Zhu Fushun knew that the rubbings of the inscription might also contain official silver, so he immediately patted his head and said, "Look at how careless I am. I didn't even find the rubbing. Why don't you follow me to the cabin and you can find it?" Look for these things.”
"Let's go, my ship is at the port."
Yue Guanchao and the others followed Zhu Fushun to the port. After boarding the drifting boat, Zhu Fushun took them down to the cabin and into the water compartment at the stern of the boat.
This kind of water compartment contains ship pumps and water-resistant grain, paper, coal and other sundries. The two large boxes of sundries inside are almost all various account books and booklets, and because the paper contains water vapor, , inevitably broken by insects, they saw too many things, so they had to carry two sunken wood boxes as big as water tanks to the main room on the ship's board, and spread out all the books and copybooks.
In an hour, they searched through all the books, calligraphy and paintings, and even the pages of the books were opened layer by layer. Apart from a boatload of rotten books, they found nothing else. As for rubbings, they didn't find anything at all. See.
"Brother Zhu, who else has touched your old man's things?"
Song Siyuan knew that when Mr. Zhu hid the inscription rubbing, he had made it clear that it could not be an ordinary object.
"Well, we never touch these things. Could it be that he didn't put the rubbings in at all?"
When Ma Yanghua was talking, she lowered her head and turned over the wooden box. Song Siyuan's eyes lit up when she saw how hard she was holding the box. "Sister-in-law Ma, are the boxes the same weight?"
"Sister, don't tell me. It's obviously a pair of boxes, but this one is really much easier."
After being reminded by Song Siyuan, Ma Yanghua immediately discovered something fishy. He picked up the light box and knocked around, and sure enough he found a place where he could knock.
"There's something wrong with this box."
Yue Guanchao took the box and carefully observed the bottom panel. He picked up a dagger and cut slits on the four edges. He could remove the entire cover with just a click. When the cover was completely lifted, there was a wooden box as thick as a book inside. It can be seen that the outside of the box is wrapped with oil paper and a layer of solidified wax is applied to completely seal it.
"There is indeed something."
Yue Guanchao carefully opened the wax shell, uncovered the oil paper inside, and then opened the palm-sized wooden box. What appeared inside was indeed a rubbing of the inscription printed on white cloth. After unfolding, the inscription was about the size of a water tank. The area of the text is the size of a pot lid, and it is densely packed with thin gold inscriptions from the Song Dynasty.
"This thing can only be rubbed on cloth and preserved with a wax seal to avoid damage. Your old man really regards it as very important. As long as we study the words of the inscription, we will probably understand the official silver The location, and even the secret of the Song Dynasty treasure ship."
After getting the rubbings, Yue Guanchao and the others continued back to Qingtong Inn. Song Siyuan first took photos and saved them on film. Then she put everything down and began to study the writings of the Song Dynasty.
After evening, Song Siyuan picked up the notes she had made, looked at everyone and said, "I have probably understood the content of this inscription. It seems that... there is a Southern Song Dynasty treasure ship hidden under Yugou Island."
Most people could guess this conclusion. Yue Guanchao patiently continued to listen to her talk about the words recorded in the inscription.
At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the rebellious ministers and traitors were in power, and the weak and mediocre rulers were in power. The Jin Dynasty divided the east and west routes and went south to attack the Song Dynasty. The soldiers broke through, and 3,000 people including Huizong, Qinzong, courtiers, concubines, and female relatives of the clan were escorted northward by the Jin soldiers.
At this point, it was declared that the Northern Song Dynasty was completely destroyed. Because all the Northern Song royal family were captured by the Jin Kingdom, it was really a shame for the Central Plains. Folk literati often called it the Jingkang Disaster to commemorate that they did not forget the shame and recaptured the North.
The Kingdom of Jin originally wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, thinking that it would soon capture the south. Unexpectedly, King Duan Zhao Gou fled to sea with his cronies, established another branch in Yuhang, and proclaimed himself emperor. After that, he even pulled up a new anti-Jin team and surrounded them in To the north of the river, the state of Zhao and Song continued.
After that, the Jin Kingdom fought many times, but never took advantage of Jiangnan, and the war with the Southern Song Dynasty gradually became indistinguishable. Despite this, the Southern Song Dynasty was still wary of the power of the Jin soldiers.
Around the twelfth year of Shaoxing, Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Kingdom of Jin reached peace talks and an alliance. Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty declared himself a vassal and paid tribute to the Emperor of the Kingdom of Jin, promising to pay 250,000 taels of silver and silk each year.
At the same time, Jin Xizong also accepted this generous gift. In order to humiliate the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, he sent an envoy to the Southern Song Dynasty and made King Kang of the Song Dynasty the emperor with the title of Gun Mian Gui. At the same time, the Southern Song Dynasty was completely reduced from a suzerain state to a vassal state. , formally defining the relationship between the two countries based on the etiquette of monarch and minister.
This time when Jingkang died, the Jin Dynasty plundered almost all the gold, silver and jewelry in Bianjing. The national treasury was completely wiped out. Even the people's property was plundered by the Jin soldiers like a bandit's comb.
Due to the inconvenience of transporting so many gold and silver treasures, the Jin people sent transport ships to carry the treasury treasures from Taifucang in various places in the northern Song Dynasty along the water. When they arrived in Yueyang, they were ambushed by the civilian anti-Jin army, and the treasure ship ran aground on Xuanwu Island in Dongting Lake. nearby.
After that, because the Song Dynasty settled in the south of the Yangtze River and established a new defense line along the river, these treasure ships had no chance of being found by the Jin Kingdom again, and they were kept on Xuanwu Island by the civilian anti-Jin Dynasty army.
In order to bury the soldiers and civilians who resisted the Jin Dynasty, these generals excavated Xuanwu Island and used Feng Shui techniques to fix the entire treasure ship at the entrance of the mountain cavity. They buried all the generals who resisted the enemy near the treasure ship to protect the national treasure of the Northern Song Dynasty, which meant washing away the snow. National humiliation, no disgrace to our ancestors.
"Does that mean that there is actually a treasure ship parked in the mountain cave of Qianba Island?"
Everyone was more than a little surprised.
Song Siyuan nodded towards them and said: "Indeed, this ship is not that big. Treasure ships are mostly large-cabin buildings with gorgeous carvings. They can be regarded as the top giant ships in the medieval world."
"Then, if it's so big, how did it get hidden in the mountain cavity? This mountain has never been excavated?"
Yue Guanchao scratched his head and didn't understand. If the entire ship was hidden in the mountain, how big would the cave entrance be? Although Yugou Island was as big as Junshan, there were no cave openings in the mountain.
Song Siyuan shook her head and said: "We don't know this yet, but don't forget that this island used to be completely different from what it is now. Maybe the people of the Song Dynasty used Feng Shui to transform it, or maybe the landforms were changed over the years and the vicissitudes of life. These are all possible."
"Even so, we only know that there is a treasure ship on Yugou Island. As for where it is, no one knows. Now, we have only determined the location of Guanyin."
Later, Song Siyuan picked up the flashlight at night and shone the silk cloth on the flashlight. The acupuncture light was clearly visible: "Go up to the moon, go ten miles to the left, and under the thousand-year-old locust tree."
Some people died, but not completely...
