Although he knew it was a joke, Zhang Liao still showed a helpless look.
How could she abandon her lord after her strength improved and she became famous? Even if Liu Zhaoqing had not achieved his current success, she would still serve under him.
Saving a life and being recognized are huge rocks that cannot be moved by any wealth, glory, or fame.
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During the conversation, Liu Zhaoqing and Zhang Liao had unknowingly arrived at the door of a mansion.
The steps in front of the door are made of the finest white jade bricks, and the gate is made of pure mahogany. It is said that the wood was split in half from a thousand-year-old sacred tree in the dense forest of Jiaozhou.
"Han Fu really doesn't treat himself badly." Liu Zhaoqing only took a quick look last time. This is his second time to come to this mansion.
Zhang Liao nodded to the soldiers guarding the door. After the soldiers bowed their heads to Liu Zhaoqing, he asked his colleagues to open the door.
"These steps and gate should be worth a lot of money." Liu Zhaoqing said as he stepped over the threshold and looked at the bright red gate.
"This... please think twice..."
Although Zhang Liao knew that Liu Zhaoqing certainly did not want to take all the wealth into his own pocket, he couldn't just knock on the door and the steps, right?
"It seems that we really can't do it now. The things are still here." Liu Zhaoqing also realized this, so he no longer thought about knocking down the bricks and removing the door.
Following Zhang Liao, Liu Zhaoqing passed through the magnificent corridor. He found that most of the valuable things in the mansion were gone. They were all taken to Changping City in Youzhou. They were either exchanged for military pay or construction funds, or kept as reserve funds.
The remaining valuables, like the steps and gate at the entrance, which could not be taken away for the time being, remained in the mansion.
"The location of this place is good. The governor's mansion is in the east of the city, and this one is close to the north of the city and in the center. Looking north and south, it is almost like the imperial palace." Liu Zhaoqing said as he walked.
Zhang Liao said, "Han Fu is really obsessed with the throne..."
"Yes, he is not the only one. There are too many people in the world who are coveting the throne." Liu Zhaoqing shook his head.
"Without matching strength, becoming a king or an emperor in troubled times will only be a joke in the future."
As they spoke, Liu Zhaoqing and Zhang Liao also came to a hidden backyard. There were many more guards in this courtyard than elsewhere.
After Zhang Liao asked them to leave, he took Liu Zhaoqing to a fake stone mountain. He reached out and touched an inconspicuous stone, which opened a mechanism.
As an entrance appeared in the stone mountain, Liu Zhaoqing saw a staircase leading downwards.
He stepped in first, and Zhang Liao picked up the torch beside him, lit it outside the door, and followed him in.
After walking up the stairs for a while, they came to a bright hall with many oil lamps burning.
There were a lot of things covered with coarse cloth piled up in the hall, as well as many boxes of different sizes. These were the direct harvest of Liu Zhaoqing's battle against Dong.
Of course, the actual gains were not limited to this. In addition to fame, Liu Zhaoqing not only bought himself time for development, but also gained the initiative to represent Jizhou.
Moreover, he got the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, which he himself had never dared to dream of.
These things should have belonged to the royal family, but in fact they were seized by Dong Zhuo at the time, who had the power to enter and exit the national treasury at will.
Liu Zhaoqing thought about it and decided to return some of the things that were of little use to him and whose symbolic significance was greater than their intrinsic value to Liu Xie.
In this way, he won the favor of old ministers and Liu Xie without suffering too much loss.
"Let's take a look over here first." Liu Zhaoqing asked Zhang Liao to lift the cloth.
Then I began to call Yinglong in my heart.
After a night's rest, Yinglong should have recovered a lot, at least he can communicate simply.
Just like usual, Liu Zhaoqing just called out Yinglong's name about twenty times, and the other party's voice came to his mind.
"Stop shouting, I'm not dead."
The usually cold voice, when met with this sutra-like call, initially seemed annoyed or speechless.
But later on, like now, Yinglong had already laid down and accepted it, without any fluctuation in his tone.
