Cao Cao's solemnity made Kieran stunned, he didn't know if he had said something wrong, under that unkind gaze, he seemed a little flustered: "Da Sikong, what's wrong with you?" ”

Cao Cao didn't care what he looked like now, stared at him for a long time, and then lowered his voice and asked, "Besides, have you heard of any legends about this place?" Know how much, say as much as you want. ”

"Yes."

Kieran nodded, began to think hard, and shook his head after a moment: "No, Xia Guan knows so much, Da Sikong, is there something wrong?" ”

Cao Cao hesitated for a moment, didn't pay attention to him, but turned his horse's head and directly took Liu Xie aside: "Your Majesty, don't you think this place seems a little weird?" ”

Liu Xie nodded, now is not the time to hide secrets, it is very important to exchange opinions on the march and fight: "I also think it is a little strange, what Kilan said is really a bit contradictory. ”

"That's right."

Cao Cao took a deep breath, and his tone dropped another degree: "But looking at his appearance, it doesn't seem like he's lying, so ......"

"Da Sikong has decided to go to the waterhole to have a look?"

Cao Cao bowed: "What does Your Majesty think?" ”

"Everything is subject to the arrangement of the Great Sikong."

Cao Cao was not surprised by Liu Xie's answer, on the contrary, if he gave any different opinions, it would be a ghost, Cao Cao nodded at him, and then turned to Xiahoudun.

"Yuan Rang, come here."

"Yes!"

Xiahoudun stepped forward in response, Cao Cao looked at the waterhole not far away, and his face was a little solemn: "Fang Cai Kilan's words, you also heard it, now like this, divide the army into two, let Gongming take the naturalized army and a part of the army to the front to station, you go to the waterhole with us to have a look, I always feel that that place is not simple." ”

"Okay."

Xiahoudun didn't say anything, and hurriedly went to make arrangements, and when everything was settled, Liu Xie, Cao Cao, Xiahoudun and Le Jin rushed to the waterhole with their cavalry.

This time, they didn't take Kiran with them, which shows that Cao Cao still doesn't trust him enough, and all the previous ones were pretended by him in order to calm people's hearts.

In order to facilitate his actions, Cao Cao selected a lieutenant from the naturalized army called Coaxing to follow, although the Chinese of Coaxing was not as good as Kilan, but daily communication was still sufficient.

More than 1,000 cavalrymen, led by everyone, galloped to the edge of the waterhole, arranged 800 people to guard, and surrounded the waterhole. The rest of the people followed Liu Xie and Cao Cao.

And on the way here, they also asked the coaxing couch to verify the origin and legend of the waterhole, and the coaxing couch's answer was not different from Kieran, so Cao Cao was relieved.

Although the legend in Kieran's mouth has cast a veil of mystery over this waterhole, when they actually came here, they found that this place was not even a waterhole, at most it was just a stinky ditch.

The area is very small, but the most important thing is that there are many traces of man-made excavation around it, and it can be seen. Someone deliberately tried to hide those traces, but it didn't work very well.

Based on these circumstances, it can be seen that the legend here is naturally self-defeating.

This is even more strange, a stinky ditch is still artificially dug, so why does the Guishan Kingdom still make up some bullshit legends?

There must be a secret underneath here!

Cao Cao said: "Your Majesty, the minister should send someone to search carefully, the more strange the place, the more unexpected the gain." ”

"Sikong-sama is right."

Asked Liu Xie's opinion in a fake way, Cao Cao immediately sent someone to search, not to mention, it didn't take a while, the searching army found an abnormality.

"Your Majesty, Lord Sikong, on the east side of the waterhole, we found a large stone slab under the land, which seems to be able to be pried!"

"Oh?"

Looking at the warrior, Cao Cao paused, and immediately said, "Send someone to pry the stone slab open immediately!" ”

"No!"

After some tossing, the soldier really pried open the stone slab, and the next thing that came into people's eyes was a staircase that was polished out of artificiality!

"Haha, Your Majesty. Sure enough, there is a trick. ”

Cao Cao said, waving his hand to signal the soldiers to go down to investigate.

Twenty samurai walked slowly with torches and weapons, not to mention that they were all five big and three thick, but they were very light and agile in their movements.

Because Liu Xie is a historian and has helped the archaeological team verify the ancient tombs before, he is quite familiar with the archaeological process, and some of the technical and regular things are not unfamiliar.

At this moment, he noticed that the soldiers who entered the entrance of the cave looked like they had entered a tomb, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but move in his heart.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Cao had to fight continuously because of the emptiness of the imperial court, so in order to make up for the lack of military salaries, he started the idea of ancient tombs.

And also set up an army specializing in tomb robbery, the leader of which was the head of the Feng Fa Qiu Zhonglang General, the rest of the military attachés were called the Captain of the Touching Gold, and the subordinate samurai were called the Touching Golden Pawn.

Thinking of this, Liu Xie couldn't help but get excited. Although later generations have verified that touching gold and hair mounds do exist, it is still a mystery who has held this position.

Because there is no name on the unearthed gold talisman and the seal of the hair mound, it may be that Cao Cao deliberately did so in order to prevent the secret from being leaked.

After all, no matter who is the official, once the seal and talisman are accidentally lost, the name will not be so glorious when they are picked up, and although Cao Cao is an official thief, the matter of digging people's ancestral graves will always damage Yin morality, and not leaving a name may also deliberately blind the resentful spirits of those tomb owners.

The ancients said that there is a debtor and a debtor, and those resentful spirits cannot find anyone, so they will not come out to do evil, nor will they repay the bad things on the executor.

Of course, these are all legends, but the scene in front of him couldn't help but make Liu Xie excited, and after a little hesitation, he still asked Cao Cao: "Lord Sikong, the soldier who just went down, but is it the touch gold and hair mound that Chen Lin's dog thief wrote?" ”

The first person to break Cao Cao's official thief army was Chen Lin, who wrote a letter for Yuan Shao to beg for thieves during the Battle of Guandu, so Liu Xie must say so.

His question made Cao Cao stunned, but then he laughed out loud: "Hahaha, I don't want Chen Lin's words to reach Your Majesty's eyes, that's right, those people who went down just now are touching the golden pawns, but Your Majesty, do you know the real role of these touching golden pawns?" ”

Function?

Isn't it just stealing money from someone's ancestral grave!

muttered in his heart, but on his face, Liu Xie changed his words: "I don't know, but it shouldn't be like what Chen Lin wrote, right?" In order to start a war with the imperial court, it is normal for Yuan Shao to deliberately slander Sikong. ”

"Hahaha!"

Hearing this, Cao Cao laughed even louder, but after laughing, he changed his serious face, staring at Liu Xie's eyes, and there was also a strange light: "Your Majesty can say this, in fact, the minister is very pleased, but the minister does not dare to hide Your Majesty, touching the golden pawn is indeed as Chen Lin wrote, it is for tomb robbery...... Merely. ”

Speaking of this, Cao Cao paused for a moment, and then sighed: "It's just that their tomb robbery is not their main business, Your Majesty has ever seen such a sentence in the art of war, 'Those who are good at attacking move above the nine heavens, and those who are good at guarding are hidden under the nine earths'?" ”