Han Kongque said: "Then you can just eat this big bed this morning! I don't have much in there."
"Don't bother! We are not as shameless as Lao Zhu. If there is really not enough, we won't give it to Lao Zhu." Long Lin said.
Han Peacock smiled and said, "Then what did you bring in the car?"
Long Lin said: "I brought fishing tackle, a stove, a tent and other things. I originally planned to show off my skills when camping in the wild."
"It's not too late. There is a lake here. Just fish and make fish soup for us!" Jiang Lin said.
"Then what are you doing?" Long Lin said unconvinced.
Jiang Lindao: "I'm not as ignorant as you. I transformed the trunk of my car into a safe. If this jade sale is successful, it is safest to put it in my car."
"Lao Su, what did you modify your car into?" Han Peacock asked curiously.
Su Jinglong said: "I have transformed it into an office. I am not as relaxed as you. I have to deal with many things in the company every day."
Han Peacock was really speechless. These people were traveling on their own, but they didn't even think of bringing food.
Thirty people can eat a lot of food. The several large bags of food prepared by Han Kongque were all eaten in just two times. This also includes the chocolate he prepared, otherwise it would not be enough.
Many people eat it.
After finishing the meal in a noisy manner, someone also sent the diving equipment, and it was sent from Shanghai.
In fact, they were only a hundred kilometers away from the Magic City. If they drove faster, they could get here in less than an hour. And it took them a day and a night to get here.
Twenty sets of diving equipment were delivered. Except for Han Kongque's ten people, most of the other ten were accompanied by bodyguards. Among them, only Han Kongque did not bring a bodyguard.
This place is different from the sea. Entering unknown underground water veins, without bodyguards to follow, these young men really don't dare to go in.
Zhang Xiangyue also got a set of diving equipment, and he acted as Han Peacock's bodyguard.
"My water quality is very good, so you don't need to go down." Han Peacock said to Zhang Xiangyue.
Chen Jiayi said: "That's right. Among these people, even Xiao Han doesn't need to worry. He can stay underwater for two hours without an oxygen tank."
"Let's go, turn on the diving lights. Don't get lost in the underwater cave. It will be dangerous if you can't get out." Han Peacock shouted.
Han Peacock also put on a diving suit and an oxygen mask this time, so that he wouldn't look too out of the ordinary.
Han Kongque gave Zhang Xiangyue a few words and asked him to follow Chen Jiayi and others to help. He quickly dived into the water and disappeared.
In fact, Chen Jiayi and the others would not go too far without Han Kongque's instructions. If they were lost in the underground maze, even if they were carrying oxygen bottles, they would be suffocated to death. Therefore, these people were just joining in the fun when they dived.
It is also because of this that no one is willing to explore the underground water veins. The underground is complicated and one may die if not careful. As modern people, no one can afford such consequences, nor do they want to afford it.
If you explore slowly, it will test people's patience and waste money. This can be seen from the underground palace in Liyuan. It is difficult to get out of such a complex underground palace without water, let alone with water.
place.
No one is as fast as Han Peacock underwater, so although Han Peacock dived into the water with Chen Jiayi and others, when Chen Jiayi and others entered the water, Han Peacock had disappeared without a trace.
As Han Peacock's magical power to control water becomes more and more powerful, he becomes more confident underwater. As long as there is water, he can do whatever he wants.
Within a distance of one hundred meters, water is his tentacles, water is his eyes, and he knows everything where the water is.
As long as it is within a hundred meters, anything that the water can touch is as if Han Peacock has touched it personally. This makes his eyes extend a hundred meters, and the situation within a hundred meters is completely different.
reflected in his mind.
Underwater, Han Peacock is like carrying a radar, able to quickly scan all situations within a hundred meters.
Han Kongque crossed the two-hundred-meter lake surface within ten seconds. After entering the underground cave, Han Kongque discovered that the terrain in the cave was gradually getting lower.
Along the cave, the Korean Peacock moved forward quickly, and whenever there was a fork in the cave, the Korean Peacock would stop and explore it carefully.
As long as the cave is completely flooded by water, Han Kongque will not care. What he is looking for is a hollow cave that is not flooded by water. Only such a place can be the location of treasure.
After groping forward for fifty or sixty meters, and the detour must have been more than a thousand meters, Han Kongque finally made a discovery.
At a straight line distance of fifty or sixty meters under the water, the water pressure is already very strong. Ordinary people have already felt a lot of pressure in such deep water, so most people will not enter such deep waters, but Han Peacock, however
I don't care about the water pressure at all.
His magical power of water control allowed him to see everything within a hundred meters of him, so he was able to find another fork in the road.
Sixty meters underwater should be the lowest level of the underground U-shaped water vein. At this lowest level, Han Peacock discovered another water channel leading to the top.
This discovery made Han Peacock know that this was not a U-shaped water tank, but a W-shaped water tank. On Han Peacock's side, there were two passages leading to the mountain.
This is just the water vein in the middle, which has been blocked by a large stone. This should be the legendary Dragon Broken Stone. Using this kind of thing to block the passage will never be used unless it is in danger.
