After the explanation, Li Ke left. When Li Ke left, Zhang Xi looked at these people with a gloomy face and said: "You'd better be ready to escape."
Liu Zhao didn't say anything. Run? Just kidding, they are not fools. From the time they left the territory of Goguryeo, and then took a special detour through Shiwei and led the team through these roads, and finally arrived at the Tang Dynasty, they never revealed their identities from the beginning to the end.
After arriving in Chang'an, they were even more cautious and never exposed any information about themselves. But just like that, they didn't even have time to start their plan. They just found out the target's whereabouts and were caught directly.
Now, they are in someone else's hands. Do they want to run away? Did he run away?
Although Liu Zhao didn't know how the other party did it, it was obvious that if they wanted to run away, they wouldn't be able to.
What's more, they are now penniless, and they don't even have enough clothes, weapons, or armor to keep out the cold. How do you let them run?
"Let's go!" Zhang Xi waved his hand with a stern expression.
Zhang Xi led a group of people, and after changing their clothes for Liu Zhao and others, he took them to the iron mine. This is where the ore is mined, or to put it simply... it is used to transport the ore, because now the ore is The mining speed has been improved by an unknown amount compared to before.
The reason for this effect is naturally the development of gunpowder.
Although the gunpowder of the Tang Dynasty was only developed by Li Ke and then initially improved, the power of their explosions was far greater than that of other mining methods.
But the gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty is definitely far more than the black gunpowder in the same period in history.
However, people who work in the iron mines don't know that before each explosion, all the sites are cleared, and then a special blasting team blasts the mountain. To this end, Li Ke also specially trained a group of talents in directional blasting.
In fact, the difficulty of directional blasting is not too high. Of course, there must be a threshold, but anyway, the main mining method in Datang now is explosion! Let them experiment to see what method and where to create holes to blow up a larger area, or what kind of arrangement method can be used to make the explosives explode in the way they want.
If it doesn't work once, just a hundred times. Iron ore has to be mined anyway, so they can be allowed to do experiments and tests.
Purely use practice to accumulate theory.
Of course, there are also iron ores mined using traditional mining methods.
Liu Zhao and the others were thrown into an iron mine using traditional mining methods. Before arriving here, Zhang Xi followed Li Ke's request and removed the ropes from their bodies, then warned them before handing them over directly to the guards of the iron mine. , register and arrange for them and let them work.
Liu Zhao and the others did not resist, but silently followed the other party's arrangements and joined in.
Li Ke said he wanted to keep it secret. Zhang Xi didn't say much to the guards here. He just told them to keep an eye on this group of people and arrange a shift for them. Just make normal arrangements. Other than that, he didn't say anything else.
Although the guards understood it, they naturally could not have imagined that this group of people would dare to assassinate His Highness. I just thought they were people who made mistakes, so after typing them up, I just sent people to keep an eye on them, but I didn't criticize them harshly.
The workers here are divided into different shifts. Liu Zhao and the others were just doing hard work at first, but when they arrived, they found that the other party not only gave them thick winter clothes to keep out the cold, but also gave them gloves. .
The same was true for all the people around him. From the age of these people and other aspects, Liu Zhao knew that these people were really people here, and not a scene specially arranged for him to see.
Thinking about it, the other party has no need to show it to them. Are they nothing?
"Boss, what should we do? Just do what he says honestly? I don't think this King of Qin is a good person." One of Liu Zhao's men couldn't help but ask after they got together.
He made a lot of noise, and although there were people working around them, his men didn't care at all.
Because in his opinion, those who work in these mines are either unable to survive or are criminals. These people live a very numb life and don't care what others say. It doesn't matter if you even curse the emperor. As long as the guards don't hear it.
Even sometimes some guards pretended not to hear it when they heard it, at least that was the case in their mines in Goguryeo.
But as soon as he said these words, there was a "bang" sound, and three people working not far away immediately threw a large piece of iron ore lifted in their hands to the ground, turned back and stared at him and asked: "You What the hell did you say?!”
Before the man could react, the younger man among the three people rushed over with a pickaxe: "Did you just say that His Highness King Qin is not a good person?!"
This man has a loud voice.
"Who dares to speak of His Highness the King of Qin?"
His voice was like poking a hornet's nest, and all the people working around him immediately dropped their work, and similar words continued to be spread around.
The entire iron ore mine was instantly like a boiling pot, and countless people rushed towards this place carrying the tools in their hands.
"Who dares to speak ill of His Highness?" The people around him surrounded the place almost instantly.
Liu Zhao and more than 20 people were immediately surrounded, and they were all frightened.
This...what's going on?
"Say! Did you just fucking say that His Highness the King of Qin is not a good person?!" The man who just heard him speak raised his pickaxe and shouted loudly.
When this man pointed it out, Liu Zhao and the others were all a little numb. It can be said that they are all murderers without blinking an eye, and there were just some common people around carrying work tools, but at this moment, all of them were numb. Damn, because the expressions on the faces of these people, the look in their eyes that seemed to choose others to eat, seemed to mean one thing.
If they dare to admit it, they will be beaten to death by these people on the spot!
Even if they kill again, it will be useless, because Liu Zhao at the foot of the mountain has already seen that many people working on the mountainside in the distance are approaching in this direction with tools.
This...just because they scolded...oh no, just because they said something wrong about King Qin? !
"What's going on? What's going on?!" The guards guarding the iron mine finally rushed over. The entire iron mine was very large, and there weren't actually many guards here.
These guards often serve as organizers, and they have other jobs to do besides guarding.
By the time they realized something was going on here, a large crowd had already gathered.
