Chapter 70: The Mystery of the Heavenly Treasure
Putting two pieces of parchment together, I didn't expect it to be densely written on it, and when they finished reading the words on it, everyone in the warehouse gasped.
The handwriting is to the effect that the person who wrote called himself Yuande, was a general under the wing king, because of the suspicion of the king of heaven, the king left Tianjing, led the army to fight in the south, because everything did not go well, under the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, the treasure of the general was hidden in a secret place, and let him be ordered to guard here, in order to use it in the future.
It's just that later, the Yiwang fell into the hands of the Qing army and suffered Ling Chi to die, so Yuande hid the secret of this treasure in the mouth of the fish, and did not tell his descendants until he died.
Zhao Zhuo didn't expect that such a major matter would be involved on this parchment, wouldn't this Wing King be one of the five kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?
Ji Xiaofan finally came back to his senses, only to feel that his mouth was dry and said, "This ...... The Winged King written above, could it be the Winged King Shi Dakai? ”
Cui Shiyan also looked a little excited: "Of course, in Chinese history, it is none other than Shi Dakai who can be called the Wing King, and the things written on it are also consistent with historical facts." ”
Zhao Zhuo also calmed down at this time, and said in a few words: "During the Daoguang period, Hong Xiuquan founded the God Worship Sect in Guang Province, and married Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, and Shi Dakai as brothers with different surnames, and called the five kings of East, West, South, North, and Wing. Later, they gathered tens of thousands of followers and launched the Taiping Rebellion in Jintian. Only three years later, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom captured Nanjing and renamed it Tianjing, which can be described as a flourishing time. It's just that after the capital was settled, Hong Xiuquan retreated into the background, neglected the government, and finally the Tianjing Incident occurred. ”
Jing Yao continued: "In the Tianjing Incident, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, was slaughtered by Wei Changhui for seeking power, and his entire family and more than 20,000 soldiers were slaughtered by Wei Changhui, and Wei Changhui was later condemned and executed. After the winged king Shi Dakai was edicted to Beijing, he originally stabilized the government, but was finally suspicious of Hong Xiuquan, and finally led the army to leave Beijing, and turned to fight in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Xiangchuan, and finally was trapped in the Dadu River, surrendered to save his subordinates, and was beheaded by Ling Chi. ”
Ji Yuan looked at it while holding the note, and sighed: "It is said that when Shi Dakai was executed by Ling Chi, he was hit by more than 3,000 knives in his body, and he was called a strange man, but as soon as he died, he let the mystery of the two great treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fall." ”
"The mystery of the two treasures?" Ji Xiaofan couldn't help but be curious.
Ji Yuan said with a smile: "It's up to Xiao Zhuo to explain this matter, let me say it, I'm afraid I'll have to drink several glasses of water." ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled and said: "The two great treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, one of them is the mystery of the hidden treasures of Tianjing, the property management system implemented by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, all public and private property must be unified in the Holy Treasury, and the necessities of people's lives are uniformly distributed by the Holy Treasury. This system made the wealth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom highly concentrated, which made it possible to cellar. Moreover, after the fall of Tianjing, Li Xiucheng, the commander of the Later Army, once said in his confession before he was executed, "Although it had the name of the Holy Treasury in the past, it was actually Hong Xiuquan's private possession, not the public currency of the pseudo-capital." The eldest brother and the second brother of Wang also used the poor punishment method to search for the silver rice of each museum. This shows that after the Tianjing Incident, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in the hands of the Hong family, and the wealth of the sacred treasury had become Hong Xiuquan's "private collection". After Hong Xiuquan entered Tianjing, he broke away from the masses and lived in the deep palace, and he did not come out for ten years. Without his personal permission, no one can enter the Heavenly King's Mansion. ”
Ye Wan interjected on the side and said: "Hong Xiuquan built the palace of the Heavenly Dynasty in Nanjing, poured all the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the whole country at that time, and plundered the treasures of various places in the palace, and other palaces also have gold and silver jewelry. ”
Ji Xiaofan said: "Since it is a mystery, then this batch of treasures has not been found?" ”
Zhao Zhuo said with a smile: "This mystery is here, after the fall of Tianjing, the Hunan army entered Tianjing like a flood of beasts, burned and killed silver, looted wantonly, and looted the whole city for three days. However, in the later report of Zeng Guofan to Emperor Tongzhi, he said that there was nothing to gain except for two pseudo-jade seals and one gold seal. ”
Ji Xiaofan suddenly doubted: "Could it be that the treasure was greedy by Zeng Guofan?" ”
