Han Peacock's first thought was the dense small cave when he came, each of which could be the exit of a passage.

It's still the old way, Han Peacock controls a lot of water and splashes it on all places that may be passages, because many places are limestone, so the water infiltrates very slowly in that kind of place, and it is unlikely that there will be passages in this kind of place.

As long as there is a man-dug passage, it will definitely be easily penetrated by water, and the idea is good, but the result is not satisfactory.

Han Peacock sprinkled water on a large area, but these small caves did not react in the slightest, and it took more than an hour for Han Peacock to finally give up, these small caves are too dense, and there should be no hidden passages in them.

In this process, Han Peacock also found a lot of traces of theft and excavation, thinking that these traces were left by the predecessors who came in, and they also had Han Peacock's thoughts, so they explored in these small passages.

Finding nothing in the most likely place where there was a secret passage, Han Peacock set his sights on the large cave outside.

Soon, Han Peacock found robbery holes on the three walls of the cave, but these robbery holes are not deep, each of them is only two or three meters, after nothing is found, the robbery hole is abandoned, after all, it is digging a robbery hole on the limestone, it is not so easy to think.

Han Peacock smiled bitterly, what he could think of, others also thought of it, if there was really a channel for him to think about here, the biggest possibility was that someone else would find out first.

However, Han Peacock did not give up, except for the side of the pier, there is still a large area of this cave that has not been explored. After all, others don't have Han Peacock's water control powers, so they can't fully explore all the cave walls.

Sure enough, Han Peacock soon made a discovery, and on the left back side of the abandoned dock that Han Peacock found to be covering the abandoned dock, next to a thief hole, Han Peacock found another buried passage.

When the passage was cleared out of the general outline by Han Peacock, Han Peacock found that the edge of the thief hole next to it was already very close to the buried passage.

Just cleaned up a little, and Han Peacock found out. This is a deliberately blocked passage. It is a passage made of huge stones.

It took Han Peacock half an hour to re-dig the stone-walled portal.

Looking at the mountains of boulders, Han Peacock was very glad that there was only this kind of huge wall made up of ten blocks. Disguised over time. to escape the eyes of tomb robbers.

If he is not able to manipulate the moisture for penetration. He couldn't find a stone wall more than two meters thick, and each of the stones used in this stone wall exceeded 300 catties. If it weren't for Han Peacock's brute strength, he really wouldn't be able to disassemble it.

There were no stones to hide, an iron door was exposed, Han Peacock pushed it, and the iron door was easily pushed open by him, and this door was actually just hidden.

The portal opened, and a bright light shot out from behind the door.

What is it?

Han Peacock stretched out his hand to pluck a string of pearls from the back of the door, each pearl was the size of a pigeon's egg, and they all shimmered, looking very gratifying.

This is the pearl of the night! Although Han Peacock had once gotten a piece of glowing jade, it was the first time he had seen the real Night Pearl.

Looking at the long string of night pearls, Han Peacock didn't know what to say, but such a string of pearls was immeasurable, which made his treasure hunt a complete reward.

harvested a string of night pearls, Han Peacock's heart was even more itchy, if he got another jade watermelon, it would be even more perfect.

According to the legend of the wild history, Zeng Guoquan received a string of pearls offered by his subordinates, which was as big as today's Jufeng grapes, and it would shine.

This string of pearls "is larger than the top of the finger, hanging under the item, then the crystal sparkling, the light shoots the eyebrows." One hundred and eight pearls, with the back clouds and the like, changed to morning beads. ”

It is also said that once in Zeng Guoquan's home, he saw a jade watermelon collected by Hong Xiuquan, and through various signs, he suspected that the fire in the silver treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was set by Zeng Guoquan, in order to take the property in the silver treasury for himself.

Legend says that there is a nose and eyes, and it is said that Zeng Guoquan obtained a jade watermelon, cracked, black spots like seeds, red like a pulp, bright and clear, and unmatched.

That is, he also got an emerald watermelon, which was bigger than a large pumpkin. There is a crack in the middle, and the sunspots inside are all naturally formed, and they are absolutely priceless.

These legends have noses and eyes, and they are very sensational.

However, these legends are actually unreliable, such as this "jade watermelon", in fact, it is not the first time that it has appeared in wild history legends.

