The Eternal Beauty of the City of Wealth

After hearing this, everyone knew that this was the only way for now and nodded in agreement.

The next morning, after Cui Zhu's army had a hearty meal, they drove thousands of surrendered soldiers and generals towards the city, shouting loudly.

Those surrendered soldiers had no choice. Retreating meant death, so they might as well give it a try.

If the city wall is captured, I can still save my life.

So, an army of nearly 60,000 people climbed up the city wall like a tide.

Due to the huge disparity in numbers, Cui Zhu's army took only half an hour to capture Shalan City.

The soldiers quickly lowered the drawbridge and slowly opened the city gate.

Cui Zhu was surrounded by soldiers and rushed quickly towards the county magistrate's office.

At this time, Shalan City was in chaos, with all kinds of shouts, wailing, and pleas for mercy rising and falling in the city.

Cui Zhu led his men into the government office and immediately issued an order forbidding the soldiers to harm Gao Hou's family.

You are not allowed to steal any property in the mansion. Anyone who disobeys this order will be killed without mercy.

Haha, those treasures and beauties are all mine, and no one is allowed to touch them.

After giving the order, Cui Zhu led his men into Gao Hou's bedroom.

Gao Hou had woken up at this time. Although his mouth and eyes were crooked and he could not move, he understood what was going on in his heart.

Gao Hou looked at Cui Zhu who was approaching him step by step with a squinting eye full of fear, and shouted incoherently.

When Cui Zhu walked up to Gao Hou with his sword in hand, he was immediately shocked by his appearance.

Is this Gao Hou? How come he's a completely different person? His mouth is crooked, his eyes are squinting, and his speech is slurred.

What happened to him? Was he possessed by some evil spirit, or some strange disease? Or was he possessed by a ghost?

For a moment, Cui Zhu was curious and did not rush to kill Gao Hou.

He ordered his men to capture a yamen runner and ask him what had happened to Gao Hou and how he had become like this.

The yamen runner told him tremblingly that Gao Hou had contracted a cold and was paralyzed by a stroke.

Cui Zhu was delighted when he heard this. He thought that having a stroke was good. It would not only make him paralyzed, but it would also save him a lot of energy.

He pointed his sword at Gao Hou and laughed heartily: "Gao Hou, Gao Hou, I never thought you were so powerful and influential."

"He was so favored by Duke Ling of Qi, yet in the end he ended up like this."

"You could never imagine that one day you would die at the hands of me, Cui Zhu! Hahahaha..."

After laughing, his expression immediately changed. He glared at Gao Hou with gritted teeth and chopped off his head with his sword.

Bright red blood spurted out from the thick neck cavity, splashing all over him.

Cui Zhu wiped the blood off his body in a gloomy manner, rubbed his sword on Gao Hou's body, and then led his subordinates to the backyard.

The women in the backyard had been driven into the yard by the soldiers. They were so scared that they were crying and trembling all over.

After Cui Zhu came in, he glanced at everyone and nodded with satisfaction.

Yes, these women were just as the clerk had described, all of them were stunningly beautiful.

He waved his hand and ordered the soldiers: "Take them all back to Linzi City!"

Afterwards, he led his men towards Gao Hou's warehouse. After entering the warehouse, he looked at the things inside and found them a little strange.

Isn't it said that Gao Hou's wealth rivals that of a nation? How come it's only this little?

This old guy must have known that the city was doomed, so he hid the gold, silver and jewelry.

He immediately left the warehouse and ordered his soldiers to search the county magistrate's mansion, even if they had to dig three feet underground to find the treasure.

After more than an hour's search, the soldiers only found a few boxes of gold and knife coins in the thick secret room.

Cui Zhu looked at these boxes and felt that something was wrong. There must be a large amount of treasure hidden by Gao Hou.

So he ordered the soldiers to bring their families over.

After the women were brought over, Cui Zhu looked at them coldly and shouted in a fierce tone: "Does anyone among you know where Gao Hou hid the treasure?"

Everyone lowered their heads and looked at their toes, and no one paid any attention to him.

When Cui Zhu saw that no one answered him, he immediately became angry and grabbed a woman who was slightly less beautiful and chopped off her head with a sword.

He even said viciously, "If you don't tell me, this woman will end up like you!"

Ah! Ah! Ah! The women were frightened by Cui Zhu’s bloodthirsty nature and screamed in fear, many of them sobbing.

Seeing that no one spoke, Cui Zhu pulled another woman over. Just as he was about to raise his sword to chop her down, he was stopped by a loud shout.

Stop! A beautiful woman in her thirties shouted and walked out of the crowd.

When Cui Zhu saw the beautiful woman, he was immediately fascinated by her beauty.

He immediately changed his expression and walked up to the woman with a smile.

As he looked her over, he asked, "My beauty, if you won't let me kill her, are you going to tell me where the treasure is hidden?"

The woman nodded and said, "As long as you stop killing people, I will tell you."

Cui Zhu quickly gave a flattering smile and said, "Okay, okay, as long as you tell me where the treasure is hidden, I will never kill anyone again."

The woman nodded: "Okay! You all follow me."

After saying that, he led Cui Zhu and others towards a dilapidated house in the backyard.

After entering the house, the woman stopped in front of a broken stone squat in the corner of the wall.

She hugged the stone squat with both hands and twisted hard to the left.

With a creaking sound, a three-meter square hole appeared in front of everyone.

Cui Zhu was overjoyed when he saw this and immediately ordered people to go down and check. After receiving the order, the soldiers walked down the steps at the entrance of the cave.

There were no traps or hidden weapons in the cave, and they arrived inside in no time.

Everyone looked inside with torches in hand and was stunned by the gold, silver and jewelry inside.

Immediately, several soldiers ran back to the cave entrance, stuck their heads out, and shouted to Cui Zhu, "Sir! There are so many treasures in there!"

Cui Zhu was very excited after hearing this, and immediately followed the soldiers down the cave and came close to the treasure.

He looked at the piles of gold ingots and boxes of gems and jade with excitement, and his mouth was wide open with joy.

So he rushed towards the gold, silver and jewelry frantically, grabbed a handful of horseshoe gold and put it in his arms.

He stuffed the treasures into his arms and laughed: "Hahahaha, these treasures are all mine! All mine! Hahahaha..."

Two days later, Cui Zhu dealt with the incident of Sprinkling Blue and returned to the court with huge wealth and dozens of beauties.

This time, Cui Zhu captured Salan City and killed Gao Hou, not only avenging Duke Zhuang of Qi, but also avenging himself.

More importantly, Cui Zhu, at the instruction of Duke Zhuang of Qi, annexed all of Gao Hou's property.

This undoubtedly made Cui Zhu, the already wealthy doctor of Qi, become rich again overnight.