"Fuck!"
Sheng Nanxi lay on the back of the third brother. Looking at the various numbers and terrains marked on the scroll, she couldn't help but scream out in surprise.
She finally understood why tens of thousands of strong laborers had disappeared in Yaoguang County in the past few years!
Because Prime Minister He's army discovered a salt mine stretching for more than ten miles in Yaoguang County!
In ancient times, production was scarce and salt and iron were both strategic materials that were strictly managed by the state.
Although the technology to extract sea salt has been developed in this fictional time, Nanqi and several surrounding small countries including Beichen are not near the sea.
If you want to refine salt, you can mine salt rock!
However, the reserves of rock salt in these countries are very small. Most of the time, the salt consumed by the people of Nanqi is sold from the coastal country of Dongling, which leads to an inflated salt price in Nanqi.
If Tao Xian was a good official who truly loved the people, he would have reported the discovery of such a huge amount of salt mines directly to the court, and the court would have developed the mine.
I think that with so much salt flowing into the market, the price of salt will surely drop, allowing the common people to buy salt at a lower price.
But this dog official was a scheming person. He did not report this matter openly to the court, but quietly informed Prince Yong and Prime Minister He.
Of course, the two brothers did not consider the feelings of the surname 땡 and immediately asked 그 to block the news.
Even if they can easily obtain a large amount of salt mines, they still sell it to ordinary people at three times the price of Dongling salt!
They even used the salt to raise private soldiers, secretly exported it, and sold it to the royal families of surrounding countries at high prices!
Even though Sheng Yichen was used to these people's faces, he was still so angry that he kept biting his tongue.
Although the salt on the tables of Southern Qi is not a luxury item today, because Southern Qi cannot produce a large amount of salt on its own, the salt in the territory is much more expensive than that in other places.
If a person can eat two meals of salty food a day, he is considered very wealthy!
He remembered that in the past, his father and his fifth brother were often very worried about the insufficient salt supply from the court.
Who would have thought that these people, while complaining about the shortage of salt grain, secretly enjoyed a feast! They kept the huge salt mines secret and did not tell anyone, but kept it for themselves to make a fortune in secret!
Who could have imagined that these people were so crazy that they could even cut the salt of the soldiers on the front line with a clear conscience!
Thinking of the men who were fighting on the front lines, Sheng Yichen was so angry that veins on his forehead were throbbing. It took him a long time to calm down. He lowered his head and asked the little baby in his arms:
"Sister, can your magic move the salt mine?"
"Maybe..."
Sheng Nanxi was a little unsure. After all, she was exhausted the last time she moved an iron mine four or five miles away. This salt mine was more than ten miles away!
But hard work always wins! If she can't move the whole thing, why not move it in parts? !
The two siblings did what they said. After looting the few remaining belongings in the Tao family compound, they teleported to the location marked on the scroll.
The two of them stood on the top of the mountain and observed carefully. As expected, they found that the guards here were much stronger than the place where the Queen Mother privately made weapons.
Thousands of shadow guards were deployed around the entire village, monitoring the surroundings in real time.
In addition to thousands of strong laborers working hard in the mine, there are also thousands of supervisors watching their every move at all times.
These supervisors were cruel and deserved death. She emptied the salt mine but could not harm the innocent young people inside.
Sheng Nancy held her hands up and thought for a while, then lit a small flame deep in the cave.
"Fire!"
The small flame was blown bigger by the wind, and the sizzling smoke spread all around the cave in an instant!
“Cough cough cough…”
All the strong laborers and supervisors in the mine couldn't help but cough softly with their hands covering their lips.
The brother and sister hid behind a huge salt mine, waiting for the supervisor to quickly call out these thousands of people.
Unexpectedly, the supervisor who looked like a team leader frowned and whipped a strong laborer nearby.
"Keep moving those salt cubes. You haven't completed your task for today yet. Stop slacking off!"
"There's water in the corner. Just send one team to put out the fire, and the rest of you can continue working!"
Nancy Sheng: ...
Okay, okay, okay! You don't want to leave, you want to stay here forever, right? Sister Xi will help you!
Sheng Nanxi tiptoed to her third brother and whispered something. Sheng Yichen's eyes lit up immediately and he nodded in agreement.
Little Milk Bag concentrated his mind and in less than a quarter of an hour he had used the space to drug all the supervisors in the cave.
In an instant, everyone in the cave felt a dark shadow passing by, and then they heard the sound of the door lock being cracked open.
"If you don't want to die, evacuate immediately!"
A sound startled the dark cave!
The strong laborers looked around and found that all the supervisors around them had fallen to the ground.
At this moment, the door outside the cave was wide open!
If you don't run now, when will you run?!
Without a second thought, the people rushed out the door. Many of them even stepped on the faces of the supervisors one by one as they ran away, having endured the cruel treatment of the supervisors for a long time.
Thousands of strong men quickly ran out of the cave, but before they could catch their breath, they suddenly felt the ground shaking!
The vast field that stretched for nearly ten miles behind them was actually shaking, trembling, and shedding the white snow right before their eyes!
Then there was a loud bang and it collapsed!