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Chapter 113 Zhang Xianzhong's Stone Drum
This is Chengdu?

As soon as Wu Tianyuan got off the plane, he felt the leisure of the Land of Abundance. He has always wanted to come to this holy place known as the most suitable place for life.

The leisurely pace of life, countless delicious food and beautiful scenery, make many people linger and forget to return?

"According to the clues of Niu Feng's research, Zhang Xianzhong's treasure should be roughly near Phoenix Mountain, where he died in battle, and it is most likely to leave a batch of treasures."

This time, Wu Tianyuan is traveling and hunting for treasures. The last one under the mountain is in Hong Kong. If he has a chance, he will go there again.Niu Feng's treasure hunting manual recorded many clues, so he decided to come to Chengdu for two days first, and then go to Phoenix Mountain to hunt for treasure with supernatural powers.

According to historical records, after Zhang Xianzhong captured Wuchang, he stuffed the king of Chu of the Ming Dynasty into a bamboo sedan chair and threw him into the lake to drown.Others said that in Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong plundered money from wealthy businessmen in various prefectures and counties, ranging from a few thousand taels of gold to tens of thousands of gold, and would kill people after getting the money.He also strictly controlled the property obtained by looting, and established rules: if his subordinates hid one tael of gold and silver privately, the whole family would be beheaded;In this way, the entire wealth of Sichuan belongs to Zhang Xianzhong alone.

Some experts put forward this statement: Emperor Chongzhen can only be regarded as a "small household" compared with Zhang Xianzhong.Zhang Xianzhong once held a treasure fighting conference in Chengdu, proudly showing off his wealth - 24 rooms filled with rare treasures, gold and silver ingots, dizzying and jaw-dropping.

Some historians roughly estimated that Zhang Xianzhong owned at least tens of millions of taels of silver.Based on the purchasing power of one tael of silver in the late Ming Dynasty equivalent to the current 300 RMB, at that time, he had a wealth equivalent to the current 30 billion RMB.

But Zhang Xianzhong's Daxi Emperor did not last long. In 1646, Prince Su Haoge and Wu Sangui led the Qing army from southern Shaanxi to Sichuan to attack Zhang Xianzhong.In November of the same year, the Daxi Army was surrounded by the Qing Army.Zhang Xianzhong hurried out of the city to fight, but was shot dead by Qing general Yabulan on Phoenix Mountain.

After Zhang Xianzhong's death, his rebel army was later wiped out by the Qing Dynasty.However, the Qing court did not seem to collect much of the treasures that Zhang Xianzhong collected.This naturally left doubts: Where did all those treasures go?

From nowhere, there is such a ballad: "The stone cow is against the stone drum, and the silver is ten thousand and five. Someone can see through it and buy out the Chengdu mansion." People think this is the "secret curse" to break Zhang Xianzhong's treasure. , Since then spread in Chengdu area.

This time, Wu Tianyuan was based on Niu Feng's research. Although the "Jiangkou Shenyin Site" in Pengshan was one of Zhang Xianzhong's Shenyin central areas a few years ago, Phoenix Mountain is also a suspicious place where there must be treasures.

"Zhang Xianzhong finally died on Phoenix Mountain, and a large number of treasures are missing. According to common sense, it is likely to be scattered there!"

Wu Tianyuan found a hotel to stay, went out to Chunxi Road to eat delicious food, and chatted with Xiaoshozi while walking.

"According to the ancients' thinking, it is safest for treasures to be buried in the ground. Even if you die, you can take it with you to the underworld, and you can spend it later. That's why there has been a burial system for thousands of years, even the emperor is no exception. "

"So Zhang Xianzhong must have left something behind in Phoenix Mountain. He knew he was going to be defeated, so would he give the treasure to the Qing Dynasty? Go to the stalls in the Antique City tomorrow to see if there are any clues?"

This time there is no treasure map to guide, and a small shovel is useless, Wu Tianyuan can only rely on luck, if he can find a batch of antiques from that time, there will be clues.

"Dashun Tongbao?"

