Treasure hunting film and television dramas and novels are always particularly popular, precious and ancient treasure maps, mysterious and incomprehensible suggestive symbols, inaccessible treasure hiding locations, and treasure hunters have a lot of mechanisms that make them fascinating, of course, for most people, these are fictional and cannot be turned into reality, however, the large number of treasures recently found at the Padmanaba Swami Temple in Kerala, southern India, has given the world a realistic version of the treasure hunt blockbuster, Cheng Long's "Kung Fu Yoga" It was filmed on this subject, and it was also the direct basis for Wang Zifan to think of treasures. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the 21st century, although the treasure has been discovered, how much treasure is in the temple is a mystery, the reason is that the treasure excavation is too slow, there are a total of 6 treasure secretaries, only one was announced, Rao is so, the gold hidden in it also shocked the world, Wang Zifan is a resolute character, since he decided to go to India to hunt for treasure, other work in his hands was put aside, for which a large number of henchmen were sent to India for several days, some are DreamWorks staff, some are members of Hong Kong associations, and the most are special forces under the jurisdiction of the security company, since they know the location of the treasure, there is no meaning to inform the Indian temple.

It's easy to dig up the treasure, but it's hard to transport it out, so these people are going to take the lead and make sure the treasure is shipped out safely.

On October 10th, when everything was ready, but he couldn't set off, Wang Zifan pulled Cheng Long out of the cinema, and "Fast Food Truck" will be released in a few days, this kid has been busy with dubbing work.

When they met, Cheng Long was still a little stunned, and said innocently: "Afan, what's wrong?"

"What's wrong!" "What's wrong!" The prince is angry, Lao Tzu has been busy for half a month, and he is so excited that he can't sleep these days, the tickets have been bought, but he can't get it to go, you kid asked me what's wrong, although I was half dead, and the details couldn't be explained, and he said in a muffled voice: "Is the script written?"

"What script?" Cheng Long blinked, quickly reacted again, and said with a smile: "You said that movie, I plan to shoot it next year!"

I'll go!

Wang Zifan rolled his eyes, next year! You want to suffocate Lao Tzu, it's okay if you can't think of it, now that I think about it, the treasure was tortured for him on that day, and now he doesn't want to talk nonsense with Cheng Long, 20 million investment is already a trivial matter, urging: "You hurry up and prepare, it's best to set off today!"

"Where?"

"Go to India!"

"Afan, you're real!"

"What do you say?"

"Yes...... But I ......" Cheng Long stammered and couldn't say why, and he didn't blame him for not being able to react, involving tens of millions of investment, how could he be so childish, several major scenes in his mind were being designed, but seeing Wang Zifan supporting him so much, some worries in his heart were no longer a problem, and his face turned into a smile with surprise: "Then you let me prepare, and I will hand over the specific arrangements to you in two days!"

Wang Zifan shook his head and said, "I have already informed the local government of India that the ceremony has been arranged, and it is best to go over today!"

Cheng Long said unexpectedly: "So fast, why don't I know?"

"Why do you ask so much, bring the crew over first!" Wang Zifan used strength to cover up his weakness, and he couldn't say that I ignored you from beginning to end.

"Okay!" Cheng Long groaned and agreed, if he didn't agree, he was just a wage earner now, why didn't he listen to what the boss said, but he was still a little unaccustomed, this is too vigorous, the name of this movie has not been thought of yet, and it is planned to be released tomorrow in the New Year's file, that is to say, there are still sixteen or seventeen months, there is plenty of time, if you shoot it now, I am afraid that the schedule will be in the summer file again, and he will always not be able to get the New Year file, which is not a good thing for him.

Discussed in the morning, the crew set off in the afternoon, because the time was too rushed, the size of the crew was less than half of usual, Cheng Long served as the actor, director and kung fu director, and the power was grasped, Wang Zifan only hung up the name of a producer, the producer is He Guanchang, and the distributor is Shi Nansheng.

