Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Wealth could boost the morale of the troops, but wealth could also lower the morale of the troops as well. Especially in front of the soldiers who had gone through the bloody war before, these soldiers who were still fighting the enemy a second ago had a new idea.

Due to the lack of time and the heavy workload, Russian Army did not have many boxes to hold these gold and silver ingots. Most of the time, they would use ammunition box s to travel to and from the mountain with these ingots.

In the panic, people forgot to close the lid. The golden light was reflected by the flames of war, causing the soldiers to be unable to pull it out. As they moved the gold, they could only hear the sound of the soldiers swallowing their saliva.

"How much do you think we'll get out of it?" A soldier asked in a low voice.

"God knows?" But the commander said that soldiers who break through enemy strongholds can receive a kilogram of gold as a reward! "

"Bullshit, how is that 1 kg? I just saw these gold ingots, they are all ten kilograms forged. They should be ten kilograms per person!"

Very soon, someone else joined in the discussion. "Don't talk nonsense. Everyone will get ten kilograms!" We invested a total of ten thousand men in that charge just now. Could it be that we're dividing it into one hundred thousand kilograms of gold? To tell you the truth, all of this gold belongs to His Majesty. The empire's finances are very tight, and all of this gold is probably directly transported to the City of London to be raised and paid off … "

The atmosphere suddenly turned strange. If the gold was dedicated to the Tsar, then everything could be said to be stable. However, once they heard that the gold was going directly to the financial center of Europe, London, to give to the British, they immediately became unhappy.

"Why should our gold be given to those damned pirates who occupy the Merchant Road of the Sea? Greedy vampire! "

In this era, the education popularization rate of the Russia was very low. Not only was it inferior to that of Southern Europe, it was also a little inferior to that of Great Qing. For these soldiers who had just gotten rid of their status as serfs, their loyalty and loyalty were very low.

They did not know what a bank loan was, nor did they know what a national debt was, nor did they know what complex interest payments meant. What was a national credit? Can you eat it or not?

This knowledge was completely foreign to them. They only used their simplest emotions to understand this question. How could the gold that we snatched with our lives be given to a foreigner for nothing?

They did not know that in order to buy their status as slaves, the Tsar had already squeezed out all of their treasury. Furthermore, he had even raised a large amount of money from the European Bankers.

Akson did not know that rumors were spreading like a deadly virus within the crowd, and that as more gold was being transported down the mountain, the deadly virus would spread further and further. In the end, almost all of the twenty thousand Tangwan Mountain were discussing this topic.

The way the crowd looked at Gold was becoming more and more unfriendly. The morale at this moment suddenly turned into a wave of indignant hostility.

Why should we give our lives in exchange for gold to foreigners?

Where are the promised rewards? Didn't you say that you were going to give the gold?

All of these were the gold of the His Majesty the Tsar. Could it be that these military officers wanted to embezzle?

Dammit, why is there so much gold? Why is it still not finished yet?

Once the human heart grew grass, it would continuously grow like it was crazy. Adding that Xiao Letian had hidden a huge amount of gold, it had already been transported for an hour.

The soldiers with simple emotions were so distressed that they were on the verge of tears. They never dreamed that they would have so much wealth! Many people were so anxious that they were on the verge of tears, as if the gold was going to be delivered to the British.

Under the influence of these complicated emotions, the soldiers attacking the fortifications at the top of the mountain changed their appearance suddenly. Their attacks were not as sharp as they had been before.

Unfortunately, Akson and the rest were already immersed in the joy brought by the great wealth, and did not notice the mental fluctuations of the soldiers at all.

This could be the aftereffect of aristocratic education! He could not understand the desire of the poor for wealth. It was just like how a beggar, who had never eaten a full meal in his entire life and was always struggling on the verge of death due to hunger, suddenly encountered a feast.

These young serfs grew up in extreme poverty from their youth, childhood, and youth. Let alone seeing gold, they hadn't even eaten much.

When children who had grown up in this kind of environment saw such a huge amount of wealth, they couldn't resist the greed in their hearts. Once their greed surged, they would forget their mission, their current status, and what they should do.

The night was dark and cloudy. There was no moon or stars in the sky. In an era when humans could not use electricity, light could only rely on flames. The Tangwan Mountain's terrain was complicated, it took up a huge amount of land, even if there were twenty thousand people each and two torches, they would still be unable to illuminate the mountain.

The team carrying the gold was soon met with an accident. First, someone stepped on the air above the rubble, causing the two people to instantly flip the ammunition boxes over. The heavy gold pieces scattered on the ground, letting out a crisp sound of impact.

"Damn it, how did you walk? Do you have eyes? " the officer shouted.

"I'm sorry, sir! "It's too dark here, I can't see the road clearly …" As the soldier explained, no one noticed that in the darkness, a hand had suddenly reached out and was holding onto a gold ingot. With a whoosh, the hand dragged the ingot into the bushes, so fast that no one noticed it.

Not long later, in a small forest not far from the mountain road, three soldiers greedily looked at the gold ingot under the light of a kerosene lamp.

"Ten kilograms!" "Each of us can share a big piece. This is enough for us to go home and buy a lot of land in the future …"

"But how should we take them away? We still have to go to the Far East to do battle. This thing is so big and heavy, how are we going to transport it aboard? "

"Are you stupid!?" We need to find a place to bury them, since this island will belong to our Russia, and if there is a chance, we need to dig it out again! "

"That's right, you're still the smart one. Hurry up and dig a hole to hide the gold …"

Just as the three were digging, one of them suddenly opened his mouth. "Wait?" Why just a piece of gold? Since he stole it once, why didn't he do it three times? There was plenty of gold and he had plenty of opportunities! Why not each of them? Why should three people share a piece of gold? "

That was right! The gold is like a mountain, it looks like we have to at least transport it to the daybreak, what right do we have to hide a piece? Go ahead and steal.

The three of them looked at each other, laughed and went back into the darkness.

This was the mentality of the poor man. He had to release half of his lifetime of greed, but there was no reason to do so. Military justice had long been lost in the Pacific Ocean.