After I captured the wrong male lead, I broke off the engagement and married the villain

"Why, are you hungry?"

Chen Lou ignored her teasing and said, "Look here."

She leaned over to take a look at the mark on the grain bag and frowned: "This is the grain from Fuyang."

The two looked at each other and both realized something.

"That is to say, Fuyang and Hongzhou are indeed closely related. After Fei Liancheng's death, the grain in Fuyang should not flow out."

After all, there is no food to eat in Fuyang.

"Huang He will naturally deal with it. He won't let this kind of thing continue."

Nangong Yuan said: "Then they had colluded before, and for a longer time than we thought."

Fuyang provides them with food, so...where do the equipment come from?

"Have you seen the garrison's armament?"

Chen Lou nodded: "It's higher than the military standards."

"Yes, I was wondering who has the ability to bring things controlled by the court to this place."

Most of the military equipment she knew about were allocated after consultation between the Ministry of War and the imperial court.

These things exceed the regulations, how can they be allocated?

"Then we have to continue investigating. At least, we have to get the evidence."

Nangong Yuan nodded to show her agreement.

The two of them walked around as if nothing had happened and found that there were no clues here.

"Let's go out and take a look. There's no way to sneak into the military camp, otherwise there's no need to hang around here."

Naturally, there are people working underground, with a clear division of labor.

Before they had gone far, someone called them.

"What are you doing? We are short of two more people to oil the weapons. Go quickly."

Nangong Yuan gave a flattering smile: "Yes, yes, I'll go right away."

They had seen it before, so the two of them went over to help.

Chenlou examined the weapons carefully without changing his expression.

"How is it? Is it the same as in the army?"

He tilted his head slightly and said, "It's a little different."

"Oh?"

"Don't talk, just work!"

A few supervisors came over from behind and shouted loudly.

It looks quite majestic.

Nangong Yuan's men were busy, and after the people left, he said, "So, it's not a unified standard in the army, that's strange."

Who can make weapons by themselves?

You know, this thing requires not only blueprints, but also iron ore.

The blueprints are confidential to the Ministry of War and are generally not disclosed to outsiders, while the iron mines have always been under the control of the imperial court.

Who is this? How brave!

"Leave first."

Chen Lou didn't explain too much, and the two of them sneaked out all the way.

On the South Mountain are the garrison troops in training, most of them are practicing how to fight.

"It's common for garrison troops to train, but why are they in the mountains?"

The two of them looked at it for a while, and Chen Lou said, "Who knows, maybe there is a mystery in the mountain?"

Nangong Yuan had no choice but to follow quickly.

Fortunately, she was physically strong, otherwise climbing the mountain would have cost her life.

Because of the dense forest, the two men looked very small and no one noticed them.

Nangong Yuan looked at the direction they were training and said, "The formation is pointing southwest, let's go and take a look."

"Walk."

This dense forest is very difficult to walk in, with weeds growing everywhere and often getting tangled around people's ankles.

Nangong Yuan had to draw out his sword and cut off the weeds before he could get through.

Soon, a wide road appeared in the dense forest.

No one comes to this place, so how can there be a road?

Chen Lou stepped forward immediately, and the two of them followed that road for half an hour and stopped at a valley that looked a little small.

"Be careful, there's someone ahead."

The guards not far away were particularly strict, and from time to time people came out pulling carts.

All that was dug up there was iron.

Nangong Yuan opened his eyes wide and asked, "Is there an iron mine here?"

"It seems so. The equipment is not of military standard, which means it is homemade. If there is no iron ore, how can such a large amount of money be obtained?"

He was not surprised at this moment, but instead had a kind of understanding smile.

Nangong Yuan shook her head: "You are really not afraid of death."

Privately hoarding silver mines and not reporting them is tantamount to treason.

But thinking about what had happened recently, Nangong Yuan felt that they were just going to rebel.

Stockpiling private soldiers, manufacturing military equipment, recruiting soldiers, is this a good idea?

"They are too cautious, I'm afraid it will be hard to get close to them."

Nangong Yuan yawned and said, "Then let's not go over there yet, just take a look."

Then she remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I saw them transporting a lot of equipment in the military camp before. If they made it themselves, they wouldn't have enough manpower. Where did these miners come from?"

Chen Lou turned his head to look at her, with that familiar danger in his eyes again.

"The bandits killed anyone they saw and took away many women and children."

She suddenly remembered what the elder sister in Beijing had said before.

Those who were captured must be powerless civilians. Those who were unaware of the situation ran away, but none of those who were aware of the situation would be let off.

"There must be a cemetery nearby. Look for it."

Chen Lou looked very unhappy, and the two men searched near the mine for a long time.

When he saw the place that could be called a mass grave, Chen Lou became unusually angry.

"Beast!"

Most of these people are women. After the work is done, they don’t need to be paid and just kill them.

There were some men as well, but they were all skinny and looked like they had been abused a lot.

"I heard before that Fei Liancheng oppressed the people and arrested whoever he wanted. It seems that all the people were transported here."

She looked grim and asked, "Does Huang He know about this?"

Chen Lou shook his head: "I don't know."

He had only heard that there were silver mines in Hongzhou and that some people were hoarding private soldiers, but he didn't expect the situation to be so bad.

"Oh, it seems we can't just sit there and wait for death."

These days, Yu Chengye sent people to transport the equipment away, and the extra private soldiers were hidden in the mountains and underground.

If the imperial court sent people to investigate, they would also be delayed.

By then... the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Hurry up and throw them all in."

Hearing voices behind them, the two people quickly hid.

Soon, several people pulled a cart and dumped the bodies on it into the cart.

"Bah, you are so useless. I still need to talk to the master and catch some men next time."

After being abused by them, these women had to go back to work in the mines, and within a few months they became too sick to get up.

They dumped the body and left quickly, apparently not wanting to get any closer.

Nangong Yuan went out and searched through the bodies and found that some of them were still breathing.

"Hey, ma'am, ma'am!"

The man opened his eyes and his lips were cracked.

"Help."

Nangong Yuan looked at her. There was not a single piece of good flesh on this person's body and she was almost dead.

"I'm sorry, I...can't save you."

The person blinked and tears rolled down, leaving two white marks on her face.

"But we will avenge you, so go ahead and rest assured."

Nangong Yuan covered her eyes and stood up, her eyes that were always smiling now looked cold.

"The evidence is solid. Wait for me to go in and get some iron ore, and then we'll leave."

Chen Lou followed: "I'll go with you."