Heading east from Suiyang, it didn't take long to reach Dang County (which governs today's Mangshan Town in the northeast of Yongcheng County, Henan Province).

Dangxian County is an ordinary county, not very famous, but there is a mountain here that is well known to the world, it is Mangdang Mountain where Liu Bang killed the White Snake and revolted.

Cao Ang passed by this place this time and decided to go there to offer sacrifices.

Everyone rested all night in Dangxian County. Before dawn, Chen Qun and Zhou Tai, who were responsible for setting up an altar at Mangdang Mountain, hurried back and asked to see Cao Ang.

Cao Ang was woken up in the middle of the night and was shocked, but he didn't say anything and called the two of them over.

After the two arrived, Chen Qun reported: "Lord, we were ordered to go to Mangdang Mountain to build an altar and prepare for sacrifices. We never expected to find traces of bandits around Mangdang Mountain. There were many bandits, no less than a thousand people.

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"Isn't the strength of Zuo Wuwei enough to suppress the bandits?"

Liu Ye said: "Zhou Lieutenant originally wanted to eliminate the bandits, but we discovered that these bandits were not ordinary bandits, but seemed to be deliberately disguised by the army. They gathered in Mangdang Mountain with the intention of excavating the tomb of King Liang Xiao of the former Han Dynasty.

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After hearing this, Cao Ang was shocked and immediately understood what Chen Qun was thinking.

The reason why Chen Qun came to report was because he was worried about accidental injury. After all, Dangshan was not far from Pengcheng. If these bandits were sent by Cao Ang and they tried to suppress them, there would be big trouble.

Of course Cao Ang did not send anyone to rob the tomb.

Digging graves is taboo and can easily attract criticism. Although Cao Ang was short of money, he couldn't get rid of it.

However, when Chen Qun mentioned the tomb of King Xiao of Liang, Cao Ang suspected that it was his father, Cao Cao. Legend has it that Cao Cao led his generals to the tomb of King Xiao of Liang to excavate it, broke open the coffin of the tomb of King Xiao of Liang, and looted gold and treasures. A total of 72 ships of gold and silver treasures were dug out.

Could it be that the old man was short of money, so he came up with the idea of ​​building the tomb of King Liang Xiao?

These days, official tomb robbing is a very common thing. It is not the fault of the official organization of tomb robbing, but the funeral of people in this era is too extravagant. Forty percent of the country's output is buried in the soil. Who doesn't have this idea? Dong Zhuo then

He was a leader among them. He once ordered Lu Bu to visit the tombs of emperors and ministers and collect their treasures.

Legend has it that Cao Cao set up "Faqiu Zhonglangjiang" and "Mojin Xiaowei" to specially carry out tomb robbery. This is definitely impossible, no one is stupid enough to rob tombs, but it is possible for Cao Cao to rob tombs.

The emperor who was actually recorded in the history books for tomb robbery was Sun Quan. He successively dug up the tomb of Zhao Tuo, king of Nanyue, and Wu Rui, king of Changsha. Not only did he rob the tomb of all the treasures and jades, but he also removed the cypress wood from the tomb and used it for himself.

At dad's temple.

Cao Ang didn't speak, and Chen Qun was even more shocked.

Fortunately, Cao Ang saw the change in Chen Qun's face and immediately said: "This matter has nothing to do with me, and it should have nothing to do with our army. However, Dang County is under the jurisdiction of Ding Mian, and Liu Bei is also involved. I'm afraid they may be involved."

Chen Qun didn't know whether what Cao Ang said was true or false, and he didn't dare to talk to him.

Cao Ang dismissed the two men and summoned Liu Zhou, ordering him to investigate the matter and get to the bottom of it.

After everyone left, Cao Ang called Zhang Hong to discuss the matter with him. Whether it was Ding Mian or Liu Bei, Cao Ang could handle it impartially. But Cao Ang was really worried that Cao Cao had done it, and he would have to deal with it to his old father.

Wipe your ass.

Zhang Hong didn't say anything after hearing this, but he said: "I remember that "Historical Records: The Family of King Liang Xiao" recorded that before the death of King Liang Xiao, he had amassed tens of thousands of wealth, which was incalculable, and there was still gold left in the palace after his death.

More than 400,000 catties."

Cao Ang turned to look at Zhang Hong and asked softly: "What does Zigang mean?"

Zhang Hong didn't say anything, but his meaning was very clear to Cao Ang. Not only Zhang Hong, but also Cao Ang was greedy for these more than 400,000 kilograms of gold.

Liu Zhou came back soon.

This group of bandits in Mangdang Mountain has nothing to do with Liu Biao, Ding Mian, or Cao Cao. They are a powerful man named Zhang Xuan, Tao Ying, and Xu Dan.

When Cao Ang heard these names, he was a little unfamiliar for a while, but Liu Zhou explained: "Tao Ying is Tao Qian's second son, and Xu Dan is Tao Qian's old general."

Cao Ang knew that after Tao Qian's death, his son disappeared, but he didn't take it to heart. In his opinion, Tao Qian's two sons did not make any waves in history, so even if they escaped, it would not matter.

But now it seems that this person is ready to act and has ulterior motives.

Now that he knew that this matter had nothing to do with Cao Cao, Cao Ang was relieved and ordered his left and right marquis guards, Cao Ping and Zang Ba, to encircle and suppress him.

Tao Ying and Zhang Xuan's bandit bandits only had more than 2,000 men. Although they had the advantage of the terrain, they could not defeat the regular elites. They were wiped out in just a few days. Tao Ying, Xu Dan, and Zhang Xuan were also captured.

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Only then did Cao Ang figure out the reason for the whole thing.

It turned out that after Tao Qian's death, Tao Ying and Xu Dan fled back to Yuan Shu and asked Yuan Shu to avenge Tao Qian.

Yuan Shu was afraid of Cao Ang and had no time to hide, so he didn't dare to send troops, so he perfunctoryly dealt with Tao Ying, gave Tao Ying an idle position, and left him to fend for himself.

After all, Tao Qian is dead, and Tao Ying is of ordinary origin and has little use value.

Tao Ying stayed in Yuan Shu's power for several years, just hanging around. Until Yuan Shu was defeated and died, Tao Ying, who was in Runan, had no chance to even hang around.
Chapter completed!