During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang sent more than a thousand sappers to use explosives and other modern means to chisel through the cliffs and dig three caves in a high mountain in Gaoshengdian, Asbestos County.
These three caves, the doorways are evenly fenced with stone strips, sealed very well with triad soil, and look extremely mysterious.
The news soon reached Chiang Kai-shek's ears, and he immediately sent people to Asbestos County to stop Liu Xiang from digging. At the same time, in the name of the "Archaeological Protection Committee of the Forbidden City", any individual and organization is prohibited from excavating later.
However, in 1942, Chiang Kai-shek secretly ordered his close associate Dai Kasa to secretly take people to Asbestos County, intending to continue digging these three caves.
So, what exactly is buried in these three caves? Why did Chiang Kai-shek stop Liu Xiang from digging? Today, we will tell this story.
The mysterious "Shi Da Kai Treasure"
Around 1937, the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang received the news that the legendary Shi Dakai treasure was buried in a large mountain in The Zidadi Gaoshengdian of the Dadu River.
Among the local people, there is also a story of Shi Dakai's buried treasure.
It is said that at that time, Shi Dakai had foreseen the outcome of the defeat at the Battle of Dadu River, so he disposed of the gold and silver treasures carried with the army in advance.
The gold and silver filled seven coffins and were carried into a mountain by more than a hundred soldiers for burial.
Shi Dakai sent ten other cronies to block the exit of a hundred soldiers, and came out to kill one by one, and wiped them all out.
However, these ten cronies did not have good results, and when they returned, they were all poisoned by Shi Dakai's people.
Later, Shi Da was defeated and killed, and the whereabouts of the treasure were no longer known, leaving only the hidden phrase of "facing the water and relying on the mountain, the treasure in between", and it is said that there is a simple schematic diagram.
Why did Chiang Kai-shek stop Liu Xiang from digging up treasures?
There is no record of whether this diagram fell into Liu Xiang's hands, but it does not matter, because the attraction of the treasure is infinite. At that time, Liu Xiang sent more than a thousand sappers, using modern tools, to search, excavate, and blast the legendary Shi Dakai where the treasure was buried.
After a period of searching, it was really rewarding. After the sappers blew open a cliff, they found three side-by-side cave doors behind the stones, and the doorway was made of stone strips, which was very mysterious, much like the legendary buried treasure cave.
After opening the first two caves, the soldiers' mood became complicated, and it can be said that they were disappointed and excited.
Excitedly, gold plasters, silver buckles, sleeve arrows, and other items were dug out of the cave, which did look like treasure buried.
To my disappointment, there were so few things to dig out, let alone seven large coffins, and it took a lot of effort to fill a small wooden box.
The progress of the excavation was reported to Liu Xiang. Liu Xiang first asked the soldiers to send the dug up things to his home, and the wife collected them, and then asked the soldiers to continue digging the third cave, perhaps the large number of treasures was hidden in the third cave.
But just as the soldiers were rubbing their fists and preparing to start digging the third cave, things changed—they weren't allowed to dig.
It turned out that the news that Liu Xiang had dug up the "treasure of Shi Dakai" had already reached Chiang Kai-shek's ears.
Chiang Kai-shek couldn't sit still as soon as he heard it; this was a national treasure, so how could it fall into Liu Xiang's hands? Obviously, it should fall into the hands of someone in my Jiang!
But he could not say this explicitly, but also took into account the faces of the "leader" and the "principal".
So, Chiang Kai-shek took a detour.
He first asked Dr. Ma Changsu, a paleontologist and simple anthropologist, to lead a group of experts to interfere with Liu Xiang's continued excavation in the name of the "Chuankang Border Region Paleontological Expedition". Experts, use some technical terms to fool Liu Xiang first, don't let him continue to dig.
Then, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to an organization called the Forbidden City Protection Committee, prohibiting Liu Xiang from continuing excavations.
Of course, the delegation and committee could not stop Liu Xiang, but Liu Xiang also knew that behind these two organizations was Chiang Kai-shek, and did not dare to offend him, so he stopped digging.
Later, Liu Xiang took the Sichuan army out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese, and the three caves were resealed and placed there.
In 1942, Chiang Kai-shek somehow remembered this incident again, and sent his close associate Dai Kasa to Sichuan in secret to organize people to continue digging the third cave.
Dai Kasa rushed to the location of the "treasure" cave with excitement, but found that he could not dig it.
Why? Because in the past few years, the location of the caves found has undergone mudslides, and the landform has undergone tremendous changes, the location of the three caves cannot be determined.
To find them, unless you move the mountain away like a fool.
Dai Kasa came with pleasure and returned with disappointment.
Later, there were also some civil society organizations that came to the same location and wanted to find these treasures, but limited by funds and tools, none of them succeeded.
It is said that some experts have concluded that these three caves could not have hidden the treasure of Shi Dakai, because Shi Dakai was trapped here by the Qing army for a short time and did not have time to excavate such a cave.
