Han Kongque walked around casually and found that except for the building complex where he was, there were no traces of gardens anywhere else.
After decades of evolution, the ancient Li Garden has been completely dilapidated. If it weren't for the solid houses here and the indestructible underground caves, I don't think there would be any trace of Li Garden left here.
The entrance to the underground maze is at the back of the building complex. A guardrail has been built there to block the entrance. Every visitor who wants to enter must buy a fifty yuan ticket.
Han Kongque took out fifty yuan, bought a ticket and entered the underground maze.
This underground labyrinth is actually a cave. Over thousands of years, the underground limestone has been corroded by water to create countless caves, large and small.
As the world changed, the terrain increased, or the water level dropped, the water source in this cave was exhausted, and this underground palace was formed.
The underground palace has obviously been renovated. Although it is called a maze, the main routes are marked, and some small side roads are also marked one by one to indicate the direction for tourists entering here.
After Han Peacock entered the underground, he did not go into the small side roads to explore in an unconventional way. Instead, he walked along the main road, wanting to take a look at the overall structure here first.
Although it was said that there was a treasure here, Han Kongque really couldn't figure it out, so he didn't bother to fumble around.
Not long after entering the underground palace, Han Peacock met a few people. From their words, they must be young.
"Xiaojia, can we really find the Li Yuan treasure?" a male voice asked.
"Of course. I have been preparing for so long, and I will definitely gain something this time." This may be the girl named Xiaojia.
"I hope I can gain something. If I still can't get the money, Teacher Li will be delayed."
"I will definitely find the treasure, so we don't have to change schools." Xiao Jia said very confidently.
"Then how do we find it?"
"You just follow me."
After listening to a few words, Han Kongque became interested. Since he didn't have any clues, he might as well follow these children and take a look.
So Han Peacock followed a few children without any shame and walked forward along the main passage.
The children in front should be students from nearby schools. Is it really because their teacher does not go to school but has to transfer to another school, so he came here so early in the morning to hunt for treasures?
They were noisy along the way, making the gloomy underground palace become noisy.
Han Kongque followed these students unhurriedly and walked through caves of various sizes. If there were no road signs here and there were no electric lights on the main road, unfamiliar people would 100% get lost if they entered here.
Even so, in this cave, every few dozen meters, there is a tour guide below to guide tourists.
"Look, this is what I discovered last time." Han Peacock was walking forward when he heard the voice of a little girl in front of him.
"What did you find? There's nothing special here?" A little boy's voice asked doubtfully.
"Idiot, do you think this wall is different from other places?" Another female voice said fiercely.
Han Kongque took a few steps quickly, followed the sound, and walked into a small fork in the road. The students he had followed earlier were studying something in a rather small cave.
"no difference."
"You are really hopeless. Look at these marks, do they look like they were cut by a knife or an axe?"
"Yes, you didn't tell me that I hadn't thought of it. But when you said it, it's true."
Han Kongque was moved when he heard this. He turned into a cave near the students. He took out a flashlight and looked at the cave walls here.
He searched carefully for a week, but found no traces of cold weapons hitting the cave wall. However, he was right. Even if there had been a battle here, it was just killing people. If it hadn't been for an accident, no one would have used a knife or axe.
Hacking the cave wall.
Even if there are some traces, unless the traces are very obvious, otherwise after so many years, the slight traces will be worn away by time.
After thinking about it, Han Kongque stopped looking for traces of knives and axes. Just when he was about to walk out of the cave, Han Kongque's heart moved. He pointed the light at the entrance of the cave. Sure enough, the hole at the entrance of the cave.
There are some small pits on the wall.
Han Peacock analyzed it carefully and found that there were many such small pits on the stone wall at the entrance of the cave. Such small pits were definitely not formed naturally, and they did not want to be left by bullets.
Because the power of firearm bullets is definitely not that small. If the rifle really hits the cave wall, the bullet will definitely stay on the cave wall.
Flintlock musket? Or even more backward musket or blunderbuss?
Soon, Han Peacock cleaned up some cave walls without any small pits. Without any obstructions such as moss, some tiny small pits appeared. Sure enough, there were traces of iron sand.
Han Peacock instantly thought of Liu Xiucheng and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the late Qing Dynasty.
If Li Xiucheng had been here, then all this would make sense.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used captured blunderbuss and rifles from the Qing army at the beginning, which were relatively backward and could certainly not cause heavy damage to the cave walls here, but the flintlock guns were different.
After the Taiping Army occupied Jiangnan, they imported many modern guns through European and American smugglers, including flintlock guns that were slightly backward at the time, and of course the more advanced flash cap percussion guns at the time.
After that, the Taiping Army also imitated some of its own. In the later period, Li Xiucheng's army had a high proportion of firearms, and the army mixed with flintlock guns and blunderbuss was then the army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After all, Zeng Guofan's army was
Government troops are much better equipped.
