If Gao Changgong was dead, his body should have been found, but Li Chang searched for it for a whole month but could not find it.
If he is still alive, there is no news about him after the Qiang tribe withdrew from Yangguan. The tribesmen who lost their leader started fighting among themselves in order to compete for the throne, which led to their decline and collapse.
"This has been happening for decades. When the Qiang tribe occupied this place, I was still young, just about the same age as you." Gongsun Shenwen did not answer Xiao Chen's words, and just recalled those days. "One year Gao Changgong wanted to renovate the palace and summoned craftsmen from all over the country. Because he was quite famous in the local area, he also called them."
"Thousands of us worked for more than a year before we finally completed the construction of the palace. Gao Changgong was very happy and ordered a hundred banquets to be given to us craftsmen." Gongsun Chenwen's face suddenly darkened as he spoke. "Everyone was very happy at that time and got drunk after eating, haha, but unexpectedly this was our guillotine wine."
"Just when we were staggering drunkenly, a group of soldiers suddenly came and tied us all up. They took us out of the city at night, dug a big pit and buried us all alive! Haha, there were more than a thousand people. , they were all suffocated to death." A trace of sadness flashed in Gongsun Chen's eyes.
"They all died, but I didn't die either. Later I found a way to break out of the ground and fled to Luoyan Mountain. I built a small wooden house in the mountain and lived by hunting. I even changed my name for this reason. Haha, actually My original name was Li Wubing, but because of this incident, I changed my name to Gongsun Chenwen."
"When Gao Changgong built the palace, he must have set up many traps, right?" Li Qiu said, "He was afraid that these secrets would be leaked, so he killed you to silence them."
"Haha, there are no traps, only a secret passage. At that time, he expected that the Emperor of the Han Dynasty would definitely come to conquer him, so he dug a secret passage outside the city in his palace in case of emergency. , won’t you use it later?” Gongsun Shenyan sneered.
"It turns out that he ran away from this secret tunnel!" Xiao Chen suddenly realized, "No wonder it was said that he was not dead... But I heard that the Marquis Li Chang searched the entire Baisha City. How could he not find this tunnel? Where is the secret passage?”
"Can anyone discover the secret passage designed by me personally?" Gongsun Shenqian asked, "Speaking of Marquis Li Chang, even if a god comes, he may not be able to find it! As for Gao Changgong, it can't be found. Without escaping, haha, could it be that all our more than a thousand craftsman brothers died in vain?"
The tone was suddenly cold, making everyone clearly feel a cold murderous aura.
"At that time, Marquis Li Chang's troops were approaching the territory. I expected that he would definitely be defeated and escape through the secret passage, so I quietly entered through the exit and set up several small mechanisms inside. Sure enough, when the city was breached, he led a dozen of his confidants to follow him. Even if they escaped from the tunnel... they were also hit by my trap, and they all died inside, no one survived!"
"It turns out Gao Changgong was killed by your old gentleman!" Xiao Chen suddenly realized, "Then why don't you offer his head to Lord Li Chang? He will definitely reward you greatly."
"Haha, what reward?" Gongsun Shenyan sneered, "A reward of poisoned wine or a reward of burial alive? At that time, Li Chang had just pacified Langya County and was about to win people's hearts. He didn't kill any of the surrendered officials and generals, and even gave them to Gao Chang Gong built a tomb... If he knew I was the one who killed Gao Changgong, I'm afraid he would chop off my head as a sacrifice!"
Xiao Chen was silent because he felt that Li Chang would probably do this. In order to stabilize people's hearts, killing a craftsman was nothing, just like squeezing an ant to death...
"It turns out that Mr. Gongsun was still a hero back then!" Li Qiu stood up and raised his wine glass high, "Xiao Wang is so impressed that I must give you a glass of wine to show my respect!"
"Hehehe, the prince now thinks that Lao Shao's plan is impossible to carry out?" Gongsun Shenwen drank it all in one gulp and asked with a half-smile.
"It's a great mission!" Li Qiu said hurriedly, "Xiao Chen, what do you think?"
"I think one million taels is really too little." Xiao Chen said, "For no other reason than Mr. Gongsun's heroic deeds, I should have given an extra two hundred thousand taels of silver! But this amount The money is a personal gift from me, not from the public, but it is just to express my personal respect for Mr. Gongsun."
"Oh?" Gongsun Shenwen didn't expect Xiao Chen to suddenly become generous again, "Do you really mean what you said?"
"Once a word is spoken, it is hard to chase after it!" Xiao Chen said, "We are all people of temperament, how can our words not count?"
"Okay, since you are all so happy, I will simply make things more open. If you two don't mind the cold, let's go over there right now!" Gongsun Shenyan stopped writing, and Xiao Chen took the initiative to increase the price. As a seller, you must also express yourself, give the goods first, and get the money later!
This is a top military secret, so Xiao Chen didn't bring many people with him. He only asked Lin Yue, Lin Feixiong, Huo Qishan, Xue Guanshan, Sun Changshan, Zhang Mingyuan, and Duan Qiyun to go with them to explore for a while. Don't forget to bring a shovel.
Several people heard that there was a secret passage outside the city that led to the city. They were all surprised and happy, but they also expressed doubts. If there is such a passage, why haven't we heard any news about it?
They don't know that this secret has been sealed for decades, and now the only person who knows this secret and is still alive is Gongsun Shenyan.
The exit of the secret passage is in a mountain forest several miles away from Baisha City. Because a hundred thousand troops need a large amount of wood to build fortifications and for heating, this originally dense forest has been cut down, leaving only A large area of bare tree roots was almost completely buried under heavy snow.
"This is it." Gongsun Chenwen led everyone to a small slope and stopped. "Dig down twenty feet to make the passage."
"How can you, the old man, be so sure about the name of such a large place, and after several decades?" Ouyang Yunyi expressed doubts.
"Always inseparable." Gongsun Shen said.
"A slight difference can mean a loss of thousands of miles." Ouyang Yunyi said, "Your words are really annoying. It's so deep and the soil is so hard. Just a few of us can't dig it. Go at dawn? If you make a mistake in digging, it will be all in vain!"
"It shouldn't be wrong." Sun Changshan said, "The terrain here is muddy and the trees are growing in different shapes. It looks different from other places, but it is also a subtle difference. It would be difficult to detect it if I hadn't pointed it out."
"Oh? You know a lot about geography," Gongsun Shenyan said curiously, "You have really good eyesight."
Not to mention these big soldiers, there are really talented people!
