The fourteen martial arts novels written by Mr. Jin Yong left a deep impression on the Chinese people, and also popularized some historical knowledge to the masses to a certain extent.
Several of these martial arts novels mention a mysterious organization, the Heaven and Earth Society.
According to legend, the Heaven and Earth Society was founded by the famous general Zheng Chenggong in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Zheng Chenggong is best known for expelling Dutch colonists and recovering Taiwan.
However, before that, Zheng Chenggong was a general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and after the Qing army entered the Customs to rule the Central Plains, Zheng Chenggong refused to surrender to the Qing army, and even once led troops to attack Jiangnan in an attempt to revive the Ming Dynasty.
In the end, he returned to Taiwan and founded the Heaven and Earth Society at the suggestion of Chen Jinnan.
Although it is written in the novel, in fact, the real Heaven and Earth Society in history was not founded by Zheng Chenggong.
Their ideal of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty has not been realized, but has evolved with the mighty historical trend, leaving behind many legends and deeds.
However, there is one point, Mr. Jin Yong's old man's Heaven and Earth Society is the same as the real Heaven and Earth Society, that is, the members of the Heaven and Earth Society have raised funds everywhere, accumulated huge wealth, and are ready to use it for military planning.
Where this wealth was ultimately spent and in whose hands it fell into has become one of the many unsolvable mysteries in the long river of history.
Until 2007, an ordinary villager in Zhouhu Village, Lichuan County, Jiangxi Province, accidentally found a token.
This mysterious token attracted the attention of experts in the relevant fields, and even involved more than 500 chests of treasures of the legendary Heaven and Earth Society, so it was once considered to be the key to solving the mystery of the huge wealth of the Heaven and Earth Society.
The peasants found that the mysterious token turned out to be a Qing Dynasty object
One ordinary summer in 2007, a villager surnamed Chen had just finished breakfast and carried a hoe to the field to prepare for the hard work of the day.
Such days day after day, year after year, are not new to Chen Laonong, and what he could not imagine is that this time farming has attracted the attention and research of countless Historians in China.
While hoeing in the field, Chen Laonong suddenly felt that the hoe had touched a hard object.
This field has been cultivated by old farmers for many years, and the hard stones in the field have long been cleared by him, and they should not have such a hard feel.
Feeling curious, Chen Laonong bent down, swept away the soil with his hand, found a rectangular object with a yellow chengcheng, picked it up and swept it up, felt heavy and abnormal, and took a closer look, there were three words written on it: "Heaven and Earth Society".
Although Chen Laonong had not read Jin Yong's novels, he had also heard of the great name of the Heaven and Earth Society from the TV series.
At first, he thought that the token was accidentally left behind by a small vendor selling toys nearby, so he picked it up, and after the day's work, he returned home, put the token on the windowsill, and did not take care of it.
A few days later, a neighbor who was familiar with Chen Laonong came to his house as a guest, saw the token on the windowsill, and after careful observation, he asked Chen Laonong where he got this token from.
After learning that Chen Laonong had dug it out of the field, the neighbor suggested that he give the token to the village cadres in the village to see what kind of cultural relics it was.
As soon as he heard that it was a cultural relic, Chen Laonong's eyes lit up and he hurriedly found the village chief with the token.
Zhouhu Village is a famous historical and cultural village, as early as 2001, it was famous for accidentally discovering a strange boat-shaped building in Zhouhu Village.
Therefore, Zhouhu Village has received help from relevant departments, and village cadres have also undergone relevant training and understood some basic historical knowledge.
The village chief took the token from Chen Laonong's hand, looked at it carefully, studied it for a long time, and thought that this was indeed not a modern handicraft, but what exactly was the product of the era, whether it was a real Heaven and Earth Society token, and it remained to be examined by experts.
The village chief wanted to collect this token from Chen Laonong's hand, and when Chen Laonong heard that this token might be an important cultural relic of the country, he was very conscious and expressed his willingness to hand it over to the state.
In this way, after many years of silence, this token reappeared from the farmland and came to the hands of historical and cultural relics experts.
After expert identification, this token was made by the Qing Dynasty, and the three words engraved on it mean that it may indeed come from the hands of the famous Tiandihui at that time, which was used to identify among the partners who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, which is of great historical value and collecting significance, and also has an extremely important contribution to the research work related to the Tiandihui.
In order to reward Chen Laonong's consciousness of taking the initiative to turn in, the local cultural relics administration also specially issued a reward of 500 yuan to Chen Laonong, as well as a pennant to recognize his contribution to history.
