The legend of the underwater ancient city of Fuxian Lake has a long history, and if we ignore the facts, we can really infer from the surrounding geography and historical changes, and it is really possible that there is an underwater ancient city.

This area, more than 2,000 years ago, was the location of the ancient Dian Kingdom, and "Zhuangji Wang Dian" is an event with clear historical records. The Dian State established by Zhuang Ji, the general of the Chu State, has been inherited for many generations, and surrendered to the Han Dynasty during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and was given the seal of the King of Dian, which was unearthed in 1956 and is an extremely precious cultural relic.

After that, the Dian Kingdom mysteriously disappeared, leaving no historical record. Therefore, it has long been speculated that there was a large-scale geological activity here in ancient times, which caused the capital of the ancient Dian Kingdom to sink into Fuxian Lake. There is another speculation, that it is not the capital of the ancient Dian Kingdom, but the ancient city of Yuyuan established in the Western Han Dynasty.

Purely from the point of view of speculation, with the vastness and profundity of Fuxian Lake, it can indeed accommodate an ancient city. You must know that the average water depth of the Bohai Sea is only 18 meters, and the maximum water depth is only 86 meters; The average water depth of the Yellow Sea is only 44 meters, and the maximum water depth is only 140 meters. Fuxian Lake is called a lake, and it is much deeper than these two oceans.

With such a deep lake, it is natural that diving enthusiasts will come to explore, and gradually rumors of an underwater ancient city will spread. In 2001 and 2006, CCTV successively conducted two national live broadcasts of underwater exploration, and the live broadcast ratings were as high as 36%, which was a great success from the perspective of publicity, entertainment, and show, but from the perspective of archaeology, it can only be haha.

The first time was the National Underwater Archaeology Team, but they found nothing, and the second time they refused to come. As for the so-called "discoveries" claimed before and after, they are actually worthless, and have even attracted criticism from some academicians and experts: "Archaeology must have an academic conscience, and cannot be hyped up or put on a show." ”

But from the perspective of tourism, the hype is understandable, such as the one in 2006, which made the May Day Golden Week of that year, Fuxian Lake attractions received more than 40% of the total number of tourists in Tiannan Province. It is said that the city and county where Fuxian Lake is located have some movements, and will hold the third "Exploring the Ancient Underwater City" activity this year.

Although Ao Tang is a student of the Department of Tourism, he is not very interested in tourism, but when he heard the turtle say this, he thought that it would be good to go by the way, if there is really an underwater ancient city, maybe he can get some antique cultural relics.

Although it violates some laws of the country, Ao Tang, a person who thinks he is a good person, while following the vast majority of laws, also disagrees with a very small number of laws, such as the stolen money of the smuggling gang last time, he did not hesitate to take it for himself, and did not think that there was anything wrong with him.

In the same way, if he finds any antiques, he does not feel compelled to turn them in, unless he does not like them. Of course, even if he gets a large number of antiques, he will not be stupid enough to sell them in large quantities and be caught by the state. However, if the bottom of the lake is really the ancient city of Dian Kingdom, most of those antique cultural relics are bronze, and bronze seems to be not as good as porcelain.

It's just that out of Ao Tang's expectations, the ruins at the bottom of the lake are not underwater ancient cities at all, but some bronze pagoda Buddha statues, broken bridges, and some ruined pavilions. Thinking that this is near Gushan Island on the west side of Fuxian Lake, Ao Tang realized that it should be the small Gushan Island that sank at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, there were originally two large and small islands in Fuxian Lake, connected by an iron bridge in the middle, the scenery of the two islands was beautiful at that time, all over the pavilions, pavilions, temples and Taoist temples, the literati and ink writers left a large number of poems, inscriptions, and had the reputation of "winning the crown of Nanzhou in a majestic shape". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was an earthquake and a storm, and Xiaogushan Island sank.

For example, Li Dingguo, a famous general in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, destroyed the copper tower on the island and cast copper coins as military salaries. Another example is Jiang Shiying, a bandit during the Republic of China, who once entrenched himself on Gushan Island against the Yunnan warlord Tang Jiyao, which made Gushan fall into ruins. Another example is Jin Shaoyun, a bandit after liberation, who committed crimes and stubbornly resisted on Gushan Island.

Ao Tang circled around the ruins a few times, and did not find any valuable gadgets, as for the bronze pagoda Buddha statue, it was too big, even if it could be moved ashore, it was too conspicuous, maybe it could be worth some money, but he was too troublesome to get it. Just as he was about to leave disappointed, Ao Tang's eyes froze, and he finally found a box and hurriedly swam over.

The box was a tin box, with a large lock and a long wire rope wrapped around it, and Ao Tang couldn't help but speculate that maybe someone deliberately sank the box into the water, and was about to take it away afterwards, but it was finally left behind.

