Han Zhan took Dian Wei and Guo Jia, who had twenty sword and shield hands, followed the woman, walked around the horseshoe-shaped building, and went from the path behind the room toward the treasure cave.

On the way, Han Zhan asked Dian Wei: "Dian Junhou, what is the situation of the war damage?"

"Reply to the envoy's words," Dian Wei quickly replied, "Kill twenty-five bandits and capture one alive. eleven people were killed in our battle, eight seriously injured, and thirty-two people were injured." After reporting the casualties, he added, "Among the number of people killed in battle, five are old brothers."

Han Zhan knew in his heart that the old brother Dian Wei mentioned was the two hundred soldiers who came from Jizhou with him. After repelling the Yellow Turbans that attacked Sheguo County last time, there were only less than 100 sword and shield soldiers left, and he drew county soldiers to supplement them. Unexpectedly, this time, when the number of people was superior and there were powerful generals like Dian Wei, there were still so many casualties.

Seeing Han Zhan's face turned pale, Dian Wei guessed that he might be dissatisfied with the heavy casualties of the army, and quickly explained: "Empress, if there were no black bear, our army would not have suffered more than ten people in combat. Eleven brothers who died in battle died in his hands."

"This damn black bear." Han Zhan said gritting his teeth: "I will open him later to pay tribute to our fallen brothers, and then take his rank back and hang it on the city gate to show the public."

The group, led by the woman, came to the cave where the treasure was hidden. Taking advantage of the time when his subordinates were lit, Han Zhan looked curiously into the dark cave. A gust of wind blew out of the cave, causing Han Zhan, who was originally sweating, torched. After the sword and shield soldiers lit the torch, Dian Wei held the torch in his left hand and the iron halberd in his right hand, and carefully entered the cave first.

The treasure cave was very deep and dark inside. Although more than a dozen torches were lit, the range illuminated was still very limited, giving people a gloomy feeling. After walking dozens of steps in the interior, the woman leading the way suddenly said to Han Zhan: "Empress, I'm here, I'm here. The property robbed in black is here."

After saying that, the woman stepped forward and lit the torch inserted on the stone wall. As one torch after another, the cave suddenly became brighter. With the help of the torch lighting, Han Zhan saw clearly that there was a huge cave in front of him. The location against the stone wall was filled with wooden boxes of various sizes in a mess, and on the ground was a mountain of money piled up with copper coins, which was more than ten feet high.

Guo Jia took a torch from the sword and shield soldier beside him, walked to the wooden box, opened the lid and looked at it, but didn't say anything, and then opened the second wooden box. After seeing the things inside, he turned his head and said to Han Zhan: "Eunuch, there are some gold and silver utensils and jewelry inside, probably they snatched back from the outside by black clothes." As he said that, he reached out to take out a string of pearl necklaces from the box, looked closer to him, and handed them to Han Zhan who had just walked over, "Eunuch, look, the blood on it has not been dried yet."

Han Zhan took it and saw that there was indeed dry blood on the pearl necklace. It seemed that the bandit snatched it directly from his body after killing the owner of the necklace.

Guo Jia held up the torch, circled around the Qianshan Mountain, and returned to Han Zhan and said to him: "Empress, according to Jia's estimate, this Qianshan Mountain has at least 100,000 yuan. I wonder what you plan to deal with it?"

Hundreds of thousands of silk?! When Han Zhan heard Guo Jia say this number, he felt a little dizzy. He felt that he was simply dreaming. Not counting the gold, silver utensils and jewelry, there were 100,000 silk coins alone. In this way, he would have money to recruit soldiers and horses.

Seeing Han Zhan staring at Qian Shandai, Guo Jia thought he had not heard of his problem, so he quickly repeated the question: "Eunuch, what are you going to deal with this money?" After a moment of pause, he asked tentatively, "Do you should take out a part of it and reward those soldiers who have made contributions?"

Han Zhan naturally knew that there must be a brave man under heavy rewards. After hearing what Guo Jia said, he immediately stated: "Each officer and soldier who went to the expedition will receive ten coins each; each injured will receive five coins each; each civilian will receive five coins each. As for the brothers who fell, each person will receive fifty coins each." But he considered that the money in this era was called "Wuzhu coins" because each copper coin weighed five coins, which was about 5 grams, and a thousand copper coins were 5 kilograms. If the money was rewarded now, the soldiers would probably not be able to carry them on their backs for dozens of miles of mountain roads, so he added: "First transport these money back to the city, and then reward them in a unified manner."

He heard the envoy say that he would reward each person with ten pieces, and the sword and shield soldiers who followed him into the cave immediately cheered. Someone first shouted: "Make the Lord powerful!" Then, everyone shouted in unison: "Make the Lord powerful!"

The officers and soldiers outside the cave looked at each other when they heard the cheers from the cave, not knowing what happened inside. Until a sword and shield soldier who entered the cave came out and told everyone the good news, the entire village suddenly became a sea of ​​joy. Whether it was the officers and soldiers or the civilians who came to pull things, they were shouting at the top of their lungs: "Make the king powerful!"

After everyone cheered, Dian Wei directed his subordinates and civilians to move the copper coins from the cave to the wheelbarrow outside the cave. Han Zhan and Guo Jia came to the living room of the house to discuss how to use this batch of treasures.

Guo Jia said to Han Zhan excitedly: "Eunuch, with this batch of property, you can recruit at least tens of thousands of new recruits, so that you have enough strength to protect yourself."

"Brother Fengxiao." Han Zhan and Guo Jia finished speaking, immediately shook their heads and said, "It's not enough to have tens of thousands of new soldiers. We still need enough weapons and armor to arm them. Also, relying solely on the money and grain income of the county, it is very unrealistic to support tens of thousands of soldiers. Therefore, we still need to find a way to buy grain elsewhere."

"What the envoy said is very true." After seeing the wealth of the cave, Guo Jia unknowingly placed himself in Han Zhan's position as a military advisor: "After recruiting new recruits, they still need to provide them with weapons, armor and food. Although this cost is huge, the wealth in this cave is enough to solve this problem. I plan to take people to nearby counties to buy grain, weapons and armor after returning to buy them. We can only buy some pig iron and ask craftsmen to process it."

While the two were discussing, Dian Wei walked in from outside and asked Han Zhan for instructions: "Empress, soldiers and civilians are carrying copper coins. I wonder if we are resting in the village for one night or rushing all night?"

"Brothers have been away for a day and are already exhausted. Let everyone rest here for a night and go on a journey tomorrow morning!" Han Zhan looked outside and saw that it was getting late, so he ordered Dian Wei: "Marquis Dian Jun, although this mountain village is easy to defend but difficult to attack, he still needs to strengthen his defense. He cannot let the bad guys get in."

After Dian Wei left, Guo Jia and others said to Han Zhan thoughtfully: "The envoy, the terrain here is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Besides, there are a lot of money and property in the cave, so it is not possible to move it in one or two trips. It is better to leave a team of people here to guard it and take this mountain village for yourself. I wonder what the envoy wants?"
Chapter completed!