readx; The accumulation of wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society began in the Zhenguan period, when the eighteen families fled to the Broken Leaves with the Crown Princess, and also brought a lot of wealth, although these loyal generals vowed to regain the throne, but for them, there was no army, no strength, no support, and they were thousands of miles away in a foreign land, and it was tantamount to a fool's dream to regain Li Shimin's already entrenched throne, but this group of families would not give up their dreams, and they used another way to accumulate the power they thought could overthrow Li Shimin, This power, they consider to be wealth. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

If you have wealth, you can organize an army, you can buy ministers, you can cultivate power, from the beginning of the third year of Zhenguan, this group of generals began a long period of wealth accumulation, they formed the core of the Hidden Dragon Society, and the peripheral Han and Tang Societies, in the name of the Han and Tang Societies in the Central Plains to do business, purchase industries, he carried out extremely profitable Silk Road trade, once monopolized the Silk Road tea, wine and spice trade.

More than a hundred years have passed, although each family has made a huge amount of money, they still strictly implement the oath of their ancestors, and give ninety percent of their profits to the Hidden Dragon Society every year, year after year, ten years and a hundred years, although they are constantly developing members, the wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society is still accumulating at an astonishing rate, and now, the wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society has become a mystery, where is it hidden? How much wealth has been accumulated?

Some people speculate that the wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society is hidden in Broken Leaf, but Dumo Branch occupies Broken Leaf, and the Hidden Dragon Society retreats to Anxi, and they do not carry a lot of wealth, so many people guess that the wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society is not in Broken Leaf.

Some people speculate that the Hidden Dragon Society accumulates a wealth of 100,000 guan per year, and they have now accumulated at least 10 million guan of wealth, which has exceeded the financial income of Datang in a year, and the wealth is rivaled by the country, but every member of the Hidden Dragon Society is simple and self-disciplined, and their personal life is not even as good as that of the rich family of Broken Leaves.

How much wealth does the Hidden Dragon Society have? Where is it hiding? These secrets, which have been hidden for a hundred years, are only known to a few cores of the Hidden Dragon Society.

Three months ago, Li Qingan generously said to Chang Jin, Luo Pinfang and others that the wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society came from the accumulation of the eighteen families for a hundred years, and he did not take a penny, and gave it all to the eighteen families, as the capital for them to establish a new consortium, and it was also a reward for the eighteen families' loyalty for a hundred years.

However, Li Qing'an's suggestion was unanimously rejected by all the members of the Hidden Dragon Society, and their reason was very simple, the wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society was to realize the great cause of the Hidden Dragon, not the accumulation of the family of the eighteen generals, and if they accepted them all, they would have no shame to face the ancestors.

They made a decision to leave at least half of it to Li Qing'an, and Li Qing'an finally accepted their wishes, today, Li Qing'an returned to Chang'an on the first day, in addition to sacrificing Pei Zunqing, the most important thing was to check the century-old wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society.

Chang Jin took Li Qing'an and Hu Peiyun to the backyard, he pushed open one door after another, which is also the strangeness that has puzzled Li Qing'an for many years, Atami Ju occupies a considerable area, from the appearance of its door is very small, but in fact it covers an area of dozens of acres, equivalent to a high-ranking official's mansion, and its wine shop covers an area of only five acres in size, and the rest are densely packed rooms.

At that time, Li Huichun told him that there were warehouses in the back, but he found that only a small part of the rooms contained goods, and the rest were empty.

Hu Peiyun also had the same doubts, even though he was a member of the Hidden Dragon Society, he didn't know what the role of Atami Ju was? He wanted to ask several times, but seeing that Chang Jin was very focused on opening the door, he didn't ask, and the three of them walked into a courtyard, which was very dilapidated, and five or six rooms were full of tattered tables and chairs, covered with dust, as if no one had come in for many years.

Chang Jin led them into a room on the far side, which was empty, except for a row of iron frames against the wall, and there was nothing on the iron frames.

