In Sichuan folklore, there are many stories of Zhang Xianzhong's treasures.
Legend has it that when Zhang Xianzhong was about to collapse his Daxi regime, he specially sent his righteous son Zhang Kewanghao to lead a team of men and horses, and recruited hundreds of senior stonemasons to go to Qingfeng Mountain in Daguan Town, Guanxian County.
They claimed to have gone to quarry, but it was a little strange that time had passed and people nearby had not seen a stone they had transported out, or even said that they had not seen the shadow of the stone. What makes people wonder even more is that since it is a stone mining, it is always necessary to pave the road, set up camp, so many people always have to eat and drink Lhasa, and even the dormitory camp has not been built.
What's even more strange is that half a year has passed, and I haven't seen a living person coming out of it, so many people are like evaporation in the world, disappearing into the vast mountains and disappearing without a trace.
So some people have put forward a conjecture that the so-called quarrying is a means of covering people's eyes and ears and hiding the sky and crossing the sea. I think that Zhang Xianzhong saw that the general trend had gone, and knew that he would be difficult to turn over in the future, so Zhang Xianzhong had to make plans for his future, so Zhang Kewang led a cadre of people into the deep mountains to build a cave or underground palace in the deep mountains in the name of quarrying, and after the construction was completed, all the craftsmen involved in the construction were eliminated to keep secrets.
Regarding the treasure place, there is also a historical record that there is a temple in Daqingshan Mountain, called Puzhao Temple, which has a history of thousands of years, and the surrounding hundreds of miles are very famous, pilgrims are endless, very lively. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the temple was suddenly destroyed by a fire and burned for a whole day. After a day, the temple was reduced to rubble, and the broken walls were ruined and unbearable.
Who set the fire? No one knows. However, during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old monk of Puzhao Temple, who was more than a hundred years old, and once told his disciples that the fire at Puzhao Temple was put down by Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates, and Zhang Xianzhong somehow killed everyone in the temple on a dark and windy night in one month, and then put a fire to burn the corpses.
During the Jiaqing period, the emperor allocated funds to rebuild the Puzhao Temple, but due to the corruption of officials, he collected kickbacks layer by layer, and there were few funds left below, and he could only symbolically build a temple covering less than half an acre.
In the Daoguang years, the temple did not know where the money came from, suddenly expanded, they did not extend their hands to the government, the second did not raise donations from the society, and the third did not apportion to the people, but a year later, a majestic Puzhao Temple rose from the ground, hundreds of times larger than the original area, more than 300 new houses were built, and the materials were exquisite and magnificent.
Without hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, the temple would not have been built on such a large scale. What about the silver? It is said that a young monk in the temple went up the mountain to cut firewood, and when he walked to a mountain pass, he found that the grass growing in one place was obviously different from other places, very exuberant, and he cut off a piece carelessly, and after two days, he grew tall again.
So the little monk told the abbot about this strange phenomenon, and the abbot led people to rush there, and dug out a huge amount of gold and silver below, and the monks were dumbfounded when they saw so much gold and silver, or the abbot had an opinion, and he calmly said that this silver was given to us by the Buddha, so let's use it to expand the temple.
This is just another legend about Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, and the folk legend about Zhang Xianzhong's treasure is unknown and numerous.
''Shi Long versus Shi Hu, gold and silver, whoever can understand it, buy all the Chengdu Province''' This is a song about Zhang Xianzhong's treasure that has been circulating in the southwest for hundreds of years.
But more legends or accounts point to the bottom of the water.
Zhang Xianzhong was attacked by the Southern Ming army on the way from the Min River along the river to the mouth of the river, and he was leading his troops to loot countless jewels from all over the country for many years. Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to endure the pain and order all to sink to the bottom of the river.
From the day this batch of treasures sank to the bottom of the river, countless people came here to search for treasures. But because the river is turbulent, the scope is too large, the goal is not clear, and it is useless.
Perhaps because of this, this batch of treasures has been sleeping in the river for more than three hundred years, invisibly protecting this treasure.
At the beginning of 2017, a blockbuster news broke in the archaeological community, and Zhang Xianzhong's shipwreck full of treasures was discovered and excavation had begun.
