484 Potential danger
The mountains and forests are dark. Even though the moon is big tonight, because the trees in this place are old and blocking the moonlight outside, it is impossible to see what is around.
Lord Wu is older and his eyes are not very good, Lord Ke is better, and Xu Erlang has better eyesight.
Now the mountains around them are all veritable mountains. The mountains here cover a very wide area, hundreds or thousands of kilometers. Now they have just entered the mountains, and I don’t know where the treasure is hidden or where the place is in the hinterland of the mountains.
The carriage was shaking, and it took half an evening to leave.
Lord Ke and Lord Wu were not willing to relax. Because they were used to being an official for many years, their waists and backs were straight. Now after some bumps, their bones were about to disperse.
Lord Wu couldn't help but mutter, "It's safe to hide in the deep mountains and forests, and it takes time to use it. This time, it's not possible to do it without a day or a night."
Lord Ke smiled muffled, "Mr. Wu is such a bad word. According to the power of the aristocratic family, only when they store gold and silver in them regularly will be taken out there." Speaking of which, this aristocratic family is really like a Taotie, all things that only enter and cannot be exported, but this is good, everything is stored for them. The aristocratic family is doing a great thing.
I think if the aristocratic family knew that one day, a hundred years of accumulation would fall into the hands of others, they would probably vomit blood.
As for now, they are still stable. After all, there are boys in the clan who escaped, and that is the torch they left behind. As long as their descendants are endless, they will sooner or later make a comeback based on the foundation left by their ancestors.
Xu Erlang and others were naturally too lazy to think about the thoughts of the aristocratic family. Xu Erlang had a good foundation, and even if the mountain roads were bumpy, he could not bear it. But Lord Ke and Lord Wu couldn't bear it anymore. The two of them leaned against the carriage and rested. After a while, Lord Wu snored like thunder. However, Lord Ke frowned several times, but he was not awakened. He should have been tired.
Xu Erlang didn't sleep all the time and kept paying attention to the movements outside. Lord Wu and Lord Ke were also thinking about the things accumulated by the aristocratic family, so they just rested for more than an hour and woke up one after another.
But it was useless for them to wake up because they were still on the road. The aristocratic family was sneaky, and they were afraid that they would really hide the family assets left by their ancestors in the depths of the mountains.
Lord Wu was not well-educated and had a bad temper. At this time, he wanted to curse his mother, but at least he could hold it back. He thought that he had to find gold and silver to write a good note to His Majesty and make the hateful things of the aristocratic family more detailed. These old men with more scrupulous minds than sieves cannot be used by the country, but only act as a syringe of the country, so he should be killed.
The sky slowly brightened. For safety reasons, Mohe made people farther away from the carriage of Lisan Niangzi.
Lady Li San also has some control over people. In addition, there are many ministers under her skirt, so she is very good at grasping men. Therefore, she also brought a few men who were devoted to her during this trip.
Don’t say that the more people you bring, the more dangerous it will be exposed to the Tibetan silver land of the aristocratic family. Wouldn’t she be afraid of making wedding clothes for her then?
...To be honest, Lady Li San is not afraid.
These men are devoted to her, but it does not mean that she is devoted to them. The local governments of the aristocratic families are densely packed with silver, and there are many guardians. She doesn't bring many people over, so how can she transport the money? These are all good cannon fodder thugs, but she can't leave any of them.
Although these men looked like they wanted to kill each other and wanted to monopolize Li San Madam, because Li San Madam was properly adjusted, there was no big mess.
The loyal subordinates of Li San Madam and the men who were devoted to her were also quite a few. After a moment, there were actually 20 or 30 people. Among them, except for Li San Madam and an elderly nanny, the rest were all men.
Among them, two men dressed in a military manner, showing the aura of military gangsters while walking. Mo He had some speculations about the origin of the two.
Because these two men are there, and because they have better scouts here, they can track the whereabouts of Lisan and his group at any time, it is nothing to do even if the distance is farther.
Soon the sky was completely bright and the sun rose slowly.
But because of the ancient trees here, the sun is rarely shining in, it is still dark and depressing, making people breathless.