There are three beauties who followed the crew on the plane, the first is the movie heroine Guan Zhilin, after all, she is Wang Zifan's forbidden belly and one of the best lovers, so it is also "Five Lucky Stars of Fantasy" The heroine is set, and the other is Hu Huizhong, the famous goddess of Taiwan's Qiong Yao drama, but she didn't seem very happy when she set off, thinking that it was incomprehensible to lose to a newcomer, and the third beauty was very strange, she was an outsider, looking like Korean star Kim Tae-hee, but she was said to be Miss Mingzi, who is currently serving as the assistant to the president of Wanda Company, because she is very familiar with the Indian temple, so she became the assistant to Wang Zifan.

A few hours later, the plane slowly landed at an airport in southwest India, the name of the place is too tongue-twisting, Wang Zifan can't say, but the local government officials are very enthusiastic, now Hong Kong movies are very well-known, especially in Southeast Asia, can be comparable to Hollywood, and the so-called Indian Bollywood concept has just been proposed, the name is similar to Hollywood, but the film production is 108,000 miles apart, to receive the top production lineup of Hong Kong films, as well as the big star Cheng Long, the local government is still very happy.

When he arrived at the hotel, Wang Zifan had time to learn about the real situation of the temple, which is located in southwestern India and is called Kerala, of course, all from the mouth of Mingzi.

"Kerala is located in the southwest of India, across the sea from Sri Lanka, where the four seasons are like spring, rich in coffee, rubber, betel nut and other tropical crops, "Kerala" in India, means "coconut country", large coconut groves are a common scenery here. Mingzi told me that she had been here as an exchange student when she was in college, so she was very familiar with it, and she heard that the chairman was recruiting a guide translator who knew about the local temple, so she was the first to sign up and passed the assessment.

Wang Zifan was most concerned about the temple, and there were no outsiders, so he asked directly: "Miss Mingzi, let's talk about the famous temple first!

Akiko smiled: " Chairman, you call me Mingzi is good, here Kerala religious atmosphere is very relaxed, a variety of religions coexist, what you are talking about should be Padmanaba Swami Temple, in the whole India is a famous temple, I consulted the hotel travel guide, there are some introductions to the temple, it has a recorded history dating back to the 8th century AD, and rebuilt in the 18th century, before that, the temple has been owned by the descendants of the local Varma royal family, it covers an area of nearly 7,000 square meters, famous for its intricate sculptures, here is enshrined one of the three main gods of Hinduism, Lord Vishnu, attracting a large number of believers to worship every year, want to obtain the right to shoot in the temple, the difficulty is still quite high. ”

"This royal family is above, how can the temple be in their hands?" Wang Zifan was a little surprised, he remembered that when the treasure was excavated, the management of the temple was in the hands of the government.

Akiko is himself, and he knows several languages such as Hindi, English, and Japanese, but the prince speaks Chinese, so his understanding is a little different, and he thought about it and smiled: "The true origin of the Padmanaba Swami Temple is impossible to verify, but there are many related legends, one of the most famous: a saint prayed to the god to see the Buddha, and the god incarnated as a mischievous little boy and swallowed the sacred object for worship, and the saint angrily chased the boy, and the boy hid under a big tree. The tree fell and became a giant form of Lord Vishnu. The saint recognized Lord Vishnu and begged him to be 3 times smaller than a normal person. After Lord Vishnu shrunk down, he told the sage that in the future worship of him he had to pass through 3 gates: the first gate was dedicated to Lord Shiva, the second door led to the lotus flower on Lord Vishnu's navel, and behind the third gate was Lord Vishnu's feet, which led the believers to God's salvation, and the Padmanaba Swamy Temple was built according to this oracle. ”

Wang Zifan nodded, motioned her to continue, and when he arrived at the hotel, he sent Cheng Long, Hong Jinbao and others to contact the managers of the Indian temple, hoping that the temple could spare a month for the filming period, that is, to clear the scene for a month, and all the temples up and down were used for the set.

Akiko continued: "In the 8th century, the Kerala region was ruled by the Jalla Dynasty, and the folk songs and epics that have been handed down at that time record this temple, and the temple tower is very distinctive, it was built in 1566, it has 7 floors, More than 30 meters high, to about the 18th century, in the south of the Kerala region appeared a brave warrior Valma, he led the army to defeat several princely kings in the region at that time, established the powerful kingdom of Travanco, compared with other kings, Varma is well versed in the way of rule, he used Hindu teachings, promote the concept of divine authority of kings, rebuilt the Padmanaba Swamy Temple in 1750, and took the temple as the center of the kingdom's spiritual civilization, later generations revered it as Maharaja Varma, the current Padmanaba Swami Temple basically maintained the original appearance after the reconstruction. ”

Wang Zifan's heart moved, the eight achievements of the royal family who have the ownership of the temple are the descendants of this king, I really don't understand this king, he has hidden so many treasures, why don't he tell the descendants!

