Mai Ke first walked to the nearest stone cave.

When he got to the door, he grabbed the lock on the door and twisted it so hard that he tried to break it.

But it took a long time, but it didn't work.

So he took out his military dagger and cut the lock in one fell swoop.

Pushing open the door, a musty smell hit my face.

He waited outside for about a quarter of an hour before walking in.

There are tables, chairs, and beds in the room, which is obviously a place for people to do things and sleep.

On the large table in the center, there is a white jade paperweight.

A piece of paper is pressed underneath the paperweight.

There is faint handwriting on the paper.

Mai Ke stepped forward and opened the paperweight, and saw that the paper was slightly larger than the paperweight, the exposed part was yellowed and brittle, and the pressed part was still white and soft.

The handwriting is written in small letters, although the penmanship is not very good, but it is neat and powerful, and it seems to be from the hands of military generals.

If you look closely, it turns out that there is not only one, but three.

Due to the good quality of the paper, it is as thin as a cicada's wings. He took a look at the first one, which began with the words "To the Visitor."

Before reading the content in the middle, Mai Ke first went to the end of the letter to see who wrote it.

At the check-in place, I saw that the letter writer was "Li Shuangxi", and the title and date were with the name.

Among them, the title is "Special Envoy of the Great Shun Emperor under the Command of the Yihou Weiwu General Southbound", and the date is "The 10th day of the third month of the second year of the Great Shun Kingdom".

It seems that this is the righteous son of the king of Chuang.

Mai Ke didn't know much about the history of the late Ming Dynasty, except for King Chuang Yizi, his title, why he appeared here, these things are unknown.

Let's see what he himself has to say.

It turned out that Li Shuangxi was sent here by Li Zicheng.

After the rebels captured the Ming emperor's lair in April 1644, Li Zicheng was immediately proclaimed emperor at the instigation of everyone.

And Li Zicheng himself actually knows better than other rebel leaders that they are already in crisis.

So he secretly sent his most trusted son, Li Shuangxi, as a special envoy to the south. Go south by sea and prepare for the worst.

In addition to the 3,000 most elite soldiers, he was accompanied by a great deal of wealth.

These riches are the result of the righteous army breaking through the Ming Emperor's capital and transporting all the treasures in the palace.

At the same time, the generals also forced the rich to hand over their wealth in the name of "recovering stolen goods and helping them to pay money".

Most of this wealth was also handed over to Emperor Dashun. was carried away by him.

Most of the wealth is made up of silver, but there are also gold and jade.

The palace also has a large collection of art, crafts, pictures, calligraphy, etc.

These things were brought here to equip the army and establish the government.

"Recently, I suddenly heard that my father and emperor left Beijing and moved south, and I decided to go to the trouble in a hurry! If the visitor has the ambition to destroy the captives. Accessible to the fullest. If you don't have this heart, you will take nothing in vain, and God will punish you. If our peers go to the ends of the earth, we will seek them out!"

After expressing this meaning, Li Shuangxi recounted the contents of two other sheets of paper, one explaining how he led his army out, and the other explaining the distribution of treasures in the various caves.

Mai Ke first picked up the treasure map, which listed a total of twenty-two caves, arranged in the order of the heavenly and terrestrial branches.

Among them, the ten caves of the heavenly stem are all silver, and the twelve caves of the earthly branch are all kinds of rare treasures.

Judging from the mentality of the principal at that time. The most important thing is also silver, not only in huge quantities. And it is placed in the Tianzi Cave.

Although Mai Ke is not a collector, he still knows a little about the value of these treasures.

Any one of them is probably priceless.

I'll just see what these treasures are, McKe thought.

So, he took the contact map and walked to the last cave of the earthly branch, which had a quaint character "Hai" on it.

According to their logic. It's supposed to be the least important stuff here.

Like all the caves he walked through, there was no lock on the door of this cave, but a turntable in the style of a Bagua diagram.

If you are an ordinary person, even if you find this place, you will be helpless.

Such a device must be proficient in information agencies. to be safe to open.

If you force it open, even if you can break into the door, all the contents inside will be destroyed.

Before Mai Ke joined the special forces, he and his master had a long time studying the application of high-tech in ancient China.

After entering the special forces, this kind of organ information science is also one of the skills they have to master, and they can't always use machine guns, artillery, and bazooka everywhere.

If the protected object is trapped in such a trap, it also needs to be proficient to break it without harming the protected object.

For Mai Ke, who has a very thorough grasp of all kinds of mechanisms with the help of modern databases, it is really not a serious challenge to break such a device.

I saw that he did not hesitate, stepped to the door, his feet were split against the two door frames, and his hands grabbed the door knocker in the shape of the Bagua diagram, first turning to the left twelve times, and then turning to the right twelve times.

Then turn right six times and then turn left six times. Then he folded his feet and jumped back.

After five minutes, the door opened leisurely, revealing all the secrets of the cave to Mai Ke.

Sure enough, it was the same as what I learned at the time, and Mai Ke was dark.

It was the first time he had opened such a mechanism on the ground.

After waiting for a while, waiting for the air inside and the outside to communicate together, without the long-accumulated filth, Mai Ke stepped in.

The first thing to do was to destroy the protections that were still tense.

In order not to open the door without triggering the mechanism, after seeing the treasure, one gets carried away, hits the muzzle, and kills himself.

Then I looked around and saw that it was full of calligraphy and paintings!

