The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 258 Zero-Cash Purchase

Two hours later.

Hami City has officially been taken over by the Vanguard Battalion.

More than half of King Chungsun's personal guards have been killed or wounded.

The rest could only surrender and become prisoners of war.

The attackers and defenders switch roles!
By the time everything returned to normal, it was already broad daylight.
Inside the palace.

The dejected King Chungshun and his four queens were driven into the hall.

A devout Muslim cannot kill himself.

They can only be prisoners.

But when King Zhongshun looked up at the Han army leader sitting in the main seat of the hall, his eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

He blurted out, "How come it's a woman?!"

She's an absolute beauty!
The Western Regions have always been known for their beauties!
In addition to the four noble wives in King Chungsun's palace, his concubines included many beautiful women who were skilled in singing and dancing.

The person in front of me is terrifying at first glance.

Like the snow lotus on the mountaintop.

Both cold and beautiful.

General Wu was a womanizer. If he knew he would die at the hands of this man, would he become a philandering ghost?

King Chungsun thought so.

The four princesses were unaware that their prince would be distracted even when the lives of his entire family were at stake.

What they saw at first glance was not a beauty, but a female demon.

The female demon hadn't had time to conceal her murderous aura.

A faint smell of blood permeated the air in the hall.

How many people do you have to kill to get this smell?

My throat is itchy, and I feel nauseous.

Reason told them they couldn't.

Fear spread through my heart.

"Puff."

"Puff."

The four princesses could not withstand the oppressive aura of blood in the air and all knelt down.

He was speaking in Hakkaniyeh, a language the other person couldn't understand at all.

King Chungsun finally snapped out of his reverie.

Before he knew it, his concubines were kneeling before him?
Should he kneel?

In Han Chinese etiquette, kneeling represents submission.

He... he didn't even have a choice!
Before he could even force himself to kneel, the aloof beauty asked, "Does Prince Zhongshun wish to live?"

Unlike the four queens who only spoke Hakanie.

King Chungsun had naturally studied Chinese and could speak fluent Mandarin.

He nodded repeatedly:
"Please give me some advice, General. If you can release me and my family to return to the Kashgar Khanate, I am willing to give you all my wealth."

To show his sincerity, King Chungsun voluntarily attached a list of the palace's assets and the keys to the treasury.

"Hehe." General Gan's cold voice rang out.

"Does this mean that when the Kashgar Khanate raided neighboring countries in the past, they would be spared death if they were allowed to take the spoils?"

King Chungshun's back was soaked with cold sweat, and he stammered, "This...this..."

Seeing the guilty look on General Gan's face, the centurions standing beside him knew that what their general said was true.

I was overjoyed.

One of them, quick-witted and articulate, shouted:

"Prince Zhongshun, don't confuse spoils with ransom! Spoils are something I obtained through sheer force! From now on, you should really think about how much ransom is worth for you, a prince of the Kashgar Khanate, and your family?"

Upon hearing this, King Chungshun breathed a slight sigh of relief.

I'm not afraid of the other party being greedy. I'm afraid of the other party not asking questions or clarifying the facts.

Every year, he would send generous gifts to the families of the king, his mother, and the queen.

Surely these people would be willing to pay the ransom for his entire family?
He finally regained a bit of confidence: "I will think it over carefully and will definitely give the general a satisfactory number!"

The four concubines still kneeling on the ground: "."

Although I don't understand what you're saying, I'm sure it's nothing nice.

Later, the entire Chungsun King's family was imprisoned in the cell where the servants were used to be punished in the palace.

The whole family, all together.

Leaving aside how devastated the family was by the dark environment of the cell, consider how jubilant the soldiers of the vanguard battalion are right now.

Finally, it's time for the part everyone's been waiting for: zero-currency shopping!

They were all eager to find treasure in the Prince's mansion.

The poor soldiers, who hadn't received their pay for over a decade, had never seen the wealth of a prince's entire household.

First, a dozen or so boxes filled with gold and silver coins were carried out one after another.

Following that, hundreds of valuable mink, fox, tiger, and wolf pelts, along with hundreds of bolts of magnificent jacquard brocade, were displayed.
Large items, such as glass ornaments and gold and silver products, number in the thousands.

Six large boxes containing uncarved mutton fat jade, Hetian jade, crystal mica, agate beads, and other raw stones.

Handicrafts with unique shapes of exotic flowers and animals were brought out and filled an entire room.
After that, people kept coming to report:
"Reporting to the General, a rough count of the two granaries in the Prince's residence shows approximately eight thousand shi of wheat, one thousand shi of millet, five hundred shi of rice, and beans."

"Reporting to the General, the Prince's Palace possesses 623 top-quality Ferghana horses, 300 camels, and sheep..."

"Reporting to the General, crossbows have been found in the Prince's armory."

As the reported assets grew larger and larger, the five centurions listening in couldn't suppress the smirk on their faces.

"Wow, wow! This is what you call being richer than a country, right?"

"Whether they are as powerful as the enemy or not, I don't know, but they are definitely much richer than our Marquis's mansion!"

"I never imagined that raiding the Prince Zhongshun's mansion would be enough for us to support the garrison of the Seven Guards of Guanzhong for a year!"

"General, what do you think?"

General Gan glanced at the account book a few times, his face expressionless.

"Send the scouts to take the Rat King to the backyard to search. The gold ornaments and jewels worn by the four queens would weigh several pounds if you took them off! Why don't we see any of the things the women like on this list of valuables?"

The captains all gave her a thumbs up.

It still has to be their general!
They may not know about others, but when the Marquis took a concubine, the Ni family of Wuyue sent a ten-mile-long red dowry as part of the dowry.

King Chungsun had four principal wives, so how much dowry did they bring with them?

I thought I had just seen the entire wealth of the Prince Zhongshun's mansion, and I gritted my teeth in anger.

The scout leader instructed his subordinates: "Please have the Rat King lead the way, and follow him to search the entire palace!"

King Atu and the house rats in the palace had long been inseparable.

Not only did they obtain the secret rooms of several masters in the Prince's mansion, but they also uncovered the hidden stashes of the servants and stewards.

really.

What's on the surface is all just superficial wealth.

Only what is hidden away is truly valuable.

The gold and silver jewelry found in the secret chambers of the four principal consorts alone was several times the amount of wealth previously found in the Prince's mansion.

This is not the biggest gain.

Finally, beneath the stables of the Prince's Palace, they discovered the great secret of Prince Zhongshun.

Who would dare to imagine that?

The Prince of Zhongshun, who was exiled to the frontier, was still a chosen one.

In his first year in Xiyu City, he found a large gold mine in Yi County.

Over the past decade, the amount of gold extracted from the gold mines, after refining, has reached more than 50,000 taels.

In the stinky, secret cellar of the Prince's mansion, the floor was paved with gold bricks!
That's completely out of line.

The scouts looked at the Rat King with eyes that burned with intense desire:
"Goodness gracious! The Gratitude Mouse is also a treasure-hunting mouse!"

(End of this chapter)