The next day, the Imperial Garden.

"Your Majesty is auspicious, Your Majesty is auspicious......"

Listening to the flattering cry of the parrot, and seeing the flattering appearance of the parrot nodding and bowing, several concubines covered their mouths and snickered.

"Your Majesty, this little gold really has the true inheritance of Nalai Shilang, and it will be very pleasing."

Gu Ruoyun grinned, and at the same time reached out to tease the parrot, attracting another wave of praise.

"Niangniang is so beautiful, Niangniang is so beautiful~"

Wan Yan pouted and said softly, "Compared to its owner, it is far behind. ”

"Listening to Sister Wan'er, Lai Yongqing is the number one greed in history! There are enough vaults to hide all kinds of money, yuanshi, jewelry, spirit brew and other treasures, with a total value of more than 400 million taels of gold! ”

"This does not include calligraphy and paintings, antiques, array plates, land deeds and other treasures of immeasurable value, etc., if everything is counted together, I am afraid that there will be 600 million taels of gold!"

Hearing this, several other concubines who didn't know the inside story suddenly gasped in shock.

"Six hundred million taels of gold? That's equivalent to 600,000 high-grade Yuan Stones! God, such a number, it's unimaginable......"

"Yes, in the past, my taxes in Daxia were only 30 million taels a year, and last year's taxes were only about 60 million taels of gold. This is equivalent to my taxes for ten years in Great Xia! ”

"It's really terrifying to think about, but it's not unacceptable that Lai Yongqing deceived most of the nobles of the Five Kingdoms into having a huge family background."

"I am now in the land of the Six Kingdoms, if I take Qingqiu and Daliang again, then how can this year's tax have to be three or four hundred million taels of gold, right?"

"I don't think so, Airbus has greatly accelerated business and market prosperity. In addition, without trade barriers, various restrictions, and intermediate links that consume costs, this year's tax will probably be about 500 million or 600 million. ”

"Speaking of which, although the unit of this statistic is gold, but now the yuan stone veins are endless, and the yuan stone has occupied the majority of the money system, and I am afraid that it will be more appropriate to use the yuan stone to measure it in the future."

"These are the affairs of the court officials, let's not worry about it."

The concubines talked softly, but Xia Ao just listened quietly and did not speak.

However, there is a saying that is true, after the unification of the world, the measurement and statistical system really needs to be reformed.

Just like Lai Yongqing's huge wealth, the proportion of gold, silver and copper coins is actually very small, and most of them are yuan stones.

And now that the vitality of heaven and earth continues to become richer, the emergence of yuan stone veins may gradually increase, and the foundation of yuan stone as a mainstream currency has been initially established.

Speaking of Lai Yongqing, Xia Ao was also quite emotional in his heart.

At the beginning, he chose to cultivate Lai Yongqing, in fact, it was a whim of idle chess, originally with the mentality of reaping a small amount of domineering value, but he didn't expect this guy to be so courageous......

Through Lai Yongqing, he at least squeezed out seventy percent of the family funds of the nobles of the five countries, and he didn't have to bear any infamy.

Who wouldn't love such a good business?

But now, Lai Yongqing's mission has to come to an end.

Otherwise, if the people he nominated really sat firmly in those positions and spread his power, not to mention how many hidden dangers would be left, at least he would have to make a big move, and let the already unstable new land become chaotic again.

Weighing the pros and cons, it is most appropriate to let Lai Yongqing end his mission at this time.

Just as Xia Ao was secretly pondering, Zhao walked over.

"Your Majesty, the bad handsome man asks to see you."

"Oh? Yuan Qing is back? Declare. ”

Xia Ao raised his eyelids and nodded with a smile.

"Yes."

Not long after, Yuan Tiangang appeared quickly.

"Your Majesty."

"Well, tell me, have you ever found it?"

Hearing this, Yuan Tiangang's face showed a look of embarrassment.

"Back to Your Majesty, I haven't ...... yet"

"No?"

Xia Ao frowned slightly.

Yuan Tiangang gritted his teeth and said stubbornly: "Your Majesty, according to careful investigation, the minister suspects that Chu Lixuan is very likely to have disappeared from Tiannan......"

"Disappear from Tiannan?"

Xia Ao narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.

"You mean, it's possible for him to be in an unknown way... Leaving Tiannan? ”

Yuan Tiangang nodded solemnly, and said with a serious face: "Your Majesty, the minister knows that this matter is indeed a bit bizarre, but based on the torture of the last captive who saw Chu Lixuan, and the exploration of the place where Chu Lixuan finally disappeared, the minister thinks that this is the greatest possibility." ”

"Tell me more."

Xia Ao was not angry, but was interested.

"Yes!"

Yuan Tiangang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, organized the language and began to speak.

"The last person to see Chu Lixuan and survived was Ge Hui, the captain of Chu Lixuan's personal guard team who was responsible for leading the team on duty outside the tent at that time, according to Ge Hui's confession, after the generals deliberated, Chu Lixuan's emotions were depressed and desperate for a while, and he even broke a lot of things in the tent alone."

"And before the start of the war, there is suspected that there is a mysterious fluctuation emerging from the tent."

"It's just that the fluctuation is very obscure and weak, and no one else notices it, and he also thinks that he is hallucinating, or Chu Lixuan is still venting, so he didn't care about it at the time, and he didn't dare to ask."

"After our Jinpeng warship bombarded the Chu army camp from the air, Chu Lixuan once came out."

"At that time, although Chu Lixuan's expression was very ugly, there was less despair."

"When the bombardment was over, Chu Lixuan suddenly summoned Ge Hui in, asked Ge Hui to present the secret talisman disk, and transmitted a certain message to the outside."

