Chapter 204: Cave Robbery
Han Peacock said: "Then you will eat this big bed this morning!" I don't have much stuff there either. ”
"Don't mind! We are not as shameless as Lao Zhu, if it is really not enough, we will not give Lao Zhu food. "Dragon Scale Road.
Han Peacock smiled: "Then what did you bring in the car?" ”
"I brought fishing tackle, pot stoves, tents and other things, and I originally planned to show off my skills when camping in the wild. ”
"It's not too late, there is a lake here, you can fish and make us fish soup to drink!" Jianglin Road.
"So what are you doing?" The dragon scales are not convinced.
Jiang Lin said: "I'm not as ignorant as you, the trunk of my car was transformed into a vault by me, if there is a harvest in the jade public plate this time, it will be the safest to put it in my car." ”
"Lao Su, what has your car been transformed into?" Han Peacock asked curiously.
Su Jinglong said: "I have transformed into an office, I am not as easy as you, I still have to deal with a lot of things in the company every day." ”
Han Peacock was really speechless, these people came out on a driving trip, and they didn't even think about bringing food.
Thirty people eat, there are really a lot of things that can be eaten, and the several large bags prepared by Han Peacock were all eaten up in just two times, and this is counting the chocolate he prepared, otherwise it would not be enough for so many people to eat.
After eating noisily, someone also sent diving equipment, and it was sent from the magic capital.
In fact, they are only a hundred kilometers away from the magic capital, and if they drive fast, they can get here in less than an hour. And it took them a day and a night to get here.
Twenty sets of diving equipment were sent, except for Han Peacock's ten, most of the other ten were accompanying bodyguards, and among them, only Han Peacock did not bring bodyguards.
It's different here and in the sea, entering the unknown underground water veins, without bodyguards to follow, these boys really don't dare to go in.
Zhang Xiangyue also got a set of diving equipment, and he acted as Han Peacock's bodyguard.
"I'm very water-based, so you don't have to go down." Han Peacock said to Zhang Xiangyue.
Chen Jiayi said: "That's right. These people inside. Even Xiao Han doesn't have to worry, he doesn't need an oxygen cylinder, and he can stay underwater for two hours. ”
"Let's go, the diving lights are on. Don't get lost in an underwater cave. If you can't get out, it's dangerous. Han Peacock shouted.
Han Peacock also put on a diving suit this time. Bring an oxygen mask so it doesn't look too off-the-beaten.
Han Peacock instructed Zhang Xiangyue a few words and asked him to follow Chen Jiayi and them to help. He himself quickly dived into the water and disappeared.
In fact, there is no need for Han Peacock's orders, Chen Jiayi and they will not work too hard, if they get lost in the underground maze, even if they carry an oxygen cylinder, they can suffocate people to death, so these people dive down, just to join in the fun.
It is also because of this that no one wants to go into this underground vein to explore, the underground is complicated, and one may die if he is not careful, such a consequence, as a modern person, no one can afford it, and will not want to bear it.
If you explore slowly, it will test people's patience and waste money, which can be seen from the underground palace on Li Yuan's side, such a complex underground palace is not easy to get out of without water, let alone a place with water.
Underwater, no one's speed is as fast as Han Peacock, so although Han Peacock dived into the water with Chen Jiayi and them, when Chen Jiayi and them entered the water, Han Peacock had disappeared without a trace.
As Han Peacock's water control magic power became more and more powerful, he became more confident underwater, as long as there was water, he could do whatever he wanted.
Within a hundred meters, the water is his tentacles, the water is his eyes, where the water is, knows everything.
As long as it was within a hundred meters, everything that the water could touch was as if Han Peacock had touched it personally, which made his eyes extend out of a hundred meters, and the situation within a radius of a hundred meters was completely reflected in his mind.
Under water, Han Peacock seems to be carrying a radar, which can quickly scan all situations within a radius of 100 meters.
