Introduction: Chinese culture is broad and profound, and the treasures that have been passed down through the ages are also countless. Everyone who has seen the pirate movie "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" must be very interested in adventure treasure hunting. Indeed, there have been legends of treasure hiding in many parts of China, for example, there are many rare treasures hidden by Wu Ping, a great ming dynasty pirate, on Nan'ao Island in Shantou, Guangdong Province, when Wu Ping hid all his property after being destroyed by Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayu, and with his dead treasure hiding place, the whereabouts are also unknown ~ ~ Only the treasure secret of his life is left. Next, it is up to the small editor of the Exploration Chronicle to reveal the mystery of the treasure of the great pirate Wu Ping!
The mystery of the treasure of the great pirate Wu Ping
The great pirate Wu Ping is a native of Meiling, Zhao'an, Fujian, and is a famous pirate king on Nan'ao Island. Wu Ping colluded with Wu Kou to develop more than 10,000 people, which has always shaken the security of the Ming Dynasty, and in 1565, Qi Jiguang, the general of Fujian, and Yu Dayu, the general of Guangdong, jointly suppressed the pirate Wu Ping, and his whereabouts are still unknown. In the combined attack of Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayu, legend hastily buried the looted gold and silver jewelry in a mysterious place. With Wu Ping's death, the secret of the treasure is also buried deep in the ground with Wu Ping, leaving only a song full of mysteries...
Located in the east of Shantou City, Guangdong Province, at the junction of the South China Sea and the East China Sea, Nan'ao Island is the only island in Guangdong that straddles the Tropic of Cancer, and has been a necessary berth and transit station for trade along the southeast coast since ancient times. In addition to the beautiful scenery, another important reason for people's attraction is the treasure hidden on the island for hundreds of years and never been discovered. It is said that whoever can crack the riddle of Wu Ping, the great pirate of the Ming Dynasty, "My road to the north and south, the east and west hide the earth's crust, the water cannot rise and flood, the water cannot be flooded, and the water is three feet flooded", can find the huge treasure he buried on the island.
Legend has it that Nan'ao Island holds huge treasures of the rich and invincible, and there are countless gold and silver jewels. The story of treasure began to circulate on Nan'ao Island from the end of the Song Dynasty, and in the Ming Dynasty, there were legends of pirates hiding treasures. As a result, groups of treasure hunters flocked to the scene, but nothing came of it. Is there any treasure on Nan'ao Island? If there is treasure, where will so much treasure be hidden on this small island with an area of only more than 100 square kilometers?
In every way, Nan'ao Island is a small island that makes people feel relaxed and happy. However, in historical records, this small island is synonymous with "pirate", a nightmare that disturbs local officials in Fujian and Guangdong and even the Central Plains Dynasty from time to time, especially in the late Ming Dynasty, the frequency and scale of pirate activities here can be called "the most in China". Shantou Nan'ao Island is made up of 37 large and small islands, including a small island with an area of less than 1,000 square meters, known as "Treasure Island", which is said to be the place where the great pirate Wu Ping hid gold and silver during the Ming Dynasty. Where is gold and silver hidden? There is a local treasure secret: "The water cannot rise and flood, and the water will flood three feet." At high tide, the water cannot be soaked, and the low tide is flooded three feet. Some speculate that this should be a place with fresh water. But where is the fresh water on the island to flood? After Wu Ping's death, no one has found gold and silver so far. This remains a mystery through the ages.
Wu Ping was surrounded and suppressed by Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayu
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Qi Jiguang was ordered to suppress pirates. In order to avoid the pursuit of officers and soldiers, Wu Ping camped in Nan'ao, which was backed by high mountain cliffs and had two small islands, Tiger Island and Hunting Island as natural barriers, and lived a relatively peaceful life. However, the good times did not last long, and Yu Da, the commander of Chaozhou Prefecture, marched on Wu Ping and led 30,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Nan'ao. Although the strength of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court was quite different, Wu Ping still relied on his geographical advantages to confront the other side for three months. When the imperial court saw this situation, it ordered the Zhejiang general Jiguang to go to assist in the battle.
Forty-four years after Jiajing, the Qi family army arrived in South Australia and camped. After Cheng Jiguang arrived, he made a plan with Yu Dayu, one was to blockade the port to prevent Wu Ping from escaping; The second is to attack Wu Ping from behind and break through the geographical advantages that Wu Ping relies on. Sure enough, Wu Ping was defeated, but he still retreated to Hainan Island by sea dive in an organized manner. Although Yu Dayu's generals Tang Kekuan and Li Chao pursued them, they were all evaded by Wu Ping.
However, after all, the Wuping Pirate Group was only a few scattered soldiers and brave, and it could not compete with the imperial court at that time. In April of the 45th year of Jiajing and April of the 45th year of Wu, Wu Ping led the remnants to Wanqiao Mountain in Annam (present-day Vietnam), and was finally annihilated by Tang Kekuan at Wanqiao Mountain, and Wu Ping's life and death are unknown. At this point, the southeast coastal plague has basically subsided. It is said that someone has seen him in the area of Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and he has become a big businessman; The second said that he starved to death in the island. But whether Wu Ping is dead or alive, no one knows the exact answer.
