"Oh?"

Xu Rui laughed when he heard this: "Chief of Staff Lin is also a person who has seen the world, and it must not be a small amount that can make you smile crookedly, but I am curious where such a big windfall comes from on this grassland?" ”

Lin Shaodong's face has long been trained by Xu Rui to be thicker than the city wall, where is there still a little bit of the original scholarly spirit?

Listening to Xu Rui jokingly mocking himself, Lin Shaodong was not ashamed, but widened his eyes and said, "Guess how many seizures we have captured this time?" ”

Xu Rui muttered: "The seizure of the grassland tribe is nothing more than the population, horses, cattle and sheep, looking at the scale of the Khan Court, the population is at least 100,000, and the cattle, sheep and horses are about 100,000 each, right?" ”

"100,000 heads?"

Lin Shaodong pursed his lips exaggeratedly and said: "This is the Khan Court of the grassland, and the handsome man is too small." ”

Xu Rui was stunned: "More than 100,000? How much does that have to be? ”

Lin Shaodong said with a smile on his face: "The population has not yet been counted, there are at least 300,000 cattle and sheep, and more than 200,000 horses, the number is too large, and the exact number will have to wait until tomorrow to mobilize the whole army to count together."

Uliji has looted a lot over the years, and such a rich tribe is afraid that it can be traced back to the era of the Steppe Empire, but it's a pity that he left too much of his property to us! ”

"So much?"

Xu Rui was shocked when he heard this.

You must know that the new war horses that the military department can allocate in a year are only twenty or thirty thousand, so you still have to take the risk of trading with Xiliang and the grassland, so wouldn't this capture be enough for the entire army of the Great Wei for ten years?

"And that's not all!"

Lin Shaodong smiled and said, "In the cellar not far behind the king's tent, guess what we found?" ”

"What?"

Xu Rui couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw his mysterious appearance.

Lin Shaodong looked left and right, took out a black thing from his arms and handed it to Xu Rui.

Xu Ruihu took it suspiciously, only to feel that the thing was cold and cold, and it sank into the hand, the volume was not large, but the weight was not small.

He grabbed the object and looked closer, and it turned out to be a palm-sized piece of metal, glittering with gold in the faint light of the torch.

"It's a gold brick!"

Xu Rui suddenly lost his voice.

Lin Shaodong nodded and said: "By the way, it's gold bricks, all of them are in the cellar, and they can't be counted, do you think we're getting rich?" ”

Xu Rui frowned when he heard this, and said in his heart: "I have never heard of gold produced in the grassland, how can there be such a huge amount?" ”

Just thinking about it, he suddenly realized a problem, and looked carefully at the gold brick in his hand, only to see that this gold brick was of excellent quality, obviously of high purity, and there was a layer of steel seal on the surface.

The smelting technology of the steppe is extremely poor, and even a decent iron pot cannot be made, so how can it be possible to forge gold bricks?

What's more, with the forging process of this gold brick, even the world's most cutting-edge origin base may not be able to be mass-produced, let alone the grassland that is still in the tribal era.

"Where are the gold bricks? Take me to see it. ”

Thinking of this, Xu Rui's heart sank and said to Lin Shaodong.

Lin Shaodong said: "I have sent someone to seal up that cellar, they are all reliable people, and they will never leak the news, if the big man is interested, he will go with me to take a look." ”

As he spoke, Lin Shaodong pointed in the direction behind the king's tent.

Xu Rui didn't dare to slack off, and immediately followed Lin Shaodong to the cellar.

After a short time, the two came to the place, and the entrance to the cellar had indeed been surrounded by the law enforcement team, and it seemed that except for a few people such as Lin Shaodong, even the law enforcement team guarding did not know what was inside.

Xu Rui followed Lin Shaodong through the long underground passage into the cellar, only to find that the so-called cellar was not the basement used by the northerners to store cabbage, but a huge concrete structure of the underground space.

And the scene in front of him made Xu Rui even more dumbfounded.