Zhao Zhuo said: "The first to break through the gate of Tianjing City was the Hunan army, in order to find the treasure, the troops at that time were digging three feet into the ground, digging cellars everywhere, according to legend, the treasure was dug up by Zeng Guoquan, and in order to destroy the evidence, a fire burned the palace of the Celestial Empire at that time. According to the notes of the Qing people, there is a jade watermelon in Hong Xiuquan's cellar gold that came out of the Old Summer Palace, with a crack on it, black spots like seeds, red like a gourd, and bright and clear, all of which are natural. This treasure was later in Zeng Guoquan's hands. Moreover, when the Hunan army looted the Tianwang Mansion at that time, the search was very careful, and even the body of Hong Xiuquan, who was secretly buried in the Tianwang Mansion, was dug up and burned to ashes, and it is unlikely that this gold cellar was not found. ”
Cui Shiyan praised with a smile at this time: "Senior brother is worthy of studying history, and the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is very comprehensive. As the junior brother said, the biggest possibility is that the treasure of Tianjing was taken by Zeng Guofan, but the reason why it is still a mystery is because no historical evidence has been found to prove it, and the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is so huge, if it is really greedy by Zeng Guofan, I don't know how many people's eloquence will not flow into the ears of Emperor Tongzhi. Therefore, in addition to this speculation, there are many rumors of getting rich by relying on the cellar gold of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but I am afraid that the second treasure mystery is more interesting than this matter. ”
Ji Xiaofan listened with relish, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Zhao, this second treasure mystery must be related to Shi Dakai, right?" ”
Zhao Zhuo nodded and said: "Shi Dakai is one of the first five kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, because of the suspicion of the king of heaven and led the army to leave Tianjing, it is said that the army with a large amount of gold and silver treasures as military resources, it is said that on the way with the army, he will have a large number of gold and silver treasures hidden in a secret place. It was only later that Shi Dakai died, and this matter became an unsolved case, because the scope of his army's activities was very wide, spanning several provinces, almost every province had its legend of burying treasures, and even mobilized the people to excavate, but these excavations were just cellars such as the other party's hoarding of grain. ”
After saying this, Ji Yuan also looked at the parchment carefully, and said with a smile: "However, Xiao Zhuo found this piece of paper, maybe we really have hope of finding the treasure left by Shi Dakai." ”
As he spoke, he flipped through the parchment, only to see a map drawn on the back of the paper.
Everyone suddenly became excited, although Shi Dakai's treasure was not as good as the Tianjing treasure, but if he really found it, it would be a great thing, and its value was no less than excavating the emperor's tomb.
Flattening the parchment on the table, the group looked closely at the map and saw only a few symbols on it, one of which was the appearance of a room, with a small red cross on one side of the room.
Zhao Zhuo recalled the fragment he saw in the spiritual light, and said: "This house is likely to be where Yuan De lives, this small fork must be something related to treasure, to find the treasure, we must find out where the Yuan family's house is." ”
Jing Yao reminded: "However, although this person claims to be surnamed Yuan, I don't know if he has changed his name, if he has changed his name, wouldn't it be troublesome to find it?" ”
Zhao Zhuo pondered for a moment and said, "Manager Ye, hasn't Yuande's body been excavated?" I don't know what burial goods were returned, and is there a record of his name on them? ”
Ye Wan flipped through the pamphlet in her hand and said, "These things should have been sent directly to the museum, I don't know if they sorted them out." ”
Ji Yuan said: "I'll deal with this matter, now the problem is to find out this big house, just having this person's name is obviously not enough, on the one hand, I have to go to the village to verify the situation to see if anyone knows the situation of this tomb, and then I have to check the county records of the year, and the things from more than two hundred years ago should be in the museum." ”
Zhao Zhuo replied: "Then I'll go to the museum and check the burial goods to see if I can find any clues." ”
Jing Yao said on the side: "I'll go with you, God knows what you will find in those burial goods, I want to witness it as soon as possible." ”
Cui Shiyan couldn't help laughing and said: "Miss Jing, you are so smart, my junior brother's eyesight seems to be able to not only see the authenticity of this artifact, but also find the treasure hidden inside." Then I'll leave the matter of checking the county chronicles to me, and I have done professional research on maps. ”
Because the house is 200 years old, I don't know if it was destroyed, whether anything was built on the original site, there are so many things that can happen in the past 200 years, and there may even be geological changes, it is not easy to integrate all the county chronicle maps of the past 200 years and come in handy.
Ji Yuan snorted and said, "Then Manager Ye and I will go to the village and see what news we can find." ”
Ji Xiaofan smiled and said, "Grandpa, then I'll be with Brother Zhao." ”
Ji Yuan couldn't help but laugh and scold, but looked at Zhao Zhuo with great appreciation: "Xiao Zhuo, if I really find Shi Dakai's treasure this time, I will definitely celebrate your achievements, I have never encountered such an exciting thing in my life." ”
Cui Shiyan also smiled: "Yes, nothing is more thrilling than solving a historical mystery." ”
(To be continued)