The treasure of Nan'ao Island is related to the flight of the little emperor to the south at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty
Huang Yingtao, director of the Nan'ao County Museum, told us that the legend of the treasures of the Song Dynasty is related to the escape of the little emperors at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty. More than 700 years ago, the young emperor Zhao Yu and his younger brother Zhao Fu were pursued and killed by the Yuan soldiers and fled south from Lin'an all the way to today's Nan'ao Island. Generally speaking, the emperor will carry a large amount of gold and silver treasures when he flees, so will the treasure in the legend of Nan'ao Island be left behind by the little emperor who fled?
There is a group of statues in Yun'ao Bay in the southeast of Nan'ao Island, which shows the scene of the southern Song Dynasty's young emperor Zhao Xing and the minister Lu Xiufu living on Nan'ao Island. Not long ago, while cleaning the foundations for this group of statues, the local travel department accidentally found the remains of an ancient building. According to the "Nan'ao Chronicle", the Southern Song Dynasty little emperor Zhao Xing and his brother Prince Zhao, Jue once sheltered in Nan'ao Island for fifteen days, if the place in front of them is the prince building where the little emperor lived, this coincides with folk legends, because the legendary treasure place is in a pile of boulders tens of meters away from the prince building, but in order to obtain the treasure in the boulder, you must crack the words carved on this set of cliff stones.
Due to the long years, the stone wall has been severely eroded, and at this moment, only 35 words have been left on the boulder, and the handwriting is incomplete, difficult to identify, and almost impossible to read. According to locals, the young emperor who fled to Nan'ao Island at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty saw that the pursuing soldiers were approaching step by step, and decided to leave some of the gold and silver jewelry he carried with him on Nan'ao Island before leaving. In order to be able to retrieve these treasures in the future, words were carved on the nearby stone walls, which were both marks and tips for obtaining treasures. However, soon after the little emperor broke away from Nan'ao Island, he committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea under the pursuit of the Yuan army, so the treasure became a mystery for eternity.
Just 200 meters from the stone carvings and the ruins of the Prince Tower, there is an ancient well, which is said to have been dug by the young emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty when they fled to Nan'ao Island, and later people called it "Song Well". Although the ancient well is separated from the seawater, it is sweet fresh water that gushes out of the well. At this point the well has become a local tourist attraction. The management staff of Songjing told us that all visitors who come here will taste this cold well water, because this well water can clear the mind and eyes. In fact, when cleaning up the Song Well, the cultural relics department found many Song Dynasty porcelain fragments and Song Dynasty copper coins. Archaeology proves that this area is the place where the small emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty who fled south took shelter and moved.
So, can the mysterious words on the stone wall lead us to open the door of the treasure like Alibaba's "sesame door"? Many experts and scholars have made various speculations about the cliff stone carvings. Mr. Zhang Yixin, a history teacher at Nan'ao Secondary School, believes that the stone carvings are the inscriptions of Zheng Cheng's successful anti-Qing restoration in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Professor Guo Weichuan of Chongsheng University in Thailand believes that the text of the stone carving is "not poetry and no text" and "should be the words of Wei Wei and the words of Fu Qi".
Although experts and scholars have different opinions on the meaning of the cliff carvings, today's South Australians are more willing to believe that this is the trick to open the treasure. Just when many scholars are trying their best to do everything possible to the words on the stone carvings, another riddle about treasure hunting on Nan'ao Island also makes experts and scholars rack their brains: "The water cannot rise and flood, the water floods three feet, the arrow is three branches, the silver plate is three plates, and the golden altar is eighteen." "I heard that whoever can crack this riddle can find the treasure of Wu Ping, the great pirate of the Ming Dynasty."
The hiding place of the treasure of the great pirate Wu Ping
Let go of Wu Ping's ending, only say that Wu Ping, as a big pirate, must have a lot of treasures, but where did these treasures go? According to legend, when Wu Ping saw that the imperial court was constantly sending troops to surround and suppress his pirate organization, he also knew that these people alone could not last too long, so he buried the treasure he had plundered for many years on Nan'ao Island.
There is also a local song about the amount of Wuping's treasure: "Nine urns and eighteen cylinders, one cylinder after another, whoever gets it, paves the way to Chaozhou." "Where are these 18 tanks of treasure buried in South Australia?" Except for Wu Ping and his sister, no one knows now.
However, according to some sources and local rumors, some people said that the treasure may be hidden in Wupingzhai Village. Wupingzhai Village, in the town of Shen'ao on present-day Nan'ao Island, is the first village known to be named after pirates. Since it is a village named after a pirate, it is possible to hide treasure in the village, after all, your own territory is still easy to take care of the treasure. But local fishermen say that the current Wupingzhai village is no longer the village of that year. And when they first built the new house, they did not find any treasure except for some remnants of the wall and the ruins of the stone foundation. They only found a stone stele, and the stone stele only recorded the history of the imperial court's liquidation of Wu Ping, a great pirate who threatened the control of coastal defense.
