Chapter 359: Royal City, Silver Vault

When the dawn light came again, Yang Zhengshan was already standing in the main hall in Qingwang City.

The main hall of each royal city is the Chengyun Hall, which is the place where the prince holds ceremonies and exercises power. It is usually a vaulted roof with a painted dragon in the middle, decorated with gold borders and eight auspicious flowers. The seats in the hall are painted with red lacquer and gold dragons, the hanging curtains are painted with red gilded dragons, and the wall behind the seats is painted with dragons and colorful clouds.

However, Prince Qing’s Chengyun Palace seemed a bit stingy, without any sense of splendor. Instead, it gave people a feeling of gloom and seclusion.

The reason for this can be traced back to when Prince Qing was enfeoffed as a fiefdom more than thirty years ago.

Prince Qing is the son of the former crown prince. Emperor Chengping has never liked him and has even been wary of him, so naturally he would not buy him a magnificent palace.

When Prince Qing was enfeoffed, there was no royal city in Qinghua Prefecture. When Prince Qing arrived in Qinghua Prefecture, the royal city had just been built. Prince Qing waited in the city for three years before the royal city was completed.

At that time, everyone knew that Emperor Chengping disliked Prince Qing, so the officials in charge of building the royal city did not care about Prince Qing. They cut corners and the court also saved as much as possible, and eventually built the worst royal city in Dayong.

The Chengyun Palace, which was supposed to be majestic and grand, turned into a palace that looked crudely made.

Yang Zhengshan stood in Chengyun Hall, looked at the decorations inside the hall, and shook his head slightly.

"How miserable!"

He felt that Prince Qing was very miserable.

He was originally destined to be an emperor, but his fate was changed to that of a prince. Not only was he destined to be a prince, but he was also suppressed and monitored by Emperor Chengping.

After finally getting Emperor Taiping to death, he finally saw a chance to come out, but it ended up happening to him.

Yang Zhengshan felt like fate was playing tricks on him.

"Sir! We have found out that Prince Qing escaped from the city last night! He left the city through the west gate!" Yang Mingzhi came over to report.

Yang Zhengshan stepped out of the hall and looked at the clouds in the sky. "Where are the children of Prince Qing?"

"It seems like they left together. Some people saw a team of more than a hundred people leaving the city with three or two horse-drawn carriages last night." Yang Mingzhi said.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly. There were only a hundred people, and it seemed that Prince Qing left in a hurry.

"They must have gone to look for Ji Feiyu!"

"It doesn't matter. Even if they find Ji Feiyu, what can they do? They don't have a chance anymore!"

The situation has changed!
In the battle of Qinghuafu, Prince Qing suffered a crushing defeat, which caused the rebels, who had no basis to begin with, to completely lose their foundation.

If Prince Qing can defeat the Tenglong Guards, they will be able to gain a foothold in Liaodong. Once Ji Feiyu has cleaned up the mess in Chongshan Town, they will be able to sweep across the entire Liaodong and swallow it up in a short period of time.

Then, while stabilizing Liaodong, he deployed troops in Jizhou to block the imperial army outside Jizhou. Then, maybe Prince Qing would really have a chance to seize the world.

But now, not only did they fail to defeat Tenglongwei, they also lost Qinghua Mansion. More importantly, they were defeated too quickly, so Ji Feiyu was unable to clean up the mess in Chongshan Town.

As the saying goes, one wrong move can lead to a complete loss.

"Where are the officials in the city?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

"They are all in the dungeon!" Yang Mingzhi said.

"Well, invite them out and let them handle the affairs of the city. Also send someone to notify Lord Pang Tang and ask him to come and clean up the mess!"

"We'll rest for a day and then leave Qinghua Mansion!"

Yang Zhengshan said.

Yang Mingzhi nodded and said, "What should we do with the siege equipment outside the city?"

"..."

Yang Zhengshan was speechless.

The engineers' efforts were in vain this time. They worked hard for several days, but in the end their work was of no use.

Who can be blamed for this? The enemy is so useless!

"Split it up first, don't throw it away, find a place to store it, and wait for Master Pang Tang to organize the laborers and have them send it to Chongshan Pass! Maybe we can still use it then."

