Since the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet Marines captured the Peruvian capital of Lima, the commander of the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps, Liu Jian, began his treasure hunt.

Since the Pacific Fleet controlled the entire Pacific Ocean and basically had no power to threaten the security of the Chinese Empire at sea, Shi Jianfei, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, gave Liu Jian half a year to find the legendary treasures of the Inca Empire.

Before the 16th century, the Inca Empire, centered on Peru in South America, was very powerful, and all the palaces and temples in the capital were decorated with a large amount of gold and silver. At the beginning of the 16th century, the Spaniards overthrew the Inca Empire and plundered all the gold and gemstones.

When the Spanish commander Pizarro received information that all the gold of the Inca Empire had been brought from Manoa, ruled by a chieftain named Patti, and that there was a mountain of gold and silver treasures, Pizarro immediately organized an expedition to the Golden City, located deep in the Amazon forest.

However, in this vast primeval forest, where every step forward means fear and death, there are fierce beasts and poisonous snakes, savage cannibal tribes, there is a threat of losing their way, and expeditions are disappointed or missing, so that Pizarro can only imagine this forest from afar.

Later, the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, and French heard of the Golden City, and everyone wanted to grab a fortune, so they flocked to the Amazon jungle in search of treasure.

As the Chinese Empire occupied the Spanish colonies of Peru, the rumors of the treasure naturally drove the Chinese expeditions crazy. With the large-scale immigration of the Chinese Imperial Government to the Peruvian colonies, Chinese immigrants to Peru also joined the ranks of the treasure hunt.

In the spring of the 14th year of Shenmu, an expedition of about 500 members led by Marjan set out for the Golden City. Along the way, in addition to non-combat attrition, the Spaniards were ambushed by the Indians several times, and after paying a heavy price of more than 400 lives, they finally discovered the Golden City and the legendary Golden Lake in the Kandina Marga Plain, and found an emerald gem worth six million silver dollars. However, this was only a tiny fraction of the treasure that was difficult to assess in the Golden City, for they had not found any gold or gold products.

However, while Marian and his eighty-three men celebrated the discovery of a huge treasure, a thousand Marines led by Liu Jian followed.

Originally, after Liu Jian went deep into the Amazon jungle, he felt the great difficulty of treasure hunting, and finally became clueless, and he ran into the east and west.

Because the Chinese Empire returned the temple of the sun and the moon to the local Indians when the Chinese Empire occupied Mexico, the Indians had a certain affection for the Chinese, at least not as they did with other foreigners.

The advantage of this is that when expeditions from all over the world penetrated deep into the Indians' sphere of influence in search of treasure, the Chinese were attacked significantly less than those from other countries.

In particular, Liu Jian led an army with strong combat power, and the Indians would not provoke them lightly.

At first, Liu Jian didn't have any clue, and just as he was about to give up, suddenly a small detachment was attacked by the Indians. This annoyed Liu Jian, who had endured mosquito bites, wild animal attacks, and diseases in the jungle these days, and had nowhere to vent his anger, so he immediately led other small detachments to reinforce and fight against the Indians' sneak attackers.

However, after the fight, Liu Jian became more and more suspicious. For he found that the Indians' resistance was very stubborn and contrary to common sense.

After Liu Jian thought about it, it suddenly became clear. The Indians rarely provoked the Chinese Empire's army in this way, and they did so with only one purpose, and that was to prevent Liu Jian from finding their golden city.

It must be the Golden City ahead

Liu Jian judged so, but he was not very sure, so he ordered the detachment to stop the attack and march in the left and right directions, but it was not attacked by the Indians, and there was not even any movement at all. Then he returned to the temptation, and the Indians immediately blocked it, which convinced Liu Jian that the direction in front of him must be a place of great importance to the Indians, perhaps the legendary Golden City.

Liu Jian determined the direction, and his soldiers were suddenly full of confidence. Under the powerful fire attack, Liu Jian led nearly 1,000 marines to defeat countless Indian resistance, and finally arrived at the Golden City.

