The hall was full of chests, and the boxes were opened, revealing the gold, silver and jewelry contained in them in front of Meng Tian's eyes as he entered the hall.

"All this?" Meng Tian asked as he looked at Zhao Yu, who came in with him.

Zhao Yu put his hands behind his back and said to Meng Tian: "Oh, this house is specially used to store the jewels and jade treasures that were looted from the Six Kingdoms before, and there are also some things that were confiscated from the homes of our criminal officials in Qin, well, by the way, there are also treasures exchanged in the palace, all of which are here." ”

Meng Tian sighed, no wonder there were so many treasures piled up in this room, it turned out that the treasures in the palace of the six kings were all gathered here. "Then these things are left here, aren't you afraid that these things will be missing?"

Zhao Yu smiled, he walked over to an open box, and took out a string of pearl necklaces from the box. This string of pearls is a treasure in the eyes of Meng Tian, who doesn't understand, because each of those strings of pearls is the size of a pigeon's egg, and it is more appropriate to say that it is not so much a necklace as a string of beads.

Zhao Yu picked up the string of pearls, he raised the string of beads and said to Meng Tian: "General, please look, this string of pearls was found from the palace of the King of Chu, there are a total of seventy-seven and forty-nine pearls on it, and if you take out one of the pearls on it, you can sell it for at least a hundred taels of gold outside." ”

After speaking, Zhao Yu put the pearl back in its place, and then took out a green cup from the box next to him. "This treasure is from the palace of King Wei, this is a treasure of King Wei, this is a jade wine cup, use this cup to drink, cool in summer to relieve heat, warm wine in winter to relieve fatigue. This cup was discarded by His Majesty the Emperor, but it was also placed here. ”

Zhao Yu took out a few more treasures and introduced Meng Tian one by one, which opened Meng Tian's eyes, who had never been interested in these things outside his body.

"Lord Zhao introduced me to so many treasures in one go, but Lord Zhao still didn't answer my question. Meng Tian looked at Zhao Yu and said.

Zhao Yu carefully put the beautifully carved doll in his hand back into the box, this is a statue made of sandalwood in the palace of King Yan, it is said to be very psychic, and has been enshrined in King Yan's palace for decades, but it is just a thing that no one cares about here.

"Whether these things are placed in the palace or here, they are dead things. His Majesty the Emperor does not lack these things, and he doesn't care about them, so there is no specific number of these things. But I can vouch for it, no one here will dare to take these things out. Zhao Yu said to Meng Tian.

After Zhao Yu finished speaking, he pointed to the four walls of the main hall and said, "General Meng, please see, there are no windows on the walls of this hall, and if you want to enter and exit this door, you must enter through this gate behind us." And the key to the gate is only available to me, so the general doesn't think I'm stealing it, right?"

Meng Tian was stunned by Zhao Yu's question, and then he said, "No, no, no, Lord Zhao misunderstood." I only ask that because of my own inner thoughts. To be honest, I don't think it's much necessary to investigate the national treasury, after all, the lord also said in the court that it takes money to build the Great Wall, and money is also needed to build the Afang Palace and the royal tomb, and these three

There is not a small amount of money and food needed in every locality, and there is no way to empty the national treasury. ”

Zhao Yu was a little shocked when he heard this, he originally thought that Meng Tian came over today to carefully investigate the treasury, but he didn't expect him to say this, but it made Zhao Yu a little miscalculated, and a lot of the words he had prepared were not said.

"What the general said is extremely true, Your Majesty needs to do a lot of state affairs every day, and the money and grain from the treasury is only a figure that we report to Your Majesty, so Your Majesty may not know the situation of the treasury. However, as a courtier and a minister in charge of managing the treasury, Xia Guan could not open his mouth to ask His Majesty for silver, so Xia Guan could only try his best to delay, but fortunately, there was no major delay for the time being. ”

"That's good. Meng Tian turned around and walked out of the main hall, Zhao Yu followed and walked out, and then locked the only gate of the main hall.

There was still the last hall left to see, and Meng Tian asked Zhao Yu, who came up after locking the door, "What is this last hall for?"

Zhao Yu replied: "Is this last hall, speaking of which, the value of this hall is more important than the two halls we have seen, but what is placed in it is not any gold and silver jewelry, but all of my Great Qin." ”

"All of Great Qin?"

"Yes, what is placed in this hall is the roster of tens of millions of people in my Great Qin, as well as the roster of officials from all over my Great Qin, and the roster of millions of soldiers in my Great Qin, all of these things are stored here. ”

"These things are the secrets of my Great Qin, and if you get these things, then you will get almost all of the secrets of my Great Qin, so I say that these things are more important than those gold, silver and jewelry. Zhao Yu looked at the last hall and said.

