Honglou: This bastard is too persuasive.

Chapter 510 Jia Huan Promoted to Captain of a Thousand Men

"General Niu, in my opinion, the remaining people should have left from another way. Although we don't know if there is another passage in this cave, these people have lived in this cave for so many years, so it is not impossible for them to find other passages or dig out another passage. Therefore, they may have left during the time we went back. Even the treasures in the cave may have been taken away by them."

"Now we just need to determine where they escaped from, and we can catch up with them based on their escape trail. Moreover, they are carrying so much gold, silver and jewelry, it is impossible for them to leave too fast. As long as we catch up with them, everything in their hands will be ours."

Some of them nodded. It was not that they had not suspected Jia Huan, but Jia Huan and his companions had not taken anything during the time they went up the mountain or when they came down the mountain. Moreover, with Liu Feiyu as a witness, it was impossible for them to take away anything from the cave. Therefore, the things in the cave could only have been taken away by these bandits.

However, the cave was blocked by the dragon stone, so they could not leave from the main gate. That was to say, if they wanted to leave, they could only leave from another direction. This meant that there really was another passage in the cave. General Niu couldn't wait to ask Jia Huan, since he didn't know where the other passage was. Jia Huan spread his hands and finally said.

"General Niu, this is difficult for me. I really don't know where the passage is, but I am wondering, if there is such a passage, is it possible that the passage itself is hidden very secretly, so it has not been discovered by more than 500 of you? In order to hide it so secretly, you must stay away even if you see it. Just now I heard a brother say that there is a burial ground hidden in this cave. Since corpses can be buried there, people can't help but stay away. Is it possible that the intersection of the passage is under the corpse? Because they hid it, they deliberately buried these corpses so that no one could find the passage out."

It's true that after hearing what Jia Huan said, no matter whether it was General Niu or the surrounding Tomies, or even the generals, centurions and thousand-man commanders who came, they all felt that what he said made sense. After all, if no one took the initiative to check, they would never find that there was another exit in the cave. If someone checked the place where the corpse was, no one would check it even if there was an exit. In other words, that was the best place to hide the exit. So General Niu asked his men to go into the cave to check on his men without hesitation. None of them wanted to go, but they had to go because of General Niu's majesty.

So, several of the least favored people were arranged by General Niu to find the passage. General Niu also thought about letting Jia Huan go, but Jia Huan's contribution was already great enough. If he were to let him go at this time, it would be a bit unreasonable. So he had to let his own people go. While his people were heading for the passage, they finally prepared themselves in their hearts. However, when they went to the burial ground and wanted to dig up the bodies, they still vomited one by one. More than 100 people went down three times, but in the end there was no result.

"Waste, you are all waste. It's just a pile of corpses. Look at you. How can you be a good soldier? How can you kill people if you can't even look at corpses? I'll send another group of people down. You must move those rotten corpses out for me, or put them aside. I want to see if there is a passage below and whether we can catch the people out. It depends on you. Whoever successfully cleans up the corpses for me will be given 100 taels, and whoever can catch the people will be given 1,000 taels. If you can't even do this little thing, I won't keep you as waste."

What General Niu said was already very harsh, which scared his men. If they really disgusted General Niu, they would have no good days in the future. Their current good life was given by General Niu. If General Niu ignored them, they would really be ruined. So these people could only grit their teeth and rush up, no matter what.

No matter what, they had to move the bodies away first. As long as they moved the bodies away, they would be rewarded and would not be killed by the general, so they did it without hesitation.

500 of his men took action one after another. Only after all 500 people had taken action did they move all the bodies away. However, after the bodies were moved away, when they tried to find the exit hidden under the bodies, they found that there was no exit at all. At this moment, everyone was depressed, but General Niu was the most depressed. He had said that as long as the bodies were released, each person would be given 500 taels of silver. And 500 people had taken action, which meant that he had to give each of the 110 people taels of silver in total. How much silver was that? He was really distressed, but these were all his confidants. If he didn't pay his confidants, would they listen to him in the future? So at this moment, no matter how depressed he was, he had to smile and talk to these men.

"Although we didn't find the exit, I saw your efforts and seriousness. Under my command, you moved the bodies away without hesitation, which is enough to prove your loyalty to me. So don't worry, I will definitely give you 110 taels of silver each. When you go back, come to me to claim it. I will divide the silver among you. I will definitely give you every penny. This is my promise to you."

After he finished speaking, he didn't want to continue reading, but told others to go in and find the exit. Anyone who could find the exit would be rewarded with 12,000 taels of silver, which was a huge fortune. However, no one found the exit. Even after everyone searched everywhere, they still couldn't find another Jia Huan. It's not that he didn't want to look for it, but unfortunately, after he determined the exit with the forbidden road with his powerful perception ability, he didn't say it out, because so many people were watching. What if there were a lot of things hidden in the exit? He couldn't let it go this time. It would not be right to wait until these people left before entering.

