The whole chamber was as spacious as a large warehouse, full of gold, silver and jewelry.

It is easy to say that gold, silver and jewelry are simple, and countless chests full of treasures are randomly piled on the ground. Under the torches, the shining golden light made people's breath heavy. Some of the chests have rotted because of age, and all kinds of pearls and gold have fallen all over the ground, like worthless stones.

Colorful coral trees, more than one zhang high, jade horses, jade screens, jade ruyi, antique vases, calligraphy and painting ancient books, etc. are placed everywhere. The golden Buddha statue, the jade carving Guanyin, gold and silver jewelry, the head inlaid with various gemstones, and the bead flowers, make people incalculable.

Lan Beichen took Xia Jinse to look at it slowly, and picked up one casually: "Look at this style, it should be a long time ago, it is estimated that it is from the previous dynasty." ”

Xia Jinse had a phoenix crown in her hand, which was extremely heavy, and her eyes were full of stars: "But even if it is from the previous dynasty, these gold and gems will not be discounted, this room is full, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a mountain of gold." ”

Xiao Yuanbai said cautiously on the side: "These ...... In addition to the legacy of the previous dynasty, there are also those accumulated by our Hou Mansion for many years, all here. He was also distressed, and his liver was trembling, but he couldn't do it. Originally, these were all inherited by him, but now that the Hou Mansion has fallen, the whole family has been beheaded, and he has been captured alive, the ending is already doomed.

Shattered Star quickly checked it and calculated, "Lord Wang, the things here are at least no less than fifty million, or even a lot more!" ”

Xia Jinse was excited, so many treasures could be exchanged for money, and many things could be done.

"Jinse, do you want to keep some of your favorites?" Lan Beichen asked.

Xia Jinse shook his head: "No need, although everyone loves jewelry, it's really useless for me to hold it." In addition to pressing the bottom of the box, there is only waste. ”

Xia Jinse was grateful for Lan Beichen's intentions, but she really felt that it was unnecessary: "Now that the treasury is short of money, and all the border gates are using money, with this batch of wealth from the previous dynasty, the emperor can also breathe a sigh of relief." ”

Lan Beichen smiled slightly, picked a golden hairpin and gestured it on Xia Jinse's head, looked at it and said, "It's really not good, the style is old, and it's not appropriate for you to wear it." ”

"It's not suitable......" Xia Jinse pouted, she was really not rare.

She couldn't spend the more than one million gold and silver given by Lan Beichen just for the dowry, not to mention the things rewarded by the emperor. When she marries into the Jin Palace, she doesn't have to worry about food and clothing at all, and she also has a way to make money, so it's completely useless to ask for this.

People in the world love money, but she is different, only what she needs is what she likes. Otherwise, no matter how much gold, silver, jewelry, antique calligraphy and paintings were sent to her, it would be a pile of stones and a piece of waste paper.

Lan Beichen casually threw away the golden hairpin, pinched her face, and said softly: "Is this your Jingheyuan, or if you catch the wanted criminal, the emperor will reward you for both public and private affairs." Don't and don't do it, it's yours and it must be yours, if you don't like these, then I'll let someone build a set for you, okay? ”

Hurry up and take his hand away, so many people are watching!

Xia Jinse blushed and said, "Okay, of course I like your wishes, but you don't have to break the bank, you can do anything." ”

The heart already

Paying attention, Lan Beichen didn't say much, and continued to take Xia Jinse to see the rest of the secret rooms.

The second room was opened, and there were still all kinds of precious silk fabrics, etc., but they were 'once'. All sorts of fine clothing, long since the passage of time had turned into a pile of tatters, and had apparently been turned over long ago, covered with a layer of dust, dirty, and rotten pieces of cloth everywhere.

The chamber was worthless, and they looked at it and continued to walk back.

Some of the secret rooms were piled with rice grain, all of which had rotted and turned into a pile of ashes.

Some of the secret rooms contained countless jars, and there was a smell of wine, apparently a place to store fine wine, but it was still empty. The tattered jars and bottles were dumped to the ground, littered with debris, and there were cobwebs in the corners, looking old and dilapidated.

Roughly speaking, Xia Jinse knew that this underground secret room group must be the place where the princely masters of the previous dynasty stored their belongings, but after hundreds of years, coupled with the decades of operation of the Marquis of Huining, most of them have changed beyond recognition.

In order to hide people's eyes, most of the gold and silver wealth is intact, but the rest that can be used is either rotten or consumed. Xia Jinse and the others even found weapons in a secret room, swords, guns, swords, halberds, etc., but they were rusty, as well as rotten longbows and arrows, but they were basically useless.

"Report - Lord Wang!"

At this time, a guard who was looking around ran over and said excitedly: "In a secret room in front, I found a lot of ledgers and records left by the Marquis of Huining, as well as various personnel lists!" ”

Lan Beichen's eyes lit up, and he finally found something really important.

He strode forward with the guard, followed by Xia Jinse, through a long and tortuous secret passage, before coming to another secret room. This secret room is different from the previous ones, not only is it clean, but it is also full of popularity, and people often come to it at first glance.

Although there are books and papers scattered all over the floor, most of them are in good condition. Lan Beichen picked up an account book casually, opened it and saw that it was indeed the bribery records of various officials of the imperial court, which were clearly written, including the date, amount, and location.

There is even the official's family situation, all kinds of secrets, including the number of family members, who married a wife and concubine, what happened on which day, whose son was illegal, who was not good at boudoir, who had any special habits, and so on......

After a rough flip through, Lan Beichen finally smiled.

