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Chapter 1260: Lure for gain
At this time, a soldier came to report, "Sir, there is a man outside, claiming to be a special envoy from the Guanlong Army!"

Wang Shoucheng was upset and waved his hand impatiently, "No see!"

The soldier hesitated and said, "He said that if you don't see him, you will regret it."

Wang Shoucheng's heart moved, could it be...
"All right! Please let him in."

Wang Shoucheng immediately sent his wife back and said he would send someone to look for the child.

His wife left crying.

At this time, Wang Baofu walked in calmly and waved the silver plate in his hand, "I am the chief of the Intelligence Department of the Imperial Privy Council in Youzhou, and my surname is also Wang!"

Wang Shoucheng slammed the table heavily, "You are so bold! As an enemy, you actually dare to come to see me. Come, take him out and behead him!"

Just as several soldiers were about to step forward to arrest him, Wang Baofu said calmly: "If you want to kill your son together, go ahead!"

"what?"

Wang Shoucheng rushed to Wang Baofu, glared at him and said, "It turned out that you kidnapped my son!"

"Of course it's me, otherwise how would I dare to come to see you?"

Wang Shoucheng grabbed his collar and said through gritted teeth: "If even a hair of my son is missing, I will skin you alive!"

Wang Baofu gently pushed him away, "Don't say such stupid things. I've seen a lot of dead people, and I don't care about your son. I'm here to negotiate with you. If we can reach an agreement, I'll return your son to you. If not, you can kill me, but your son will become a meal for wild dogs!"

"you--"

Wang Shoucheng almost flew into a rage when he heard the phrase "food in the dog's stomach." But he changed his mind and softened his tone when he thought of his son who was crying out of fear. "Tell me! What do you want?"

"I don't want you to surrender. I just want you to open the city gates and let the people out immediately. And inform the whole city that the Huihe people are coming back to massacre the city, so let everyone flee quickly."

"No way!"

Wang Baofu suddenly clenched his fists and cursed: "You idiot, it was His Royal Highness the Regent who informed me that the Huihe people were about to come back and asked me to evacuate the people immediately. Do you want to become a sinner in Youzhou City? Even if I release your son, he will be abducted by the Huihe people. Do you believe it?"

Wang Shoucheng's face turned pale, and he dared not say anything more. He immediately took out the command arrow and handed it to the soldier, "Go and inform General Zhao to open all the city gates immediately!"

The soldier ran away with the command arrow. Wang Baofu turned around and left, "Your son will be sent back soon. Zhu Ci has already escaped. You should also run for your lives!"

Wang Shoucheng suddenly felt something was wrong. He should detain this guy and exchange him for his son. What if this bastard broke his promise? He hurriedly chased to the gate, but Wang Baofu had already gone far away.

Just then, he suddenly heard his son's childish voice, "Daddy!"

When Wang Shoucheng turned around, he saw his son running behind him. He was overjoyed and went forward to hug his son, refusing to let go.

The child pointed at a man walking away in the distance and said, "Daddy, that uncle said that the bad guys are coming and told me to leave quickly!"

Wang Shoucheng nodded, "Dad knows, I'll go home and clean up now!"

Wang Shoucheng was also panicked. It seemed that the Huihe were really going to come back to attack him. He hurried home to pack his luggage and prepare to flee to Jizhou.

The four city gates were opened wide, and tens of thousands of people who had been blocking the gates finally waited for the city to open, and they all rushed to flee out of the city.

The county government also began to notify the people in the streets to evacuate, saying that the Uighur cavalry was about to return and massacre the city. Many people who had been relatively calm were frightened when they heard the government's notice and began to pack up their belongings and flee.

A city-wide escape began in Youzhou City.

At noon that day, the last thousand defenders of Youzhou City escorted Wang Shoucheng and the officials to retreat to Ji County, completely abandoning Youzhou City. Fu Yuangui also retreated with them. As an undercover agent, he had to continue to provide intelligence.

