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In the ancient history of our country, there have been many different dynasties, in these dynasties, there are rulers of respected status, these rulers at that time not only have a very noble status, a huge number of rare treasures, in addition to enjoying countless glory and wealth, in addition to some powerful people in ancient times, in order to hoard wealth, they will also hoard a large number of gold and silver jewelry in secret places, with the change of the times, the past feudal dynasty has long become part of the historical chapter, But the wealth left by the ancients at that time was still quietly buried in an unknown place. With the continuous development of modern society, the demand for land is becoming higher and higher, so there are often reports of ancient tombs. In Jiangkou Town, Pengshan District, Meishan City, Sichuan Province, a villager was walking on the bank of the Min River, but in the process, the villager found that there was a large silver ingot of fifty taels on the bank of the Min River.
Feudal dynasty
When this villager found silver ingots on the edge of the Min River, in the nearby villages, it soon spread the news that silver ingots could be found on the side of the Min River, and it was precisely because of the spread of this news that the nearby villagers soon all came to the edge of the Min River and began to dig up soil and treasure hunting by the river, and later there was such a news in the village, it is said that the bottom of the Min River is a huge treasure house in ancient times, this treasure house was left by Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because Zhang Xianzhong once ascended the throne in the Sichuan region at that time, because Zhang Xianzhong once ascended the throne in the Sichuan region. And the establishment of the Daxi regime, in the process of Zhang Xianzhong's many years of conquest, he also successively collected a lot of rare treasures at that time into his own treasure house, and later, it is said that all these valuable treasures were hidden by Zhang Xianzhong in the Minjiang River, so whether this saying passed down by the villagers is a legend, or has a real historical basis, and under the bottom of the Minjiang River, there is a huge treasure house, and then we will understand it together.
Villagers dig for treasure
In 2016, the cultural relics and archaeology department in Sichuan Province organized an archaeological team to come to Jiangkou Town in Pengshan District, after a detailed survey of the place by archaeologists, the archaeologists also chose the place to be excavated near the mouth of the Minjiang River, and after the archaeologists came to Jiangkou Town on the third day, they came to the mountain forest opposite the camp location, and when the archaeologists came here, they were actually on a rock in this place. A standing stone tiger was found, but after that, the archaeologists found a stone dragon carved on it on a rock wall not far away, and the direction facing this stone tiger and this stone dragon was exactly opposite the mouth of the Min River, which made people feel even more incredible, located between the grass and trees on the south side of this stone tiger and this stone dragon, archaeologists also found a stone carving hidden here, and on this stone carving was also written "Stone dragon to stone tiger, gold and silver mountain sage" and "Chinese treasure Xing, Nationality through the ages" such content.
Stone Dragon
And the stone dragon and stone tiger depicted in the stone carvings are facing the mouth of the Minjiang River that archaeologists are about to excavate, is the coincidence of this coincidence, or is there some other reason? No matter what the real situation is, as far as the current discovery of these situations, but also has made the archaeologists at the scene are very much looking forward to, but in the next, the excavation of the Minjiang estuary has not yet begun, the archaeologists have encountered a great difficulty, although the archaeologists excavated the season in the dry season, but at this time the Minjiang River surface is still very wide, and also accompanied by a relatively turbulent current, the underwater visibility is also very low, so in such a situation, It is impossible for archaeologists to carry out excavation work, but in order not to delay the excavation work too long, the archaeologists made a decision after consultation, that is, to pump water from the estuary cofferdam of the Minjiang River to carry out a beach-style archaeological excavation work.
Archaeological transfer involvement
After making this decision, the first thing the archaeologists have to do is to encircle a large enough embankment weir in the place where they will be excavated later, in order to take into account that the scope of subsequent excavation work may be relatively large, so the archaeologists will once surround the embankment weir of about 20,000 square meters, after the embankment weir, it is to extract the water of the Minjiang River, the archaeologists mobilized as many as twenty sets of high-horsepower pumps, began to pump the river water in the embankment, after a period of time after the pumping pump worked, The river water in the twenty thousand square meters of the weir has been pumped clean, such a bold method, even if it is placed in the entire archaeological community in our country is unique, after the river water in the is drained, the original above the riverbed at the bottom of the river, the pebbles piled up all year round are revealed, archaeologists have observed, found that the thickness of these pebbles alone has reached three meters high, although there are some places where the pebbles are piled up very thick, However, archaeological excavations in this area of about 20,000 square meters are impossible for archaeologists to excavate next to these places.
