NFBE Chapter 470 3
Chapter 470 3
When they saw the entrance to the cave, everyone excitedly gathered around to take a look.
"Wait!" Elder Du stopped him immediately, "Let me check it out first."
He was afraid there was another trap.
Elder Du took a torch from the guard and walked to the cave entrance.
"There are steps, we can go down." He saw a stone staircase extending downwards that three people could walk on.
He knocked around with his sword, but no hidden arrows or anything like that were shot out.
"Follow me." Seeing that it was safe, Elder Du waved to everyone.
Then they all gathered around and followed him one by one.
The three babies were very well-behaved and let the adults hold them, without talking nonsense.
When they walked down the stone steps, they saw sturdy wooden boxes neatly placed in front of them.
"Haha, this is the real treasure, right?" Elder Du saw so many boxes and guessed that the boxes were filled with the gold and silver they imagined.
When Yu Yuanzheng saw these boxes, she was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth.
If this were all filled with gold and silver, how much would it be?
The prince also excitedly walked towards a box and was about to open it.
The boxes were not locked, just covered with lids.
"Your Highness, wait a minute." Shangguan Ziqi stopped him and stepped forward to pry open the lid of a box with his sword.
"Wow! Gold." Yu Yuanzheng couldn't help but exclaim.
She is a money-grubber. Seeing such a large box of gold ingots shining with golden light under the firelight, how can she control her excited heart?
Everyone saw that Shangguan Ziqi could find a box of gold wherever he picked one up.
Everyone walked to the nearest box and opened it.
"Your Highness, this box contains gold bricks."
"Your Highness, this box contains silver ingots."
"Your Highness, this box is Gu Dong."
"Prince Jing, this box contains jade artifacts."
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All kinds of exclamations came and went.
Everyone was delighted to hear this.
"Good, good, that's great. With this treasure in the treasury of our Great Wei, we won't have to worry about not having money to repair the river embankment, to pay compensation to the soldiers, or to build bridges and roads." The prince happily expressed his excitement.
"The prince is right." Prince Jing agreed.
"The national treasury is full, and many of the emperor's plans to improve people's livelihood can be implemented ahead of time." The prince also looked at the boxes with shining eyes.
His wish to establish a navy will soon be realized.
Elder Du felt a little ashamed after hearing what the prince and the prince said.
These people from the underworld are here just to get some benefits.
When the prince saw the treasure, the first thing he thought of was how to benefit the people.
He was also one of the people of Wei.
At this time, the shame in his heart gradually increased, and he also made a decision.
He couldn't make too high demands, just some hard work fee would be enough to give some travel expenses to the disciples who followed him.
The prince had great use for this money. He couldn't afford to lose face for the people of Wei or the Qishan faction.
Although everyone likes treasure, not all treasures can be taken.
After everyone was excited, they all had smiles on their faces.
"Let's count these boxes and see how many there are. Open each one and take a look. We'll work in groups of four and count them in groups."
This treasure house is square in shape.
Yu Yuanzheng estimated that it was about 300 square meters, but the boxes were not placed one by one, but stacked up.
All three floors.
They are neatly stacked in rows.
Yu Yuanzheng took the three children and Shangguan Ziqi to count together.
Shangguan Ziqi wanted to bring the box down from above, but it was too heavy to lift.
The two of them couldn't open them one by one, so they could only open the one on top.
It turned out that the row they counted was filled with silver ingots.
It took half an hour to finish the inventory.
When the sum was presented to the prince, there were three thousand boxes in total.
According to preliminary estimates, in addition to gold and silver, there are antique jades and precious calligraphy and paintings from previous dynasties and the dynasties before that.
"Your Highness, I estimate that these may be worth a total of 30 million taels of silver." The prince always had a serious face, but at this moment he smiled so hard that his teeth were showing.
"Uncle Rong is right. This is my estimate as well." The prince also smiled a little foolishly.
Since the founding of the Wei Dynasty, there has never been so much cash in the treasury.
The silver in the national treasury was fluid, with both inflow and outflow. The highest amount of silver deposited in a year was only eight million taels.
This amount of money is at least the tax revenue of the Wei Dynasty for the current seven or eight years.
Yu Yuanzheng also had some thoughts in mind.
Can she pay back the money she lent to the national treasury?
And since they found the treasure, the emperor should at least express his gratitude.
After everyone finished counting, they carefully checked the entire underground treasure house again and found nothing unusual.
"Let's go, close the entrance again and make plans tomorrow. It's probably dark outside now." said the prince.
But that expression was as joyful as it could be.
After walking out of the underground treasure house, the prince pressed the jade seal into the original small hole again, and the entrance was automatically sealed again.
Everyone returned along the same route, and Elder Du closed the first door.
Return to camp.
At this time, Chen Qiming was already waiting outside the main tent.
"This humble general pays homage to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Prince Rong, Prince Jing, and the Grand General."
"No need for formalities. Is there something wrong?" The prince saw that he was not at the valley entrance, but waiting here instead.
"Your Highness, there are 25 scoundrels causing trouble and I have arrested them. Please give me your instructions."
When those people saw His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and his men go in, they tried to sneak in from the other side, over the mountain.
As a result, they were discovered by the soldiers patrolling the mountains arranged by Chen Qiming, and a fight broke out. The soldiers were no match for these gangsters.
But when they encountered danger, they sent out distress signals, and Chen Qiming immediately sent reinforcements.
The soldiers' martial arts skills were not strong, but they could not withstand the large numbers and they could set up battle formations. After a fierce fight, they captured twenty-five villains.
"Disable your martial arts and hand him over to Lord Wan for processing." The prince said coldly.
My good mood just now was affected by a few flies.
Let them do hard labor, and killing them would be a waste of that labor force.
"I obey your command." Chen Qiming retreated.
After dinner, the prince gathered his people together to discuss the next plan.
After Yu Yuanzheng coaxed the child to sleep, she also came to the prince's tent. The two tents were adjacent to each other.
As soon as she came in, she saw that everyone was frowning and thinking deeply.
"What's wrong?" Yu Yuanzheng asked Shangguan Ziqi in a low voice.
"The chariots we saw today were quite large, and it would have been impossible to transport them through the passage we walked through today, especially on a cliff. So we suspect there must be another entrance somewhere to facilitate the transportation of those chariots."
"Oh, then you haven't thought about it, maybe it was scattered when it was transported in, and then assembled after it got in?" Yu Yuanzheng thought of a possibility.
"If that's the case, why assemble it? Isn't the purpose of the previous dynasty's royal family to leave it for future generations? If it's really needed one day, we have to dismantle it all and take it out again. Wouldn't that just cause more trouble?"
"You have a point."
"Didn't you discover some artificially planted cypress trees in the forest before? Could they be right there?" The prince thought for a moment and said.
The character "天" allows them to find an entrance. If there is a second entrance, is it related to the character "地"?