This one is so interesting.

What they don't like is turned upside down today.

Any calligraphy and painting in Ouchi's collection is probably priceless, and one piece is equal to the value of a house full of silver.

Mai Ke picked up an ordinary box, opened it, took out the picture scroll inside, and then unfolded it and watched.

Halfway through it, he was taken aback. What did he see?

"Qingming Riverside Map"!

"Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival"?

He was previously on a mission. It has been associated with this famous painting twice.

One is the Palace Museum on this shore. It was a heavyweight international art exhibition, and this famous painting was transported from the north to Shanghai as the grand finale.

Mai Ke was simply tied to this scroll that time, from escort, to exhibition, to preservation, until it was transported back to its original owner. He didn't leave an inch.

As he completed the task, he also had a clear understanding of the painting.

It is estimated that he said that he was second in the world, and no one dared to say first.

Who is okay for ten days and eight days inseparable from this painting.

Someone really wants to, he doesn't have the ability to get close.

If that were the end of the matter, it would be simple. It's strange and strange. Soon after, he went on a similar mission to the other side.

At first, he thought that the object of protection was other famous paintings, but when he saw the true face of the protected object, he couldn't help but rub his eyes, thinking that he was dazzled.

Look at it again with your eyes wide open. I was sure that there was no problem with my eyesight, and what I saw was real.

It turned out to be another "Qingming Riverside Picture"!

During the week of his mission, he repeatedly compared the differences between the two, trying to find out the flaws and determine which was the imitation and which was the real thing.

As a result, there was no progress.

After he returned, he carefully analyzed and compared the pictures of the two paintings he had taken during his work. The results are confirmed. The two are still 100% similar.

In the end, he even used a high-precision image analyzer without finding any meaningful differences.

on this. There was a tacit understanding that all parties concerned remained silent.

What kind of person's imitation painting level has reached the level of fake, or is that Song Dynasty court painter Zhang Zeduan had nothing to do, and deliberately made a joke, and made two copies of the same painting?

He was a little indignant at the time, but now it's a little messy.

If you come out of the palace directly, you can't be fake.

If it's not fake. Really hidden here, where should those two famous paintings that do not give in to each other and claim to be authentic?

In particular, he looked at the inscription of the emperor of the Song Dynasty, who had no skills in governing the country but was quite artistic. Song Huizong, the so-called thin gold body, later became a family of its own.

With his discerning eyesight, he didn't notice any difference.

Whether it's true or not, such a national treasure-level calligraphy and painting is placed here at will.

You don't need to look at the others, even if it's not more expensive than this one, at least it's on par.

Then, Mai Ke opened the Xuzi Door, the Youzi Door, the Shen Character Door, the Weizi Door, the Wu Character Door, the Sizi Door, the Chen Character Door, the Mao Character Door, the Yin Character Door, the Ugly Character Door, and the Zizi Door, a total of ten caves.

It is filled with nothing more than jewels and jade, and rare and strange objects.

The last two rooms are filled with copybooks and books.

Mai Ke rummaged through the last book caves and found that most of them were out-of-print books, many of which were banned at the time, and these may have been the only ones that survived.

To Mai Ke's surprise, there was a Bible inside! Although it was not the entire 66-volume book, the name was a bit strange, what was it called "Proverbs for Blessings in the West".

This must be your own!

Except for the Bible in his equipment bag, Mai Ke didn't do anything else.

Then he closed the caves from the sub-gate to the sea gate.

These mechanisms seemed to be the same as before, but they were secretly manipulated by Mai Ke, making it three times more difficult to open the door.

Now even if the mechanism that designed these doors came in person, it would be impossible to open them.

Haha, this is a fortune!

Mai Ke teased himself about his sudden richness.

Of course, he didn't have any ambitions to do that.

I'll take these treasures unceremoniously! Mai Ke really received them with peace of mind.

I definitely meet the requirements of General Li Shuangxi.

I came to establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Manchu regime definitely has no place to stand.

Give me the money, you can rest assured, I promise that the good steel is on the blade.

Then Mai Ke picked up another piece of paper and took a cursory look at it, and there were two parts.

Part of it is to illustrate this underground space. It turned out that after arriving in Gwangju, they continued to sail along the Zhujiang River, then turned to the Xijiang River, and finally stopped at Zhaozhou.

When Zhaozhou was preparing to establish a provisional regime, they were led by a middle-ranking local officer who participated in the uprising, and then they found it, and then remodeled the river, and then transported all these treasures here to hide them in case of danger.

The other part talks about how those people went out from the Dark River. These are quite tragic. Reading between the lines is full of determination to succeed if you don't succeed.

It turned out that they didn't know the specific situation of this dark river, but they had only heard the local say that what floated out of here could be found in the lower reaches of the Zhujiang River.

So, in order to break through the enemy's encirclement and spare their blockade along the river, he gathered all the horse skin bags, one for each person, and put them on his body, and drifted down from here.

This horse skin bag was an invention of the rebels.

The whole piece of horseskin is tanned into mature leather and sewn into a tight bag, and the person can get into it and walk or float under the water.

But they had never tried such a long distance before.

This method is too unreliable, right?

While Mai Ke admired their courage, he also lamented their recklessness.

Judging from the fact that these people have no longer heard from history, most of them are more than lucky.

It's time for Peter to come back.

Maybe he can bring back some clues?.

(To be continued.) )

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