Zhenfubao waved his hand and the warehouse was full of grain, and the whole family regretted it

Chapter 398 Let the gentlemen have a good time

Master Bai said, "We must go to the tin mine tonight. It will be too late if we wait until tomorrow."

Liu Xiang nodded and said:

"This Shen Chongshan is quite powerful, he has a total of 500,000 soldiers under his command.

I was wondering how he managed to feed so many soldiers, and now I know."

Shen Chongshan's letter clearly stated this. Liu Yanshi stood in front of the tin mine and muttered to himself, "No wonder the bronze wares and weapons forged by the Parthian Empire were so sophisticated."

In the past, when the craftsmen of the Parthian Empire forged weapons, the hardness and toughness of the weapons they made were always unsatisfactory due to the relative scarcity of tin resources.

But now with this tin mine, things are different.

Today's bronze ware and weapons are very good.

Huangmao brought a group of people to move all the things in Shen Chongshan's tent back.

More than twenty boxes of gold, silver and jewelry were piled in the corner, each box stained with mottled rust.

When you open one of the boxes, the first thing that catches your eye is a pile of round and plump pearls.

They are huge, with a diameter of about one centimeter, a warm and soft color, and emit a soft halo.

These pearls must have been carefully selected from deep-sea oyster shells and are priceless.

I opened another box and found it was full of jade ornaments.

There are finely carved jade Buddhas and lifelike jade cabbages, with the veins on the leaves clearly visible.

There were also about twenty boxes shipped from Bian Jing. When they were opened, they were all filled with official silver.

Official silver is different from ordinary gold and silver ingots. It is engraved with the exclusive seal of the Bianliang government, and the year of casting, the official in charge, and the words "official treasury".

Huangmao brought a group of people to the tin mine. The tin mine was quite large, but now it had become a hell on earth.

A group of soldiers were holding long whips and waving them wildly, and every whip was accompanied by a whistling sound.

The civilians who were beaten were thin and ragged, with patches on top of patches. Some of them were even naked and could only barely cover their bodies with rags.

Their sunken eye sockets were filled with despair, long-term malnutrition made their faces haggard and sallow, their bodies trembled under the heavy work, and every time they swung the tools in their hands, it seemed as if they had used up all their strength.

The soldiers' shouts and curses continued: "Didn't you eat today? Hurry up and dig it for me, otherwise you won't have dinner tonight."

Accompanied by shouting and cursing, whips kept falling on the backs and shoulders of the common people. Blood marks quickly emerged, mixed with dust, and looked shocking.

Some of the elderly and weak were whipped and staggered and fell to the ground, but they could only struggle in pain on the ground.

A skinny man, his legs softened, fell to his knees in the mud with a plop, his hands tightly grasping the trouser legs of the leading official, his dry lips trembling:

"Sir, I really can't hold on any longer. I haven't slept for three days and haven't eaten for five days.

If this continues, I'll be dead. Please, give me some food!"

Not far away, several ragged women, supporting each other, cradling skinny children in their arms, knelt down with a plop, tears pouring out. "Sir, please have mercy! These children have been starving for days and are dying. Please save them! Please have mercy!"

Those officials burst into laughter, and their laughter was particularly harsh in the silent village.

The leading official had a face full of flesh and a malicious glint in his eyes. He walked up to the women and lifted one of them's chin with a greasy finger.

"Save the children? That's easy. I think you guys are pretty good looking.

Come to our room tonight and let us have a good time. We will make sure your children have enough to eat."

The women's eyes widened in horror, tears streaming down their faces, and their bodies trembled uncontrollably.

One of them, who was a little braver, pleaded with tears in his voice: "Sir, you can't do this. We are all honest people..."

Before she could finish her words, there was a crisp "slap" sound, and the official slapped her hard in the face, knocking her to the ground.

"Stop talking nonsense!" the official flew into a rage.

"I want my children to have enough to eat, but I don't want to pay for it. How can I have such a good thing in this world?

Get up and work! If you dare to be lazy, you little bastards will starve to death! "

He kicked the child next to him, and the child's thin body fell heavily to the ground like a kite with a broken string, groaning in pain.

Huo Jun looked at these soldiers and said, "I know all these people. They were all my former subordinates. I didn't expect them to come here."

Once upon a time, he had two capable lieutenants under his command, who followed him in battles across the country and experienced countless life and death battles side by side with him.

But now, only Jiang Lin was still loyally guarding him, while another deputy general, after he was driven out by Shen Chongshan, left him without hesitation with 20,000 elite soldiers.

Jiang Lin beside him also noticed something strange. He followed his gaze and couldn't help but gasp, "General, it's him! Tang Baoguo."

A few months ago, when Tang Baoguo was under Huo Jun, he acted quite honestly.

The Huo army had strict military regulations, which strictly prohibited soldiers from harassing or oppressing the people. Everyone behaved in a restrained manner, and Tang Baoguo at that time was also well-behaved.

But now, in just a few months, Tang Baoguo seems like a different person.

I saw that his belly was round and the fat on his face was piled up. He looked fatter. It was obvious that he had been pampered for a while.

Tang Baoguo was very proud and shouted at the top of his voice:

"Here we are, finally, at last!

What good life can there be if I follow that loser Huo Jun? I am restricted in every way and can’t do anything.”

As he spoke, he patted his round belly and the fat on his face shook.

The soldier next to him nodded in agreement:

"That's right! I heard that the soldiers under Huo Jun were so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat, and many of them starved to death.

They are still looking for us everywhere! We have to hide well, if they find us, it will be troublesome."

Tang Baoguo snorted and said disdainfully:

"Hmph, so what if he finds me? I'm not afraid of him. When the time comes, I'll definitely ridicule him.

With his stubborn mind, he still wants to make a name for himself in the army? It's just a pipe dream!

General Shen didn't take him seriously at all.

We have this good job now, and in the future, we will have good food and drink, and good days are yet to come!"

The soldier's face was full of flattery, and he grinned and laughed exaggeratedly:

"Of course, it's all thanks to you leading us, otherwise how could we live this fairy-like life now?

When we find the right opportunity in the future, we will go back and humiliate him, so that he knows that we can still thrive without him!

That guy used to be so arrogant in front of us all day long, his nose almost turned upside down, and it really made us brothers feel suffocated."