Chapter 113 Between Life and Death

"After casting the silver ingot into a saddle, one cavalryman can carry eight hundred taels of silver, and we have more than forty-three thousand horsemen, and the cavalry alone can take half of the silver here.

A pack horse can carry three silver plates weighing fifty pounds, that is, one hundred and fifty pounds, and attack two thousand four hundred taels of silver, and if we have fifteen thousand pack horses, we can take all the remaining silver plates with us.

and does not affect the march of our army. ”

Mu Tiantao unloaded the silver plate on the back of the war horse, hugged it in front of Liu Zongmin, and talked endlessly about the benefits of casting silver ingots into silver plates.

Liu Zongmin took a silver plate with one hand, and found that the silver plate weighed fifty catties, and then put the silver plate on the horse's back, pressed the horse's back with his hand, and found that the war horse was not moving, so he nodded with satisfaction.

"It looks like you've studied, what's the charter for this?"

Mu Tiantao pointed to the general in the west of the capital and said: "I have asked someone, there are six alchemy furnaces there, each furnace can smelt 1,000 catties of silver at a time, and if you smelt it day and night, ...... it."

Liu Zongmin himself was born as a blacksmith, and when he heard Mu Tiantao say this, he immediately said: "You can get 60,000 catties in one day and night." ”

Mu Tiantao nodded and said, "There are also alchemy furnaces of the major silver numbers, and the small one thinks that he will be able to complete the important task of smelting in less than ten days." ”

Liu Zongmin sneered: "We don't smelt so much, let's make sure that our people and horses have such a saddle...... You might as well be heavier. ”

Liu Zongmin laughed and left the silver vault, and when he left, Mu Tiantao had changed from a pawn to a general commander of a thousand people.

When Liu Zongmin left, the head of the guard called Mu Tiantao into his room and said, "Our brother's ......"

Mu Tiantao immediately said: "It's all damaged in the fire consumption." ”

The head of the guard said again: "Brothers have lived a hard life for so many years......"

Mu Tiantao immediately said: "There are too many to take." ”

The head of the guard said, "With so much silver......

Mu Tiantao sneered: "There are so many people who have died in the capital these days, find some people whose men in the family are dead, just act as other people's men, give the woman and doll a full meal and then ......"

"Can't it be a big one?"

"No, when Yunzhao's soldiers and horses enter the city, the big families will still ...... Hey, hey, hey. ”

The head of the guard laughed and said, "It's been scavenged." ”

Laughing and laughing, you can't laugh anymore.

These people have suffered countless hardships with Liu Zongmin's transfer to the world, and countless escapes from death have made them extremely tired of fighting.

Now, they have forced the emperor to death, but their situation shows no signs of improving.

Chongzhen is dead, and he will soon face the Lantian army, which is a hundred times stronger than Chongzhen.

Now, with the silver, there are many people who are no longer willing to work for King Chuang.

After all, when you have nothing, there is only one rotten life that is worthless, and whoever wants to take it for the sake of eating will take it, and when you are alive, you will desperately eat, drink, and have fun, rape and plunder......

It's different now.

A penniless pauper has a very different view of life than a man with a large amount of money in his arms.

The former is boiling life, and the latter is enjoying life.

As long as they are normal people, who doesn't want to enjoy life?

Especially the first batch of Guanzhong people who followed Liu Zongmin to fight in the world.

Today's Guanzhong has long become a blessed land in the world, and from the mouths of those Lantian merchants who deal with the rebels, you can easily know about the affairs of your hometown.

At this time, there was no starvation, no locusts flying in the sky, no thieves, no harsh landlords, and no government that liked apportionment, plunder, and collusion with the rich.

The people of Yan'an Prefecture have all been relocated to Ningxia Town to plant rice, and the people of Jingbian County have long since stopped farming, they have begun to graze, and the men of Suide have gone to do business outside the mouth, and it costs a lot of money to marry a beautiful aunt with rice fat.

Some of the Guanzhong bandits who fled for their lives to other places are now willing to return to their hometowns to go to prison, and those who can live a lifetime when they come out can sit in prison for three or five years.

However, among those who can return to their hometowns, they are definitely not included.

After years of fighting, these hands don't know how many people they have killed, and when they kill, they can't consider whether the other party is a good person or a bad person, so when they return to Lantian, they can't stand the trial.

Not being able to go back to my hometown is a big problem.

Not being able to bury bones is a big problem.

The most terrifying thing is that the army is about to leave the capital and go to Liaodong...... I heard that it was a place where people could freeze to death.

These people's decadent thoughts were inspired by Mu Tiantao.

Among them, what kind of place is Liaodong, Mu Tiantao said it clearly, clearly, the cold winter of one year and six months, snowfields, forests, ferocious Jiannu, and terrifying beasts......

Mu Tiantao believed that if the mountain of 70 million taels of silver was placed in the rat hole, it would not be much at all, and all he had to do was to keep the silver in the capital as much as possible.

As long as the silver stays in the capital, then the silver can't fly.

In just half a month, Mu Tiantao easily organized a corruption and theft group, and under the unity of the whole body, millions of taels of silver disappeared out of thin air, but the accounts that Mu Tiantao was responsible for were clear, as if the millions of taels of silver had never existed at all.

This is the result of corruption from top to bottom.

