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Chapter 40 Stealing the Treasury

He originally wanted to take revenge on Chen Shubao, but unexpectedly he finally compensated his biological son, and Xiao Moha suddenly complained.

The scandal between Chen Shubao and Liu was soon revealed. For a moment, the news that Xiao Mohe was cuckolded spread all over the country. This was a huge blow to Xiao Mohe, and it was a serious illness.

Fortunately, the public opinion trend quickly shifted, and the news that the Sui army was heading south in large numbers made people in the Chen State panic, and people's attention also shifted to the battlefield of the Yangtze River.

However, the Sui army made detailed rumors, saying that Xiao Mohe was angry that Chen Shubao ruined his family's style and wanted to rebel.

Chen Shubao was guilty and believed it, and was ready to take action to kill Xiao Moha first. However, due to the fact that more than 100,000 troops near the capital were all under Xiao Moha's control, and his rash actions would be backfired.

So Chen Shubao ordered his two sons from Nanxuzhou to guard Jiangzhou, the important town of Yuanjiang, on the grounds of the celebration of the Yuanhui (i.e. the Spring Festival), to lead a warship back to Jiankang, but in fact he was preparing to attack Xiao Maha.

However, Chen Shubao did not understand military affairs and rashly transferred his two sons back to Jiankang, which made Jiang Fang even weaker.

In December of the eighth year of Kaihuang, Yang Jun led more than 100,000 naval and army troops to Xiangyang and entered Hankou. The main force of the Chen army was transferred away. The sanqi General Zhou Luohu Governor Baxia Yuanjiang Military Affairs, and he and the governor of Yingzhou were in charge of Jiangxia. He confronted Yang Jun's army for more than a month and was defeated.

In the same month, Zhou Fashang, the chief general of the Sui army, led 30,000 boat troops to Fankou and defeated the resisting Chen army. Yang Su led the navy out of Badong and advanced east along the Three Gorges. The troops of the governor Liu Ren'en of Jingzhou went west from Jiangling. The two armies cooperated and used both water and land to attack and occupy Langwei Beach, defeating Chen's guard general Qi Xin.

Chen Nankang's inner historian Lu Zhongsu defended Qiting to death and blocked the Sui army from going out of the Three Gorges with three iron locks in the river. Yang Su and Liu Renen led the water and land coalition forces to attack for more than a month until they defeated the Chen army in the first month of the ninth year of Kaihuang AD and occupied the entrance of Xiling Gorge.

The Chen navy was defeated, which led to the loss of morale between the Chen army along the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the Sui army attacked fiercely and won victories.

When the news that the Sui army occupied the upper reaches of the Yangtze River reached Jiankang, they were all detained by Shi Wenqing and Shen Keqing, who were in charge of the secrets. The two of them were Kong Fan's subordinates, and Kong Fan had already secretly surrendered to the Great Sui Dynasty, leaving Jiankang City without any defense. When the Sui army advanced to the north bank of the Yangtze River, Shi Wenqing refused to send troops to strengthen the armies of Jingkou, Caishi and other places as the Yuan Dynasty was approaching.

Xiao Mohe asked to lead his army to fight several times, but Chen Shubao was worried that he would rebel, so he never sent him a tiger talisman, but instead planned to seize Xiao Mohe's military power. Neither of them believed in each other, so that the 100,000 elite Chen army soldiers could only stay in the military camp for the sun and do nothing.

Compared to Xiao Maha, Xiao Yi was even more depressed. It was enough for his sister to marry into the royal family and become the crown princess, but unexpectedly he also got it in.

On the day of engagement, Xiao Yi met Zhang Lihua's daughter, Princess Chen Hua, Princess Jinling. She is the same age as Xiao Yi and will be four in a few days. As the daughter of the world's number one beauty, she has been born in the palace with sufficient nutrition since she was a child and has made her look beautiful and cute.

Xiao Yi thought she would definitely be a great beauty in the future and would never be inferior to her mother. It would be a blessing to have such a great beauty as her wife in the future.

Just thinking that the Chen State was about to perish, all these royal women would be filled with the Daxing Palace of the Sui Dynasty as palace maids, but they had no chance to become women of the Yang family.