Since the emperor Yingzheng unified the six countries, at the suggestion of Prime Minister Li Si, the original territory of the six countries was divided into counties. And because the Great Zhou royal family divided the kingdoms, which led to the later princes being strong, separating one side, the decline of Zhou Tianzi, and finally the collapse of the Great Zhou Dynasty, so the Great Qin divided all parts of the world into counties, and set up county guards as county officials. In this way, the power in the hands of the emperor was strengthened, and the government was carried out by the court, and then the counties were responsible for implementing it.

So much so that later, the Qin State began to implement the 'book with the same text, the car with the same track', which made the entire Qin State more complete and unified, allowing the people in the original six countries to write in a unified script and buy things of the same value with the same gold and silver, which was also convenient for everyone in the world.

"In this way, the things in this hall are really important, although these things are not valuable, but their value is not measured by money. Meng Tian said after listening to Zhao Yu's words.

Zhao Yu felt the same way, he walked to the main hall, and then said to Meng Tian: "If the general wants to come in and have a look, I promise that it will definitely surprise the adults." ”

Zhao Yu didn't pay attention to these things originally, these things are useless things in the hands of ordinary people, so this hall is also the one with the least guards, and there are only two hundred people around the main hall. Compared to the guards on the outside of the hall where the treasures were piled up, this treatment is really very different.

"Well, it's good to go and have a look. "It's all here, then let's go in and have a look, Meng Tian followed Zhao Yu and walked towards the main hall.

Having entered the main hall, what Meng Tian could see were rows of bamboo slips stacked high, as well as huge bookshelves, on which bamboo slips were also piled up. The main hall looks like a square building from the outside, but the bookshelves inside are arranged in a circle, and in the middle is a high column, from which it looks like spider toast, and a long rope with the thickness of a thumb is separated from it, and then connected to the surrounding bookshelves.

Meng Tian continued to walk forward, but was stopped by Zhao Yu after taking two steps. "General, watch your step. ”

Meng Tian heard the words and looked at his feet, it turned out that a big pit had also been dug on the ground in front of him, if it wasn't for Zhao Yu's reminder just now, Meng Tian would have fallen down if he took two steps forward.

Meng Tian nodded to Zhao Yu in gratitude, and he stepped forward and walked to the edge of the big pit. Standing on the edge and looking down, the sight of the pit is similar to that above the ground, and the cylinder in the middle is connected to the cylinder of the pit until the deepest part of the pit.

It's just that the part of the column located underground does not have a long rope like a spider's web on it, but a circular walkway layer by layer. When people walk on it, they can directly take off the bamboo slips on the bookshelf next to them.

Zhao Yu walked to Meng Tian's side and looked down. "How's it going, isn't it shocking to see this scene?"

Meng Tian nodded, the things in this hall really shocked him, he didn't expect that it looked like an ordinary hall from the outside, and there was such a scene inside.

Meng Tian remembered Lao Zhou, he remembered that there was a time when Lao Zhou suddenly disappeared, and it took three months for him to reappear, could it be that he made up the things here? Except for this explanation, Meng Tian couldn't think of it, if there was no help from the machine, who could create such a thing.

"This thing was built with the help of the Gongyi family's tricks, which cost tens of thousands of people and millions of silver taels, and it is said that this pillar in the middle is as high as twenty zhang, ten zhang above the ground, and ten zhang underground. Zhao Yu introduced to Meng Tian.

Meng Tian nodded, these things he saw in the treasury today were really a little unexpected to him, it seems that in the years of leading troops outside, Xianyang City has indeed changed a lot, so that a person like him who grew up in Xianyang City does not know that there is such a place in Xianyang City.

Refusing Zhao Yu's invitation to dinner, Meng Tian only came out of the treasury compound when it was dark, and then returned home.

I took a look at the treasury today, and Meng Tian also had a general understanding of the situation in the treasury, although he didn't get anything useful, but it was better than nothing. Zhao Yu's words were also very comprehensive, and he couldn't literally see anything wrong, but Meng Tian still felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of it for the time being, so he could only wait until later to investigate slowly.

There are still more than ten days left before His Majesty the Emperor's birthday, and now everyone is busy with this matter, Meng Tian decided to put down the matter of the treasury first, and wait for this matter to pass and investigate it carefully.

As soon as he returned home, Meng Tian had not yet sat down when he entered the hall, and someone from outside the door came in and placed a secret letter on the table in front of Meng Tian. "General, this is a secret letter from the border city in the afternoon. ”

Meng Tian took the secret letter, opened it and looked at it, with a smile on his face.