Chapter 2 "Big Yellow Croaker"

Jiashan City, is a county-level city in Zhejiang Province, located in the southwest of Jiaxing City, at the intersection of two provinces and one city in the Yangtze River Delta. The folk customs are simple and simple, and they are known as the land of fish and rice and the house of silk.

Han Zhou followed the navigation and drove all the way to the countryside, with green mountains and green waters on both sides of the road, and country villas.

The countryside of Zhejiang Province is rich, he thought to himself.

In the evening, he went to the area marked on the treasure map.

A verdant mountain range, surrounded by clear streams, like a turquoise ring. At the foot of the mountain, a village. All kinds of country houses, such as the color grid is scattered, the architectural style is comfortable and natural, and some still retain chimneys, and the smoke curls up, which is the time for dinner.

Smoke rises from the stove, thousands of miles across the river.

Not a scenic area, no hostels and B&Bs. Han Zhou parked the car outside the village and locked it. Find a local to borrow hot water and want to soak Laotan sauerkraut noodles. I was invited to my home by a hospitable old man and had a meal.

Throttle spring bamboo shoots, Dongpo meat, braised duck, lotus leaf steamed pork.

Lotus leaf tamales are a local home-cooked dish, and the best "bite" of the talented girl Zhang Ailing. Marinate the pork belly with soy sauce and rice wine, marinate for about half a day, then mix it with pine nuts and fried rice noodles, wrap it in bean skin and lotus leaves and steam. The aroma of meat, rice, and beans are all wrapped in fresh lotus leaves, and the fragrance of lotus leaves is also steamed into the meat, which has a unique taste.

Han Zhou's mouth was full of oil. If you want to give money, the old man doesn't want it. Also arranged a room and slept overnight. The next morning, I went back to the car with a mountain bag, filled with all kinds of supplies, put on my off-road boots, and pinned the knife to my waist. Follow the treasure map and set off and head up the mountain.

According to the old man, this mountain, called Jutan Mountain, used to produce inferior coal mines, which were excavated during the founding of the People's Republic of China, and then the efficiency was not high, so it was abandoned.

Jutan Mountain has not been developed by tourism, there is only a trail up the mountain, and the road is full of wild grass and rocks.

Han Zhou climbed from seven o'clock in the morning to nine o'clock and found a pool of water, surrounded by spring grass.

Zoom in on the scale of the treasure map and find a black point of light, right in the grass.

I took out a portable folding shovel and began to dig, digging half a meter, and with a click, I hit a hard object. After digging for a while, I found a small box.

When I took it out, it was an iron box, thirty centimeters long and wide, very heavy, fastened with a lock, and rusty.

A shovel broke the lock, opened it, and found that it was a box of yellow and clear yellow croaker. I counted them, and there were 100 in total.

Before the liberation, Shanghai commonly known as ten taels of gold bars for "big yellow croaker", according to the old system, 1 tael = 500/16 = 31.25 grams, one is 312.5 grams.

100 large yellow croakers are 31.250 kilograms, half an adult's weight.

Han Zhou opened the self-payment treasure and checked the real-time gold price, 400 yuan per gram. 3125 grams x 400 = 12.5 million yuan.

"Rich. ”

Han Zhou put the big yellow croaker in his bag. I didn't feel at ease, so I took out all the sundries in the bag, and stuffed the big yellow croaker into the innermost to rest assured.

Picking up the bag again, it was so heavy that it weighed heavily on the shoulders. This is the weight of happiness.

The box is buried, and the soil is filled back.

Another pale cyan spot of light is also nearby. Han Zhou immediately set off and walked a few hundred meters.

Found on the mountain wall near the ground, an inconspicuous stone, blending in with the environment.

I shook it vigorously and found it a little loose, so I lifted it hard. It was lifted up, and it was a small cave.

There was also a tin box inside, which was not big, heavy, and had no locks.

Han Zhou took it out and opened it, and it was a heavy oilcloth package.

