This dungeon is full of treasures, but Zhu Yijun did not let people move out immediately, but came to the dungeon under layers of guards.

"Wang An."

Zhu Yijun just called, Wang An nodded, and all the guards who accompanied him turned their backs, and no one dared to look back.

Only then did Zhu Yijun come to Li Mi and Zhou Yu's side and walked in front of the dragon.

This thing is too big, some like an ancient giant crocodile, but the spines on the body are like a sword, especially the head, like the legendary dragon, but unfortunately it only has four claws.

Perhaps it is very old, and its body is already covered with parasites such as moss, which adds to the sense of vicissitudes of age.

In addition to the broken corpses of the Taiping Dao demons on the ground, there are also many broken swords and other blades, and the body of this dragon is full of various murder weapons, black and red blood stains are everywhere, and they are sticky when stepped on the ground.

Although Zhu Yijun is a real dragon emperor, even if the dragon in front of him is dead, he is still a little jealous, making people turn on the bright lights, but he doesn't dare to approach.

Li Mi then said to Zhu Yijun: "Does the Holy Lord know what this is and where it comes from?" ”

Zhu Yijun just shook his head, and Li Mi said to him: "Since the saint doesn't know, can you let people check when this temple has been repaired or expanded, so I think I should know when the underground palace was built......

Zhu Yijun also nodded again and again, and asked Wang An to instruct him to go down, and soon summoned the secretary of the Ministry of Works, retrieved all the documents of the camp, and asked Shen Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to retrieve the records of the year.

After Shen Li and the others came over, they were also shocked, after all, they had never seen anything like this.

Shen Li asked people to check the records of the past years, although there are many records of repairs or expansions, but they do not involve the west side hall, because the main hall is the focus, that is, the east side hall is more important than the west side hall.

To put it bluntly, the West Side Hall is just a foil, so there is no record of large-scale groundbreaking, and everyone is a little helpless, Li Mi said his thoughts, this thing may be a foreign thing, why not check the things brought back when he went to the West.

Li Mi's remarks inevitably made Zhu Yijun frown a little, after all, the dragon is an auspicious thing, it is the will of God, if it is a foreign thing, wouldn't it damage the prestige of the kingdom of heaven?

However, no one can say whether this thing is a dragon or not, Zhu Yijun had no choice but to let Shen Li check it again, and according to Li Mi's train of thought, he summoned all the scribes, and after a while, he really had a harvest!

"The Holy Lord, the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the West seven times, there were Kurumus to pay tribute to the lion and the leopard and the western horse, and the Adan Kingdom to pay tribute to the unicorn, Zufar to pay tribute to the long-wildebeest, the wooden bones were bundled to pay tribute to the flower deer and lions, and the Bu Rawa paid tribute to the camels and ostriches; Java and Guri pay tribute to lambs and beasts...... The minister has an atlas here, but none of them match the ......."

When Shen Li said this, everyone was inevitably a little disappointed, but Shen Li continued.

"But there is one thing in the Ministry of Rites here......"

When everyone heard this, hope also rose, and Zhu Yijun said to Shen Li: "Say." ”

Shen Li cleared his throat and continued: "In the eighth year of Xuande, the eunuch of Sanbao died, and when he was dying, I implore Xuanzong to continue to send people to the sea, so as not to break the tributary system and ruin the painstaking and lonely deeds of the first emperor. ”

"The next year, Emperor Xuanzong asked Wang Jinghong to lead a treasure ship to envoy to the Nanyang countries, and brought the prince of Sumatra, Hani Zhehan, back to pay tribute, Emperor Xuanzong was overjoyed, let people be rewarded, and wanted to enshrine the Three Treasure Eunuchs, let the Three Treasure Eunuchs enter the West Side Palace, but at that time, the civil and military courtiers thought that the envoy to the West to work the people and lose money was for the sake of the government, and should not be agitated, and it was strongly opposed......"

"The Three Treasures Eunuch died in the eighth year of Xuande in the ancient country (now Calicut, India), the fleet returned to the Central Plains in July, and Emperor Xuanzong gave the burial of Niushou Mountain in Nanjing, and the next year, he built a west side hall......"

"Although the eunuch of the Three Treasures failed to accompany the West Side Hall in the end, some of the things brought back from the last trip to sea were saved......"

Shen Li's revelation of this relationship also made everyone very excited, driven by curiosity, even Zhu Yijun was full of anticipation!

In fact, at that time, the officials did not agree to go to sea, during the Chenghua period of the Ming Xian Dynasty, the emperor wanted the military department to track down the old files of the three treasure eunuchs, and it was estimated that he also wanted to go to sea again, but the military department Shangshu could not find "Zheng He's Envoy to the Water" for three days.

Xiang Zhong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, asked how could the files in this library be lost, but Liu Daxia, the driver of the car at that time, responded.

"Three guarantees to the West, the cost of hundreds of thousands, the military and civilian dead, even if you get the treasures, what is the benefit, although the old files are there, they should be destroyed, why bother asking."

You must know that "Zheng He's Voyage to the Water" includes a large number of original materials, such as the emperor's edicts, the compilation of the fleet, the list and the logbook, and the accounts, etc., which are extremely valuable for both cultural and historical inheritance.

However, these officials destroyed these files, including the design drawings of shipbuilding at that time, because they went to the West to work and lose money, which is really regrettable.

Many historians also think that going to the West is a swollen face and a fat man, which exacerbated the decline of the Ming Dynasty, which is really ridiculous, and can only be said to be short-sighted, you know, the Celestial Empire in later generations, is now doing things in the West, although it costs a lot of money, but the international influence and so on are affordable, which money can't buy!