The decisive battle of this war will definitely be at Chongshan Pass. Prince Qing has been defeated, and Ji Feiyu will definitely not come out again. He is estimated to defend Chongshan Pass to the death.

If you want to attack Chongshan Pass, you will definitely need more siege equipment.

If we ask the Tenglong Guards to transport these siege equipment, it will definitely not work. But if we wait for Pang Tang to organize the civilians to transport them, then it won't matter.

"Okay, what about the prisoners?"

"how many?"

"Nearly six thousand people!"

The two guards had a total of 11,200 soldiers, which means that nearly half of them died in the battle.

Yang Zhengshan frowned. These captives were not easy to deal with. They certainly could not be killed, after all, they were all people of Darong. But if they were kept, Tenglongwei would not have the manpower to watch over them!
As for leaving it to the prefectural government of Qinghua Prefecture, that is even more impossible. Now the prefectural government of Qinghua Prefecture is like a shell. The prefect has been imprisoned by Prince Qing, and the clerks and runners have been dismissed by Prince Qing. The prefect is now left alone, and it is still uncertain whether he can stabilize the situation in the prefecture, let alone other things.

"Let someone summon the Tenglong Guards and dispatch a group of soldiers over!"

There was no other way, Yang Zhengshan could only mobilize soldiers from the Tenglong Guard again. These were no longer soldiers, but surplus soldiers, and asked them to guard the prisoners.

"Also send a message to Liaoyuan Commandery, asking them to quickly organize troops to take over!"

"These prisoners are all their soldiers. It is their fault that they have become traitors. They are given five days to send someone to take over. Otherwise, I will report them!"

Yang Zhengshan said with some dissatisfaction.

He was really dissatisfied with the Liaoyuandusi. It had been so many days, and the Liaoyuandusi had not responded at all. Logically, the Liaoyuandusi should have been the first to take action. However, the Tenglong Guards had already taken over Qinghua Prefecture, but the Liaoyuandusi had not made any move.

"Yes!" Yang Mingzhi chuckled and went to do his work.

As soon as he left, Ding Qiu came over.

"This old servant greets the master!" Ding Qiu bowed with some shame.

He hid in Qinghua Mansion for five years, but it seemed like he did nothing.

He was asked to gather information, but he hardly found any useful news. He did not report Prince Qing's rebellion in time, and he did not help in the battle outside the city.

From beginning to end, he was like a spectator and did nothing.

"Thank you for your hard work!" Yang Zhengshan did not blame him. He patted his shoulder and said with a smile.

"I am useless and have failed the master's trust!" Ding Qiu said ashamedly. Yang Zhengshan smiled and said, "It is normal that you cannot do what even the Secret Guards cannot do."

What a joke! The Secret Guards were fooled by Prince Qing. What can Ding Qiu do?

Although Ding Qiu has more than a dozen helpers with good cultivation, they are still far inferior to the Secret Guards.

In fact, the fact that Ding Qiu and his companions were able to hide in Qinghua Mansion for several years without being discovered by King Qing shows that they have done a very good job.

As for investigating the information, Ding Qiu and his team did not find nothing.

"Master, we know where Prince Qing's treasury is!" Ding Qiu said in a low voice.

Yang Zhengshan's eyes lit up, "Where?"

"In Xiuchun Garden!"

Ding Qiu led Yang Zhengshan to Xiuchun Garden.

Xiuchunyuan is not an embroidery workshop, but a brothel, the best brothel in the city.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the elegantly decorated flower building and then at the royal city next to it.

This Xiuchun Garden is just outside the royal city, only ten feet away from the royal city.

"Master, the silver vault is in the cellar of Xiuchunyuan!" Ding Qiu said.

Yang Zhengshan winked at Yang Minghao behind him, and Yang Minghao immediately led his personal guards into Xiuchun Garden.

"My lords, my soldiers, I am guilty. Please don't kill me!"

As soon as the guards rushed into Xiuchun Garden, they heard a burst of begging for mercy from young girls.

The corner of Yang Zhengshan's mouth twitched slightly.