Chang Jin smiled mysteriously, he squatted down in the corner of the wall, took out a copper key, reached into a hole in the wall like a rat hole, and fiddled with the key in the hole for a long time, and faintly heard a soft sound, "Okay!" ”

Chang Jin stood up and pushed the iron frame to the left, only to see the iron frame by the wall creak and move to the side, which startled Hu Peiyun, and then he found that the thickness of the wall in front of him was amazing, and the thickness of other walls was at most one foot, and this wall was five feet thick, behind the iron frame, it was a square depression, and there was an iron ring on the ground, Chang Jin stepped forward and pulled up the iron ring, and a big black hole suddenly appeared on the ground.

Li Qingan smiled slightly, as he guessed, this is an underground entrance, and the iron frame is an iron gate, it turns out that there are hundreds of rooms on the ground to cover this tunnel entrance, and the real mystery of Atami is underground.

"This piece of land in Atami Ju was bought by our Hidden Dragon Society in the year of Li Shimin's death, and for more than a hundred years, it has been the stronghold of the Hidden Dragon Society in the Central Plains, but twenty years ago, from the perspective of safety, the Hidden Dragon Society's stronghold was changed to the Rejuvenation Tea House in the West Market, but the wealth accumulated by the Hidden Dragon Society for more than 100 years is hidden here, and our Chang, Li, and Luo families have taken care of this treasure for generations."

Chang Jin lit an oil lamp and said with a smile: "Everyone has already come to visit last night, I thought that the lord would come in a few months, so it took a lot of effort to restore the original state, I knew that I would not work so hard, the lord please come with me, Peiyun, you also come to make up for the visit." ”

Hu Peiyun was a little excited in his heart, the Hidden Dragon Society has been using business as a cover for more than a hundred years, and has more than 300 industries in various places, basically with high profits, and also operates the Western Regions trade with amazing profits, experiencing the rule of Zhenguan and the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, I don't know how much wealth has been accumulated in the past 100 years, and it is certain that the wealth is comparable to the country, but how much is there? He has also been speculating for years, and now the answer is finally being revealed.

Chang Jin walked in front with an oil lamp, Li Qingan ordered his soldiers to stay outside, and followed Chang Jin to walk inside, the tunnel is not long, the two sides are very narrow, and the top of the head is not high, the bearded cat waist is holding the stone wall forward, and it is over after walking more than a dozen steps, the basement is dimly lit and gloomy, but the air is still fresh, there is no feeling of poor breathing, and it seems that there is a vent hidden somewhere.

But Li Qingan was a little stunned, this is just a basement slightly larger than an ordinary person's house, with thirty or forty wooden boxes stacked, this is the treasure house of the Hidden Dragon Society? It's completely different from what he imagined.

Chang Jin saw the look of doubt in their eyes, so he smiled and said: "Last night, everyone was as surprised as the lord, there are a total of thirty-six large wooden boxes here, a total of 100,000 yuan and land deeds, as a Atami wine shop, this saving money is normal, if one day the hole is found when the house is raided, and the family moves the 100,000 yuan, this basement will be empty, but this is only a passage for the treasure of the Hidden Dragon Society." ”

Li Qing'an's spirits lifted, so that's it! He smiled and said, "Don't say it, let me find out, where is the real entrance?" He searched everywhere, including on the ground, but did not find anything special, and Hu Peiyun also searched for a long time, but did not find anything.

Chang Jin shook his head and smiled: "Lord, you can't find it with your eyes, you have to find it by hand." ”

Chang Jin took out an iron pickaxe from a box, he walked quickly to the northwest corner of the ground wall, and slowly pried out along the crack of the wall with the iron pickaxe, and the entire surrounding area was built with ashlar stones, which looked very strong.

"Peiyun, come and help me."

Hu Peiyun hurriedly stepped forward and carefully moved down a square stone, Chang Jin smiled at Li Qing'an: "The last time the wall was sealed was five years ago, and our three Chang brothers were responsible for carrying it, Li Huichun and Luo Pinfang are old, they are doing supervision and recording on the side, and only the five of us know this secret." ”

The wall is very strong, Li Qingan also came to help, the three of them were busy for a moment before taking off more than 30 bluestone wall bricks and putting them aside, behind the bluestone is a normal mud wall, there is nothing abnormal, the only suspicious thing is that the soil is newly applied, which was just newly applied last night.

