Chapter 474 Gambling
On the southern border of Chu State, in the military camp of the eldest prince, Gu Yue was officially told the reason why the main store of the "tall bar" had not been completed for a long time.
"Forehead……"
After hearing this, only the word "speechless" was left. Gu Yue really lamented that it was so convenient to mess up in ancient times!
The first time was progressing very smoothly, the early materials arrived as scheduled, and the workers were very motivated, and soon there was hope for a prototype.
At that time, the entire building was uprooted overnight, not only were the materials completely lost, but the tents of the workers living in were also set on fire and they were specially chosen to go to bed...
That loss made the eldest prince understand that this seemingly simple job actually has too many hidden dangers, especially because there are indeed some people who are thinking about the work here, and this kind of damage cannot happen by chance.
The most outrageous thing is that the eldest prince has no idea how the other party takes action. He just found that a few people were missing when counting the workers' bodies, so he guessed whether an enemy had sneaked into the workers' team. However, such an enemy was too patient and could not be defended.
But the eldest prince is not a person who gives up easily. The second time he personally identified the workers' team and interrogated them one by one. Not only did he understand various details, including interpersonal relationships and life trajectory, but more importantly, he investigated whether the other party has martial arts strength, which seems to prevent the possibility of someone being in the middle again?
But the second time still failed. This time was different from the first time. There was no sudden fire or explosion. The first thing that happened was the workers, but there seemed to be problems in the food. The eldest prince asked them for medical treatment in time, and there were no casualties. However, the problem occurred after the medical treatment. Several clearly investigated workers suddenly went crazy and ignited themselves and rushed into the building and blew them several times, and ignited the newly arrived high-quality wood.
This emergency incident was unexpected to the eldest prince, but he immediately launched an investigation. It turned out that the workers were suffering from bad stomachs, and they needed to go to the doctor together. When they were seeing the doctor, the enemy revealed a message to the workers who were self-immolation, "Your wife and children are in my hands..."
Of course, they also have corresponding tokens, and the workers have to believe it, and they dare not believe it, so they can only give up their lives in order to save their wives and children.
This move is too vicious, and this move is even more unpredictable.
The eldest prince was a little frustrated and couldn't vent his anger. Such intrigues were too much, especially for these unarmed people.
But he also knew that these people were all the people of Chu, and perhaps the enemy was not Chu at all. In their eyes, can the lives of the people of Chu be called for life?
After a series of failures, the eldest prince became more cautious in his choice and returned the ins and outs to Chu Du. In fact, he hoped to get Gu Yue's help, because this man was used to taking odd steps and dealing with vicious enemies, but Gu Yue happened to go to Chen State. In order not to be too sad, the Emperor Chu specially ordered Huangfu Bozhong to cooperate in person. This time, the workers not only investigated their life and social relations, but also directly arranged from Chu Du. In this way, the other party would not have the chance to start from their families, and this also directly informed the workers to avoid being deceived.
At the same time, all the materials were transported from Chudu and escorted by the imperial guards, aiming to eliminate this mistake.
In order to cooperate more comprehensively, Huangfu Bozhong personally assigned a secret guard to take action. The intelligence leader's subordinates would not be a fuel-efficient lamp, so there should be no more mistakes in the intelligence offensive and defense around the camp.
Unfortunately, there are still gaps in such a tight layout, and this time the opponent also gave all his money.
The third time the construction started, the first thing was that people were panicked, because the workers knew what was going on at this construction site and had to be afraid of their possible fate.
But this fear was directly suppressed by their incomparable loyalty to Emperor Chu, so it did not really affect the progress of the project.
But this kind of suppression is not eliminated. Any movement may cause panic to make people feel wary.
More importantly, many people die here, which is prone to breeding "unfair souls".
How workers view these ghosts and gods? The eldest prince cannot control it. The special orders and bans will be equivalent to a kind of "emphasis", which makes people feel more and more chilling when they think about it.
But doing nothing seems to be a solution.
At first, after a rainy night, the construction site was muddy, but two consecutive failures made the construction period unable to stop, so the workers did not have much opinion and forced them to continue. It was just a problem. Although the problem was not big, it only caused a series of impacts and falls, but they were suspicious of dark ghosts. The first one was afraid of them, the second one, the third one...
This time, the eldest prince came forward to stop it. Because the reason was obvious, it was not difficult to argue, and the workers' uneasiness was suppressed.
By chance, after two days, another heavy rain was raining overnight, and the sentry tower at the construction site was struck by lightning, and fire broke out for a moment!
This time, the whispers suddenly became more frequent and were no longer limited to the workers.
The eldest prince was a little helpless. He could not compete with such natural disasters himself. He could only increase his prevention efforts to prevent someone from taking advantage of the situation.
I never thought that this flaw was indeed captured by the enemy.
