After classmate Liu raised his head, he found that Old Man He was staring at him with a smile, and that kind of weirdness made Liu Yuhao furry and regretted it.

It seems that it's better to be a low-key person! Especially if you think about it, don't say it lightly.

Now, Old Man He will definitely think about what he just said in his heart.

At first, Liu Yuhao guessed that the silver in the suspected tomb was actually Li Zicheng's internal money from Chongzhen, but later after some reminders and explanations from the old man Qi, he finally figured out one thing, last night, the 110 million taels of silver he saw with his own eyes were definitely Li Zicheng's lifelong accumulation.

You must know that after Li Zicheng captured Beijing, he found a lot of silver from the palace of Emperor Chongzhen.

Zhao Shijin, who managed the Jieshen Treasury with the official title of Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Labor, said in his book "Jiashen Chronicle": "The gold and silver ingots carried by thieves to Shaanxi have the number of the past years, and it is heard that since the eighth year of Wanli, the silver in the inner treasury has not been moved. There are more than 30,000,000 taels of silver and 1,500,000 taels of gold. ”

But obviously there is so much money, but after Li Zicheng fled the capital in defeat, the Qing army did not get a cent from the Dashun army, it turned out that the money was not transported to Shaanxi at all, but was secretly cast into 10,000 taels and buried deep in the ground by Li Zicheng's kid.

Someone who can come up with such an idea can really be called a lack of Degas smoking.

The reason why Liu Yuhao initially firmly guessed that the huge amount of silver in the suspicious tomb came from Chongzhen's internal treasury was actually because he had read such a historical fact when he was in school.

According to records, Emperor Zhu Youzhen of Ming Sizong was ordered to inherit the throne at the age of 17.

In the early years of his reign, Emperor Chongzhen ordered a large reduction in the abolition of border posts and exemption of official taxes in order to save the expenditure of the national treasury, but his own clothes were torn but he was reluctant to change them, so that one day when listening to the lecturer's lecture, the sleeves of the underwear he wore were torn, and it was very unsightly to be exposed, so he had to stuff it in from time to time to cover up.

But such a thrifty emperor has a very staggering amount of imperial silver in his private collection.

In that year, after Li Zicheng's millions of masters captured Pingyang and Taiyuan, they invaded Beijing, and the terrified Emperor Chongzhen specially summoned Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang and other important members of the household and military departments to discuss the transfer of Wu Sangui outside the customs into the king of Guanqin.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Wu Xiang first stood up and calculated an account for Emperor Chongzhen, if Wu Sangui was transferred to defend Beijing, he would need a million taels of silver for military expenses, and the treasury only had a mere 400,000 taels on the account.

Wu Xiang had no other purpose, he just hoped that Emperor Chongzhen would take out his imperial silver to pay for the army.

The imperial silver inner money, also known as the imperial money, is the emperor's private money to put it bluntly.

What made Liu Yuhao spurt blood was that Chongzhen thought that using his own private money to work at home was tantamount to ripping off his heart.

So he cried to his ministers: "The treasury has been exhausted. Li Banghua, the imperial history of the Zuodu, saw that Sheji was in danger, and the emperor was so stingy with those things outside his body, he was more anxious than Chongzhen, and he couldn't care about the bad words: "If the skin doesn't exist, the hair will be attached?" After Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he burst into tears: "Today's internal difficulties have been told to Mr. ”

The emperor and his wife are in tears, what else do the ministers have to say? There was nowhere to make up for the funding gap, and Emperor Chongzhen, who had nothing to do, had to make up his mind with the ministers and call on his ministers to raise donations.

Just imagine, the emperor is unwilling to contribute money for his own country, and those ministers who have long wanted to leave a way back for themselves are naturally even more reluctant to do it.

Although Chongzhen is as stingy as an iron rooster, his brain is not stupid, and he knows that everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is easy for someone to set an example first. So, he sent the eunuch Xu Gao to inform Zhou Kui, the father of Empress Zhou and the national abbot Jiadingbo, and asked him to donate 100,000 taels of silver to set an example.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Kui saw that his son-in-law was about to be destroyed, and he refused to lend a hand, but just cried hard and insisted that he didn't. In the end, Xu Gao really couldn't look past it, and he was angry, and said: "The old emperor is so stingy, the court is in a difficult situation, and major things must not be done." Even if you are prolific, what good will you do later? ”

Zhou Kui had no choice but to agree to tighten his belt and donate 10,000 taels. The emperor's father-in-law has donated it, and it is really unreasonable for others not to pay out of their pockets. Wei Zaode, who has served as the first assistant for many years, has a family collection of ten thousand gold, and only takes five hundred taels of silver.

In order to save one million silver, he lost more than 30 million or even invaluable thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, this is a simple and clear account, but Emperor Chongzhen, who was smart and studious since childhood, did not calculate it clearly until his death.

At the beginning of the year when the Ming Dynasty fell, Emperor Chongzhen lamented when he summoned his ministers: "I am not the king of the country, you are all the ministers of the country." I don't treat people well, so far today, why don't any of the ministers follow? ”

Of course, the looting of the Dashun army in Beijing is not a glorious thing, whether it is passed on to people's ears or recorded in the history books, it is inappropriate, thinking about this, Liu Yuhao naturally understands why there are thousands of corpses in that doubtful tomb.

