In early July, there was a heavy rain. Due to this heavy rain, unexpected accidents occurred.

Youqi came to report that in Dongzhao Township, Guangzong County, heavy rain washed away a tomb. It was heard that someone had picked up money from the tomb, and the local guards flocked away and could not stop it.

When Li Mengxi heard the news, he was playing games with his younger brother with stones under the eaves.

After hearing the news, he raised his head and glanced at Yuanqi, who was soaked by the rain. "Tomb? How big is the tomb?" he asked curiously.

"I don't know, there's a dark hole underground, it looks quite big." You Qi replied.

"Okay." Li Mengxi nodded, and he told You Qi, "Don't tell Mr. Xuande about this in advance, let alone make any noise."

You Qi was a little surprised. He didn't know why Li Mengxi wanted to hide this matter.

Li Mengxi braved the rain, took his people with him, and hurried to Guangzong.

When we arrived at the place, there were already many people digging in the ground in the rain.

Li Mengxi ordered the soldiers to disperse the people and opened a huge human net to surround the scene.

I went to take a look and walked to the tomb. There was a big hole in the ground in the dark and midwinter. It was the time of heavy rain. The muddy yellow soup kept pouring into the hole with the heavy rain. The hole seemed to be like a bottomless pit.

Not satisfied.

Li Mengxi stood at the edge and looked around for a long time without getting a clear look at the situation in the tomb chamber.

Rainy days were not a good time to dig, but fearing that it would be unfavorable if it took a long time, Li Mengxi ordered the people to disperse, enforced martial law around the area, and started digging graves on the spot.

The soldiers had no skills with shovels, hoes, and pickaxes. They were just like digging trenches. They could only do it with brute force.

Li Mengxi brought 300 soldiers, and the 300 men were busy digging in the rain for a long time. The piles of excavated yellow mud looked quite large, but when they looked in front, they found that the depth of the excavation was less than two feet.

Judging from the depth of the grave pit, it is estimated to be several feet below.

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The entire excavation work lasted for seven days. On the third day, the rain stopped. On the fourth day, the soil dug out by the soldiers was obviously different from ordinary soil. On the last day, the tomb chamber was dug.

When a soldier dug his hoe down and hit something hard, he pulled away the soil and saw rusty copper coins hidden in the soil. The first soldier to dig out property immediately screamed in excitement.

The situation was almost out of control.

Fortunately, those who came were soldiers, not a mob, and were subject to military discipline. The restless soldiers were reprimanded and calmed down. After that, the soldiers worked much harder.

I don’t know how much money there was in the tomb, nor how deep the money was buried in the soil. The soldiers did not let go of any inch of the land. They worked hard to dig up the soil and shovel it into the baskets around them. They filled the baskets, and the people on top

Pulling the rope, he pulled up the soil and the money trapped in the soil.

On the ground, there was another group of soldiers who were responsible for counting the belongings. Baskets of grave soil were brought up and dumped on the ground at will. The soldiers gathered around the tomb soil in groups of three and five and dug their heads away. They carefully inspected each handful of soil and broke apart each piece of soil.

Judging from a clod of soil, there is a lot of money hidden in the tomb soil.

Copper coins were cleaned out one by one, and the copper coins with dirt and rust fell into the basket, making an old and dull crashing sound.

There were more than half a basket of copper coins in the basket.

Li Mengxi walked around and picked up a coin from a basket at random. It was a five-baht coin, the same as the coins in the army.

In other words, this tomb is not too old and belongs to the Han Dynasty.

Two days later, the tomb seemed to have been dug. When we dug deeper, there was nothing in the soil.

After many days of digging tombs, the harvest was counted and found to be more than 960,000 coins, 21 fist-sized copper ingots, four pairs of copper tomb beasts, four intact jades, and more than a dozen broken and damaged jades.

There were also a lot of pottery, a lot of lacquerware made into wood, and blackened and rotten cloth that seemed to be silk. It dried as soon as it was dried in the sun and broke when touched.

Li Mengxi studied a piece of wood that looked like a piano for a long time, but he couldn't figure out whether it was a piano or not, so he had no choice but to throw it into the fire and burn it.

After the tomb was dug, Li Mengxi ordered his soldiers to fill it back with the excavated soil, and specially built a huge grave bag at the old site of the tomb. He told the public that the rain had washed away the big tomb, so he deliberately rebuilt the tomb.

On the way back, Li Mengxi gave a strict warning to all the soldiers. After returning, they were not to make any noise, and those who dared to disobey orders would be subject to military law.

How dare the soldiers who received Li Mengxi's hush money dare to make mistakes?

Digging a small tomb can cost nearly a million dollars. Digging a tomb can be worth a year's tax revenue of a township.

The Han Dynasty seems to have advocated generous burials, which means that there is a lot of money in Han tombs. From the Han tombs excavated in later generations, tens of millions of coins can be excavated from a prince's tomb, and several kilograms of gold cakes can easily be excavated.

This is simply a huge profit.

Returning to Julu, Liu Bei asked Li Mengxi where he had gone. Li Mengxi only said that he was patrolling the countryside. Liu Bei did not doubt that he was there and had no doubts.

After Li Mengxi carefully considered it, he went to Jian Yong privately and asked Jian Yong, "Xianhe, what do you think of our friendship?"

"Well... the friendship between you and me is very special." Jian Yong replied with a smile.

Li Mengxi looked seriously into Jian Yong's eyes, "Then, how deep or shallow is the friendship between you and me compared to the friendship between you and Liu Xuande?"

