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240,000 taels of gold and 180,000 taels of silver sounds quite a lot, but according to the metric conversion of later generations, the total is only about 13,125 kilograms, and it can be easily transported with the army with more than 100 horses.

Although after many battles of all sizes and large in the next two years, a lot of gold and silver were spent to supplement the consumption of various materials, the troops of King Lu fought over and over and over again, and also gained a lot of supplements from the government treasury and many wealthy households. Overall, the amount of gold increased by nearly 270,000 taels, while the amount of silver reached more than 300,000 taels.

In June 6, the troops of King Lu approached Yantai after entering Jiaolai area. On June 30, facing the approaching situation of the Nian Army, Pan Wei of Denglai Qingdao colluded with the British and French invading troops to prevent blocking. The Governor of Zhili Chonghou also sent foreign gun teams to Yantai from Tianjin to support. The Nian Army encountered obstacles and turned to the Jimo area. Shandong Governor Ding Baozhen moved his army from Pingdu to Jiaozhou, built walls in sections along the Jiaolai River, and sent troops to guard the troops. The Qing army surrounded several places, besieging King Lu's troops in a limited area east of the Jiaolai River.

In order to break through smoothly and not to reduce the supply and pay the Qing army, Zhou Luxue brought more than 200 carefully selected soldiers. With the assistance of Song Ziming and Bai Lushan, he escorted more than 600 Qing army prisoners into Laoshan.

In the hidden location that was selected in advance, soldiers were ordered to supervise the prisoners to excavate and build storage places. From entering Laoshan in June and evacuated at the end of July, after more than a month of rushing work, a total of 19 fake treasure sites were built. As for the real treasure sites, Zhou Luxue chose an extremely secret natural cave.

More than 200 soldiers were ordered to guard outside the mountain, and more than 600 prisoners sent more than 300 mules and horses to the location selected by Zhou Luxue to store. Subsequently, Zhou Luxue and Song Ziming lit gunpowder that had been prepared long ago, blew up the rocks near the real treasure site, and completely concealed the place. Then, the soldiers were ordered to kill all the Qing army prisoners and bury the bodies.

However, Zhou Luxue did not expect that because it was buried shallowly at that time, some of the bodies were dug out by wild animals, causing plague to occur in the local area in autumn and many deaths.

Local historical records once recorded: "In June of the sixth year of Tongzhi, the Nian Army entered Laoshan again and evacuated in July. In autumn, the epidemic spread and many deaths..."

In this way, more than 200 soldiers only knew that some materials were transported into Laoshan to hide and more than 600 prisoners were killed after completing their work. As for what the hidden materials were and where they were hidden, more than 200 people were completely unclear.

Afterwards, Zhou, Song and Bai led more than 200 soldiers to chase most of the Lu King, but unexpectedly they were surrounded and annihilated by the Qing army. In the end, only three of them were rescued by Li Wenyuan.

At that time, the hidden method, which seemed to be in vain, finally played a great role, resulting in the Qing army's many years of exploration of this batch of treasures without any result.

After the Nian Army was suppressed, many officials in the Qing army found that after the extermination of Senggelinqin, the relevant military pay and logistics supplies were the first to control the troops of King Lu, but the number of supplies handed over from the troops was obviously inconsistent with the number of Senggelinqin carried with the troops at that time. In addition, after the troops of Renhuabang were destroyed, only a small amount of supplies were consumed by the army, and no large amounts of gold, silver, money, etc. were found. Some people judged that the huge amount of property must have been hidden.

With continuous investigation, the Qing army confirmed from Pan Guisheng, who rebeled and surrendered to the enemy and killed Renhuabang, and other captured Nian troops that the King of Lu did gain huge gains after annihilated the Senggelinqin tribe, but the specific amount was unclear. In addition, the gold, silver and other materials obtained by the King of Lu's tribe were active everywhere, it must be a huge sum of money.

At that time, the troops of King Lu had been active in Jiao County, Jimo and Gaomi areas, and even approached Yantai for a while. It was difficult to find out where the money would be hidden.

However, during the investigation, a piece of information was obtained from the prisoners of King Lu that a small group of troops led more than 600 Qing army prisoners to Laoshan. However, it was found that the small group of troops had been completely eliminated. No clues about the treasure were found among the eliminated personnel, nor did the more than 600 Qing army prisoners were found.

The officials who got this result were extremely unwilling to give up and even searched in Laoshan in the name of clearing out the long-haired Nian bandits, but they still found nothing except for the discovery of some Qing army corpses and several fake treasure sites.