According to media reports, the first batch of excavated cultural relics in 2017 reached more than 30,000 pieces, plus 12,000 cultural relics that came out of the water in 2018, a total of more than 40,000 pieces, experts believe that this may be only the tip of the iceberg. Among these cultural relics, the most valuable is the King of Shu Jinbao, because this golden treasure is unique so far, and it is the only golden treasure that has been handed down by the king of the Ming Dynasty and can see the light of day.
The so-called Golden Treasure is the basis for the Ming Emperor to be crowned prince, and it is a letter of appointment made by Jinzi. Passed down from generation to generation, it is an honor and an identity card. The Jinbao of the King of Shu found in the place where Zhang Xianzhong sank the ship was the identity card of the King of Shudi.
At the scene of Zhang Xianzhong's shipwreck, there were still many treasures belonging to the king of Shudi Domain, needless to say, they were all witnesses of the insatiable King of Shu who snatched the people's fat and people's ointment, and it was also the ironclad evidence of Zhang Xianzhong's greed, and treasures like golden identity cards would certainly not be offered to Zhang Xianzhong by the king of the clan on their own initiative.
The territory of the King of Shu is in today's Sichuan, which in ancient times was known as the kingdom of Tianfu and a famous and rich place in the world.
During the Ming Dynasty, in the land of Sichuan, there were 13 Shu kings before and after, and the first generation of Shu Wangfu was built in 1378 AD and was built for 12 years before it was completed, which shows the magnificent scale of this Shu King's palace.
A travelogue of the Ming Dynasty said that the Palace of the Four Seas was the Shu Palace. It can be seen that the wealth of the King of Shu is not a waste of time, according to the salary standard of the Ming Dynasty, the annual salary of the King of the Clan is 12.8 million, without various temporary incentives and subsidies, the territory is rich or barren, and it is also a criterion that directly affects the wealth value of the King of the Clan, Sichuan is rich in land resources, commercially developed, and the source of wealth can be said to be rolling in.
Let's talk about the Golden Seal of the King of Shu, and then talk about the Golden Seal of the Tiger Button. The gold content of this cultural relic is also very high, and the origin of this cultural relic has also taken a lot of trouble.
In October 2016, the Meishan police announced the cracking of a major case of illegal excavation and resale of cultural relics at the Shenyin Ruins in Jiangkou. Among the cultural relics recovered, a "Golden Seal of Grand Marshal Yongchang of the Tiger Button" has attracted the attention of the academic community. This seal is golden and brilliant, the tiger button is in a healthy posture, and the most eye-catching thing is the use of the words "Nine Fold Seals" on the printing table" and "Yongchang Grand Marshal Seal, The Auspicious Day Creation in the Midwinter of the Year of Decay (1643)".
The Nine Fold Seal is a very special seal book that symbolizes a very high status. Jin Yin came out of the water at the mouth of the river, confirming that he had been owned by Zhang Xianzhong.
The above gold book was customized by Zhang Xianzhong when he was proclaimed emperor in Chengdu, and the implication is to prove that he is a true dragon tianzi, that his rule is legitimate, that it is made of pure gold, and that it is worth a lot.
This is the coin in Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, but you see, this is not an ordinary coin, it was issued by Zhang Xianzhong's Dashun regime.
Because the Dashun regime existed for a long time, it was only a flash in the pan, not only had a small circulation, limited circulation area, and few generations, so they were all sought-after goods in the antique market, and they were of great value.
The smallest object in Zhang Xianzhong's shipwreck is the earrings, most of which were snatched from women's ears, so it is conceivable how brutal Zhang Xianzhong's team was at that time, how poor the military discipline was, and what happened to the owner of the earrings in that year, people are not difficult to imagine. Zhang Xianzhong did not even let go of the earrings on women's ears, and it was naturally difficult to win the sincere support of the masses of the people; so no matter how strategic their generals were and how brave and good the soldiers were, the end was doomed to failure and could not escape the fate of destruction.
Any regime, any army, whether its members are nobles or suffering people, as long as they do not regard the people as their parents, as long as they stand against the people, this army or government is doomed to failure, and the dynasty is destined to be a short-lived dynasty.
Zhang Xianzhong racked his brains, painstakingly scavenged so many gold and silver treasures, wanted to use it as capital to expand his own territory, make his career stronger, how to go against the sky, the sky was angry and complained, and finally he was ruined and ruined, and he was left with a stink for thousands of years.
These jewels have become a historical witness, as if to explain to future generations the simple truth of more help and less help.