Yesterday, Priest Yanping returned to the Zhi Capital Holy Temple to report.
Seeing the expectant gaze of the Hidden Continent young master Fang Qingyi, he immediately shook his head.
“Princess Zhiyan is an even more troublesome opponent than Suolun.” Yanping said, “Her vision, breadth of mind, and wisdom are no less than Suolun’s, but she is even more rational and calm. Do not pin your hopes on her anymore.”
Fang Qingyi said in disbelief, “Could it be that she just lets Suolun confiscate the property of all the noble families in the royal city? Lets the entire order of the Furious Wave Kingdom be completely destroyed?”
Yanping nodded and said, “The worst-case scenario she anticipated is even more pessimistic than we imagined. She feels that she and Suolun will become public enemies of the world, and the entire Furious Wave Kingdom will fall into complete chaos, with heroes carving out their own territories.”
Fang Qingyi said, “Even so, she is still unwilling to compromise?”
Yanping said, “Yes, she is unwilling to compromise.”
Fang Qingyi said, “Does she love Suolun that much? She is actually willing to let the entire kingdom be buried with him?”
Yanping said, “Of course not. She is preparing to once again abandon the entire kingdom’s territory, ascend to the throne as king in Tianshui City. Then she will make a comeback, spending three to five years to reconquer the entire Furious Wave Kingdom, a completely clean Furious Wave Kingdom.”
Fang Qingyi said in horror, “Then this way, it would be a change of dynasty.”
Yanping said, “It counts as half a change of dynasty. The royal house remains unchanged, but the entire ruling class is completely overthrown and started anew.”
Fang Qingyi was completely shocked speechless!
If either Zhiyan or Suolun were replaced by someone else, Fang Qingyi would have thought this was boastful nonsense.
But facing such a husband-and-wife pair, even if the kingdom really fell into chaos with heroes carving out territories, giving them three to five years, they could truly reconquer the entire Furious Wave Kingdom.
This possibility exceeds seventy percent!
If it were anyone else, Fang Qingyi would say that Suolun was definitely plotting to usurp the throne, and Zhiyan would definitely kill the hounds once the hares are gone.
But now Princess Zhiyan has already proven with facts that she would absolutely not kill the hounds once the hares are gone. Even at this desperate situation today she is unwilling to abandon Suolun, so what else could make her kill the hounds once the hares are gone.
As for Suolun’s character.
Whoever touches my family, I will exterminate their entire clan. He would rather risk the destruction of his entire foundation than let his sister enter a political marriage.
You say he would plot to usurp the throne, and moreover usurp the throne of his own son?
Even using your balls to think, that is impossible.
Fang Qingyi immediately sighed and said, “This woman Zhiyan is much harder to deal with than her father.”
Then, everyone present fell into silence!
Yanping said, “Young Master Fang, Suolun and Princess Zhiyan have also sent you a gift.”
He handed the box in his hand to the Hidden Continent young master Fang Qingyi.
Fang Qingyi took it and immediately smelled a scent of blood. Opening it to look.
“Swish…”
A complete human skin directly fell out.
Instantly, Fang Qingyi’s steps faltered, he retreated half a step back, then his entire body was covered in goosebumps, his scalp going numb!
This human skin was his former teacher, a trusted confidant of the Hidden Continent’s direct line, the general manager of the Royal City Gold House Fang Zeming!
Flames of boundless rage shot to the sky!
“Suolun is outrageously bold, he actually skinned alive a trusted confidant of my Hidden Continent’s direct line!” Fang Qingyi roared, “A mere commoner of a human kingdom, he actually dares to so despise the Hidden Continent? So trample on my Hidden Continent’s dignity? One day I will tear him into ten thousand pieces!”
Luo Ge narrowed his eyes and said, “He is already prepared to fight to the death, so why would he care about your Hidden Continent’s dignity?”
Yes, all the cards that should be played have been played, even the trump cards have been thrown out.
What else can the Hidden Continent do? Could they really dispatch the Holy Temple Legion to annihilate Suolun?
Incite a war between the Dragon God Holy Temple and secular royal power? Don’t be ridiculous!
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“Fight to the death, Suolun has already made up his mind. He will make his move very soon.” Luo Ge said, “We should think of ways to respond. Tomorrow at dawn, he will dispatch the Imperial Guard to confiscate the property of all the noble families in the royal city.”
Hidden Continent young master Fang Qingyi said, “We notify these noble families to transfer their property, and have them gather men to resist Suolun.”
Luo Ge asked, “Approximately how many gold coins would be in the home reserves of all the noble families in the royal city?”
“Over ten million.” Hidden Continent young master Fang Qingyi said, “These powerful families have always liked to hide their gold and silver in their own home cellars, because in their bones they do not trust anyone, including the Royal City Gold House. Only when there is a need for transactions would they deposit their gold and silver in the Royal City Gold House.”
