Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 106 Get closer to the true idea and start to act

Liu Yu played with Cai Yan for a while in the backyard, and soon Liu Bei and Zhang Da came to see him.

Seeing that they had something important to discuss, Cai Yan hugged the kitten and prepared to go back to her room.

"I miss my father recently, can my husband arrange it for me?"

Cai Yan grew up with her father since she was a child. This is the first time she has been separated from him for such a long time, and it is inevitable that she will miss him.

In addition, Cai Yan still has a big matter in mind that needs to be decided by his father.

Liu Yu thought for a while and felt that inviting Cai Yong now should not be suspected of anything.

Due to "Cai Yan's critical illness", Dong Zhuo's interest in his father Cai Yong also greatly diminished, and he no longer paid much attention to him after he was granted the title of Marquis of Gaoyang.

"How about this, tomorrow I will personally invite Marquis Gao Yang to my home!"

After hearing this, Cai Yan happily carried the kitten back to her room.

Liu Yu returned to the front hall with Liu Bei and Zhang Da.

After entering the front hall, Liu Yu first asked about the captured assassin last night.

"How's the interrogation going? Does Qin Fu show any signs of confession?"

Liu Bei shook his head after hearing the words and said that the two assassins would not recruit anything.

But there is also good news. Under the continuous stimulation of strong light and strong sound, Qin Fu's mental state began to appear in a trance.

Liu Yu is still very confident in the interrogation skills he learned from later generations. He knows that when a person appears in a trance, it is not far from a confession.

After a brief inquiry, Liu Yu brought the topic to tonight's secret operation.

Before, Liu Yu suspected that the underground palace tomb outside the city might be the place where the mysterious rich merchant stored grain.

In order to verify whether this conjecture is correct, he sent Wu You, Zhou Fang, and Cui Di to check out the city first.

In the evening, Liu Yu planned to go down to an underground palace to check it out himself.

"I asked Xuande to select the people who have been properly arranged?"

"My lord, don't worry, I've asked them to pretend to be merchants and wait outside the city ahead of time!"

The personnel are in place, and the tools for the bucket also need to be prepared.

Zhang Da has extremely rich experience in inverting, so the selection of tools and preparations are naturally entrusted to him.

At this time Liu Yu asked: "If you give Qiling more than a dozen people, are you sure that you can dig an entrance to an underground palace in one night?

Zhang Da replied confidently: "It doesn't take one night. If the personnel and tools are complete, I can take people down to the underground palace in two hours at most!"

Liu Yu nodded in satisfaction when he heard the words, everything is ready, just waiting for the good news from Wu You and the three of them.

About half an hour later, Wu You and the three returned to Liu Yu's mansion on time.

"Tell me, what have you gained today!" Liu Yu asked.

At this time, several people in the house are people Liu Yu can trust, and they will all participate in this operation.

So after receiving Liu Yu's hint, Wu You said without reservation: "Today, the three of us first checked the locations of the five underground palaces, but the entrances to these five locations were blocked from the outside, and we couldn't enter the actual site. exploration!"

It is immoral to steal someone's tomb, so after some tomb robbers have dug out the treasures in the tomb, they will ask their men to seal the entrance from the outside to cover up their crimes.

But Xu Rong has blatantly dug twenty or thirty graves outside the city. Everyone in the city knows about it. Does he need to cover it up?
And if the mysterious rich businessman wants to use the underground palace as a place to store grain, he must leave an entrance.

Could it be that Liu Yu's guess was wrong from the beginning, the mysterious rich businessman didn't use the underground palace as a place to store food.

Or maybe it was just a coincidence that none of the five underground palaces they inspected were selected by the mysterious wealthy businessman. After all, Xu Rong dug no less than twenty tombs of various sizes in the past six months.

Zhang Da and Liu Bei were a little discouraged when they heard this. They felt that they were digging the entrance of one of the underground palaces, and they might not find anything useful.

But Liu Yu didn't think so, because he saw a hint of excitement on Wu You's face.

Sure enough, Wu You continued to say that when the three of them went to the sixth underground palace, they finally found some clues there.

At the entrance of the sixth underground palace, there were even Xu Rong's soldiers guarding it.

It was found that the underground palace had been completely hollowed out half a month ago, why did Xu Rong send someone to guard it?

Liu Yu rubbed his neck habitually, then looked at Liu Bei who was beside him, and asked, "This matter is very strange, why did Xuande think that Xu Rong sent a team to guard an empty tomb?"

Liu Bei thought for a while and replied, "Unless... the sixth underground palace is not empty!"

Liu Yu also thinks so, it is very likely that after Xu Rong sent someone to hollow out the treasure, he secretly transported something valuable and hid it in!

For example... food!
Liu Yu secretly guessed in his heart, if this is the case, then Xu Rong must have something to do with the mysterious rich businessman.

At this moment, Cui Di came forward and said an exciting thing.

Cui Di said that several merchants had had several grain transactions with the mysterious wealthy merchants before, and two of them had the grain collection locations very close to the five underground palaces they inspected today!

If the mysterious rich businessman hides the grain in the underground palace in advance, he can easily transport the grain to a nearby designated place after receiving the grain payment.

No wonder Niu Fu sent the Xiliang Army to guard the main roads but couldn't find any traces of passing vehicles. Presumably, the food hadn't been transported too far away from Luoyang City.

At the same time, this also explains why the first five underground palace tombs were sealed from the outside.

Sealing the entrance is not only to cover up morality, but also to prevent people from discovering the clues inside.

Although everything is just speculation based on intelligence, Liu Yu feels that it is very close to the truth.

And in order to determine whether there was really food hidden in the sixth underground palace, Liu Yu decided to start the secret operation tonight immediately.

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In the evening, the city gate was not yet closed, so Liu Yu led Liu Bei, Zhang Da, and Wu You out of Luoyang City quietly.

When they arrived five miles south of the city, they joined Habayashi Wei who had been dressed as a merchant before.

Liu Yu thought that there were hidden secrets hidden in the sixth underground palace, but he couldn't lead people to break in so as not to scare the snake.

So he was going to take his hands down to find a new entrance near the underground palace and dig in to find out.

With Wu You leading the way, the group quickly arrived at the periphery of the underground palace.

With the sunlight that has not yet fully set, you can see that there are about 200 fully armed soldiers guarding the entrance.

This place is a hill, and the entrance is just halfway up the mountain. If you want to dig a new entrance on this side of the mountain, you will definitely not be able to avoid the other party's sight.

It seems that the only way to safely dig the new entrance is to go around to the other side of the mountain.

Fortunately, Liu Yu did his homework in advance. The tomb here is the tomb of a monarch of a small country in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Its scale is not smaller than the general's tomb in the woods that Xu Rong finally discovered.

And when Liu Yu used geomancy, he discovered that this small hill was actually a huge grave.

So Liu Yu is sure that he can also dig into the tomb from the other side of the hill.

(End of this chapter)