"The Padmanaba Swami Temple was originally the home temple of the Varmar royal family and hence is adjacent to the old royal palace of Varmar. In front of the temple was a narrow alley in disrepair, often crowded with poor pilgrims from afar, and the kingdom of Travanco was very wealthy. It is said that European cooking techniques and meals were originally tasteless, and it was not until the Europeans discovered Indian spices that their food tastes improved, so the spice trade to Europe became the most profitable business in India at that time. During the heyday of the Travanco Kingdom, Valmar's formidable army defeated the Dutch fleet that invaded the Kerala region and firmly controlled the export port of maritime trade between the Kerala region and Europe, which laid a solid foundation for the wealth of the Travanco Kingdom. ”

Wang Zifan muttered: "So the rumors about the treasure of the temple have always existed!"

"Yes!" Akiko nodded, thought for a moment, and added, "But this rumor has never been confirmed!"

Nonsense, if it has been confirmed, why is he still here, the temple of the future generations found a treasure, I don't know how to slap the thighs of the young man, such an obvious loophole, even ordinary people, if they know in advance, they can get rich overnight!

Where's the treasure in the temple coming from? Hindu archaeologists believe that "the large quantities of diamonds, rubies and jadeites may have been purchased by the king at great expense out of preference, or they may have been paid tribute to the king by merchants who came to Kerala." "It is recorded that the kingdom of Travanco never seemed to lack gold. Varma likes to bathe in the pure gold bathtub, and when he is happy, he will smash the bathtub and distribute the broken gold nuggets to the Brahmin community, the so-called Brahmin is the monk of Indian society, the highest class in the Indian caste system, and the gifts that Varma gives to the people he respects are also valuable gold, and during the Travanco kingdom, there is a special ceremony in the coronation ceremony of the new king: the gold in the temple is taken out and piled together, and the new king must bury himself in the pile of gold, which means that he will become the master of gold and wealth。 Only then will the new king be considered gifted to be king.

So the last thing India lacks is gold!

However, Varmar himself was a devout Hindu, and his descendants were also obsessed with religious teachings and formed a thrifty lifestyle, which allowed a large amount of wealth to be preserved in the temple and passed on to future generations, unlike some royal families in northern India, who squandered their wealth, and in the decades after the founding of India, the Padmanaba Swami Temple was managed by the descendants of the Varmar royal family, who employed more than 50 people to guard the home, but these people were not trained to defend and were not armed.

For a long time, many people regard the sanctity of religion and the piety of believers as the best guardian of the temple.

At that time, Wang Zifan didn't have so many scruples, and even brought explosives, and the special forces of the security company were also secretly equipped with weapons, these guns and ammunition were purchased from the local underworld, and his community still had some connections here, if the temple did not agree to the conditions offered by the crew, he would use force to seize the treasure, of course, this kind of force is not a door-to-door robbery with real knives and guns, but a secret theft of treasures, and after being discovered, he is using 'force'.

Seeing that Wang Zifan was paying more attention to the temple, Mingzi couldn't help but add some overheard secrets, and said with a smile: " Originally, according to an Act in 1950, the Padmanabha Swami Temple and related wealth and donations were attributed to the Varmar Royalty Trust, but in 1971, the government of Indira Gandhi issued a decree annulling all secret agreements made by the Indian government with the princely princes at the time of the establishment of the country, and later the amendment of the Indian constitution stipulated that all contracts and guarantees that the Indian government had entered into with the princes of the princely states were invalidated。 As a result, the legitimacy of the ownership and management of the temple has been challenged by the Varmar royal family's trust fund that manages the temple. ”

Wang Zifan raised his eyebrows, this is good news, if the royal family does not agree, you can still start with the government, after all, this time he brought 20 million shooting funds, for local officials, it is tantamount to a pie falling from the sky, at the airport, there are officials hinting that they can bribe, so it should not be difficult for them to come forward to show a temple!