Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

He was originally very happy, hoping to get a deal like Prince Fu's Palace and send it back to the emperor to seek credit, but he didn't expect this result.

But at this moment Chonglou noticed that among the eight people he had just captured, one of them suddenly had a flickering look in his eyes and lowered his head.

He had a hunch that there was something wrong with this guy, so he put the knife on his neck and said coldly:

"If you know anything, tell me now, or you won't have a chance to tell me."

The man was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he begged anxiously: "Master, please don't kill me, I will tell you what I have said!"

"I don't know what it is, but when I was on night duty at the palace, I accidentally saw the prince and his men digging something in the back garden of the palace."

"I don't know anything else. Please spare my life, sir!"

Chapter 448: Fortunately, I still have a backup plan

Li Zicheng's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Go! Dig for me!"

"Even if I have to dig up the entire back garden today, I will find the treasure!"

Everyone obeyed the order and immediately took the servant of the palace to the back garden to identify the location.

The back garden of Prince Lu's Mansion is extremely large, occupying half of the entire area of ​​Prince Lu's Mansion.

There was no other choice, Chonglou had to arrange twenty groups of people to dig simultaneously according to the approximate direction that the man heard.

Yuan Zongde and Niu Jinxing sent people to visit the city to investigate what the wealthy families and officials in the city usually did.

Anyone who was found to be oppressing the good, corrupt, or breaking the law would be beheaded in the street. Among those whose heads fell to the ground was Shi Yituo, who wanted to take advantage of the situation and surrender the city.

The people of Ji County all applauded and rejoiced, and wanted their own children to join the Qin army.

At Prince Lu's Mansion, the back garden had been dug more than a hundred times, with potholes everywhere, but still nothing was found.

Just as the sun was setting, suddenly a group of people shouted excitedly.

“It’s out! It’s out!”

“It’s been dug out!”

Li Zicheng and others ran over excitedly upon hearing the sound.

Sure enough, a box was seen in the three-foot-deep pit.

Gao Yigong jumped down impatiently, split the treasure chest with a sword, and lifted the lid up.

In the setting sun, the bright silver almost blinded his eyes.

"Hahaha, there really is silver! Prince Lu, this sixth son, is really good at hiding it!"

He quickly snatched the shovel from the soldier next to him.

While continuing to dig, he shouted to the other soldiers: "What are you still standing there for? Keep digging!"

Li Zicheng saw this scene on the big pit and felt relieved. He looked at Chonglou and said with a smile:

"It seems that our trip this time was not in vain. The prince is still the prince, but he has a lot of silver, hahahaha!"

Chonglou also smiled and said, "Congratulations to King Chuang for making another great achievement this time!"

Unfortunately, it seemed they laughed too early.

Gao Yigong led a group of soldiers to continue digging for half an hour, but no new boxes were dug up.

Another half hour passed, and no new treasure chest was dug out.

Other excavation teams, even though they excavated in many different locations, did not find anything.

The excavation continued until the next morning. The entire back garden had been dug up, but apart from a few corpses, no treasure chests were found.

Chonglou counted the number of treasure chests, there were 310 of them, each containing 1,000 taels of silver, totaling 310,000 taels.

Li Zicheng's face was very gloomy.

It took Prince Lu's Mansion a long time to get 300,000 taels. Compared with the 4.7 million taels that were seized from Prince Fu's Mansion, it was basically a waste of time.

Yuan Zongdi advised: "Your Highness, don't be angry. Fortunately, Prince Lu's Mansion still has a lot of food to distribute to the people. It's not a wasted trip."

Niu Jinxing suggested: "This is the first time that a vassal king has run away. To prevent this from happening again, we must wipe out the nearby vassal kings as quickly as possible."

Li Zicheng thought it made sense and couldn't help but slam the table.

"Lao Niu is right! We must clean them up as quickly as possible and not let them run away with their belongings!"

Li Guo immediately stepped forward and said, "It seems that the one closest to us so far is the Prince Zhao of Zhangde Prefecture."

"Okay, let's do it!" Li Zicheng immediately ordered: "Old Yuan, you stay and finish the work in Ji County, hide the silver, and catch up quickly."

"Everyone else, gather your troops immediately and follow me to attack Zhangde Prefecture!"

"As ordered!"

Everyone received the order and dispersed. Soon the six battalions of the Qin army gathered outside the city and once again rushed towards Zhangde Prefecture in a cloud of dust.

Yuan Zongde was busy again in Ji County.

Those who should be killed should be killed, the land that should be divided should be divided, and the grain that should be distributed should be distributed.

He finished his work the next morning. After hiding the silver in the West Hill, he hurried to Zhangde Prefecture.

Four thousand soldiers and horses galloped past, raising a cloud of dust along the way.

After they left, the dust had not yet completely settled when a convoy came from north to south, heading towards Ji County.

It was Prince Lu, who had survived the disaster outside the city of Taiyuan, and was returning to the palace leisurely with his family and servants.

"Cough cough!!!"

Prince Lu was choked by the dust and couldn't help but cough a few times, cursing:

"There's no strong wind, why is there so much dust in the sky..."

