A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

"Quickly, tell me, where is it?"

Zhai Hong leaned forward, his eyes bloodshot from overwork and staying up late.

He was under a lot of pressure during this period, as there were still die-hard loyalists of the Great Xia Dynasty who opposed him in the court.

The presence of Da Tang and Xia Jie, both eyeing him covetously, kept him awake at night.

Fortunately, hard work pays off, and heaven still favored this old man.

You can sit at home and treasures will fall from the sky.

"I captured a descendant of the Mohist school. His ancestors were the designers of the Great Xia Treasury. After the treasury was completed, the current Xia emperor exterminated his entire clan. Only one young son escaped, hiding his identity and wandering among the common people."

"This person is the descendant of that young child, and he possesses the location of one of the Great Xia treasure troves, as well as the blueprints for the mechanisms within the treasure trove."

The hidden guard handed over a scroll with both hands. Zhai Hong's gaze shifted to the scroll, and he grabbed it, unfolding it on the desk.

"This location is...unbelievable!"

"No wonder, no wonder, no wonder I searched the entire Great Xia Dynasty and couldn't find it! It was here!"

"And this mechanism is truly ingenious. If we didn't have these blueprints, even if we knew the location, we probably wouldn't have been able to find it."

Zhai Hong said excitedly.

"During the Han Dynasty, the first few feudal lords to establish themselves in this area were not from a place of enfeoffment and oath-taking."

"Yes, yes, the Heng River basin is a fertile land. Since the Han and Qian dynasties, it has been used for enfeoffment many times. Since this place of oath is a treasure trove of the Great Xia, what about the other places of oath?"

"Find them! Go find them now! Find all the places where the feudal lords once swore oaths! Dig them up! Dig up the treasure trove of the Great Xia!"

Zhai Hong's face flushed with excitement. His heart pounded and his hands trembled. Just by looking at the blueprint, he could imagine just how much gold and silver treasure was in the Great Xia Treasury.

With these, what Tang Dynasty? What Li Jing? What Xia Jie? What Zhang Wuji? None of them are his match.

As long as he has enough money, food, and troops, Zhai Hong will be the only emperor in the world!

Zhai Hong looked in the direction of the Great Xia Imperial Palace, his eyes filled with ambition.

"Do this secretly, without alerting anyone, understand?"

Zhai Hong, being a formidable figure, quickly regained his composure from his initial excitement and began to give his orders in a deep voice.

"promise!"

……

"What?!"

"They're asking for an exorbitant amount! Has Li Jing ever seen so much money and grain?!"

"Does he even know how much he wants?!"

"Isn't he afraid of stuffing himself to death?!"

Upon hearing Changsun Wuji's report, Xia Jie was instantly enraged and jumped up and down.

"Something's not right, something's really not right. How did Li Jing know I had so much money and provisions?"

Xia Jie looked at Changsun Wuji with suspicion. He didn't doubt that Changsun Wuji had betrayed him, after all, Changsun Wuji had followed his father many years ago.

In his eyes, Changsun Wuji was the chief strategist, and if he were to establish a new dynasty, Changsun Wuji would be the prime minister of the new dynasty.

What benefit would it bring to Changsun Wuji to betray him and join the Tang Dynasty now? Would the Tang Dynasty still allow such a traitor and outsider to hold a high position?

He now suspects that Changsun Wuji is using the name of the Tang Dynasty to enrich himself.

Privately, they inflated the figures that the Tang Dynasty wanted by tens, hundreds, or even more times, and after obtaining them, they turned them into their own family's private collection.

Changsun Wuji saw the suspicious look in Xia Jie's eyes. He was already prepared.

"Your Highness, I used persuasive techniques to inquire with the Tang Dynasty that it seems Zhai Hong has discovered the location of the remaining treasures of the Great Xia Dynasty and has begun mining."

"The Tang Dynasty discovered Zhai Hong's actions by chance, and that's how they learned that we had such a large sum of money and grain."

This was also what Changsun Wuji wanted Li Jing to cooperate with, pretending that he got the information from Zhai Hong, otherwise it would be impossible to explain why the Tang Dynasty was so convinced that he could come up with this money and grain.

The blame can be pinned directly on Zhai Hong. If Zhai Hong really did do such a thing, with the Xia family's century-old business in Beijing, Xia Jie will definitely be able to find clues with a full investigation.

If not, Changsun Wuji could easily claim that Zhai Hong hid well enough, or that Li Jing alerted Zhai Hong, allowing him to cover his tracks.

However, neither Li Jing nor Changsun Wuji expected that their attempt to frame someone would backfire so badly, as Zhai Hong happened to find clues about the Great Xia Treasury at this very moment.

"What?!"

"How is that possible!"

"The remaining clues to the treasure vault are unknown even to my father, how could Zhai Hong possibly know them?"

Xia Jie's expression shifted uncertainly. He knew that the North was not like the South, which had a large number of descendants of the Han Chinese. If Zhai Hong really got that money and grain and used it to recruit soldiers, then he would be in trouble.

Even if he were to take out this money and grain now, he wouldn't be able to conscript enough troops from the south.

Not to mention he couldn't bear to part with it.

No, we must find out as soon as possible whether that old scoundrel Zhai Hong has obtained the Great Xia treasure protected by the Emperor's lineage.

"A bunch of useless trash, did Zhai Hong really succeed in getting his hands on them?" Xia Jie couldn't help but curse.

After Changsun Wuji left, Xia Jie opened a mechanism in his study, revealing a hidden door.

Xia Jie hesitated for a moment, but finally stepped inside.

Xia Jie walked through the hidden door and came to a dark room. He used the pen in the dark room to write a few words on a piece of paper. After he finished writing, the words disappeared.

Xia Jie was unfazed. He rolled the paper into a scroll, followed specific steps to open another mechanism, and placed the scroll inside.

After doing all this, Xia Jie turned and left. Back in his study, he turned the mechanism and hid the secret door again.

The contact method inside the hidden door was left to him by his father. By using the mechanism inside, he could contact the Xia family's secret forces in the capital.

That was a core force of the Xia family, the true foundation of the Xia family. Before his death, his father, Xia Ping, repeatedly instructed him not to activate it unless it was a life-or-death crisis.

Even Xia Jie only knew that this force existed, but he didn't know who controlled it or who was in charge.

Now is Xia Jiejue's true life-or-death moment. If Zhai Hong really gets his hands on that treasure trove and digests it successfully, then both the young emperor in the capital and Xia Jiejue himself will be defeated by Zhai Hong.

By then, their Xia family will be on the verge of national extinction. What use will this so-called heritage be then?!

Isn't this the kind of legacy left by our ancestors meant to be used at times like this? If using it can save the Xia family's dynasty, then it's worth it.

"Zhang Wuji, I hope you haven't lied to me, otherwise..."

Xia Jie still has some doubts about Changsun Wuji. The Great Xia Treasury is so well hidden that even those who know the location would find it very difficult to locate, let alone people who know the location.

But then again, Changsun Wuji wouldn't leave such an obvious loophole or tell such an obvious lie.