Whether the treasure of Shi Dakai was really hidden in the third cave has become a mystery that has not been solved.
Now, Shi Dakai's treasure has become one of the five major military treasure puzzles in the world.
So what are the other four puzzles? Let's go one by one.
1. The Mystery of Napoleon's Treasure
Some historians say that when Napoleon defeated Moscow in 1812, he sank a batch of treasure into Lake Stauacher.
It is said that the treasures included gold coins, silver coins, precious tableware, valuable furs, and some weapons and equipment looted from Russia, with a total weight of about 15 tons.
In search of this treasure, in the 1960s, the Soviet Union sent experts to Lake Stoucher to investigate.
Using survey tools, experts found that there were indeed a large number of metal deposits within a range of about 40 meters long and about 5 meters wide at the bottom of the lake.
Moreover, after testing, the silver content in the lake water is hundreds of times higher than the silver content of ordinary silver ore.
After the incident was reported by Pravda, countless treasure hunters rushed to Lake Stoucher in search of the so-called "Napoleon's Treasure".
But none of them succeeded because there was so much silt at the bottom of the lake that they dived to a depth of 6 meters at most.
You want to continue digging unless you clean up the bottom of the lake thoroughly. But the local people disagreed, saying that they were afraid of damaging the ecological environment.
As a result, this treasure has not yet been found.
2. The Mystery of the Buried Gold of Mount Akagi
Mount Akagi (not referring to the one in Zhejiang) is located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, and is known as one of the "100 Famous Mountains of Japan". A place as big as Japan, ranked within a hundred "famous mountains", in fact, is not much better in terms of scenery.
Although the scenery of Akagi Mountain is average, it is very famous because it is the place where the so-called "shogunate buries gold".
In 1860, at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate's rule, a large outflow of Japanese gold was outflowed.
Why the outflow? Cheap. At that time, the average gold and silver exchange rate in the world was 1:15, compared with 1:3 in Japan.
In order to prevent the outflow of gold, the highest consul of the shogunate, Ii Naohiro, formulated a plan to hide gold on Mount Akagi on the pretext of storing military expenses.
It is said that 4 million taels of gold were hidden in Mount Akagi by shogunate samurai.
Later, japan was restored by the Meiji Restoration. In a fierce political struggle, the shogunate samurai in charge of burying the gold was stabbed to death by the reform samurai. When the Meiji government came to power, where the gold of Mount Akagi was hidden became a difficult mystery to solve.
For more than a century, countless Japanese who wanted to get rich overnight wandered around the Akagi Mountains and tried to dig up gold, but one by one they returned to nothing and were as poor as before.
3. The Mystery of yamashita Bongwen Treasure Collection
Yamashita was a Japanese army general during World War II, mainly in Southeast Asia, nicknamed the "Tiger of Malay", and was sentenced to death in the post-war trial.
Yamashita Fengwen was hanged, leaving behind a treasure legend. It is said that Yamashita Collected a large amount of treasure during the war, and before the Japanese surrendered, he hid these treasures, but he did not expect to be blessed.
Where is it hidden? I don't know. Because Yamashita Washomoto was stationed in Santiago, for unknown reasons, many people regarded it as his treasure hiding place and came here to find treasure.
But it kept finding it in 1975 and nothing was found. At this time, Philippine President Marcos decided to take matters into his own hands.
Marcos commissioned a well-known international precious metals company to negotiate the Philippine treasure hunt, and agreed on an after-the-fact remuneration, presumably a sharing system.
The company is very experienced and is said to have marked several more reliable points on the map.
But at this moment, they received a message: Marcos was going to kill them and swallow the treasure alone.
The precious metals company burned the map in fright, fled the Philippines overnight, and fled back to the United States. As a result, Marcos himself did not find the treasure afterwards.
To this day, many Filipinos are still crazy about the treasure of Yamashita Fengwen, digging everywhere in the narrow territory of the Philippines, and some ancient tombs, castles, and ruins that are thought to be possible to bury treasure have been excavated beyond recognition.
But Yamashita's treasure is still a mystery, and it is difficult to even determine whether it is there or not.
4. The Mystery of Nazi Treasures
According to a secret german official report, during World War II, Hitler plundered countless cultural relics and treasures in the various occupying powers of Western Europe, and 137 train cars were loaded into Germany alone, totaling more than 20,000 pieces.
These relics were divided up by Nazi leaders such as Hitler and Goering, and everyone could open a museum at home.
But where did all these treasures go after the war? There is no clear documentation.
However, before Germany surrendered, Goering sent a team of trucks to transport his collection of treasures, including more than 5,000 world-famous paintings and 160,000 pieces of gold and silver jewelry.
During the transport, a number of treasures were intercepted by the Allies, including 8 boxes of gold and silver utensils, 27 boxes of out-of-print books, and valuable oriental carpets. But most of the other treasures disappeared
So far, the mystery of where the Nazi treasures are hidden is still an unsolved mystery, and it may be waiting for all readers here to discover it.