The Centennial Heaven and Earth Society, scavenging countless gold and silver treasures
In fact, the real Heaven and Earth Society is not as imposing as in Jin Yong's martial arts novels.
It is an underground organization that rose up during the Qing Dynasty, also called Hongmen, with Heaven and Earth as its parents, so it was named the Heaven and Earth Society.
The Heaven and Earth Society originated in 1761 by a monk surnamed Zheng, who was grateful for the kindness of the previous dynasty and wanted to overthrow the rule of the Qing Dynasty, so he changed his name to Wan Yunlong and founded the Heaven and Earth Society in Fujian.
After the founding of the Heaven and Earth Society, Wan Yunlong gathered a group of like-minded brothers, chanting Buddha in the temple during the day as a cover, and gambling at night, in this way gathering property from the people and preparing to use it as an uprising.
Seven years later, as the number of brothers in the Heaven and Earth Society grew, Wan Yunlong believed that it was time to restore the Qing Dynasty, and he led his brothers to attack the local Yamen.
But he underestimated the armed forces of Yamen, and the initial uprising ended in the form of a farce, with many brothers arrested one after another, and Wan Yunlong and a small number of people escaping.
These arrested members of the Heaven and Earth Society, out of their insistence on the common belief, did not reveal the location of Wan Yunlong, and Wan Yunlong was able to escape and continue to develop the Heaven and Earth Society in secret.
After Wan Yunlong's death, his son succeeded his father as the helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, and was later arrested by the local imperial court.
However, the Heaven and Earth Society had developed into a rather powerful secret organization in the southern region, and even without the father and son of Wan Yunlong, the members of the Heaven and Earth Society continued to carry out the cause of anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty as the brothers of the Wan family.
At the beginning of the development of the Heaven and Earth Society, most of the members were lower-class workers.
They were bullied by some officials and had to connect with each other to resist the powerful, and as their power grew, the Qing Dynasty became more and more strict in pursuing them.
In order to avoid being investigated to the end, the Heaven and Earth Society adopted a decentralized organizational form with inconsistent leadership.
Usually, the heaven and earth associations in various regions are not related to each other, nor do they have a completely unified object of worship, but they strictly abide by the original goals of the heaven and earth associations, and carry out various actions with the ultimate purpose of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.
With the development of the times, the ideal of the Heaven and Earth Society against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty gradually turned into a movement against the feudal rule of the landlord class.
In the various uprisings at the end of the Qing Dynasty, members of the Heaven and Earth Society appeared, and even played a big role.
Whether it was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement or the Knife Society Uprising, the members of the Heaven and Earth Society were not absent.
Later, during the Xinhai Revolution, various organizations in various parts of the Heaven and Earth Association joined hands to participate in the revolution, helped the revolutionaries overthrow the corrupt Manchu Qing system, and to a certain extent realized the anti-Qing ideal, although there was no restoration, but led China to a new stage.
Unfortunately, after entering the Republic of China, the members of the Heaven and Earth Society began to change from an organization that rebelled against the feudal imperial system under the leadership of the Republic of China government to an accomplice that helped the Republic of China government to plunder the people's wealth, and another small number of them changed the nature of the organization to become gangsters.
After the founding of New China, the local Heaven and Earth Association organizations lost their meaning of existence, and only a few overseas Heaven and Earth Association organizations still existed as a link between overseas Chinese and had lost their original goal of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.
Although the Heaven and Earth Society is no longer there, the evidence of the existence of the Heaven and Earth Society, as well as the huge wealth collected by the legendary Heaven and Earth Society, may be hidden in Zhouhu Village.
The reason for this conclusion is that there are indeed all kinds of detailed evidence related to the Heaven and Earth Society in Zhouhu Village.
These details have long been considered by experts to be forced associations, until Chen Laonong dug up a piece of The Heaven and Earth Society token that was really produced from the Qing Dynasty in 2007, and experts began to face up to the various legends of Zhouhu Village.
After various visits and studies of local villagers, the experts were surprised to find that Zhouhu Village may be an extremely important organizational stronghold of the Tiandihui, and its importance may be much higher than that of the surrounding strongholds.
Because the details of ancient books and legends are drawing the attention of experts to a bunch of earth-shattering treasures that may exist in Zhouhu Village.
The mysterious jiangxi countryside hides huge ship-shaped buildings
The remote location of Zhouhu Village, surrounded by green mountains and far from major traffic routes, has been only inhabited by local villagers for hundreds of years, and outsiders have no reason to come to such a poor and remote area.
Because of this, if it were not for a reporter's unexpected discovery in 2001, the villagers of Zhouhu Village might not have known for the rest of their lives that the building on the same street as them was actually the financial treasury of the legendary Heaven and Earth Society.
At that time, a reporter came to Zhouhu Village and wanted to take some photos related to the local customs and customs.
After taking a lot of pictures of the village, he went outside the village and climbed the nearby hill to take a panoramic view of the village from above.
At this time he suddenly noticed that there was a strange complex in the middle of the village, which looked like a ship.
The reporter photographed his unexpected discovery and submitted it to the magazine.
It is reasonable to say that there are indeed various strange-shaped buildings near the Gangnam area, but this is the only case for boat-shaped buildings like Zhouhu Village.
Why these buildings were built in such a form has attracted the attention of locals and experts and scholars.
Experts and scholars came to the local area to investigate and found many strange details.
For example, in ancient China, the construction of houses paid attention to lighting and feng shui, generally speaking, they sat north and faced south, but the boat-shaped building complex in Zhouhu Village was sitting west and facing east, which was very abnormal.
In addition, the houses in the ship-shaped building complex are very close to each other, and the whole building complex has only a small yard, and the houses are one after another, which is very depressing.
It is not so much a courtyard as a dormitory.
But if you look at these rooms as a dormitory, the ship-shaped complex seems uninhabitable.
Because each individual room is open in all directions, and there are several doors facing the four directions, people can enter it and move both east-west and north-south, and they can change the direction at any time and place.
If you are not familiar with the whole complex, there is a good chance that you will get lost inside.
In addition, the ship-shaped complex has a mysterious numerical mystery.
According to local county records, this ship-shaped complex has a total of 108 houses, 36 patios, and 72 floor drains, which make people subconsciously think of the thirty-six heavenly gangs, seventy-two earth fires, and one hundred and eight generals often mentioned in ancient China.
This kind of statement is mostly found in "Water Margin", and the protagonists in "Water Margin" are anti-thieves, and in terms of the age of the ship-shaped building complex, ordinary people dare not use this anti-thief number to build their own courtyards.
At the same time, there is also a legend circulating in Zhouhu Village for many years, saying that there is a large number of gold and silver treasures buried in the unknown place.
When the various details of the ship-shaped building complex were examined because of the reporter's accidental discovery, this legend of wealth was confirmed, and many local villagers began to believe that the gold and silver treasure was buried somewhere in the ship-shaped building complex.
Once, during a traditional festival, local villagers lit 108 sticks of incense and wanted to insert one stick in each room of the ship-shaped complex to keep them safe.
However, after inserting it again, it was found that the entire building complex could only insert 107 incense sticks, and the last incense, no matter how you think about it, has nowhere to insert.
At first, the villagers thought they had missed a room, but they reinserted it and found that there was still an incense stick left.
It was then that the villagers discovered that although the ship-shaped complex theoretically had 108 rooms, there were actually only 107.
There was a ghostly room that existed only in written records and could not be found in reality.
Linked to the legendary gold and silver treasure buried in the local area, the villagers believe that the gold and silver treasure is buried in the ghost room.
Historians did not pay much attention to these legends and details, believing that this was just wishful thinking of the local villagers, and there was no convincing evidence.
However, the token of the Heaven and Earth Society dug up by Chen Laohan made experts suddenly think: Are the local wealth legends and various strange phenomena related to the legendary Heaven and Earth Society?
With ideas, the experts came to Zhouhu Village again with a different perspective than before to investigate, and this time, the experts had a wealth of gains.
Experts conducted in-depth research and discovered the stronghold of the Heaven and Earth Society
In addition to some details that have been discovered before, this time the experts started from the perspective of the Heaven and Earth Society and found many mysterious marks that may have been left by the members of the Heaven and Earth Society.
These marks are scattered throughout the local streets, but are most common in the ship-shaped complex and look like some kind of code.
The building marked with this code on the wall was a safe stronghold for the labeler and his associates.
The experts scoured a variety of local literature, including county chronicles and the largest Huang family tree in the area.
After synthesizing information from various parties, they identified the builders of the ship-type complex and the hidden stories behind them.
Originally, the ship-shaped building complex had its own name, called "Zhouhu Dafudi", which was built by a giant merchant named Huang Huirou.
Huang Huirou was a wealthy local merchant in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and because of his business skills, he once became the richest household in jiangnan.