Cofferdam pumping
In order to shorten the time of excavation work, so archaeologists must first select some of the more important places, and then excavate these selected places, in order to determine the important areas of these excavations, archaeologists then use some high-tech means at that time to begin to explore the places where treasure may be buried in this area, and in this process, all the stones and soil on the riverbed that have been cleared must be screened again and again to ensure that in these soils, There are no cultural relics that archaeologists have missed, and such a large scale of archaeological work on the beach is not only a feat in the country, but even in the world, it is also a feat in archaeological operations, so will the archaeologists launch such a large-scale archaeological operation just based on the villagers near the Minjiang River, who first picked up silver ingots on the riverside as a clue? Is this kind of archaeological action a little too exciting, and at the bottom of this Minjiang River, is there a huge treasure left by the legendary Zhang Xianzhong?
Archaeologists dug carefully
In the cultural relics protection and management office of Pengshan District, Meishan City, the gold book and silver ingots collected by the villagers on the bank of the Min River are preserved, and the gold book made of pure gold that the villagers picked up at the beginning, its own weight is also amazingly 740 grams, which is also very rare in the entire cultural relics community, and the silver ingots picked up before also weigh 1,860 grams, if this silver ingot is put into the middle of the Ming Dynasty, such a silver ingot can be exchanged for 10,000 kilograms of rice at that time. Even in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the currency at that time began to depreciate, but even so, a silver ingot weighing fifty taels was completely enough to provide ration money for a large family for several years, in addition to a gold coin made of gold picked up by the villagers, such a gold coin is even more expensive, in the previous period of time, in the Hong Kong region of China has also auctioned similar gold coins, and the gold coin was finally sold at a price of two million and seven hundred thousand yuan.
The Golden Book
There is also a tiger button gold seal preserved in the cultural relics institute, this tiger button gold seal was originally sold by the criminal suspect for more than eight million yuan, and the cultural relics dealer then sold it at a price of up to 32 million yuan, so after studying these cultural relics, the archaeologists also made a rough valuation of all the treasures that exist at the bottom of the Minjiang River, and after the estimation of archaeologists, the total market value of all the cultural relics at the bottom of the Minjiang River is likely to be more than 300 million yuan, so it seems that the local saying "Shilong to Shihu, It is very likely that the gold and silver "did not come out of thin air, but had a basis, and these gold and silver jewels with great value were left here by Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant army uprising in the late Ming Dynasty, and in 2003, in the "World Yearbook", a number of treasure mysteries located in China were published, including Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, in addition to the treasure of the Western Xia King's Tomb, the treasure of The King of Loulan, the treasure of Li Zicheng, and the treasure of Shi Dakai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Tiger button gold seal
Among the many treasures left behind in these ancient periods, the most frequently searched for by the world is the treasure left by Zhang Xianzhong that archaeologists are looking for, and according to the estimation in the "World Yearbook", the number of treasures left by Zhang Xianzhong in the late Ming Dynasty is ranked first in the entire Asian region, even if it is placed in the world's treasure ranking, it can also be ranked among the top three, which is enough to see how huge a batch of treasures Zhang Xianzhong left behind. In the third year of Xianfeng, that is, in 1853 AD, some Officials of the Qing Dynasty said that they had personally seen the villagers in the Pengshan area fish out some blackened silver ingots, and in that period, it was the beginning of the taiping heavenly kingdom's struggle, in order to be able to collect the military expenses of the war at that time, so the Xianfeng Emperor issued an order. Let the Chengdu general Yu Rui take people to the Minjiang area to investigate, and salvage the treasure left by Zhang Xianzhong, but Yu Rui eventually found no clues, and as for the treasure left by Zhang Xianzhong, there is no way to say.