As early as when Emperor Jiaqing copied Heshen's home, people said that there was such a thing in Heshen's treasure.

Later, when people said that when Sun Dianying bombed Cixi's mausoleum, they also said that a "jade watermelon" was also found in Cixi's coffin.

This watermelon has made too many props for historical stories.

Han Peacock didn't know if Zeng Guoquan had ever gotten a jade watermelon, but he knew that Jiang Lin had one in their hands.

Now the pearl that was once said to have fallen in Zeng Guoquan's hands has appeared here, which makes Han Peacock happy and full of doubts at the same time.

No one knows how much property Zeng Guoquan harvested in this Tianjing robbery, but it is "nonsense" to say that Hong Xiuquan's holy treasury fell into his hands.

Hong Xiuquan's holy treasury, that is, the legendary Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treasure, this treasure is famous, so Han Peacock must investigate it, and he did it, Bai Xiaoye once gave him an analysis report, and made a very detailed analysis and demonstration of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treasure, indicating that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treasure is real.

On August 14, 1864, Zeng Guofan asked for the dismissal of 25,000 Hunan troops, and after these people returned to their hometowns, they did buy some fields and build a few houses, but their basic living conditions did not change much.

Therefore, the property looted by the Hunan army after the capture of Nanjing was not as 'amazing' as folklore, and they actually did not rob much of the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Zeng Guofan is "famous for his frugality", and it is said in the "Book of Zeng Guofan's Family": "The children of Yu Jiao are mainly diligent, thrifty and humble...... Brother uses a penny each. All must think twice, the younger brothers are at home, and it is advisable to teach their children and nephews to be diligent and respectful. If I have power outside, the children of the family are the most likely to be arrogant and embarrassed, and both words are the way of defeat. ”

It can be seen from the records in the "Book of Zeng Guofan's Family" that Zeng's family advocates not leaving property to children and grandchildren, and it is useless for children and grandchildren to stay behind. This is what he calls 'growth and decline'.

March 1872. After Zeng Guofan died suddenly due to "numbness in his feet and inability to speak", "Zeng Laojiu" began to edit and sort out the "Zeng Guofan's Family Letter".

But after the book was edited and sorted out, the Zeng family had to put it on hold temporarily because they had no money to print it......

Coincidentally. November 1890. 66-year-old Zeng Guoquan passed away. His sons and daughters wanted to compile the "Zeng Zhongxiang Gongwen Collection" for him, but they couldn't come up with the money.

Hong Xiuquan's holy treasury, which is also known as the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, maybe today Han Peacock can uncover this mystery.

With this string of pearls. It shows that Li Xiucheng did bring out a lot of treasures from Tianjing back then, no matter what Hong Xiuquan thought, anyway, his holy treasury in Tianjing did disappear, and the biggest possibility was that it fell into the hands of Li Xiucheng, the only general under him at that time.

Such an idea is not only Han Peacock, but also Zeng Guofan, Tianjing fell, Li Xiucheng's army was annihilated, and a large number of Tianjing's jewels evaporated from the world.

It is rumored at home and abroad that the wealth of the flood is like the sea, the gold and silver are like the sea, the department stores are abundant, and more property is hidden underground.

After Li Xiucheng was captured, Zeng Guofan coerced and lured him many times to ask where the gold and silver were, which was also the reason why King Zhong was executed late.

Li Xiucheng is really mighty and unyielding, he is very loyal, and he has never revealed the whereabouts of the jewelry.

Some people even drained the lake in the back garden of the Tianwang Mansion and dug three feet into the ground, but found nothing.

This is the mystery of the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the mystery of the so-called treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, divided into two kinds, one is the mystery of the whereabouts of the gold in the Tianjing Cellar, and the other is the mystery of the treasure of the Winged King Shi Dakai Dadu River, which is the two major treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Now Han Peacock is definitely looking for the whereabouts of the Tianjing Cellar Gold, and the most likely place for this batch of Cellar Gold to exist is here.

Han Peacock carried a string of night pearls, walking around in the passage, the whole passage is not long, only less than 100 meters, and there is also a stone wall on the north side, which shows that this place should be deliberately hidden, but here, Han Peacock found nothing.

Could it be that there is such a string of night pearls here? This is obviously impossible.

Han Peacock looked at this passage, a narrow passage that only one person could pass through, there was really no place to hide things, could he have deduced it wrong?

