The Song Dynasty was the king for thirteen years before he knew that he was Tianlong.

Chapter 64 Wuyou Cave Sale
Zhao Ti looked at the invitation map. The invitation was the sale invitation sent out by Guifanlou once a month, and the map was the underground grass shape of Guifanlou.

Guifanlou holds a sale every month, and this invitation is a token of entry. The sale is similar to an auction, but not exactly the same. There are valuables that will be won by the highest bidder, and there are also ordinary items marked for sale.

These things were naturally not obtained through legitimate means, but were all plundered through various illegal means. In addition, there were people. Some prostitutes in brothels in the capital bought their daughters from Guifanlou. For example, the daughter of the prince was directly brought to the fair to be sold, and was finally bought by someone.

The Bu Mai Club will not be held underground, and no one dares to go underground. Guifanlou has a bad reputation, and no one dares to enter their territory in person.

This party will be held above the ground, probably not far from a certain water outlet, so it will be convenient for escape in case of any accident. People who have received the invitation through various channels will also feel at ease as they are not in the Guifan Tower and will not worry about being directly harmed by the other party.

The invitation will be sent out seven days later, and then a guide will take you to a certain compound or building to participate in the sale.

Although the map is not very detailed, it is better to use than the blueprints left by the Ministry of Industry when it was built. The underground has long been unrecognizable, so the two maps can be used as a reference to complement each other.

The next day, Zhao Ti went to the Ministry of Works. Accompanied by a doctor from the Ministry of Works, he visited various treasurers and transported barrels of things to the army.

These things are all kerosene, which is the crude oil of later generations.

In fact, flooding and burning will have limited effect in destroying Guifanlou, because the passage below is too large and connected. Unless the soldiers kill them head-on or use smoke, it is impossible to completely destroy the enemy.

The fumigation method was once used during the time of Taizu and Taizong, but it was ordinary firewood fumigation, and no flaming oil was used. There was also little flaming oil at the beginning of the founding of the country, and many people did not know that this thing was poisonous.

The underground is so spacious, and smoke can hide in the stagnant water. But it is different if it is mixed with kerosene. Just two puffs of this stuff will make you dizzy, have a headache, and be unable to breathe. Even if you have martial arts skills, you can't resist it.

Zhao Ti mobilized all the pyrotechnic oil in the capital area. The military warehouses of the various armies under the Palace Front Department also had this stuff in stock. After all, it was not only engineering material but also military supplies, so he transferred all of it to the Infantry Command Department.

Wang Enzhong, Pu and others were training soldiers. Even after using kerosene, they were still inevitably faced with charges. There were few wide places underground and many narrow places. The large spears and sabers in the army were not easy to use. Short weapons such as single swords and bows and crossbows were more useful.

The purpose of asking Shang Qi to get the invitation was to start from the eight-character water outlet of the auction.

The eight-shaped water outlet was a unique creation of this dynasty. It facilitates water flow and all the underground outlets of Tokyo City are of this type.

All the people from Guifanlou returned from the water outlet, but it was not easy to just find a place to enter and test, nor was it easy to capture people from Guifanlou and torture and interrogate them. After all, it was difficult to determine whether the other party's identity was important or how much they knew about the underground.

But this Puma Association is different. The eight-character water outlet next to the Puma Association must be one of the more important passages of Guifan Tower. The person who can preside over the Puma Association must be the backbone of Guifan Tower. When the time comes, the Puma Association will be wiped out, and then we can follow the clues and start from there.

The invitation date had arrived in a blink of an eye. Zhao Ti arranged everything at the embassy and waited for action to take place in the evening.

By then, all the eight-character water outlets in Tokyo City will be blocked, with the water outlet near the Puma Association as the focus. They will try to break in, test the water's strength, and then start to use fumes and oil smoke.

At this time, there is no need to worry about the people who were kidnapped by Guifanlou, because every month Guifanlou will take all the kidnapped people to the ground for sale. Selling out all the people will lead to kidnapping again, which has been the rule of Guifanlou for many years.

As dusk approached, Zhao Ti, Zhou Tong and Shang Qi came to Quyuan Street according to the address on the invitation. The invitation was not something that could be obtained simply by having money. It stated that the customer could bring two close followers with him, which was also to reassure the customers. Otherwise, even if the place was not underground, they would not dare to go there easily.

Quyuan Street is the last street in the southwest of the inner city. There are many huge courtyards here, many of which are places where wine is brewed, and some are warehouses where grain merchants store polished rice, flour and other fine goods.

There were not many people here on weekdays, only the laborers coming in and out of the field. At night, there were even fewer people. The night watchman closed the main gate of the field, and there was little movement on the street. When they arrived at Quyuan Street and walked half a mile inward, a man in black suddenly appeared from behind a big tree and looked the three people up and down.

Zhao Ti waved the folding fan in his hand. Shang Qi saw this and went over to exchange a few words with the other party. The man in black nodded and said, "Please follow me, my noble sir."

This is the guiding messenger sent by Guifanlou. If he sees someone wrong, he won't talk to him and may even send out secret signals to call his accomplices to come and take action.

Then we continued walking forward, and when we reached an intersection, three people crossed over from the alley diagonally opposite.

The leader was also Guifanlou's guide, followed by an old man and a young girl.

The old man was stout, with white hair and eyebrows, a face as gloomy as water, and a look of eagle and wolf.

The girl had two buns on her head and wore a water-green dress with a white background. She had picturesque features and a veil covering her face.

The man in black in front turned around and asked, "Sir, won't you block it?"

The ghost mask of Guifanlou can conceal the appearance, preventing acquaintances from recognizing each other and making it impossible for strangers to remember.

"Young Master?" Shang Qi looked at Zhao Ti.

Zhao Ti had no objection. He told them that no one who came to attend the sale tonight could escape, and he was not afraid of being seen by them. He could just kill them all on the spot.

Apart from the green forest bandits, most of the people who could come to such a place were wealthy businessmen and even officials.

In short, everyone deserves to die.

But in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he still covered his face. The girl with pigtails not far away glanced at him with shining eyes.

Zhao Ti's heart moved slightly. Although the other party covered her face, he recognized her as the little girl he had seen in Prince Duan's Mansion before. He just didn't know what she was doing here?
If Zhao Ji had collusion with Guifanlou, or wanted to buy something, he would not have asked the little girl to come forward. Moreover, the old man with white eyebrows had an air of a gangster and did not look like a native of Tokyo City.

The three of them followed the guide to a large courtyard. The courtyard looked ordinary from the outside, and it seemed like a place for grinding and storing wheat. But after passing the row of houses in front, they saw a long and wide courtyard that looked like a warehouse.

Then someone else led the way and we entered the warehouse. We saw that it was brightly lit and decorated like a palace, completely different from the crude exterior.

At this moment, there were already many people sitting inside, at least one or two hundred people. Almost all of them had their faces covered. There were small tables next to them with steaming hot tea on them.

Shang Qi handed over the invitation, and then the three of them found a table and sat down. After a while, some more people came in and the door slowly closed.

At the front, a man wearing colorful clothes, with a face painted with pastels and a flower in his hair appeared. He saluted everyone with his arms crossed, "My dear friends, I am here to greet you. Since you are all here, you should all know the rules of the Wuyou Cave sale. So, without further ado, let's take a look at the first item of this month."

After he said that, he clapped his hands lightly. Then the sound of a wooden wheelbarrow came from behind, and then a cage was pushed out.

(End of this chapter)