The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 702 Chapter 701 Zhang Lu's Fortune

According to Ma Chao's instructions, Ma Dai first interrogated Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei separately, while all the family members of Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei were handed over to his subordinates for interrogation.

Originally, Ma Dai thought that the interrogation would be very troublesome, that Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei would be extremely uncooperative, and then they would have to use severe punishment.

However, none of these expectations appeared. Ma Dai just met Zhang Lu and asked Zhang Lu where his accumulated wealth was. Zhang Lu only put forward one condition. If Ma Dai agreed, he would tell them directly A place to hide treasure.

Zhang Lu's condition is very simple, as long as the safety of him and his family can be guaranteed, he will tell Ma Dai where the treasure is hidden.

Ma Dai didn't dare to make a decision, so he went to ask Ma Chao.After Ma Chao listened to Ma Dai's report, he said to Ma Dai: "As long as Zhang Lu is willing to hand over the wealth, the lives of Zhang Lu's family can be spared. It's just a few dead lives, and there will be no big storms."

After receiving Ma Chao's consent, Ma Dai went to see Zhang Lu again and conveyed Ma Chao's intentions. However, if Zhang Lu wanted to survive, he had to contribute the wealth first.

Zhang Lu was extremely obedient, saying that he was willing to donate the fortune, but he had to let his younger brother and his family leave Nanzheng first, and then take Ma Dai to find the fortune.

Ma Dai agreed to Zhang Lu, and let Zhang Wei and the family members of the two brothers be released, and took Zhang Lu to climb the city wall of Nanzheng in person, so that Zhang Lu could see with his own eyes that Zhang Wei and the others had left safely. Then he said to Zhang Lu: "Now you can rest assured, right?"

Zhang Lu nodded and said, "Let's go, I'll take you there, but if you want to get this wealth out, I'm afraid it will take a little time, it's best to call five hundred people to go together."

Ma Dai immediately went to inform Ma Chao. After Ma Chao joined Ma Dai with five hundred followers, he went to the prefect's mansion with Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu took Ma Chao, Ma Dai and others to the back hall of the prefect's mansion, and returned to Zhang Lu's residence. After opening the door, Zhang Lu said to Ma Chao and Ma Dai: "What you want is in the house." Down here!"

Ma Chao said: "So you hid all your things under the ground where you live, so please open the secret door for us yourself!"

Zhang Lu nodded, walked to the side of the bed, then lifted the quilt on the bed, walked to the innermost part of the bed, and then pulled hard, one side of the bed suddenly tilted up, and a hidden compartment was displayed in front of Ma Chao and Ma Dai.

Both Ma Chao and Ma Dai opened their eyes wide, only to see that there was a dark passage with downward eyes at the opening of the dark compartment, and it was pitch black inside, accompanied by a gust of gloomy wind.

"You guys, take the torches and go down with me to have a look! The rest of you are guarding the door, and no one is allowed to come in without my order," Ma Chao ordered.

"Here!"

The soldiers that Ma Chao brought were all his cronies, but they didn't know what Ma Chao was looking for, and none of them disobeyed orders, they just obeyed orders. Several soldiers came to Zhang Lu's bedside with lighted torches. After Ma Chao's order, he jumped down the secret passage and walked down the stairs step by step.

Zhang Lu followed closely behind these soldiers, Ma Chao and Ma Dai walked in the back, and the group jumped into the secret passage one after another.

Under the light of the torches, the dark passage showed its original traces. Only then did the soldiers realize that there were torches on both sides of the dark passage, so they lit the torches erected on the wall one by one, and the dark passage immediately became brightly lit. It became bright.

A group of people walked down the stairs for a distance of about ten meters before they reached the bottom. The originally long and narrow corridor suddenly became brighter. Suddenly dark.

But because it was dark ahead, he couldn't see anything clearly, so Ma Chao said to Zhang Lu, "How should we go now?"

"It's already here. The wealth I've accumulated for many years is right in front of your eyes. There are oil lamps on the walls all around. Just light one at random, and the underground will become brightly lit." Zhang Lu said.

The soldiers found the oil lamps on the wall and lit one of them. The fire spread along the oil lamps, and soon all the oil lamps on the wall were lit up.

At this time, under the illumination of the lights, Ma Chao, Ma Dai and others finally saw everything under the ground clearly. Everything in front of them, except Zhang Lu, surprised everyone after seeing it!

At this time, a huge underground cave was dug by hand. The entire cave was as big as the eunuch's mansion. It was divided into several areas by the stone pillars supporting the weight. Each area contained different things, including gold, silver, and others. There are pearls, precious stones, in short, there are all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry here, and everything is piled up as high as a small hill.

"It turns out that the rumors are true. Zhang Lu is really rich!" After seeing these exquisite gold, silver and jewelry, Ma Chao was extremely excited in his heart.