Hu Peiyun glanced at Chang Jin, only to see him spit on the palm of his hand, picked up the iron pickaxe and dug fiercely towards the mud wall, digging dozens of times in one breath, the soil was a foot thick, just when Hu Peiyun wondered if he was looking in the wrong place, he only listened to 'dang!' A crisp sound, this is the sound of the iron pickaxe hitting the metal, Hu Peiyun was in good spirits, he saw a black iron door, at this time, Chang Jin used a small shovel to shovel yellow mud down the iron door, and it took half a day to clean out an iron door, he was so tired that he was panting, wiped the sweat on his forehead and said with a bitter smile: "I knew that the lord would come today, and we won't get it last night." ”

Li Qingan said with a smile: "For the last time today, I will send troops to garrison Atami Residence tonight, and I don't need to build a wall in the future." ”

"Thank you, my lord!"

At this time, Hu Peiyun cleaned up the iron gate, only to see that the iron gate was about six feet high and four feet wide, and in the dim light, it was black and swarthy with a faint blue light, it was a complete piece of pig iron, which was smeared with a layer of special oil, without a trace of rust.

Chang Jin took out a large key from behind his waist, inserted it into the lock hole and twisted it, 'Click! 'There was a bang.

"Peiyun, come and help me again."

The two of them pressed their shoulders together, the iron door was silent, and finally slowly pushed it open, it was pitch black in front of him, Li Qingan touched the iron door, this iron door was a foot thick, he secretly admired, this is even thicker than the bank vault door in later generations.

"Watch your step, follow me!"

Chang Jin groped his way down with the oil lamp, Li Qingan walked down by the wall, the hand was cold, it was also a stone wall, and there were steps at his feet, Chang Jin lit an oil lamp on the wall, a halo spread, in front of him was a stone road, five feet wide, one zhang high, obliquely extending forward for about 20 steps, the highest point was two zhang, surrounded by a smooth stone wall, and this stone road alone lit five lamps.

"This underground treasure house was repaired by 300 stonemasons invited from Khorezm for ten years, and unfortunately, after repairing them, they were all poisoned and compensated by their families."

Chang Jin sighed, and said: "The Hidden Dragon Society stipulates that every ten years, Li Huichun's family and Luo Pinfang's family will jointly take inventory, and Li, Luo, and Chang will sign to prove that the inventory is correct. ”

Chang Jin walked to the third door, and opened the iron door at the end of the aisle with another key, and a smell of copper came to his face.

An oil lamp was lit, although Li Qingan had imagined the magnificence of the underground stone vault, but the scene in front of him still stunned him a little, only to see that this stone vault hidden in the two zhang underground is like an underground palace, the curved dome, all made of boulders, no beams, no stone pillars, but it looks solid and abnormal, as if it is natural, Li Qingan has seen the architectural level of the Khorezm stonemason, he can't help but secretly admire, such a dungeon is still ventilated, very dry, not damp at all, It's completely different from the dark and damp of other dungeons.

The dungeon gradually became brighter, only to see that the dungeon was rectangular, about sixty steps long, forty steps wide, in the middle was a long walkway, on both sides of the walkway were half-open stone houses, in fact, they were simply separated by stone walls, fifteen on each side, a total of thirty stone houses.

Most of the stone houses are neatly stacked with large boxes, densely packed, magnificent, there are iron boxes, there are also wooden boxes, many wooden boxes have not decayed after a hundred years.