Thinking of this, Xiao Yi could only sigh.

Chen Huan not only inherited the beauty of his mother, but also had Chen Shubao's literary genius and admired Xiao Yi's poems very much. In modern terms, Chen Huan is a die-hard fan of Xiao Yi.

Seeing that Xiao Yi was very handsome, the little princess fell in love with him from the bottom of her heart. The children in the palace were precocious, and Chen Wu would use tricks to take Xiao Yi around to play in the palace at such a young age.

Is this a date?

Xiao Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly.

The magnificent Dachen Palace may have been destroyed by war, and there will be no chance to see such a luxurious palace again in the future, so Xiao Yi agreed to accompany Chen Hua to have fun, so he could enjoy it.

Although the Great Chen Palace is magnificent, it is not very big.

Not long after, the two arrived at Linyuan.

Linyuan, as the name suggests, is an ancient zoo.

Chen Wu likes this place very much and often comes to play.

"Do you know what this is?"

"Golden Monkey!"

"Where is this?"

"Sheng-crowned crane!"

"Where is that?"

"elephant!"

I planned to tell my fiancé myself, but unexpectedly, they knew about it a long time ago, and Chen Wu was suddenly a little disappointed.

Xiao Yi saw Chen Hua's thoughts and couldn't help but sigh, and then he said nothing. Chen Hua immediately became happy and explained to Xiao Yi endlessly.

At this moment, Xiao Yi's eyes suddenly lit up. He actually saw an ostrich from Africa in the zoo of the Dachen Palace.

This African ostrich is actually inside the Dachen Palace. This is really a new thing. Could it be that China has already had connections with Africa at this time?

Seeing that Xiao Yi was interested, Chen Wu explained: "This big rooster is a gift from Fuyu Kingdom to his father. I don't know how the people there fed it. He raised a chicken so big that his father couldn't bear to eat it."

"You guys call it a chicken?"

Xiao Yi rolled his eyes immediately and told her that this was an animal unique to a very far-reaching place, called the ostrich.

Chen Wu immediately questioned: "Since it is called an ostrich, why can't it fly? Is its wings injured?"

Xiao Yi smiled, so he told her a beautiful myth about the ostrich. After listening to it, Chen Huan explained his doubts.

"You said that this ostrich runs faster than a war horse? But it only has two legs! I don't believe it, you are lying to others!"

"Let you see it!"

Xiao Yi asked people to get some sweet grass that ostrich likes to eat the most, then approach it carefully and slowly feed it to establish a friendly relationship with it.

No one has ever fed the ostrich sweet grass, so Xiao Yi tried it more than a dozen times and successfully rode on the ostrich's back.

But the ostrich was locked in the circle for a long time and grew fat and refused to move the place.

Xiao Yi said that it would take a few more days to make it run. Chen Hua still didn't believe it, so he made a bet with Xiao Yi. If Xiao Yi wins, he will take her to a fun place. Xiao Yi naturally refused to admit defeat and agreed immediately.

So for the next few days, Xiao Yi devoted himself to the ostrich.

After many days of training at Xiao Yi, the ostrich was finally willing to run with Xiao Yi.

Chen Wu immediately called a horse trainer and asked him to compete with Xiao Yi's ostrich.

At first few rounds, Xiao Yi's ostrich was really lazy and even lost. But soon Xiao Yi came up with a solution, and he beat the ostrich a few times when he was hungry. Then during the competition, he rode on the ostrich's back, holding a bamboo pole and carrying a small basket of sweet grass, swaying in front of it.

The ostrich wanted to eat sweet grass, but couldn't eat it, and immediately started running.

The horseman immediately slapped the horse and chased after him, but unexpectedly the ostrich ran faster and faster. Soon after, he left the palace horse behind.

The imperial horse was a thousand-mile horse, but it could not run away from an ostrich. Chen Wu was very surprised and believed Xiao Yi's words.

He was willing to accept the loss of the bet, so Chen Wu took Xiao Yi to the good place she talked about.

Xiao Yi was curious and followed her, but what she called good convenience was that she secretly established a secret lattice in Jieqi Pavilion. It was filled with what she called good things, all of which were all small objects that girls liked.

