A crescent moon hangs in the sky.
At the foot of the Star-Picking Terrace in Jinghu Villa, Bai Yulian personally led 10,000 Marines to surround the place.
He didn't know what Fu Xiaoguan was going to do, but it was obvious that this Star-Picking Platform held some extremely important secret.
At this moment, he, Fu Xiaoguan, Jia Nanxing, and Ning Siyan were standing in front of the iron gate under the Star Picking Platform. They saw Fu Xiaoguan take a deep breath nervously, and then heard him slowly say:
"Tonight's event is top secret! You must remember, after you go in, you must not tell anyone a word about what you see!"
This is very serious. Bai Yulian and the other two nodded cautiously, not understanding what shocking secret is hidden in this.
Fu Xiaoguan clenched his fists. The fat guy shouldn’t fool me, right?
I made such a big fuss. What if the fat guy cheated me and there was nothing inside when I opened it? That would be embarrassing.
Ning Siyan was even more puzzled. He was familiar with this place. During the literary gathering that year, he had hidden Yu Wenyun and the others in here in order to avoid the murder attempt. What could be inside this empty place?
But Fu Xiaoguan was so nervous - when had this guy ever been nervous?
Whether on the battlefield or in the palace, Ning Siyan had never seen Fu Xiaoguan look nervous.
But now Fu Xiaoguan's expression was indeed tense. Under the light, the muscles on his face were tense.
Fu Xiaoguan rubbed his hands and opened the iron door outside. The four of them walked in and found that there was indeed a huge empty space inside.
"Xiaobai, close the door."
Immediately afterwards, Ning Siyan saw Fu Xiaoguan holding a torch and lighting all the oil lamps on the wall.
He went to the wall opposite and took down the oil lamp. There was actually a keyhole behind the oil lamp!
Ning Siyan's eyes suddenly widened, and she saw Fu Xiaoguan take out a three-inch-long copper key.
The copper key just fit into the keyhole. As he turned the copper key, there was a slight cracking sound from the ground. Before their eyes, astonished, the originally flat ground suddenly cracked to both sides!
Ning Siyan held up the lantern and looked inside. In the darkness below, she could vaguely see a stone staircase winding down.
There is actually another cave underneath!
"Let's go down and take a look!"
Eunuch Jia seemed to have figured something out. He raised his lips and walked in front, followed closely by Fu Xiaoguan. The four of them descended the spiral staircase to the underground...
Even though Eunuch Jia had clearly guessed the result, he was still shocked by what he saw and his mouth opened wide.
Fu Xiaoguan and the other two were no exception. They were all stunned and couldn't believe it.
What appeared before their eyes was a mountain of gold!
A huge gold mountain built up from gold bricks!
At this moment, Fu Xiaoguan knew the origin of the gold mountain - the fat man robbed the Chen Dynasty treasure under the Confucius Temple!
Fatty is awesome!
Fu Xiaoguan's eyes lit up, and he was completely overwhelmed with admiration for this fat father!
But...what about the poem "A Farewell to Cambridge" under the Confucius Temple?
The fat man told me the news, gave me a key and ran away. Was he worried that I would ask him about this?
What is he hiding?
He took a deep breath and suppressed these thoughts in his mind. He could only wait for the fat man to come back and ask him.
"Oh my God!" Ning Siyan muttered to herself.
Bai Yulian swallowed her saliva and felt a little hot all over.
What the hell!
What else can I say?
Any language pales in comparison to this glittering mountain of gold.
"Xiaobai...got rich!"
"Yeah, I'm rich!"
Fu Xiaoguan, who had lived two lives, couldn't help but say, "With this gold, all the problems of the Wu Dynasty can be solved! Xiaobai, we will soon have the most powerful army in the world! We will conquer a vast empire!"
At this moment, Fu Xiaoguan was full of energy and vigor!
The money that had troubled him for a long time and had been the biggest problem restricting the development of the Wu Dynasty was thus solved.
Next, we must establish universities, expand the Academy of Sciences, recruit talented individuals, increase the number of docks and piers, encourage people across the country to have children, implement twelve years of compulsory education, open medical schools, establish a basic medical system, and implement free medical care for all...
At this moment, Fu Xiaoguan thought a lot.
He originally thought that his ideal would be difficult to achieve even if he spent his entire life on it, but at this moment, he saw hope again.
In his original plan, the accumulation of funds could only be done step by step. The fastest way to accumulate funds he could think of was to go out to sea and plunder!
Of course, the plan of plundering at sea will not change because of this mountain of gold. It will be greatly advanced because of this mountain of gold!
With this gold, he can purchase resources from other countries on a large scale, recruit more outstanding talents, speed up technological upgrades, and even launch a currency war!
"Xiaobai, the navy must be combat-ready by March next year!"
"……good!"
"Eunuch Jia, remember to bring the head clerk, Li, from the Sitong Bank, to the Imperial Study tomorrow. Also... send someone to invite Qin Chengye to the Imperial Study tomorrow as well."
"good!"
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"He didn't put the mountain of gold into the treasury, but instead had Sitong Bank use it as an anchor to print a large amount of silver notes."
Taoist temple, next to Tianxin Lake.
The fat man sat cross-legged in front of the campfire, roasting a deer. He glanced at Xu Yunqing standing to the side and continued, "He established a fundamental national policy, a century-long plan based on education. He established many schools in the Wu Dynasty and encouraged the people to have children. He stated that all children over the age of six in the Wu Dynasty must attend school and receive compulsory education... but there is no tuition."
"This kid is such a spendthrift! I suddenly feel like I shouldn't tell him about that mountain of gold."
Xu Yunqing smiled sweetly, "We agreed to leave it to him. It's his money anyway, so why are you so upset?"
"By the way, were you driven out by Shang Ruoshui?"
The fat man blushed, "Didn't I come here to tell you about him?"
Su Changsheng laughed, then looked at Xu Yunqing and asked, "He printed too many banknotes, and now that prices in the Wu Dynasty have begun to rise, will this be a problem?"
"I don't know either. Who cares? Let him do whatever he wants."
The fat man suddenly interjected, "This guy has the Commerce Bureau purchasing large quantities of ore and timber from various countries in the four major trading cities. I'm afraid he's consumed a lot of silver notes."
"Isn't there a lot of these things in Wu Dynasty? What did he buy them for?"
"What else can he do? Build ships and guns. He's obsessed with going out to sea. I don't understand what else there is to do in the vast ocean besides fish."
Su Changsheng didn't know either. He turned and looked at Xu Yunqing:
"It's almost the New Year again. Do you want to go to Guanyun City to see him?"
Xu Yunqing was silent for a moment and shook his head.
"Wait a little longer."
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