Ge Li said, “They were right to think so. The Royal City Gold House is indeed unreliable, over ten million gold coins in reserves could vanish into thin air.”
Fang Qingyi chuckled lightly, “Heh heh.”
Yanping asked, “The entire Royal City Gold House’s gold coin reserves are around fifteen million. Four million was diverted by Zhili, leaving eleven million. Whose deposits are all these gold coins?”
Fang Qingyi said, “Twenty percent belongs to the nobles, ten percent is the turnover gold and silver of the kingdom’s finance ministry, borrowed from the Hidden Origin Society. The remaining seventy percent is all savings from the commoner class. Only they would care about that bit of deposit interest.”
Once these words came out, everyone present was astonished.
That is to say, of the fifteen million gold coins, ten million were commoner savings. The Furious Wave Kingdom did quite well in hiding wealth among the people.
Fang Qingyi said, “I was also very surprised when I got the data. Guess which group of people accounted for the highest proportion in the entire Royal City Gold House’s reserves of over ten million gold coins?”
Everyone shook their heads.
Fang Qingyi said, “Prostitutes. The prostitutes of the entire Furious Wave Kingdom have deposited over two million three hundred thousand gold coins in the Royal City Gold House. Truly inconceivable.”
In all human kingdoms, the prostitution industry is legal. The total number of prostitutes in the entire Furious Wave Kingdom exceeds three hundred thousand.
That is to say, on average each prostitute has deposited eight gold coins in the Royal City Gold House. (Equivalent to over one hundred thousand RMB)
Prostitutes are the group with the strongest sense of crisis. They desperately save every penny, just so that when they grow old and lose their looks, after leaving the trade, they can survive.
This money is truly their flesh earnings of over a dozen years, their hope for the rest of their lives.
If standing from a moral perspective, these prostitutes are unclean.
But standing from Suolun’s perspective, this massive group of prostitutes is indeed a very important part of his power map.
As everyone knows, after soldiers receive their pay, they all like to visit prostitutes to vent their fire.
So over time, they do not look down on prostitutes as much as ordinary people do, instead feeling a bit more emotional connection.
And after these prostitutes leave the trade, a large portion of them marry these soldiers.
These soldiers are brave and strong, and having played in brothels for so long they are open-minded, not looking down on these women.
After marriage, these soldiers have no money, but these prostitutes have money. The husband and wife compensate for each other’s shortcomings, and the entire family remains relatively harmonious.
This time the Royal City Gold House’s reserves of over ten million gold coins vanished into thin air, which also means cutting off the livelihood of these prostitutes.
Not every prostitute lives in luxury, earning a dou of gold each day.
The vast majority of prostitutes receive less than one silver coin per customer, and seventy percent is taken by the brothel.
Over a dozen gold coins is the savings of their entire career. Once this money disappears, their only path would probably be to hang themselves.
So, driven to desperation, Suolun would rather confiscate the property of the royal city nobles than fail to return the money to this group of people.
After the nobles have their property confiscated, they can still live in luxury.
But for many common people, once they lose their lifetime savings, there is only seeking death.
Holy Priest Ge Li said, “Spread the word to the royal city nobles, saying that Suolun has gone mad, and tomorrow morning he will confiscate the property of all the kingdom’s nobles to fill the national treasury deficit and line his own pockets. And tell them that our Dragon God Holy Temple is compassionate and willing to accept their refuge.”
“Good!” Fang Qingyi said, “This method is good. Suolun’s Imperial Guard would not dare to charge into the Dragon God Holy Temple to arrest people, right? Since Suolun wants to confiscate the nobles’ property to fill the deficit, then we will make sure he cannot confiscate much money. Let him become a public enemy of the world, yet still be unable to fill the kingdom’s deficit.”
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From last night onward, the entire royal city was in a state of panic, with rumours flying everywhere.
They said the Royal City Gold House’s gold coin reserves had vanished into thin air, that the national treasury was short by tens of millions. That even next month’s military pay and official salaries could not be paid out.
Suolun was at his wit’s end and was going to confiscate the property of all the royal city nobles!
Instantly, all the kingdom’s nobles were terrified upon hearing the news, yet also erupted in boundless rage!
It is still that saying, whoever wants to cut off my wealth, I will cut off their life!
Suolun is very formidable. All the kingdom’s nobles tremble in fear of him.
But if Suolun is coming to confiscate their property, then their only choice is to immediately rise in rebellion and resist to the end!
So overnight, all the royal city nobles faced a great enemy. Every family servant, every warrior stayed awake all night, picking up swords and blades to defend every place.
