Yizhou is a rich land, with the title of the land of abundance, not only the land is fertile, rich in products, and Yizhou has a lot of mineral resources, copper, iron, silver, gold and other precious metals are not lacking at all.

It's just that the current mining technology is limited, and it is impossible to dig up these minerals and make use of them.

Last time, because Liu Bei was short of money, he used the method of minting money by himself to solve his urgent needs. Zhang Song is very concerned about this matter.

Now Zhang Song and Fa Zheng have done tricks in the grain and government treasury, and now they are just a little bit of copper ore.

Zhang Song and Fa Zheng have slowly found a few excuses in the past few days, and they have sent their families out of Chengdu openly and secretly.

For example, Fazheng's wife was instructed by Fazheng to go back to her parents' house for a few days. Fa Zheng is very careful in what he does, he doesn't want his wife to be implicated because of him.

After Zhang Song discussed the plan with Fa Zheng and Meng Da, he sent the plan to Cao Bi, hoping that Cao Bi could cooperate.

Cao Bi is the helmsman of the "dark department" in Yizhou, and with his support, Zhang Song's plan will be more secure.

Seeing the plans of Zhang Song, Fa Zheng and others, Cao Bi agreed 100%.

Liu Bei summoned his subordinates and the heads of various families to celebrate the victory, and this was the best time for Zhang Song and Fa Zheng to leave Chengdu.

Cao Bi began to use the power in his hands to cooperate with Zhang Song, Fa Zheng, and Meng Da.

Zhang Song returned to his mansion, found his henchmen, and gave an order very secretly.

Immediately, under Zhang Song's arrangement, a sabotage operation against all of Liu Bei's copper mines began.

The copper mine that Liu Bei has now is not the kind of surface mine, but one that needs to be dug deep.

In order to be able to have a large amount of money, Liu Bei increased manpower mining in the copper mines he owned. This mining is a very heavy job, the danger is extremely high, one is not good, the mine collapses, don't want to live.

Although Liu Bei offered a high salary, most of the people in Yizhou would not apply. In Yizhou, most of the people have the resources and food to survive, and they can't afford to do this kind of dangerous work.

The people are reluctant to go, so how can Liu Bei increase manpower?

Liu Bei has capable people under his command, for example, Sun Gan will be conscripted, and if the people don't come, they will be arrested directly. Of course, if you really don't want to go, you can use cloth or money to hand over to the government, and the government will arrange for others to go. Sun Gan's method is very good, even if the people are reluctant to go, the government will have a lot of income, which greatly increases the money of the government treasury.

The poor people had no choice but to go, and they had no money or cloth to hand over to the government, so they had to do it.

Sun Qian made meritorious contributions, and Liao Li, who had always wanted to perform, was not idle, and he immediately made a suggestion to Liu Bei.

The prisons in Chengdu are home to many prisoners, who spend their days in the dark, doing nothing and wasting food. Liao Li suggested that Liu Bei give grace so that these prisoners could dig pits, reduce their sins, and atone for their sins.

For example, a prisoner who has been imprisoned for five years can be freed from two and a half years of copper mining.

Liao Li's method was approved by Liu Bei and everyone, anyway, these prisoners are idle every day, so it is better to use a waste to save them from wasting food.

With a stroke of Liu Bei's pen, he let these prisoners go to mining.

Mining is going very well. It's a pity that people are not machines, and the workload is too much, so I can't stand it. The people who were forced to do it were a little easier, they had an upright status, and even if they were fishing in troubled waters, the overseers would not do anything to them.

Yes, Liu Bei set up a lot of overseers in various mines, and they were responsible for supervising the people and those prisoners.

The most pitiful of all are the prisoners. They were the ones who wore the guilt, and the overseer was the one who kept an eye on them all the time. If you do it a little slowly, the whip stick will greet you directly. Their food is also very poor, at most they are guaranteed not to starve to death.

These prisoners dare not speak out, and they are now wondering if they can survive this time.

Zhang Song is very clear about this. He had arranged his own among the prisoners early on. Many of these own people are spies in the "shadows". Only they can have the energy to think about other things under the pressure of such heavy work. Through the efforts of the spies, they have become one with these prisoners.

The day's mining is over, and it's time for dinner.

The ordinary people were all sent home by the overseers, and there was no food here. The prisoners had it, but the prisoners ate it like pig food.

After a hard day's work, the prisoners were exhausted. One by one, they all returned to the prison cell house that had been specially built for them.

One by one, the prisoners found a random place and lay down, they were too tired.

The overseers are accustomed to this situation, and the prisoners are tired, and it is time for them to rest as overseers.

The "shadows" spies climbed up and gently woke up the exhausted prisoners.

"Brothers, get up!" The spies called softly.

"What the hell. Do you want anyone to rest! ”

The prisoners wanted to have a good rest, but after being disturbed, they became angry and scolded.

The spies didn't care, and one of them said, "Well, I was thinking of escaping with you, but it seems that you are willing to wait here to die." ”

As soon as they heard that they had escaped, all the prisoners came to their senses. They also know that it will be very difficult for them to get out of this place alive. Let's not talk about the commutation of the sentence that Liu Bei said, according to such work pressure and food, no one in the audience dared to guarantee that they would be able to live.

"Brother, what you said is true?" Several prisoners approached.

The spy affirmed: "In the past few days, several of our brothers have been observing the terrain and found a path to get out of here. You see, many times the overseers stop watching over us while we are sleeping. And those overseers and soldiers, together are more than 20 people, and we have about a hundred people here. Why don't we take their weapons and slaughter them to find another way to survive? ”

This sentence made the hearts of the prisoners moved. There are more than 100 people in total, and if they have weapons on hand, the other party will only have more than 20 people, and they will simply deliver food.

"We listen to you!" The prisoners have made their decisions.

Rather than suffer and die here, it is better to fight hard, at least there is a way to live. Most of these prisoners were the most vicious people, and they were not afraid of murder.

The spies told these prisoners to wait for the time being, and a few of them were going to steal a few weapons, so that they would have confidence in the fight later.

The prisoners felt that they were right, and with weapons in hand, the security became higher.

In a short time, the spies got a few swords and a lot of sticks. It's better to have a stick than to use your bare hands. These swords were originally secretly hidden by the spies, and they can be used at this time.

The prisoners knew that whoever had a sword would be at the forefront. A few prisoners who were not afraid of death picked up their swords, and they were put in prison only after they killed, so they were more ruthless.

The spies quietly went out with the prisoners, all worried that they would be discovered by making some noise.

No matter how lax the overseer and Liu Beijun's soldiers were, they would still be a little vigilant.

The sword in the prisoner's hand reflected a bright light in the moonlight.

One of the overseers was shocked by the light, and exclaimed, "What man! ”

"Exposed, brethren! Kill! A prisoner with a sword raised his broadsword in his hand and shouted.

"Kill!" Armed with swords, sticks, stones, and other weapons, the prisoners rushed towards the overseer and Liu Jun's soldiers.

The overseer and Liu Jun's soldiers were momentarily stunned, they knew that the prisoners were going to riot. But their current number of people really can't control the situation. The overseer and Liu Jun's soldiers were too ruthless to the prisoners before, and if they wanted not to die, they had to fight hard. If the copper mine fails, overseers like them will definitely not be able to save their lives. Liu Bei will not let them go.

A battle broke out between the prisoners, the overseers, and the soldiers of Liu Jun. The two sides already have a grudge, and they are ruthless.

Although Liu Beijun's side has an advantage in weapons, the prisoners have a huge numerical advantage. The result is one can imagine.

In a short time, all the overseers and Liu Jun soldiers were killed.

The prisoners shouted that they had finally killed these bastards and were free from now on.

A spy said: "Ladies and gentlemen, Liu Bei treats these copper mines as treasures, and let us risk our lives to mine." Let's destroy this copper mine! Let Liu Bei cry by himself! ”

The proposal resonated with the inmates.

With the help of numerous prisoners, the copper mine was destroyed.

After the prisoners had done this, they chose to gather together, and in the future, they would occupy the mountains as kings and the grass as cowards.

