Daqin: My weak and virtuous minister

Chapter 204 Slave

Inside the camp, it was already dark and Xu Fu had not returned yet.

Wang Ying didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that Xu Fu was worried about the mineral matter and came back late today.

But when everyone had finished dinner and the sky was filled with stars, there was still no sign of Xu Fu, and Wang Ying became a little anxious.

"Come here, take a few people to check outside to see if there are any traces of Xu Fu and the others."

"promise."

Not long after, the soldier who had just been sent out came back, followed by two soldiers. They were the ones who went out with Xu Fu.

"Where are the others? Why are only the two of you back?"

As he said this, Wang Ying had already grasped the sword at his waist. If they encountered danger outside, Wang Ying was ready to rescue them.

"General, the others are guarding the silver mine. Taoist Master Xu Fu and the craftsmen are unwilling to come back and also want to guard the silver mine."

After hearing what the soldier said, Wang Ying was stunned for a moment before he reacted.

"Did Xu Fu really find a silver mine?"

"Yes, General, it's a huge mine."

"The craftsmen have tested it and the silver ore is of high purity and can be mined."

"General, the number of people we took out was too small. Taoist Xu Fu told you to send more people, including the slaves, to mine silver."

Oh, Xu Fu has started to arrange things for me.

Wang Ying smiled and waved his hand, "Don't worry, I'll arrange for someone to go there tomorrow."

"Hahaha"

Finally there was a harvest, Wang Ying laughed out loud with joy, and the sound could be heard far away in the middle of the night.

Soon, the soldiers in the camp also heard the news and started talking about it.

On the second day, before daybreak, Wang Ying arranged for people to take dry food to Xu Fu, and also sent the tens of thousands of slaves.

Mining is a physical job, and they are the most suitable for it.

And working harder will make you stronger.

How good.

The slaves were driven towards Xu Fu in confusion by the Qin army.

At this time, Xu Fu was so excited that he did not sleep all night, and started to make preparations early in the morning with dark circles under his eyes.

This time, not only silver mines were discovered, but there are also iron mines.

Although not as big as the silver mine.

"Quick, build the furnace. Let's refine some handy attacks first, and then start digging for silver."

"Before I came here, the Marquis said that if we find minerals, each of us will be rewarded after we return."

Xu Fu also joined in to encourage those who were busy.

He needed to mix some gunpowder, and the materials were already fired when they arrived, so luckily they didn't go bad on the ship.

Xu Fu waved away the others and tinkered with it seriously.

By the time the people sent by Wang Ying arrived, Xu Fu's gunpowder had already been made.

"bang"

There was a loud noise, and the slaves far away heard it. They were terrified, screamed, and fled in all directions.

It was useless for the Qin army to maintain order, and in the end they had to kill a lot of slaves, which frightened them.

The slaves were so scared that they squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, one after another, not daring to make a sound.

The Qin army was satisfied when they saw this.

It's just gunpowder, why call it that?

They had cannons on their ship, which were originally used to deal with them, but who knew these people were so weak that they couldn't be used at all.

Those guns are still gathering dust on the ship.

With the help of gunpowder, iron ore mining became much smoother.

The next step is to build the furnace.

The slaves were used one by one. Their daily meals were better, but they also had to do more work and it was more tiring.

And you have to hear the sound of punishment from time to time.

They were so scared that they always made mistakes and were beaten by the Qin army.

A few days passed like this, and Wang Ben finally returned with his men.

The harvest was good this time, and we brought back more than 20,000 slaves.

Xu Fu arranged these slaves and went to find Wang Ben.

"General, when you go out to look for those savages, try to kill as few people as possible and bring back all that you can."

As he spoke, Xu Fu also glanced at the sword at Wang Ben's waist.

Since arriving on the island, General Wang Ben has become more and more adept at killing.

Even the sword carried an evil aura, which made people tremble with fear.

"Ben will do his best."

After staring at Xu Fu for a while, Wang Ben sat casually on the ground with his sword at his side.

"You know, before I came here, the Marquis said that the people on this island are ungrateful and we can't be too nice to them."

"If there is resistance, kill them."

"I don't necessarily want to kill them, but since they are unwilling to surrender, I can't force them to be captured."

"As for these captives, we only managed to bring them back because we scared them by killing so many of them."

Although he said this, Wang Ben's eyes were fixed on his sword and he didn't look at Xu Fu.

Xu Fu rolled his eyes in his heart.

I believe you, I'm a fool.

Don't think I don't know that you guys are all crazy about killing and don't even remember to capture them.

But there was no way Xu Fu could say this.

"I know you're in a difficult position, but look, General, we've found a mineral deposit now, and we need a lot of people to work. Mining is very tiring and dangerous."

"General, can you bear to see our soldiers working so hard all day long?"

"Why don't we capture more prisoners? Even though they're shorter and thinner, a few of them could still replace one of us."

"Wouldn't it be killing two birds with one stone to replace our own people with prisoners?"

Wang Ben nodded. He naturally understood the logic, but they hadn’t found any minerals before.

"Don't worry, Xu Fu. I'll take two days off before I lead my men out. I'll definitely bring you back plenty of prisoners."

As he spoke, Wang Ben raised his big hand and was about to pat Xu Fu on the shoulder.

Xu Fu dodged quickly in fear.

"General, do you know how strong your hand is?"

"I can't get hurt. I still have to lead people to mine every day."

After saying this, Xu Fu turned and left.

"It's not that I have great strength, but Wang Jian and the others didn't react. It's because you are too weak."

Wang Ben muttered to himself as he watched Xu Fu leaving, then stood up and went back to rest.

The next day was a brand new day.

After the furnace was built, the craftsmen began to smelt ironware.

After batches of tools were produced, Xu Fu began to arrange some slaves to mine silver.

As for Wang Ben, he immediately changed his strategy after talking with Xu Fu.

Most of the savages encountered in the past few days survived.

Wang Jian and others looked at the abnormal general with great curiosity.

In the past, the general would definitely think it was troublesome to bring these people back, and since they were useless, he would just kill them if he could.

If I hadn't been afraid of Xu Fu's nagging, I probably wouldn't have taken those slaves back with me.

What happened this time?

The general changed his personality?

Ready to kill less?

Thinking of this, Wang Jian asked while eating.

Wang Ben gave Wang Jian a look that said "you are so stupid", which made Wang Jian very angry.

"We're going to mine minerals now, so we need more manpower. If we don't bring back more slaves, who will do the work?"

When Wang Jian heard this, he realized that it was Xu Fu who was asking the general for slaves.

He was saying, why would the general show mercy to those people for no reason.

In the next few days, they captured a lot of slaves, and when they had gathered 1 people, they arranged to send them back.