Almost all nobles made up their minds that as soon as Suolun’s confiscation decree was issued, they would immediately link up with each other and organise armed forces to resist Suolun’s Imperial Guard to the end.
The entire royal city’s nobles numbered over several hundred families.
The warriors, powerful slaves, and family servants of these noble families, once organised, would amount to at least over one hundred thousand troops.
Plus the corrupted and degenerate city guard troops they had bribed, they could possess two hundred thousand troops.
So as soon as Suolun’s confiscation decree was issued, it almost meant that a great battle would immediately break out within the royal city.
It’s just that this group of powerful families had no leader. Even with over one hundred thousand people, facing sixty to seventy thousand Imperial Guards they would certainly be defeated in a rout.
But once several hundred thousand people fought within the royal city, then this Zhi Capital, one of the four great human cities with nearly a hundred years of history, would probably have half its area reduced to ruins, a scene of devastation.
Moreover, once this leaderless group had the Dragon God Holy Temple as a backer, the consequences would be even more unimaginable.
However, these powerful nobles still did not want to believe that Suolun would really come to confiscate their property.
Such a thing had never happened in history, confiscating nobles’ gold coins to give to commoners?
Even if Suolun’s brain was flooded with water, he would not do such a thing, right? Suolun himself is a member of the top noble class, would he speak for the interests of commoners?
Moreover, not long ago, the royal city’s commoners were still shouting for heaven to punish Suolun.
So, when the Dragon God Holy Temple notified these powerful families to bring their property and take refuge in the Dragon God Holy Temple, these nobles expressed gratitude with tears in their words, but truly entered the Dragon God Holy Temple to take refuge, only a few families.
First, there was a curfew last night, so large-scale transfers were impossible.
Second, once you enter the Dragon God Holy Temple, it means standing on the opposite side of Suolun.
Suolun is too formidable. Standing on his opposite side is too terrifying. If the so-called confiscation rumours are false, then everyone would have offended Suolun for nothing, would that not be seeking their own death?
In order to not let Suolun confiscate a single gold coin, Fang Qingyi, Yanping, and the others’ mouths were about to speak dry, but these noble nobles simply did not believe and were unwilling to go to the Dragon God Holy Temple to take refuge and offend Suolun.
Fang Qingyi and Yanping and the others were about to explode with anger!
Their status was so noble. Normally when facing these nobles, they could not even be bothered to lift their eyes, let alone take the initiative to approach and speak.
But now, in order to cut off Suolun’s path to survival, they painstakingly persuaded the nobles to enter the Dragon God Holy Temple.
As a result, these clever nobles’ attitude was incomparably respectful, but they simply were unwilling to go.
Because they were too clever. The better you made it sound, the less they believed. No one shows kindness without reason, it must be either treachery or theft, there must be some trick.
So at this time, both the Hidden Continent and the Zhi Capital Holy Temple desperately longed for Suolun’s confiscation decree to be issued.
This way, they could fiercely slap the faces of these lowly Zhi Capital nobles.
The best result would be the nobles transferring their property to the Dragon God Holy Temple, then breaking out in civil war with Suolun.
This way, Suolun would not have confiscated much gold, yet countless would be dead and wounded, becoming a public enemy of the world.
This is called losing the wife and losing the soldiers, simply perfect!
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After dawn, the numerous nobles saw tens of thousands of Imperial Guards begin to assemble before the royal palace!
Instantly, all the nobles were completely uneasy. Could it be that Suolun truly dares to commit such a great outrage against the world, confiscating the property of all the royal city nobles? Is he really going to become a public enemy of the world?
And the Hidden Continent forces represented by Fang Qingyi, plus the Zhi Capital Holy Temple, were all eagerly waiting, waiting for Suolun to issue the confiscation decree!
After one night, Fang Qingyi and the Zhi Capital Holy Temple had an even more malicious plan!
Once this plan succeeds, not only Suolun, Zhiyan, and Zhibian would all have to die, but colonising the Furious Wave Kingdom would also completely succeed.
Once Suolun’s great confiscation decree is issued, the royal city Zhi Capital will erupt in a heaven-shaking civil war!
The entire Zhi Capital will be thrown into complete chaos, even reduced to ruins.
And if… the Holy Temple Legion is hidden among them, pretending to be powerful family servants participating in this civil war.
Would they be able to completely defeat the Imperial Guard? Kill Suolun and the entire Zhi clan?
Yes, this chance is very great!
Suolun’s army in Tianshui City has not yet had time to enter Zhi Capital. He has only over sixty thousand Imperial Guards in his hands.
And the Zhi Capital Holy Temple has over ten thousand of the most elite Holy Temple Legion!
Taking advantage of the civil war, dispatch the Zhi Capital Holy Temple’s absolute military power, kill Suolun and Zhiyan, then pin the blame on the royal city nobles’ heads!