Before leaving, Fu Yuangui handed a blueprint to Wang Baofu, and Wang Baofu's identity was transformed into the chief clerk of the warehouse.

Yuyang County in Jizhou had no access to waterways and could only rely on land transportation, so it was impossible to transport all the wealth and materials accumulated since the An Lushan era. Wang Shoucheng requisitioned thousands of ox carts from the entire city, but could only transport strategic materials and treasures such as grain, weapons, kerosene, gold, silver, and jewelry.

Materials such as large quantities of copper coins, pig iron, copper ingots, flags, gongs and drums, tents, cloth, wood, porcelain, bronzeware, salt, tea cakes, etc. could not be transported away, so Wang Shoucheng could only hide them in the underground warehouse and cover the entrance with the ruins of the house.

At the same time, all those who knew about the situation evacuated. Wang Shoucheng hoped that the Uighurs had not discovered the underground warehouse, and that when they came back in the future, the wealth and supplies would still be there.

Wang Baofu got the map of the underground palace and thus controlled the wealth. According to the regent's order, he had to hand over the remaining wealth of Youzhou to the Uighurs, since they couldn't take it away anyway.

The biggest advantage of doing this is that the Huihe people will no longer kill people. Otherwise, if the Huihe City fails in its attack on Youzhou City, they will never be willing to retreat empty-handed and will definitely attack the surrounding counties. None of the dozen or so counties around Youzhou City will be able to escape.

There was also another hidden intention, which was to gain the trust of the Uighur Khan and lay the groundwork for the next step.

Moreover, since the Uighur army brought more wealth, they would naturally bring less food.

Two days later, 90,000 Uighur troops came back, burning, killing and looting along the way, and arrived at Youzhou City. They saw that the four gates of Youzhou City were wide open, and the top of the city was very quiet, without a single defender to be seen.

Dengli Khan was puzzled and turned back to order Meilu General Moyanda: "Take an army in to have a look!"

Moyenda waved his hand, "Follow me!"

He led 5,000 cavalrymen into the city. Not long after, a soldier came back and reported, "Khan, the city is empty!"

"what?"

Dengli Khan was furious. "Order the whole army to enter the city and search it!"

90,000 troops rushed into the city, and found it was indeed an empty city. The 90,000 Uighurs began to search the whole city. It was called a search, but in fact they were looking for food and property.

A lot of food was found. The people of Youzhou fled with their valuables and some dry food. The rest of the food was hidden, but it was still found by the Uighurs.

In addition, grain from some grain shops was also searched out, but there were not many valuables found, which made the Uighur soldiers extremely disappointed.

The soldiers also brought out more than a thousand people, most of whom were elderly people who did not want to leave their homes.

At this time, Moyenda came to report to Dengli Khan: "Khan, the soldiers captured a local official who said he knew where some wealth was hidden."

Dengli Khan was overjoyed and said quickly: "Bring him up!"

Soon, Wang Baofu was brought up. He knelt down and cried, "I am the chief clerk of the Cangcao Division, my name is Wang Baofu. I beg the Khan not to kill the old man. I am willing to hand over the wealth hidden by the army."

Dengli Khan waved his hand and said, "We grassland people are all kind and righteous people. As long as you tell me, I can spare their lives!"

Wang Baofu took out a blueprint and presented it to him. Dengli Khan looked at the blueprint and suddenly recognized it. "Isn't this in front of the palace?"

"Exactly!"

Wang Baofu bowed and said, "The warehouse has been demolished, but there are three large underground palaces under the warehouse, which are used to store wine, ice and meat. There is very little wine and meat left, and the ice has been emptied. A large amount of wealth and materials that cannot be taken away are hidden inside."

Dengli Khan was overjoyed, it was truly God's will!

He immediately gave the order: "Order to dig up the underground palace!"

(End of this chapter)