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Chapter 136 Seizing the Mine (Part )

As soon as Zhou Zhiwei saw the opportunity coming, he immediately followed quietly. If you catch these people, you can interrogate the situation out of the mine.

After all, killing requires blood, especially beheading will produce more blood. Butler Miao was quite particular and told them to deal with it in a hidden place behind the mine to avoid having to clean up the ground.

When they came to the back of the mine, the foreman named Heitou asked another strong man with a sinister face to hold down the miner, and he was about to chop off his head with a knife.

The miners knew that they were doomed today and stopped shouting. They closed their eyes and waited for death, but tears of hatred or nostalgia shed from the corners of their eyes.

The miner slashed with the knife in a "whoosh" sound, and the wind of the knife passed by his ears. The miner's crotch felt so hot that he actually peed in fear. Although preparations have been made for death, not many people can stabilize themselves at the critical moment of life and death.

He was shocked to find that the expected pain did not come, and his neck was still fine with his hand, and his head seemed to be still on top.

I couldn't help but feel a burst of ecstasy. After experiencing death, I realized how beautiful life is.

It turned out that Zhou Zhiwei had already touched the black head at this time, and while he was raising his knife, he kicked him away. Another member of the escort stepped forward and killed the strong man with a sinewy face who was holding down the miner with a single blow.

A foreman in a rural mine like Heitou was fine with bullying the honest miners, but Zhou Zhiwei, a well-trained elite soldier in the escort team, was no match for him. He was knocked unconscious in a few strokes.

Zhou Zhiwei helped the miner and asked him about the situation of the mine.

The miner narrowly escaped death, and of course he had nothing to say to the benefactor who saved him.

The miner's name is Zhang Yuan, and the other person in the room is his brother Zhang Qing from the same village. They are both refugees in Shaanxi. They fled to Hequ to escape the war, and they all went to the mines to survive.

This mine is the largest open-pit iron mine in the area, called Maoergou Mine, and is owned by a wealthy man named Miao Mingyang from Liujiata Town, Hequ County.

Miao Mingyang sent his second housekeeper Miao Li to take charge of the mine, and set an extremely heavy mining task. The pig iron must be delivered in full every month.

In order to complete the task and save money, the money saved by Butler Miao Er belongs to him. He oppressed the miners extremely, making them work for at least eight hours a day and eating a paste of moldy old rice mixed with some rotten vegetable leaves and mud.

If the miners disobey or work slowly, the supervisors will immediately step forward and kick them.

In such a cold weather, the miners were not given warm clothes, leaving them shivering in the straw shacks, cold and hungry.

Zhang Yuan and the others couldn't stand it anymore, so they contacted Zhang Qing from the same village and took several miners early in the morning to prepare to escape while they were at work.

However, the monitoring of the mine is very strict. They were discovered by the supervisor as soon as they ran away. They were malnourished for a long time and could not run fast, so they were quickly caught.

Through interrogation, Miao Li found out that the leaders, Zhang Yuan and Zhang Qing, were beating them severely and planned to kill them brutally to scare the monkeys.

However, considering the current shortage of manpower, they planned to kill one first, so while they were still asking who was the leader, the scene that Zhou Zhiwei saw earlier happened.

All other miners who participated in the escape or who knew not to report were locked up and starved for a day, supposedly to soften their memory.

Due to the remoteness of the place, the Miao family was said to be well-connected in Hequ County. They did not regard the miners as human beings at all and often tortured and killed those who resisted.

When Zhou Zhiwei heard this, he thought it was a God-given opportunity. The miners suffered so much and had deep hatred, so they would definitely not help that group of people guard the mine, and the difficulty of occupying it would be greatly reduced.

After occupying the mine, you can also get a group of skilled miners. As long as the treatment is improved, the support of miners will definitely be won.

He immediately asked a guard to inform Li Wanxiang and others who were resting nearby, and then brought a team of guards to seize the mine.

He and another guard team member looked after Zhang Yuan while monitoring the situation in the mine.

Seeing that Zhang Yuan was very weak after not eating enough water or rice all day, Zhou Zhiwei took out a piece of dry food from the bag on his waist, took off his kettle and handed it to him.

This kind of satchel is made of coarse cloth, one is hung on each side of the waist, one is used to hold dry food, and the other is used to hold thunder. This has become standard equipment for escorts. Zhang Yuan took the dry food and water bottle and immediately started to eat hungrily. He had never eaten such sweet and delicious food.

This kind of marching dry food was made by Lin Feng based on the compressed biscuits of later generations. He asked the supply camp to stir-fry flour, goat milk, and dried meat with salt and then press it. It is easy to carry and easy to eat.

"Well, you idiot, you haven't recovered from killing someone yet. Are you lazy again?"

At this time, another foreman came out from the direction of the Tsuchiya, muttering as he walked. It was probably that Butler Miao had been waiting for a long time and sent someone out to look for him.

Zhou Zhiwei immediately ambush and asked Zhang Yuan not to make eating noises.

When the foreman came closer, Zhou Zhiwei knocked him down with a sweep of his legs, turned over and pressed his neck. Then he took out a short-edged sword and pointed it at his face, and said: "Be sensible, don't make any noise, and just say what I ask you, otherwise you will be killed immediately. Just nod when you understand."

The foreman immediately nodded frantically. No matter what the situation, life preservation must be the first priority.

"Tell me, how many guards and supervisors are there in our mine, and where are they located?" Zhou Zhiwei asked.

"Your Majesty, spare your life. I'll recruit them all. We have sixteen guards and foremen, led by Miao Li, the steward of the Miao Mansion. Two of the guards are monitoring the ironmaking at the kiln, two are guarding the warehouse, and the rest are Butler Miao lives next to his room." The foreman immediately recruited everything.

Zhou Zhiwei looked at Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan nodded to indicate that the situation was true.

Zhou Zhiwei held down the foreman and twisted his hands hard. With a "click", his neck was broken. It would be better to send such people to hell as soon as possible if they are left to completely waste food.

Then Zhou Zhiwei dragged the still unconscious Black Head and said to Zhang Yuan: "Do you hate him?"

"Hate! I hate it so much!" Zhang Yuan said immediately.

"Then kill him and avenge yourself and the other miners." Zhou Zhiwei said as he handed over his short-edged sword.

When Zhang Yuan heard that he was going to kill someone, he showed hesitation at first, but then his eyes gradually glowed with hatred. He took the dagger, with the veins on his hand exposed, and he was determined to do it.

"Wait a minute, wake him up first, let him experience the fear of death." Zhou Zhiwei stopped him for a moment, then slapped him several times to wake up the guard named Heitou. To prevent him from being killed inadvertently, let him die "peacefully" and take advantage.

Heitou opened his hazy eyes and was about to ask what was going on. I was about to behead him as usual, but why was he kicked? Who did it?
  Suddenly finding that he was being held down, Zhang Yuan raised his sword and was about to stab him. He was immediately frightened out of his wits and shouted in panic: "Zhang Yuan, spare my life, spare my life. This is all what Butler Miao ordered. I don't want to kill you either."

This kind of person never takes other people's lives seriously, but cherishes his own life very much. When a disaster strikes, he will immediately blame others.

"Hmph, you usually beat us, scold us, and humiliate us, but I didn't expect you to do it today..." Zhang Yuan said through gritted teeth, while stabbing the sword hard, once, twice...

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Hei Tou wanted to scream in horror, but his mouth was blocked, and only his eyes showed the extreme fear of death.

It wasn't until the blackheads were dug into holes all over his body that Zhang Yuan dropped his dagger and said to himself, crying and laughing: "Father, brother, sister-in-law, I finally avenge you!"

It turned out that Zhang Yuan's family came to the mine. This gangster wanted to play tricks on his sister-in-law. His father and brother came out to stop him, but he killed them both. He was mining that day and escaped death.

Later, his sister-in-law was also tortured to death by a group of foremen, and even the newly conceived baby was cut out.

It’s really full of hatred!
  This kind of thing is very common for the nouveau riche who roamed the countryside in the late Ming Dynasty. The civil servants and squires in the city may have to save face and cover up their evil deeds, but the nouveau riche in the countryside are naked.

The guards who quickly went to inform came over with a team of 30 people. Zhou Zhiwei divided the people into two teams. One team was led by Zhang Yuan to control the kiln and warehouse, and the other team he personally led to capture Butler Miao. and other guards.

　Today, I will update two chapters.

　　
  　
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