Ge Hui didn't know what Chu Lixuan wrote and who he sent it to. However, according to the siege of the secret lair of the dead raised by Chu Lixuan last night, we have confirmed that Chu Lixuan's order was passed to these people, and the content was to assassinate the Empress Dowager Chu! ”

"Chu Lixuan has always coveted the Empress Dowager Chu, and he doesn't want the Empress Dowager Chu... Stepping into my Great Xia Imperial Capital, that's why I sent someone to assassinate him, obviously with the intention of destroying it if I can't get it! ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Tiangang paused slightly, and secretly glanced at Xia Ao.

Seeing that Xia Ao was expressionless, he continued to speak.

"The most important thing is that Ge Hui noticed that there was a strange stone that was black to purple on Chu Lixuan's table, and he felt a faint fluctuation from the strange stone, and that fluctuation was consistent with the fluctuation he had felt outside the tent before!"

Out of curiosity, Ge Hui took a few more looks, and felt an amazing suction force from above, as if the strange stone was an incomparably deep black hole that could pull his consciousness into it.

Ge Hui was frightened and didn't dare to look at it again. After that, Chu Lixuan gave him an order to burn the tent in a quarter of an hour. ”

"Although Ge Hui was puzzled in his heart, he only thought that there was some secret passage hidden under the handsome tent, and Chu Lixuan wanted to escape through this illusion, so he did it honestly."

"But when the battle was over, Ge Hui was escorted to the field, but no trace of the secret passage was found, and Chu Lixuan and the strange stone all disappeared strangely."

Hearing this, several concubines were stunned, but Xia Ao was thoughtful.

"You mean, that strange stone could be a powerful treasure that could open up some kind of spatial passage and teleport people to other places?"

Seeing Yuan Tiangang nodding heavily, Xia Ao frowned slightly.

"But how can you be sure that he was not teleported to other parts of Tiannan, but directly out of Tiannan?"

"Back to Your Majesty, in fact, the minister is not 100% sure of this."

Yuan Tiangang responded in a solemn voice, looking calm.

"However, according to the method of deduction of Liuren, the minister traced the origin of Chu Lixuan's disappearance, and as a result, he captured an aura that was beyond the abnormal."

"The essence of this aura is still Yuan Li, but it is extremely unfamiliar, and it is very different from Tiannan's Yuan Li. Therefore, the minister suspected that Chu Lixuan had used that strange stone to connect a world that was very different from Tiannan, and it was very likely that he had gone there! ”

After listening to Yuan Tiangang's analysis, Xia Ao pondered for a long time, and finally chuckled, got up and paced slowly.

"Interesting."

"If you look at it from another angle, it's not a bad thing. Tiannan has been a lost place for a long time, and there has never been a channel of communication with the outside world. ”

"But this Chu Lixuan has made a hole in this absolutely closed barrier. Perhaps, he can bring a channel to the outside world? Hehe......"

Yuan Tiangang frowned slightly, but his face showed a touch of worry.

"Your Majesty, if this is really the case, and Chu Lixuan can come back again, then what he brings may not be hope, it is more likely to be a disaster......

"It's okay, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will cover it."

Xia Ao shook his head, calm and calm.

"As long as he is strong enough, it doesn't matter if he is a demon or a Buddha, but anyone who dares to be a demon must be awarded!"

……

Dali Temple Prison, Heavy Prison Area.

Lai Yongqing was unkempt and bloodstained, and he had long since lost his former glamor.

At a certain moment, the heavy prison door suddenly opened, and a figure slowly walked in.

Lai Yongqing was excited, and instinctively shrank inside, so that he dared to look up cautiously.

After seeing the person clearly, Lai Yongqing's lips suddenly trembled, and tears of excitement were left in his eyes.

"Zhao Zhangdian, Zhao Zhangdian, you are finally here! Whining... I knew it, I knew that His Majesty would not leave my ...... alone"

Lai Yongqing burst into tears and quickly got up, his eyes full of hope.

"Zhao Zhangdian, please tell Your Majesty, Wechen is guilty, but Wechen still has a role to Your Majesty, and Wechen has thought of a brilliant idea to earn a lot of wealth for Your Majesty......"

Zhao Gao shook his head slowly, with a pitiful look in his eyes.

"Lai Shilang, do you still have the face to plead with Your Majesty? For most of the past six months, you have used Your Majesty's grace to deceive everywhere, and you have also put most of your wealth into your own pocket, you guts, you are really not ordinary......"

"No, Zhao Zhangdian, you listen to me, no matter how you say it, I have hard work without credit, I do all this ......"

Lai Yongqing's face turned white, and he was busy arguing.

However, Zhao Gao didn't have the heart to talk nonsense with him.

"That's it!"

"Lai Shilang, Your Majesty doesn't care much about your small actions, and he also trusts and favors you in every way. But who made you so greedy? Dare to swallow His Majesty's wealth, you are really tired of being crooked! ”

"How do you think that when you came back from the envoy to Great Chu, how did you survive the assassination of the killer sent by Chu Lixuan?"

"If it weren't for the strong man who His Majesty ordered me to cover the net to protect secretly, where would you still be alive today? Hum! ”

"Your Majesty treats you so well, but you don't have enough people's hearts to swallow elephants, you are really looking for death!"

"Okay, you don't have to bother anymore, just prepare for the road with peace of mind."

"However, Your Majesty is still thinking about your contribution, so he will leave you a bloodline, so that you will not be completely cut off."

After the words fell, Zhao Gao turned around and Shi Shiran left, leaving Lai Yongqing paralyzed on the ground with a dead face.

(End of chapter)