Based on this calculation, it really makes sense to say that this is the attack trace left by Li Xiucheng's troops.
After making the discovery, Han Peacock continued to follow the students in front of him and found many cave walls that looked like they were hit by flintlock guns. If these marks were really as Han Peacock speculated, the battle in this underground cave should have happened that year.
Very intense.
This should be the escape route for the Li family in Li Yuan. Since they were followed and chased here by the Taiping Army, it would not be so easy for the Li family to escape easily. The most likely possibility is to be wiped out by Li Xiucheng's troops.
"Xiaojia, where are you taking us to?"
"I'm telling you you don't know either, just follow along."
"Yes, if I make a discovery, you will have a share in it."
"Coward, I wouldn't have brought you here if I had known better."
"What can you find?"
"Follow me. Be careful. The Li family were ruthless back then! They didn't leave anything behind for the Taiping Army. Even the tables and chairs at home were moved into this treasure house. As long as we follow the instructions of the battle back then,
If you follow the traces, it is very likely that you will find the final treasure location.”
"It's no use even if we discovered it! The Taiping Army must have discovered it a hundred years ago."
"Are you a pig? The Taiping Army must have discovered Li Yuan's treasure house, but they did not touch the treasures here. Instead, they shipped a lot more in the later period. We, Suzhou and Hangzhou, were greatly harmed by them at that time.
If there are so many treasures, there will definitely be legends about them if they are transported out. But if there are no treasures now, it can only mean that the treasures are still here. Since they are here, then the treasures here are their last hope, but they did not get through the magic city later.
The passage is just not used.
If it is really found, not only the treasures of the Li family are here, but also the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom must be here. You know, until now, no one has discovered the treasures of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
I think maybe there is a huge treasure house waiting for us somewhere under our feet." Xiaojia's voice came out, revealing Han Peacock's conjecture.
Han Kongque broke into a cold sweat when he heard this. Children nowadays are really not to be insulted. They can think so clearly that many adults cannot think of.
Just like the little girl said, the final burial place of the treasure must be the place where the battle is fiercest. As long as this place is found, the treasure will definitely be not far away.
If other people have this idea, they must have found these treasures long ago. I don't know why no one has been able to discover the Li family treasures yet.
"Oops! It's broken, there is water here."
"What's wrong with the water?"
"The traces of the battle disappeared here. The most likely way is to enter the cave further down. But now the cave below is flooded, and we can't continue to track it."
"what to do?"
"What else can we do? Search around carefully. If you really can't find any clues, it can only be because it was submerged under the water. This is no longer something we are capable of looking for."
Han Peacock likes all places with abundant water. Here, Han Peacock can control the groundwater here at will. Those students cannot continue to explore downward, but Han Peacock can follow the water flow and continue to explore downward for more than a hundred times.
rice.
The little girl's guess was correct. The direction of the battle was under the water. Under the water, there was an extremely huge underground palace, which was submerged deeper by the groundwater.
Just when Han Peacock wanted to sneak into the water to investigate, the commanding and extremely intelligent female voice said again: "Okay, let's go back and carefully search every place with traces of fighting.
.
Especially in the cracks underground, there may be some gold and silver treasures missing in those cracks. Now we can only look for the scattered treasures missed during the battle. As long as we have harvest, we can buy diving
Equipment, continue to explore downward."
"Teacher Li seems like he can't wait any longer."
"How about we go to the city to collect donations?"
"Stop dreaming. It's better to ask for others than to ask for yourself. Nowadays, people are afraid of being deceived. If we go to the streets to collect donations, we won't get much money. Instead, we will be laughed at."
"Then we have to give it a try. We can't sit still and wait for death."
"If you really can't do it, just go home and get the money. Anyway, if you don't pay Teacher Li's medical expenses, the money will be given to the honest officials of the Education Bureau."
"My dad also prepared a lot of money! He said it's for school transfer fees."
"The same goes for our family, but instead of giving money, we say we want to give away things according to the principal's preferences!"
"If it really doesn't work, just go home and get the money. Anyway, the money can't be wasted."
"If that doesn't work, we'll hire people to hunt for the treasure, and then hire some mercenary bodyguards. If we really find the treasure, we'll have everything."
"You must have read too many novels!"
"I believe in myself. If someone supports me, I will definitely be able to find the baby." This was Xiaojia's voice.
Han Peacock was speechless. Today's children are too strong and extremely smart.
After hearing the analysis of these children, Han Peacock was not anxious anymore.
Since a little girl can think of something, it is impossible for others to think of it after so many years.
Even if he continues to search now, he will definitely not gain much. He might as well see if these children can gain anything.
No longer thinking about continuing to search for treasures, Han Peacock walked around freely in the cave, constantly controlling the water flow to speculate on the direction of the underground water veins.
