Chapter 11 The Huang family's caves are so rich
According to the sign, there are 10 impressive types of Ming Dynasty porcelain:
1. Ming Hongwu Jingdezhen kiln glaze red entwined lotus pattern jade pot spring bottle
2. Ming Yongle bright red glaze printed cloud dragon pattern high foot bowl
3. Ming Xuande Jingdezhen kiln blue and white entwined branch lotus pattern celestial ball bottle
4. Ming Xuande Jingdezhen kiln blue and white entwined branch lotus pattern plum bottle
5. Ming Xuande Jingdezhen kiln blue and white entwined lotus pattern amphora
6. Ming Chenghua Doucai seawater beast pattern jar
7. Ming Wanli colorful dragon pattern garlic bottle
8. Ming Chenghua sacrifice red ground white dragon pattern bowl
9. Ming orthodox blue and white dragon pattern vat
10. Jiajing red and green color cloud dragon pattern lid jar
There are several Qing Dynasty porcelains on a shelf in the back, and Guan Hao also takes a closer look at the sign:
1. Qing Kangxi Doucai bamboo pattern bamboo slub lid jar
2. Qing Yongzheng enamel color peony pattern bowl
3. Qing Qianlong enamel color bamboo chrysanthemum quail vase
4. Qianlong enamel color figure vase
5. Qing Yongzheng pastel alum red gold peony pattern general jar
The utensils on the shelves are all heavy and of very high value, and Cao Wan also found a lot of solid wood boxes in the corners, which are whole boxes of porcelain wrapped in straw.
Guan Hao used a flashlight to shine it, and found that the sea water was obvious.
"These should all be exported Hailao porcelain."
Sure enough, there is a sign on the side of the box: from the shipwreck of the Southern Song Dynasty of the Huangjia in Yanghe, the 26th year of the Republic of China
"This is from the Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck." Guan Hao was excited for a moment and blurted out.
"What Nanhai No. 1 shipwreck? What the hell are you talking about? ”
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was so excited that I didn't know what I was talking about! ”
"The baby of this house, I feel itchy to see it!" Guan Hao hurriedly changed the subject.
"Let's take a closer look, shall we? Maybe there's something else to discover! ”
In this almost constant temperature and relatively dry environment, the preserved objects are generally good.
However, it can also be seen that it seems to be an expedient measure to store objects in this cave, and it can be seen that there is some haste and helplessness.
In addition to rare books and porcelain, there are four safes completely embedded in the mountain.
"This is a Deborg mechanical security safe, which can barely be opened without a key and a password." Cao Wan is more knowledgeable and reminds Guan Hao.
"Look at the placement of items in this room, I think this is a temporary storage point for the Huang family, maybe because of the original use, it has not been transferred again."
"Well, it's in a hurry!"
After a while, the two returned to their desks, turned on the green lamps on their desks, and found that the desks were neatly filled with newspapers and books.
Guan Hao casually flipped through the dusty newspapers, all of which were newspapers of the Republic of China period before the liberation, including "Yuehua Daily", "Guohua Daily", "Suicheng Republic of China Daily", "Suicheng Daily", "Jinshan Daily" and so on. Looking at it, the good boy began to feel uneasy.
"Wan'er, you see these newspaper headlines are all the same content!"
"The daughter of the rich family disappeared mysteriously, and the Huang family offered a reward of 100,000", "The daughter of the rich family eloped with the driver to escape the marriage!" "The only daughter of a rich family is missing, and her fiancé can't escape her responsibility! "The Mystery of the Missing Daughter of a Rich Family! 》……..
The two looked at the contents of the newspaper: more than a dozen newspapers reported that the only daughter of the Huang family in Xiguan, Huang Shaofen, disappeared mysteriously in the 34th year of the Republic of China.
The Huang family also offered a reward of 100,000 oceans to no avail.
"Good boy, you see that there is a writing about your Guan family here!"
Guan Hao took the yellowed newspaper and glanced at the four lines, and quickly skimmed the contents.
"It turns out that Senior Huang is my daughter-in-law who has not passed through the door of the East Pavilion of Miwei.
She has been married to my Guan family since she was a child, and her fiancé is called Guan Yonglie. I think it's my grandfather's clan. ”
"In this way, Huang Shaofen of the Guan family on the tombstone of Huang's predecessors can be explained clearly!"
"Yes, the time of the death of the old man Huang is the 39th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1950, and the newspaper report time is the 34th year of the Republic of China, that is, 1945, so where did the old man Huang go in the past 5 years? How could he be buried in this remote Huang family courtyard? ”
There were a bunch of questions again, which puzzled the two.