Chang Kuan introduced on the side: "Although there are many boxes, they are not worth much, they are all high-grade copper coins, a box of 600 yuan, a total of 3,000 boxes, a total of 1.8 million yuan, and the real value is the last four warehouses." ”

Li Qing'an walked to a large box and looked at it, and saw a bronze plaque on the big box, which read, 'In the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Luo Ying offered 500 yuan. ’

There are more than a dozen boxes around, all of which are offered by him, but the ages are different, some are Zhenguan eight years, some are Zhenguan thirteen years, and one box reads, 'Yonghui four years, Luo Xun donated five hundred yuan. ’

"Luo Ying is Luo Pinfang's grandfather, and Luo Xun is his father, that is, the lord's ....."

Chang Jin didn't say the next words, in fact, he wanted to say that it was the great-great-grandfather of the lord.

Li Qing'an nodded silently, followed Chang Jin and continued to look, each grid is a dense box full of copper coins, Datang's annual coinage is 300,000 yuan, and there is a lot of Datang's six-year coinage here.

"We also realized this problem later, copper coins are heavy, too much space, from the beginning of the Gaozong Xianheng period, we have changed the way of hiding wealth, money is used to develop industries, hidden wealth in real estate, we have more than 300 properties in various parts of the Tang Dynasty, worth tens of millions, here only some gold and silver and precious treasures are stored."

Chang Kuan walked to the last four barns, and he pointed to one of the barns and said, "Lord, please look here!" ”

Li Qing'an saw that there were many small iron boxes inside, which were completely different from the big boxes in front, and he carried a box casually, which was very heavy, so he smiled and said, "This is gold and silver?" ”

"That's right! There are 600,000 taels of gold here, mainly from Dashi and Byzantium, according to the value of one tael of gold is worth ten guan, the gold here is worth six million taels, and here..."

Chang Kuan pointed to the two warehouses full of large boxes and said, "There are two million taels of silver in here, all of which are silver ingots, mainly from big food." ”

At this time, they came to the last block, but there were three rows of shelves, and the shelves were all placed with items of reading power.

"Here are some antiques and treasures, the value of which cannot be estimated."

Li Qing'an walked to a palace lamp and saw that it was inlaid with various gems and pearls, dazzling and brilliant under the light.

Chang Jin stepped forward and said with a smile: "It is said that this is a colorful thousand treasure lamps hanging in the palace of Emperor Yang of Sui, inlaid with one thousand and eighty precious gems, but the rarest thing is that there are seven night pearls below, each night pearl has a different color, please take a look." ”

Chang Jin held the lamp high, Li Qingan looked to the bottom, and sure enough, he saw seven night pearls the size of pigeon eggs, seven colors, and the light was fantastic.

Surprised, he asked, "Where did you get this lamp?" ”

Chang Jin said with a smile: "The lord may not believe that this lamp was obtained from a Turkic man, and Li Huichun exchanged it for five hundred sheep thirty years ago. ”

"Only 500 sheep!"

Li Qing'an laughed, "A sheep is worth the same amount of money, that is, five hundred yuan, but a gem on it is worth at least one hundred yuan, if this Turkic person knows, won't he regret his intestines?" ”

"That's not necessarily, the Turks may think that this lamp can't be eaten or used, it's just beautiful, and in their eyes, maybe it's not even worth five hundred yuan, and they still think they've earned it."

"Makes sense! What else? ”

"This is the fairy pillow, carved with the best Khotanese jade, it is said that with it as a pillow, you can sleepwalk in the three mountains and five mountains; This is a luminous cup, set with three hundred small diamonds; In this iron box are more than a dozen authentic works of Zhang Xu, which were purchased from his son when he died in the ninth year of Tianbao......"

There are at least hundreds of treasures in the three rows of shelves, and Chang Jin has introduced them one by one, Hu Peiyun listened to them with relish, but Li Qingan didn't have time to continue listening, Zhang Yun was going to come to meet him officially tonight.

However, these riches are really useful to him, Li Qingxin quickly calculated, if you don't consider these priceless treasures, judging from the gold, silver and copper coins, it is 10 million guan, if you consider the three hundred more than 300 properties of the Hidden Dragon Society, the wealth of the Hidden Dragon Society is at least more than 20 million guan, and he only takes half of it, then this money is enough for him to dredge the luck.

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(To be continued)