After Zhibian, Zhiyan, and Suolun are all dead!
The Zhi Capital Holy Temple steps forward to stabilise the situation, rescues Zhiwei’s son Zhiyou, and establishes him as the new king of the Furious Wave Kingdom!
At that time, this king would completely become a puppet of the Hidden Continent and the Dragon God Holy Temple.
The Hidden Continent’s plan to colonise the Furious Wave Kingdom would completely succeed!
Gazing at the morning sun on the horizon, Fang Qingyi silently thought, “Suolun, quickly issue the great confiscation decree! The moment of destruction, quickly come!”
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Under the protection of Gao Yin and Zhuang Zhixuan, Suolun once again entered the Royal City Gold House headquarters!
At this time, five thousand Imperial Guards had already defended the entire Gold House airtight!
The griffin had just landed when Suolun immediately rushed into the underground vault, using the key and complex password dial to once again open the vault door.
Of course, miracles do not happen, inside was still completely empty!
Suolun loudly said, “Zhuang Zhixuan, use your blade to dig open the vault floor.”
Zhuang Zhixuan was startled, took Suolun’s Dragon Gold Sword, and began cutting the floor.
“Master, the floor is a layer of iron, one inch thick!” Zhuang Zhixuan easily cut open the floor, discovering it was an iron shell.
After cutting it open, she discovered that beneath the iron shell was a layer of hard rock.
Suolun’s heart chilled. Could it be that his premonition was wrong?
Could it be that the Hidden Continent really had unknowingly transported away five thousand carts of gold and silver?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
In merely twenty days, no matter how divinely capable the Hidden Continent was, they could not have secretly transported away five thousand carts of gold and silver right under the Shadow Pavilion’s nose.
“Dig further down!” Suolun said.
Zhuang Zhixuan continued digging down, prying open a layer of iron shell, then prying open a layer of rock, a full five inches thick of rock.
Then, what was revealed below was a layer of soil!
Instantly, Suolun was truly about to completely despair. Could it be that there was truly nothing in this vault?
“Continue digging down!” Suolun said.
Zhuang Zhixuan dug down again, and after digging only half a foot in the soil layer, she touched something hard.
Her heart trembled, and she quickly dug down like crazy.
Then…
A golden light suddenly flashed out!
Zhuang Zhixuan used the Dragon Gold Sword to desperately dig, and Gao Yin beside her also desperately dug!
In a short moment, they dug out a four to five square metre golden floor!
That’s right, there were no gold coins in this vault, nor any silver coins.
Only a golden floor!
Beneath the entire vault, one and a half feet down, it was all gold.
The Hidden Origin Society had melted all the gold and silver coins, directly pouring them onto the floor, layer after layer, layer after layer!
A full nine thousand tons of gold and silver, became part of the vault floor.
No wonder over ten million gold coins, nine thousand tons of gold and silver could vanish into thin air.
Because whether they were gold coins or silver coins did not matter at all. As long as it was gold and silver, that was enough.
Melting and pouring it underground like this, truly not even immortals could steal it away!
After Zhili’s great defeat, the Hidden Origin Society did not want to transfer this batch of gold and silver reserves, but they also could not transfer them away.
Moreover, they felt that Suolun would not discover this secret at all, and would only think that the gold coins inside had vanished into thin air.
But who would have thought that last night while Suolun was fighting Zhiyan, his mind was still thinking about the gold coin reserves.
After falling asleep last night, he vaguely dreamed of a dream.
It was of an old landlord, constantly pouring molten silver onto the floor, layer after layer.
This morning he vaguely remembered a dream. In ancient China’s history, the Jin merchants had too much silver stored at home, fearing it would be stolen, so they melted it all into molten silver and directly poured it onto the floor.
Using silver to pour an underground vault, this way no one could steal it.
If the Jin merchants would do this, then would the Hidden Origin Society also do this?
Thus, Suolun immediately rushed to the Royal City Gold House headquarters’ vault, digging three feet into the earth, and indeed discovered this batch of gold and silver!
Astronomical numbers of gold and silver, a full nine thousand tons of gold and silver!
“Ha ha ha ha ha…” Suolun laughed wildly, overjoyed. He abruptly threw himself on top of Zhuang Zhixuan on the golden floor, beginning to bite her beautiful cheeks and sexy red lips with his teeth, his two hands kneading her fiery hot body.
And Zhuang Zhixuan also responded passionately, even actively putting her hand into Suolun’s trousers.
Grand Eunuch Gao Yin chuckled, his gaze incomparably affectionate as he looked at Suolun, quietly retreating with the Shadow Pavilion experts, leaving this entire private vault space to this pair of passion-burning men and women, Suolun and Zhuang Zhixuan.