"Help me see which ones are valuable and which ones are useful." Liu Zhaoqing immediately said in his heart.
"What?" Yinglong asked in confusion.
Liu Zhaoqing repeated it again, and was surprised that he had said it clearly in his mind. Could it be that there is such a thing as "deafness" in spiritual communication?
Of course, the other party was not "hard of hearing", but he did not expect that Liu Zhaoqing was so brave and dared to do this.
"You woke me up just to let me identify the treasure?"
What do you think of it as? A treasure identification tool?
"Yes." Liu Zhaoqing admitted generously, "If you are too lazy to talk, you can just say 'beep' when you find something useful."
After all, Yinglong is not a talkative person, so Liu Zhaoqing is quite considerate.
"?"
Seeing that the other party did not reply immediately, Liu Zhaoqing thought about it and said reluctantly in his heart.
"If you don't like the beep, I can handle the ding."
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Although Yinglong did not answer which response he preferred, silence was obviously the best protest.
Liu Zhaoqing also knew when to stop teasing. He needed the other party to be a "tool dragon" for a while, but he couldn't make the other party in a bad mood, otherwise, if the other party was really angry, he would suffer the consequences.
Just then, Zhang Liao had lifted the covering cloth, and Liu Zhaoqing saw a dazzling array of treasures.
There are gold, silver, jewelry, lacquerware, calligraphy and paintings, and some ritual weapons. There are so many types that it is difficult to judge the specific value differences between them.
"At the time, these things were kept relatively intact in the basement, but due to time constraints, we did not have time to make detailed classifications," Zhang Liao said.
So I brought back everything I saw.
There is certainly nothing wrong with this judgment.
"I thought it was mostly gold, silver and treasures, but I didn't expect there were calligraphy and paintings in the treasury." Liu Zhaoqing was a little surprised.
The only thing we can understand is that the previous emperor, Emperor Ling Liu Hong, favored these things, so he collected them and kept them in the national treasury.
Xun Yu is probably the only person Liu Zhaoqing can trust who can sort these complicated items according to their value, but the workload of making these sorts is also huge.
It still needs someone like Yinglong, who can directly sense the useful things inside, and has the best efficiency.
Calling Yinglong in his heart, Liu Zhaoqing walked forward and looked at the piles of jewels.
"This looks good..." he said as he picked up a jade pendant.
The strange shape resembles a silkworm pupa, the whole body is light red, and it feels warm to the touch. It does not look like an ordinary item.
But Yinglong said calmly: "Things carved from mountain fire jade have no other use except to warm hands and feet in the harsh winter. Oh, but it should be magical to mortals, so it is still valuable."
"Mountain Fire Jade." Liu Zhaoqing murmured to himself.
It sounds like it should be a mineral near a volcano. It must be difficult to mine, so it is definitely valuable.
But Liu Zhaoqing came here in person not to find the most valuable items, but to find something useful to himself.
"How much gold is it worth?" Liu Zhaoqing asked.
"According to the current value of one gold, one coin is worth ten gold."
Yinglong is quite knowledgeable about economics and knows how to convert the value of money through purchasing power.
"It's really great that such a small thing is worth ten gold coins. No wonder it was collected into the national treasury." Liu Zhaoqing weighed it and put it aside.
In addition to the one in his hand, there are many more in front of him.
Asking Zhang Liao to find a piece of cloth to put all the mountain fire jades together, Liu Zhaoqing continued to dig through the pile of treasures to look for what he needed.
"What about this one? It looks good too?" Liu Zhaoqing found another small jade dagger. He could feel a cool touch from it.
"The ritual vessels used for sacrifices are made of ordinary stones. The reason why they are like this is because every generation of Han emperors have used them for sacrifices over the years. This is why they have accumulated to this size. If I exchange them with the little emperor, I should be able to get fifty gold coins."
Listening to Yinglong's words in his mind, Liu Zhaoqing knew that this thing probably could not be sold, or it would be a loss if it was sold. It was an item with special significance to the royal family.
