After the two founding emperors divided the Qikong Kingdom in two, they first desecrated the royal tombs, claiming there were valuable treasures inside.
Su Wenyuan learned about this from the records of Anchuan Kingdom.
Sheng Jingyu explained, "Prince Qi is not in the imperial mausoleum. He swore in his youth that he would never be involved in the court and would guard the border forever. Even if he died, he would die on the battlefield and his body would not be placed in the imperial mausoleum."
King Qi was the most famous prince in the history of Qikong Kingdom. He fought on the battlefield, expanded the territory, and was said to be omnipotent. His generals were also unstoppable and brave.
He found his own burial place when he was young, but no one knows where it is.
After his death, the accompanying army secretly took his body away from the border. A month later, most of the generals and soldiers who had followed King Qi suddenly fell ill and died.
Later, very few survived. Soon after, news spread that the tomb of King Qi contained countless gold and silver treasures. King Qi's generals and soldiers would plunder treasures wherever they fought, and all that gold and silver was buried in the tomb of King Qi.
It can be said that half of the area of Qikong Kingdom at that time was conquered by him. Although some cities were lost in later generations, the total area left behind was still very large.
Half of the country's gold and silver were taken into the possession of Prince Qi.
Su Wenyuan became interested and asked curiously, "With so much gold and silver, and soldiers under his command, he could have rebelled. Why hasn't he rebelled and declared himself emperor? Is he only greedy for money?"
Sheng Jingyu said, "The records from hundreds of years ago have been passed down to the present day, and I don't know how many rumors and rewrites they have undergone. For a long time, people regarded King Qi as a god, saying that those dead soldiers were originally gods who descended to earth. Now that King Qi is dead, he has returned to heaven."
"..."
Su Wenyuan didn't know what to say; what a mess this was.
Sheng Jingyu continued, "Leaving aside these unreliable theories, there are some interesting ones. Some say that Prince Qi used secret medicine or Gu worms to control his soldiers, making them tireless and therefore exceptionally brave."
"This one is more reliable," Hua Ling commented.
Su Wenyuan jumped up in fright and angrily asked, "When did you get here?"
Hua Ling grinned and said, "When telling a story."
"What are you here for?"
Hua Ling chuckled and said, "I just went to find Nian Huaizhong to ask him to make me a shelf. I saw Yuexiu carrying things to his place, and there was something I wanted in it..."
Before he could finish speaking, Su Wenyuan interrupted, "Go find Yuexiu and ask her if she still has any. If not, go and discuss with Nian Huaizhong whether there's anything else this time."
“Yes, I was talking about Prince Qi, it’s possible.” Hua Ling was in a great mood and joined the discussion.
Su Wenyuan asked him to explain in detail.
"Using drugs to control it is not uncommon. Isn't that how all secret guards are raised? If Prince Qi suddenly dies, the soldiers will die without medicine."
Su Wenyuan looked at Sheng Jingyu in surprise. "The guards in the mansion also take medicine?"
Sheng Jingyu coughed lightly and said, "Not everyone uses it, but it's unavoidable at the beginning."
Hua Ling said with a smile, "The royal guards are all controlled in this way, and they are still like this now. But they are not like the legendary Qi Wang army, who are not afraid of death or pain and can fight ten against one."
Su Wenyuan suddenly realized, "Is it possible to take on ten people at once after taking the medicine?"
"Perhaps..." Hua Ling said uncertainly, "Anyone who knows how to make medicine would not dare to say that it is impossible."
"Therefore, there are medicinal formulas in the tomb of King Qi." Su Wenyuan realized the key point.
Gold and silver are secondary; the primary desire is for the so-called medicine.
A team that is absolutely loyal and capable of taking on ten opponents at once is incredibly tempting.
Sheng Jingyu nodded in agreement; he thought so too.
Having figured this out, there are other questions. What does this have to do with Marquis Anle?
Sheng Jingyu sighed and said, "No one knows the location of the Qi King's tomb, but there are clues left behind. It is said that it was placed in a palace. The emperor at that time turned that palace upside down, but found nothing."
"Later he told the public that this was a rumor and nonsense. Until the country fell, the two emperors found many strange things in a secret treasury. Records say that the messy things in front of them were all taken from that palace."
They carefully preserved the dismantled items, claiming them to the outside world as rumors, but in private they continued to study and investigate them, thoroughly researching and uncovering the deeds of King Qi.
Su Wenyuan asked in shock, "So the junk we found was the stuff from the private vault?"
Sheng Jingyu nodded heavily and said, "It should be. Anchuan and Fuchuan divided those things in two. I don't know where the Anchuan part was stored before, but later it was in the hands of the Yu family."
Marquis Anle not only did not betray his country, but his ancestors were also loyal to the country.
"Wait a minute! Is he keeping it for himself?" Hua Ling asked.
Sheng Jingyu said, "No, since Anchuan Kingdom recorded this thing and didn't say it was lost or misplaced, then someone must have given it to the Yu family. This thing should have been passed down from generation to generation."
Su Wenyuan also raised a question, saying, "Then why doesn't the Emperor know?"
"It's normal that he doesn't know; the throne was originally mine." Sheng Jingyu's attitude was casual and nonchalant, but his eyes revealed an undisguised arrogance.
The late emperor personally instructed him and even gave him the emperor's personal guards, who obeyed only him. This favoritism was undisguised.
"Then how come you didn't know either?" Hua Ling retorted.
Sheng Jingyu blinked and said, "Originally, I might have known about this Prince Qi, but I have no interest in him at all. It's been too long, and I even think his story is all made up."
He wasn't interested in Prince Qi; it was the late emperor who insisted he see it. At the time, he didn't understand, but he still read quite a bit of it. Now he understands.
"King Qi waged wars in all directions, but he did not leave behind any military treatises or tactics. He only briefly mentioned so many battles. I think his story is fabricated, since it is impossible to verify."
Although Sheng Jingyu had seen it, he had never studied it carefully.
Hua Ling continued, "The late emperor didn't have time to tell you, and he never intended to tell the current emperor. Marquis Anle thought that you or the emperor knew about this, and in the end, he died without knowing why."
Su Wenyuan continued, "When something unexpected happened, my mother didn't know what was going on or who to talk to, so she left me a picture, but Su Yuan kept it."
Sheng Jingyu said, "I didn't have time to say anything. There might be clues, but I don't know if they're in the palace or in the Marquis of Anle's residence. Anyway, we don't know where to start now, we can't find them."
Next, let's talk about the Qikong Kingdom!
They sent someone to incite the Emperor to kill Marquis Anle. The Emperor, that fool, fell right into the trap.
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