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The world inside the door shocked everyone outside.The inner city of the underground palace is full of pig iron, which has reached the entrance of the underground palace.There is also a vent in the underground palace that connects to the outside world. Chu Xiaoyun can not only feel the wind blowing through the inner city of the underground palace, but also see the faint light coming down.

Before entering the inner palace, Chu Xiaoyun reminded everyone: "Although there is light inside, it is still not bright enough. Torches are still needed. We are not familiar with the environment of the inner palace. Everyone should be careful when entering, and the torches must be handled carefully." Keep it in order to prevent accidents."

Everyone responded and filed in with torches.

The settings in the underground palace are indeed as complicated as a city. Except for the space for stacking pig iron, the rest of the rooms are fully equipped with food, living and living.But these were not what Chu Xiaoyun was looking for.

"The facilities here are complete. Zhang Cheng must come here a lot. In addition to eating and living, he should have a study." Chu Xiaoyun said.

"What are you looking for in the study?" Fangchuan county magistrate was puzzled.

"If he has documents, he must keep them in the study." Chu Xiaoyun replied.It was expected that there was pig iron in the underground palace, and the amount was indeed a bit unexpected, but it couldn't solve the doubts in his heart.Chu Xiaoyun still hopes to find a few words from the underground palace, and get some clues related to that fake Gu Qingyun.

The fake Gu Qingyun was able to find this underground palace, so he naturally knew something about Zhang Cheng, so did Zhang Cheng know about the existence of this fake Gu Qingyun before his death?If you find a study, it will be easy to handle.Since Zhang Cheng can manage this underground palace, he is definitely not a simple-minded person.

Materials have to be registered when entering the warehouse, and there should be a place where Zhang Cheng's secrets are hidden.

"What about the map? Don't we have a map? Isn't it written where the study is?" Fangchuan County Magistrate asked.

Chu Xiaoyun said: "There is really no label about the study."

Jie Xun also said: "There is no relevant label, it seems that this Zhang Chengren is quite cautious. In such a maze, there are layers of defenses."

Wei Jinghan, who had been observing silently for a long time, finally spoke up. He held up the map, looked at the torch for a long time and said, "There are no specific locations marked in this map, but there are large blank areas. What role do these places play in the underground palace? That’s what we’re going to figure out next.”

"It makes sense." Jie Xun immediately continued, "As long as the study exists, it must occupy a certain amount of space. If there is a place where there is nothing marked, but it occupies a certain amount of space, that is the place we should go to explore. .”

In this way, everyone suddenly became enlightened, and the scope of the underground palace to be searched was also narrowed.Soon they found a place that was not marked on the map. The surroundings were tightly connected, and it seemed to be a secret room.After spending a lot of effort, I finally found the door to the dark room on a stone wall.

This dark room is really Zhang Cheng's study, the inside is exactly the setting of the study, and the layout is similar to most of the study outside.The space in the room is limited, and the person who entered was the person in charge of the case.

Several people rummaged through Zhang Cheng's study, and Chu Xiaoyun actually found a diary that Zhang Cheng had recorded.After opening the diary and glanced at it, Chu Xiaoyun's heart almost jumped out of his throat.

This diary not only shows that Zhang Cheng had dealings with the fake Gu Qingyun before his death, Zhang Cheng also guessed the identity of the fake Gu Qingyun, but also recorded the entire process of Zhang Cheng's fortune and the purpose of running this underground palace.With Zhang Cheng's diary, many unsolved mysteries in this series of cases can be easily solved.

Chu Xiaoyun and the others searched for some important physical evidence of Zhang Cheng's study in the underground palace, and then ordered the people from the six doors to guard the underground palace strictly, waiting for Fang Lingfeng to dispatch troops to transport the pig iron in the underground palace.

The group returned to the hotel in Fangchuan County. After taking their seats in the conference hall, Wei Jinghan said to Chu Xiaoyun, "Tell me, what exactly is written in Zhang Cheng's diary."

Chu Xiaoyun came together one by one.

It turns out that Zhang Cheng grew up in a poor family, and when he was young, he went to the border between Dacheng and the Hu people to make a living. Once he stumbled and was in danger, he was rescued by a girl from the Hu people.Zhang Cheng had nothing to repay and felt deeply guilty.Girls not only don't want to reciprocate, but also promise each other with their bodies.After Zhang got married, the wife of the Hu family helped him make a fortune, and returned to Hejing County with him, quickly bought land, and developed in Hejing County and its surrounding areas.

After his family was well-off, Zhang Chengcai knew that there was no such thing as pie in the sky. The Hu man's wife was barren, but he was not allowed to take concubines, and his domineering style was fully displayed after marriage.

Zhang Cheng relied on his wife to make a fortune, and all the important positions in the family were brought from his natal family by his wife, so he didn't have any right to speak at all.And with the passage of time, Zhang Cheng gradually discovered that his wife's marriage to him was a premeditated event, and their purpose was to use their identity as a Dacheng commoner to enter Dacheng.

But I was greedy for wealth and honor at the beginning, and I didn't do less things that violated Dacheng's laws under the instigation of Hu's wife.If he were to surrender to the government at this point, he would have to be the soul of Dacheng's death under the torture knife of the government, so he dared not.The Hu people probably also grasped this trick, and were not afraid of him telling the Dacheng government.

Zhang Cheng could only live a life of humiliation under the despotic power of the Hu man's wife.

With the development of the Zhang family in Hejing County, Hu's wife's natal family can't all be dispatched from the Hu country after training. The Zhang family had to recruit some servants from Dacheng, and Zhang Cheng had the opportunity to gradually win over some. His own people are trying to cultivate their own power, and one day they will get rid of the control of the barbarians' wives.

Zhang Tian is his confidant who has been cultivated by himself.In order to prevent his most trusted pawn from being suspected by his wife's power, Zhang Cheng reused Zhang Tian, ​​but kept him in the kitchen as odd jobs, doing the most inconspicuous things in a position without any gold content.

This is also where Zhang Cheng is brilliant.

After Zhang Cheng's death, many of the cronies he cultivated were dealt with by the Hu man's wife in various ways. Only Zhang Tian, ​​who was hiding in the kitchen and doing odd jobs, escaped.

In order to gain freedom, Zhang Cheng intends to find the right time to surrender to Dacheng.While cultivating cronies, Zhang Cheng began to obey the instructions of the Hu people.Most of the pig iron he collected in Dacheng was hoarded privately, and only a small part was sent to Hu State for business.

Facing the accusations from the barbarians, Zhang Cheng often used Dacheng's management and control to strengthen his evasion.As for the hoarded pig iron, he intends to find an opportunity to use it as a pledge to surrender to Dacheng.It's just that Dacheng's country is not peaceful, the emperor and the king of Yan are comparable, Zhang Cheng is afraid that he has made a wrong bet, so he has been waiting and watching, unable to make a choice in the shortest time.

The Hu people probably noticed Zhang Cheng's disloyalty, and five years ago, they sent new people to collect the pig iron in Dacheng territory. In fact, they wanted to replace the Zhang family's position in Hejing County.

Although the Zhang family is actually controlled by Zhang Cheng's barbarian wife, Zhang Cheng is only in charge in name, but Zhang Cheng still does not want a newcomer to replace his nominal rights and Zhang family's position.After all, no matter what the reality is, Zhang Cheng is still the actual person in charge of the Zhang family in the current situation. Even if it is a formality, the servants of the Zhang family have to inform him if they have something to do.Once a newcomer comes to take over his role in Dacheng, he will not only become a dispensable tasteless rib, but may even die.

But because there is a handle in the hands of the Hu people, there is nowhere to escape, so Zhang Cheng has nothing to do.I can only accept it and respond to all changes without moving, hoping to find a way out in the cracks in the future.

The new leader of the dark line of the Hu people arrived soon, and Zhang Cheng found that the other party knew Dacheng's cultural customs very well.In a land of barbarians, the barbarians seldom accept Dacheng culture, but this person can understand Dacheng so well, Zhang Cheng can't help but feel a little admiration.However, in addition to admiration, the feeling of uneasiness is deeper.

In this way, if one's own advantage is not there, the possibility of being abandoned is even greater.In order not to fall into the situation where rabbits die and dogs are boiled, Zhang Cheng is more strict about the source of pig iron he has developed privately and the pig iron he has collected before.

Although he was always perfunctory to the barbarians, saying that all the pig iron he collected had been transported to the barbarians' territory through the barbarian hidden pile passage in Dacheng as agreed, but the barbarians obviously didn't believe it, and the new leader didn't believe it even more.The other party probably wanted the pig iron accumulated in his hands, and he had always been polite to him, and walked around frequently.

As the time spent together increased, Zhang Cheng didn't know why, but he always felt that the other party had the appearance of an adult, and he also felt that the other party had a certain aura of an adult, which was not just the barbarian's understanding of Dacheng culture.

Suspicion arose in Zhang Cheng's heart. He had heard that there was a second prince of Dacheng blood in Hu State. Could there be some connection between the two?Zhang Cheng's Hu wife is the influence of the eldest prince, and the two are incompatible. He used the connections of the Hu wife to quickly find out that the new leader is really the second prince of Hu.

Zhang Cheng has a deep relationship with Hu Guo, and he knows the fierce struggle between the first prince and the second prince of Hu Guo.Because of his Dacheng blood, the second prince suffered a lot of bullying from the Hu royal family when he was a child.After growing up, with his own intelligence and scheming, he cleared many obstacles, and now only the eldest prince can compete with him.

Knowing the identity of the other party, thinking that the second prince of Hu State had come to Dacheng, Zhang Cheng keenly felt that the struggle between the first prince of Hu State and the second prince had reached the point of life and death.Both sides are trying their best.That being the case, in order to develop his own power, the second prince is bound to gain Dacheng's pig iron channel.

Zhang Cheng had a premonition that his ending would not be too good, so in order to save his life, he prepared to surrender himself to Dacheng.It's just that the power of the emperor and the king of Yan is comparable, but this cunning fox is also afraid that he has made a wrong bet, and he still wants to delay making a choice until the last moment.During this period, he accidentally discovered that the identity of the second prince in Dacheng was actually the young master of the richest man in Dacheng, the Gu family.

Gu Qingyun will definitely not be the second prince of Hu State, so the real Gu Qingyun must have no idea where his soul is.I found out that the second prince is so secret, once the second prince finds out, it must be a dead end.

Zhang Cheng, who discovered the great secret of the second prince, did not think about food or tea during that period of time. Just when he was determined to surrender to the Dacheng court, great news came to him.Gu Qingyun, who was pretended by the second prince, was imprisoned for unknown reasons.

Zhang Cheng found out what happened through his contacts, which further confirmed his judgment.

The second prince pretends to be the young master of the Gu family. It is relatively easy to deceive anyone, but it is too difficult to deceive his wife who gets along day and night.If you want to avoid being found out, you must kill the young lady of the Gu family.

It's just that he couldn't figure out why the huge Gu family was helpless against a down-and-out Zhou Sheng; the Hejing county government didn't seem to know the identity of the second prince, so why did it fight against the Gu family and kill Gu Qingyun.But he was also thankful for the situation at that time. As a result, the second prince was imprisoned, so Hejing County, including the relationship between the Hu people and Dacheng, was clearly up to him.

So Zhang Cheng temporarily shelved his plan to surrender to Dacheng.