"Tiancheng, you and Houchun will stay in Quanzhou, I'm leaving soon." On the first day of August in the second year of the Apocalypse, when the Eastern Front campaign was in full swing, Hu Xiaosi was packing up and saw Yang Tiancheng walking into the big tent and said casually.

"What's wrong? In such a hurry? The emperor doesn't seem to have an order to go back, why are you in such a hurry? Yang Tiancheng asked a little puzzled.

Hu Xiaosi stopped what he was doing when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Xue Yang of the Western Route Army has already taken Shaozhou, Xuanying Wei has reported secretly, and Liu Shizheng himself has disappeared, but his son was arrested, saying that his father has a huge treasure in his hands, and the location is known only to him." So I'm going to look for it. ”

Hu Xiaosi's words made Yang Tiancheng smile and said, "Do you still need to do this in person?" Just let Xue Yang send someone. However, before Yang Tiancheng finished speaking, Hu Xiaosi pouted and said: "You can do it, our Xue Dashuai has already led the main force of soldiers and horses to leave Shaozhou, Xuan Yingwei reported that it should be Xuzhou, and it is estimated that he can't help it." ”

Yang Tiancheng nodded and said: "It seems that the Eastern Front campaign is going to hurry up, and it is necessary to take Lu Guangmu before Pang Juzhao, Ye Guangluo and others send troops north to Guizhou, and the troops will come to Liu Yin's Guangzhou and other places, and advance the battle line to the Liangguang region." In this way, we can respond to the Western Route Army. ”

"That's your business, I'll take the Flying Eagle Brigade to Shaozhou immediately. By the way, I heard that Yang Yi has entered Qianzhou with the National Guard, and he is ready to take over the follow-up. Hu Xiaosi walked out with his bags on his back, and immediately set out to the north with the Flying Eagle Brigade that had been assembled.

"Immediately send orders to all the departments in front, and inform the deputy marshal that you must take Lu Yanchang's department for me within ten days." After Hu Xiaosi left, Yang Tiancheng thought about it and immediately sent a message to all front-line departments to speed up the recovery of the central and southern regions.

Over there, Hu Xiaosi and Su Xiaohu were muttering while hurrying away, obviously Liu Shizheng's treasure also made Su Xiaohu very interested, a special combat team like the Flying Eagle Brigade played a small role in large-scale operations, but it had an unimaginable role in small forces and abnormal operations. And the two who have the same smell as Hu Xiaosi have an extraordinary obsession with treasure hunting. Everyone in the Eagle Brigade is fascinated by the treasure that their two bosses say. Starting from Fuzhou to Shaozhou was originally thousands of miles away, but it was not much difficult for the group of soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade, and they just walked out of the flat land in the mountains and mountains. In just five days, he crossed the mountainous areas of northern Guangdong and arrived in Shaozhou from Fujian. At this time, Xue Yang had already led the main force to leave Shaozhou, and the two battalions drawn from Hengzhou in the rear were also preparing to set off from Shaozhou and choose the opportunity to enter Yongzhou to resist the threat from the south.

Hu Xiaosi didn't bother to care, and it was impossible for Xue Yang's deployment to make a big mistake. After he and Su Xiaohu came to the city, they didn't bother to say hello to Yang Yi, and directly interrogated Liu Shizheng's son Liu Simiao. In front of Hu Xiaosi, Liu Simiao naturally had no way to hide, and in just half a day, Hu Xiaosi took out all the secrets in Liu Simiao's stomach.

"Send someone to send Liu Simiao's family to Youzhou, according to military regulations, those who have made great contributions to the war can be exempted from hard labor." Hu Xiaosi wrote a certificate to Xuan Yingwei beside him while instructing, asking him to give it to Yang Yi, and he took Su Xiaohu to immediately set off from Shaozhou to the southwest.

"Boss, that Liu Simiao won't lie to us, right? The southwest region should be the control area of the Miao people in the past, and now there are still a large number of Miao people, so we won't be shot as rabbits by these Miao people if we go rashly? Su Xiaohu couldn't help but complain when he saw the sketch drawn by Hu Xiaosi.

"You have burning sticks in your hands, huh? Fight back, and don't you think Liu Shizheng's relationship with these Miao people is too good? Could it be that they are not pure-blooded Han Chinese, but descendants of the Miao people? Hu Xiaosi pursed his lips and sneered: "If I hadn't seen Liu Simiao's appearance, I would have almost forgotten that Liu Shizheng's family had intermarried with a few local tribes. Now that the city of Shaozhou is broken, Liu Shizheng has disappeared, except for these local snakes who have this ability, others can't do it. After finishing speaking, Hu Xiaosi said to himself: "Actually, if you are not afraid that the treasure will be diverted by Liu Shizheng, in fact, you can wait for Yang Yi to check those dignitaries from Shaozhou City." But now there is no need for it, the National Guard in the city will definitely let these people spit out all the wealth they have made with Liu Shizheng over the years. ”

Hu Xiaosi talked to himself all the way, and began to find a path according to Liu Simiao's description. It's just that the southwest of Shaozhou is basically a gathering place for ethnic minorities, and each village is different, and even the customs and language are different. You must know that in the era of unprecedented ethnic integration in later generations, Guizhou and Yunnan were the areas with the largest number of ethnic minorities in the southwest, not to mention the end of the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago. Hu Xiaosi was only able to visit Su Xiaohu from village to village, trying to find out if someone had fled from Shaozhou City to this place recently.