At this time, Zhang Lu said to Ma Chao: "General Ma, these are the wealth I have accumulated over the years. I originally wanted to spend the rest of my life in peace, but now it seems impossible. Now that I have been captured by you , these wealth will naturally belong to you, now that I have brought you here, and seeing this wealth, you should fulfill your promise and let me go, right?"

Ma Chao laughed and said, "Of course, I, Ma Chao, will never break my promise. Come here, send Eunuch Zhang on his way!"

The two soldiers drew out their long swords with a "swish", and the shining blades shone in front of Zhang Lu. The two soldiers even showed a ferocious face, and walked towards Zhang Lu.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Lu hurriedly shouted: "General Ma, what are you doing? Are you going to renege on what you said?"

Ma Chao said: "I promised not to kill you, but I didn't say that my subordinates can't kill you. Now your whole family is dead, and they are waiting for you on Huangquan Road. If you don't die, So how will your family be reunited?"

"You... what did you say? You killed my family?" Zhang Lu stepped back again and again, asking in disbelief.

"Yeah, go and accompany them."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the two soldiers swarming forward, raised their long swords and stabbed towards Zhang Lu. Zhang Lu couldn't dodge in time, he was stabbed through a transparent hole, pierced his heart with his sword, and died on the spot.

It turned out that Ma Chao didn't really want to let Zhang Lu go, he just pretended to agree, but he ordered people to kill Zhang Wei and others on the way, and killed Zhang Lu, Zhang Wei's whole family, all without leaving behind. , in order to cut the weeds and eradicate the roots.

In fact, Ma Chao's real idea is to embezzle Zhang Lu's wealth, so Zhang Lu must not live.

"Let everyone come in immediately, load all these gold, silver and jewels into cars, and transport them to Wudu overnight, and you will personally escort them, and there will be no mistakes in the middle!" Ma Chao said to Ma Dai.

Ma Dai hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Brother, everyone knows that Zhang Lufu is an enemy. If we transport all these gold, silver and jewels away, if Pang Tong and Xu Huang come and don't see any wealth, they will definitely think it is us." I've embezzled this wealth for myself, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with if there is a disturbance at that time!"

"What are you afraid of? I have a lot of soldiers in my hand. Even if I embezzle this wealth, they dare not do anything to me. What's more, what's wrong with us fighting for them and taking a little money? These wealth, We earned it with our lives, and we earned it by ourselves. Even if it comes to the regent, I am not afraid. What's more, the court doesn't have money? But our Liangzhou is a poor place. With this money, we can You can do many things." Ma Chao said.

Ma Dai said: "Brother, I think there is still something wrong. Zhang Lu has a lot of wealth. It is not easy to transport it secretly. Why don't we keep some of it as Zhang Lu's wealth and smuggle most of it away?" , even if Pang Tong and Xu Huang came, they would have nothing to say after seeing this wealth, anyway, Zhang Lu is dead, and there is no proof of death, so they will not know how much wealth Zhang Lu has."

Ma Chao thought for a while, and felt that what Ma Dai said was reasonable, so he followed what Ma Dai said.

So, Ma Dai called all the five hundred entourages in and began to move the gold, silver and jewelry. He parked a carriage outside the prefect's mansion, loaded boxes of gold, silver and jewelry on the carriage, and used some weapons outside. As a cover to confuse people.

Ma Chao, Ma Dai and others worked all night before they loaded most of the gold, silver and jewelry on the car, leaving only a small part to deal with Pang Tong, Xu Huang and others.

At Pingming, Ma Dairao was tired, but still exerted himself to transport the gold, silver and jewelry loaded on the carriage to Wudu together, and said to the outside world that he was transporting weapons.

A total of more than 100 carriages, transported by [-] elite soldiers, set off in a mighty way.

Ma Dai had just left for less than a stick of incense, and Pang Tong and Xu Huang led troops to Nanzheng. Ma Chao was a vanguard general and led his troops as the front. It is used for support, so the march is much slower.

Moreover, in this Western Expedition, Ma Chao played the leading role, while Pang Tong and Xu Huang could only play supporting roles, not to mention that Pang Tong and Xu Huang still had a secret mission to perform, responsible for taking over all the cities occupied by Ma Chao.

When Pang Tong and Xu Huang arrived, Ma Chao went out to greet them in person. After exchanging pleasantries, Pang Tong and Xu Huang knew that Zhang Lu and Zhang Wei were dead. At this time, Ma Chao's subordinates suddenly ran over and said that they had found Zhang Lu's treasure. Go to the secret room built by Zhang Lu with Pang Tong and Xu Huang to check.

After several people came to the secret room, when Pang Tong and Xu Huang saw Zhang Lu's hidden treasure, they were not very excited. In the huge underground secret room, there were only a small amount of gold, silver and jewels hidden. With a glance, there was a little doubt in their hearts, but no one said it.

Ma Chao sneered, and said, "It is said that Zhang Lu has wealth that can rival a country's wealth, but I didn't expect there to be only so much gold, silver and jewels. It seems to be all rumors!"

(End of this chapter)