Holden and Sun Wu, the deputy captain of the Chinese team, climbed into this air chamber through the eye of the water, and soon found that in the corner of the air chamber, a stone tablet was actually placed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This stele is half a meter long and wide, weighing 100 catties, and it seems that it was transferred from somewhere. What is even more shocking is that the stone stele is densely engraved with Chinese characters.

Sun Wu told Holden that the characters on the stele were traditional Chinese characters from old China, in the vernacular, and seemed to record some little-known events. Holden immediately asked Sun Wu to translate the characters on the stele to him, Sun Wu nodded in agreement, and pondered to interpret the content of the stele.

This stele has been around for quite a year, recording an incident in the late Ming Dynasty, saying that in the late Ming Dynasty Chongzhen period, the world was corrupt, the people's hearts were scattered, and the Qing soldiers 80,000 iron cavalry trampled through Li Zicheng's millions of heroes, and foreign invasions made the country ruined. At that time, there was a patriotic general named Chu Duyu, who was a descendant of the Chu people in the south. General Chu fought several battles with the Qing soldiers in succession, but because the general situation had gone, they could not get reinforcements in strength, and in the end, they had to lead the remnants and flee all the way to the southwest hinterland, reorganize the army and horses, and try to counterattack.

According to General Chu's intentions, he wanted to recruit a large number of Han people in the southwest, revitalize his troops, and wait for an opportunity to kill back to the Central Plains and regain the Han world. Helplessly, his military spending was limited, and he couldn't get any support, so he killed a few local tyrants, and the military expenses he received were only a drop in the bucket. But he got an important clue at that time, saying that in a local town, there was a villager who lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and often took a piece of natural horseshoe gold and sold it at a pawnshop in exchange for food tools. This Chu general was trapped by military spending, and when he heard the news, he seemed to have some eyebrows, so he ordered his confidant Luo Yongsheng to lead more than 20 elite people to find out the truth.

The military order was like a mountain, Luo Yongsheng immediately gathered more than 20 elite soldiers, rushed to the town non-stop, found the pawnshop owner, and asked about the situation. When the pawnshop owner saw that it was an officer and soldier, he didn't dare to lie, and told Luo Yongsheng what had happened.

It turned out that the mountain man who sold horseshoe gold looked very strange when he first came, wearing a white fur skirt, his hair was unkempt, but his figure was unusually tall, like a wild man who drank blood. The man began to speak a very old Chinese, and even the pawnshop owner did not understand what he meant, but the horseshoe gold sold by the other party was in perfect condition, and the pawnshop owner was greedy for money, and regardless of its origin, he exchanged it for a load of grain and some tools according to the man's gestures.

When the man had the supplies, he carried them back on his own, and a month later the man came again and took the horseshoe gold and bartered with the shopkeeper. At this time, the man picked up a tattered dress out of nowhere, put it on his body, like a flower child, walked to the pawnshop, and without saying a word, took out the horseshoe gold, and wanted to exchange it with the pawnshop owner for food and supplies. This shopkeeper got the benefits of the last time, is looking forward to the stars and the moon, every day looking at this person, I can't think of really giving Pan here, the moment is very happy, I can't help but exchange a load of food and tools for that person, and also give some old clothes at home to this "wild man", this "wild man" is very happy, and can't help nodding to the shopkeeper to thank him. The shopkeeper did not dare to let go of this opportunity, and it took a lot of effort to communicate with this "wild man" and let the other party continue to cooperate with him. The "wild man" was full of promises, gesturing and saying that their people, in great need of food and tools, were building a huge "project".

The pawnshop shopkeeper is not a fool, a piece of horseshoe gold for a load of grain, some tools, that is a business that makes him a lot of money, he doesn't care about the origin of the gold, just care about making a fortune. This incident lasted for several years, and gradually, the "wild man" who came out to barter in gold slowly mastered the outside language, learned about the great changes in customs and history, and realized that the horseshoe gold he brought was far more than the price of a load of grain, and finally, he finally came to his senses and asked the shopkeeper to exchange him for an equal amount of silver taels to purchase supplies for himself.

But the shopkeeper saw that he was about to lose the business, and immediately turned his face and threatened the man, saying that if he dared not continue to cooperate with him and exchange the horseshoe gold for the original materials, then the shopkeeper would report the matter to the government, saying that he was mining gold without permission. In the Ming Dynasty, gold mining was generally under the jurisdiction of the household department, and individuals were not allowed to mine privately.

The savage who sold the horseshoe gold was also red-eyed at the moment, and pointed at the shopkeeper, and scolded him for being ungrateful, greedy for money, and ignorant, and drew out the waist knife he carried with him, and wanted to kill the shopkeeper. This shopkeeper is not a vegetarian, he became a monk in the temple in his early years, and he practiced a body of fist and foot kung fu with his master, and fought with the savage for dozens of rounds, and he didn't let the other party take advantage of much. Seeing that he could not take the life of the shopkeeper, the savage had to take the knife and threaten the shopkeeper, saying that if he was obsessed again, he would definitely call the "masters" of the clan to come and take his life. The shopkeeper was not afraid, but pointed to the man, and said, Let the horse come. The man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and in anger, he brushed his sleeves away.

The shopkeeper lost the deal, and without any scruples, he told the neighbors about it, and the news soon spread in the town, but the wild man never appeared again.

Until the last few months, there have been rumors that the man was seen in the town, carrying a large bag of golden beans, going to the blacksmith shop to customize some very special tools, and going to the rice shop to buy food, which is quite generous. There was also an elder who was walking with him, who was also born tall and big, with a pair of eyes slightly reddened and bright, and those who looked at him were afraid of the old man's momentum and were so frightened that they avoided their gaze.

When Luo Yongsheng heard this, he had a plan in his heart, and immediately ordered the shopkeeper to hand over the gold and silver accumulated over the years as military expenses to restore the world of my Han people. When the shopkeeper heard this, he never expected these military masters to come to this hand, which was obviously a forcible seizure, and he suddenly became anxious, saying that he had already handed over the horseshoe gold he had collected to the local parents. Luo Yongsheng is not a fool, he said that you are a miser, you dare to disobey the military order, and immediately ordered more than 20 elites under his command to turn the pawnshop inside and out, searched it, and finally found a large amount of gold and silver in the secret compartment of the shopkeeper's bedroom. The shopkeeper saw that he had worked hard to accumulate a lifetime of wealth, and he was about to be taken away by these military masters who licked the blood from the knife edge, so he immediately begged the chief to leave him at least some leftovers and return to his hometown to support his old age. This Luo Yongsheng military order is in his body, and in troubled times, the military salary is insufficient, where can he tolerate this greedy shopkeeper to make jokes, and immediately kicked the shopkeeper to the ground, led his subordinates, carried a few boxes of gold and silver that he had robbed, and rushed back to the military headquarters overnight and handed them over to General Chu.

General Chu listened to Luo Yongsheng's description, and secretly calculated in his heart that the savage man in the deep mountains must have mastered a huge underground gold vein, so he ordered Luo Yongsheng to go to the blacksmith shop in the town to continue to investigate.