This blocked waterway extends diagonally into the mountain for more than sixty meters, almost level with the lake outside the mountain.
Han Peacock couldn't move the Broken Dragon Stone, so he could only find other ways to enter this waterway.
Fortunately, the underground is entirely made of limestone. After years of corrosion, the limestone continues to react with water and dissolve into caves. Although the environment here is more complex, within Han Kongque's water control range, the water is like his body's
Part of it, so he can clearly see the surrounding environment within his controllable range. He can easily know which two caves are easy to open.
In this way, Han Peacock kept groping underwater, and he slowly opened a passage into the waterway.
As soon as he entered the imaginary waterway, Han Kongque was startled. Under the illumination of his diving light, he saw a humanoid skeleton coming towards him.
This is a corpse, and then, scattered corpses keep appearing. This is a place where corpses are dumped.
Fortunately, hundreds of years have passed. The corpses here have rotted away, leaving only some bones. Otherwise, this kind of place would be disgusting to death.
Soon Peacock Han calmed down and found the body, indicating that he had found the right place.
If the little girl were here this morning, she would also know that her guess was absolutely correct, and that by following the footsteps of the battle, she could find the final destination.
Whether it is a treasure house or the final place where escape tools are hidden, the final destination is definitely where the battle will be fiercest.
Han Peacock carefully dodged the corpses floating in the water and slowly surfaced.
This passage should be an open secondary passage. Although it is close to the main underground passage, it is very secretive.
Since this passage is upward, it is an upward slope. Since it is far away, the slope is not very large and it is not very difficult to walk.
The Korean Peacock quickly walked out of the water and entered a series of dry passages.
This is the top of the mountain, and there must be an exit leading here, because Han Peacock felt the wind blowing. If there weren't enough vents, it wouldn't be so dry here.
Under the illumination of the diving light, Han Peacock saw countless small caves. Although they were not big, each one could be walked through. In such an environment, it was not easy to find the treasure house.
Han Peacock did not enter the fork in the passage. He walked directly to the end of the passage. At the end, Han Peacock discovered something very interesting.
If he read correctly, the rope nailed to the wall should be an ancient ropeway.
Moreover, Han Peacock also found a fixed pulley on the other half of the wall. These things are tools that can transport things quickly, which made Han Peacock have great expectations for the last cave.
Following the neat and tidy steps, Han Kongque walked into the passage and passed through the passage. Outside the passage was a huge cave. The scene in the cave made Han Kongque stunned. There was nothing here.
Seeing the scene inside, Han Kongque was stunned. This was simply impossible. There were pulleys and ropeways outside. The Li family's treasure must have been transported here. How could it not be possible?
Han Peacock looked around, but found nothing.
Not giving up, he drew some water from below and poured it directly into the cave. As the water invaded the ground, Han Peacock began to understand the situation inside the surrounding cave walls.
"What's this?"
Soon Han Peacock discovered something was wrong. He stepped hard with his foot, causing a piece of ground to collapse. The ground here was camouflaged, with only a layer of wooden boards covering it.
After clearing out the general outline, Han Peacock discovered that this should be something similar to a suspension bridge, but the huge suspension bridge here was not used for traffic, but to block the underground situation.
There is a passage underground here. The passage is half buried underground. A large part of it has been destroyed. The entrance that Han Peacock discovered was the undamaged part. Otherwise, this passage here would have been completely buried.
Here is a small pier hidden in the mountains. In this pier without any water, three broken wooden boats are half buried in the earth and rocks, which looks particularly desolate.
The escape transport was found, which proved that this was really the Li family's escape route, but the ships were destroyed, indicating that the Li family's treasures should still be here, but now, Han Peacock found nothing.
Han Peacock carefully inspected the sunken ships. There was nothing on them, but there were obvious traces of burning on the ships, which was obviously man-made damage.
This is a small dock hidden in the mountains. It can barely stop three wooden boats. After all, the river outside is not very deep. A wooden boat with a load of about ten tons was considered very advanced at the time.
After studying the wooden ship for a while, Han Kongque was surprised to find that the wooden ship was actually a small steamer. Such a ship has obviously stronger transportation capacity. However, were there any small steamers in the 1760s?
Han Kongque once remembered that China's shipping industry said that when Zeng Guofan was fifty-three years old, the Anqing Ordnance Company built my country's first wooden-hulled small steamer. It should have been 1863. In this way , with the Li family’s financial resources, it shouldn’t be a problem to buy a few small steamers from abroad.
With this discovery, Han Kongque became frustrated and used small steamers to transport the treasures of the Li family. No matter how much the Li family's treasures were, they were all transported in just a few trips. It seemed that the Li family's treasures had really been moved.
Han Peacock stood up and had no intention of giving up. So he once again controlled a large amount of water to penetrate the cave in all directions. If the treasure was still buried here, he couldn't let it slip by his carelessness.
"What is this?" Soon, Han Peacock made another discovery.
What was discovered this time was a buried hole with a diameter of 60 centimeters. This was a robber hole! Soon, Han Peacock discovered several more holes. They should all be robber holes.
Is there anything more deceptive than this?
Originally, Han Kongque was very confident. He thought he was the first to discover this place, but he didn't expect that there was even a robbery cave here. He really underestimated the heroes of the world.
Han Peacock now truly admires those captains who touched gold. They dug a hole directly from above and entered the dock.
It seems that the pier was discovered first, and then a passage was opened from the side wall outside the collapsed pier to enter.
However, Han Peacock soon began to gloat over his misfortune, and the senior who got through the thieves' cave must have gained nothing.
This is a well-preserved battlefield. There is nothing except some corpses. I think those seniors who came before Han Peacock were also extremely disappointed, right?
After seeing the robbery cave, Han Kongque gave up completely. What did those people do? If there were anything valuable left here, they would be taken away by those seniors.
Han Peacock no longer thought about treasure hunting and returned directly from the original route. Just as he was about to enter the water, Han Peacock thought of the corpses soaking in the water.
No, whose bodies are those?
It would be normal if it belonged to the Li family, but how did the Li family die?
It must have been killed by the Taiping Army. If the Taiping Army killed the Li family, of course the Li family's wealth would fall into the hands of Li Xiucheng, and Li Xiucheng did not transport anything from here. So what does this mean?
Also, who destroyed the pier above?
There is only one possibility, Li Xiucheng. If Li Xiucheng destroyed it, how did his soldiers get out of here?
With Li Xiucheng's power at that time, he didn't need a retreat, but if you don't have long-term worries, you will have immediate worries. Would he really leave no retreat for himself?
Faced with a ready-made escape route, why would Li Xiucheng destroy this dock here?
In this way, there is only one possible explanation for all this, what is Li Xiucheng hiding here.
Since the dock is blocked, the only way to enter here is through the Li family's underground maze.
It turns out that the passage entering here was flooded and blocked by the Broken Dragon Stone. In addition, the bodies of the Li family were dumped there by Li Xiucheng. That road must have been abandoned. If that road was no longer used, then Li
Xiucheng used that passage again.
If this passage really exists, will the Li family's treasure be hidden at the end of that passage?
Where is the end of the passage? It must be near the last big cave, and only here is the easiest way to transfer this batch of treasures.
Thinking of this, Han Peacock's heart suddenly became hot again. If there is really a harvest this time, it won't be the problem of the Li family's treasures. There must be Li Xiucheng's military expenses and even treasures that Liu Xiucheng looted from surrounding areas and provinces.
Of course, even if there is nothing else, just adding Li Xiucheng's military expenditure is staggering. If Li Xiucheng really wants to go to the magic city to buy arms, taking this road should be the shortest way.
You must know that the arms trade between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and foreign countries was mainly carried out in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the occupied areas of Su (Fu) and Zhejiang (Jiang), centered on Modu, Su, Zhou, Nan, Jing, Ning, and Bo.
There are several main transportation routes. First, foreign businessmen use large ships to travel by sea from Singapore, Hong Kong and other places to coastal ports such as Modu, Ning, Bo, Zhen, Hai, Zha, Pu, Zhang and Zhou, and then sell them locally or
They were sold to the Taiping Army in various places. The Taiping Army in Zhejiang and Jiangsu especially used this route to provide arms.
The second is to take advantage of the convenience of shipping on the Yangtze River. In the name of trade, foreigners took the opportunity to secretly do arms business with the Taiping Army in various ports along the Yangtze River. The arms and supplies obtained from this route were mainly used to strengthen the defense forces of the Taiping Army in Nanjing.
The third is to trade from the capital to Suzhou and nearby places via land and water. In the late Taiping period, most of the ports were occupied by the Qing army, and the Qing government became increasingly strict on foreigners smuggling with the Taiping. Therefore,
Only Li Xiucheng would go to great lengths to capture the Magic City and directly open up connections with the outside world.
However, Li Xiucheng's idea was ultimately blocked by some foreigners and local gentry.
The most famous among them is the Wall's Foreign Gun Team, which was established with donations from local gentry.
In the spring of 1862, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom planned to spend 500,000 taels of silver to send people to the United States to purchase ships and guns. Later, Yinhua informed Wu Xu, Su Songtao, but failed.
According to an estimate by Ma Dun, an American who had surrendered to the Taiping Army, there were 30,000 foreign guns in the Taiping Army in Suzhou, and a quarter of the soldiers were equipped with rifles. All 1,000 guards of the loyal king Li Xiucheng were equipped with rifles.
In October 1862, when Li Xiucheng led his army to attack Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army camp outside Tianjing, the army had "as many as 20,000 foreign guns" and was equipped with a considerable number of flower cannons and these guns.
These require a lot of money to obtain. It can also be seen from this that Li Xiucheng's military expenditure is absolutely indispensable.
In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, no matter how much military expenditure Li Xiucheng raised, he could not spend it. This made it very possible that he was hiding here.
After all, this place is not far from the devil. As long as there is a chance, they can use the money here to buy the arms or supplies they need.
With the idea in mind, Han Peacock stopped studying the empty cave and began to turn around to study the passage in. (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
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