More than 200 meters of the lake, Han Peacock passed through within ten seconds, and after entering the underground cave, Han Peacock found that the terrain in the cave was gradually getting lower.
Along the cave, Han Peacock quickly moved forward, and as long as there was a fork, Han Peacock would stop for a while and explore carefully.
As long as it is a karst cave that is completely submerged by water, Han Peacock will not care, what he is looking for is a hollow karst cave that has not been flooded, and only this kind of place can be where the treasure is hidden.
groped forward for fifty or sixty meters, and the detour route was definitely more than a thousand meters, and Han Peacock finally made a discovery.
At a distance of fifty or sixty meters in a straight line underwater, the water pressure is already very strong, and ordinary people have already felt a lot of pressure in such deep water, so ordinary people will not enter such deep waters, but Han Peacock doesn't care about such a little water pressure at all.
His supernatural ability to control water allowed him to appear within a hundred meters of his body, so he was able to find another fork in the road.
Sixty meters underwater, it should be the lowest level of the U-shaped water vein underground, and at this bottom layer, Han Peacock discovered another waterway leading to the top of the water.
This discovery made Han Peacock know that this is not a U-shaped tank, but a W-shaped tank, and on Han Peacock's side, there are two passages that can lead to the mountain.
This is just this water vein in the middle, which has been blocked by a big stone, this should be the legendary Broken Dragon Stone, using this kind of thing to block the channel, it will never be used if it is not a dangerous moment.
The blocked waterway stretched diagonally into the mountain for more than 60 meters, almost flush with the lake outside the mountain.
There was no way for the Broken Dragon Stone Han Peacock to move away, so he could only think of other ways to enter this waterway.
Fortunately, this underground is full of limestone, after years of corrosion, the limestone continues to react with the water, dissolving into a karst cave, although the environment here is more complicated, but within the range of Han Peacock's water control, the water is like a part of his body, so within the range of his control, he can see the surrounding environment clearly. Which two caves are easy to open, he can easily know the way.
In this way, Han Peacock kept groping underwater, and he slowly opened a passage into the waterway.
As soon as he entered the waterway he imagined, Han Peacock was startled, and under the illumination of his diving lamp, a humanoid skeleton came to him.
It was a corpse, and then scattered corpses kept appearing. This is a place where corpses are dumped.
Thankfully, hundreds of years have passed. The corpses here have decomposed, and only some bones remain, otherwise this kind of place would be able to disgust the dead.
Soon Han Peacock stabilized his mind. The body was found. It means that he has found the right place.
If it was this morning, the little girl was here. She will also know that her conjecture is completely correct, and she will follow the footsteps of the battle. It is entirely possible to find the final destination.
Whether it's a treasure vault or the last place to hide the escape tools, the last place to end is definitely the place where the battle is fiercest.
Han Peacock carefully dodged the corpse floating in the water one sentence after another, and slowly surfaced.
This passage is supposed to be an open secondary passage, and although it is close to the main underground passage, it is very secretive.
Since this passage is upward, the passage is a slope towards the slope, and due to the long distance, the slope is not very large, and it is not very difficult to walk.
Han Peacock quickly stepped out of the water and entered the dry passages.
This is the top of the mountain, there must be an exit leading to here, because Han Peacock feels the wind blowing, if there are not enough vents, this place will not be so dry.
Under the illumination of the diving lamp, Han Peacock saw countless small caves, although they were not big, but each of them could leave, in such an environment, it was not too easy to find a treasure trove.
Han Peacock did not enter the fork in the road, he walked directly to the end of the passage, and at the end, Han Peacock found something very interesting.
If he was not mistaken, the rope nailed to the wall should be an ancient ropeway.
Moreover, Han Peacock also found a fixed pulley on the wall of the other half, these things are tools that can quickly transport things, which makes Han Peacock have great expectations for the cave at the back.
Along the neat steps of rest, Han Peacock walked into the passage, and through the passage, outside the passage was a huge cave, but the scene in this cave made Han Peacock stunned, there was nothing here.
