Bind to the collection system, I became a national treasure

Chapter 196 The Treasure of the Ming Emperor

[Item: Ancient Monument]

【Material: granite, jade】

[Year: 1645]

[Grade: Unknown]

……

Bai Xi looked at the identification information given by the system and felt his heart beating violently. He even felt a little dry in the mouth.

Unknown grade!

The year is 1645!

This was something Bai Xi had never encountered in the past two days.

Even for modern products, the identification information given by the system is always "no grade", but it is definitely not unknown.

At this moment, Bai Xi had a strong intuition that this stone tablet was the rare treasure she had been searching for for many days.

only……

Is this really a rare treasure?

This stone tablet really looks too ordinary.

There is no inscription, no pattern, only three vaguely visible traditional Chinese characters, which roughly mean Nanshan Village when translated.

Obviously, this is a stone tablet from an ancient village.

It is quite large. Compared with the previous 1-meter-high stone tablets, this one is probably nearly 2 meters high. If Bai Xi wants to see the top of the tablet, with her current height of about 1.7 meters, she has to stand on tiptoe and look up.

Bai Xi's thoughts raced, but he remained calm on the surface. He pretended to touch several other stone tablets. After about ten minutes, Bai Xi turned around and shouted to the burly man who was smoking not far away, "Brother, I think this stone tablet is good. Please weigh it and I want it."

"no problem!"

When the strong man heard this and saw that Bai Xi and others had actually chosen a large stone tablet, he secretly muttered in his heart that this rich man's taste was really unique. Even if this thing was given to him for free, he would still think it was in the way, let alone spend money to buy it.

However, although he was muttering in his heart, the strong man did not slow down. He immediately called two workers and arranged for them to weigh the stone tablet selected by Bai Xi.

five minutes later.

After Bai Xi settled the money, he asked two bodyguards to carry the stone tablet and quickly left the scrap collection station. Then he went straight back to the hotel without stopping.

Just now at the scrap recycling station, Bai Xi was trying to submit a task.

As expected, the system decisively rejected her, which means that the stone tablet itself is probably of no value.

Based on the materials Bai Xi had been looking up these days, she speculated that the real priceless treasure was most likely sealed inside this stone tablet by someone.

A hundred years ago, foreign barbarians ravaged the land of China, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of atrocities.

During that period, countless national treasures of the Xia Kingdom were lost overseas. No Xia citizen could walk out of the British Museum with a smile, and no Xia citizen could walk out of the Beijing Museum calmly.

Faced with foreign invasions, many ancestors used various means to disguise and hide national treasures to varying degrees in order to protect the national treasures left by their ancestors from being robbed, so as to secretly transfer these national treasures to a safe area.

If we push the timeline forward, we will find similar situations in every dynasty.

Whether they are royal families of a fallen country, wealthy merchants, or corrupt officials, they all like to use this method to leave some assets for themselves in various places, so that if they encounter any accidents in the future, they can leave a chance for themselves or their descendants to make a comeback.

......

In the presidential suite of the hotel.

Xiao Rui held an octagonal hammer in his hand, looking at the huge stone tablet in front of him, then turned around to look at Bai Xi who was hiding behind the chair, his eyes full of confusion.

"Come on! Smash it open!"

Bai Xi raised his hand and made an encouraging gesture, then hid behind the chair again.

"call……"

Xiao Rui shook his head, took a deep breath, and then without hesitation, he lowered his shoulders, gripped the octagonal hammer tightly in both hands, and swung it heavily at the huge stone tablet in front of him.

"boom!"

A dull sound rang out in the huge presidential suite.

This stone tablet, which had experienced hundreds of years of wind and rain, had a slight dent in the center after Xiao Rui swung it hard. At the same time, many fine cracks appeared around the dent.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

……

Xiao Rui anchored this position, and then began to exert force continuously, causing more and more cracks around this concave position to grow bigger and bigger.

Once, twice, three times, four times...