Xu Erlang accompanied Lord Ke and Lord Wu in the carriage all night, and his body was a little stiff, so he came down to move.
Lord Wu and Lord Ke also jumped off the carriage one after another after him. They hadn't suffered such pain for many years. They haven't rested much all night and are still sitting on the bumpy carriage. In addition, they have been carrying alcohol and are exhausted to the extreme, so their faces are not very good-looking.
They took a short rest, ate some dry food sent by the servants, and set off again.
But this time, the carriage was stopped before the time was on the road. A guard in front ran over, "Sir, the fight started in front. The Li family should have met the staff arranged by the aristocratic family here."
Xu Erlang responded and told them to rest assured. No one knew how many people were arranged here by the aristocratic family, and not many people were there to guard the Tibetan Silver Land. They just wanted to wait for the peaches to pick these tentative tasks to Lisan Lady and his group.
However, if those people were too late, they might have to help.
"You secretly help me, don't miss your tracks."
The guards took the order.
The carriage stopped for about a stick of incense, and the guard ran over again. This time he was indeed excited. "Sir, the people of the Li family caught two prisoners and pried open their mouths. This place is very close to the place where the silver treasury of the Li family was. As for the silver treasury, there were about a hundred people guarding the government. There were also arrangements for the two prisoners caught, but they were not aware of the specific situation."
After the guards went down, Lord Wu sighed, "It turns out it is the place where the Li family has hidden silver." The ancients said that it is still reasonable that it is difficult to guard against a family thief. Originally, they thought that it was the poor family that was first targeted by Li San's wife, but they did not expect that it was her mother's home.
Then this woman is quite cruel. If she puts it on ordinary people, she will never do such a thing.
She wasn't worried that she would take away all the money, and the descendants of the Li family who escaped by chance would lose their capital to make a comeback? Or was she relying on the fact that she is the only one who has survived the Li family and has not been to prison, and she felt that she knew the righteousness and those loyal servants of the Li family would let her take the money away? She felt that this was low, so she was planning this?
Thinking of this seems to make some sense.
It’s not reasonable, so I won’t talk about it now, but it’s a very miserable person who has such a daughter.
Perhaps because of the guide, the journey was much smoother. After about half an hour, Li San's carriage finally stopped in front of a towering mountain.
This mountain is really tall and is simply infiltrated into the clouds.
The weeds are growing around the mountain, and it is really easy to see at first glance. But if someone is interested in it, you can tell that the surroundings of this mountain are obviously much cleaner than those next to it. Even the moss on the walls of the mountain is much less. You can even find traces of people's activities here - this is not the negligence of the guards. After all, for hundreds of years, no one has ever been here except the Li family, right?
Although the rules were strict before the beginning, it was said that the guardian could not go out for the rest of his life after entering the mountain. However, the rules were dead and people lived. Because the Li family came here at most once or twice a year, the people who stayed inside were so bored that there was always someone who wanted to come out and breathe.
Next, even the nearby beasts must be dealt with regularly. Otherwise, the owner will send money to the beasts and ambush them halfway, and it will be fine to lose some property. But if there are casualties, who will be? No one can bear the consequences, right?
In view of this reason, people in the mountains will come out to "walk" regularly. But as loyal servants of the Li family, they are used to being cautious. Whether they deal with wild animals or other traces, they will be eliminated afterwards. So for a hundred years, the silver warehouse here has been well preserved and has never been discovered by outsiders.
In front of the mountain peak, the third lady Li came out to call the door in person. With the guidance of the two prisoners earlier, they quickly called the stone gate open.
But when the people who opened the door inside saw so many strangers coming, they were obviously stunned and immediately wanted to close the stone door.
But this is obviously impossible. After all, a few men around Li San Madam are waiting for this moment.
The stone gate was pushed open, and the few people seemed to have a dispute, and then they started fighting. After that, an old man who seemed to be in charge came out of the mountain, and all the movement stopped.
But the smoke at the scene was still very strong, and it was obvious that the old man did not agree with a girl's family's "inheritance" of the Li family's industry.
But Li San Madam and her group dared to come here rashly, and there was no barrier in their hands.