Among them, Ding Baozhen, the governor of Shandong at that time, spent the most effort. From the information obtained, Ding Baozhen found that the destroyed team had been in Laoshan for more than a month, and the corpses of the Qing army captives who had followed the team into Laoshan were found in Laoshan again. He judged that the treasure was probably hidden in Laoshan. Based on this judgment, Ding Baozhen began to collect in detail the various situations that occurred near Laoshan during this period.

Ding Baozhen discovered that in the 7th year of Tongzhi, Taiqing Palace used a large amount of funds to buy a lot of forests, land and other industries, and had questions in his mind. Although after investigation, it was indeed money carried by a monk. But Ding Baozhen still did not give up. He sent someone to explore the hometown mentioned by Zhou Luxue, and found that there was indeed such a person who sold his property because he was doing business and his family had encountered a change. Dan Ding Baozhen always felt unwilling to give up, so he found a person with good literary talent and good music to Taiqing.

The palace became a monk as a Taoist, and he monitored the Taoist surnamed Zhou nearby. At the same time, he secretly instigated his subordinates to come forward to provoke the conflict between the villagers near Laoshan, mountain people and Taiqing Palace, and secretly aroused and condoned the incident of breaking the mountain. In order to further explore the reactions of the relevant personnel, hoping to obtain more effective clues. However, even when the Taoist priests of Taiqing Palace fled and were robbed by the gathering people in Taiqing Palace, the experts who were exploring among the people did not find any information related to the treasure trove.

In the second year of Guangxu, when Ding Baozhen was transferred to the governor of Sichuan, the activities of exploring the treasures of King Lu in Laoshan gradually subsided.

But a few years later, someone went to the Taiqing Palace in Laoshan to secretly explore based on the original clues.

In April of the ninth year of the Guangxu period, Yin Linji, who was appointed as an editor of the Hanlin Academy, came to the Taiqing Palace in Laoshan and became a disciple of Taoist Han Qianrang. Later, he invested in building a residential courtyard in Taiqing Palace, named "Hanlin Academy", with a plaque written by himself "Donghai Juxia". Because he felt that Zheng Xuan (named Kangcheng), a great scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was noble, and he also saw that the "Kangcheng Academy" in Laoshan had become ruins, so he built a ancestral hall here to worship Zheng Kangcheng, a senior farmer.

In Taiqing Palace, Yin Linji read the Taoist sect and checked the sub-collections of the alchemy in the name of cultivating the truth and cultivating nature every day, hoping to find clues about the treasures of King Lu. Later, he even visited the famous places in Laoshan and conducted on-site exploration. Unfortunately, nothing was found. The name of the regular script cave on the forehead of Baiyun Cave is written by Yin Linji when he visited there.

This has passed four years.

In the 13th year of Guangxu, Yin Linji was the top scholar in the subject and the governor of Shandong Liang Yaoshu. He came to Taiqing Palace in Laoshan for many days. After asking Han Qian and Yin Linji to learn about the situation of exploration, he also had no choice but to give up his intention of continuing to pursue the whereabouts of the treasure. After Liang Yaoshu wrote a plaque in Taiqing Palace, he invited Yin Linji to leave together.

Just when Zhou Luxue thought everything had passed, in December 30 of the Guangxu period, the Qing court announced that Yang Shixiang would replace Yuan Shikai as the governor of Shandong.

After taking office, Yang Shixiang did do some practical things like governing the Yellow River, but it would be impossible to do practical things without money. Just when he was raising funds from many sources, he accidentally heard a legend about the treasure of King Lu in Jinan, and learned from the investigators that year that Shandong Governor Ding Baozhen had sent personnel to Taiqing Palace to become a monk and become a Taoist priest to investigate the treasure of King Lu. After asking about the relevant situation in detail, Yang Shixiang came to Laoshan in the 33rd year of Guangxu.

Chen Magistrate of Jimo County prepared 50 mountain sedan chairs and more than 300 servants, and they all went to Taiqing Palace in Laoshan to welcome him. However, because Yang Shixiang walked from the north road, he first arrived at Huayan Temple, and then encountered a strong wind, which made the road inconvenient, so he took people to Taiqing Palace and asked Han Taichu, the elder of Taiqing Palace, to take Qin to Huayan Temple.

After listening to the guqin played by Han Qianrang, Yang Shixiang left a few poems and returned to Jinan. To this day, there is still an inscription on the inner wall of Huayan Temple: "The Inscription of Yang Shixiang", which is about 1 meter in stone. The text is: "On March 24, the 33rd year of Longfei, Guangxu, Qing Dynasty, Yang Shixiang, the governor of Shandong, inspected Qingjiao, passed through Jimo, and climbed Laoshan to stay in Huayan Temple."

Shortly after the news of the treasure search in Laoshan failed, Yang Shixiang was transferred to the position of governor of Zhili, and the matter about the treasure of King Lu was put on hold again.

