"this……"
Wang Li was stunned. Anyone who is not a fool can understand what it means to have such an obvious square mark in this silver vault made of pure steel!
Two Shenwu soldiers stepped forward and tried to pry open the steel plate where the square was located, but no matter how hard they tried, nothing could move.
"Master Yang, it seems like it can't be opened!"
"I come!"
Yang Qingyuan waved his hand to the two sergeants to step back, stepped forward slowly, and stepped lightly on the ground.
It is indeed the finest steel.
It's a pity that Dali Temple lacks people who are proficient in the mechanism. I don't know how to open it. Now I can only use simple methods.
"Keng!"
Although Zhan Lu does not have a sword edge, with the blessing of Yang Qingyuan's innate invisible sword energy, he can still cut iron like clay.
With a slash of the sword, sparks flew everywhere, and the originally square ground shattered, revealing a hole about a foot in diameter.
Seeing this scene, everyone present looked at each other.
"Is this the impregnable bank of Yuezhou?!"
Yan Jianqiu, the commander of the Shenwu Army, and Wang Fuyan, the commander of the six gates, immediately knelt down on one knee.
"A capital crime for humble duty!"
Yan and Wang, who were responsible for guarding the Yuezhou Bank, actually had such a big hole dug under the Yuezhou Bank. This was no longer a dereliction of duty! This is dereliction of duty!
"Your crime of dereliction of duty will be discussed later. Now let's go to this cave to see what the mystery is!"
"..."
Everyone glanced at the entrance of the cave, but they didn't know how to get down.
The hole is only one foot in size. The silver ingot can go down through the hole, but a normal adult cannot go down at all.
"There are people in the world who are good at robbing tombs and finding gold. They are proficient in the art of shrinking bones. Such a hole is enough for them."
Yang Qingyuan walked to the entrance of the cave and tapped lightly with his toes. The surrounding area around the original entrance of the cave immediately became cracked.
A powerful force of true energy surged out in the form of the "Zhen" formula, instantly shattering the original entrance to the cave.
"Can't we go in now...?!"
Before Yang Qingyuan finished speaking, the ground beneath his feet had been destroyed due to excavation. Now, a large piece of the ground collapsed due to the shock of Yang Qingyuan's true energy.
Yang Qingyuan was careless and almost fell down. Fortunately, his light skill "Ascending Heaven Step" could catch him in the void, so there was no embarrassing scene.
However, the dust that was stirred up still covered Yang Qingyuan. Although he was protected by true energy, it still looked a bit inelegant.
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Everyone present was fascinated by the sudden smoke and dust. As Yang Qingyuan's true energy vibrated, the dust fell quickly.
Yang Qingyuan quickly adjusted his mentality and said, "Go get some lanterns! Let's go down and have a look!"
Wang Fuyan immediately sent for a few lanterns and brought a few capable detectives with him into the cave along with Yang Qingyuan.
Under the light, a narrow tunnel shocked everyone.
The impregnable Yuezhou Bank actually had such a tunnel dug underground.
This incident alone was enough for Yan Jianqiu and Wang Fuyan to die to apologize.
They didn't walk long before they reached the end. The tunnel in front seemed to have collapsed and was completely sealed.
Yang Qingyuan looked around and found that this tunnel could only accommodate one person, but it would not be built overnight, and the transfer of eight million taels of silver would be time-consuming and laborious. .
Seeing the landslide in front of him, Wang Fuyan said, "Master Yang, do you want to humble yourself and find someone to dig up this place?"
Yang Qingyuan shook his head, "It doesn't make much sense anymore! Looking at the appearance of the soil, this underground passage has collapsed for a long time. Coupled with the penetration of water, even if you dig through it, you will probably not be able to find the original path!"
Yang Qingyuan sighed softly, "Forget it, find a few people with experience in soil work to try digging! It will be the best if you can get results. If you can't find traces of the original tunnel, don't dig hard. Wrong information will only It will interfere with our investigation of the case.”
After looking around and finding no information, Yang Qingyuan returned to the floor of the bank.
At this moment, Di Zhiyuan also rushed here after hearing the news.
"Zhiyuan, are you here!?"
"Sir! There is indeed a problem underground in this bank."
Although there was still no expression on his face, Di Zhiyuan's words still shocked Yang Qingyuan, "What? You also discovered the problem?!"
"I just found something wrong with the ground in the study room of Yuezhou Yinku. The ground seemed to be collapsing, so I asked someone to dig out the ground, and found that there were traces of digging under the study room. Now look Come on, it should be the route of the secret passage under the bank."
"Is that tunnel still there?!"
Yang Qingyuan asked.