"Um...it's not easy to compare." Jian Yong hesitated.

Jian Yong was astute and realized that Li Mengxi came with a purpose. He simply asked directly, "Xi'er, are you looking for me for something?" Jian Yong looked at Li Mengxi and asked.

"Yes!" Li Mengxi nodded and looked at Jian Yong seriously, "There is something I want to tell you, but I am afraid you will leak the news. Xianhe, can I trust you?"

Jian Yong smiled and said, "Of course!"

"Okay. Only you and I can know about this matter. Even Liu Xuande can't tell me. Can you respond to me?" Li Mengxi confirmed again.

Jian Yong became even more curious. He didn't know what Li Mengxi was going to say in such a mysterious way. He nodded, "As long as you know what I know, I will never tell others."

"Then, come on, give me a high-five!" Li Mengxi stretched out his hand seriously.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Jian Yong couldn't laugh or cry, and reached out to slap Li Mengxi three times in a row.

Jian Yong fell into the trap, and Li Mengxi smiled at Jian Yong, "That's right, there was a heavy rain a few days ago..."

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"What?! Dig a grave!?" Jian Yong jumped up in shock. He looked at Li Mengxi in shock, "No! You can't do this, you will be punished by God!"

Li Mengxi grinned, "The people's livelihood is difficult. If we take the wealth of our ancestors and help all the people, if our ancestors have spirits in heaven, they will never blame you."

"No way, no way!" Jian Yong shook his head like a rattle, "Look for someone else to do it, not me!"

Li Mengxi was not in a hurry and waited quietly. He explained, "If it weren't for the lack of reliable people, I wouldn't have come to Xianhe and you. If it weren't for the fact that I couldn't get away, I wouldn't have come to you. Think again.

Think about it, this is a huge profit for nothing, this is a huge fortune worth hundreds of millions."

Digging a person's tomb is a matter of annihilating one's descendants, so Jian Yong was put under great moral pressure by being in charge of robbing tombs.

Jian Yong tried his best to persuade Li Mengxi, but Li Mengxi had already made up his mind and refused to listen to the advice at all. The two reached a stalemate.

Jian Yong was worried about being punished by heaven, but Li Mengxi said that it was Li who was ordered to dig the grave, and if he was to be punished by heaven, it would be Li who was also punished by heaven.

Jian Yong fell silent.

"Alas." Jian Yong looked at Li Mengxi with complicated eyes, "Aren't you afraid that if everything is leaked?"

Li Mengxi smiled calmly, "If you act secretly enough, nothing will be leaked."

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Li Mengxi finally reluctantly persuaded Jian Yong, and Jian Yong agreed to manage the manpower digging graves for Li Mengxi, but would not participate in tomb robbing.

That's it.

Li Mengxi doesn't know much about tomb robbing. To rob a tomb, you have to find Mo Jin Xiaowei. Mo Jin Xiaowei was founded by Cao Cao at the end of the Han Dynasty... Oh, it's the end of the Han Dynasty now.

Tomb robbers have probably been around since ancient times, and there is a precedent for the government to form a tomb robbing gang, probably starting with Cao Cao.

There are probably some talented people who can rob graves in the countryside, but such talents are hard to find. Even if they really know how to rob graves, they won't admit it when asked.

Thinking about it conversely, if you can't find talents for tomb robberies, then you can find people who can build cemeteries. As long as you are familiar with all aspects of cemetery construction, you will be familiar with tombs and can carry out tomb robberies in a targeted manner.

As the saying goes, tomb builders and tomb robbers have always been sworn enemies. As the saying goes, the person who knows you best is your enemy.

Recruiting craftsmen who are good at building tombs and then sending these craftsmen to rob tombs is the right person.

Li Mengxi went to the craftsman camp and searched for the builders.

Among the many craftsmen, some said that they had built large tombs for others.

Li Mengxi listened to his explanation of many things related to tomb construction, such as the use of lime, sand, burned soil, etc. for sealing tombs, and some would put some cinnabar to prevent insects. From here, Li Mengxi suddenly understood some knowledge about tomb robbing, the soil of tombs,

It is different from ordinary soil, so the location of the tomb can be judged from the soil quality.

And the method of soil exploration-Luoyang shovel.

The craftsman was explaining various things related to building a tomb, and Li Mengxi suddenly asked, "When building a tomb, do you pay attention to Feng Shui?"

"Why don't you look at it? You have to look at it!" the craftsman said swornly, and then showed an embarrassed look, "An expert in Feng Shui can do it, but I can't..."

Li Mengxi nodded.

Feng Shui is the code of the tomb. According to the rules of Feng Shui for funerals, you can work out the location of the tomb by working backwards.

Li Mengxi asked the name of the tomb builder, wrote down his name, and then left the craftsman's camp to find a Feng Shui master.

The magic of Feng Shui is mysterious and profound, and most people who understand Feng Shui must be scholars.

There are many scholars in Julu. In addition to the 100 people selected by the imperial examination, there are hundreds of people left. The separate establishment of scholars is the gentleman camp.

Li Mengxi summoned scholars from Junziying and searched hundreds of people for talents who knew Feng Shui, and several people recommended themselves.

I talked to several people privately and asked them if they knew how to choose a grave. One of them said that he usually made a living by telling people's fortunes and selecting graves in the countryside.

People who are good at fortune telling and Feng Shui, commonly known as earth-reading immortals, are professionally matched.
To be continued...