Since then, the matter of the treasure of King Lu in Laoshan has gradually been regarded as nonsense after dinner, and no one has ever tried it.

However, when Han Qianrang passed away more than ten years ago, he specifically asked Zhou Luxue to express his apology, and told Zhou Luxue in detail about the inside information he knew back then.

Since the mountain was cut off, Zhou Luxue felt that someone in Taiqing Palace was secretly exploring the treasure of King Lu, but he was not sure who the specific person was, and he didn't know that someone had been in Taiqing Palace for nearly 50 years to explore the treasure of King Lu. Faced with Han Qianrang on his dying occasion, Zhou Luxue was still tight-lipped and did not disclose the real situation about the treasure of King Lu.

With Bai Lushan and Song Ziming's death one after another, the only one who knew about King Lu's treasure in this world was Zhou Luxue.

After telling the story of King Lu’s treasure, Zhou Luxue continued: "This is nearly 270,000 taels of gold and more than 300,000 taels of silver, which can be said to be a huge sum of money. I saw that the government is still corrupt and incompetent, and soldiers and bandits are rampant. I wanted to bring this secret to the ground. However, in recent years, I saw the scenes that Zhao and you guys had to make trouble, and listened to your master coming over a few days ago to tell me what you are doing in Dazhu Mountain. The old Taoist wanted to entrust the money to you to help you and do something practical for the people. However, before handing it over to you, I want to hear your future plans first."

"Grandpa, this amount is indeed not small, but our current funds should be enough." Zhao Zhenzhong did not look happy as Zhou Luxue expected, but instead declined, "We can make a lot of money from foreigners every year. If it is equivalent to gold, we can probably get nearly 300 kilograms a year."

Zhao Zhenzhong's words are not exaggerating. Now each ounce of gold is about $25, 1 kilogram of gold is about $875, and 150 kilograms of gold is worth $131,250. The relevant patent fees he obtained from Lord last year were 100,000 US dollars and more than 120,000 oceans. With the profits of canned food production, it is more than enough to earn 300 kilograms of gold from foreigners every year. The gold treasured by King Luxue mentioned by Zhou Luxue is converted at 16 taels per catty. According to the current exchange rate, the total value is about $7.5 million.

"As for our future plans, it is just to do what we are doing now, to take in and rescue more people, until one day the people in this country will no longer have to worry about food and clothing; to build more factories to produce more goods, until the goods needed by the country can be made by themselves; to open more schools until there are no illiterate people among all the citizens; to establish enough powers to defend themselves, until there are no more powerful people and soldiers and bandits in the country. In short, we hope that in the future, we can make all Chinese people live a better life." Zhao Zhenzhong tried his best to express his meaning in words that two old Taoists could understand.

They were originally surprised by Zhao Zhenzhong and his friends' ability to accumulate wealth, but now after listening to Zhao Zhenzhong's words, Zhou Luxue and Li Shiqing were shocked and even more excited.

"Haha, good ambition!" Zhou Luxue praised with a smile: "I can be unmoved when I see huge wealth in front of me, but I have the skills to make money but care about the people, have great ambitions and great means, good! OK!"

He looked at the three teenagers in front of him again. After looking at them for a while, Zhou Luxue nodded with a smile, and praised Old Dao Li, who was stroking his beard and grinning, "It's your good apprentice."

Then, Zhou Luxue said to Zhao Zhenzhong: "I don't have any worries about giving you that batch of gold and silver if you have this ability and ambition. As long as you remember to do what you said today in the future!" After that, he took out a small box from his arms and handed it to Zhao Zhenzhong: "Don't refuse, this is not for you personally. This is the location of the batch of property. You can let your master take you there, and he is familiar with it."

Seeing that Zhao Zhenzhong had received the treasure map, Zhou Luxue thought about it and reminded him: "In addition to gold and silver, there are also some valuable antiques in that batch of property, as well as the content they learned from Senior Brother Song, I, Brother Bai and others at that time. Although your martial arts are very good now, you can also learn from it."

After saying all this, Zhou Luxue breathed a long sigh of relief and finally explained the things that had been in his heart for so many years. He felt much more relaxed.

After returning from Taiqing Palace, Zhou Hao still felt a little dizzy, "Old Zhao, why do I feel like this elder is telling legendary novels?"

Today, Zhao Zhenzhong also heard these truths hidden in the depths of history. Although his heart was shocked, he did not feel that there were too many bizarre things. After all, the three of them have come to this era and experienced the second childhood. What else can be more bizarre than this? After listening to Zhou Hao's words, Zhao Zhenzhong smiled and said, "Our experience is more bizarre and more fantastic. This historical legend is nothing. In the future history, we will continue to create new legends, and we ourselves will definitely become new legends!"
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