However, it is obvious that Hu Xiaosi's efforts have been in vain, and the villagers in these areas are very resistant to outsiders, and many villages directly treat Hu Xiaosi and others as enemies and do not let them in at all.

"Boss, otherwise, I'll let the Flying Eagle Brigade split up while it's dark, and search this place as the center, and then come from area to area, maybe it's a little faster." Su Xiaohu saw that Hu Xiaosi had no idea and proposed.

Hu Xiaosi nodded and asked Su Xiaohu to arrange it by himself, and he asked the personal guards behind him to immediately go back to Shaozhou to find Yang Yi to retrieve the local state chronicles, and learn more about which minority tribe and which village Liu Shizheng used to have close contacts with. After arranging these, Hu Xiaosi was silent in the camp alone.

If the problem of a few tribes in the southwest region is not dealt with well, it will definitely become a hidden danger to the empire in the future, but as soon as he saw the endless mountains around him, Hu Xiaosi also sighed secretly, the terrain here is more complex than Sichuan, almost everywhere you go, there are mountain roads, even if the Tiance army is defeated, if you want to really develop it in the future, you don't know what year and month. And the terrible city, from the current point of view, these few tribes don't know anything about the Tang Empire, if they leave the support of the army, they are afraid that the civil affairs area will really not be able to carry out.

Thinking of this, Hu Xiaosi began to write a report to Li Xuanqing, recording everything he saw here, and attaching his own suggestions, so that the cabinet could draw up a detailed plan as soon as possible, it was already a matter of time before the southwest was included in the imperial territory, and the preparations in this regard must be made in advance, and the army would definitely not easily get involved in civil affairs as soon as the military management was over, but I was afraid that it would be difficult to move forward at that time.

After a hurried night, the reconnaissance of the Flying Eagle Brigade did not yield any results, and Hu Xiaosi also led the team to leave here and climb over the mountains and mountains to go elsewhere, but after such continuous reconnaissance for several days, he also found a little useful information, a few years ago, someone had dug some stone caves in this area. After finding out this information, Hu Xiaosi decisively took Su Xiaohu to find this mountain located about 100 miles southwest of Shaozhou. And it is very coincidental that there is a big village in this mountainous area, the Miao village, and the legend is that it is the descendant of Mrs. Zhurong when Zhuge Liang pacified the Southern Barbarians. This legend also made Hu Xiaosi more and more confirmed that this should be Liu Shizheng's hiding place. So immediately sent the Flying Eagle Brigade team to touch it quietly, and at the same time sent a message to Yang Yi in the rear, asking him to bring people to quickly come to the convergence, if Liu Shizheng is here, then even if he wants to destroy this Miao tribe, he will not hesitate.

After several days of secret reconnaissance, the Flying Eagle Brigade finally discovered the traces of Liu Shizheng's haunts, this guy was dressed in Miao costumes when he came and went, which almost made him foolish, if it weren't for the fact that his guards said that Tang Yan reported the military situation when he was talking, he really had no clue. Hu Xiaosi, who got the exact news, drew all the geography and terrain here and sent it to Yang Yi in the rear, and he took the main force of the Flying Eagle Brigade to sneak into the stone cave and prepare to explore the treasure on the spot.

Hu Xiaosi is preparing to explore the treasure here, but in fact, Liu Shizheng has been hiding here for a while, and he has not done anything. By constantly sending messengers to the surrounding villages and tribes, he was ready to gather soldiers and horses to go out of the mountains again to fight against the Tiance army, for which he also sent people to contact him, and said that he would send troops to help, and Xue Yang was facing the soldiers and horses who were moved by Liu Shizheng in Xuzhou at this time. And the treasure hidden in the cave is also his military expense for this expedition. In fact, when the Tiance army attacked Ma Yin, Liu Shizheng began to take precautions, packing the money he had looted in Qianzhou over the years and sending it here to prevent him from being able to use it one day in the future. No one knows the news of his treasure except himself and his son, and even the Miao people here don't know what is hidden in the cave.

"Boss, there's the entrance to the cave in front of you, and I don't know if there's a mechanism or anything in there. Do we want to wait for Yang Yi and them, as long as they fight below, we can directly blow up here with explosives. Before Su Xiaohu's words were finished, he was bounced down by Hu Xiaosi's brain, "I said Xiaohu, why are you so rude?" We're here to dig for treasure, you know? Who wouldn't use explosives packs? Do I still need to bring you soldiers with me? ”

"Let's go and have a look." Hu Xiaosi took people to the entrance of the cave and knocked, the good guy here knocked on the door with his hand and there was no response, eighty percent of it was a whole boulder. "Split up and look for any mechanism next to you." Hu Xiaosi looked at the smooth surface of the cave door and said with a smile: "This guy wants to cover up, it's so smooth here, if there is no treasure, it's called hell." After saying that, he took a torch and stepped forward to look around carefully.

