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Zhang Xianzhong sank silver in the river, why the silver ingots must be packed into the wooden sheath, the reason is revealed for the first time!
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong launched a great uprising in order to overthrow the decadent rule of the Ming Dynasty, and although the flames of the uprising were very popular at first, they soon failed under the bloody suppression of the Qing army. In order to make a comeback, Zhang Xianzhong ordered his men to put the silver into a wooden sheath and then sink to the bottom of the river- is this a historical fact, or is it a legend? At first, no one believed that it was true, but as people with high water properties fished out Zhang Xianzhong's sinking silver at the bottom of the river, it showed an ironclad fact, that is, the legend of Zhang Xianzhong sinking silver in the river was a true fact.
However, Zhang Xianzhong's sinking silver has a particularly puzzling doubt, that is, why should the silver be put into a wooden sheath?
Zhang Xianzhong once proclaimed himself emperor of the Great Western Kingdom, and when he was at his best, he occupied most of Chongqing and Sichuan. The leader of such an insurrectionary army, although murderous, but one thing, no one can deny, he is a wise man.
After the Ming Dynasty was overthrown by Li Zicheng, the Qing army then entered the pass, in the face of the powerful Qing army, not only Li Zicheng's Dashun army was defeated, Zhang Xianzhong was also defeated and retreated, at that time, the Great Western Army, carrying a large amount of silver, of course, these silver were taken by Zhang Xianzhong's leaders in the Ming Dynasty's zhouchengfu county, how can the "fruit" exchanged with life and blood be cheap Qing army, Zhang Xianzhong bit his teeth, and made a decision to "smash the pot" - sink the silver into the river (Minjiang).
There is a saying in China called throwing money into the water, which means that he is blind.
How did Zhang Xianzhong throw silver into the Min River? There are three legends of losing silver: one is thrown ingots; the other is thrown in boxes; and the third is thrown in a sheath.
When the feudal society was in power, if you wanted to fish for something under the river, except for the minjiang sailors who had a particularly high water nature and a particularly large courage, basically no one dared to "pull teeth out of the tiger's mouth" here.
However, with the maturity of modern scientific and technological forces and the support of huge official financial resources, the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau took advantage of the dry period of the MinJiang River in March and April, organized manpower and material resources, and began to carry out a cofferdam archaeology of the Minjiang River flowing through the ancient town of Jiangkou on the banks of the Minjiang River.
In this cofferdam archaeology, a total of more than 42,000 cultural relics have been excavated, most of which are gold, silver and jade utensils, and the most surprising thing is that cultural relics experts have also found a green stick containing more than a dozen ingots of silver.
What is Aoka Stick? It is two oak trunks split into two pieces, and the two trunks are made of wood sheaths made of two trunks together. Ten to twenty ingots of silver were contained in the sheath, and then, with an iron hoop, the wooden sheath was reinforced to make it airtight to prevent water from flooding, so as to protect the silver in the wooden sheath.
In addition to protecting the silver contained in it, the Aoka stick has a more important function, that is, for the convenience of taking silver in the future, why say so, because there is a deep truth in it.
We all know that the Min River is turbulent, the deepest depth is more than 10 meters, such a vast water situation, it is not suitable for going into the water to catch silver.
Zhang Xianzhong Dongshan in order to the future, more convenient to take out the silver from the bottom of the river, they planned to prepare a three-zhang long spear, and then take a boat to the surface of the sinking silver, as long as the tip of the gun to stab the Qinggang stick that sank into the bottom of the river, after several guns cooperated with each other, after stabbing, together retracted, the Qinggang stick will be raised with the long gun, and Zhang Xianzhong's treasure can be taken out and reused.
Unfortunately, Zhang Xianzhong did not wait to realize his plan to take silver, he was shot by an arrow by the Qing army, after more than three hundred years of river water invasion and corrosion, those Qinggang sticks with good antiseptic performance are basically "rotten" to nothing, only those taken out of the river bottom cultural relics, silently telling a thrilling past of the past...