If we can find the middle, maybe we can restore this authentic route.
Di Zhiyuan spread his hands helplessly, "It has all collapsed, and only traces of excavation can be seen."
"It seems we can only check it from other places." Yang Qingyuan turned to Yan Jianqiu and said, "General Yan, go get the defense map of Yuezhou Bank."
"yes!"
Yang Qingyuan and Di Zhiyuan came to a study room with the layout map of the Yuezhou Bank, and then opened the map and spread it flat on the desk.
"This is the location of the bank, and this is the location of the treasurer's study."
The straight-line distance between the two is about two hundred and fifty steps.
"General Yan! Where is the location of the listening tank you set up?!"
Upon hearing this, Yan Jianqiu pointed out the locations of the listening jars one by one.
Burying the vat to listen to the sound is also called listening to the opium and examining the acupoints. It is a city defense technique created by the founder of Momen.
Tunnel is a major siege technique. It is highly concealed and effective, and is often used in siege battles.
The Patriarch of Momen's defense skills are unparalleled in the world. He sticks to the rules and is impregnable.
In order to deal with the acupoint attack method, the founder of Momen created the method of listening to the poppies to examine the acupoints.
Let the defenders dig wells in the city, about one every six feet, put poppies (wine containers with small mouths and big bellies, and tight thin skin at the mouth of the altar) in the wells, and then ask people with sensitive hearing to listen at the mouth of the altar, " Examine and know the location of the acupoint." Then the defenders dug holes in the city to meet them and attack them.
The second is to bury two jars at a certain distance apart in a deep pit at the root of the city wall. Put a board at the mouth of the jar, and people will lean on the board and listen. Determine the location of the sound source from the difference in loudness of the two sounds.
The people who established the security system of Yuezhou Bank also considered the situation of someone using tunnels to steal treasury silver, so they placed listening jars on the periphery of Yuezhou Bank, surrounding the Yuezhou Bank in the middle. According to common sense, it should be Foolproof.
"General Yan, haven't there been any changes in these listening tanks since you changed defenses?!"
"Sir, there are dedicated personnel in charge of these listening tanks, three shifts a day, and they take turns changing defenses, but no one has ever come to report any changes!"
Yang Qingyuan only felt that this was unusual. Judging from the two-dimensional defense map, this defense system was very complete. No matter what methods the diggers used and what routes they found, it was impossible to bypass the original defense of the Yuezhou Bank. The system should at least use messages!
"General Yan, please immediately take people to check the listening tanks everywhere to see if there is any damage!"
"yes!"
After receiving the order, Yan Jianqiu hurried to check, and only Yang Qingyuan and Di Zhiyuan were left in the study.
"Sir, is it possible that this group of people did not extend the tunnel to the outside of the bank at all, but dug into the study of Li Da, the treasurer, and moved the silver coins in the bank to the study along the tunnel. And then looking for opportunities to take it out of the treasury.”
"Zhiyuan, there is no problem with the first half of your reasoning, but if this is really the case, how did they transport the silver out of the Treasury! Every day when the officials of the Treasury Office go in and out, they will pass by the Shenwu Army and the Six Gates Double check, it’s impossible to take him out!”
Yang Qingyuan paused and continued, "And the silver boxes in the Yuezhou Bank are also fixed. Each box is filled with a fixed amount of five thousand taels. You can only put less, but you can't put one more ingot of silver! Even if you can put more money each time It would take 1,600 boxes to bring out a whole box of eight million taels of silver, but since September last year, excluding this military pay, the amount of silver that has gone in and out has not been that much, so how could it be possible to bring it out?!"
Di Zhiyuan nodded. Yang Qingyuan was right. In this case, it was more likely to transport the silver coins through tunnels!
But there is another possibility.
"Sir, have you checked General Yan's background file?!"
Yang Qingyuan knows what Di Zhiyuan means!
"I have checked it out a long time ago. This person is from the Yan family in Minzhou. He has been promoted and fought without problems. His background is very clean. Moreover, it has only been eight months since this person changed defenses. The Shenwu soldiers under his command are also drawn from various places. , even if he had the intention, he couldn't let all the soldiers follow him to cause chaos. There should be no problems within the Shenwu Army! As for Wang Fuyan of Liumen, the same is true, and Liumen is in the Yuezhou Yinku They only play a supporting role in defense, they alone cannot accomplish anything!"
"And now there is an urgent priority! Transfer the silver coins in the bank immediately! Before we can figure out how they bypassed the security system of Yuezhou Bank, this place is no longer safe!"
