where is Yue Wuqing at the moment?"

Hearing this name, Zhang Xiaoer's expression changed slightly uncontrollably, and said: "Master Yue, he..."

"How is he?" Li Ruoyu asked with a condensed brow.

"Listen to Breton's subordinates that Master Yue was defeated last time and was dealt with in accordance with military law."

Speaking of this, Zhang Xiaoer lowered his head.

Li Ruoyu's pupils shrank, and he felt a little regretful. He sighed slightly. It seemed that he was destined to have no relationship with him, and he said that he would be his own. Looking at it now, he can only collect his body for him.

"Call everyone in the mining area, I have something to ask."

Zhang Xiaoer squatted their heads, stood up, and followed the soldiers toward the outside.

Li Ruoyu asked: "How many do you think his words are true or false?"

Liu Changfeng said: "Half true and half false."

"how do I say this?"

"He said he was tricked by Breton to mine here. I can still believe this. After all, only this reason can explain the food and accommodation problems of these tens of thousands. Anyway, I don't believe that there really is an army. It's just a small part, and Ah Xing and I especially said that when he was chasing him that night, Breton personally told the soldiers around him that he must be optimistic about the materials.

This is the first, and the second is about Yue Wuqing. I suspect Zhang Xiaoer has lied.

Yue Wuqing himself is not a particularly bad person. On the contrary, his character is very likely to get along with the people here. In fact, it can be said that Zhang Xiaoer lied not to entrap Yue Wuqing, but to protect him."

Lieutenant Fan said: "Master Liu's analysis is correct. I believe this too, based on the intuition of a soldier."

Li Ruoyu nodded and said, "According to your opinion, where should Yue Ruqing be now?"

"First of all, he can't leave alone. Since he can mingle with slaves, then there is a great possibility that he will get into this group of slaves.

If he wants to see us, he will come out naturally. If he doesn't want to see us, then we can't find him."

For tens of thousands of slaves, it is as difficult to find someone.

Li Ruoyu was suddenly a little depressed. It would be fine if there were human face recognition or electronic monitoring equipment. In this way, you only need to scan for easy positioning.

That's it.

He thought, "Do you know what this batch of ore is?"

Upon hearing this, both Liu Changfeng and Fan Paul came to their spirits and asked at the same time: "Does the son know?"

"This thing is not small, it's a real gold mine."

Everyone was shocked when they heard it. No wonder these places will attract Breton’s residence. The value of gold mines is beyond words. In some principalities, even a complete gold mine cannot be mined, and this place , There will be.

Lieutenant Fan's eyes lit up and said, "Could it be that the Tuman Kingdom annexed that principality because the fundamental reason was to occupy this gold mine?"