After the fall of the Inca Empire, the chief of Manoa, Patti, knew that the Spanish marauders would eventually find it, so he demolished it and transferred all the gold and silver treasures.

The jewels obtained by the Spanish expeditions such as Marian were only left behind after the emergency evacuation of the Indians, and they are still worth a lot of money.

The appearance of the Chinese Imperial Marines immediately made Marjan and his party very nervous, so they hid in the ruins of the Golden City and guarded them with guns.

At first, Liu Jian thought it was an Indian, so he ordered the ruins of the Golden City to be surrounded. Soon, after Liu Jian learned that the group inside was a Spanish expedition, he had a plan in his heart.

Subsequently, Liu Jian sent someone to shout and ask the other party to show an entry permit.

Marian did not have an entry permit at all, and his expedition had entered Peru from Portuguese Brazil, so he was unable to present an entry permit issued by the Viceroyalty of Peru in the Chinese Empire.

Seeing that the other party did not have an entry permit, Liu Jian was immediately overjoyed and immediately ordered military action.

After several months of jungle exploration, more than 70 of the 1,000 marines brought by Liu Jian have now died, and nearly 100 soldiers are injured and unable to fight, but the remaining 800 or so soldiers are still ten times the Spanish expedition inside.

Liu Jian's thousand-man Marine Corps was divided into ten squadrons, each with a hundred people. The squadron has 10 people under its direct jurisdiction and three squads of 30 people each.

The Spanish expedition team hiding in the ruins of the Golden City was less than 100 people, and after Liu Jian ordered the attack, although they had the ruins as their backing, they could not compete with the regular army at all, and they suffered more than half a wound in less than half an hour.

Marian tried to escape, but Liu Jian had already surrounded the entire vicinity. Seeing that he could not escape, Marian had no choice but to ask for reconciliation.

Liu Jian was also ready to ask Marian for details about the Golden City, so he didn't want to push people too far, so he agreed to reconcile, but only if Marian and his men laid down their arms and surrendered.

Although Marian was not happy, there was no room for him at this moment, and his belief that life is greater than one qiē could not be shaken, so he laid down his arms and accepted surrender.

Marian did not have an entry permit, so it was illegal to enter the colonies of the Chinese Empire, and Liu Jian was justified in arresting them and confiscating a qiē property.

In order to get Marian to say what he knew, Liu Jian decided to leave him a jewel worth 600,000 silver dollars, depriving him of the other ninety percent of his wealth.

Although Marian was unwilling, he had to give in in to the power. With 600,000 silver dollars as compensation, he is not too much of a loss, or barely enough for it.

In return, Marian had to tell Liu Jian everything he knew. Of course, Mari Anxin wanted to hide something, but he couldn't stand the fatigue interrogation of Liu Jian's subordinates, as well as the coercion and temptation of Marian's other accomplices, and finally Marian confessed everything he knew.

After several days and nights of fatigue interrogation, looking at Marian's tragic state of being extremely sleepy but unable to sleep, and speaking almost subconsciously, Liu Jian was sure that Marian had confessed in full.

According to information obtained by Marian, the legendary Golden City has been relocated to the Golden Lake, which is Lake Guadavida, northwest of Granada.

Marian has an Indian notebook in his hand that in July 1603, the nephew of the last king of the Indian tribe described the traditional coronation ceremony that took place on the shores of the Golden Lake.

The note reads: At that time, the heir to the throne was coated with gold dust all over his body, as if it were made of gold, and then he swam in the lake to wash away the gold dust, and his subjects offered gold and jade, and piled it at his feet, and the new king threw all the gold into the lake as a sacrifice to God. This traditional ritual has been performed countless times, showing that the amount of gold lake has lured people to people, and the amount of treasure hidden in it is staggering.

There is also a personal note about Marjan on the back, which reads: With the fall of the Inca Empire, the Indians who fled to the dense Amazon forest moved the Golden City to the sacrificial lake and buried it, the sun shines on the surface of the lake, and the gold and silver bricks at the bottom of the lake reflect the light, and the tunnel is called the Golden Lake.

