Chapter 13 The Iron Wren of Zhou who came early
In the middle of the night, a fast horse came out of the col and galloped northward, Liu Yuanhe above was still slow and kept whipping with a horsewhip, and the horse screamed in pain and galloped harder and harder.
Soon, when he came to a camp, the horse could no longer hold on, foaming at the mouth and falling to the ground, Liu Yuanhe jumped up, flew out of the horse's back on tiptoe and landed firmly on the ground, and then performed light skills all the way to the camp.
The soldiers patrolling the camp knew him and hurriedly opened the camp gate.
Liu Yuanhe didn't stop and went straight in, found the head of the race, and reported: "The chief manager, the big thing is not good, Zhou Tiehu and his subordinates are already ten miles away. ”
The head of the race frowned and said: "It seems that Fukangan attaches great importance to this matter, didn't you make some preparations before you came to report?" ”
"Let your subordinates pretend to be masked and harass, I believe they should be able to delay them for a while."
"Well, that's very good, you go and report to your master, and ask him to decide."
"Yes."
Liu Yuanhe left the camp and went to Yubi Peak overnight......
Soon, dozens of fast horses galloped towards the camp, and the horses were fine, their hooves sounding like rolling thunder, and these horses had obviously been specially trained to act in unison and burst out with such might. The people on the horse were all extraordinary, their eyes were shining, their temples were bulging high, and they were obviously martial arts masters. The old man at the head was short and sturdy, no more than five feet long, full of white hair, and when he approached the camp, he pulled his horse and raised his hand, and stopped in unison.
The soldiers patrolling the camp went inside to report early, and the chief of the race and the general of tea came out to see the situation, and found that it was Zhou Tiehu, a red man beside the king of Fukangan, and hurriedly asked the guards to open the door.
Zhou Tiewren and the others dismounted, and Zhou Tiewren led his subordinates to walk a few steps to the head of the race and saluted: "Zhou Tiewren led his subordinates to see the chief manager. ”
The race manager laughed and helped Zhou Tiehu: "Lord Zhou, please get up, didn't you say that you will be here in three days?" I haven't found the little grandfather yet, I'm really ashamed...... By the way, this is the tea general. ”
The little grandfather naturally refers to the twins, and the king of Fukangan is not hereditary, the generations are decreasing, and the next generation is the duke. The head of the race didn't take Zhou Tiehu in his eyes, and it was just a polite remark to say that he was ashamed.
Zhou Tieyu and General Cha met and said: "The prince attaches great importance to this matter, and his subordinates can only do their best to arrive as early as possible, I didn't think that this time I came to the camp and encountered a sneak attack. I don't know ...... Steward."
Ahem, the head of the race didn't expect Liu Yuanhe's stop to make Zhou Tieyu suspicious, the treasure on the mountain has not been moved yet, and he must not be allowed to search the mountain, this matter has to wait for the master's instructions, so he can only use the procrastination trick: "This matter is easy to say, Lord Zhou is not in a hurry to come overnight, and he will speak inside." ”
Zhou Tiehu couldn't refuse, the head of the race was a celebrity around His Majesty, but he was much more powerful than him, the celebrity around the prince, so the three of them went to the house to talk.
During the chat, Liu Yuanhe came in and muttered a few words in the ear of the head of the game, the head of the race smiled slightly, the master was clever, and he had calculated that Zhou Tiehu would search the mountain, and said: "Lord Zhou, I just got some news, let's search the mountain together without further ado." ”
"Manager Sai, Zhou Tiehun leads his subordinates to be the forward."
Zhou Tiehu knows the way of officialdom well and will not take the liberty to ask for any news.
Naturally, the director of the race has no reason not to agree. So Zhou Tiehu led his men straight to the snow mountain, and the chief of the race gathered all the soldiers with General Cha and set off to go up the mountain to find out.
After searching all night, it was naturally impossible to find any traces of the enemy, until early in the morning soldiers reported the discovery of a cave with many footprints.
The chief of the race ordered a search, and after a while, another soldier came to report: "Lord Steward, a huge amount of silver has been found in the cave. ”
The head of the race was full of surprise: "Oh, General Zhou, let's go over and have a look."
Zhou Tiehu's heart moved, and he agreed but did not move.
General Cha's face was full of joy, he thought that this search was a chore, but he didn't expect that there would be a windfall to be collected.
The three of them were led by the soldiers to the cave, and saw a huge amount of silver piled up into a hill, these silver were huge square plates with holes in the middle, and the soldiers reported that each piece was worth a thousand taels, a total of 5,120 silver plates, a total of 5,120,000 taels of silver.
General Tea listened to the greed overflowing, if it weren't for the head of the race, he would have pounced on it a long time ago.
A trace of greed flashed in Zhou Tiehu's eyes, and he peeked at the head of the race, and found that the head of the race was expressionless, and his heart was shocked. If the head of the race knows it, it means that His Majesty will know that if he wants to share a piece of the pie with the emperor, wouldn't it be an old birthday star hanging. Thinking of this, he immediately came to his senses, looked at the pile of silver plates with a pity on his face, and the more he looked at the silver plates, the more familiar he felt, and said unconsciously: "I once read Yang Shicong's "Jiashen Nuclear True Strategy", which contains that Li Zicheng entered Beijing and got 37 million taels of silver in the palace, and looted and plundered the ministers in the capital to get more than 30 million taels, a total of 70 million taels of silver, all of which were melted into a huge square plate-shaped silver plate with a hole in the middle, and transported out of the capital to Xijing, and then his whereabouts were unknown, but he didn't expect to hide here. ”
The head of the race glanced at Zhou Tiehu in surprise, but he didn't expect that a martial artist also knew how to read, but what Yang Shicong said was wrong, not that he didn't know the true situation, he was written under the instruction of the Qing court, in fact, there were only 170,000 gold and 130,000 silver in the treasury of the Ming Dynasty at that time, and the rest of the huge amount of silver was completely scavenged from the princes and ministers. Li Zicheng was defeated by the Qing court and returned to Beijing, making the illusion of transporting 70 million silver back to Xijing, but in fact there were 30 million silver, some gold, and countless jewels buried outside the customs, which is in response to the sentence "The most dangerous place is the safest." ”
These treasures were never found by the Qing court, and only 40 million silver was obtained, laying the foundation for winning the Central Plains in one fell swoop.
Naturally, it was impossible to tell Zhou Tiewren about such confidential matters, and Zhou Tiewren suddenly revealed the origin of the silver, which caused him a lot of trouble, thought about it, and called the messenger over: "Xiushu reported to His Majesty, found a treasure of the king, and obtained 5.12 million taels of silver. ”
The messenger wrote down the flying pigeon to pass the book, and the race manager said gloomily: "Lord Zhou, General Cha, you won't have trouble with Your Majesty." ”
Zhou Tiehu's face was pale, and he knelt down: "Manager Sai, I don't dare to have ten thousand dares in my humble position!" Rest assured, I don't know anything and haven't been here. ”
Manager Sai nodded with satisfaction and looked at General Cha, who knelt on the ground and said that he would not say anything, but looking at his blank face, he didn't seem to know what it meant.
If you understand, you will understand, and if you don't understand, you don't have that qualification.
The chief of the race instructed his men to fetch cloth and wrap the silver plates, and then let the soldiers carry them down the mountain.