Brothel!

By the way, he has never been to a brothel in his life!
As he stepped into the building, he saw a group of gorgeously dressed singing girls and dancers kneeling on the ground. The scene was so erotic that Yang Zhengshan even felt a little distracted.

A man is a boy until he dies, and a man is lustful until he dies!

However, a group of prostitutes was not enough to make Yang Zhengshan lose his composure, not to mention that his subordinates were here, and, yes, his son.

"Shut up. Whoever dares to make a sound will be dragged out and chopped to pieces!" Yang Zhengshan shouted coldly.

Suddenly there was silence in the building.

"Search!"

Yang Zhengshan was too lazy to look at these brothel ladies anymore.

Soon, Ding Qiu and his guards found the entrance to the cellar.

Yang Minghao and Ding Qiu went in and took a look, and when they came out, their eyes were full of stars.

"Dad, so much silver!" Yang Minghao's eyes flashed.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "You guys keep an eye on them, I'll go down and take a look first!"

Having said that, he jumped into the cellar.

After he saw the situation in the cellar clearly, his head was confused for a moment.

He finally understood what Yang Minghao meant by the large amount of silver!

This is not just a lot, this is a mountain of silver!

To be honest, Yang Zhengshan is not short of money. The money of Tenglongwei belongs to Tenglongwei, and the Yang family has also made a lot of money over the years. I dare not say how much more it is, but it is still very easy for the Yang family to get hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

But this is only the Yang family's silver. There are still 500,000 taels of silver in the Lingquan space. Yang Zhengshan robbed the Liu family's silver vault in Jiangnan, and until now, that silver is still lying in the Lingquan space.

There was no way, Yang Zhengshan had no place to use the money.

Boxes were placed in the cellar, each containing silver ingots weighing fifty taels.

However, there are only silver ingots here, nothing else. Obviously, there should be more than one silver vault of Prince Qing.

As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Prince Qing will definitely not keep all his assets in Qinghua Mansion.

He did not place the treasury in the royal city, but instead placed it in a brothel outside. It can be seen that this guy likes to hide silver.

The silver vault in front of him was not small, and was similar to the underground space Yang Zhengshan had discovered in the prefectural government office in Anyuan City. The entrances and exits were very simple, with only a cellar covering it from the outside. The silver vault could be seen by moving away the debris in the cellar.

Yang Zhengshan counted the boxes and found that there were about a thousand of them, which was one million taels of silver!
Looking at these boxes, Yang Zhengshan stroked his beard and thought about it.

Although he was not short of money, he still felt uncomfortable not taking some of the money when he saw so much of it.

After hesitating for a moment, Yang Zhengshan put one-third of the boxes into the Lingquan space.

"Seal this place up, and when Mr. Pang arrives, let him handle it!"

Back on the ground, Yang Zhengshan gave instructions to Yang Minghao.

"What about these women?" Yang Minghao looked at the women in the brothel.

Yang Zhengshan glanced at the madam and said, "Kill the madam and keep the others!"

It goes without saying that this Xiuchun Garden must be related to Prince Qing. The other women may be innocent or forced, but the madam is definitely not innocent.

Moreover, this madam might know the amount of silver in the treasury, so it would be easier to kill her.

In fact, Yang Zhengshan didn't really care if someone knew that he had moved the silver in the vault. First, no one could find evidence. If he took the silver away using the Lingquan space, no one could find evidence. Second, it was the unspoken rule of the distribution of spoils.

Since these were spoils of war, naturally the vanguard would eat the meat first. In the battle in the north, Yang Zhengshan and the soldiers of the Anyuan City garrison camp were the first to eat the spoils. After the war, Wang Bin still gave them a lot of the spoils.

These things could not be hidden from others, even the emperor knew them clearly, but no one would pursue the matter.

The reason is very simple. The soldiers are fighting hard in the front, and it is really unreasonable if you are unwilling to give them some meat.

So even if someone knew that Yang Zhengshan took the silver, no one would pursue it.

In fact, it was very kind of Yang Zhengshan to leave two-thirds of the silver.

(End of this chapter)