"The secrets of the Golden Lake must be kept"

"Sir Liu, please rest assured, I promise I won't say it"

Liu Jian smiled and said, "Only the dead can keep secrets."

Marian was stunned when he heard this, and said weakly: "The chief is really joking"

"Do you think I look like someone who likes to joke?"

As he spoke, the two sergeants next to him had already stepped forward to set up Marian. Marian was terrified, and was dragged out like a dead dog in the middle of his shouting.

Ten minutes later, a line of gunfire rang out, and Marian and his men were executed, and then their bodies were burned and destroyed.

After secretly executing Marjan and his people, Liu Jian led people to turn the Golden City upside down, except for finding some incomprehensible symbols and inscriptions, he did not get any valuable treasures.

Half a month later, Liu Jian and his party returned to Lima with Marian's treasures. This treasure worth six million silver ingots suddenly made the Chinese in Lima City excited, and even the Pacific Fleet Command was excited.

However, the problems that come with it are: The Governor's Office of Lima of the Chinese Empire took advantage of its authority to send a garrison of 3,000 men and a large number of Chinese expeditions to the Golden Lake in search of treasure.

At the same time, the command of the Pacific Fleet of the Navy did not let go of this batch of treasures. Immediately assign 5,000 marines to Liu Jian and carry a large number of tools to the Golden Lake.

The movement of the Imperial Chinese Navy and Army was so great that other countries could not even think about it. A large number of spy and civilian expeditions were sent into Peru, and they all gathered around the Golden Lake.

However, the entire Golden Lake has been surrounded by the Chinese Imperial Navy and Army, and personnel from other countries cannot enter the area. At the same time, the Colonial Viceroyalty of Peru of the Chinese Empire also began to impose a ban on foreign expeditions, restricting them from conducting treasure hunting operations in Peru.

On the second Sunday of September, a salvage team on the Navy side retrieved several hundred gold supplies from the shallow bottom of the lake. A few days later, the Lima garrison also salvaged hundreds of gold ornaments, which were worth a lot of money.

However, these are not what Liu Jian and other treasure seekers are hoping for, in their eyes, the composition of a golden city should be a large number of gold and silver bricks, not these gold jewelry.

"You can only fish in shallow water, but the harvest is not small, and if you can fish in deep water, I think there will be more discoveries."

It was Shi Jianfei who spoke, and when he was fine, he would also go to Golden Lake to join in the fun, mainly to experience the fun of treasure hunting.

"But there are so many crocodiles in the deep water that our people don't dare to go down at all. Even so, we hurt dozens of people in shallow waters."

Liu Jian couldn't help but feel distressed, this inaccessible lake was actually the territory of the top food chain of crocodiles. Moreover, musket bullets are very difficult to kill and injure those large crocodiles.

Bang bang bang

Muskets suddenly rang out in the distance, and the two of them saw through their binoculars that several crocodiles were attacking the salvage boat operating in the lake, and the Imperial soldiers on board opened fire one after another. However, due to the poor performance of the muskets in continuous fire, the salvage ship immediately turned around and returned to shore after a round of firing.

Liu Jian shook his head helplessly, and Shi Jianfei suddenly said: "It seems that the muskets are not very effective, why don't I transfer the artillery for you to repair them."

"Don't," Liu Jian hurriedly said: "That will provoke their artillery used by the previous garrison headquarters, but it was very enjoyable at the time, but the crocodiles were very violent the next day, injuring dozens of people." As long as there is a lake, they will never be killed."

Shi Jianfei thought about it, such a big lake, it was easy for crocodiles to hide.

"I think the terrain here is very high, so it is better to drain the lake."

"What?"

Liu Jian looked at Shi Jianfei in amazement and asked, "How can such a big lake be drained?" You can't do it with a steam engine."

Shi Jianfei smiled and said, "The terrain here is high, you can dig tunnels, lead the lake water out, and then use a steam engine to pump out the remaining low-lying lake water."