"The Germans stayed?"

Han Zhou was curious, opened it layer by layer, and found that it was 4 wire-bound books, with thick paper and thin books.

In the upper left corner of the cover, it reads "Yongle Ceremony".

"Yongle Canon" is a collection of ancient Chinese classics compiled by Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, and Yao Guangxiao during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. The book has 22,877 volumes (60 volumes of catalog, 22,937 volumes in total), 11,095 volumes, about 370 million words, and brings together seven or eight thousand ancient and modern books. The content includes scriptures, history, sub-collections, astronomy and geography, yin and yang medicine, divination, interpretation of Tibetan Taoist scriptures, drama, crafts, and agronomy covering the intellectual wealth of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and it is also the largest encyclopedia in the ancient world.

After the completion of the compilation and revision of the Yongle Grand Canon in the Yongle period, only one copy was made, called the "Yongle Original"; in the Jiajing Dynasty, fearing that the Grand Canon would be damaged, another was re-recorded, called the "Jiajing Copy". There are only two in the world.

The original has long since disappeared, and it is possible to give Emperor Jiajing a funeral. Most of the copies were destroyed by fires and wars, and a considerable part of them were stolen by later generations in the name of repairing books, and now only more than 800 volumes exist and are scattered all over the world.

At present, the National Library of China has 161 volumes, in addition to the Library of Congress in the United States of America has 40 volumes, 51 volumes in the United Kingdom, 5 volumes in Germany, RB Library of Congress, RB Oriental Library...... and private collectors in Japan and South Korea, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei has 62 volumes.

Han Zhou flipped through it, 3 subsets of scriptures and histories, and he couldn't understand it.

1 is a bow and arrow weapon, a famous weapon of the Song Dynasty, a long-lost divine arm bow, and a production method.

The Divine Arm Bow, also known as the Divine Arm Crossbow, was invented by Shenzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, the bow body is three feet long, the string length is two feet five, and the range is far more than 240 steps. Wanyan Zongbi's "Book of the Four Marshals of the Legacy" said: "In the past, I went to the south, and I saw the Song Dynasty using military weapons, and the great one was just a divine arm bow, and the second was a heavy axe, and he was fearless outside. ”

The Song Dynasty Shenbing, similar to today's Dongfeng Express.

Only the Yongle Canon is recorded, and after the Yongle Canon was lost, it was lost.

Today, he was found by Han Zhou.

Carefully put the bag into a tarpaulin bag and place it in a separate compartment of the backpack.

The backpack was too heavy to carry a bit. Han Zhou descended the mountain. Put some unnecessary things in the car. Drive to another treasure spot, the dark cyan point of light.

Half opened, I couldn't go in, it was a deep mountain, inaccessible, and the backpack continued to walk, holding a machete, splitting weeds and branches.

By three o'clock in the afternoon, I saw a pond with a few waterfowl playing.

The dark cyan dots of light shown on the treasure map turned into a dozen, pale cyan, moving slowly in the pond.

When you walk in, you can see that it is a fat yellow duck with a large beak.

Han Zhou picked up his mobile phone, took a few photos, and zoomed in to see the details.

Stunned.

This is up to the duck.

The Koda duck, native to the RB island of Kyushu, has a yellow body, it has a short tail and webbed soles. The body is large and round, 20-35 cm long, and weighs 300-1200 grams. There is a pair of relatively short wings, lacking the keel of the bird's flight control muscles, unable to fly, and its wings are not enough to allow it to fly, but only serve as a general balance, or to provide a degree of support when jumping down from a tree. The body stores a large amount of fat, making it more weight than it can be.

It is one of the most mysterious birds in the world.

He was once kept as a pet by Queen Victoria and often played with it. It became fashionable in the British Empire for a while, and aristocrats and merchants alike rushed to buy it, leading to large-scale commercial hunting, which soon became extinct in the wild.

Under captive conditions, fecundity is extremely low. Extinct in the mid-20th century.