It is rumored on the Internet that villagers have picked up a lot of 50 taels of large silver ingots on the edge of the Min River, and some criminal suspects have picked up 100 taels of large gold ingots while passing through the Min River on the way to escape. Just then, a rumor spread. Some people say that there is a huge treasure buried in the MinJiang River.
He was left by Zhang Xianzhong, a famous peasant leader at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Zhang Xianzhong, who had ascended the throne in Sichuan and established the Daxi regime, fought for many years, collected and plundered a lot of valuable treasures, and all of them were buried by Zhang Xianzhong in the Min River. Is this statement true?
How much treasure is buried under the Minjiang River? Explore the dusty mysteries of the underground world, uncover the layers of fog of history, and popularize ancient and modern curiosities. This issue of the secret history of Kyushu will take you to find out.
At the end of 2019, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions set up a joint archaeological team to enter Jiangkou Town, and after careful exploration, the excavation starting point was finally set at the minjiang estuary section. On the third day of the archaeological team's entry into Jiangkou Town, the archaeologists found a stone tiger standing on a rock in the dense forest of the mountains north of the station, and a stone dragon was carved on the cliff wall.
What was surprising was that the direction corresponding to this stone tiger and the stone dragon was exactly towards the mouth of the Ming River. What is even more bizarre is that there is also a stone carving hidden among the grass and trees not far south of the Shilong Shihu, which depicts the stone dragon to the shihu, the gold and silver Cuishan is a Chinese treasure, and the Xing people have been illuminated through the ages.
And Shi Long and Shi Hu also happened to be facing the excavation starting point determined by the archaeological team, is this really just a coincidence? Although the excavation site was determined, before it could begin, it faced a big problem, and the treasure was buried in the Min River in the dry season underwater, although the amount of water was less than half of the rainy season.
But the river is still wide, the water is still very turbulent, and the visibility is very low, and the usual underwater archaeology cannot do it here. The archaeological team finally decided to build an embankment in the cofferdam, and the archaeology of the tidal flats, that is, to surround 20,000 square meters of dripping liquid, and then use 20 high-horsepower pumps to drain the water inside.
Such a bold plan can be said to be unprecedented in the archaeological community, after the Jiangmin will be drained, the pebbles on the riverbed at the bottom of the river have accumulated a full three meters thick, so the 20,000 square meters of working area cannot be very meticulous excavation, and some key areas need to be planned.
The archaeological team uses various technological means to find the place where the treasure may be hidden underground, and all the sediment cleared out needs to be filtered through the washing machine to avoid the small artifacts from being ignored. Archaeology on such a scale is a groundbreaking device at home and abroad.
But is it impulsive for the archaeological team to launch such a large-scale archaeological operation based solely on the clues of the silver ingots picked up by the villagers? Is there any treasure under the Minjiang River? And how much treasure is hidden? At the Pengshan District Cultural Relics Conservation and Management Center, gold books, gold coins and silver coins collected by villagers from the bottom of the river are stored, and experts estimate that the market value of all cultural relics has exceeded 300 million.
There is a folk song that has been circulating in the local area for 300 years, which says that the treasures hidden in the Minjiang River can be bought in Chengdu Province. In this way, these two words may not be fictional, and these treasures were left by Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant army, in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.
In March 2003, the World Yearbook announced the mystery of China's treasures, the treasures of the Western Xia Tombs, the treasures of the King of Loulan, the treasures of Li Zicheng, the treasures of Zhang Xianzhong and the treasures of Shi Dakai of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Among them, the treasure that is hidden the most and is also searched for is Zhang Xianzhong's treasure. According to the estimates of the World Yearbook, Zhang Xianzhong ranks third in the world in the number of treasures and first in Asia.
These rare treasures have been coveted for 300 years. But is the person who treasured the treasure in Minjiang really zhang Xianzhong recorded in the historical records? Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, turned to all sides at that time. But where these huge military expenditures come from, the only way to do this is looting.
At the beginning, Zhang Xianzhong's robberies were mostly the kings and officials of the Ming Dynasty, just like the fine tests confiscated by the Public Security Bureau, which mentioned the ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang and the eldest son of king Rong. Obviously, this time Zhang Xianzhong snatched it from the Ming Dynasty king, and with the addition and subtraction of the war, Zhang Xianzhong did not let go of any place where he passed, whether it was a high-ranking official or an ordinary person.
For example, these piles of silver earrings, after being snatched by Zhang Xianzhong, will melt them to make a silver land that maintains the operation of the Great Western Kingdom. During the turn of war, how much treasure did Zhang Xianzhong hoard? The folk saying is that it is enough to buy into the huge Chengdu Province. Zhang Xianzhong declared himself emperor in Chengdu, and the Ming Dynasty officials naturally could not tolerate it, and then the famous general Yang Zhanjinchuan defeated Zhang Xianzhong.
There was no way, Zhang Xianzhong could only give up Chengdu. After fleeing, Yang Zhan was in Minjiang. The ambush completely annihilated Zhang Xianzhong's fleet transporting treasures, but since Yang Zhan sank the fleet, Yang Zhan should have witnessed the sinking of the large ship transporting treasures, but why did he remain indifferent to these huge treasures?
This may only be known to Yang Zhan himself. Archaeology of the cofferdam site, the largest tidal flat in history, is in full swing, and the water in the excavation area has been drained. What archaeologists did not expect was that when cleaning up the sediment, surprises also followed, and gold books, gold bracelets, and gold ingots were unearthed one after another, and the market value of this gold coin alone was several million.
The excavation area was drawn up with ropes and planned as exploration dirt. After being cleared out, a priceless cornucopia reappeared. Wherever the cultural relics appear in the exploration, zhang Xianzhong, who snatched gold and silver, will be strictly recorded and inadvertently helped contemporary scholars. These gold and silver toilet scholars provided great help in their exploration of the Ming Dynasty's canonization system.
It is not too much to compare the minjiang estuary section to a vault, and there are countless large gold nails and small gold nails unearthed from it, and all kinds of gold products. It was hard to imagine how many treasures Zhang Xianzhong had plundered at that time. The trenches are like gold and precious, and the treasures buried in them are completely unknown how to describe them, the number is too large, and the styles are various.
300 years ago, these things had their own masters, but they never escaped Zhang Xianzhong's plunder. In March 2017, the rainy season is coming, archaeologists speed up the excavation, just at this time, they suddenly found a piece of wood, judging from the degree of water ingress, this piece of wood has been sinking at the bottom of the river for a long time, but why has a log not been washed away for so long?
It turned out that this piece of log was empty indoors, and there were a lot of clearly visible silver mirrors in it, a total of about 20. Zhang Xianzhong ordered the wooden poles to be divided into two halves and hollowed out in the middle to store the silver mirror, which was called a wooden sheath. The interior of the log was trimmed to match the shape of the lake with the silver ingots, allowing as many silver nails to be stored.
A wooden sheath can hold up to 20 silver ingots, and the silver ingots scattered in the trench should have been contained in the wooden sheath, most of which were damaged and separated from the silver ingots, and were washed away by the stream. It is impossible to say that this treasure ditch grass is the first batch of experts to confiscate more than 1,000 cultural relics from the Public Security Bureau, which is valued at more than 300 million yuan at the current value.
So how terrifying are the value of these more than 30,000 treasures excavated from the bottom of the water? Perhaps these treasures are nothing for Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, but it is gratifying that archaeologists have finally unveiled the mystery of Zhang Xianzhong's treasure that has been reverie for more than 300 years.
What kind of surprises this treasure house of minjiang will bring us, let us wait and see. What do you think about that? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.