ps: Thanks to Jiangbian Zhizhi for the 500 gold coin reward
It took some time for the cavalry regiment to assemble. When Li Mingyuan entered the cave, he saw Chen Sen and others surrounding the coffin.
"No gold found?" There was nothing in the opened big wooden box. It was obvious that they did not find gold.
"In the cave, there are only white bones in this coffin, and the wooden box is completely empty."
Ten of the hundreds of large wooden boxes were opened. Li Mingyuan ordered the soldiers to open the remaining wooden boxes. As expected, there was nothing at all like the previous wooden box.
Li Mingyuan felt a little discouraged. He went out to look for the treasure with great fanfare. Was he going to return empty-handed?
"Your Majesty, this cave is full of doubts. The wooden boxes on the ground were brought in from outside. It stands to reason that the person who transported the wooden boxes would not just bring in empty boxes. These boxes must contain something."
"Where did the contents of the box go? Was it discovered and moved by others?" Li Mingyuan asked.
"Your Majesty, look, there is a coffin here. The body in the coffin and the gold ornaments buried with it are well preserved, which means that no one has entered this cave except us."
"You mean the contents of these boxes were moved to other places by the original people." Li Mingyuan somewhat understood what Chen Sen meant.
"Yes, I thought about it seriously for a while, and this is the only possibility that makes the most sense."
As he spoke, Chen Sen came to the coffin, pointed at the bones in the coffin and said, "Your Majesty, please see, the owner of this bones has misaligned neck bones. He was obviously hanged and died. