Chapter 189: Treasure
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The scream was very familiar, and I realized it as soon as I heard it.
Lao Huo was the first to run out.
"It's that bastard Zhang Lazi!"
Yu Wu also reacted immediately and followed the second one.
We left the hall and saw that the sound came from the direction of the half-declined wall in the east.
When he ran over and saw Zhang Lazi howling with his legs, his hands were covered in blood.
Old Huo smiled and said, "Boy, you are sneaky and not doing good things. Now I've gotten into my trap? I knew you would definitely not go through the main entrance and would flip in from this place."
Lao Huo just now set up traps around the temple when he had nothing to do, because we were going to go in and out by the main entrance. Only when Zhang Lazi kept following us secretly would he come in from another place.
Yu Wu went up and pulled him up, then pulled out the dagger and smiled grimly.
"Boy, we finally caught me, right? Tell me, how do you want to die? Look at the mountains and forests around me, there are not one of us. You said we were killing you here, and then just find a place to bury it. Will anyone know?"
Tan Jin also threatened him: "Zhang Lazi, I remember you are the only one in your family, right? It's so pitiful. If you were buried here, no one would come to find you."
Zhang Lazi didn't know if she was bleeding or scared. Her face was as white as paper. She raised her hand without saying a word: "My uncles, please let me go. I'm really just passing by. You always chase me, so I was so scared that I ran away."
"You're not honest?" Tan Jin frowned and said to Yu Wu: "Do it, clean it up, don't make the floor full of blood. Then the yard is full of blood and we can't eat."
Yu Wu nodded with a grim smile: "Leave it to me."
Then he looked at Zhang Lazi: "Don't worry, we are all good people who abide by the law and will not kill and set fire."
"Then-what do you want?"
Yu Wu sneered, "I see that your legs are covered with blood. The jackals in the forest outside are very sensitive to the smell of blood. Don't worry, I won't kill you. Wait for me to find a rope to tie you up like this, throw it into the forest, and then make a few more holes on you to let the blood flow a little more. When the mountain wind blows, the whole forest will be filled with your blood. Then - tsk tsk."
Zhang Lazi was so scared that she was trembling all over, but she hadn't given up yet: "You guys spare me, I really didn't want to do anything."
"Oh, we have given you a chance, it seems you don't cherish it." Tan Jin sighed: "Lao Wu, let's do it."
Yu Wu responded, raised his knife and inserted it into the knife.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Zhang Lazi's screams broke through the sky like a pig killing. After screaming for a while, he realized that he was not dead. When he looked left and right, it turned out that Yu Wu's knife was nailed to the ground along his cheek.
"Oh, I haven't tried it for a long time, I've got it wrong. Boss, your hijab is quite big. I'll borrow it from me and I'll pay it back soon."
I held back my laughter and handed him the slash: "Well, hurry up, wash it clean after using it, I don't like the smell of blood."
Yu Wu nodded, raised his knife again, and slashed it down with one knife.
Zhang Lazi shouted: "I've asked! I'll tell you all! Save your life!"
Yu Wu's blade stopped just a few centimeters from his face, and then Yu Wu smiled and said, "What are you going to recruit? You still want to say that you are here to chop wood?"
"No, no, no." Zhang Lazi shook her head desperately: "I'm not here to chop wood, I'm here to find treasure."
"Treasure?" I was stunned: "What did you say? Why did you still have any treasure? This is not the set of the Raiders of the Lost Ark."
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Lazi was stunned: "What? Aren't you here to find the treasure?"
"Who is looking for something?" Yu Wu kicked him: "We are here to find this temple."
"When I came to this temple, I said it wasn't you looking for a treasure?" Zhang Lazi looked disbelieved: "Isn't you looking for a treasure? Come to this dilapidated temple for camping?"
Several of us looked at each other and saw the doubts in each other's eyes.
I also kicked Zhang Lazi: "If I say it, it's not right. If you believe it or not, you can tell me what you know, and you have to say anything you know. If we find out what you have hidden, you will understand the consequences yourself."
Zhang Lazi then remembered his situation and nodded desperately: "I know I know. I said everything, I thought you were here to find treasures. Seeing that there are so many people, I was afraid that I would not be able to steal you, so I secretly followed you to find the treasure first if you want to find the opportunity."
"What kind of treasure is it? Why don't we know what treasure is here? Isn't this Jiutian Xuannv Temple? Where did the treasure come from?"
"You don't know this." Zhang Lazi said, "Have you ever inquired before you came? The treasures of the Hunan Army back then."
"The treasure of the Hunan Army?" I was confused again, so I spoke, "So you continue to say everything you know."