In that era, there were tens of millions of net worth, not to say that the rich can be enemy of the country, at least can be called the rich side.
He traveled back and forth between Taiwan and Fuzhou, traded between the two sides of the strait, and earned a large amount of family property.
After traveling all over the world for many years, he had the idea of settling in a place, so he chose the location where the current Zhouhu Village is located, spent three years, invested nearly 200,000 taels of silver, and consumed a lot of local manpower and material resources to build the Zhouhu Dafudi.
It is said that after the construction of the Zhouhu Dafudi, Huang Huirou once planned to move into the new house with her family beating gongs and drums, but when the eldest daughter-in-law of the Huang family got down from the palanquin, her skirt accidentally fell off.
This was considered by Huang Huirou to be an unlucky symbol, and he immediately stopped the housewarming ceremony and left the luxurious complex with his family, which cost 200,000 taels of silver.
However, Huang Huirou was not just a wealthy businessman, as early as that era, some people questioned the source of his wealth.
Because the locals only know that Huang Huirou has money, but they don't know what kind of trade he is engaged in.
He traveled between the two sides of the strait, and he could bring a lot of wealth once and again, but he did not see any purchase channels for him, nor did he know what he was selling.
Some people believe that Huang Huirou was a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, who was in high morale at that time, and that he had a not low status in the Heaven and Earth Society, and was responsible for controlling one of the financial repositories scattered around the Heaven and Earth Society.
After Huang Huirou built the Zhouhu Dafudi, he did not live in it for long.
This further strengthened the idea of some people that he had built this building to provide a base for the members of the Heaven and Earth Society.
And the rumor of the so-called "accidental fall of the skirt" is only the reason that Huang Huirou came up with in order to reasonably vacate this complex.
After Huang Huirou left, no one knew who lived in this Zhouhu Doctor's Mansion.
After checking this series of information, experts believe that people's speculation that Huang Huirou is a member of the Heaven and Earth Society is reasonable, and even the legendary gold and silver treasure may really exist.
The whole Zhouhu Dafudi is a "ship-shaped building complex", which is very closely related to the relevant materials of the Heaven and Earth Society consulted by experts in historical documents.
Because in the Heaven and Earth Society, there are a large number of low-level laborers and dock workers, members from all over the world, they regard the boat and the sea as the symbol of the Heaven and Earth Society.
On historical materials related to the Heaven and Earth Society that have been unearthed elsewhere, the word "Hongchuan" has appeared several times.
For example, heaven and earth will have such a slogan - "The pedal boat is my boat, and I swim here from all over the world." There is benevolence and righteousness sitting on the boat, and there is no benevolence and no righteousness on the water. ”
The Heaven and Earth Society is also known as "Hongmen", and the Hongchuan refers to the common spiritual sustenance of all the brothers in Hongmen.
If Huang Huirou was the leader of the highly high-ranking branch of the Heaven and Earth Society, then it was understandable that he had built such a huge ship-shaped building complex, and its meaning was self-evident:
Sitting in the direction of facing west and east means going up against the current, not with the general trend of sitting north and facing south, and using this flood ship to go up against the current and crush the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
The structure of the rooms next to each other like the dormitories is very reasonable from the perspective of the Stronghold of the Heaven and Earth Society.
At that time, the Tiandihui had been being hunted down by the Qing Government, and once it found that there was a Tiandihui stronghold, the Qing Government would send people to monitor it, and after it was determined, officers and soldiers would come to the door to arrest it.
The structure of the houses next to each other in the first room of the Zhouhu Doctor blocked the line of sight of the officers and soldiers to the greatest extent.
If it were not for the officers and soldiers personally taking people into the door to investigate, then even if they climbed over the roof of the wall or looked down at the nearby mountaintop, they would not be able to clearly see what the people in the Zhouhu Doctor were doing.
Each room has doors on all four sides, creating a labyrinth-like internal structure, and it is precisely so that after the officers and soldiers come to the door, the members of the Heaven and Earth Society have the opportunity to scatter and run.
As for the 108 houses, 36 patios, and 72 floor drains, this incident can be fully explained as the members of the Heaven and Earth Society taking the water margin to spread the good men of the mountains and forests as idols, hoping to take advantage of the fortunes of heaven and earth to help them complete the great cause of reversing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to being able to explain the strange details previously discovered by the villagers, this time the experts also found a lot of new evidence.
For example, in the Huang Ancestral Hall not far from the Doctor of Zhouhu Lake, experts found a mural between the partitions on the floor, with two dragons painted on the mural, showing the posture of "double dragons competing for the top".
