Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 210 Accident
After confirming the general situation of the blacksmith shop, Liang En and the others began to expand their search scope. After a week or so of searching, they found a series of building relics such as stables, dormitories, command posts, and outlying fortifications in the camp.

Judging from the scale of the ruins and the items left behind, there were about three to four hundred people who were active in this camp before, but not all of them were soldiers.

Considering that a unit of traditional hussars, that is, a squadron has between 150 and 200 people, plus such an army requires almost the same number of logistics personnel.

So Liang En felt that the camp they found this time should belong to a hussar squadron, and it should be a semi-permanent or permanent camp.

Krakow used to be in the 67th century, that is, when this camp existed, it was the capital of the powerful Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at that time. Even after the capital was moved to Warsaw, it was also a national important town, so there were elite troops like hussars stationed around it. It is a very reasonable thing.

而从一间宿舍残骸中挖出的1枚1660年得德意志地区发行的大银币以及多枚17世纪俄罗斯的五戈比铜币更是确认了这处营地应该一直运行到了17世纪末或者18世纪初，然后被废弃。

The reason for the abandonment is easy to deduce, because Poland as a whole began to decline since the 18th century. Even at the end of the 18th century, Austria, Prussia, and Russia divided Poland three times, completely eliminating the country.

It's just that because there have been human activities around this land, all architectural remains, including the blacksmith shop, have been repeatedly disturbed.

Fortunately, even so, they were still able to judge the purpose of most of the buildings from the remaining parts of the ruins and the items found around them.

Just when Liang En and his companions confirmed that the camp belonged to the hussar squadron's camp, four new cards appeared in his mind.

It's a pity that although this relic belongs to the famous hussars, it is not very famous in history, so the cards given are very common.

These cards include two [Detection (N)], one [Appraisal (N)] and one [Repair (N)]. It can be said that they are all common consumption cards.

"Okay, we can call the Poles." Liang En said to Pierce after getting the card and roughly confirming that there should be no valuable discoveries in this area.

So in the afternoon of that day, archaeologists from Poland came from the urban area and took over the exploration work of the ruins. At the same time, they judged the historical value of the ruins to determine the final amount of bonuses for Liang En and the others.

"These Poles are really greedy." Early the next morning, when Liang En was drawing the illustrations for "The Devil's Three Blonde Hairs" after breakfast, Pierce suddenly walked into the tent and said angrily.

"Didn't you discuss the bonus with those Poles? Didn't they deduct the bonus?" Liang En raised his head and asked after finishing a stroke on the drawing.

"It's worse than withholding the bonus, because these Poles don't plan to pay the bonus of 5 to 7 euros." Pierce pulled a stool and sat opposite Liang En, and then said. "This group of people is going to give us 10% of the spoils."

"Is it so wicked?" Liang En's eyes widened. The local law does stipulate that excavators can get a bonus, 10% of the items or 10% of the value of everything. This reward scheme looks similar, but in fact it is different. very big.

For example, in the current situation, the bonus is the most cost-effective for Liang and the others, while giving money based on the overall value is second, and the worst thing is to share 10% of the spoils.

Because this place is just a military camp, the only things that can be dug up are some scrap copper or some worthless ancient coins. The 10% loot is obviously the least valuable of these three options.

"These guys are too dishonest." Liang En shook his head helplessly. Although the other party is within the legal scope, this method is obviously bullying Liang En and the others as foreigners.

"It's because my previous investigations were not detailed enough." Pierce sighed and said, "My partner once told me that this group of people might be a little unreliable, but I didn't have time to ask in detail—"

"The situation is already like this, and it's meaningless to talk about such things." Liang En shook his hand lightly and said, "It's better to think about how to recover the loss now."

Obviously, Pierce should have moved Liang En out in the negotiation just now.It's a pity that Liang En's reputation is not enough to make them pay a higher price for those members of the archaeological department.

Because no matter what, this group of guys are doing things within the scope permitted by the law, so they are not afraid of what Liang En, a local scholar who comes from abroad and has no relatives, can do anything to them.

"That is to say, we may have to wait for a while before we can get a small sum of poor money." After pondering for a while, he found that the formal way might only be able to suffer this loss. Liang En looked at Pierce, only to find that Pierce His face became even uglier.

"Worse than that." Pierce sighed. "The other party allocated 10% of the ruins to us, and then the things excavated in these places belong to us."

"It's not that the other party made things difficult for us, but they told us that it is too difficult to ask for money afterwards, so we can only take this method so that we will not go home empty-handed."

"Okay, we may have to be busy for a while." Liang En, who felt that the other party was not specifically targeting him, nodded slightly after finding out that everything except the blacksmith's shop in the core area, the armory, and the commander's residence could be excavated.

Judging from the friendly approach of the other party who only drew a few restricted areas where excavation is prohibited, it is not the local archaeological department that has really gotten worse, but the financial expenditure department.

"So which area do we want?" Pierce asked after calling up the surrounding map taken by the drone on the tablet. "I think there might be something of value to be found over there in the dormitory area."

"No, we want this area." Liang En pointed to a big tree not far from the commander's residence and said, "This oak tree seems to have a history of 500 years, which means that when the hussars This oak tree is here when it's around."

"Under normal circumstances, such a small military camp would not have any trees in consideration of fire prevention and safety issues. So it is a bit strange that this is the only big tree in the entire camp."

"More importantly, Poland has a tradition of holding May Day with trees, especially huge oaks, so I guess this oak tree is likely to be a very important thing in the camp."

"What you said makes sense, so let's listen to you." After listening to Liang En's explanation, Pierce nodded and redefined the excavation scope, including the oak tree and its surroundings.

"Okay, that's it. I hope your sixth sense is as sensitive as usual this time." After finally confirming the drawn target, Pierce walked over to the group of archaeologists with the drawn map, ready to delineate the scope of excavation , and start working.

(End of this chapter)