Seeing the scene inside, Han Peacock was directly stunned, this is simply impossible, there are pulleys and cableways outside, the Li family's treasure must have been transported here, how could it not be?
Han Peacock looked around, but he really didn't find anything.
He didn't give up, he pulled out a part of the water from below and splashed it directly into the cave, and as the water invaded the ground, Han Peacock began to understand the situation inside the surrounding cave walls.
"What is this?"
Soon Han Peacock discovered the abnormality, he stepped on it with his foot, and directly stepped on a piece of ground to collapse, the ground on this side was camouflaged, and only a layer of wooden planks was laid on it.
After cleaning up the general outline, Han Peacock found that this place should be something similar to a suspension bridge, but this huge suspension bridge here is not used for passage, but for sheltering the underground.
There is a passage underground here, the passage is half buried underground, and a large part of it has been destroyed, and the entrance found by Han Peacock is the part that has not been destroyed, otherwise, this passage here will be completely buried.
This is a small pier hidden in the mountain, and in this dock without a single water, three broken wooden boats, half-buried in the earth and rocks, look particularly desolate.
found the means of transport to escape, which proved that this was really the Li family's back road, but the steamer was destroyed, indicating that the Li family's treasures should still be here, but now, Han Peacock has nothing to gain.
Han Peacock carefully inspected the shipwrecks, and there was nothing on them, but there were obvious traces of burning on the ships, which were obviously vandalized.
This is a small wharf hidden in the mountains, and it is very difficult to stop three wooden boats, after all, the river outside is not deep, and a wooden boat with a load of more than ten tons is considered very advanced at that time.
After studying the wooden ship for a while, Han Peacock was surprised to find that this wooden ship was actually a small steamer, such a ship, the transportation capacity is obviously stronger, but was there a small steamer in the sixties of the eighteenth century?
Han Peacock once remembered that the Chinese ship was on the board. It is said that when Zeng Guofan was fifty-three years old, the first small wooden steamer built by Anqingnei Ordnance in China should have been in 1863, so with the financial resources of the Li family, it should not be a problem to buy a few small steamers from abroad.
With this discovery, Han Peacock became depressed and used a small steamer to transport it, no matter how much treasure the Li family had, it was not transported in a few trips, it seemed that the Li family's treasure had really been transferred.
Han Peacock stood up, and he didn't have the heart to give up. So he manipulated a lot of moisture again. Infiltrate this cave in all directions, and if the treasure is still buried here, he can't afford to be careless.
"What is this?" Soon, Han Peacock made another discovery.
What was discovered this time was a buried hole with a diameter of 60 centimeters. It's a thief! Soon Han Peacock found a few more holes. It's supposed to be all cave thieves.
Is there anything more cheating than that?
Originally, Han Peacock was still full of confidence. I thought he was the first to discover here, but I didn't expect that there were even thieves here, and he really underestimated the heroes of the world.
For those touching the gold captain. Now Han Peacock is really admired, and he directly punched a thief hole from above and entered the dock.
It seems that this pier was discovered first, and only then opened a passage through the side wall outside the collapsed pier to enter here.
However, soon Han Peacock began to gloat, and the predecessors who opened the thief hole must not have gained the slightest.
This is a well-preserved battlefield, except for some corpses, there is nothing else, come to think of it, those predecessors who came before Han Peacock are also extremely disappointed, right?
Seeing the thief hole, Han Peacock was also completely dead, what did those people do, if there was something valuable left here, it would also be taken away by those seniors.
Han Peacock didn't have the mind to hunt for treasure, and returned directly from the same way, just about to enter the water, Han Peacock thought of the corpses soaked in the water.
No, whose bodies are they?
If it was the Li family, it would be normal, but how did the Li family die?
