After accepting Zhang Yuyang as a civil official, Li Yichen immediately transferred Wang Meng from Mozhou to manage the government affairs of Lizhou, with Zhang Yuyang as his deputy.

As one of the famous prime ministers in history, Wang Meng was more than capable of governing a mere Lizhou.

Tatar Dynasty, Black Stone City.

This is an important border city of Tatar, with extremely prosperous business. Countless goods shipped from Beiting were eventually traded here, and then sold to various places in the Western Regions by merchants from the Tatar Dynasty.

It is precisely because Black Stone City is extremely important that the person guarding Black Stone City is Tuoba Tianhong, one of the highest commanders of the Tatar Dynasty. He is less than 35 years old, but he is already a warrior at the peak of the Martial King realm, and has stepped half a foot into the Martial Emperor realm.

Although his Black Dragon Corps has only more than 80,000 people, it is one of the ace armies of the Tatar Dynasty. The soldiers under his command are all warriors picked from a hundred miles away. At least they must have the strength of a mid-level warrior to be ordinary soldiers in the Black Dragon Corps. Among them, the Black Dragon Cavalry is composed of warriors in the Martial Apprentice realm. Although there are only 5,000 people, they are all in the Western Regions.

Countless small countries in the Western Regions are scared to death when they hear the name of the Black Dragon Cavalry.

In Black Stone City, in addition to the Black Dragon Corps, there is also a 200,000-man Rock Corps. Although it is not as elite as the Black Dragon Corps, the soldiers among them are also good fighters who have been baptized on the battlefield.

The Tuoba family is also the royal family of the Tatar Dynasty. As the sixth prince, Tuoba Tianhong is a master of martial arts and is one of the princes with the greatest hope of succession.

In Yanshan, not far from Black Stone City, there is a gold mine with extremely amazing reserves. More than 200,000 miners work day and night to dig ore every day.

Most of the young and strong people in Lizhou who were abducted by the Tatar cavalry were sent here to work as coolies, and the rest were bought by Tatar nobles as slaves.

In the Tatar Dynasty, the status of slaves can be said to be the lowest. The master holds the power of life and death over the slaves. If there is any mistake, they will be killed on the spot, and their status is not even as good as that of animals.

Deep in a mine cave of the Yanshan gold mine, hundreds of slaves waved their hoes numbly and dug ore desperately.

Not far from this group of slaves, several Tatars walked around with gloomy faces, staring at the movements of these slaves. If they took a break, they would be whipped by the whips in the hands of the Tatars.

Among the slaves, there was a short and strong man with a kind face. He smiled at everyone he saw. With his eloquence and special skills of flattery, he has now become a miner captain.

This man's name is Yang Xin, one of the Jinyiwei under Liu Huaiyuan. When the Tatars were arresting young and strong people, Yang Xin took a team of dozens of people with him and sneaked into the slave team and was taken to the Yanshan Gold Mine.

Yang Xin bowed and walked towards a Tatar, with a smile on his face like a blooming chrysanthemum.

"Captain Ruth, this is a good thing I want to honor you."

While Yang Xin looked around with a sly look, he took out a small piece of dog-head gold hidden in his crotch in advance and handed it to Ruth.

Ruth squinted his eyes and quickly took the nugget in his hand. He looked at it in the light of the torch in the mine. It was quite big.

There are some natural gold nuggets in the gold mine, which are attached to the surface of the ore and do not grow in the ore. They are called nugget gold and can be directly exchanged for money.

Of course, miners who hide nugget gold will be beaten to death.

But as long as Yang Xin finds this kind of nugget gold, he will immediately give it to Ruth. As the team leader of the management team, Ruth's income is not high on weekdays, so it is normal to secretly make some extra money.

This phenomenon is common in Yanshan Gold Mine. Team leaders often kill miners who dig out nugget gold and then hide the nugget gold.

But unlike others, Yang Xin always takes the initiative to give the nugget gold to Ruth, and uses the art of language to make Ruth feel very comfortable.

In addition, Yang Xin was just a low-level miner, and he could manipulate him at will, so he relaxed his vigilance and promoted Yang Xin to the captain of the miners to collect nugget gold for him.

Seeing Yang Xin so good, Lu Te raised his head and said in a half-familiar Beiting accent: "Yang, you are really capable. Keep looking for this kind of gold for me. I want a lot of it."

Yang Xin complained in his heart that this greedy dog ​​would kill him without hesitation when he was no longer useful.

Yang Xin laughed dryly and rubbed his hands and said, "Lord Lu Te, I'll go upstairs to get you some delicious food.

How about it. "

Ruth glanced at Yang Xin, and after a moment of silence, he said: "Go, be careful, if the guard sees you, just say you are doing something for me."

One reason why Yang Xin made Ruth look at him differently was that this guy had excellent cooking skills and could always make all kinds of delicious meat, which made Ruth linger.

Yang Xin quickly climbed out of the mine and walked towards the kitchen of the guard camp. Seeing that there was no one around on the road, Yang Xin flashed and quickly got into the woods on the side.

A bird chirped in his mouth, and soon a snow-white pigeon landed on Yang Xin's shoulder. Yang Xin took out the note that he had prepared long ago and tied it to the pigeon's leg. Seeing the pigeon spread its wings and flew away, Yang Xin walked out of the woods.

Yang Xin, who walked out of the woods, happened to meet a team of Tatar soldiers on patrol. The leader stared at Yang Xin and said: "Who asked you to come up? Go down to the mine and work quickly! "

Yang Xin said with a big smile: "I am here to help Lord Ruth cook. Please be lenient with me."

The patrol captain's expression eased a little. Ruth had a special relationship with a guard commander in this gold mine, so he still had some face.

"Cooking is cooking, why did you go into the woods?"

Yang Xin laughed dryly: "I felt a little uncomfortable in my stomach, so I went to the bathroom."

The patrol captain frowned and said: "If you leave the mine without permission, you will be beaten to death. Since you are here to cook for Ruth, go quickly and return to the mine to work as soon as you are done. "

After dealing with the patrol captain, Yang Xin went straight into the kitchen, quickly prepared delicious food, and returned to the mine with the food.

Ruth praised Yang Xin's cooking skills. It was a real pleasure to eat such delicious roast chicken in this dark mine.

Looking at Yang Xin who was drooling, Ruth generously tore off a chicken leg and handed it to Yang Xin, urging him: "I'll give you a chicken leg. After eating, go to the mine and find more gold for me."

In Lishan City, Li Yichen, who received a message from Jinyiwei, immediately made a decision to let the two legions of Datang and Tianwei go out of Anxi Pass and take Heishi City directly. It was not only to rescue the people of Lizhou, but also to obtain the Yanshan gold mine with huge reserves.

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