Just now when he searched everything in the cave, he felt that the gold and silver were only 200,000 or 300,000 taels, which was already a lot. However, after confirming that he was a master of the frontier, he felt that 200,000 or 300,000 taels was a little less. Of course, if he was traveling across the frontier, he would have to have at least 1.8 million taels of silver. So it was very likely that the cave was just a deception, and the exit should be connected to another cave, and there should be a lot of rhinitis in this cave, so he concealed this matter without hesitation. When everyone searched for a day and found nothing, they all went back. After returning, Jia Huan returned to his tent, hid his body, took advantage of the night to go to the forest again, and entered the cave. But when he came in, he found that there was another person who came. He was none other than Liu Feiyu who had persuaded him to come before. However, after he entered, he searched for a while but found nothing. Finally, he could only sigh and leave. After making sure that there was no one there, Jiahuan really came to the place. There was a stone wall with a wind entrance on it, and it was a place that could not be seen at all. There was wind blowing out, so he knew that it was a gap, so he used the 20,000 pounds of strength he had just gained and pushed the stone wall.

A stone door was pushed and turned, forming an intersection. After he entered, he looked at the huge box placed inside and finally confirmed that he had done nothing wrong. There were more things in it than he had imagined. When he opened all the boxes, he confirmed that there were more than 100 million taels of silver and gold, and more than 200 taels. So added up, that's more than million taels. There were also jewelry worth about one million taels, antique jade, etc., so this time his harvest directly reached four or five million taels.

"As expected, it is normal for the common people in this country to have no money. All the money is either kept in the homes of the big families and not spent, or hidden by the bandits and thieves and never seen the light of day. Without all the money, how can there be money flowing outside? That's why the common people have a hard time. Now that the money is in my hands, I can't let them continue to gather dust. After I go back, I will use the money to let them circulate in the market and change the lives of some people. This can be regarded as my contribution to the world."

Jia Huan understood very well the importance of the flow of money, but he would not do something that he shouldn't do just to make the money flow. He just wanted his subordinates to live a better life. After all, his 100 subordinates were all loyal to him now. As long as he spent some money on them and wanted their families to live well, he could make enough profits for them while being his supporters. So he couldn't wait to go back.

But after he went back, he found 100 of his subordinates and told them his ideas, hoping that they could make their own decisions. If they wanted to stay in the army to continue their development, let them stay in the army. If they didn't want to, they could return to the countryside to become a local rich man, help him manage the land or let the Golden Deer Shopping Mall run a shop for him, or help him open mines, dig coal, go to sea, etc. There were indeed talents in this area among these subordinates, and more than half of them did not want to continue in the army, so Jia Huan told them to find a way to get them out of the army.

This time is similar to the previous time. If it is not easy to join the army, then it is much easier for them to leave the army. As long as they are willing, they can actually leave the army.

Of course, there are certain ways to leave the army. If they want to leave the army now, they must change their appearance and start a new life so that they can easily leave the army and have nothing to do with the army. For this kind of thing, Jia Huan can do it easily. After all, these 100 people are completely loyal, and as long as these people are not exposed in normal times, no one will find them. Of course, if they are exposed, it doesn’t matter. If he thinks of other ways, he can also get these people out of the army.

Originally, Jia Huan wanted to let them all leave, but after thinking about it, he thought that changing their identities would be unfair to their families and would also affect them, so Jia Huan changed his approach. Since these people would leave the army according to their own requirements, he would use this opportunity to give them a chance. As long as they have enough merits, they can be promoted or leave the army. For many people, they only want to be promoted, so there are not many opportunities for promotion. However, if they want to leave the army and get a reward, it is easy.

So this time after Jia Huan returned, he reported his merits truthfully, but those who were willing to leave were given higher merits. After they got the merits, when the general didn't know what to do, Jia Huan directly proposed that all these people receive an appreciation and leave the barracks. The general would naturally not refuse such a thing. They have done a lot. After all, joining the army now is different from the world now. It is all compulsory conscription. Many of their families do not want them to serve in the army, and many of them themselves do not want to serve in the army either.

It is for this reason that many soldiers in the army today do not come here voluntarily. Some senior officers do not even want to be in the army, or because their lives are in danger at any time. If they can leave the army with merit, they will be happy to do so. For the army, this is not a big deal. They can either recruit a few soldiers or reduce the number of soldiers. They can also get some military pay, so it is a win-win situation for both parties. When Jiang Huan proposed that 50 or 60 people wanted to leave the army, they agreed directly. So these 50 or 60 people left the army directly, and the remaining 40 or 50 people were promoted by Jia Huan because they wanted to stay in the army to assist Jia Huan.

No matter how Niu Jizhong or Liu Feiyu wanted to suppress Jia Huan, they would definitely not be able to get the credit this time. So this time, Jia Huan was destined to succeed and to be promoted. Therefore, even if he was suppressed again, he would directly become a lurker, in charge of thousands of people. These 1000 people naturally required centurions and decapitations, and these people had to be selected from among his subordinates. It was impossible to let the original people continue to hold their original positions. Therefore, the team of 1000 people under his command was easily dismantled by him. At the same time, the original centurion and deputy centurion were all driven out by him. Since the people were his own, he could not listen to others.

His family was not willing to be a moral saint, nor did he want to get into trouble over such a small matter, so what he had to do was to organize all the teams as soon as possible and make these people obey him, instead of trying to persuade those who did not listen to him.

(End of this chapter)