After saying that, he quickly covered his nose with a handkerchief and shouted at the driver.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Go back to the palace as soon as possible. I need to take a good bath! I haven't washed my body for a month. I am so uncomfortable!"

Upon hearing this, the driver immediately cracked his whip.

The convoy quickly passed through the dust, and new dust was raised as the convoy sped past.

Half an hour later, Prince Lu's convoy slowly drove into Ji County.

People passing by cast strange looks at him and talked about him quietly.

"This Prince Lu is really good at hiding. He came back just after Prince Chuang left!"

"Yes, he can run away. I heard that the Prince of Fu next door didn't run away, but was killed by the Prince of Chuang."

......

The discussion was not loud, but there were many people discussing it, so Prince Lu could hear some of it.

When he learned that the Qin army had just left, he was so scared that cold sweat broke out on his back.

Fortunately! Fortunately!

He was as grateful as he could be in his heart.

He was glad that he had just narrowly escaped the Qin army;

Fortunately, he fled with his belongings first, and "presented" his belongings to the emperor, thus getting the opportunity to return to his fiefdom;

I am glad that I was not caught by the King of Qin.

Fortunately, I still have a backup plan and have retained a little bit of my assets.

The convoy finally returned to Prince Lu's Mansion.

Prince Lu saw that the door was still tightly closed from the inside.

He was very satisfied that the gate was not damaged, which showed that the enemy army did not use force against the palace.

I quickly jumped out of the car and ran over, knocking on the door and shouting inside:

"Zhu Jiuzu! Zhu Jiuzu! Open the door quickly, the king is back, open the door quickly!"

He didn't have to wait long, and soon someone opened the door. It was the servants who had been staying in the palace, and Li Zicheng did not do anything to them.

When Prince Lu saw that it was these people who opened the door, he couldn't help but ask, "Where is Zhu Jiuzu?"

A servant who stayed behind quickly replied: "Your Majesty, Zhu Jiuzu has escaped."

"Run away? How dare you run away! Humph, I will catch him and not break his legs!"

Prince Lu pushed aside a few servants and ran straight to the back garden.

It has a chubby body and two little feet, and runs like a penguin, so fast.

He didn't care about Zhu Jiuzu. What he cared about most now was the things he buried in the back garden.

The door wasn't even broken, so it seemed like no one would find this secret place.

Chapter 449 Do you dare to play big with me?

Prince Lu ran madly into the gate of the back garden.

What you see is a lot of potholes, especially the largest deep pit in the middle.

He ran to the big pit and saw that it was empty, there was nothing there!

I felt a wave of grief in my heart, and I sat down beside the pit, slapping my thighs and wailing:

"Oh my! Damn intruder!"

"I've left so much food for you, just grab it!"

"Why are you still digging, digging, digging in my garden?"

"It hurts me so much!"

Princess Lu hurried forward to persuade him.

"Don't be sad, Your Majesty. We still have 10,000 taels of silver for resettlement."

"Besides, you still have a monthly salary. Although it is not as much as before, there are not many people in the Prince Lu's Mansion. As long as you don't waste money, you can still live much better than ordinary people."

After hearing this, Prince Lu calmed down a little and immediately called the servants who stayed behind to ask about the situation.

When he found out that it was Zhu Jiuzu who betrayed him, he could not help but jump up and down and curse:

"This ungrateful bastard! If I hadn't taken him in out of pity, he would have starved to death on the streets!"

"Someone, go find him! Bring this ungrateful guy back to me and break his legs!"

After ordering someone to go find him, and with some consolation from Princess Lu, his anger gradually subsided, and he took a bath, changed his clothes, and played the zither to calm his mind.

After experiencing all these ups and downs, Prince Lu finally saw through the true meaning of money being dirt and fame being fleeting. From then on, he devoted himself to playing the zither and no longer cared about worldly affairs.

Several years later, the historical book "Stars and Sounds of the Night" recorded:

Zhu Changxun, the second Prince of Lu, devoted his life to the study of the zither.

He has written the zither scores "The Authentic Ancient Sounds", "The Supreme Immortal Sounds", "The Ming Emperor's Song of Breaking the Formation", etc.

He has made over ten thousand violins, and over a hundred of them are among the top winners.

The sound of the piano is extremely mysterious. The injured can calm their minds and concentrate their minds when hearing it, which helps with healing; the soldiers hear it as if they are possessed by a tiger or a wolf, and their murderous intent doubles.

His zither playing skills were outstanding and his attainments were profound, unrivaled in the world.

He was named the Ming Dynasty's Guqin Saint by the emperor.

......

This is a story for later, but it happened at the same time when Prince Lu returned home.

Li Zicheng led six battalions of Qin troops into Zhangde Prefecture and prepared to arrive in Tangyin County, which was only eighty or ninety miles away from Anyang where the Prince of Zhao's palace was located.

In the Lou Camp, Chonglou was riding his horse and leading his troops on the march when they suddenly heard the cry of a wild goose.

"quack-"

Chonglou immediately looked up at the sky. It was clear blue, but there was no trace of the geese.