Glancing at the iron lock, he laughed, shook his hands into a fist, dragon scales skin, and smashed it down with a punch, and immediately locked the box and opened it.

It was a treasure chest, containing gold bars and silver dollars, rings and necklaces, scattered gold and silver, several pistols, and several documents. The box was well sealed, and the documents were still dry, but as the box opened, water immediately poured in. Ao Tang hurriedly closed it, let the Madara carry it, and went ashore on the water, only then did he take a closer look.

"Hey, it turned out to be Jiang Guangtou's letter of appointment." Ao Tang laughed and knew the origin of the box.

After Jiang Guangtou retreated to Taiwan, he instructed the spies to contact bandits in various places and issued a letter of appointment. The Jin Shaoyun bandit group here set up the "Central Yunnan ** Reading Teacher", which was rampant for nearly half a year, and was finally exterminated on Gushan Island. However, in the past six months, the bandit group has plundered many districts and counties and looted a lot of property. This box was originally tied to a wire rope tied to it, marked, and prepared to come back to pick it up after breaking through, but the bandit leader was captured alive and executed, and the wire rope may have been broken because of the wind and rain, and the box sank to the bottom.

There are ten gold bars of the Republic of China 5 taels in the box, this kind of gold bar is used for one catty and sixteen taels, weighing about 150 grams, according to the current gold price, ten is 450,000.

There are more than 100 Yuan Datou, and the price of Yuan Datou is not very clear, only that the price of Yuan Datou in different years and different layouts is also different, but it is worth a lot.

As for more than a dozen rings and necklaces, and several handfuls of scattered gold and silver, Ao Tang weighed it with his hands slightly, and it might be worth hundreds of thousands.

Loading all the gold and silver into the backpack on the cart, he had no interest in the rest of the old pistol and ammunition, closed the box, handed it to Madara, and ordered it to be thrown to the deepest part of the lake.

"It should add up to a million." Ao Tang was a little happy, another windfall, and more importantly, this unintentional treasure chest incident broadened his idea of making a fortune.

There may not be many sunken treasure chests in freshwater rivers and lakes, but it is said that there are shipwrecks in the ocean, including the gold ships of the colonists in the past, and if these shipwreck treasures can be salvaged, it will be an innumerable treasure. Although it is said that finding the treasure of a shipwreck in the sea is like looking for a needle in the sea, Ao Tang does not need to act on his own, and then he orders his subordinates to cruise around, and they can always find the shipwreck, and maybe they can really find a few ancient underwater cities or underwater pyramids or something.

"It's a pity that Tiannan Province is too far from the sea, do you want to let the shrimp soldiers and crab generals go to the sea?"

Although Tiannan is not a coastal province, many rivers eventually have access to the sea. Just like this Fuxian Lake, as long as they want, the shrimp soldiers and crabs can enter the Nanpan River, then enter the Pearl River, and finally enter the South China Sea. Another example is the Yuanjiang River, where Ao Tang often diverts water, and if you put a shrimp and crab into it, you can go down the river and eventually reach the Beibu Gulf. The Lancang River can enter the South China Sea, and the Nu River and the Irrawaddy River can enter the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean. If you walk from Dianchi Lake, you can also enter the Jinsha River, enter the Yangtze River, and finally reach the East China Sea.

All rivers flow through the ocean!

To say that the only drawback is that the spiritual connection between Ao Tang and his subordinate water tribes is still only ten miles at the level of the Well Dragon King, and once they go to the sea, they will be out of control for a long time. He wasn't worried about the loyalty of his aquarists, but it would be bad if he was accidentally captured by humans.

"Perhaps, when you go to Shencheng, bring some aquariums, or simply ignite the aquarium in the sea area over there in Shencheng and hunt for treasures in the sea."

Ao Tang made up his mind, drove back home, looked at Mi Lu and Chen Yuanyuan's room empty, and thought that they were going to leave for a week, and felt a little lonely for no reason.

The next day, he checked the information on the Internet and roughly sorted out the prices of various Yuan Datou, the low ones were only seven or eight hundred, the high ones were several thousand, the market prices of a few rare editions were as high as tens of thousands, and the auction prices were even hundreds of thousands. Not to mention the auction price, the market price of these more than 100 Yuan Datou adds up to about 400,000.

Ao Tang drove the car and successively came to the gold shops and antique coin markets in Chuncheng, Hongta, and Qujiang to separate things and sell them. After all, these things are not like antique relics, they can be said to be family heirlooms, and there is no need to be too careful. Ao Tang is easy to come by, the price is so-so, and the transaction is so-so, and finally it starts in the early millions, and by the way, even the dollars that were too lazy to save before are also saved.

Looking at the total amount of more than 1.3 million on the card, thinking that he was still working and studying half a year ago, Ao Tang couldn't help but sigh that he was lucky that he inadvertently became the King of Jinglong, which completely changed his life, and it was just the beginning, and there was a more brilliant future waiting for him.

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