Life in the military camp is monotonous and depressing, so three meals a day are as rich as possible to adjust this difficult daily life. At the same time, the eldest prince also made such arrangements, hoping to make the workers relax.
But the haunting of thunder and earth fire caused bad rumors among farmers who delivered vegetables. The haunted incident spread to ten thousand times, and soon everyone on the southern border knew about it.
At this moment, the farmers were all staying away from the eldest prince's military camp. The enemy directly used threats and lured them to circle away all the vegetables they could buy. Although the soldiers could use food and grass to maintain them, ordinary people were not used to this kind of life.
The eldest prince had a headache. In order to give the workers some food, he even led a team to hunt in the mountains and forests, hoping to get wild game. Unfortunately, he didn't see a rabbit within ten miles...
If this matter was not really strange, it was just that the opponent was too meticulous.
Obviously, it was the latter. The eldest prince was really convinced and wanted to see who was fighting with him in person.
But this kind of idea can only be a luxury.
Immediate problems come one after another.
The enemy calculated that there were rice but no vegetables in the military camp, and even if they were forced to hold on, they would have symptoms of water shortage, so they attacked the water source again.
However, water sources are the top priority. Huangfu Bozhong's men went down to control the line early, leaving no opportunity for the other party to take advantage of it.
But after the enemy tempted, he used the dead soldier directly. Seeing that he could not defeat the master who exploded directly, he carried a mess of medicine powder on his body and left it in the river...
This move is not unpopular. Fortunately, the river water is from north to south, otherwise the other party will directly poison it in Shunguo.
But the water source in this area was also unpalatable, so the eldest prince had to send someone to go further away to fetch water every day, and the days became more and more difficult.
However, as a soldier of Chu, no one would complain, nor would he neglect his duties. The more difficult it is, the more tenacious he will show.
Unfortunately, the workers can't do this.
I was mentally anxious, difficult to swallow food, and even had to worry about drinking water. Soon someone became depressed and became more and more serious.
Just after a major accident occurred on the construction site, the eldest prince chose to stop work with difficulty and reported all the details to Huangfu Bozhong.
The latter responded after obtaining the consent of Emperor Chu, asking the eldest prince to wait until Gu Yue arrived. Perhaps he knew better about such an enemy.
The eldest prince was very frustrated and helpless. He hoped that it would be a bloody storm, which would be better than not exerting effort.
But this time, the opponent expected to do a step by step before him, and he was cruel and ruthless, and he did everything he could. He himself felt that losing was not unfair.
"That's it?!"
Gu Yue's surprise made the adjutant want to hit someone very much. It was obvious that this guy was disrespectful to the eldest prince!
However, the eldest prince knew that Gu Yue liked to take revenge with some big deals, so he did not agree with it, and at the same time signaled the adjutant to calm down.
"Brother Gu seems to be confident?"
"Actually, it's not that the opponent is too treacherous, it's that you are too... ignorant..."
Originally, Gu Yue wanted to say "stupid", "stupid", or even "idiot", but he prefers to use this kind of desire to speak but stop making people guess, at least it makes people more impressive than saying it directly.
And this attitude made the adjutant unable to bear it anymore, "Master Gu! Are you a little too confident?!"
"Why do you want to make a bet?"
"bet!"
The eldest prince couldn't help but hold his forehead. He knew that Gu Yue was the most annoying, especially when he stood opposite him, and the adjutant could not suppress his emotions at this time, but he was more clear that the last person who suffered losses was probably the adjutant.
"If I have a way, what do you think?"
"Leave it to the disposal!"
"You are the confidant of Your Highness. Can I still kill you three times and six holes? Let's have something practical!"
Even though he knew that Gu Yue was verbally storing, the adjutant just couldn't bear it. He didn't care, but he couldn't involve the eldest prince anyway!
"What do you want?"
"Don't be too complicated, just put some lottery tickets on it. The wheelchair I used to be in was 10,000 taels, or let's bet a 100,000 taels this time."
The random increase immediately made the eldest prince and the adjutant stunned.
Although they knew that Gu Yue did not bring money and never spent money on his own, he didn't have to care about how much money he wanted, right?
But what about yourself?
Not to mention the adjutant, the eldest prince is not the kind of corruption, he takes out a hundred thousand taels of bribery!
Of course, they never thought Gu Yue would propose to gamble because this guy is not short of money, but when they think about it carefully, this guy did it on purpose, because he is poor, he is really poor compared to him!
“I don’t have that many…”
Although it was for one breath, the adjutant was not a fool. His purpose was to fight for face rather than drag down the prince, so he would never agree to such rude conditions, even if he didn't lose, it would be impossible.
"Then, I will give you a hundred thousand if I lose, and you will give me a hundred thousand if I lose, how about it?"
"You! You... just give me 10,000 if you lose..." The adjutant had no choice but to follow his heart.
The eldest prince had no choice. No matter whether Gu Yue could accomplish this, at least he would not be able to earn back his face.
Chapter completed!