Zhang Lazi quickly poured beans into a bamboo tube and said a bunch of beans.
It turns out that this incident has to be traced back to the time, in the late Qing Dynasty.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Central Plains were in chaos, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising swept across the country. In 1853, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its capital in Nanjing and changed its name to Tianjing.
During the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it burned, killed and plundered all the way on the land of China, and I don’t know how much wealth it has been collected. Moreover, after the capital of Nanjing was established, the rule of “Sacred Cut” was promulgated.
This rule requires that all military and civilians of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom shall not hide their property privately and must be handed over. The "holy treasury" is equivalent to the current treasury. In order to enable this system to be implemented well, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has formulated very strict disciplines. Anyone who has more than five taels of silver privately will be punished and may even be sentenced to death.
So how much treasure does the "Sacred Cut" hide? Regarding its amount, Zhang Jigeng, a spy from the Qing army who once mingled into Tianjing, said in a letter to Xiang Rong, the commander of the Qing army's Jiangnan camp, that when the Taiping Army occupied Nanjing, it transported a large amount of silver hidden in the "Sacred Cut", a total of more than 18 million taels, but a few months later, there were only more than 8 million taels left. In some related historical documents, the "Sacred Cut" mentioned by Zhang Jigeng was also mentioned.
In 1864, Tianjing, which was besieged by the Hunan Army for many years, was finally defeated and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed. Zeng Guoquan led the Hunan Army to kill and loot the streets and alleys like a wolf or a tiger. The focus of his search was the Heavenly King's Mansion and hundreds of royal palaces and other official residences throughout the city.
However, although the Hunan Army used various methods to harvest all the wealth on the ground in Nanjing, it never found the so-called "holy treasury" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the legendary treasures of the Heavenly King's Mansion. For this reason, the crazy Hunan Army demolished houses, dug holes, and ponds everywhere in the city, and dug three feet away to search for the "treasury" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's "treasury" cellar. Zeng Guoquan also ordered the setting fire to Hong Xiuquan's palace of the Heavenly King's Mansion.
In order to find out the exact location of the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Zeng Guoquan, Zeng strictly examined the Zhongwang Li Xiucheng, who was familiar with the domestic situation in the heavens: "Can gold and silver be pointed out in several places in the cellar in the city?" But Li Xiucheng replied lightly, "There is no silver and rice in the treasury" and "There is no gold and silver in the family."
Later, Zeng Guoquan personally interrogated the Meng Wang Dong Jinquan, who was in charge of internal affairs in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, hoping to know some news about the treasures from him, but the steadfast and unyielding Meng Wang almost turned into a bloody man under the torture and forced confession, and did not reveal any news about the whereabouts of the treasures. Helplessly, Zeng Guofan had to report to the court that except for the discovery of the "fake jade seals" and one "gold seal", Hong Xiuquantian's palace had nothing to find. The so-called Taiping Heavenly Kingdom treasures rumored by both China and abroad were just rumors.
This is a historical statement about the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
However, many things in history have not been recorded in history books, but have been submerged in the trend of history.
At that time, countless Hunan troops dug three feet into the city of Tianjing to find the Holy Library.
One of them is from Longshan County.
During the search process, the Hunan Army caught a man. The man was a confidant of King Zhong Li Xiucheng before. He secretly fled after the city was broken, but he failed to escape and was caught.
At that time, the soldiers found a whole bag of silver on him, and all of them were silver sealed with the official seal of the "Sacred Cut".
The soldiers immediately realized that they might have caught a very important clue.
After some interrogation, Li Xiucheng's confidants recruited him. In fact, there were more than one "Sacred Library", but divided into more than ten places. Each place had a different scale. It was controlled by more than ten core members of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time, because they were afraid that they would lose all the battle once they were defeated.
As King Zhong and one of the top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Li Xiucheng naturally also controlled a "holy database".
This confidant once secretly inspected with Li Xiucheng, so he knew the location of a "holy library".
There is a saying that goes, "If you don't want to be punished for yourself, heaven and earth will be destroyed." Although the Hunan Army is brave in fighting, it is not all loyal and selfless, especially the Hunan Army is from Longshan, where many ethnic minority soldiers belong to an independent faction.
At that time, there were many such factions in the Hunan Army, and there were also many open and secret struggles.
So the Hunan Army, who had mastered a "holy database" position, did not report the news, but chose to embezzle it.
They found the "holy treasury" and moved out all the gold and silver inside. In order to avoid being discovered, they handed the gold and silver to their colleagues who were disabled in the war and were sent back to Longshan, and asked them to send them back to Longshan, find a place to hide, and then return to their hometown, and then take out the gold and silver to divide it.
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