"Alright, if it's okay, I'll go first."

Old Man Qi was not as scheming as his cheap brother, so he stood up and shouted to leave.

Besides, the old man's time is precious now, not only to take time to teach the students, but also to lead the demonstration of the authenticity of the jade seal of the country, and there is really no time to discuss the gains and losses of the ancient emperors.

Liu Yuhao knew the teacher's temper, and said with a smile: "Don't leave yet, teacher, why didn't you ask me what I said just now?" ”

"What do you mean? Don't play dumb riddles, don't talk about it if you have something to say. ”

Old Man Qi smiled, and said that he was going to leave immediately, but when he spoke, he sat back again.

Although he is unwilling to confront He Lao for a long time, his attitude towards Liu Yuhao still has the kind of calf licking that is unique to the elderly, as long as Liu Yuhao makes a request, the old man will generally try his best to meet it, and it seems that he has never refused.

Liu Yuhao smiled and said, "I bought the Ming Dynasty coins you saw just now from a group of tomb robbers. ”

"Spent a lot of money?"

Old Man Qi frowned slightly, although he wanted to remind Liu Yuhao not to get too close to that kind of person, but when the words came to his mouth, it became a different taste, this is actually a kind of trust that only relatives have, Old Man Qi knows Liu Yuhao's character, and is willing to believe that Liu Yuhao only knew the truth afterwards.

It's a pity that this kind of thinking is just wishful thinking on the part of Old Man Qi.

Liu Yuhao's next sentence made Old Man Qi's brows frown into a deep Sichuan character, "Teacher, in fact, when I bought these money, I already found out that they were raw pit products, and later, I also followed the gang of tomb robbers." ”

Liu Yuhao planned to completely conceal Shi Bao's matter, so Liu Yuhao made up a story about a group of tomb robbers by himself, and the reason for this was not that Liu Yuhao deliberately wanted to deceive the old man, but out of the idea of protecting Shi Bao.

After all, Shi Ping still needs Shi Bao's care in the future, and if Shi Bao's actions are shaken out, it will inevitably cause irreparable damage to the girl's future life.

Emotionally speaking, no one can accept the fact that their relatives basically have to spend their entire lives in prison, not to mention that Shi Ping is still a patient who needs to be taken care of by others.

"And then?"

Old Man He didn't speak until this time, and then asked lightly.

"Can you not be so smart? Guess everything! ”

Liu Yuhao sighed in his heart, and said a sentence in his heart very depressed, but with a smile on his face, he said: "I found a tomb in the place where the gang of tomb robbers temporarily lived. ”

Old Man Qi's face darkened at that time, his eyes widened, and he said, "Stinky boy, you won't secretly go to the thief hole, right?" ”

"Teacher, you can guess it!"

Liu Yuhao's body trembled, and he opened his mouth in surprise.

Old Man He also frowned slightly, just picked up the teacup and put it back on the table, leaned back, and his eyes flashed with doubts.

"Hmph, you're embarrassed to say, I mean, why did you smell when you walked in the door just now."

A trace of anger appeared on Old Man Qi's face, and he glared at Liu Yuhao fiercely.

As a person who has been engaged in archaeological work for decades, the old man is naturally very familiar with the peculiar smell in the tomb, but the old man didn't think about it elsewhere just now, and neglected the source of the smell.

Dare to enter the cave casually, do you kid want to die?

In case the traces are discovered by the gang of tomb robbers, others only need to fill a shovel of soil on top of the robbery hole, even if your kid is the reincarnation of Da Luo King Kong, but if you are trapped in a place without air for a long time, you will eventually die.

Liu Yuhao smiled, he didn't dare to say that the group of tomb robbers was actually guarding above, let alone confiding any information about Shi Bao in front of Old Man He.

"Teacher, don't you want to know what's weird about that ancient tomb?" Liu Yuhao immediately changed the subject.

"Huh?" Old Man Qi hummed lightly.

Liu Yuhao hurriedly struck while the iron was hot and said: "According to my identification, the ancient tomb should have been built in the late Song Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, but later I found artifacts from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in it, teacher, do you think it's strange?" ”

Liu Yuhao knows his teacher too well, as long as he throws out this topic, Old Man Qi will definitely forget about the incident where he secretly went down to the thief cave for a while.

Sure enough, Old Man Qi's eyes widened and he was stunned in disbelief, and said, "Are you sure?" "Is there such a strange thing in the world? Don't say that Old Man Qi hasn't seen it, even if he thinks about it, I'm afraid he hasn't thought about it.

"I'm sure!" Liu Yuhao nodded with a serious expression, then turned to Old Man He and said, "Grandpa, it is precisely because I found this that I asked Brother Mao to help me stay there, don't scold him." ”

Liu Yuhao threw out an explosive news, and Old Man He was also interested and asked, "What is there under the tomb that is worth such a big capital from your kid?" ”

Liu Yuhao smiled and said, "Money, a lot of money!" ”