The surprise that had been upon discovering this passage had completely disappeared.

At the other end of the passage is the water vein connecting Li Yuan's underground labyrinth, if Li Xiucheng's wealth is also buried underwater, Han Peacock can only sigh at the water.

Could it be that the holy treasury of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was really spent by Hong Xiuquan and them?

This seems unlikely, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom implemented the Sacred Treasury system, the so-called Sacred Treasury, "Shihong Xiuquan's Private Collection", that is, all the property of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was confiscated, collected into the Sacred Treasury, and used by the Heavenly King and the regime.

This stems from Hong Xiuquan's understanding of the "Kingdom of Heaven", which he once discussed with foreign missionaries, and he believed that the so-called "Kingdom of Heaven" could exist in real terms, but it was made of gold, silver and jewelry.

The value of the gold cellar of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is extremely considerable, you only need to think about it, Hong Xiuquan collected all the gold and silver in the entire southern half of the country, and you can know how much wealth he has gathered.

Even if a rich man in the countryside can accumulate tens of thousands of taels of silver, as long as Hong Xiuquan gets one-tenth of his wealth, it is an astronomical amount, and if he wants to spend one-tenth of half of China's wealth in more than ten years, this is really a skill.

Of course, if the Taiping army had money, how could it fall into the miserable situation later, so some people said that Tianjing had already used weeds to satisfy hunger during the Tianjing defense war, and if there was money, why didn't they take out the money at that time?

This kind of thinking Han Peacock thinks that it is as ignorant as Emperor Jin Hui's sentence "Why not eat minced meat", the Qing army is under the city, and the moats are all over the city, what is the use of money?

Of course, no one knows the exact amount of cellar gold, but this batch of cellar gold is real.

Later, after Zeng Guofan recovered the south and Beijing, the Qing court strictly ordered to track down the whereabouts of the "rebel bandit" Jiaojin, Zeng Guofan repeatedly shirked and said that he had not found it, and resisted stubbornly, and offered the "pseudo-heavenly king" jade seal to invite merit, so that the imperial court gave up the pursuit of Tianjing Jiaojin.

Therefore, some people say that Hong Xiuquan's hidden gold was privately hidden by Zeng Guofan. But this is obviously impractical.

After the fall of Tianjing, the Hunan army openly robbed for three days, and when Zeng Guofan's wife returned to her hometown from Nanjing, she was accompanied by more than 300 ships full of goods, so many people deduced that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cellar gold belonged to Zeng Guofan.

This statement, in Han Peacock's view, is also pure nonsense, at that time Zeng Guofan did not dare to rebel against the Qing court, since the suppression of the "Hongyang Rebellion" has not been arrogant, cautious. If those are really the Holy Treasury Cellar Gold. That Zeng Guofan was purely asking for his own death.

Therefore, more people do not believe that this batch of treasures fell into the hands of Zeng Guofan, and now the treasure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a mystery in itself, and some people have dug it up during the Republic of China. It is also a no-brainer.

Since that batch of cellar gold was not hidden in Tianjing. Then there is only one possibility. It was transported out of Tianjing in advance, or hidden in another way, or diverted for other purposes.

But. In Han Peacock's opinion, it is very possible to be misappropriated by Hong Xiuquan for other purposes, and what is the biggest use of this money?

Naturally, it is to buy arms and materials to protect the country, Han Peacock thinks that this is the biggest possibility, of course, some people say that Hong Xiuquan is mediocre and incompetent, how can he do such a thing.

Hong Xiuquan is the leader of a country, is he really as incompetent as the legend?

If he is really so incompetent, can he still defeat half of the Manchu Dynasty?

You have to know Lu Dao, what was his situation at that time, and what was the situation when Yuan Datou and Sun Dacang were later?

In fact, Hong Xiuquan is much stronger than Yuan Datou, Sun Cannon, Jiang Guangtou and others.

is such a person, who actually fell into a rumor that he was mediocre and incompetent and had not been out of the harem for ten years.

Otherwise, it is said now that history books are written by victors, since Hong Xiuquan is so incompetent, how can he support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for more than ten years?

Therefore, Hong Xiuquan's gold collection was transported here, Han Peacock is not surprised at all, since the possibility is so big here, where is this batch of gold hidden?

Han Peacock stared at this narrow passage, thinking about it, and he didn't think about where the gold was located.

