As early as a thousand years ago, Lao Tzu stated in the Tao Te Ching: "Misfortune is the place where blessings depend; blessings are where misfortunes lie." The analogy of bad things can lead to good results, and good things can lead to bad results. The popular point of saying is "Sai Weng lost his horse, and he knew that it was not a blessing", for this sentence, the villagers who live next to the Minjiang River in Sichuan province, Lao Song, have a deep understanding!
It all started with a "water conservancy project" in 2005
As an important tributary of the Bailong River, the Minjiang River has an average annual runoff of up to 607 million cubic meters, because of the large water flow, and there have been many times in history because of the surge in the water level due to heavy rains, which has washed away villages and fertile fields, seriously threatening the safety of people's lives and property.
So in 2005, the jiangkou county government in Sichuan Province decided to carry out a major treatment of the Minjiang River flowing through its territory, led by the government, a large-scale engineering team was quickly formed and put into full swing in water conservancy treatment.
This time is no exception, as the project progresses, the local wind transmission engineering team salvaged a huge number of Ming Dynasty silver ingots in the Minjiang River!
The water fished out the Ming Dynasty silver ingots, this matter sounds novel, the local people have run to the engineering team to inquire about the news, who expected the engineering team people to deny it, saying that there is no such thing, since the engineering team people have said so, many people will "shake the flag and drum", the road back to the house, but this does not include the local villagers Old Song.
Old Song ancestors have lived next to the Min River for generations, when he was a child, he listened to the old man in the family say that there is a treasure in the Min River, this time he heard that the engineering team salvaged out the silver ingots, he thought of the treasure in the river for the first time, so he decided to personally go to find out, maybe he can find what treasure!
So Song Mou every night to take advantage of the engineering team to break into the river to salvage, several consecutive nights without any gains, he gradually became suspicious of the "treasure in the river", one night, he went into the water as usual to salvage, thought that it would be as before nothing was found, did not expect to salvage a seal-like thing not long ago, the old Song instinct felt that he might find the treasure, so he immediately went out of the water, with something rushed back home.
Old Song returned home to take a look, sure enough, it was a "golden brilliant" seal, the seal button is a majestic tiger, a look is a wonderful treasure, Old Song is happy to blossom in his heart, carefully collect the seal, ready to wait for the limelight to pass before shooting.
A few months later, Old Song felt that the limelight had passed, ready to sell the seal in his hand, for which he first looked for expert appraisal, experts told him that this is a national treasure, can not be sold privately, must be handed over to the state, for the words of experts, Old Song only remembers the word "national treasure", as for what can not be sold privately, he did not pay attention to it at all.
After many bargains with cultural relics dealers, Lao Song finally sold the seal for thirteen million, and Lao Song, who became rich overnight, has since lived a "nouveau riche" life!
Three years later, the Sichuan police cracked a case of cultural relics theft, and found the seal in the stolen goods, according to the Sichuan Daily: the gold seal was made of gold throughout, with a side length of 10.3 cm, a printing table thickness of 1.6 cm, a height of 8.6 cm, and a weight of 3.195 kg. The printing surface uses nine folds of seal documents "Yongchang Grand Marshal Seal" six characters, the button is the image of a standing tiger, the tiger's mouth is wide open, the tiger's body is leaning forward, and the tiger's tail is curled upwards.
After expert appraisal, it was determined that this seal should be the personal seal of Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty!
Who is Zhang Xianzhong, and how can his Great Seal appear in the MinJiang River?
Zhang Xianzhong was the leader of the rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty and Li Zicheng, who was born in 1606 in Dingbian County, Yan'an, Shaanxi, when the Ming Dynasty was already "sunset on the Western Mountains", rebels were rising everywhere, the huge dynasty was gradually moving to the end, and there was a rare drought in Shaanxi during the Chongzhen years.
Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong, who was hungry, gathered eighteen peasants from Yu Chongzhen to march in Shaanxi for three years, and under his leadership, the size of the rebel army grew larger and larger, and at its peak, it invaded Sichuan, occupied all of Sichuan, and established the Daxi regime, with the era name Dashun.
This seal was made for himself before Zhang Xianzhong established the Daxi regime, and the "Yellow Tiger" on the seal symbolizes himself, according to the "History of Ming": "Zhang Xianzhong was long and thin and had a yellowish face, and he had to be one foot and six inches, and he was called 'Yellow Tiger' in the army!"
The reason why this seal appears in the Minjiang River is because of the allusion of "Zhang Xianzhong Shenyin"
According to the "Shu Bi": After the Qing army entered the customs and invaded Sichuan in 1646, Zhang Xianzhong broke through to the west of Sichuan with the gold and silver jewelry accumulated over the years, and when he traveled to the vicinity of Jiangkou Town, he encountered Yang Zhan, the governor of the late Ming Dynasty, and the two armies fought, and Zhang Xianzhong's more than a thousand treasure ships all sank into the Min River, which is "Zhang Xianzhong's sinking silver"!
It can be seen from this that this big seal that appeared in the Minjiang River is the treasure that Zhang Xianzhong sank into the river that year, so that the national treasure was actually stolen and bought and sold, the nature is extremely bad, the police traced back to the source, found the "initiator" Old Song, quickly arrested him, waiting for him will be severely punished by the law, three years ago the spirited old Song may not have expected to have today's scene, this is exactly "Sai Weng lost his horse, Yan knows that it is not a blessing"!
brief summary:
Some people do not understand the arrest of Lao Song, they believe that this is the old Song himself salvaged, should not be regarded as theft of cultural relics, the person who said this is the legal illiteracy, the "People's Republic of China Cultural Relics Protection Law" Chapter 1, Article 5 clearly stipulates: "All cultural relics left in the underground, internal waters and territorial waters of the People's Republic of China belong to the state." ...... The ownership of state-owned cultural relics is protected by law and cannot be infringed upon. ”
So if you pick up any treasure, you must turn it in!
References: History of the Ming Dynasty, Shu Bi, Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics