ps: Thank you Jiangbian Zhizhi for the 500 gold coin tip

It took some time for the cavalry regiment to assemble, and when Li Mingyuan entered the cave, he saw Chen Sen and others gathered in front of the coffin.

"Gold not found?" The large wooden box that was opened contained nothing, and it was clear that they had found no gold.

"The only coffin in the cave is a white skeleton, and the wooden box is empty."

Ten of the hundreds of large wooden boxes were opened, and Li Mingyuan ordered the soldiers to open the rest of the wooden boxes, and sure enough, there was nothing at all like the wooden boxes in front.

Li Mingyuan was a little deflated in his heart, and he came out to find the treasure with great fanfare, did he want to return empty-handed?

"Shizi, this cave is full of suspicions, the wooden boxes on the ground are brought in from the outside, it stands to reason that the people who carry the wooden boxes will not only bring in empty boxes, these boxes must contain things."

"Where's the contents of that box? Someone else found out and moved away? Li Mingyuan asked.

"Shizi, you see, there is a coffin here, and the corpse inside the coffin and the gold ornaments accompanying the burial are well preserved, indicating that no one has entered this cave except us."

"You mean the contents of these boxes have been moved to another place by the original people." Li Mingyuan somewhat understood what Chen Sen meant.

"Yes, I thought about it for a while, and only this possibility is the most reasonable."

Chen Sen said and came to the coffin, pointed to the white bones in the coffin and said, "Shizi, please see, the owner of this white bone has a dislocated neck bone, and he was obviously hanged to death before his death, judging from his clothes and the crown that accompanied the burial, the deceased was the king of the Indians during his lifetime, and the king was noble, even if he was defeated by a competitor, he would not be hanged by hanging, so combined with the history of the Indians and the legend of the treasure, I think this white bone is the last emperor of the Inca Empire who was hanged by the Spaniards." ”

"After the death of the last emperor of the Inca Empire, the Incas transported his body to the cave, because the emperor was incompetent and did not defeat the Spanish invaders, so the Incas hid the coffin in the cave and did not bury it." After listening to Chen Sen's words, Li Mingyuan guessed.

"I think so, the coffin only has a crown that can prove the identity of the deceased and a few funerary goods, which is much more rudimentary compared to the rich funerary goods of other Inca nobles, and the Incas may resent him for not protecting the country so he put the coffin in the cave." Chen Sen agreed.

"The contents of the big box must be not far from the cave, and everyone carefully searched around the cave." Thinking about the crux of the problem, Li Mingyuan immediately ordered.

The soldiers of the cavalry regiment separated to find the whereabouts of the treasure, and Li Mingyuan and Chen Sen stayed in the cave and looked at the murals on the walls.

"Chen Sen, did you say that these murals were prepared for the corpses in the coffin?" Looking at the murals on both sides of the cave, Li Mingyuan asked.

"I don't think it's possible, the mural figures are exquisite, there are so many of them, it's impossible to complete it in a short time."

"Well, these murals are really beautiful, and I think this cave may be the tomb of the Inca nobles, who temporarily used it as the coffin of the last Inca emperor."

The Inca Empire had a glorious civilization, and if they hadn't perished, the murals would have been protected by the state, as well known as the Mogao Grottoes in China.

Li Mingyuan walked into the mural, touched the veins of the mural on the wall, and inadvertently knocked on the wall where the mural was located.

Two muffled sounds of "dong dong" came out, which were completely different from the crisp sound of the solid mountain.

Li Mingyuan noticed the abnormality, increased his strength and struck twice, but there was still a muffled sound.

"Chen Sen, the back of the cave wall is empty."

When Li Mingyuan hit the cave wall hard, he took advantage of Sen Liu's attention to his behavior, walked to the cave wall, and knocked more than a dozen steps along the cave in a row.

"Shizi, there is a compartment behind the cave wall, and the gold must have been hidden by the Incas." Chen Sen said excitedly.

Chen Sen's voice attracted more than thirty soldiers in the cave, all of whom ran to both sides of the cave and knocked on the cave walls.

"Shizi, there are about twenty steps on the left cave wall, and there are sixteen steps on the right that are empty." The cave was beaten by Chinese soldiers, Chen Sen reported.

"Look closely, there must be a start-up device that controls the opening of the darkroom."

"Yes," the soldier in the cave immediately began to grope in the cave again.

More than a hundred Chinese soldiers poured into the cave, each in charge of a small area, and soon the search was completed, and twelve protrusions or depressions that might have opened the dark chamber were found.

When searching for the darkroom open button, Li Mingyuan specially warned not to activate something similar to the button without permission, so as not to touch the possible trap.

Therefore, after finding a device similar to a button, the Chinese soldiers did not move, but immediately reported it to Li Mingyuan for a decision.

Faced with a possible trap, Li Mingyuan and the other soldiers left the cave, leaving only twelve soldiers who were fully protected and twisted twelve devices that might be buttons.

Li Mingyuan's worries were not superfluous, he waited outside for more than ten minutes, and the soldiers inside reported that the moment they opened the stone gate, hundreds of sharp arrows were immediately shot out of the stone gate, but fortunately, the soldiers put on thick iron armor and closed iron helmets in advance, so they were not shot into hedgehogs by sharp arrows.

"When the stone door is opened, it will be shot by sharp arrows, maybe there are other traps inside, everyone must be careful when they enter it." Before entering the cave, Li Mingyuan warned again.

"Yes," everyone Zino said, suppressing the excitement in their hearts.

Worried about Li Mingyuan's safety, the soldiers formed a circle to protect Li Mingyuan in the middle and walked towards the cave.

"I've already walked through the cave just now, there are no traps, you don't have to surround me in the middle." Walking in the cave, Li Mingyuan smiled and said to the soldiers who were guarding him.

"That's not good, the son of the world is the backbone of our Chinese troops, and he can't be in a little danger."

The soldier said stubbornly.

Li Mingyuan looked at his loyal protector and did not refuse his guard.

A group of people walked into the cave, the two secret rooms on both sides of the cave had been opened, and out of the secret room came a soldier with full body protection, holding two pieces of gold in his hand and said excitedly, "Shizi, it is full of gold, and it is full of the entire secret room." ”

"Wait a minute, let's see if there's any poison on the gold?" Li Mingyuan was ecstatic in his heart, trying to stay calm, when he used to read martial arts novels, he saw a story about getting a treasure but being poisoned by the poison on the treasure, so Li Mingyuan was very cautious.

When looking for the treasure, the animals tested for poison had been found, a total of more than 100 rabbits, but after seven or eight days in Lake Titicaca, most of the rabbits were eaten by the soldiers, and only five rabbits remained.

The soldier took a rabbit, cut a small wound on the rabbit's leg with a dagger, smeared the gold on the wound twice, and five minutes later the rabbit was safe.

Gold is not poisonous, Li Mingyuan let go of his worries, and walked into the secret room with the soldiers around him.

The secret room was full of gold, and the left and right rooms were piled up. Li Mingyuan picked up a gold nugget casually, carried it in his hand and felt it, it weighed about ten catties.

"Shizi, we are developed this time, and the gold in the secret room is enough for all the Chinese independent army to spend a lifetime." Chen Sen had never seen so much gold, and it was difficult to suppress the excitement in his heart.

Li Mingyuan's heart was even happier than Chen Sen, no one knew better than him the importance of this golden land, with this gold, the Chinese Independence Army was more stable in South America.

Now Li Mingyuan has 120,000 Chinese under his command, most of these Chinese are young men, the Chinese founded the country, it is impossible for all to be men, when the time comes, Li Mingyuan must first solve the family affairs of his soldiers, from South America to China is far away, Li Mingyuan wants to find a daughter-in-law for each of his soldiers, and the money spent is sky-high.

Now with this gold, not only the soldiers' family affairs have been solved, but also more Chinese immigrants from the mainland and Nanyang in the future do not have to worry.

As long as Li Mingyuan expands the number of Chinese in South America in a short period of time, he does not have to worry about the retaliation of Brazil and other countries.

Although he was happy in his heart, he thought that the Chinese Independence Army was still circling in Peru and was still far from occupying southern Brazil, Li Mingyuan quickly calmed down and said, "This gold is a lot, but we will use more money in the future, and we can't slack off just because we get this gold." ”

"Humble duty understands." Chen Sen also felt that he was happy too early, now the Chinese Independence Army is still early from the founding of the country, if the Chinese Independence Army cannot defeat the enemy and obtain the land of the founding of the country, a huge amount of gold will also fall into the hands of other countries.

"I'm giving you a wake-up call in advance, just understand our situation, and find out this gold today is a happy event after all, tell the brothers, everyone will be rewarded when they go back." After reminding him, Li Mingyuan encouraged him again.

The amount of treasure in the cave was huge, and it was difficult for more than 900 people to transport it away for a while, so Li Mingyuan sent people back to report and find more people to carry it.