After thinking about it, Liu Jian suddenly felt that the plan was feasible.

"It's just that we don't seem to have that much money."

Shi Jianfei said: "The Admiralty is brewing a big plan, and funds will be tight recently, so it is better to discuss it with those landlubbers and do it together."

Liu Jian nodded and said, "It's okay to do things for the empire anyway, instead of wasting resources separately, it's better to do it together, I'll go and discuss it with that guy."

Shi Jianfei smiled and said, "I'd better go, so that some diehards in the Admiralty won't trouble you."

Liu Jian smiled helplessly.

Soon, Shi Jianfei found the garrison headquarters, and after talking to Commander Yang Ze about the plan, he got Yang Ze's consent.

As a result, the matter of the naval and army fighting for the treasure of the Golden Lake came to an end, and the two sides abandoned their prejudices and jointly excavated the treasure of the Golden Lake.

A month later, the Lima Garrison Command transferred 1,000 engineers from the Peruvian Garrison Army to dig tunnels along the eastern wall of the Dropka Canyon to the southeast of the Golden Lake, leading to the bottom of the Golden Lake.

The project took three months to complete, and the tunnel was supported by reinforced concrete to prevent the tunnel from collapsing in the event of a flood. The entire tunnel is two kilometers long and leads to the bottom of the Golden Lake.

Soon, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Chinese Empire, as well as Chinese expeditions participating in the treasure hunt, gathered at the mouth of the Golden Lake.

As the TNT high explosive buried at the bottom of the lake exploded, a huge wave of water tens of meters high rose into the sky, and it was spectacular.

Then, a huge counterclockwise whirlpool appears in the Golden Lake, and the water rushes out of the tunnel and gushes out at the exit, forming a huge waterfall.

A week later, the waters of Golden Lake were pumped to the bottom, and the overlord crocodiles in the lake had nowhere to hide. The soldiers of the Chinese Empire gathered around the lake formed a battle formation and slaughtered the crocodiles in the lake as if they were facing a great enemy.

After three days of slaughter, hundreds of crocodiles were slaughtered, the largest of which weighed a ton and a half, and ordinary musket bullets could not penetrate his scale armor, and finally used artillery to kill him.

The crocodiles were cleared and the lives of the excavation team were safeguarded. However, after the lake was drained, a large amount of silt remained deep at the bottom of the lake, and even gold and silver artifacts were buried under the silt. Moreover, the weather in Peru is hot, and under the scorching sun, it quickly dries up into hard lumps.

The excavation team excavated from the edge of the lake all the way to the center of the lake, and unearthed a large number of gold and silver ornaments. More than 3,000 gold artifacts were unearthed in the first three days, but there were no gold or silver bricks to build the Golden City.

That alone is very exciting. Dignitaries and leaders of the Peruvian Governor's Office of the Chinese Empire, the South American Dispatch Command, and the Royal Navy's Pacific Fleet Command rushed to the excavation site. Liu Jian and Commander Yang of the Garrison Command were in charge of the excavation of the Golden Lake together, and they unearthed so many treasures, they can be regarded as having an explanation. The value of the treasure obtained so far that at least the superiors of both sides will not get angry because of the huge excavation costs.

The Golden City is the ultimate goal of Liu Jian and others, but that may be just a rumor, and Liu Jian has no bottom in his heart.

One day a month later, when the excavation team cleared a distance of about two miles from the center of the lake, several gold and silver bricks were dug up for the first time. Although it has been corroded very much, you can still feel the high purity luster of gold and silver bricks after polishing.

After learning that the gold and silver bricks were dug up, Liu Jian was extremely excited, and gathered around to watch all day long, and sometimes couldn't wait to help.

As the depth of the excavation increased, more gold and silver bricks were soon unearthed, as well as a large number of gold artifacts and ornaments. Inca TreasureThe legend of the Golden City has gradually surfaced, but the Golden City has been torn down into parts and hidden in the Golden Lake for nearly a hundred years. V