In order for the house to have good lighting and ventilation effects, the most ideal orientation of our country's houses is to face north and south.
The houses in this boat-shaped mansion all face west and east, successfully avoiding the sunlight.
Not only that, these 108 houses are connected to each other, and some houses are only a few square meters long and narrow in shape. It seems more reasonable to call them passages.
Under such a structure, the mansion forms a huge maze, and it is difficult for people who are not familiar with its structure to find the exit.
Now, after extensive research, experts are surprised to find that this mansion was built at the expense of Huang Huilou, a wealthy businessman from the Qing Dynasty.
But there is no way of knowing what kind of business Huang Huirou is engaged in.
Various signs indicate that Huang Huirou's interactions with the Tiandihui are very secretive, and that the businessman is just a covert identity.
The houseboat built by Huang Huirou was actually a hiding place for members of the Tiandi Society.
Its extremely poor lighting effect and complex internal structure can just provide a beneficial hiding effect for the members of the Tiandihui.
The unique shape of the boat-shaped ancient house is now another miracle in the history of architecture.
Its unconventional structure just meets the needs of the Tiandihui.
It can be seen that as long as it meets the needs of the target group, seemingly unreasonable practices can actually solve the problem.
Over the past 100 years, many people have "digbed deep and deep" in the courtyard of this ancient house countless times. They are still looking for it, but there is no trace of the treasure.
Where is this treasure of the Tiandihui hidden? Unfortunately, no one can find it.
Although the legendary treasure was not found, the ancient ship-shaped house itself is a priceless treasure.
Compared with gold and silver jewelry, the history of Tiandihui hidden behind them is far more meaningful than treasure.
It is a pity that the ancient ship-shaped house was discovered but not the treasures of the Tiandihui.
But for Chen Wenzhe, he is indeed lucky.
Because many of the treasures he found in the sunken ship should be part of the treasures hidden by the Heaven and Earth Society.
As for why Tiandihui takes the funds used for domestic activities overseas, this is still easy to explain.
After all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty could be said to be at its peak at that time. They could not shake the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at all, and they were constantly surrounded and suppressed.
There is no way, their final range of activities can only be outside the mainland.
This is also the reason why their base areas later moved to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the Americas.
Of course, Chen Wenzhe doesn't care much about this period of history, after all, it has been swept into the dust.
However, he accidentally saw the ancient ship-shaped house, and naturally he gained some unexpected knowledge about the Tiandihui, or Huang Huilou, a big businessman at that time.
Through the analysis of some images he saw, Huang Huilou was probably a Hongmen general.
Information about Huang Hui Tower is very scarce, with only fragmentary legends and records.
According to legend, Huang Huilou was originally a small businessman from a modest family, who started his business by selling skin oil.
With his shrewdness and hard work, young Huang Huilou quickly developed into a giant businessman with more than 20 pawnshops along the way from Lichuan to Guangze, Fushi and Wanwan in just thirty years.
In order to enrich the village and build a permanent ancestral property in his hometown, Huang Huilou invited a Feng Shui master to buy the "navel" with a huge sum of money in Zhouhu Village, which is surrounded by mountains and looks like a women's belly.
This large-scale and magnificent mansion was built in a geomantic treasure land.
The orientation of the door of an ancient house also provides people with some clues about the owner.
That is the gate of the ancient house, which opens towards the east.
Ancient architecture pays great attention to Feng Shui, especially the orientation of the door.
If the owner is doing business, according to acquired Bagua, the character "Shang" belongs to gold, and the character "shang" belongs to fire, and fire overcomes metal. In other words, if the gate of the house is opened in the south, it will not be good for doing business.
The orientation is east, which is the direction of earth.
Gold born in native land is very auspicious.
It can be seen that the owner of the house is most likely a merchant.
After the boat-shaped mansion was built, Huang Huilou rarely lived here, and soon the mansion became an "ownerless house."
Not only that, Huang Huilou’s descendants soon disappeared.
Only many unknown people came and went to stay here. To be more precise, this mansion became a public residence in the mountain village.
A person in the village who is said to be a distant relative of the Huang family still preserves a batch of Huang family trees.
However, the records about Huang Huilou in this family tree are still unclear.
Since Huang Huilou is a "Hongmen general", this can reveal the mystery of Huang Huilou's sudden wealth and the fact that his mansion was built in a small village in the mountains.
The problem of not living in a mansion for a long time and suddenly disappearing seems to have been solved.
That is, as a member of the Hongmen, he participated in the Minnan Small Sword Society and the Hongmen Uprising in 1852.
After the uprising failed, he fled overseas. From then on, the ancient house became public property and was left to the people in the village.
Chen Wenzhe can definitely be sure of this. After all, if the uprising had not failed, he would not have been able to gain such a big gain from the sunken ship.
Of course, even if he could look back on the history of that year, there were still many mysteries surrounding the ancient ship-shaped house he saw.
Its mysteries can almost be connected into a series, but there are many things hidden in it, especially wealth.
The late Ming Dynasty was a time of chaos, and hiding wealth was a common trait among wealthy people.
Whether it is the wealthy merchants or the princes and nobles in the late Ming Dynasty, they are all hiding their wealth.
Among them are royal families who are extremely wealthy, and there are also maritime merchants like the Zheng family.
In addition, there are some local landowners, and then there are businessmen.
All of these people are constantly using their brains to protect their wealth.
Obviously, both the Tiandihui and Huang Huilou had some predictions about the situation they were facing.
Therefore, their wealth cannot be found by ordinary people.
But Chen Wenzhe knew that there should really be five hundred boxes of treasures hidden in that ancient ship-shaped house.
This is the funds of the Tiandihui and the wealth controlled by Huang Huilou.
And all of this is hidden in that mansion, but it has not been discovered for so many years. It must be because of this mansion.
There are so many mysteries in this ancient house. As long as these mysteries cannot be solved, nothing will be discovered.
The biggest mystery of the ancient house is its boat-shaped structure.
Why the homeowner built the house in the shape of a boat instead of the more common courtyard house in the mainland is really puzzling.
Moreover, a series of mysterious symbols and patterns were discovered one after another in and around the houseboat.
The 36 patios, 72 floor drains, and 108 houses in the houseboat seem to be hinting at something to us.
More than 1,670 years of vicissitudes have caused the old house to become mottled and damaged, but among the withered beams and painted buildings, we can still clearly see a strange phenomenon.
The roof beams of the house are painted, but the window panes, door panels, and pillars are not.