Chapter 37 Chapter 37 Huanglong Mansion Treasury

The next morning, when the sun was high, I opened my eyes and strolled around the small courtyard, only to find that there was a stone tablet in the middle of the courtyard, with many words written on it, which seemed to describe the events of Jingkang that year. After watching it for a while, I felt a pain in the neck and gave up. I shook my head helplessly and was about to leave, when I heard someone shouting: "That kid, come in." Turning around, it turned out to be Lao Zhong, standing at the door of the office, waving at me. I hurried over and went to the office door to see that my grandfather and Song Xudong were there, and everyone looked very happy. I guess I found the treasure in the copper welding tomb last night.

Who knew that the old man scolded me first, and asked me why I didn't give Lao Zhong the things that Professor Wen asked me to bring back. The grievance in my heart is obviously because you didn't take it away, how can you blame me for that. Lao Zhong quickly persuaded me to untie it, and then explained to me how critical the thing that Professor Wen asked me to bring back was for opening the tomb of soldering copper.This copper-welded tomb was built on a rock vein called Thunder Kung Stone in legend.This kind of stone contains a large amount of special iron ore, which can accumulate current by itself for a long time. To get close to it, you must first use a special tool to guide the current away, otherwise it will be broken down on the spot like encountering high-voltage electricity.

I suddenly remembered the two people who died at the scene. Their faces were black and their muscles were roasted. They were clearly symptoms of being electrocuted. I was a little scared when I thought of this. "Fortunately, our protective clothing is insulated. When you went down, you were wearing insulating gloves. The current passed through you and was directly directed into the cable machine. At that time, a transformer was burned down, and the nearby area was cut off." Old Zhong Described the situation last night to me in detail again, and after listening to it, my mouth didn't close for a full minute.

My head was full of cold sweat, I almost hung there last night, it was so dangerous, I really wanted to cry. Then I asked the old clock again, has the braze tomb been opened?Old Zhong nodded, with a happy expression on his face. I asked if the treasure was dug out, and he nodded. I was excited, and kept asking what treasures were inside, whether it was gemstones or gold, and whether it was a whole box of agate and white jade. "Didn't you see it just now?" Lao Zhong wondered if I asked such a question. "What, what did you see?" I was a little puzzled. Old Zhong pointed to the stone tablet standing in the yard, "That's the treasure."

I wanted to hit the wall at that time, don't tell me, after so much effort, I almost lost my life and got back a broken stone tablet.If that's the case, I'll die directly on this stele. "Don't touch it. If you break the stele, you will be punished." My old man even teased me. "This stone tablet is common, but it's not the only one inside." Old Zhong said slowly. I knew that there must be treasures inside, but what Old Zhong said almost made me vomit blood: "There is a small stone tablet inside." If I had known how important these two steles were, I would not have felt worthless in risking my life.

The two stone tablets obtained by accident were confirmed by Professor Wen who is far away in Beijing. This is indeed the key to unraveling a series of complicated cases like mazes. These two stone tablets have names, and the stories they describe are as tragic and tragic as their names. These two stone tablets are actually called "Weeping Blood Tablet". What is recorded in these two steles is a legendary legend, a touching story, which is still admirable when read up to now. In 960 A.D., that is, the fourth day of the first month of the seventh year of Xiande, the Jiedu envoy of Guide, who was in charge of the forbidden army, inspected Zhao Kuangyin in front of the palace. Regime, the Song Dynasty was established, and it was changed to Jianlong in the first year. Zhao Kuangyin was known as Song Taizu in history.

Song Taizu's daily life was very simple, with simple clothes and food. Although he was more restrictive to his family, he was by no means a stingy person. He used to spend a lot of money on some projects, and he also gave generous rewards to the monarchs who surrendered. treatment.Simplicity is strictly prohibited in his private life, but he is very generous with what should be spent, which is rare among emperors of all dynasties. The painful experience of wandering once made Zhao Kuangyin have a personal experience of the suffering of the common people, so he paid great attention to the issues of people's livelihood.When the world was first decided, he immediately implemented the policy of reducing corvee so that farmers could recuperate and develop production.

When the world became a little richer, Zhao Kuangyin, as the emperor, felt deeply about the continuous change of the regime in the world. He decided to use some means to break the bad luck of the short-lived regime. gold plan. At that time, Song Taizu secretly summoned many skilled craftsmen, and built four secret treasuries in four places not far from Feng, named after the four characters of Tian, ​​Di, Xuan and Huang.Every year, a certain amount of silver ingots are collected in the four silver vaults.These four silver vaults are pretended to be mausoleums to the outside world, and they are secretly guarded by four confidant generals. These four generals only know the silver vaults they are guarding but do not know the existence of the other three silver vaults.

On October 12th, the ninth year of Kaibao, on a snowy night, Zhao Kuangyin hurriedly called his younger brother Zhao Guangyi into the palace. The two brothers drank together in the bedroom. It was already late at night after drinking. Said: "Do it well." Zhao Guangyi stayed in the bedroom that night, and just after dawn the next day, Zhao Kuangyin died for no apparent reason.Zhao Guangyi received the imperial edict and succeeded to the throne before Lingqian. Zhao Guangyi, who took over the throne, didn't know that his own brother had grabbed so much money from his private house, and the blueprint of the silver treasury had become an ordinary palace blueprint and remained in the palace.

