Eight hundred and eightieth chapters full of gold bricks
Chen Wenzhe had already planned how to open the passage to the treasure house.
After getting ready, Gao Qijing waved his hand, and someone jumped down behind him. Then he started waving the engineer shovel in his hand and digging hard.
There is no need to waste the soil. After it is dug out, it can be transported directly to the patio to fill in the reserved garden in the yard.
After working all night, under the command of Chen Wenzhe, they found an abandoned ditch-like thing.
Then, dig downward along this canal.
After that, I found an underground waterway.
Open up this underground waterway and finally find a passage made of stones.
This passage is actually like a slightly larger underground waterway. Even if most people dig it, they won't suspect anything, because there are many such facilities underground here...
Through backtracking, Chen Wenzhe knew that this larger underground waterway was not simple.
In this way, they successfully dug more than ten meters along this underground waterway.
Fortunately, the passage is not big, only one and a half meters high and one meter wide.
Otherwise, the amount of earthwork will be too large.
"How was this filled in back then?"
Gao Qijing and Chen Wenzhe had already descended into the passage. Looking at the complete stone strips filled with soil, Gao Qijing was a little confused.
"The soil in this passage is not empty at all. It is definitely not a simple excavation and filling."
Chen Wenzhe grabbed a handful with his hands and twisted it. It felt very delicate, like river mud washed away and silted by river water.
Thinking of this, Chen Wenzhe thought: "Did it wash in?"
Gao Qijing was stunned for a moment, then continued: "The soil in the channel must have been filled in. It is not impossible to use water to wash it away."
"Yes, it is not easy to fill it in manually. It is not difficult to bring in some soil with running water. It can be poured in from a high place, and it must be washed in through groundwater. It seems that there will not be any precious things buried in this passage.
What a treasure!”
Chen Wenzhe knew that this was a very simple civil engineering project. When this passage was built, a mechanism should have been reserved in order to bury this passage.
In order to hide this passage, some more complex facilities must be built around it.
After those facilities are destroyed, a large amount of soil will be filled in here.
A small mountain village hidden in the back mountains and close to the sea is definitely not short of water.
Only a large amount of seawater erosion can bring so much soil.
Only by flushing with water can this secret passage be quickly filled and hidden smoothly.
I don’t understand, it feels very complicated, and even the project is huge, but to put it bluntly, it’s not that difficult.
Compared to building a prince's tomb, this project is nothing.
I originally thought that this tunnel could be dug in a short time, but I didn't expect that the length of this tunnel exceeded Chen Wenzhe's imagination.
He had no choice but to use modern technology, such as a small sand mining machine.
Manual excavation is very troublesome, but using sand mining to deal with the mud in the channel is much easier.
Chen Wenzhe's house has a specially built underground sewer, and the water in the sewer leads directly to an underground river.
Such underground rivers are relatively common in this small mountain village, because they must lead to the sea, but with the hills to the east of the village blocking them, they become underground rivers.
Fill the channel with water, then use an unknown machine to stir it continuously, and then pull out the stirred mud inside.
This kind of excavation is very fast. In just one night, it advanced more than fifty meters.
It took four nights to open this passage.
In other words, they opened up a total of more than 200 meters of underground passages piecemeal.
This is a straight line distance in the mountains. Such a long passage must have taken a long time when it was built.
I don't know if there is a shortcut, otherwise, just building such a passage would be a waste of time and money.
Chen Wenzhe is now at an advantage, because without such a secret passage, there is no telling whose hands these treasures would fall into!
After passing through this long passage, when he came to the end, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the terrain here became higher, which is why so much mud remained in the passage below.
When the water level rises, it can flow away, but the mud must stay in low-lying areas.
If there are people inside, it will be a water-filled mouse hole, and the pursuers will definitely die miserably.
He looked at the passage hidden in the darkness. It was a real water passage and should not be his purpose.
After searching around for a while, I found a covered cave entrance.
The entrance to the cave, which was simply piled up with stones, was opened in just a few clicks, and after opening, a cave was revealed.
It feels like hiding is not a serious concern. Could it be that you think it’s safe here so you don’t hide it more?
Although it felt strange, Chen Wenzhe didn't think much about it because he had already discovered it before.
There was no other way. After opening the cave, when the light above the head shone, the entire cave, which was not that big, reflected a golden light.
This time he was stable. Seeing the golden light filling the cave, Chen Wenzhe knew that he had caught the tail of this batch of treasures!
If his inference is correct, this batch of treasures should all be gold.
There is nothing you can do about this. No matter what era it is, gold is the easiest to liquidate, so it should be placed in a place that can be accessed at any time.
I just don’t know what happened back then, so that the owner of this batch of treasures was unlucky before he had time to use this batch of gold.
After testing, it turned out that there was no poisonous gas. Chen Wenzhe and Gao Qijing entered first.
What you are stepping on is a gold nugget. It is considered a gold brick!
It's not that big, but a gold brick weighs more than 20,000 grams, right?
This is more than twenty kilograms, more than forty kilograms, close to fifty kilograms.
I picked up a piece and weighed it, it should be 24,700 grams.
This weight is not obtained casually, but is measured in weight!
This time it was stable, and the weight showed that the gold bricks cast weighed one hundred kilograms in the Han Dynasty.
In the Han Dynasty, one pound weighed about 247 grams, and 24,700 grams was exactly one hundred pounds.
Now, the difference is only 300 grams to 50 kilograms.
A gold brick weighing fifty pounds is slightly larger than the rotary head currently used.
It can be grasped with one hand, but it is very difficult to grasp it.
He held it on the palm of his hand and weighed it vigorously. It was of good purity.
Chen Wenzhe estimated that the purity of this gold brick reached ninety-nine.
Ninety-nine percent, which is higher than the gold content of later Tang Dynasty treasuries.
It can also be seen from this that the gold smelting technology in the Han Dynasty was still very developed.
I flipped through it casually and found that everything within reach, even wherever I looked, was covered in gold.
This cave, which is not that big, is filled with gold.