The embroidered spring knife is out of the sheath, revealing a biting chill.

A trace of despair flashed in Muhad's eyes, and he suddenly shouted: "Don't kill me, I'll give money!" ”

Kalai hurriedly translated, and when Zhu Qizhen heard the money, he immediately said, "Wait a minute!" ”

Yuan Bin put the knife down, and Muhad breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I have a lot of gold, hidden in a secret place, only I know!" ”

Zhu Qizhen asked, "Isn't your gold in the palace?" ”

"This gold was obtained from the hands of the Eastern Romans, and if it is placed in the royal palace, it belongs to the empire, and it is my own to hide it!"

Calle translates at both ends, and uses words very carefully, for fear that there will be mistakes and mistakes in major events.

Zhu Qizhen suddenly understood, this is the same as the difference between the treasury and the internal treasury, although the emperor nominally controls the world, but the money in the treasury cannot only be in and out, such as building water conservancy, disaster relief, and fighting...... Everything you do requires money, and if you don't manage it well, you may even be unable to make ends meet.

The internal treasury is different, this is the emperor's private small treasury, purely the emperor's own private money.

In the same way, when Muhad conquered Eastern Rome, he looted a sum of gold from the Eastern Roman royal family and then quietly hid it.

When he was dying, it was his only lifeline.

He didn't know if the big boy in front of him could see it, but this was already his only bargaining chip.

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a moment and asked, "How much gold?" ”

"That's a lot, so many mountains!"

"How much is that?"

Muhad pointed to the palace behind him and said, "Fill this house!" ”

Zhu Qizhen looked in the direction pointed by Muhad, and a flash of light flashed in his eyes.

The houses of the palace are much larger than ordinary houses, and if they can be filled, they will be at least hundreds of tons!

"How could the Eastern Romans have so much gold?"

"They also robbed a lot of ...... from India, Golden Continent and other places"

Kale translated hard, but the Ottomans called India, the Golden Continent and other places different from the Ming Dynasty, and he changed several names in a row before Zhu Qizhen understood.

"I'll give you all the gold, but don't kill me......"

Zhu Qizhen's eyes closed slightly, pondered for a long time, and then said: "As Zhenling said, handing over the gold can spare you from dying, but you can't stay here." ”

Muhad nodded again and again and said, "As long as you don't kill me, let me go wherever I want." ”

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said: "The Ottoman king Muhad was persecuted by traitors and died in the palace last night. ”

After hearing this, Kalai fell silent.

It's shameless!

Muhad looked at Kalai coldly, and said in his heart, "Hurry up!

Kale had no choice but to recount it.

When Muhad heard this, he was silent.

It turns out that there are such people in the world who do not speak of martial virtues!

However, the knife is on the neck, so I don't have a choice......

"I promise!"

"Okay, now tell the whereabouts of the gold, and then go and write the letter of state, you write it yourself, I warn you, hurry up, because I may regret it at any time!"

Muhad had just breathed a sigh of relief, and when he heard this, he immediately became nervous again.

Aren't the Oriental people the most honest, how to ...... Still with remorse?

"I'll write now, I'll write now......"

"Let's talk about the place where the gold is hidden!"

"Okay, okay, I've got a map with the location."

"Where's the map?"

"In my dormitory."

Zhu Qizhen immediately instructed Yuan Bin to follow Muhad to get the map, and then Li Zhen drew a group of men and horses from the 3,000 battalions to the treasure land.

Muhad took out the royal parchment and a quill pen and wrote an edict.

Zhu Qizhen instructed Kalai to read it carefully, feeling a little perfunctory, after all, it is a national letter, and it will be passed on to future generations, if people can see that it is too fake, wouldn't it be like the prestige of my Ming Emperor?

At that moment, Bei Lin, Tong Xuan, Xu Pu and others were summoned to come, and several of them summed it up, first finalized a draft, and then asked Kalai to translate it, and then Mouhd copied it by himself.

This time, Zhu Qizhen felt more satisfied.

The king was persecuted by traitors, and when he was dying, he entrusted his vast land to a friend from the East, which is quite reasonable.

Muhad finished writing with tears in his eyes, put parchment paper in an envelope, poured molten wax over the seal, and when it had solidified a little, he stamped it with his own large seal.

Looking at the seal on the wax clay, his heart was in a trance.

The invincible Ottoman Empire was handed over to the people.

Thinking back on what happened during this time is like a dream.

Didn't you just rob a few boats of gold and silver, how could you turn around and lose all the country......

Two hours later, Li Zhen sent someone to deliver the news back, and sure enough, a large amount of gold was found deep in the mountains, and because of the huge amount of money and the rugged mountain roads, a large number of people and mule carts were needed to transport it.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but laugh and asked, "How did you come up with the idea of hiding the gold in the mountains?" ”

Muhad replied truthfully: "It was hidden by the Eastern Romans, and after I got that gold, I didn't dare to spend a single gold coin, and I hid a lot of gold coins in it......"

In the end, the huge man was already in tears.

It's so miserable......

However, the world is fair, and happiness does not disappear in a vacuum, but is simply transferred from one person to another.

Looking at the map, Zhu Qizhen was already happy, the Ottoman Empire occupied the entire Arabian Peninsula, controlled the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Persian Gulf and other important outlets, and could border the Ming Dynasty from land, it was perfect!

If you think about the abundant oil and gas resources buried under this land, you will wake up with a smile when you sleep in the future.

Kalai observed his words and bowed down: "Congratulations to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"You're doing a good job!"

Zhu Qizhen couldn't help but praise: "I have always been rewarded for meritorious service, and if I have been punished, I will make you a teaching official, responsible for promoting classics, if you do a good job, I will be rewarded!" ”

Kalai was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor, for your grace!" ”

Although I don't know how many grades the priest is, as a Ottoman citizen, it is already a great thing that he can not only escape a catastrophe on the day of the destruction of the country, but also be promoted to an official.

That night, a small boat departed from Constantinople and rowed south across the calm Mediterranean.

Muhad sat in the cabin, in a trance.

The empire is gone, the gold is gone, and the only thing to be thankful for is that his life is still there.

His destination was Egypt, another ancient country.

At this moment, he thought of a sentence from the Orientals, stay in the green mountains, and be afraid of running out of firewood.

As long as you live, there is hope.

(End of chapter)