Chapter 571： recover

   Prime Minister Qin smelted gold and silver into slabs, and then faked them into bluestone slabs and spread them on the back garden. This topic instantly overwhelmed the topic of Qi Xiuyuan's enthronement and became the freshest topic in Lin'an City, and even the entire Jiangnan.

When it comes to which one is better at hiding money, Prime Minister Qin must be number one.

A lot of gold and silver nuggets were found, but the amount embezzled by Qin Xiang was still a lot worse, and the missing money in the treasury was even less.

But they knocked on all the slates in the Prime Minister Qin's mansion and couldn't find any more. If they searched further, the entire Prime Minister Qin mansion would have to be demolished and rebuilt, which would cost a lot of money.

Qi Xiuyuan only thought about it for a while and then let people retire. This time, he took the initiative to let some small courtyards in the west of the Qin Prime Minister's mansion be isolated, and the rest were used as Qi Haoran's county prince's mansion, which was considered a joint system.

Qin Tianjian has calculated a good day, Qi Xiuyuan will officially ascend to the throne on June 18th, and there are still four months left.

Although Qi Xiuyuan has not officially ascended the throne, he has gradually gotten used to handling state affairs.

Just as Qi Xiuyuan was preparing for the enthronement ceremony, the news that the Prime Minister Qin’s residence had found a large amount of gold and silver also reached the border, plus the news that the treasury had been emptied.

The second prince laughed a few times when he heard the news, then dropped the paper in his hand, got up and said, "Go, let's go see our Lord Qin Xiang."

The inner servant looked at the second prince's smile and felt a chill in his heart, so he hurriedly followed.

The camp was a little chaotic, and some papers drifted from the air from time to time. A team of guards searched for those inspiring papers. Although the people who hid the papers were all put to death in public, there were still many people who hid them privately. Some people are highly secretive, and by now, everyone has begun to hide from each other.

When the soldiers saw the second prince coming out, they all hid to one side, and the second prince walked past them without looking sideways.

Qin Xiang smashed a ball of paper and threw the paper ball into the fire with no expression on his face. When the second prince opened the curtain and came in, what he saw was Qin Xiang staring at the brazier with his face submerged in the water.

The second prince twitched the corners of his mouth, sat down opposite Qin with a thorn, and looked up and said, "Master Xiang, you took the missing money in the treasury."

The second prince did not use interrogative sentences, but declarative sentences.

Qin Xiang lowered his eyes, took a sip of tea, and said, "Your Majesty, at this time we should work together to resist the Qi family's rebellion..."

"Master Xiang thinks we still have a chance to win?" The second prince interrupted him and said, "The Xixia army has all withdrawn, and their strength has been restrained by the Jin Kingdom."

The second prince sneered: "At the beginning, the prime minister brought Xixia troops into the capital and hooked me to rebel. He probably didn't expect the Jinhui to attack Xixia, but instead let the Qi brothers take advantage of it?"

Qin Xiang's face was slightly ugly.

"But it doesn't matter anymore. I just wanted to ask out of curiosity, where did you hide the money. The news I got is that the amount of gold and silver that Qi Xiuyuan dug up from the mansion is wrong."

Qin Xiang did not speak.

The second prince waited for a while, then sneered: "Forget it, I just wanted to satisfy my curiosity. Anyway, I asked for the money, and I couldn't spend it, but," the second prince lowered his face, "Although I I can't spend it, but it doesn't mean that others are allowed to deceive me, or even steal my Da Zhou's property."

The second prince looked at the inner servant, the inner servant stepped forward tremblingly, took out a small medicine bottle from his sleeve and placed it on the table tremblingly.

The second prince smiled and said: "This is what the father used at the time. Well, I also prepared a copy for myself, but I want to see Qin Xiang walk ahead of me."

Qin Xiang sank his face and looked at the second prince in a haze, the second prince said calmly: "The camp is already in chaos, I can't really take my Da Zhou soldiers to Xixia to be a second-class person, so I have to end myself. Well, it's just that I'm afraid that I can't explain it to the emperor when I see him on the road, so I can only trouble Prime Minister Qin to walk with me."

Prime Minister Qin raised his head and looked outside, the second prince was sitting still, and after a while, a general stepped in, knelt and said, "Go back to the emperor, the rebellion in the camp has been eradicated."

The second prince waved him down and turned to look at Qin Xiang.

Qin Xiang's hand holding the teacup couldn't help but tighten, he took a deep breath and sighed: "Your Majesty, why is this, you are the only blood of the Guo family now, and Qi Xiuyuan's plan to usurp the throne was a plan from the very beginning. Alright, as long as we reveal the truth to the world, the generals will definitely come to King Qin, and if the emperor is worried, he can ask his ministers to persuade them..."

The second prince only thought that Prime Minister Qin was joking. If there was no warning from Emperor Jingyan before his death, maybe he would be happy to go to Xixia with Prime Minister Qin to wait for a comeback.

But he knew that all this was just his trick.

went to Xixia, he was afraid that he would die without a place to be buried.

The second prince was afraid of death, but he was even more afraid of dying in a foreign country without dignity. In this case, he might as well end his own life.

After coming out of Qin Xiang's tent, the second prince looked at the chaotic camp and sighed at the sky. He didn't know whether the Qi brothers had planned the rebellion, or as they said, he was forced by him. You know, the blood of the Guo family was cut off because of him.

When the second prince was about to die, Qi Haoran was squatting on the ground, pulled out a potato from the fire, simply peeled a layer of skin and stuffed it in his mouth, he breathed and asked, "We still have How much food?"

"Three days, General, let's attack. It's not a solution to always be surrounded. We are about to run out of food and grass. I heard that there is no money in the national treasury now."

Qi Haoran rolled his eyes and said, "Did we have a national treasury for the war before? We won't fight it the same way." He stuffed two potatoes into his stomach, which made the uncomfortable stomach feel a little better, and he said, "Wait a minute. Wait, haven't you seen the chaos on the other side? If it can reduce casualties, I'm willing to wait for two more days, and ask them to write more lists and spread them there, and all the soldiers who escaped will be taken over and placed separately."

The adjutant murmured, "I haven't seen anyone here for the past few days."

As a result, a man with a small flag ran from there at night, and at the gate of the camp, he put down his weapon and raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

The Qi family's army brought people back and arranged them separately. As a result, it was like an opening. There were six people surrendering in one night. I thought there would be trouble on the opposite side the next day. , but nothing major happened.

In the evening, they received a lot of fleeing troops. Qi Haoran asked them one by one. He always felt that something was wrong, but he slept all night.

The next day, when I went out to the tent to eat breakfast, I remembered that the soldiers who came to defect said that the second prince and Qin Xiang had not been out of the tent for a day and a night, and they had not seen anyone bring food in. They just felt that there was not much food and grass. Well, that's why I hurriedly ran this way.

Qi Haoran also stuffed a black-faced steamed bun into his mouth and said, "Call all the generals, hurry up!"

At noon that day, the Qi family's army, which had been silent for more than half a month, launched an attack on the second prince's army, but after half an hour they captured the camp and captured 48,658 people. He died in the camp for two days.