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"General, why did they burn...the mine?"

Lu He stood beside Sun Lang and asked with a look of surprise.

"This..." Sun Lang frowned and shook his head.

"But don't worry, the mine shouldn't be destroyed."

According to the information obtained, Zhuge Tian loves money like his life.

How could a person who is so stingy that he would haggle over every penny destroy the mine directly?

Besides, real gold is not afraid of fire.

The fire is still on the surface and will not affect the gold underneath.

The entire part of the mine was under flames, making the temperature in the vicinity much higher.

However, the fire was caused by the piled up firewood.

There is a large area of ​​isolation around it, so there are no flammable materials and there is no need to worry about the fire burning the mountain.

It burned for most of the night, and when it was almost dawn, the fire was finally extinguished.

"What should we do now?" Liao Hua asked, looking at the blackened mine.

"This!" Zhuge Tian knocked on the bamboo tube beside him: "Everyone's work in the middle of the night to build this bamboo tube formation is not in vain."

"Water!"

There is a bamboo forest here. Zhuge Tian kept all the thick bamboos, split them in the middle, and cleaned up all the bamboo joints inside.

It became a semi-cylindrical state.

This bamboo tube formation is located near the mine on one side and the mountain spring on the other.

The mine's daily living water comes from that mountain spring.

Even in winter it was not frozen, but the water was icy cold.

At this time, with Zhuge Tian's order, cold spring water was continuously scooped into the other end of the bamboo tube array, and then began to flow along the bamboo tube to the still smoking mine.

"Bah!"

"Bah!"

Thick smoke rose up, but fortunately everyone had prepared wet cloth strips to cover their mouths and noses.

The clean water rushed over the mine and began to gradually wash away the ashes of the firewood.

"So there's gold?"

Liao Hua stretched his neck out, holding a telescope in his hand.

"I don't know." Zhuge Tian said.

"No...I don't know?" Liao Hua was stunned. "If not, wouldn't our efforts have been in vain?"

"Hey, I've never mined before. I just read about this in a book. Can't I try it out to see if it works?"

"I think no matter what, it's faster than digging with a pickaxe!"

After Zhuge Tian finished speaking, he walked to the side with his men.

Because of the early morning wind, basically all the smoke and dust here were blown away.

Although the rocks had been washed by clear water, they were still charred black and there was no sign of gold at all.

"Zhongkang, come and hit it twice!"

Zhuge Tian asked Xu Zhu to pick up the sledgehammer that had been prepared long ago.

"Where to hit?"

"Whatever, just smash any dark place you want!"

"Okay!" Xu Chu spat in his palm, then picked up a sledgehammer and hit it hard on a charred rock.

The force of this hammer must be a thousand pounds.

Just one hammer blow and the stone foam flew everywhere.

"Damn! Zhong Kang is so powerful now!"

When the stone foam fell, Liao Hua stared blankly at the place where Xu Zhu had hit it.

What was a huge rock just now has now broken into small pieces.

The most important thing is that among the gravel, there are many small golden particles, sparkling in the morning sun.

"Gold, there is really gold!"

"This is a gold vein. The old miners here said there's gold underneath. Of course there is. But they know there's gold underneath, but they have to dig up the rock and then smash it, which is very time-consuming."

Xu Shu picked up a small gold grain from the ground and tossed it in his hand. It weighed about half an ounce.

This vein is worthy of being the largest gold mine in early China, and the quality is still very good.

"Could it be that Han Xing is using the same explosive method that Master Li Bing is said to have used?"

"Li Bing?" Zhuge Tian looked at Xu Shu and shook his head. "I'm not sure about this, but this is definitely a fiery method."

"What is the explosive method?" Liao Hua asked from the side.

"Historical records show that Li Bing and his son used the blasting method to open mountains and dig canals, but there are no detailed records of how they did it."

"But there are a few words that are somewhat similar to what Hanxing is doing today."

If you have a little modern knowledge, you will know that this is based on the principle of thermal expansion and contraction of objects.

This method has actually been used since the Stone Age to mine rocks.

However, given the ancient information dissemination capabilities, it did not spread well in the late Han Dynasty.

What's more, it just so happens that according to archaeological discoveries in my country, the first place where the blasting method was used for mineral mining was the "Suichang Gold Mine".

This is the gold mine in Kuaiji where Zhuge Tian and his team are now.

At this time, other craftsmen also took blunt tools and began to continuously hit the charred ores.

Although they were not as strong as Xu Chu, they burned the stones for almost a night and then poured cold mountain spring water over them while the temperature was still very high.

Every piece is crispy.

Gold happens to be one of the most stable metals.

It's like stainless steel encased in plaster.

As long as you knock off the plaster on the outside, you can easily find the stainless steel products wrapped inside.

In just one morning, Zhuge Tian and his team harvested a large pile of small gold grains.

Workers who have been working in this mine for several months said that this is almost their normal output of one and a half months.

Sun Lang and Lu He had not gone far, they were just on the hilltop next to them.

Sun Lang stared blankly at the small pile of gold: "How did they dig it?"

"It was like that first... then like that... and finally like that..." Lu He was also a little stunned.

It seemed like they watched the whole process, but why?

I don’t understand!

Is digging for gold already so easy?

So what have you done in the past few months?

During the lunch break at noon, Zhuge Tian and Gan Ning distributed the supplies they brought equally to everyone.

Anyway, we will go back after finishing our work in the next few days, so there is no need to keep these foods.

"Hanxing...Sun Lang and the others are still watching from the sidelines. Aren't we afraid they'll come and rob us when we return?"

While eating, Liao Hua looked towards Sun Lang.

"So I only asked for three days. We can dig up a lot in three days, but at most we can make them suffer but not fight to the death."

"Also, before today, they wouldn't have thought we would dig up so much gold, and they wouldn't have prepared so many troops to deal with us in advance."

"There are only two days left. Given the current situation in Jiangdong, they won't be able to find enough people to deal with us."

"Hahaha, Yuan Jian, don't worry." Xu Shu laughed and said, "When it comes to money, Han Xing is more cautious than anyone else."