I saw that the whole cellar was more than 100 meters long and fifty or sixty meters wide, and it was full of gold bricks.

The gold bricks are stacked together like building blocks, forming a golden pillar, each gold pillar is two people high, four or five people can hug each other, and it is roughly estimated that the gold here has even reached the level of 100 tons.

"Oh my God......"

Xu Rui muttered in admiration.

You must know that the gold reserves of the number one power in the other world are only more than 500 tons, and a small cellar here is equivalent to one-fifth of what it is, how can it not be amazing?

Xu Rui approached these golden pillars and took a closer look, and found that each of the gold bricks was exactly the same, indicating that the smelting technology of these gold bricks was very superb, and it was impossible for them to come from the grassland, or even from any civilization in this world.

Looking at the surrounding concrete structure, it has even reached the level of nuclear resistance, and maybe there are lead plates in it to isolate nuclear contamination, and it is definitely not something that the grassland people can build.

Xu Rui subconsciously remembered the ruins mentioned by Helen, it seems that the ruins are not only in the eight hundred miles of the Gobi, there should also be a large number of ruins in the grassland, and this place is obviously a vault.

It is no wonder that Uliji was able to go from a slave to the Great Khan of the steppe in just a few years, and with this gold, he was able to buy a large amount of supplies from the merchants of the Central Plains and quickly arm his men.

It can even bribe and bribe court officials to give Uliji the green light in terms of policy.

Then he used these advantages to complete the asymmetrical competition with the various tribes of the grassland, rapidly expand his tribe and strength, and finally complete the great cause of unifying the grassland.

It is conceivable that there must have been many people in the Great Wei court who had received the benefits of Wuliji, which is not difficult to explain why Wuliji dared to venture into Changxing City in the first place, and why Longtu was caught off guard by Wuliji, and it was not until Wuliji's envoy entered Beijing that Emperor Hongwei did not know about the great changes in the grassland.

"The news here must not be leaked!"

After thinking for a moment, Xu Rui said in a deep voice.

Lin Shaodong nodded: "Don't worry, I have thought of this a long time ago, such a huge wealth will definitely destroy the morale of the army, and it will not be announced to the public until the situation completely calms down." ”

Xu Rui shook his head: "No, report this matter to the imperial court, and let the imperial court send Jinyi Wei to take over." ”

"What?"

Lin Shaodong was stunned: "Don't we stay at all?" ”

Xu Rui nodded: "Don't leave any left!"

You immediately drafted a military report to report the victory to the imperial court, saying that our army had severely defeated the main force of Uliji, annihilated more than 100,000 enemies, uprooted the grassland Khan court that reached the Central Plains, and the threat of the four northwestern provinces had been removed, and asked the imperial court to immediately send troops to recover the four northwestern provinces.

In addition, he will help me write a secret letter detailing the discovery of the gold reserves, and then suggest that the Holy Lord send someone to transport this batch of gold to the capital. ”

"We really don't have any left?"

Lin Shaodong was still a little unwilling when he heard this.

Xu Rui persuaded: "This battle is already a great achievement, and the imperial court will definitely reward the soldiers, not to mention that I deliberately did not let you count the cattle, sheep, horses and other seizures, just to give the soldiers a generous pension."

With this staggering amount of gold, and the credit for recovering the four northwestern provinces, the Holy Lord would inevitably acquiesce in allowing this wealth to be at the disposal of the Apocalypse.

Listen to me, let's not touch any of this gold, this thing is too large, the impact will inevitably be very far-reaching, for the saint may be a bargaining chip to dominate the world, but for others it is poison, whoever touches it will die! ”

Lin Shaodong nodded when he heard this, hesitated for a moment and said, "There are still some things, I'm afraid the big handsome will also be interested." ”

"Anything else?"

Xu Rui was stunned again when he heard this, but after seeing the gold here, Xu Rui did not have the slightest expectation for the good things in Lin Shaodong's mouth, but felt a little frightened.