Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 718 Entering the Palace to Hunt for Treasures
After passing through the gate of the palace, what comes into view is a fairly spacious square in front of the palace. At the end of the square is the main hall used for going to court.

Of course, it is said to be a main hall, but in Zhou Xu's eyes, it is actually a large and spacious house, with an internal space of about 300 square meters.

Compared with the huge and magnificent palaces they like to imagine, it is still a lot less interesting. Generally speaking, this palace is like some large houses covering a large area, but Zhou Xu does not feel that What's wrong.

Many people like to talk nonsense without thinking. When evaluating anything, you must take into account the background and living conditions of the time.

Take Yan Sheng as an example, don’t talk about anything else, just money!

He has been at war with neighboring countries all year round, and his domestic economic situation is not even tight. Building such a palace is probably a waste of time and money.

After all, in this era, except the emperor, who can afford to live in such a house?
Walking into the main hall, Zhou Xu casually scanned around with the 'Eye of Peeping Secrets' and found nothing.

Thinking about it, Yan Sheng couldn't hide his treasure in a place like this.

Passing through the main hall is a back garden covering an area of ​​400 to 500 square meters, with many houses located nearby.

Compared with the 300-square-meter hall in front, the houses in the back look much more plain and simple. The largest of them is Yan Sheng's palace, which is estimated to be more than 150 square meters. The rest, except the palace Beyond the maid's quarters are Yan Sheng's harem concubines.

"Speaking of which, what should we do with the other party's harem? And those children?"

Thinking of this matter, Jie Liancheng hurriedly asked.

This problem had already arisen when they occupied Xianyang City and the imperial palace.

Now everyone in the palace is under their centralized custody.

Although Zhou Xu was not short of food, he couldn't just keep raising this group of people.

At the same time, these people are not prisoners in essence, and keeping them in prison is not an option.

"How many children does he have?"

"There are currently eleven confirmed."

"It's quite lively."

Yan Sheng is indeed sowing the seeds actively.

"How old is the oldest one?"

"Seven years old, the youngest is still in swaddling clothes."

Obviously, Xie Liancheng had already checked it before.

"Seven years old. I remember things."

Hearing this, Jie Liancheng was shocked.

Although he also knew that leaving these Yan Sheng's heirs would definitely be a disaster in the future, he was a father after all, and he was always easy to be soft-hearted when it came to his children.

During this period, Zhou Xu glanced at him sideways, with a speechless expression on his face.

"What are you thinking about?"

"..."

Looking slightly embarrassed and not knowing what to say to resolve Liancheng, Zhou Xu spoke up again...

"That guy Yan Sheng is a typical tyrant here. He made the people under his command complain, and now he has no good reputation at all."

"These children of his, under Yan Sheng's name, will not be beaten to death by the people outside. Even if they are killed, what threat will they bring to me?"

"And even their father, who has thousands of troops at his disposal, is no match for me. What use are his little brats who haven't even grown hair yet?"

What Zhou Xu said was so reasonable that Jie Liancheng was speechless and at the same time completely relieved.

"Then what to do with them?"

"Let's take a look first. After all, they are Yan Sheng's wife and children. There may be some treasures hidden in them." This group of people can basically be classified as old, weak, women and children. It is not that they will be imprisoned, but They were concentrated in a concubine's palace.

As for the maids, they are imprisoned in their own compound. There are too many to be imprisoned elsewhere.

To put it bluntly, the concubine's palace is a small courtyard. After entering the courtyard gate, there is a room of almost 100 square meters.

Zhou Xu's arrival caused an internal commotion.

Although none of these concubines and heirs knew Zhou Xu's identity, it was not difficult to tell from his clothes that he was not simple, which made many concubines nervous. Some concubines with children even subconsciously hugged their children. He walked into his arms, fearing that something might go wrong.

From a visual inspection, there are about forty or fifty concubines here. Counting the children, this is actually not a small room, and they are packed to the brim.

Zhou Xu was not interested in explaining anything to them. After entering the room, he directly activated the 'Eye of Peeping Secrets'.

After looking around, they were all ordinary people at the two-star level, and none of them were worthy of a second glance.

As for threats, let alone mention them.

After completing the sweep, Zhou Xu turned around and left. At the same time, he made follow-up arrangements to Jie Liancheng beside him.

"These concubines and children should all be sent back to their respective homes. The same goes for those maids. All of them should be sent away."

All the people in the palace were left by Yan Sheng, and out of caution, he would definitely replace them all.

After briefly handling the problem, Zhou Xu went straight to Yan Sheng's bedroom.

In the palace, apart from the concubines' bedrooms and the courtyard where the maids rested, there was only Yan Sheng's bedroom.

Judging from this information, if Yan Sheng wanted to hide the treasure, he would most likely hide it in his own palace.

The dormitory is divided into three areas. In addition to the dining area, it is the study room and the sleeping bedroom.

Once the 'Peeping Eyes of Secrets' was opened, the secrets in the palace were almost invisible to him.

When he glanced at the huge bookshelf in the study, he saw a vague outline behind the bookshelf, reminding him that there was something hidden behind the bookshelf.

Without saying anything, Zhou Xu asked someone to move the bookshelf, only to find that the bookshelf was fixed and could not be moved under normal circumstances.

Zhou Xu directly turned on the 'Eye of Peeping Secrets' and did a brief study.

Soon I discovered that there was a secret door in the center of the bookshelf. It was tightly locked there, and the gap was blocked by the books on the bookshelf. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to find it, but it could not escape him from peeking into the secret. Hitomi's lock.

After undoing the button, the central part of the bookshelf opened like an ordinary door, and then a passage appeared in front of him.

Looking at the passage leading to the underground, Zhou Xu exchanged glances with Xie Liancheng, and there was a hint of smile in each other's eyes.

Unlike the underground secret room in Black Rock City, the secret room here is paved with stone steps, which is a lot more convenient.

The guard team headed by Silk quickly lit torches and led the way through the not-so-long passage. The group soon arrived at the secret room.

The decoration of this secret room was basically the same as that of the secret room in Black Rock City. His eyes swept across the large stone platform in the middle, and Zhou Xu immediately knew what was going on.

[It seems that this is also Yan Sheng's teleportation point, but Xianyang City is too far away and beyond the range of the teleportation scroll. There was no way to teleport back directly at that time. 】

Maintaining the 'Eye of Peeping Secrets', Zhou Xu's eyes finally focused on the iron box placed in the corner.

Under the blessing of the 'Eye of Peeping Secrets', he could already see the light surging inside through the iron box.

"Sure enough, he hid something good!"

Zhou Xu took the lead and walked to the iron box and looked at the iron lock on it. To be honest, this thing only served as a psychological comfort.

Zhou Xu didn't even need to say anything, Xie Liancheng smashed the iron lock with the end of the knife's handle and opened the iron box.

At that moment, under the gaze of Zhou Xu's "Eye of Peeping Secrets", the iron box was filled with precious light!
(End of this chapter)