Chapter 441 Collecting Testimonies
Su Yue listened to the miners talking about Qingniu Pass, and the corners of her mouth curled up. She winked at Yueying, then followed the people in front to the warehouse.
In the warehouse, six people each found paper and pen and started writing.
Su Yue came in without disturbing the six people, so she quietly stood behind them and watched.
When Su Yue saw what they wrote, she couldn't suppress the anger in her heart.
The Lin family is too arrogant. It turns out that the mine here has been open for six years. Many people are arrested every year, but many people die every year.
Initially, they were captured from the surrounding villages. There were basically no able-bodied laborers in the surrounding villages, so all of them were captured to mine.
At first, the Lin family would give some silver to these people. Later, they thought that there were more people in need, so they gave more silver. From the second year on, they started to capture miners simply by seeing any suitable men, without giving them a penny.
Just like that night, the yamen runners came to the guesthouse openly to arrest people. Whenever they saw a middle-aged man, they would put a hat on him without saying anything and then take him away.
Seeing this, Su Yue wished to tear the Lin family into pieces and kill all these crazy people.
Think about it, their mines in Northwest County are all hired by those disaster victims, who are paid and given food. They work four hours a day and take turns mining in three shifts.
The mine is also equipped with doctors. Any miners who fall ill will receive free treatment and their wages will not be deducted.
Compared to the mines here, one is heaven and the other is hell.
This is just one of the Lin family's mines. I wonder how many more mines like this the Lin family has.
There is only iron mine here. Given the geographical environment of Liangzhou County, there should also be silver mines and gold mines, but I don’t know where they are.
She didn't have time to look for it now. She would wait until the matter was handed over to the emperor and then send someone to search.
"Princess, do you think this is okay?"
One person finished writing first, and he handed it to Su Yue and said.
Su Yue took it and looked at it. "Okay, it's written in great detail. Go out and have the miners put their fingerprints on it."
"good."
The miner took back his testimony, found a box of ink in the drawer of the table and went out.
Then the second one was also written. After Su Yue took a look at it, she followed him out.
Soon the four people finished writing. Su Yue read it carefully. The writing style of the four was good. They wrote in detail about how they were captured to mine and what they experienced in the mine every day. The writing was as if they were there and felt the same way.
While the six people went to get the miners to press their fingerprints, Su Yue found a few miners and asked those who could cook to cook.
These miners only had one steamed bun and water for each meal. Some of them were so hungry that they had no strength left. Su Yue had no choice but to ask someone to cook for them first to ensure they had enough food before arranging for them to leave the mountains.
If they leave the mountains with empty stomachs, they will starve to death on the road before they even get out of the mountains.
When the miners heard that there was food to eat, they were very excited. Many of them volunteered to cook. Su Yue naturally agreed. The more people who cooked, the better.
There are estimated to be about two thousand miners here. It is quite difficult for a few people to cook meals for two thousand people.
Seeing Su Yue agreed, more than a hundred people ran to cook.
There is also a kitchen here, which is the last one in this row of warehouses. Su Yue had already used her mental power to move all the food to the kitchen.
She moved some rice, vegetables and meat, and there was still plenty of other things she needed in the kitchen.
Of course, those were not for the miners to eat, but for the supervisors, guards and managers.
After arranging the cooking, Su Yue went to the supervisor and the manager.
There were more than a hundred supervisors and twenty managers, all of whom were lying on the ground dying. When they saw Su Yue coming, some looked at her with fear, and some looked at her with anger.
Su Yue had the Shadowless Army take the stewards who were looking at her angrily aside. She looked at them gravely and said coldly, "You're not afraid at this point, and you're even so angry. I bet you were sent directly by the Lin family in Beijing, right?"
Only those sent directly by the Lin family have that confidence, thinking that just because they are from the Lin family they are so powerful that they don't even take her, the princess, seriously.
Sure enough, after hearing Su Yue's words, several people were shocked and were thinking in their hearts, is this woman really Princess Li?
When they heard Yueying say that before, they didn't believe it at all. The capital was thousands of miles away, so how could the princess come to this remote place? But when they heard her so confident, they hesitated.
Someone asked, "Are you really Princess Li?"
Su Yue raised an eyebrow: "It's genuine."
The man sneered, "You don't think that just because you're Li Fei, you can bring down the Lin family, do you? I advise you to release us all, so as to avoid embarrassing things later."
"laugh!"
Su Yue scoffed. Even a dog raised by the Lin family was so arrogant. She said disdainfully, "You, a mere servant, don't think the Lin family can override the imperial power, do you? You are truly naive. Since you are so sure, I will spare the lives of all of you. I will let you open your eyes and see what the final outcome of the Lin family will be."
After Su Yue finished speaking, without waiting for the man to continue talking nonsense, she suddenly moved her mind and gathered all the hundred or so people on the ground into the space, locked them in a wooden house, sprinkled them with drugs, and made them fall asleep.
Put them in the space, even if they are dying, after staying in the space for a few days, their bodies will recover without medicine.
It’s a bargain for them.
After receiving these supervisors and managers, Su Yue also received all the shadowless soldiers here into the space, and then went to the place where the secret guards were in charge.
There are more than twenty secret guards, and in addition to the two who escaped, there are still twenty-two here.
The situation of the twenty-two people was not much better. Each of them was seriously injured and all of them were restrained by the Shadowless Army, making them unable to move.
Su Yue was too lazy to ask, hoping to get some useful information from the secret guards, which was impossible. She simply knocked the twenty-two people unconscious and put them into the space.
By the way, we also collected the Shadowless Army at the bottom of the mountain. The miners now won’t leave even if we ask them to.
After dealing with all this, Su Yue came to Yueying. All the miners had put their fingerprints on the document and the testimony had been handed to her.
"Princess, look."
Yueying handed the six testimonies to Su Yue. She took a look at the dense handprints on them and then put them into the space.
"The kitchen is cooking. Tell them that after they have eaten their fill, those who want to leave the mountains should be organized to leave. Those who don't want to go alone should stay here to watch over the mines and wait for the emperor to send someone."
"Yes, Princess, I will leave this matter to you."
Su Yue nodded, then she chose a mine and went in to see what was inside.
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