That must have been killed by the Taiping army, if the Taiping army killed the Li family, of course the wealth of the Li family would fall into the hands of Li Xiucheng, and Li Xiucheng did not transport things from here, so what does this mean?
Also, who destroyed the pier above?
There is only one possibility, it was Li Xiucheng, if it was destroyed by Li Xiucheng, then how did his soldiers withdraw from here?
With Li Xiucheng's prestige at that time, he didn't need to retreat, but people who have no long-term concerns must have near-term worries, so will he really leave a way out for himself?
Faced with a ready-made escape route, why would Li Xiucheng destroy this pier here?
In this way, there is only one possibility to explain what Lee so-sung is hiding here.
Since the dock is blocked, the only way to enter here is the Li family's underground labyrinth.
It turned out that the passage into here was flooded, and it was blocked by the Broken Dragon Stone, and the corpse of the Li family was thrown by Li Xiucheng there, that road must be abandoned, if that road is not used, then Li Xiucheng uses that passage again.
If this passage really exists, will the Li family's treasure be hidden at the end of that passage?
Where is the end of the channel? It must be near this great cavern at the back of the mountain, and only here is it easiest to transfer this batch of treasures.
Thinking of this, Han Peacock's heart immediately became hot again, if there is a real harvest this time, it will not be a problem of the Li family's treasures, there must be Li Xiucheng's military expenses in it, and even the treasures that Liu Xiucheng looted from the surrounding areas and provinces.
Of course, even if there is nothing else, it is very amazing to only add Li Xiucheng's military spending, if Li Xiucheng really goes to the magic capital to buy arms, taking this road should be the closest road.
It should be known that the arms trade between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and foreign countries was mainly carried out in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River centered on the Modu, Suzhou, Zhou, Nan, Jing, Ning, and Bo, and in the areas occupied by Su (Fu) and Zhejiang (Jiang).
There are several main transportation routes: First, foreign businessmen use large steamers from Singapore, Hong Kong and other places by sea route to Modu, Ning, Bozhizhen, Hai, Zha, Pu, Zhang, Zhou and other coastal ports, and then sell them to the Taiping army on the spot or to various places, especially the Taiping army in Zhejiang and Jiangsu.
Second, taking advantage of the convenience of shipping on the Yangtze River, foreigners took advantage of the opportunity to secretly engage in arms business with the Taiping Army in various ports along the Yangtze River in the name of trade.
The third is to trade from the magic capital to Suzhou, Zhou and its nearby places through various roads by land and water, and in the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, most of the ports were occupied by the Qing army, and the Qing court became more and more strict with the smuggling of foreigners and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so Li Xiucheng would break the kettle and sink the boat, and wanted to capture the magic capital and directly open up the contact with the outside.
However, in the end, Li Xiucheng's idea was not realized due to the obstruction of some foreigners and the local gentry.
The most famous of these was Wall's foreign guns, which were formed with donations from the local gentry.
In the spring of 1862, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom planned to spend 500,000 taels of silver to send people to the United States to buy ships and guns.
According to the estimate of the American Ma Dan, who had defected to the Taiping army, there were 30,000 foreign guns in the Taiping army of the Soviet Union and Zhou, and a quarter of the soldiers were equipped with rifles, and the 1,000 guards of the loyal king Li Xiucheng were all equipped with rifles.
In October 1862, when Li Xiucheng led his army to attack the Hunan army camp of Zeng Guofan on the outskirts of Tianjing, the army had "as many as 20,000 foreign guns" and was equipped with a considerable number of flowering cannons.
These are all things that need to cost a lot of money to get in hand, and it can be seen from here that Li Xiucheng's military spending is absolutely indispensable.
In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, no matter how much military money Li Xiucheng raised, he couldn't spend it, so there was a great possibility that he was hidden here.
After all, this place is not far from the demons, as long as there is a chance, you can use the money here to buy the arms or supplies they need.
With an idea, Han Peacock stopped studying the empty cave and began to turn around and study the passage that came in. (To be continued......)
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