Then there would be no need for him to exchange it for money, and of course he could not take it to the emperor to ask for fifty gold to buy it.
Then you can hand it over directly to Liu Xie to improve his favor as well as old ministers like Wang Yun.
After putting it on a box on the side, Liu Zhaoqing continued searching.
"what about this?"
"Sanjin."
"this?"
"Fifteen gold."
“This doesn’t look like an ordinary thing.”
"One gold."
"Uh... what about this? This must be something useful, right?"
"One hundred gold."
"How about this one? This calligraphy and painting looks good, and it has a strange aura."
"That is the imperial spirit of the previous ruler, his legacy."
……
Liu Zhaoqing searched for a long time but didn't find anything useful to him. Having never seen a big scene, he really couldn't judge the value of these treasures.
Although Yinglong could give an approximate value, Liu Zhaoqing's purpose of coming here was not to distinguish and sort them.
Could it be that all the useful treasures were taken away by Dong Zhuo in advance?
The possibility is not absent, and it can even be said to be quite high.
Just when Liu Zhaoqing was feeling overwhelmed, Yinglong suddenly let out a light exclamation.
"Go pick up that black thing."
After hearing Yinglong's words, Liu Zhaoqing found a pitch-black spherical object among a pile of valuable or not-so-valuable treasures.
"This... doesn't look like anything special, right?" Liu Zhaoqing said, holding up a black sphere the size of an orange. It looked like ordinary black jade. Not only did it not emit any special scent, it didn't even feel strange to the touch.
"You destroy it." Yinglong said.
"Ok?"
Liu Zhaoqing thought it was joking, and after asking once, Yinglong repeated it again.
After hesitating for a moment, Liu Zhaoqing also chose to believe Yinglong.
Zhang Liao, who was helping to pack up the things, threw the black ball in his hand to the ground with surprised eyes.
With a "crack", the black ball broke into two pieces like glass, and debris of various sizes scattered all over the ground, sparkling under the light.
In Liu Zhaoqing's eyes, a small red pill appeared in the shattered black ball.
Almost at the moment when the black ball shattered and the red pill was exposed to the air, Liu Zhaoqing felt a huge hot force emanating from this little thing.
"This is……"
"This is a pill made from the blood of a divine beast." Ying Long's tone fluctuated slightly. "If a mortal eats it slowly, it can extend his life by at least twenty years. If he swallows one pill, his body will explode and he will die."
"With your current physical condition, with my help, if you eat it when you are exhausted, it can directly replenish a large part of my strength."
That's what it takes.
Liu Zhaoqing was surprised. He didn't expect that there really was such a good thing. It seemed that it might even have been left over from the reign of Emperor Ling.
Because of his natural illness, Emperor Ling searched for all kinds of treasures and used countless life-extending items, which made his body more and more bloated. At the same time, a large number of good things were left in the palace and the national treasury.
Finally finding the first useful thing, Liu Zhaoqing's mind immediately became active and he continued to search.
Following Yinglong's instructions and his own searching, he found a number of jade stones that looked ordinary in appearance, but when he looked closely, he could see that there was a pill inside them.
With just such a rough search, Liu Zhaoqing found more than a dozen in a short time.
Obviously, the reason why these elixirs that can be of great help to the body were preserved and not requisitioned by Dong Zhuo is largely because they were well hidden.
The reason why Yinglong didn't sense it at the first time was because they were all hidden in the jade. Not only were they well preserved, but they also blocked most of the breath.
In this way, Liu Zhaoqing can just follow suit and no longer need to search like a headless fly. He only needs to look for objects that are suspected to have hidden secrets inside.
Soon afterwards, in addition to finding a few more pills, Liu Zhaoqing finally opened a box at Yinglong's suggestion.
"Are these... clothes?" Liu Zhaoqing picked up a piece of exquisite clothing and took a look. This kind of brocade could be said to be a hard currency harder than gold in troubled times, but it was obviously not what he wanted.
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