Di Zhiyuan agreed. Although there were only 800,000 taels left in the bank, it was not a small amount, enough to carry out a large-scale disaster relief. To be prudent, it was better to transfer it.
"Temporarily transfer these treasury silver to the free granary for safekeeping. The Shenwu Army and the six-door policemen responsible for guarding will accompany them to conduct temporary patrols and stop unnecessary use of treasury silver!"
"As for this bank, it is temporarily sealed! So that we can come and inspect it at any time!"
"Yes!" Di Zhiyuan immediately issued the order.
Yang Qingyuan once again turned his attention to the two-dimensional defense map to see if there were any loopholes that they had not expected.
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In Fuyu Mountain.
"Shanyin Mansion sent a message! Yang Qingyuan has discovered the secret passage under the bank! Everything is going according to plan! Now the silver in the bank has been transferred to a small official warehouse nearby. It is managed by the original Shenwu Army, Liu Fan The door is guarded quickly, the guard is extremely tight, there is no chance of taking action!" A soft voice said slowly while holding a glass of wine.
"As expected of the Chief Minister of Dali Temple, his talent is truly astonishing. If he can be used by us, it will save us at least ten years of hard work!" The mellow voice couldn't help but admire.
"It's impossible for Yang Qingyuan to be used by us, and even if he does join, what position should the young master give him?! With his ability and martial arts, his status will inevitably be above us. Brother, do you just want us to have another one? One more person?!”
There was a hint of sarcasm in the tone of the feminine voice, "Besides, no matter how smart he is, didn't he fall into the trap of the young master?!"
"..."
Although the words of the soft voice are harsh, they are indeed true. Why are they rebelling? ! Is it to find more leaders to ride on his head?
"Then continue to act as planned and throw out the bait of Shangguan Jinhong and Qian Gang!"
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Jianzhou, Huining Mansion.
June is when all things grow.
King Shen of the Later Jin Dynasty and Marshal Wanyan Zongbi were hunting in the hunting ground.
For the Houjin people, a fishing and hunting nation, hunting every year is indispensable.
"Whoosh!"
Wanyan Zongbi shot an arrow while the prancing horse was galloping, and a reindeer was hit by the arrow in the neck, and it immediately fell to the ground!
"Your Majesty is good at archery!"
"Good archery skills!"
"A hundred steps can pierce the Yang!"
Immediately, dozens of soldiers following Wanyan Zongbi burst into cheers!
Archery is always a weapon worthy of bragging among the horseback people.
"I haven't been on a hunting trip for a long time. The weather is very good today, so I'm going to stretch my muscles!"
"The prince's archery skills are among the best in the entire Houjin. Even the king's archery skills are only on par with the prince!"
Wanyan Zongbi smiled reservedly, but did not refute. In terms of ability to govern, he may not be as good as his imperial brother, but when it comes to leading troops in war, martial arts and archery, he thinks he is still above his imperial brother.
When Wanyan Zongbi was feeling proud, a cold voice came from the tree.
"I wonder if your archery skills can save your life!"
The moment he opened his mouth on the tree, Wanyan Zongbi drew his bow and shot an arrow in the direction of the sound.
Wanyan Zongbi is a warrior in the Dongxuan realm. Anyone who can evade his spiritual sense must also be a great master.
But this arrow had no effect at all. As soon as it got close to the treetop, it was chopped into pieces by a sword energy.
As the treetops swayed, a figure appeared in front of Wanyan Zongbi's horse.
The person who came was wearing blue clothes, with tight leggings and a clean, slender and straight figure. The blue forehead was tied with a red ribbon, and the black hair was tied up casually. There were a few strands of hair floating around, which was quite light and dancing with the red ribbon. The black belt decoration around the waist makes it more chic and uninhibited.
Wearing two long swords, one black and one white, on the left and right sides of his waist, it seems to declare that he is a master who is proficient in two-handed swords.
The moment he appeared, Wanyan Zongbi felt unprecedented pressure.
Even the former No. 1 master of Houjin, the "Sky Swordsman" Nangong Mi, had never given Wanyan Zongbi.
Wanyan Zongbi held the horse's rein in his left hand, and his drooping right hand moved slightly. His soldiers immediately knew what Wanyan Zongbi meant, and immediately turned around and galloped back.
A man who is in command must not show off the courage of an ordinary man.
The visitor, Wanyan Zongbi, was unsure of how to deal with him, so he needed to mobilize troops.
The Qinggong displayed by this man just now made Wanyan Zongbi know that escaping was a foolish choice, so he made a prompt decision and chose to stay and tremble with this man while his own soldiers led the troops.
He believed that he could hold on until pro-army troops arrived for reinforcements.
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