Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 227 Xiaoyuer and Hua Wuque 16

On the day Murong Xian and his companions entered the city, Liu Xi also came to Jinan City with a group of lackeys. He first showed off his power in front of the Governor of Shandong, the heads of the three departments and the prefect of Jinan, and after eating and drinking for two or three days, he started to do his business.

At this moment, in the office of the Military Governorate, Liu Xi and the prefect of Jinan were looking at the map of Jinan city.

"Prefect Liu, what do you have to say?"

"Reporting to Eunuch Liu, I think the most important thing at the moment is to determine where the center of this cross coordinate is. Jinan has been a city for thousands of years, and there are countless signs in the city. I cannot define it based on these four clues alone." Prefect Liu also had a headache facing this matter.

"Reporting to Eunuch Liu, Prefect Liu, I think these coordinates are related to the entire city of Jinan. During the Hongwu period, Emperor Taizu ordered the construction of the city. Jinan city is the location of the three Shandong departments, and the city layout has strict ritual requirements. I think the center point is on the central axis of Jinan city. From north to south, they are Yan Gong Temple, Daming Lake, Bell Tower, Yamen, Shun Temple and Lishan Gate." An official from the Jinan prefecture stood up and expressed his opinion.

"Wait a minute, isn't this east-west street the horizontal axis of the coordinates? I think the point where it intersects with the central axis of Jinan City is the center point. The person who came up with this coordinate is truly a genius!" Another subordinate expressed his opinion and praised the person who designed the treasure clue.

"In that case, you guys should calculate the size of this place." Liu Xi gritted his teeth.

Although he knew that the Baidaotang treasure was a scam from the beginning, the workmanship of the mechanism box was real, so he hoped to get some consolation prize. After all, he had been under a lot of pressure in the bloodbath. One was that many of the Dongchang men were killed and injured, and the other was that the impeachment of civil servants and hostile eunuchs made the emperor dissatisfied with him.

If he can't make some money from this and live a decent life, his situation will become difficult in the future.

The officials of the Jinan prefectural government and a group of staff quickly worked out the result. Liu Xi took the note and ran out of the military command office with his men and headed east.

The prefect of Jinan went to the governor's office to report to him. In view of the governor's position, he decided to trick Liu Xi and ordered the troops that had entered the city to maintain order to return to their base last night, allowing this dead eunuch to face the people in the underworld directly.

After the incident, his colleagues wrote a letter to impeach Liu Xi. This time, if Liu Xi didn't die, he would be badly hurt, or at least he would have to leave the East Factory.

"Sir Zhao, according to your request, Eunuch Liu has already led people to the place where the mechanism box is hidden." Although Magistrate Liu's official position is higher than that of the governor, he is a Beijing official with stronger backing than himself.

"Sir Liu, Liu Xi was responsible for all the trouble he had in Jinan. We are all smart people, so there is no need for me to say anything more, right?" Governor Zhao said coldly.

"Don't worry, Lord Zhao. I know the general situation." Prefect Liu hurriedly said with a smile.

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"Eunuch Liu, someone is following us!" Tan Tian felt that the atmosphere along the way was not right.

"Don't pay any attention to them. They are just scums who want to take advantage of the situation. I have just mastered the skill of absorbing energy, and I am looking for someone to practice with."

After all, Liu Xi was a dead eunuch who had risen through the ranks among tens of thousands of eunuchs, and he had a general idea of the intrigues of the Shandong officialdom.

The masters in the martial arts world are not good enough. Yan Nantian has been missing for many years. The two palace masters of Yihua Palace are women. How high can a woman's martial arts be? Although I haven't reached the highest level in the practice of the power absorption method, it is enough to look down on the entire martial arts world. Those who covet the mechanism box are just ants who don't know how to live or die.

With the expectation of unknown treasure, Liu Xi rushed to the destination with hundreds of Dongchang soldiers. The surroundings were desolate, with only a small land temple standing abruptly in the middle of the entire open space, which looked a bit dilapidated.

"This place is prosperous, but why is this good land uncultivated?" Liu Xi was puzzled to see this place so barren.

"Eunuch Liu, you don't know that the land around here has been bought by the rice merchants in Jinan Prefecture." A yamen runner who was leading the way hurriedly stepped forward and replied.

"Why are rice merchants hoarding land? Why don't they plant crops after buying the land?" Liu Xi was very puzzled by these people's actions.

"Eunuch Liu, these are all excellent fields! If you plant crops here, there will be no crop failure even in a famine year. But because of this, the grain in Jinan city will become worthless. If the grain price cannot go up, how can those rice merchants make money?" The bailiff said this with great confidence.

"Oh, I remember that both Henan and Shanxi are short of food. Can't they make money by growing it and transporting it over?" Liu Xi was of a lowly family and was extremely disgusted with this practice. If his family didn't have enough food, who the hell would be willing to cut that thing and become a eunuch.

"Eunuch Liu, we are unfamiliar with places like Shanxi and Henan, and we have to give some benefits to the local government when we pass through. Besides, there are rice merchants in those places, they also want to make money, and they will also band together to boycott. Besides, you can make money at home, why bother to go so far, it's not cost-effective." The yamen runner felt that he would be appreciated for saying so much in front of Eunuch Liu today.

"That makes sense." Liu Xi said, resisting the urge to slap the bastard to death.

"Eunuch Liu, we have surveyed the surrounding area, and now the only thing left is this land temple." The two men who were chatting came over breathlessly and said.

"Tear it down!" Liu Xi said gritting his teeth.

"Eunuch Liu, this is the God of Land!" The bailiff turned pale with fright.

"Land Lord? This is the Ming Dynasty, it's not the turn of a mere land lord to make the decision!" Liu Xi said coldly after looking at the yamen runner who was paralyzed on the ground due to fear.

As Liu Xi's most loyal lackeys, they each picked up a spear and started to pick off the dead vines and tiles.

"Eunuch Liu, you can't do this!" When the yamen runner saw the East Depot carrying out demolition unscrupulously, he didn't know where he got the courage from, he hugged Liu Xi's thighs and cried.

"Someone, pull this idiot away!" Liu Xi was too lazy to argue with this man.

When the two guards heard Liu Xi's words, they came over, knocked the yamen runner unconscious and dragged him away. At this time, something went wrong at the land temple. Several crossbow arrows flew out from the inside of the temple and pierced through several tiles with their momentum. Fortunately, there were not many people around and only one guard was shot through the arm, while the other crossbow arrows missed.

Seeing this situation, we chatted more excitedly. The traps were already in place, which meant that there was really some goods, and they were large ones! However, I didn't know if there would be more traps later, so I became more cautious.

Half an hour later, the two finally dismantled the dilapidated roof and stone walls of the entire land temple, and a stone statue appeared in front of everyone. He was holding an iron box in his hand, on which was engraved a familiar relief of a broadsword.

Liu Xi flew in front of the stone statue and picked up the mechanism box in its hand without hesitation.

"Return to the post station immediately!"

A group of people left the wasteland in a hurry and returned to the post station in Jinan City. As soon as they came back, the foreigners surrounded the post station and drove out some officials and postmen inside.

In the lobby of the post station, Liu Xi looked at the five mechanism boxes placed in front of him, feeling a little helpless. How could he open the things that he had obtained after killing countless people?