When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 207 205 The Deposed Crown Prince's Other Hidden Silver

Shen Hongling was initially placed in the Wei Mansion. Later, when Wei Xingba sent troops to Shuzhou, she was also transferred to the front of the tent as a soldier and became an entourage of Wei Xingba.

After receiving the news she passed on, Gu Hua felt that it was not surprising that Wei Xingba and his subordinates could make such a crazy decision.

Wei Xingba was originally just a general guarding Shuzhou City. Over the years, he used the power he had accumulated to secretly push Wang Lian to the position of Shuzhou prefect.

Fearing that he might have second thoughts, she even married her stepsister, with whom she was having an affair, to him as a spy.

Even though Wei Xingba had always had the ambition to secretly control the military and political affairs of Shuzhou, Shuzhou was poor after all. No matter how much he plundered the people's wealth and squeezed the merchants and the people, making the whole Shuzhou wailing, he could not accumulate enough money to support this rapidly expanding army.

Even if he got the silver left by the former prince, it would be just a drop in the bucket for him to support a huge army.

Gu Hua looked at the message sent back by the spy on the other side.

If the army was so easy to maintain, these bastards would not be willing to harm the people when neither the imperial court nor local authorities subsidized their military rations.

Now he would no longer be limited to digging wild vegetables with 5,000 men.

Xiao Junlin: “…” Actually, I’m not that miserable.

Daxuan fell into chaos because of the disaster. There were many rebel armies who, like Wei Xingba, used war to support war, especially those rebel armies that were ambitious but lacked strength.

This was a heavy blow to the people who had thought that they would usher in a peaceful life after the disaster.

Rebels popped up like mushrooms after rain, and various forces competed for territory, making the people even more miserable and wailing everywhere...

The people who had survived the disaster were faced with the chaos of war and could only continue to live a displaced and homeless life.

……

This side of Shuzhou.

The moment Wei Xingba led his troops to leave Shuzhou, Gu Hua began to secretly eliminate the people he left behind to manage the Shuzhou government, and then replaced them with his own people and those from the royal palace.

Then Gu Hua personally led Luo Dingshan and Ye An, who were returning from transporting grain, and Shen Hongwei, along with more than a thousand royal guards, to destroy the remaining troops defending the city.

At the gate of Shuzhou city.

Xiao Hai, whose escape route was blocked by Gu Hua and his men, never expected that Wei Xingba left behind 5,000 soldiers to defend his base camp before leaving, but they were all wiped out by a woman and her men.

Gu Hua's eyes were cold as he stared at Xiao Hai from his horse, and said calmly, "It's time to settle the score for the last time you attacked the villa and caused my children to be kidnapped."

Xiao Hai was shocked. He had seen the woman kill someone at the villa, so he knew how powerful she was. "You broke my arm and killed my uncle, which made me lose everything.

In this way, can we settle the matter between you and me?"

"We're even." Gu Hua shook his head: "Let's just settle it."

"I prefer to cut the roots and not leave any trouble behind."

Xiao Hai saw that the woman in front of him had no martial ethics and started fighting without hesitation. The long knife was about to fall on his neck and his head and body were about to be separated. He turned around and fell off his horse in a mess.

"Master Gu, please show mercy." Xiao Hai shouted with his eyes closed when Gu Hua's long sword fell again, "I still have several million taels of silver hidden, which I haven't handed over.

If you will spare my life, I will give you the silver."

Gu Hua paused.

Rebellion is a very costly thing. Although Gu Hua has a lot of gold, silver and treasures in his space, who would complain about having too much silver?

Gu Hua retracted the tip of the knife that was against Xiao Hai's neck, sat on his horse and looked down at him, "If you dare to lie to me, I will turn you into a human pig and let you play with snakes, insects, rats, and ants every day." Xiao Hai's body trembled involuntarily.

The woman in front of him was obviously very beautiful, but her cold gaze filled him with fear, and he had no doubt that she would do what she said.

Gu Hua ordered Luo Dingshan to take people to clean up the bodies of the soldiers guarding the city left by Wei Xingba, and to settle the soldiers who were willing to surrender.

Then he led Shen Hongwei, Ye Ping and others to escort Xiao Hai to another place where Xiao Hai said the silver left by the former prince during the rebellion was hidden.

Gu Hua was skeptical about what Xiao Hai said.

After all, Wei Xingba was willing to spare his life, but it was in exchange for the silver left by the so-called former prince by Xiao Hai.

If Xiao Hai still had the silver left by his father, the former crown prince who was executed after his failed rebellion, then it really was true that a cunning rabbit has three burrows, so there must be more than one place to hide silver.

When a group of people followed Xiao Hai to the place where he said he hid the silver, everyone was stunned. "Silver, is...hidden...here?!"

"If I had known...if I had known..."

Everyone knows what they mean by "I knew it earlier".

Even if they had known earlier that they would need Xiao Hai to lead the way, the location of the tiankeng was not far from where they lived. If they had known there was silver here, they would have moved back long ago.

Gu Hua looked at the familiar terrain in front of him and raised his eyebrows.

I also thought that if I had known that the silver was hidden under the sinkhole, I would not have bothered to do anything and would have destroyed the entire nest long ago.

Looking at the deep and bottomless tiankeng, Gu Hua instructed Jin Shan who was following him: "Ride back and ask Dagui for some thick ropes."

Jinshan: “Yes.”

Dahu, Jinshan, and Laoqi are all Han Jinyan's younger brothers.

Han Jinyan was assigned to go undercover.

They are now following Gu Hua to do things.

Jinshan rode his horse around a small hillside and saw Shulin Village in the distance. He thought that what they were doing now should not be known to more people.

So Jinshan took another route to the villa.

When Dagui in the villa heard that Jinshan had returned, he hurriedly put down what he was doing and ran over to ask about his master.

After all, although he had known that Gu Hua had returned from the capital a long time ago and had recruited several young masters from the Chen and Sun families to Shuzhou City, she had never returned.

As a house-born child, the elderly people around Gu Hua, of course, are very concerned about their master.

When he came to the front hall and saw that only Jinshan was there, Dagui was a little disappointed, "Where is the head of the family?"

Jinshan drank the water brought by the other servants, took a step closer to Dagui, and whispered back, "Don't ask for now, get me some thicker ropes first, the master needs them."

Dagui took a look at Jinqian's serious expression and guessed that what they were going to do might have to be done behind the backs of some people, so without asking any more questions, he went to the warehouse where the sundries were kept, took out a few strong and thick ropes, and handed them to Shanjin to take away.

There was a servant who was familiar with Jinshan. When he saw him come back, he wanted to stop him and have a chat, but was told by Dagui to do other things.

Don't let these people waste Jinshan's time and indirectly delay their master's business.

Here, Gu Hua discovered that Xiao Hai was staring at the bottomless abyss of the tiankeng, his eyes flickering extremely darkly and narrowing slightly.

I guess this trip to the tiankeng might not be peaceful...