When it comes to the great truth, Li San Madam has never met an opponent. Her evil deeds sound very convincing, as if this silver treasury is not handed over to her, sooner or later it will be checked by the people of the Governor's Office. Then it will be cheaper for outsiders and let the Li family's century-long accumulation fall into the hands of outsiders, then they will be sinners. Are they worthy of the ancestors of the Li family who have entrusted them with important responsibilities, and are they worthy of the oath they made that "the silver treasury is in their own hands, and the silver treasury is dead?"
Lady Lisan didn't put all her hopes on reasoning.
People from aristocratic families are never unreasonable. They only recognize one creed, which is what is beneficial to them and what is right. They must hold what they can master, and only when things are in their own hands are their own.
It doesn’t matter if it doesn’t make sense. Li San’s wife is also ready to make a comeback.
Her backhand has not been revealed yet, but a guard who had been involved in Lisan's team found a box of high-risk items in the carriage.
Those were six "bombs". It was not accurate to say that they were shells, because each shell was equipped with leads, and I don't know what it was for.
Is this Li San Lady preparing to blow up the mountain?
At that time, there was a lot of noise. I am afraid that Lady Li San couldn't pretend to be gold and silver, so the soldiers and horses of the prefecture were coming.
The guards didn't know, but they knew that this thing was dangerous, so they took out the explosives and threw them away secretly as everyone was confronting with the people guarding the silver warehouse.
Few people in this era know those dark things, but if Jin Niang saw them, she would be shocked. Isn’t this a grenade?
Although the appearance is different, the effects should be similar.
There is a smell of gunpowder, and there is a lead on it. If you lit it and throw it out, the lethality will be simply.
This is also the retreat prepared by Lady Li San for herself. She will not use it unless she has to.
This was also what she used to change from a family.
That aristocratic family is the youngest of the Sheng family. They are not visible or leaking at home, but they are full of ignorance. The man didn't know where to learn the formula of gunpowder, so he started to do it himself.
The Sheng family has gold and silver, and they also know how powerful the firearms are. If they want to get some things to save their lives, they naturally have to support their preferences for their youngest sons in the family.
The youngest son of the Sheng family also made great efforts and improved the turret loaded on the battleship. It originally existed as a killer weapon, but the turret had not yet taken effect, but the turret ruined the life of the aristocratic family.
Because Xu Erlang sent someone to capture the son of a noble family suddenly, the noble family was completely unprepared, so except for those who were lucky enough to be away from home, the rest were arrested and imprisoned.
The descendants of the Sheng family were naturally among them, but the "grenades" in Lisan's hand were obtained as soon as the Sheng family developed it, and the time he got it was only two days before the aristocratic family was arrested. So now the grenade has not yet been leaked, so no one can say. However, the Sheng family must have a recipe, but I don't know if the recipe has been preserved and whether it has been discovered by the government. If it is not discovered, haha, Governor Xu has killed all the aristocratic families in this way, and the rest of the families cannot retaliate, the Sheng family will definitely do something.
It was far away from these things, and only the scout who was following Li San Niangzi and her group far away. Seeing that her companion suddenly lost something, she picked up the thing back with confusion. After he smelled the smell of gunpowder, he felt something was wrong, and then handed the object to Mo He. Mo He naturally knew the importance of the matter and quickly informed Xu Erlang.
Xu Erlang, Lord Wu, Lord Ke took the "black ball" and found out the role of this thing. Lord Wu couldn't help but scold, "The aristocratic family has accumulated a lot, and they want people and things. If they are more upright, they don't know how many good things they can do to benefit the people, and how many pillars of the country can cultivate for Daqi. Unfortunately, those people's hearts are dark and their minds are also distorted. They just want to exploit the people and threaten officials all day long. They really do everything they want to kill and cut them."
Lord Ke said, "I don't know if this thing has gone out. If it doesn't, it's okay. If it does, I'm afraid Tongzhou City will be in danger."
The power of gunpowder is beyond doubt. It is an existence that can explode mountains. If it is thrown into the crowd, how many casualties will it cause? If it is thrown into the Governor's Mansion by someone with a heart, the lives of Xu Erlang's family will be in danger.
Chapter completed!