I didn't say much gossip, but when Shen Li said this, he continued to everyone: "Although the eunuch of the Three Treasures failed to enter the West Side Hall in the end, all the gains from his last envoy have been entered into the West Side Palace, there are some records in the "Yingzong Record", and Wang Jinghong's "Journey to the West" also has some records......

When Zhu Yijun heard this, he was inevitably displeased: "You mean that this dragon was really brought back by the eunuch of the Three Treasures?" It has been almost one hundred and sixty years since the ninth year of Xuande, and no one has entered or left this underground palace, how can this dragon live for a long time? ”

Shen Li is an official of the Ministry of Rites, and he is the best at this kind of thing, and he knows what it means, so he said to Zhu Yijun.

"This may not be, the minister checked the actual record of Yingzong, there is no detail in the accounts, and the saint should also see that the treasures in this underground palace can be called priceless, and it is estimated that the last time the eunuch of the Three Treasures went to sea, he gained a lot, but this dragon is a living creature, but it is not good to be sure......"

"Besides, the flying sky is a dragon, and the sea is Jiao, and this thing only has four claws, which seems ominous, otherwise Xuanzong and Yingzong will not use God to suppress it in the future, or maybe as Li Mi said, this thing is only afraid of being a murderous thing, but the Taiping Dao demon mistakenly thought that it was my Daming dragon vein guard, so he sneaked in and killed, wanting to cut off my heavenly luck......"

Although Shen Li's explanation is not far-fetched, this thing is in the form of a dragon, how can Zhu Yijun not mind?

Li Mi took the opportunity to explain.

"Saint, regardless of these, this thing can live for more than a hundred years, if no one feeds it, it will never be possible, the minister remembered Zhang Ming's eunuch residence in Yikun Palace, there is a dry well under the bed, and there are many corpses of missing palace people in it, and the flowers on the other side cultivated by Zhang Ming also run through most of the inner palace through these dry wells, will they feed this thing from these dry wells?"

"If that's the case, then the one who has been feeding this thing is ......"

When Li Mi said this, everyone also understood, and their hearts were also shocked, Taimiao is the most important place in the palace, but in the West Side Palace, there is an underground palace, and the people of Taiping Dao are actually lurking in the palace, feeding this thing for more than a hundred years?

This matter is involved, and the defense of the entire palace can be said to be full of holes, which is really why people come to your backyard to raise pigs!

"If they were raised, why should they be killed now?" Zhu Yijun was also a little puzzled.

Li Mi also shook his head, there were still too many doubts to figure out at the moment, and he really couldn't answer in a hurry.

Shen Li said the key, and asked Zhu Yijun, "How does the Holy Lord plan to deal with this matter?" ”

Whether it is a dragon or a dragon, after all, it is a strange thing, let the demon kill, leave a knot in the heart, if it is really the dragon vein of the Ming Dynasty, let the Taiping Road be killed, not to mention the bad luck, if it really affects the Ming Dynasty, it is a big deal!

Besides, now is the critical moment of the expedition, does it portend something if someone kills this dragon?

Zhu Yijun also shook his head, rubbed his sore temples, and said to Li Mi and Zhou Yu: "The two Qing family continue to investigate, and figure out everything before making a decision." ”

Although Zhou Yu and Li Mi had a fight with Zhang Bao, they were not very comfortable, but it was not easy to rest at the moment, so they hurriedly responded.

Zhu Yijun looked at the dragon meaningfully, and said to Li Mi and Zhou Yu: "Remove this thing first, don't leak the news." ”

Zhou Yu nodded, and asked Wang An to find someone to cover it, but it was really inconvenient to carry this thing, and it stinked, and it took a lot of effort.

The treasures in the dungeon were carried out, and it took a day and a night to complete the counting, and a smile appeared on Zhu Yijun's face, so he should know how considerable this wealth was.

In the time of this day and night, Li Mi and Zhou Yu also followed the vine and confirmed Li Mi's conjecture!

These people did not come in from the entrance of the underground palace of the West Side Palace, but from the wells throughout the palace, along the underground river!

In other words, these people are not people outside the palace, but have been hiding in the palace!

Some of them are Ouchi guards, some are eunuchs, and some are palace people, and after counting, there are as many as thirty-four people!

I thought that the palace was the safest place in the world, but who would have thought that there would be so many demons lurking in the Taiping Dao!

If it weren't for the fact that Li Mi found out about Eunuch Zhang Ming and pulled up the radish to bring out the mud, how could he have dug these people out?

Or it was precisely because Eunuch Zhang Ming was exposed that they decided to transfer this dragon, but they found that they couldn't transfer it, so they killed it, which is a typical example of destroying it if it can't be obtained.

Of course, these are just speculations, now that these people are all dead, there is only one Digong general Zhang Bao left, and he can't pry his mouth open, as for the person who responds outside the West Side Palace, it should be Zhang Gu, but Zhang Gu can't catch it, as if he is a transparent person.

Knowing that he was still in the imperial city, everywhere had been blocked, and he was not allowed to enter or exit, Zhang Gu was unable to fly even if he had wings in his wings, but he could go door to door, digging three feet into the ground and searching, but he still couldn't catch this person, which also made Li Mi and Zhou Yu feel very headaches.

After exploring the entrances and exits of the dungeon and other suspicious points, Li Mi turned his focus back to the body of this "dragon".

According to Li Mi's speculation, this thing should be a variant crocodile or a lizard or something like that, and it is not strange that it can survive for more than a hundred years, after all, the underground palace is a relatively complete underground ecological environment, and from the appearance of this thing, it also likes to be quiet and does not like to move, otherwise it will not be covered with various parasites, if it survives in a form like hibernation, it is not impossible to survive for a hundred years.

However, Li Mi's thinking is also very clear, as long as you cut it open and look at it, you can know its food, and maybe you can confirm the identity of the feeder!