When the time came to 1915 AD, after Yuan Shikai became emperor, he also ordered people to go to the Sichuan region, dug out dozens of large pits in a row, and dug up dozens of rivers, but in the end did not find the slightest clue about Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, it is said that even the later old Jiang had thoughts about it after hearing about this treasure, so is the person who buried this batch of treasures at the bottom of the Minjiang River in Sichuan really the Zhang Xianzhong recorded in historical materials? In the historical records, Zhang Xianzhong was a leader of the peasant army uprising in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, and in the process of his uprising, he also successively fought in many places, including Shaanxi, Anhui, Hubei and Sichuan, but when fighting, in addition to the soldiers who needed to fight, they also needed a lot of military expenses, so where did Zhang Xianzhong, as the leader of a peasant uprising, come from? It seems that there is only one answer, that is, to rely on robbery, at that time, Zhang Xianzhong's main targets of plunder were mostly some ming dynasty kings and officials of different sizes.
Yuan Shikai
From the gold book preserved by the relevant departments of cultural relics before, there are some words, and among the contents of these texts, it is mentioned that zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the eldest son of King Rong, this golden book is obviously snatched by Zhang Xianzhong from the hands of the Ming Dynasty king at that time, and later, because the war began to become more frequent, so the number of Zhang Xianzhong snatching treasures became more and more frequent, in the places where he and the army went. Whether it was some high-ranking officials and dignitaries at that time, or some ordinary people's homes, Zhang Xianzhong did not let go, Zhang Xianzhong and most of the silver products stolen by his army were later melted down and became the silver ingots that maintained the operation of Zhang Xianzhong's great western regime, so how many rare treasures did he collect during the period when Zhang Xianzhong was fighting? For this batch of treasures, the local people have such a saying, that is, to buy all the Chengdu province, in 1644 AD, Zhang Xianzhong ascended the throne after the occupation of Chengdu, officially established the Great Western regime.
The Onishi regime
And for Zhang Xianzhong to establish power, the Ming dynasty regime at that time was naturally impossible to tolerate, so it sent the Ming general Yang Zhan into Sichuan, and then fought with Zhang Xianzhong's main army in the Pengshan area, and defeated it, Zhang Xianzhong, who lost the battle, could only abandon the capital of Daxi and chose to flee, and later Yang Zhan led the army to ambush the Minjiang River in the Pengshan area, and here Zhang Xianzhong's group of troops transporting treasures were also annihilated, so since Yang Zhan defeated this army that transported treasures, So he should have seen the ship carrying a large treasure sink at that time, but he didn't have any idea about this huge treasure in the end? The reason for this may only be known to Yang Zhan himself!
At this time on the bank of the Min River, in the history of China's archaeological community, the largest scale of tidal flats archaeological action is also being carried out according to the plan, in the excavation area selected by the archaeologists before, the original Minjiang River water has long been pumped out, and then the archaeologists did not expect that the people on the scene in the cleaning of the sediment above the riverbed, sure enough, there was also a discovery, as the archaeologists continued to dig deeper, under the silt above the riverbed, Those shining gold books, gold bracelets and gold hairpins have been excavated by archaeologists one after another, just one of the gold coins excavated, if you take it to auction, you can get a high price of millions of yuan, after the archaeologists found the gold, this excavation area was also surrounded by archaeologists with ropes, planned for exploration, and then a large amount of sediment existing above the riverbed was cleaned up by archaeologists, originally buried in this area, Those rare cultural relics that are of great value have finally seen the light of day again.
Zhang Xianzhong treasure
In the subsequent excavation work, as long as the cultural relics appear in which area of the exploration party, the location of their excavation will be recorded by archaeologists, and such a passage is recorded on a gold book that was excavated later, which reads "Wei Tianshun First Year Emperor System", and the Tianshun mentioned in this line is the sixth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, that is, the year number of the second ascension to the throne of Zhu Qi Town of Ming Yingzong, when Zhu Qi Town, which took many years to ascend the throne again, The discovery of this piece of gold book also shocked the archaeologists, and it was certainly very important to record such content on this gold booklet at that time, but such an important thing was actually robbed by Zhang Xianzhong, and these gold and silver books that were cleaned up by archaeologists also had a very important role for the princes and nobles at that time, but for Zhang Xianzhong at that time, these things were just gold and silver jewelry that could be exchanged for military expenses.
