Chapter 163: Leave with a swagger.
The underground was hollowed out and supported by more than a dozen stone pillars that could be hugged by two people. Everywhere you looked, there were wooden boxes of different sizes...
Just by standing at the entrance, Ran Qingxuan could smell a strong smell of money!
He casually opened a nearby wooden box, and the golden light was refracted back by the flashlight, almost blinding the two people's eyes.
Before this, the two thought that the end of the left passage would be a horrific scene. After all, the three people said that the poisonous insects they raised needed fresh blood...
Ran Qingxuan walked through the piled up boxes with his mouth wide open, and stopped after every few steps to open one of them.
With the continuous influx of money, Ran Qingxuan almost thought he was dazzled.
"Is this real? I must be dreaming?"
Gu Yanchen was also secretly shocked by Qi Jing's handicraft. No wonder he gave the three million without hesitation. He didn't know where he got these things from.
"Hehehe..." A burst of laughter that could not hide the excitement was heard, Ran Qingxuan's eyes flashed with excitement, and he waved his hand and began to act.
Boxes of gold, silver and treasures disappeared in front of Gu Yanchen, and he felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure in his heart.
Ran Qingxuan felt a little scared after receiving the items. There were hundreds of boxes, and how much money must be inside them!
Many of the boxes were covered with thick dust, and they had probably been here for some years. It was not difficult to hear from the people who had just moved the boxes that this was not their first time here, which showed that Qi Jing had not been idle.
"Qi Jing is the same age as you. How did he get all these gold and silver jewelry? Even if Emperor Mingde likes this son very much, it is impossible for him to reward him with so much gold and silver, right?"
At a glance, the amount of gold and silver alone far exceeded the national treasury, not to mention the valuable jewelry and paintings in the boxes that were occasionally opened.
Gu Yanchen was also a little puzzled. Qi Jing was the crown prince of a country and the whole world would belong to him in the future, but as long as Emperor Mingde was still alive, he would not have his own fiefdom.
And even if he had a fiefdom, it would be impossible for him to get such a terrifying amount of money from it!
In less than ten seconds, more than half of the space in front of him was empty. Gu Yanchen casually opened the dusty box, picked up the silver inside and examined it carefully.
"This is?"
Gu Yanchen frowned suddenly, and then, regardless of the fact that Ran Qingxuan was still putting boxes into the space, he opened another dusty box.
Silver was picked up and put down one after another, and Ran Qingxuan also noticed something was wrong.
"Is there something wrong with this silver?"
"Heh...it's not that there's a problem, it's that there's a big problem!"
Stopping what he was doing, Ran Qingxuan walked over to him and shone the flashlight on the silver in the box.
In her opinion, silver is basically the same except for size, there is no difference at all.
Gu Yanchen frowned and took out two fifty-tael silver coins from each of the two boxes, showing the bottom to Ran Qingxuan.
"In the Northern Qi Dynasty, apart from salaries and silver collected from taxes, only military pay would have special official seals. The one on the left hand was cast seven years ago, and the one on the right hand was cast four years ago. Both have official seals."
"So, all this silver is... military pay?"
"No doubt about it."
There was a flash of shock in Ran Qingxuan's eyes. Withholding military pay was a serious crime. Even if he was the prince, he would not be able to escape the punishment if he was discovered.
Qi Jing was really brave. Not satisfied with just one deduction, he deducted it twice in a row...
Ran Qingxuan suddenly felt that the money was like a hot potato. If he was discovered while using it, he would have no way to explain himself.
But before Ran Qingxuan could ask any questions, Gu Yanchen immediately said, "Qingxuan, if you can take it, take all the silver!"
"Is it okay? These silver coins have official seals. If they are discovered when they are used..."
"Take it away first, I'll explain it to you after we leave!"
After hearing this, Ran Qingxuan seized the opportunity and put all the boxes in the remaining half of the cave into the space.
Fortunately, the available space had been expanded hundreds of times before, otherwise these hundreds of boxes would not be able to fit in.
Looking at the empty underground secret room, Ran Qingxuan clapped his hands in satisfaction, and then a hint of disappointment appeared in his eyes.
"It's a pity that I can't see Qi Jing being angry to death..."
"Neither the military pay nor the jewelry could have been obtained legitimately, which shows that this is not the first time he has done such things. This time we not only found Big Brother but also seized his treasury. Whatever he was planning will be shattered."
Ran Qingxuan became happier the more he thought about it, and then he said, "Let's not talk about what he is going to do with all this money. After the palace treasury was robbed, he will definitely want the parchment scroll even more.
But as long as we find the treasure hidden by the previous emperor of Lan Yu first and make him suffer heavy losses one after another, we will be worthy of the injustice suffered by Big Brother! ”
Gu Yanchen seemed to be worried, but he felt much better because of Ran Qingxuan's words.
Noticing his strangeness, Ran Qingxuan also put away his smile. The two returned to the original entrance. Gu Yanchen carefully pushed the wooden door above his head open a crack.
An Si had been waiting anxiously. When the four people carrying the boxes just went down, his heart almost stood up. He didn't know how many people were down there, and he didn't dare to use the intercom rashly. He could only wait anxiously.
He didn't feel relieved until the four men came out and left.
Seeing Gu Yanchen at this moment, An Si quickly stepped forward to help open the door of the underground entrance.
But just as the three were about to leave, two guards in official uniforms happened to carry a person dressed in palace maid's clothes into the yard.
"Why don't you three stay down there and behave yourself? Why are you out here?"
As the light was too dim, the two guards thought it was the three people who made the Gu, and they carried the palace maid towards them while asking.
Gu Yanchen and Ran Qingxuan looked at each other and immediately lowered their voices and said, "Master has something to do with the three of us, just leave him in the old place."
They had no right to interfere in their master's affairs, but they knew a little bit. The two guards didn't have much contact with the three men, and when they saw that the secret guards around didn't come out to stop them, they didn't say anything more.
At this moment, Ran Qingxuan was extremely grateful that he put Gu Yanzong into the space. If there was one more person, the two guards would definitely become suspicious.
The three of them walked away in a swagger in front of the guards. It was not until the car had driven more than ten miles away that Ran Qingxuan asked in disbelief.
"We're just going to get out like this?"
Gu Yanchen did not expect that the trip to Taicang Palace would be so smooth. Apart from the secret guards, Qi Jing actually only left four guards to guard the yard.
"Do you think he was lucky and felt that he hadn't been discovered for so many years, so he was extremely confident and only arranged a small number of people to guard it?"
There is so much money hidden underground, and part of it is military pay. How big of a person is Qi Jingxin to think that no one would covet it!
But think about it, after all, he was the crown prince. Who would have thought that the person who robbed the military pay would be the future monarch.
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