In this way, to solve the mystery of the treasure of the great pirate Wu Ping, we can only start from the riddle, and some researchers have learned through years of visits and investigations that this riddle actually has the first half: "My road is north and south, and the east and west hide the crust." "The incompleteness of the riddle and the puzzle of this 30-word treasure ballad make the treasure of Nan'ao Island more confusing and more arousing our desire to explore." Is there any treasure around Nan'ao Island? If so, where? And who is hiding it? History always leaves countless puzzles, and these puzzles need to be explored patiently and carefully.
Why did the great pirate Wu Ping hide the treasure on the island?
Why did the pirate Wu Ping bury the gold and silver treasure on this small island? There is a history of this: according to legend, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the government was festering, the people were not happy, and there was a big pirate Wu Ping along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, who was a native of Meiling, Shao'an County, Fujian Province. This small, but alert and agile man haunts the waters around Nan'ao Island and Kinmen Island, and his influence has spread to Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Legend has it that he was good at diving and was able to dive from South Australia to Seamount Island, seven or eight miles away. Later, he took a fancy to Nan'ao Island, set up camp here, and built camp in present-day Shenzhen. There are alpine cliffs behind that side, the beach in front of the beach is wide, and there are two small islands of Tiger Island and Hunting Island as a natural barrier, which is indeed a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. At that time, There was no general army in South Australia, and this area became Wu Ping's sphere of influence, which was where Wu Ping camped.
In order to wipe out this sea force, the Ming court appointed Yu Dayu, the general of Chaozhou, to suppress it. Yu Da You then led 30,000 troops to besiege Nan'ao. Wu Ping attached himself to the cover of the wooden castle and the water village, and the negative corner resisted, and the officers and men were caught off guard by the imminent arrival of the official ships and the wooden and stone bows and bullets. When it collapsed, the rudder of the official ship was stuck by the stone fence built by Wu Ping under the water of the bay, and it was difficult to ride the tiger, and even the soldiers were damaged, and they failed to win. After insisting on this for 3 months, the imperial court sent Qi Jiguang, the general of Zhejiang, to assist in the battle. Qi Jiguang is a native of Penglai, Shandong Province, who has a general's lineage, wisdom and courage, and is familiar with the art of war. He fought in Fujian and Zhejiang and achieved outstanding results. This time he received the Holy Will, which was to lead five thousand troops to help.
In the spring of the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), the Qi family army arrived in Nan'ao and set up camp in the area of Yungai Temple in the southeast of present-day Nan'ao. Qi Jiguang probed the terrain while contacting Yu Dayu. One night he dreamed of Guan Yu, the duke of beautiful hair, and was instructed: "The general breaks the enemy, only in the wisdom of the enemy, if you attack from the rear, you will inevitably be victorious." "Originally, Wu Pingtun soldiers camped on the seashore, behind which was the Golden Mountain, the mountain was saga, the thorns were overgrown, there was no way to pass, and the security was neglected. After Qi Jiguang contacted Yu Dayu, Yu Sui led his troops to attack from the front, while Qi himself personally led three thousand elite soldiers, stopped the drum, cut through thorns and thorns, and took the road back of the mountain. After the deployment of military strength, the artillery was fired in unison, and the front and rear attacks were sandwiched, Wu Ping panicked, abandoned the village and fled, killing and capturing 3,000 people, and the officers and troops won a complete victory.
At that time, Wu Ping saw that the situation had gone, and remembered the treasures that had been looted for more than ten years, so he and his sister divided the gold and silver treasures into 18 cans and transported them in small boats to the island called Treasure Island at this moment to be buried, so that they would be dug up again in the next day. After arriving at the island, the officers and soldiers chased and shouted killing, and perhaps Wu Ping thought that his sister would cause adverse consequences after being captured by the officers and soldiers, so he killed his sister and buried her with gold and silver.
In May 1566, Qi Jiguang's general Fu Yingjia discovered that Wu Ping had fled to Hainan Island and gathered several thousand men and horses to resume his old business, so the officers and soldiers again requisitioned. In this battle, Wu Ping was defeated again, and he committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea. Since Wu Ping is dead, no one knows about the gold and silver buried in Treasure Island. Hundreds of years have passed, the human world has gone through several vicissitudes, but this small treasure island due to the above historical background reasons, but also has the legend of gold storage, coupled with the island rock towering, stone cave twists and turns, high and low; The white waves outside the island are surging and the seagulls are low, the scenery is charming, and there are stone sculptures of Wu Ping's sister and monuments such as "Chronicle of Treasure Island" and "Wuping Causeway in South Australia", and the beauty of the Pavilion Bridge and The Stone Cave Mountain Spring has attracted many tourists to the island to hunt for the Range Rover.
Conclusion: Whether the treasure is hidden on Nan'ao Island is still a mystery, if you can solve the secret he left behind before his death, you may be able to find a lot of gold and silver ~ ~ ~ ~