Han Peacock knew that after the Hunan army entered Tianjing, they burned, killed, raped, wantonly looted, and ransacked the whole city for three days, which can be said to have scooped up all the floating wealth on the ground, but those are just floating wealth, and there are more treasures hidden elsewhere.

As a result, Zeng Guoquan strictly interrogated Li Xiucheng, and Zeng Guofan also sent his staff to interrogate Li Xiucheng, one of which asked: "Can the gold and silver in the cellar in the city be pointed out in several places?"

Li Xiucheng used his autobiography to deal with Zeng Guofan, and he made a very clever euphemistic narrative in his autobiography, and then led to the conclusion that "there is no gold and silver in the treasury" and "there is no gold and silver in the house", prevaricating Zeng Guofan.

When Tianjing City fell, the slogan of the whole city was: "Half of the rotten cloth is left to enjoy with the demons!"

However, the Hunan army still believed in the saying that "gold and silver are like the sea" in Tianjing, and after the fall of the city, the Hunan army dug cellars everywhere, and Zeng Guofan also openly put forward the words of "digging cellar gold" in his report to the imperial court.

Later, the folk of Nanjing still have the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cellar gold, such as the story of Jiang Donkey and Wang Tofu getting rich.

Until after the Xinhai Revolution, there were still warlords who wanted to dig up the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to make a fortune.

There are all kinds of signs that Tianjing City should have cellar gold.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been operating hard in Nanjing for ten years, and there has always been a legend that Hong Xiuquan treasured gold and silver treasures.

The Hunan army that attacked the city of Nanjing believed in this statement very much, and on the day of the break, the Hunan army dug cellars everywhere, and Zeng Guofan even issued an order that "anyone who excavates the gold of the thief's cellar will be reported to the official for confiscation, and those who violate it will be punished".

After the Hunan army entered the city, there was the legend of Zeng Jiu's cellar gold, Zeng Jiu was Zeng Guoquan, the younger brother of Zeng Guofan, ranked the old nine, hence the name.

Its troops were the first to enter the Heavenly King's Mansion, and according to legend, they had dug up Hong Xiuquan's hidden gold and put it into their private pockets, and finally burned down the palace of the Celestial Empire in order to destroy the evidence.

The Qing people have notes that Hong Xiuquan's cellar gold has a jade watermelon that came out of the Old Summer Palace, there is a crack on it, black spots like seeds, red like a pulp, Lang run and distinct, all are natural, this treasure and now this string of pearls in the hands of Han Peacock, are said to be in the hands of Zeng Guoquan.

At that time, in order to cope with the brutal military struggle, all public and private property had to be centralized in the "holy treasury", and the necessities of people's lives were uniformly distributed by the sacred treasury.

This system made the wealth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom highly concentrated, which made it possible to cellar.

After the Tianjing Incident, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regime was controlled by the Hong family, and the wealth of the "Holy Treasury" had become Hong Xiuquan's "private collection".

Since it is not spent, and it is not in Nan and Beijing, it is impossible for this money to disappear out of thin air, and here is the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River line, can go straight to Nan and Beijing, if it is said that the treasures there are transported here, Han Peacock is very convinced.

And all kinds of signs also show this, from Zeng Jiu's Tianjing at that time, he didn't dig three feet into the ground and didn't dig out Hong Xiuquan's holy vault, which is very revealing.

Han Peacock walked back and forth countless times in this passage, and infected it with water again, but he didn't find any place where water was particularly easy to penetrate into.

The walls here should belong to limestone, and it should not be moistened by moisture, not to mention that the walls are covered with a thick layer of moss, which is easier to prevent moisture from penetrating.

There must be a hidden treasure here, I believe that this is not only Han Peacock's conviction, but also those experts who are doing geological exploration in Li Yuan in the north should be more convinced, and there are many robbery holes that can prove that since there is a treasure, where is the treasure hidden?

Looking at the empty passage, and then glanced at the night pearl in his hand, if you don't find this string of night pearls, it's okay, since you have found it, other treasures should be close at hand.

Therefore, Han Peacock didn't believe that Liu Xiucheng would hide the treasure in Li Yuan's underground palace, if it was really hidden there, Han Peacock believed that maybe it would have been obtained by Zeng Guofan and them a long time ago. (To be continued......)