It wasn't until later that the general guarding one of the mausoleums secretly joined the new emperor, and Zhao Guangyi learned about the Tibetan silver plan. The bank of the Huang Bank was handed over to Zhao Guangyi. However, no matter how much Song Taizong tempted Song Taizong, the local bank bank just refused to stand up. Zhao Guangyi had no choice but to change generals everywhere, but there was still no result. The bank of the local bank is still silent, but the silence does not mean that it does not work. In 1126 A.D., the first year of Jingkang, the Jin army marched southward with only 40,000 people, and they broke through 27 states of the Northern Song Dynasty.The Northern Song court originally wanted to take advantage of the natural dangers of the Yellow River to defend the Jin soldiers, but the Song armies guarding the south bank of the Yellow River had long been lacking, and the occasional soldiers in the battalion were mostly lazy and unable to fight at all.At that time, although the Song army burned down the Yellow River pontoon bridge, the ferry boats on both sides of the bank were not completely confiscated due to the delay of subordinates' dereliction of duty. It took only a few days for the Jin soldiers to gather enough ferry boats on the north bank, and they crossed the Yellow River by Dingmao in October. All the soldiers collapsed without fighting and fled everywhere. The next day, the Jin army occupied Zhongmouyi, an important military site north of Bianliang, without bloodshed. , The whole court surrendered.The Jin army besieged Bianliang for more than a month. Before Tokyo was broken, the royal family of the Northern Song Dynasty was ready to surrender, but the lower-level soldiers and civilians in Kaifeng insisted on resisting, and 300,000 people were determined to join the war.Qinzong actually went to the Jinying to beg for surrender in person, humbly presented a form of surrender, and ordered all the soldiers from all walks of life to stop marching to Kaifeng, and even suppressed the soldiers and civilians who spontaneously organized and prepared to resist.The Jin army then ransacked unscrupulously, and the civilians in Kaifeng suffered a huge disaster.

After Kaifeng broke the city, Qinzong hurriedly sent people to the camp of the Jin Army to seek peace.The commander-in-chief of the Jin army was having a headache because of the disadvantages of street fighting, so he decided to use the Northern Song Dynasty court to search for treasures and women, so he replied: "We don't want to destroy the Song Dynasty, so we ask Huizong to discuss the cession of land, and we will retreat." Re-establishing Huizong as emperor, he decided to surrender himself to Jinying. After Qinzong arrived in Jinying, the Jin people first asked him to send people to various places to issue edicts, saying that the two countries had become friendly countries and that the four sides were not allowed to serve the king.Then ask for 10 million pieces of silk, 5 million ingots of gold (50 taels per ingot), and 10 million ingots of silver.For such extortionate demands, for the sake of his emperor's throne, and for the preservation of millions of souls in Kaifeng City, Qinzong could only nod. At the same time, the Jinren sent envoys to inspect the treasury.Opening the Song Treasury, these envoys seem to have entered a mythical world: in 92 internal storage warehouses, such as Song Taizu's Sealed Pile Storehouse and Song Shenzong's Yuanfeng Storehouse, the treasures of gold, silver and brocade accumulated over 160 years of prosperity are "full of overflowing".Even so, it was still far from the astronomical figure that the gold people wanted, so Qinzong ordered to "generally include" folk gold and silver. A month later, the Jinren asked Qinzong to go to Jinying again and detain him, claiming that he would be released after the gold and silver were paid.Qinzong was in the enemy camp, so he had to issue an edict to send 24 more officials to carry out "genkuo" (thorough search).Notices were posted everywhere in Kaifeng Mansion, ordering clansmen, state relatives, eunuchs, monks and Taoists, technology (medical divination and others), prostitutes’ homes, gold and silver shops, color silk shops, and local officials from all over the country to buy and sell in the capital, all gold and silver should be sold. hand over.Ordinary people supervise each other in their respective "neighborhood committees", and even gold and silver jewelry must be handed over.After searching like this for more than ten days, they obtained two hundred and eight thousand taels of gold, six million taels of silver, and one million bolts of silk.The cunning commander-in-chief of the Jin Army also took advantage of the food shortage in Kaifeng City and ordered to set up ten rice selling farms, and only gold and silver were allowed to buy rice. In addition to asking for gold, silver and silk, the Jinren also wantonly searched for the emperor's seal, ceremonial guards, maps of various state capitals, musical instruments, sacrificial vessels, and various treasures and ancient utensils, books, calligraphy and paintings.The famous "Xuanhe Painting Book", "Xuanhe Shupu" and "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" were all looted this time. Not only that, the Jin army also invaded the Song Mausoleum. After the Jin army occupied Kaifeng, they excavated the Song Mausoleum and abandoned its remains.At that time, the guardians of the tomb and the local villagers resisted desperately. At this time, the guards of the place name who had not seen each other for a long time were like heavenly soldiers. The guarding general of the bank was taken away and buried in the bank of the local name. Since then, the bank has truly become a mausoleum. Since the loss of the Central Plains, it seems that only the nobles who have lost the bravery of their ancestors are weak, and the resistance of the lower class people has never stopped. Many gentry and gentry in the area occupied by the Jin army rushed to break up their homes and raise military salaries for the rebels who regained the lost land. However, these military salaries could not be transported to the south of the Yangtze River, and had to be secretly hidden in the treasury of the local bank. Some other local officials were unwilling to hand over the tax money to the invading regime at that time, and a large amount of silver was secretly stored and transported to this treasury without receiving the rebels. The amount of gold has reached an astronomical figure, because this treasury is to support the rebel army to go straight to the Huanglong Mansion, so it is also called the Huanglong Mansion Treasury. The war changed rapidly, and just as the Yue family army was singing all the way, three people who were sent to recover the treasures offered by the Central Plains army were mysteriously killed, and the treasury of the Huanglong Mansion disappeared silently, leaving only a legend about the huge amount of gold and silver. Only the four divisions of Gongwu maps in the palace were continuously passed on and continued with the change of dynasties, until one day, a warlord named Sun Dianying blew up the mausoleum that contained these four Gongwu diagrams. (End of the second volume "Fuku Keel")