Chapter 237: The Disappearing Bomb Shelter
The two-day renovation made Wen Yiming full of energy, and he had gradually liked the excitement of treasure hunting, thinking about the countless treasures waiting for him in the future, and he was full of spirit.
"Next, fight the bandits!"
The four sons of the Republic of China, the six major collectors have been dealt with, Wen Yiming rearranged the clues and targeted the bandits who were active in the war, the first one was Dang Yukun, the tomb robber king who was as famous as Sun Dianying.
He can be described as a sinner who destroyed the culture of Zhou and Qin through the ages, and at the same time, he can be called the three great treasure thieves of the Republic of China on a par with Sun Dianying and Li Pinxian.
In his early years, he injured his foot and walked with a lame leg, so he was called a cripple by the locals. Born from a poor family, he later worked as an apprentice in antique shops in the capital and Shaanxi, and later became a famous swordsman in the northern region.
During the revolution, he took refuge in the local warlords of Fengxiang, and successively served as the commander of the platoon, company, battalion, and regiment. Later, he served as the commander of the third detachment of the first road of the Jingguo Army. Entrenched in Fengxiang, it seems to have become an independent kingdom of its own, and its troops are lax in discipline, demanding and forced searches, killing people and overselling goods, rampant on one side, and the people have no peace.
Dang Yukun himself has all the vices and depraved life. His little wife Dang Caixia, nicknamed Little White Shoes, is the commander of the guard battalion, swaggering through the city and making a fortune.
He also successively sent his subordinates to rob and excavate ancient tombs in the Xifu area, and plundered a large number of precious cultural relics, which he had for him to squander, and the local people hated them to the bone.
In order to expand his territory and military strength, he personally served as the commander-in-chief of the treasure theft, and colluded with the local squire Yang Wanshun to mobilize thousands of laborers to carry out a large number of theft and excavation of the Qin and Han ancient tombs in Doujitai. Many bronzes and jade artifacts were stolen, among which the Western Zhou Dynasty Kui pattern bronze ban and Kezun were the most famous and precious, causing the national treasures to be scattered overseas.
After the death of the war, nearly 100 large boxes of precious cultural relics in Xifu were seized and excavated, including the big copper tripod of the Zhou Dynasty, the car, cover, bowl, plate, golden foal, Ruyi stone and so on. Later, these precious cultural relics, except for a few for some generals to take for themselves, most of them were lost to the people and disappeared.
According to the Jiao family's years of investigation, there are two main clues to the treasure, first of all, Song Zheyuan is one of the five tigers of the Northwest Army under Feng Yuxiang, he is smarter than Dang Yulu, he knows that he can't eat alone, after killing Dang Yulu and confiscating his treasures, he took Sun Dianying's bribery methods to settle all parties.
Song Zheyuan secretly moved the treasure to Jingang and stored it in his home in the British Concession. After that, the intense and clandestine sales began, and antique dealers at home and abroad bought and resold on a large scale, and the stolen treasures were soon scattered overseas.
But Dang Yulu can dominate one side, not a miser with developed limbs and a simple mind, and he has taken a lot of effort to deal with treasures, which can really be described as a cunning rabbit.
He is not afraid of thieves stealing, he is afraid of thieves, he naturally knows that many people covet treasures, and while actively looking for buyers, he has repeatedly convened his henchman He Yutang and others to discuss how to deal with them. In the end, it was agreed that some of the treasures would be buried around the winter of 1927, on a snowy night that went unnoticed.
He Yutang recalled the details of Dang Yulu's treasure after the liberation in 1949, and the operation of burying the treasure was carried out secretly in the middle of a snowy night.
In addition to Dang Yulu and He Yutang, there is also one of Dang Yulu's most trusted personal guards. The burial site was guided by the guard, and it was set up in an air-raid shelter in an empty courtyard.
The air-raid shelter is about 100 meters long, go down the road, dig a dark hole in the deepest cave wall, and store the most valuable treasures stolen from the cockfighting platform, ten precious artifacts such as the big copper ban and a lot of gold and silver heavy weapons. When the day was about to dawn, Dang Yulai ordered the soldiers to fill the air-raid shelter with all the soil, leaving no traces.
After the death of Dang Yulu, the whereabouts of these treasures are unknown, and even He Yutang can't find the air-raid shelter, which has become the most mysterious treasure hiding place in the southwest, and no one has been able to find out where it is.
"Let's go!"
Wen Yiming was full of spirits, and led everyone straight to the destination, without stopping in the city, and directly found the approximate range of the air-raid shelter that year, so that Jinbao began to hunt for treasure.
Song Zheyuan was not stupid back then, he instructed his subordinates to search around in Fengxiang City, and also arrested Zheng Yuwen, who participated in the sorting of treasures, but the party did not let the other party know when he hid the treasures, and he was forced to point out indiscriminately and dig around, wasting a lot of effort in vain.
Fortunately, under the pomegranate tree of a resident surnamed Yiyu in the city, an extra-large copper tripod and other utensils were dug up, and this was only a temporary matter.
The bomb shelter must still be nearby, but the exact location was not discovered by anyone back then, leaving the treasure behind. Jinbao eats and drinks enough every day, and his sense of perception improves, and everyone drives around a radius of 100 miles, and finally finds the target.
"Eastern Zhou Bronze Chimes, Sixty-three Inscriptions......"
"Song Ding of the History of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Forty-six Inscriptions......"
"Western Zhou beast face Kuilong Fangzun, three lines of inscription ......"
"The head of the sheep of the Western Zhou Dynasty, four lines and fifty-six inscriptions......"
"Xia Bronze Ding, one hundred and ten inscriptions in nine lines!"
Wen Yiming looked at the ten bronze heavy weapons with a shocked face, absolute national treasures, which are densely packed with inscriptions, as long as the inscriptions appear in the bronzes, they must be high-quality, and more than ten are national treasures.
Everyone took out the bronze and gold objects and put them in the car, fortunately the Hummer was big enough, and Wen Yiming finally found a strange stone, the mark on it seemed to be carved with a sharp weapon, 7~8 cm deep and 5 cm wide.
The imprints are engraved with square horizontal and vertical shapes, which form several rectangles of varying sizes. Although these imprints are simple in style, they are neither like seal scripts nor golden scripts, and when you look at the whole figure closely, it is not like any text, but more similar to the floor plan of a house.
"Could it be Xiang Yu's twelve golden gongs!"
A thought flashed through his mind, it was incredible, when Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, destroyed the Qin Palace and robbed the Lishan Palace of countless treasures, and finally his whereabouts were unknown, leaving only a legend.
Back then, Xiang Yu and his uncle Xiang Liang used 12 golden gongs to teach war and practice martial arts. These 12 golden gongs are exquisitely crafted and unique. Cast with 80% gold and 20% brass, the gong is as big as a wheel, the sound is loud and clear, and the back is cast with 12 zodiac pictures, which is expensive.
When leaving, it was decided to leave 12 golden gongs to Xiang Li. So he ordered the soldiers to dig a pit near Caowan Mountain in Xiangli late at night to hide gongs, and then chiseled characters on Caowan Mountain. If anyone can recognize this word, they will find the 12 golden gongs that are worth a lot of money.
It is rumored that these twelve golden gongs are the key to unlocking Xiang Yu's treasure, and this wild history has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, and even the treasures of troubled times have not been recorded.