So many people turned over all the grass and trees in this area, and the mechanism that was originally hidden under a layer of soil naturally did not escape the eyes of so many people, Su Xiaohu stepped on the prominent mechanism button with one foot, and only heard that the stone door that was originally not moving was "rumbling" at this time. Hu Xiaosi guessed correctly, this is a whole stone that was used as a cave door.

After entering, there is an empty internal space, with a bunch of weapons or something.

"It seems that this Liu Shizheng still plans to rely on these weapons to arm himself." Hu Xiaosi sneered and then led the people to continue walking inside, bypassing the weapon pile, and the front was once again blocked by a stone wall. But this time Hu Xiaosi didn't have so much leisure, stretched out his hand and knocked on the stone wall, and after making sure that there was a space behind him, he directly waved his hand to let the Flying Eagle Brigade blast, and a small blasting canister was quickly nailed to the lower corner of the stone wall by the soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade, and everyone quickly retreated after igniting it.

After a loud "boom", the stone wall collapsed, revealing the space behind it. Su Xiaohu waved his hand and signaled the Flying Eagle Brigade to enter, and said with a smile: "There are weapons in front, this should be the treasure land, right?" Before he could finish his sentence, the voice of a Flying Eagle Brigade soldier came from ahead. A few people hurriedly walked over, and there was indeed a treasure in the city, and rows of boxes were neatly stacked here, and it seemed that there were quite a few of them. However, after opening it, everyone was deflated, and there were no other things inside, but boxes of copper coins.

"I'll go, we don't need this thing now, it doesn't seem to be of much use to bring it back, right?" Su Xiaohu was a little unwilling, and sent people to open the boxes one by one, but found that the entire more than 100 boxes were all copper coins, and none of the legendary gold and silver treasures, pearl antiques, or anything was seen. Although copper coins are now exchanged according to the market value, for the group of people who control the state apparatus, copper coins cannot be compared with gold and silver, and can be stored as a reserve for the issuance of currency.

"Go further and tell everyone to see if there are any other caves behind the stone wall. I always feel that Liu Shizheng shouldn't have so much money. If it was just these copper coins, would he need to bother digging a cave in this poor country? Hu Xiaosi shook his head, he didn't believe that the more than 100 boxes of copper coins in front of him were all Liu Shizheng's belongings.

"Boss, there are footprints in front of you, and there are traces of things moving." Soon after everyone dispersed, news came that the Flying Eagle Brigade in front found footprints on the ground, which seemed to have been left when lifting heavy objects.

"Blow up the stone wall in front of me, the valuables must be right in front." Hu Xiaosi and Su Xiaohu rushed forward and looked carefully at the footprints on the ground, and said with ecstatic faces.

Soon the sound of another blast was heard, and a gap was opened in front of the sand and gravel again, and another layer of stone caves appeared in front of him. Su Xiaohu took the torch and smiled: "Boss, the box inside should be valuables." Everyone looked in his direction, and sure enough, the chests hidden in this stone cave were more valuable than the ones just now, and many of them were inlaid with metal corners.

"Boss, look here, the footprints before should be the traces left by the box carried here." Su Xiaohu pointed to the missing part in the corner in front of him, and at the same time ordered everyone to check the other boxes. This opening immediately dazzled everyone, under the firelight was full of yellow and white colors, and many of them also had jewels, which were obviously antiques and precious things. Hu Xiaosi nodded roughly, the boxes here are no less than the boxes containing copper coins outside.

"My God, how much people's fat and ointment did this Liu Shizheng rob? There won't be anything left ahead, right? Su Xiaohu was also stunned, and hurriedly sent someone to inquire around to see if there were any stone caves, knocking him like that seemed to feel that what was in front of him was not enough.

"Okay, immediately send someone to transport all these things to the stone cave in front, let's go out to see if Yang Yi has intercepted Liu Shizheng. Wouldn't it be better to just catch this guy and let him tell him if there's anything left. After Hu Xiaosi and Su Xiaohu came out of the stone cave, they found that the village at the foot of the mountain had been surrounded by Yang Yi's men and horses at this time, and layers of National Guard members kept coming forward to attack.

"This Yang Yi's people can't do it, such a small village can't be defeated, boss, you stay here, I'll take someone down to help him, and by the way, I will arrest Liu Shizheng, the old boy." Su Xiaohu glanced at the battlefield and ignored it, and Hu Xiaosi rushed down directly with the Flying Eagle Brigade.

"It seems that Liu Shizheng, this kid, has other hidden treasures." Hu Xiaosi looked at the increasingly fierce battle after the Flying Eagle Brigade joined under the mountain, and smiled thoughtfully.