Xiao Rui hammered one hammer after another, and finally when the 18th hammer fell, the entire stone tablet collapsed and countless pieces of stone were scattered all over the ground.

at the same time.....

The sharp-eyed Bai Xi soon saw something different among the rubble on the ground. They were cubes wrapped in layers of oilcloth. They were scattered among the rubble, and there were a lot of them.

Seeing the dust settle, Bai Xi walked slowly from behind the chair to the pile of rubble and carefully picked up the cubes wrapped in oilcloth.

"One, two, three, four..."

After Bai Xi picked up these things, he put them all in the study. After a careful inspection, he determined that there were exactly 24 cubes hidden inside the stone tablet.

After waving his hand to ask Xiao Rui to arrange someone to clean the room, Bai Xi went to the bathroom, washed his hands first, then found a pair of white gloves and returned to the study.

"let me see……"

"What on earth are you?"

Bai Xi looked at the cubes in front of her, with a strange light flashing in her eyes. Then she picked one at random and slowly and carefully opened the layers of oilcloth wrapped around its surface.

About ten minutes later, after Bai Xi had peeled off ten layers of oilcloth and pried open two iron boxes, he finally knew what the object that had been sealed on the stone tablet for hundreds of years was.

"Oh my god!"

"Imperial jade seal!"

Under the light, the white jade seal in Bai Xi's hand is 8 cm high, 12 cm long and wide, and is extremely well preserved. The whole seal is crystal clear, the seal button is exquisite, and the seal text is also very clear.

Thanks to Baidu, Bai Xi quickly figured out what the inscription on the jade seal was.

The inscription on the seal is: Treasure of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!

After Bai Xi saw the meaning of the seal, she looked at the unopened oilcloth boxes in front of her and couldn't help holding her breath.

During the days since receiving the task, Bai Xi has been frantically catching up on a lot of knowledge related to the Ming Dynasty, including content related to the Ming Dynasty jade seal.

Since 1644, when Li Zicheng broke through the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, it meant that the Ming Dynasty, which had lasted for 276 years, officially withdrew from the stage of history.

After Li Zicheng captured Yanjing, he carried out large-scale plundering and indulged his subordinates, allowing them to rape, plunder, burn, kill, and commit all kinds of atrocities in the city of Yanjing.

It was precisely because of Li Zicheng's atrocities that he quickly lost the support of the people. In just one year, the Qing army, Wu Sangui and the gentry in the city of Yanjing broke through the city of Yanjing, and he had to flee in disgrace.

According to historical records, before Li Zicheng attacked the city of Yanjing, he was penniless, but when he fled, he had countless gold, silver and treasures, which required 18.5 million mules and horses to carry.

It can be said that all the treasures of the Ming Dynasty went into Li Zicheng's pocket.

During the escape, carrying so much gold, silver and treasures naturally greatly hindered the marching speed. Therefore, during the escape, Li Zicheng buried the gold, silver and treasures in his hands and the Ming Dynasty treasures among the people through various means, leaving them for future recovery.

According to legend, when Li Zicheng fled to Shanxi, he disguised some gold, silver and treasures as goods and stored them in the shop of a merchant named Liu Zhonglian. Because these people looked fierce and ferocious and looked like soldiers, Liu Zhonglian did not want to provoke them and did not dare to offend them, so he agreed to it.

After these people left, Liu Zhonglian's life returned to normal. Many years passed and these people still hadn't come back. When the warehouse in Liu Zhonglian's house was in a mess and needed to be repaired, Liu Zhonglian had no choice but to open the goods. He found that they were all gold, silver and jewelry.

With these gold, silver and jewelry, Liu Zhonglian soon became the richest man among Shanxi merchants.

However, these gold and silver jewels that made Liu Zhonglian the richest man in Shanxi were just one of the countless treasures buried and hidden by Li Zicheng along the way.

Later, Li Zicheng was defeated in battle and these treasures became legends. The Twenty-Four Seals of the Ming Dynasty, which represented the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, were also hidden in history with the death of Li Zicheng, and their whereabouts remain unknown to this day.