"That's what I'm looking for, and it's really hidden in the Huining Marquis Mansion, but I didn't expect it to be so tightly hidden. With this evidence, the eldest prince will definitely not be able to escape! ”

It's really not in vain for so many days of hard work, Xia Jinse was just about to congratulate Lan Beichen, and then heard the guard report: "Lord Wang, there is still a discovery ahead!" There is a storehouse of ordnance, all brand new! ”

Even though Xiao Yuanbai already knew his results, when he heard this, he couldn't help but change color.

He knew that the secret of the eldest prince for many years had finally been exposed! If you commit other crimes, as long as it is not a murder, Emperor Yuanqing may forgive the eldest prince, but it is only related to armaments, whether it is a rebellion or not, there is only one way to die.

Xiao Jia...... It's definitely going to be affected, his

Aunt Queen Mother, too!

Lan Beichen and Xia Jinse hurried to another secret room, and sure enough, they saw dozens of neatly stacked boxes, which were filled with leather armor, as well as swords, longbows, and arrows, at least no less than two thousand sets.

The Daqing Dynasty stipulates that although every official can have a guard at home, only the royal family can do this kind of private soldiers, even if Xia Yanxiu is a first-class courtier, there are at most fifty guards, fully armed private soldiers, it is absolutely impossible.

Each prince's mansion can be allowed to be equipped with 200 private soldiers to protect security, but there are more than 2,000 sets of ordnance here, far exceeding the regulations, which is a capital crime of rebellion!

"Could it be that the eldest prince still has the intention of usurping the throne?" Xia Jinse was a little surprised.

Even if Emperor Yuanqing has never set up a crown prince, the eldest prince and the second prince have been the most likely candidates, and there is a fifty percent chance that he will not need to usurp the throne at all.

"Maybe it's not that simple!"

Lan Beichen shook his head, possessing armaments is a crime of rebellion and rebellion, but it does not necessarily mean to rebel.

It may be for precaution, or it may be for other reasons, but in short, there is no peace of mind, so they will take the risk of such a capital crime and store such a large number of ordnance. Whether it was done by the Marquis of Huining or by the eldest prince, the relationship between these two families is irreversible, they are blood relatives, and they are absolutely entangled together.

"Tell me, who got these ordnance, and what are you going to do?" Lan Beichen looked at Xiao Yuanbai.

"This, this ......" Xiao Yuanbai slurped, his face was ugly.

Shattered Star said coldly: "You are now a guilty person, if you don't confess honestly, do you really want to taste the thirty-six tortures of the Criminal Department?" ”

Xiao Yuanbai's face turned white suddenly, he couldn't stand the itch on his body alone, let alone torture? Now, if you just want to die quickly, how dare you dare to live extravagantly?

"Yes, yes! Nine Princes, these ordnance were all purchased by my father for the eldest prince, and it has been three years. I don't actually know much, it's all my father discussing with the eldest prince, they think I don't do it, they don't succeed, they are afraid that I will do bad things, so they ......"

That's why I didn't tell him!

According to Xiao Yuanbai's character, no matter how much he is the son of the Hou Mansion, this kind of half-baked second ancestor will not be a big deal. But because he is the eldest son of Huining Hou, although he is no longer successful, the bloodline also has to be continued, so as soon as the accident happened, Huininghou let him hide in the secret room, in order to have someone to continue the bloodline of the Xiao family.

But who knows, this time the crime was too serious, and the whole family was beheaded, and it was too late for Hui Ninghou to regret it.

Xia Jinse and Lan Beichen glanced at each other, it turned out that these ordnance were really related to the eldest prince. With so much evidence in front of him, and there are witnesses, Lan Jingcheng can't run away this time!

Shattered Star held a long knife, looked at it casually, and suddenly sighed: "Lord, look." He handed over the knife in his hand, Lan Beichen took it, looked at the handle of the knife again, and frowned.

"What's wrong, Lan Beichen?" Xia Jinse was puzzled.

"There's something wrong with this knife." Without an immediate explanation, he opened the other boxes and examined a batch of them, including swords, bows and arrows

, arrows, etc., all looked at it carefully, and his face became more and more solemn.

The material of these ordnance is actually different from Daqing, not that the texture is better, but that it is inferior.

Xia Jinse couldn't understand the iron materials used to create these ordnances, but Lan Beichen could see that the smelting method of these iron tools was not from the Daqing Dynasty, but was a bit like the Jin Kingdom.

Like several small nomadic states that were wiped out such as Nanjiang and Yiwu, the Jin Kingdom was also a nomadic people who lived by grazing. However, the number and history far exceed those of southern Xinjiang, which is not only vast and sparsely populated, located on the plateau, but also warlike by nature and fierce in character, and has a history of more than 500 years.

Because of the geographical location, there are very few iron ores in Jinguo, and there is also a lack of mining and smelting technology, so the soldiers of Jinguo are inferior to Daqing in terms of equipment. Coupled with the lack of grain and grass, if it weren't for this, the 50,000 iron cavalry owned by the Jin State would have captured the Daqing border pass long ago, and would not have been entangled for more than ten years.

The sword in Lan Beichen's hand, although it was also an iron weapon, was not good in texture, he took out the saber he was carrying and slashed it, and with a bang, the long knife was directly broken into two.

"It should be, the ordnance of the Jin Kingdom." Lan Beichen finally came to a conclusion.

This is an extremely serious problem, and it is unknown how Lan Jingcheng and Hui Ninghou obtained this batch of ordnance through what channels. But what he bought was the ordnance of the Jin Kingdom, which was a proper collaborator and traitor, and there was no reason for it!

Once reported, the evidence is conclusive, and Lan Jingcheng has only one way out.

Lan Beichen glanced at Xiao Yuanbai and said, "Take him out, in addition, take someone to search here thoroughly, check them all, and see if there are any secret passages found, or left." ”

(End of chapter)

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