Xiao Yi couldn't help but feel speechless and was about to leave.

However, Zhang Lihua and ** walked in at this time.

Chen Wu was worried that her mother would discover her secret base, so he asked Xiao Yi not to make a sound, so the two of them secretly hid in the secret compartment.

The secret wall is a little small, and the two children just happened to be crowded together.

Xiao Yi noticed through the fine holes of the grid and saw Zhang Lihua and **'s expressions very panicked. Zhang Lihua asked anxiously: "What's going on? Didn't he say he had repelled the Sui army?"

** immediately cursed in anger: "It's all good things that Kong Fan did! Shi Wenqing and Chen Keqing secretly suppressed the battle report sent back from the front line, but they lied about military information. A confidant I had arranged in Jiangxia had just escaped. Three days ago, Jiangxia had fallen and Jingzhou fell. Hundreds of thousands of Sui troops were heading east along the river. They would attack Jiankang in less than a month."

Zhang Lihua suddenly lost her face when she heard this and said in horror: "The emperor and I have no idea about such a big deal. No, I have to tell the emperor immediately."

** stopped immediately and said, "Don't rush to tell the emperor! Isn't my sister still clear about the current situation? The emperor's scandal was exposed, and it is incompatible with Xiao Maha now. The emperor summoned two princes to lead a large army back to Jiankang just to deal with Xiao Maha. If Xiao Maha is defeated, it will inevitably implicate the prince and sister. If Xiao Maha wins, the Chen family will have to change its surname to Xiao, and the Zhang family will also be implicated."

"What should I do?" Zhang Lihua knew the interests of this, but she didn't know what to do, so she walked back and forth in a hurry.

** At this time, he showed a ruthless look and said, "No matter how the emperor and Xiao Maha fight, we must take care of ourselves first. The rise and fall of the Zhang family cannot tolerate others' control."

Zhang Lihua asked, "How can you take care of your own laws?"

** suddenly smiled and said, "I'm so anxious that I told my sister that money can make the devil push. No matter how they fight or fight, whoever reaches the treasure in the end will have to rely on the wealthy family to pay to consolidate the country."

Zhang Lihua said anxiously: "If you have something to say, just say it right away. When is it time? Don't go around the corner."

**Although he was considering his sister, he was more concerned about himself. He smiled and said immediately: "Just need to cooperate with me, I will secretly transfer the gold, silver, money and silk in the treasury and hide it in a place that others don't know. In this way, we will have the capital to settle down in the future. No matter whether either side wins, it depends on our expression."

Zhang Lihua was shocked when she heard this. She didn't expect that her brother would be so bold and act recklessly. She immediately said in fear: "This is the crime of beheading and extermination of genocide!"

** snorted coldly, "Why are you afraid of beheading and extermination of the clan at this time? To be honest, I have already done a lot of effort for my brother, and I just need my sister to get an imperial edict from the emperor."

It is not difficult for Zhang Lihua to get an imperial edict.

Seeing that ** was full of confidence, Zhang Lihua made up his mind and said, "The imperial edict can be obtained, but there is still a huge sum of money in the palace treasury, and my brother also finds a way to get it out together."

** suddenly smiled and said, "I knew that sister, you must have private money too! I am already very skilled in this matter, so don't worry."

**The changes have changed so much over the years that Zhang Lihua has no longer trusted him, so she made three rules with him.

The total amount of money and money from the treasury and the palace treasury is 10 million. How to hide such a huge amount of money and not be discovered is indeed a difficult problem.

Zhang Lihua immediately raised a question, and the ** promised: "Don't worry, sister, I'm asking about Lu Yi everywhere. Lu Yi is the world's top master of mechanisms. With his actions, he will be able to do it perfectly. Don't worry, sister."

Zhang Lihua nodded and said, "This matter needs to be as soon as possible. The longer it is, the more unsafe it is."

Xiao Yi was listening to the conversation outside with all his attention, but unexpectedly, Chen Wu took the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and touched Xiao Yi. The two were already crowded together, and Xiao Yi subconsciously raised his hand to push her, but unexpectedly his hand was pressing on her chest.

Although her breasts had not yet developed, she knew that the defense between men and women was incomprehensible and she screamed immediately.
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