With the continuous excavation of archaeologists, after which a golden hairpin with a dragon-shaped ornament carved with petals was also unearthed, and later a five-baht coin was unearthed, but do not think that the five baht money is not very valuable, this time the archaeologists excavated this five-baht coin is not ordinary, because it is a cultural relics preserved in the Western Han Dynasty, in the previous Jiangxi excavation of the tomb of the Marquis of Hai, the five baht coin alone has a staggering number of two million pieces. So how did this five-baht coin from the Western Han Dynasty appear at the bottom of the MinJiang River? In fact, the answer is also very simple, it is very likely that in the Western Han Dynasty, the ancients at that time inadvertently let this coin fall into the river, of course, it is also possible that Zhang Xianzhong snatched it from the hands of collectors at that time, archaeologists looked at these precious cultural relics that were unearthed one after another, they also realized at this time, although Zhang Xianzhong at that time did a very evil thing, but in modern times, Zhang Xianzhong's actions at that time brought a lot of convenience to archaeologists. The things recorded in these excavated gold and silver pamphlets can help modern society better understand some of the canonization systems of the Ming Dynasty.
Ancient coins
In the face of so many treasures, it is not an exaggeration to compare the mouth of the Minjiang River to a treasure trove, because the number of large and small silver ingots excavated in this area, as well as some other gold artifacts, is very large, and such a scene makes it difficult for us to imagine how much treasure Zhang Xianzhong plundered during the Ming Dynasty, so that this area at the bottom of the Minjiang River is buried with so many rare treasures, and the trenches dug by archaeologists are like gold cabinets. Among them, the buried treasures are beyond people's imagination, and archaeologists have no idea how to describe such a situation, because the number of cultural relics buried in this place is too large, and these huge number of cultural relics are also very numerous, in three or four hundred years ago, these treasures had their own owners, but later, these treasures have not escaped Zhang Xianzhong's robbery. As the excavations of archaeological work continue to advance, the time is also passing day by day, and in the blink of an eye, the time has come to March 2017, which also symbolizes that the rainy season is coming.
The rainy season is coming
In order to ensure that more cultural relics buried here can be excavated and cleaned up, the archaeologists also immediately accelerated their respective excavation progress, at this time, the archaeologists cleared out a piece of wood in the process of excavation, from its surface, this piece of wood has been immersed in the bottom of the river for a long time, but why such a piece of wood has been soaked in the bottom of the water for so long and has not been washed away by the turbulent water? After the archaeologists had studied the piece of wood, they also came to the conclusion that the original round piece of wood was empty inside, and a huge number of silver ingots were placed inside the piece of wood, and the archaeologists estimated that there were at least twenty relatively complete silver ingots placed inside the log.
Wood components
In ancient times, Zhang Xianzhong once ordered his subordinates to split a piece of wood into two pieces, and hollowed out the middle of the wood, and then put the silver ingot inside, such artifacts were called wooden sheaths in ancient times, archaeologists excavated at the archaeological site of the wooden sheath, one can place about twenty silver ingots, so the silver ingots found by the villagers before should be installed in the wooden sheath, but these wooden sheaths were destroyed after a long period of water impact. After that, archaeologists estimated more than a thousand cultural relics unearthed at the excavation site, and the combined value of these treasures has exceeded 300 million yuan, perhaps these cultural relics may be only the tip of the iceberg compared with Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, but through these excavated cultural relics, we seem to be able to see how spectacular the treasures that Zhang Xianzhong had in that year were. That's all there is to it, if you have anything you want to say, feel free to leave a comment in the comment area below!
A villager in Sichuan found 50 silver ingots, archaeologists pumped water from the cofferdam, and the amazing treasure was seen again