It's just that when they were looking for the spies who had led them in the attack, they couldn't find any trace.

Similar scenes were staged one by one on several copper mines owned by Liu Bei. The copper mines that were successfully destroyed were the majority. Only one relatively small copper mine was not destroyed.

The soldiers of Liu Jun, who had escaped, hurriedly reported to Chengdu.

Liu Bei is in a very good mood today. The rebellion in Yongchang County was quelled, which means that Liu Bei would concentrate on dealing with Liu Jun of Jingzhou in Fuling County in the future. Liu Bei was confident that he could drive Liu Jun out of Jingzhou.

It is not that Liu Bei has this ability, but Yizhou's natural geographical advantage over Jingzhou. The topography of Yizhou is higher than that of Jingzhou. From Yizhou to Jingzhou, you can go down the river, which is relatively easy.

Attacking Yizhou from Jingzhou, not to mention this terrain, the supply of grain and grass is a huge problem.

The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first. Liu Bei believed that Liu Jun in Jingzhou would definitely withdraw his troops in the end because of the problem of grain and grass support, and the difficult road from Jingzhou to Yizhou cost a huge amount of grain and grass. Liu Bei believed that even if Liu Yu was wealthy, he would not dare to consume it like this.

In addition, Liu Bei also received news from Yi and Fu Shiren, and they reported to Liu Bei that Sun Ce had made an alliance with them, and was reorganizing his troops and horses to threaten Jingzhou.

With this news, Liu Bei was even more calm.

As long as Jiangdong's troops show signs of moving towards Jingzhou, Jingzhou will definitely become nervous. At that time, Gao Shun would have to withdraw his troops and return to Jingzhou, and the situation in Yizhou would be back in Liu Bei's hands.

Liu Bei ate and drank to his heart's content, and walked towards his backyard beautifully. He wanted to see his unborn son.

At the beginning, Liu Bei took the chronic poison given by Zhang Song, and unexpectedly made a concubine pregnant. At this time, the concubine was almost eight months pregnant and was about to give birth.

Originally, the macho princes like Liu Bei didn't care much about women. But now this concubine has Liu Bei's blood in her belly, and Liu Bei doesn't dare to let her have any mistakes.

It's strange to say that Liu Bei got such a concubine pregnant. There are still many beauties in his backyard, and Liu Bei almost did it in the rain and dew, but the other beauties didn't even show a sign.

This is why Liu Bei is so attentive to his pregnant concubine. How Liu Bei hoped that the concubine's belly was a son.

After seeing his unborn child, Liu Bei left. As a manly husband, Liu Bei still has a lot of important things to do. Liu Bei felt that he was too thin about his children, and among the princes in the world, there was no one who was a father, that is, Liu Bei.

Liu Bei felt a deep sense of crisis, so he needed to work hard now to let himself go away.

Liu Bei smiled and walked into a concubine's room, he was going to fight three hundred rounds later.

But just when Liu Bei's morale was high, Wei Yan, Sun Gan, Liao Li and others came to see each other and were waiting in the study.

Liu Bei was so angry in his heart, he was ready, and there were still people to disturb him. Wei Yan is Liu Bei's only brother-in-law, the previous Zhang Fei and Guan Yu have left Liu Bei, and Liu Bei now values Wei Yan very much. Moreover, Sun Qian, Liao Li and others are all here, and something important must have happened. Liu Bei endured the desire in his heart, cheered up and walked out of the room to the study.

In the study, Wei Yan walked around anxiously, among which Sun Qian's face was even more melancholy, and Liao Li's face was pale, it seemed that something very big had happened.

"Wen Chang, what happened to you looking for me in such a hurry?" When Liu Bei saw this scene, he knew that there was nothing good.

Wei Yan heard Liu Bei's voice, hurriedly walked over, and said, "Big brother is not good!" Our copper mines, not long ago, all collapsed. ”

Liu Bei was stunned, the copper mine collapsed? What's going on.

"I see, if it collapses, it will be dug up again. Are you so nervous? Liu Bei said a little carelessly.