Liu Zongmin is corrupt, Li Guo is corrupt, Li Mu is corrupt, they have to supervise and prevent others from being corrupt while they are corrupt, this is naturally a very unreasonable thing, so it is best for everyone to be corrupt together.

The cannon sound of Li Dingguo's army attack is getting closer and closer, and the people in the city are getting more and more crazy, Liu Zongmin fell on the bed for three days and three nights, indulging in lewd pleasures, while the alchemy furnace in the capital and the silver horn was blazing day and night.

Liu Zongmin never dreamed that he saw the silver water poured into the mold, but he didn't know that this small mold could actually pour hundreds of catties of silver water into it at a time.

What he didn't know was that countless sterling silver plates had been replaced with iron-tired silver, and those skilled generals in the capital who had long been taken over by Lantian had brought their former cheating skills to the extreme, and under the urging of Xia Wanchun's death, the output of fake silver plates was about to reach three percent of the real silver plates.

Li Guo and Li Mu, the two generals from the farmer's background, were very satisfied with the casting speed under the command of Mu Tiantao.

If Liu Zongmin, who was born in the iron smelting industry, could spoil a few women less, with his ability, he could easily find the trickiness in it.

It's a pity that he didn't come, he handed over everything to Li Guo, Li Mu, and Mu Tiantao.

Just when Li Dingguo's flowering bullet had smashed into the city wall, the smoke in the blast furnace finally disappeared, and a part of the cavalry had already left the capital with a batch of silver plates, or iron tire silver plates, and the target - Shanhaiguan!

Liu Zongmin, who had not appeared for many days, finally appeared in Mu Tiantao's sight.

At this time, Mu Tiantao was dealing with two fryer accidents, and nearly three thousand catties of silver water were integrated with the furnace, and it was a very cumbersome thing to get these silvers.

Facing the trembling Mu Tiantao, after Liu Zongmin looked at the stove, he frowned and said, "The furnace temperature is too high." ”

Mu Tiantao knelt down on one knee and clenched his fists and said, "The humble duty must take out all the silver in the furnace before evacuating." ”

Liu Zongmin glanced at the leader of his personal guards lightly, and the leader nodded and said, "I will stay and finally evacuate the capital." ”

Liu Zongmin pressed his hand on the top of Mu Tiantao's head, who looked like a black man, and comforted him warmly: "Take as much as you can, take as much as you can, Li Jin may not be able to buy you too much time." ”

With that, he left the dusty metallurgical furnace, and this time, he was also evacuating.

Seeing Liu Zongmin leave, the leader of the guards saw Mu Tiantao, who was still trying to pick the stove with a large group of craftsmen, and disappeared out of thin air.

At this time, the sound of artillery outside the city seemed to explode in my ears.

Two black teenagers, sitting side by side on the huge bell tower, looked at the Li Jinsuo department that was collapsing at the Zhengyang Gate, and also looked at the northbound team that could not be seen at the north gate.

As for the capital, it seems to be more and more dilapidated and desolate.

"For ten days, we have not slept until then, and this is all we can do."

"More than 21 million taels, it's okay."

"How much more silver can be found in the search of the city?"

"It won't be less than eight million taels."

Xia Wanchun wiped the black ash on his face and said, "It's okay, and I've done my best." ”

Mu Tiantao turned his head and looked at Xia Wanchun seriously, "Can I really go back to the academy again?" ”

Xia Wanchun took out a flat silver wine jug from his arms, took a sip of wine, and handed it to Mu Tiantao and said, "Mr. Xianliang begged Your Majesty no less than three times for your business, and was willing to vouch for you with your life, and Your Majesty finally agreed."

also archive all your past experiences for the year and will not be pursued. ”

Mu Tiantao took a sip of wine violently, and he didn't know if he was choked by the wine, or what happened, a series of tears flowed down, and he quickly wiped away his tears and said: "I can actually continue to mix in Liu Zongmin's army and do some more things for Lantian." ”

Xia Wanchun shook his head and said: "No, we didn't have time to make iron tire silver later, so I sent a lot of cast iron plates with black paint, and Liu Zongmin will definitely find out tonight."

You are now looking for death. ”

"I can go to Li Hongji's old camp with another identity."

"No need, there may be more people in Li Hongji's team than you think, do you think this thing between the two of us is really so easy to succeed? It's just that there are a lot of people covering for us.

In addition, Mu Tiantao has already died in the capital, and the news that your brother Mu Tianbo knows is this. ”

"In other words, I'm going to be incognito from now on?"

Xia Wanchun nodded and said, "You have a nice name - Young Tiger." To tell the truth, you may be the only one among the old nobles who can participate in Lantian, political and military affairs.

If you agree, from now on, the young tiger and Mu Wangfu, Zhu Yujiao must not have any contact, if you don't agree, you are still called Mu Tiantao, you can return to Chang'an City Tang Dynasty The eight kings were imprisoned in the market, be a rich idler, and spend a lifetime. ”

Mu Tiantao looked at the bleak palace under the sunset and said: "After sunrise tomorrow, there will be only young tigers in the world, and there will be no Mu Tiantao." ”

Xia Wanchun let out a sigh and opened a medicine bag, swallowed it himself, and then handed the remaining medicine powder to Mu Tiantao and said, "Hurry up and swallow." ”