In the "Laohutan" area of Jiangkou Town, Zhang Xianzhong's treasure transport fleet was raided by Yang Zhan, a bureaucrat in western Sichuan. Thousands of ships (historical exaggeration) of gold, silver and jewelry sank with the ships in the river.
In modern times, based on archaeological progress and inference, the incident of Zhang Xianzhong sinking silver has been confirmed to be real.
Moreover, these gold and silver jewels are hidden in the Minjiang River in Jiangkou Town, and have been discovered one after another in Chenyin archeology.
However, not many treasures have been discovered now, and that's the problem.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, what proportion of the domestic economy accounted for the world economy?
In fact, you don’t have to believe some legends, but we can calculate and calculate how much wealth a province in the Ming Dynasty had at that time.
Madison once conducted a quantitative analysis of the overall economy of ancient my country.
He estimated that the Han Dynasty and the ancient Roman Empire in the first century AD were at the same level of development in terms of total economic output.
Since then, the advantages of our country’s economic aggregate have become more and more obvious.
Until 1820 AD, my country was still the largest economy in the world, accounting for 32.4% of the world's total economic volume.
But Madison's research still has certain problems.
The gdp data he obtained by multiplying the per capita economic level by the total population is obviously not relatively accurate.
His neglect of research on industrial structure, government scale and capital accumulation has allowed us to see an incomplete GDP in ancient China.
Even this incomplete data has confirmed that the Ming Dynasty's economic volume accounted for 32.4% of the world's economy at that time!
In the late Ming Dynasty, this huge amount of wealth was not hidden among the official, that is, the government and the royal family, but among the people.
Big bureaucrats, big capital, big landowners, all the money is in their hands.
Among them, royal families with fiefdoms in local areas accounted for a large proportion.
Almost all of this wealth fell into the hands of the rebels.
Among them, Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng definitely won the big prizes, especially Li Zicheng.
However, even Zhang Xianzhong swept several provinces.
These wealth calculations are equivalent to 1% of the current wealth, which can be said to be as rich as the country, right?
Not to mention other places, places like Shan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Nanhe, in the Ming Dynasty, where were they not the most beautiful places?
Unfortunately, all this became a wedding dress for the Manchus after they took over the Central Plains.
And even so, Li Zicheng, who was wiped out several times and repeated several times, should have hidden a large amount of wealth.
After all, they were just rogues in the beginning. As soon as they came out of the mountains, they swept the world and ran around non-stop.
During this process, they had no choice but to rob, and everything they grabbed could only be hidden, because it could not be traded at all.
During that period, what could you do if you grabbed gold and silver?
You can't buy food or weapons because you don't have the land to buy them, so you can only hide them.
This is the treasure of Li Zicheng. Because Li Zicheng did not become the emperor of the Dashun regime for a few days, he quit the capital due to defeat, so he should have taken away a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry.
Obviously, Li Zicheng took away more gold, silver and jewelry than Zhang Xianzhong, because this was almost all the property of Chongzhen and the Ming Dynasty.
And this must be part of Li Zicheng's treasure, because he also had the experience of going out of the mountain several times before, failing, and then hiding in the mountain.
It can be said that every time he went out, he grabbed a lot of treasure.
Even after Li Zicheng's army was retreating steadily and he was forced to Jiugong Mountain in Hubei Province, at this time there was still a saying of "eighteen donkeys and thirty loads".
From that time on, Li Zicheng’s treasure has never been dated and has been passed down to the present.
There are also many legends about Li Zicheng's treasures, because Li Zicheng brought out too many gold, silver and jewelry.
Moreover, Li Zicheng wanted to make a comeback, so he did not bury the treasure in one place, but buried it in many places along the retreat route.
Regarding the discovery of the Li Zicheng treasure, the Lechang treasure is the most famous.
Nowadays, many people know about Zhang Xianzhong's Jiangkou Chenyin, but few people know that as early as 2001, Li Zicheng's treasure was unearthed.
At that time, cultural and historical workers in Lechang, Shaoguan, Guangdong Province, discovered by chance that there was also a treasure of Li Zicheng in Lechang.
It was 2001, Pingshi Town was hit by heavy rains, and a large amount of silver ingots washed out near the Minuunsen Temple in a deep mountain.
Many people in nearby villages still keep the silver ingots found back then in their homes.
It is also said that a Xishan businessman who helped Li Zicheng bury a treasure later found part of the treasure and became the richest man in the area.
Among the treasure legends that have been passed down to this day, we can say a lot about Li Zicheng.
What I just mentioned is just a small witch, and there are even greater treasures that have been hidden.
Of course, there are many discoveries.
For example, the tombstone of King Chuang suddenly appeared in the deep mountains, and mysterious treasures were hidden on the cliffs.
There are also legends that have been circulating for three hundred years. Does it prove the shocking mystery of the treasure?
Can the continuous clues reveal the unsolved historical mysteries?
Well, this is a news routine, and Chen Wenzhe doesn't care about these.
It turns out that he had just read some scattered news. Now after sorting it out, Chen Wenzhe has almost summarized the emergence of Li Zicheng's treasure.
Also in 2001, in Zhangjiajie, some villagers discovered a dark cave between the cliffs on Guanyin Mountain opposite Tianmen Mountain, a scenic resort in Zhangjiajie.
In this dark cave, people accidentally discovered a batch of mysterious treasures.
It is widely rumored that this is the treasure buried by Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang.
The secret room on the cliff should be the most beloved treasure.
In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, that is, 1644 AD, a peasant uprising broke out.
Li Zicheng, a Mizhi farmer from a poor background, led the people to revolt.
Seventeen years later, Li Zicheng led the peasant rebel army to defeat the Ming army.
After capturing the capital, they occupied the palace and seized a large amount of palace jewels.
According to the historical record of "Northern Strategy of the Ming Dynasty": After Li Zicheng entered the palace, he found "37 million ingots of silver and 10 million ingots of gold" from the palace.
In addition, there is also a record: "The old town treasury has 37 million ingots that have not been used for many years, and the ingots are all 500 taels, and they are engraved with the word Yongle".
All this shows that Li Zicheng must have a lot of treasures, and it is certainly not possible to find them all in one or two discoveries.
Forty-two days after Li Zicheng ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Ming general Wu Sangui led Qing troops into the pass and launched a fierce siege against the Dashun regime that Li Zicheng had just established.
When Li Zicheng was defeated and withdrew from the capital, he ordered that all the gold and silver treasures in the treasury be swept away and led the remaining troops south in an attempt to make a comeback in the future.
After that, Li Zicheng moved to Nanhe, Western Shaanxi and even the Lianghu area, and finally ended up unknown.
The whereabouts of this reckless hero and the huge fortune he carried have become one of the biggest mysteries in the history of our country.