The next morning, Wu Tianyuan took a taxi to the Antique City and began to look for clues. The collection atmosphere here is not very strong, so there are not many shops and street stalls, but he still found clues in an ancient coin shop.

"The Dashun Tongbao I just received from my hometown last year, there are more than a dozen pieces, all of which are left by Zhang Xianzhong."

Wu Tianyuan seemed to pick up one casually and asked, "What do you guys say?"

"Hey, he just said that he was working in the field. He dug out a small pot with a hoe, and there were a few pieces of gold in it, and these copper coins. You want to give it to you cheaply."

Wu Tianyuan chose a few and asked, "That's all? Is there a Xiaoping version of Dashun?"

"No, those are very rare, so I'll keep them for myself!" The boss laughed and said, "But there's one more strange thing!"

"Is this a stone?"

Wu Tianyuan took the small things the boss took out from under the counter, his heart was shocked, and he asked calmly.

"I don't know, I collected it together, it seems to be a small pier? It's not even jade, it's stone, you want to buy more for you to play with!"

Wu Tianyuan nodded, paid the money, quickly found a place where no one was around, and began to question Xiaodunzi.

"I'm not Xiaodunzi, I'm Shigu! I'm so ignorant!"

"Are you the treasure map left by Zhang Xianzhong?"

"What treasure map? That guy is still playing tricks on his deathbed! A large amount of gold and silver treasures sank into the river, and another batch he took to Phoenix Mountain, and then lost and robbed by the Qing army. Even if there is anything left, they will be divided up Escape, what else?"

Wu Tianyuan was discouraged for a while, and asked: "There are so many treasures without one left?"

"I remember that there was a lot of chaos at that time, and it seemed that a general buried the treasure box on the ground, but do you know now?"

Wu Tianyuan hurriedly checked out and left, and went directly to Phoenix Mountain, even if he had a little hope, he still had to go and see it.

"It's here, I remember it very clearly."

The next day, Shigu took Wu Tianyuan to a place in the wilderness of Phoenix Mountain, and started digging. After digging a few times, there really was a treasure chest!

"Is this the album of Wang Yuanqi's Six Scenes of the West Lake?"

Wu Tianyuan first saw the landscape album on the top, the authentic works of the Four Kings of the Qing Dynasty, and the Ten Scenes of the West Lake, but it was not a hand scroll, but an album.

"It's a pity that there are only six scenes. I don't know where the remaining four are?"

"Is this the White Marble Dragon and Phoenix Sword?"

He picked up a short sword more than one foot long, a white jade dragon pattern sword, at least from the Han Dynasty.

"The rest are copper coins, and a dozen or so gold ingots!"

Wu Tianyuan was a little disappointed, he was used to seeing imperial treasures, this time the things were really shabby.It's hard to find Ten Scenes of West Lake, but it's still an incomplete album, and there's nothing valuable about it.

"I said earlier that it was buried when the soldiers were running for their lives. It's good to have these!"

Wu Tianyuan thought he was unlucky, and finally he did not return empty-handed. After climbing the mountain for a long time, he rested for a while.

"Huh? This is the Five Dynasties Dashu Tongbao!"

He was bored sorting out the scattered copper coins in the box, and suddenly became excited, and found a five-generation Dashu Tongbao in a pile of Dashun Tongbao!

"This is a rare treasure in the world. It seems that it has not been discovered in China. There is one in Singapore."

Wu Tianyuan was excited, this is his second treasure of ancient coins, Kuping one or two is recognized as an orphan, and Dashu Tongbao was made by the wars of the Five Dynasties, and there are very few existing ones, only appearing on the rubbings that have been handed down.

Wu Tianyuan hurriedly checked other ancient coins carefully, most of them were Dashun Tongbao, that is, coins made by Zhang Xianzhong.Several gold ingots are Daxi rewards, which are specially used to reward soldiers.

"Anyway, there is a five-generation Dashu Tongbao, which is also considered a treasure, and it is not in vain!"

Wu Tianyuan began to interrogate the newcomer to see if there were any other clues. There should be more than one treasure chest here.

(End of this chapter)