"There's a sandalwood box here, three tiers, see what's inside?" Wan'er finished speaking and pointed to a wooden box on the desk.
It is a three-layer wooden box made of sandalwood, similar to a file box used in the office, and is usually placed on the desk for some documents and small items.
Guan Hao opened the first floor, it was full of letters, took out one, and saw that the envelope read: Brother Lie's sister Qifen book, it seems that it is a letter written by Huang Shaofen to the fiancé of the Guan family.
The good boy quickly put the letter back.
Guan Hao flipped through the other letters casually, and returned the letter written by Huang Shaofen to her fiancé, and out of politeness, Guan Hao carefully put the letter back into the wooden box.
Pulling open the second layer, there is a diary made of deerskin material on the cover, and when the title page is opened, a line of beautiful small characters comes into view:
Life is a beautiful robe, crawling with fleas.
——— Huang Shaofen
Guan Hao was attracted by this sentence, and couldn't help but look through Huang Shaofen's diary.
"On this desolate Bailu Island, I am always fighting against the damned leprosy, if it weren't for this disease, I would now be my brother's wife, we live happily together, and go to the world for our honeymoon as agreed, but Brother ........ Lie, Sister Fen misses you so much."
"The island was idle, while I was sober, I carefully studied the "Nanyang Kaozhi" passed down from generation to generation by my Huang family and found that there was another hidden story about the shipwreck of my Huang family in the Southern Song Dynasty off the coast of Yanghe, according to the oral statement of the shipwreck survivor Deacon Huang San after he returned: At that time, there were officials of the Royal Interior and Interior Province on the ship who were carrying important items to prepare to go to the Nanyang together, because of a hurricane, they sank in the sea off Yanghe."
"According to the nautical charts marked after the wreck, my Huang family has been trying to salvage since the wreck, but it has been affected by the conditions and has not succeeded, and the efforts of more than ten generations of my Huang family have been in vain."
"The turning point was in the 26th year of the Republic of China, when my father set up a salvage team together with his business partners: Saxontai and the foreign company, introduced the most advanced equipment from the West and invited the best divers at that time to salvage our Huang family for 657 years (the wreck was wrecked in 1278 in the year of Xiangxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the salvage began in 1937, exactly 657)."
"Things are going very smoothly, the salvage work has found the bottom warehouse, and successfully salvaged a batch of porcelain, just when the salvage team was about to find the cabin where the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs lived, the Japanese ship suddenly broke in, fortunately the in-law Dongting Guan's family desperately blocked, so that the Japanese failed to break through the defense line to see the truth, and the salvage was finally forced to interrupt."
"The following year, the Japanese invaded Suicheng. My Huang family was forced to move to Mingzhu and overseas with Taihe Foreign Company because they did not cooperate and did not invest in the enemy.
At this point, the family mission that my Huang family did everything they could to accomplish was stopped, and my grandfather was ill and passed away in the 28th year of the Republic of China. ”
According to the nautical charts in the home treasury and the descriptions of the returning crew members, the provincial officials on the ship carried six large solid wooden boxes, and the accompanying officials were inseparable from the wooden boxes, so it can be inferred that the wooden boxes contained the valuables of the Southern Song Dynasty royal family. After checking the letters and logs of the ancestors of the Southern Song Dynasty, it was inferred that the Southern Song Dynasty royal family had felt that the Yuan and Meng were too strong to resist, and had long intended to transfer wealth. ”
"My Huang family has been running ships in Nanyang for generations, and they were the largest imperial merchants at that time, so the heavy responsibility of opening up a secret base in Nanyang and transferring royal wealth naturally fell on our Huang family. The cargo on the sunken ship of Yanghe is not surprising, the key is the royal six-mouth wooden box and the secrets inside. ”
"In the second year of Xiangxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Battle of Yashan was the most tragic and dangerous moment since the establishment of my Huang clan. Before the head of the family died in battle, he ordered his personal guards to take the young lord and swore to find the location of the royal vault of the Yanghe shipwreck. ”
"Recently, I have searched through the genealogies and letters of the past dynasties, family chronicles and other documents, and found that my Huang family's official in the second year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty (1266) was the official of the household department Huang Juren's family letter, the imperial court is ready to find an island in Nanyang to store the royal wealth, in preparation for the resurgence of the East Mountain. At that time, it was called the "Revival Project". ”
"From the perspective of time, from 1266 to 1277, the battle of Yashan Sea, the transfer of royal wealth took 11 years. After reasoning, the shipwreck of the Huang family occurred in 1276, since the Southern Song Dynasty court sent executives to accompany the ship, there should be a secret of the royal Nanyang treasure in the six huge wooden boxes. ”