This Huang Ancestral Hall is also the same as the Zhouhu Doctor, and it is inextricably linked to Huang Huirou.
In those days, Chinese folk were not allowed to draw dragons casually.
Because the dragon is the representative of the royal family and rulers, the Huang Ancestral Hall not only hides a dragon picture, but even paints it as a double dragon contending for the throne, alluding to the fact that the Heaven and Earth Society will compete with the Qing Emperor for the world, which has put the relationship between Huang Hui rou and the Heaven and Earth Society on the surface.
The stronghold contains treasure, or in the 108th darkroom
Since the experts' research on various details of this place can be corresponded to the data of the Heaven and Earth Society, the most important question is:
According to local legend, "somewhere" where a large number of gold and silver treasures are buried, will it be the financial warehouse of the Tiandihui left by Huang Huirou, a high-level cadre of the Tiandihui?
In this regard, both the local people and the historians who have studied the heavens and the earth have a positive attitude.
From the perspective of a historian, Huang Huirou's identity must not be a simple businessman.
He was likely to be a high-level leader who was extremely active within the Heaven and Earth Society, mainly responsible for traveling between Taiwan and Fuzhou and various inland provinces to help the various branches of the Heaven and Earth Society that were not connected to each other to make overall plans to support the cause of anti-Qing and restoration.
People don't know what kind of business he is doing, in fact, he is not necessarily a businessman, he is just an agent to raise funds, and the money in his hands is partly collected from various income channels of the Heaven and Earth Society, and part of it is funded by the rich merchants he persuaded.
If this speculation is true, Huang Huirou will not be able to carry huge sums of money with him, nor will he deposit them in the financial system that may be found by the Qing government.
The money of that era was gold and silver treasure, not the paper money of today.
Therefore, Huang Huirou must have a hiding place where he could hide the huge wealth he had gathered from the surrounding provinces, which was not speculation, but a reality.
Since this was the case, the Zhouhu Dafudi could not be just a stronghold for the members of the Heaven and Earth Society to gather, it could also be a storehouse where Huang Huirou hid treasures.
Experts even found that in the Jinzhufeng Temple, not far from the Zhouhu Dafudi, there were a large number of warrior monks with weapons in history, with as many as a hundred people.
The secret code related to the Heaven and Earth Society also appeared in the Golden Zhufeng Temple, and the weapons of the warrior monks of the Golden Bamboo Peak Temple were mostly supplied by the Heaven and Earth Society.
These warrior monks may be the armed forces deployed by the Heaven and Earth Society in the local area, using the identity of monks as a cover to protect the safety of Zhouhu Dafudi after Huang Huirou leaves.
This is indeed in line with the original behavior of Wan Yunlong, the chief helmsman who founded the Heaven and Earth Society, and also in line with the speculation that the financial treasury needs heavy protection.
However, the Zhouhu Doctor is not small, where is this treasure storehouse?
The local people provided several such information.
Some people claim that there is a saying that their ancestors have been circulating for generations, saying that the treasure is buried somewhere under the zhouhu Dafudi, and also left a hidden head poem, after deciphering this hidden head poem, you can get eight words: three feet underground, you Wu Ziyin.
Some people also claim that there is a secret saying about Huang Huirou's wealth - "Bent brick to arch brick, gold and silver 108,000." ”
Whoever can crack the mystery in this sentence can get 100,000 gold and silver.
However, one of the most commonplace claims of the local people is that the treasure is hidden in the 108th room of the Doctor of Zhouhu.
There should theoretically be 108 in The Zhouhu Dafudi, but the villagers have burned incense several times before, and only 107 can be found so far.
The 108th room should be a dark room, hidden in the huge labyrinth-like internal structure of the Zhouhu Dafudi, I don't know which wall, there may be more than 500 boxes of gold and silver treasures hidden, that is, Huang Huirou's gold and silver accumulated for the Heaven and Earth Society.
Experts did not deny these speculations, because judging from the Heaven and Earth Society token dug up by Chen Laohan, the authenticity of this speculation is still somewhat, not completely imaginary.
However, the interior of the Zhouhu Dafudi is too complicated, and it is an important cultural relic.
If the entire Zhouhu Dafudi is to be torn down just to find the gold and silver in the chamber, the loss to Chinese history is far greater than the 500 boxes of gold and silver treasures that cannot be found.
And if you don't push down the Zhouhu Doctor, I'm afraid that people will not be able to know the true location of the treasure until science and technology can explore the secret door of the entire building in an all-round way.