It is incredible that such a place has abundant water sources underground. It is not an exaggeration to say that the underground water veins are underground rivers.
With Han Peacock's sensitivity to water, he can clearly perceive water sources within a hundred meters underground. As long as there is water underground, he can clearly reflect it in his mind. Wherever the water goes, his perception
It can also come with it.
In this way, Han Peacock followed the underground water source all the way south. He soon discovered that this underground water actually extended far away.
At this time, Han Peacock unexpectedly walked to another exit of the underground maze and walked out of the underground maze. Han Peacock discovered that he had actually arrived at the foot of the mountain.
This made him feel even more incredible. The underground palace he was in just now was completely on the top of the hillside, which meant that the water level there was much higher than the surface outside.
Looking at the looming hill in the distance, Han Kongque felt a sense of enlightenment in his heart.
Last night, I seemed to have told Lao Li from the small restaurant that all the hills around here belong to the Li family and belong to the Li Garden. So, the hills corresponding to this hill in the distance also turned out to be.
Belongs to the Li family?
Just now, Han Peacock followed the underwater veins and discovered that the veins extended directly into the distance, maybe even to the hill opposite.
Water flows to lower places, this is a truth that has not changed throughout the ages, but now, there is a vein of underground water that can actually flow to higher places.
This kind of discovery made Han Peacock feel incredible, but such a situation was not impossible, so after Han Peacock carefully explored the direction of the underground water veins, he made a conclusion.
Underground in Li Garden, there is an artificial underground river. Of course, it turned out that it was probably not an underground river, but an underground passage. Later, for some unknown reason, the groundwater flooded that passage, thus forming the current water flow to the higher ground.
The wonder of flow.
It is also very easy to form this kind of wonder. As long as a U-shaped channel is formed, as long as the water level on one side is high, the water levels at both ends of the U-shaped channel will naturally be kept consistent under the pressure of atmospheric pressure. This is similar to the level made of water pipes.
Same reason.
If it is true as Han Kongque speculated, the underground passage of Li Garden extends directly to the hill in the distance, and this hill is more than ten kilometers away.
If this was really done manually, such a project would be a huge waste of time and money, not to mention in ancient times, even in modern times.
Although it was incredible for such a large project, Han Kongque knew that such a passage was really possible when he thought about the limestone underground.
As long as the ground in this area is entirely made of limestone, it is possible for caves to be corroded, and if there are caves, as long as you rest a little, you can easily create passages not to mention more than ten kilometers, but even a hundred kilometers.
He discovered the secret of the underground labyrinth, but what's the use of it? He must have discovered such a secret. If there is really a treasure down there, it is absolutely impossible to keep it until now.
Han Kongque couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it. He had been out for a long time, and maybe Chen Jiayi and the others were looking for him.
"Brother Han, when did you come down?" As soon as Han Peacock turned around, he heard the cry of Dragon Scale.
"Eh? Why did you drive down?" Han Peacock looked at the motorcade in the distance strangely.
Long Lin said: "Stop talking, I am really unlucky. The labyrinth above was blocked by a group of people. I heard that some archaeological team came to do archaeology. Isn't this nonsense?" Long Lin said.
Chen Jiayi said: "Perhaps you have made a new discovery and are here to hunt for treasures?"
"Then you can't just drive us out for no reason." Long Lin said angrily.
Chen Jiayi said helplessly: "This is the power of the country. People can dig up other people's ancestral graves with confidence. Do you dare?"
"Look, that thing is the legendary Luoyang shovel, right? This is an archaeological team! Or a tomb robber? I heard that only tomb robbers would use this thing, right?" Long Lin pointed at a few people in the distance.
Han Peacock looked over, and sure enough, those men were holding a strange shovel with a long handle and a slender and sharp bottom, and they were digging the soil. They were indeed using Luoyang shovels.
"There's more there."
"There."
"Everywhere."
"What are they going to do?"
As everyone was talking randomly, Han Kongque discovered that this time it seemed that he was going to take serious action. In the entire Li Garden, there were people using Luoyang shovels to detect the underground.
"This method is good, although it is very stupid, but with such a large-scale detection, as long as there is something underground, there is no way to avoid their shovels." Chen Jiayi said with emotion.
"It's all limestone below, and there are so many underground palaces. What can they detect by doing this?" Long Lin said.
"The place they detected avoided the underground palace below." Han Peacock quickly saw something fishy.
It seems that the experts of these archaeological teams are not just freeloaders. They have more evidence to prove that there is indeed a treasure here. Without finding any useful clues, they can only adopt such stupid methods.
"Look Luo, the Yang shovel is useless." Long Lin pointed to a place where it was obvious that it had encountered underground rocks and could no longer be shoveled.
Han Peacock smiled bitterly: "Look again, what did they transport?"
"Is that a drilling rig?" Chen Jiayi said in shock.
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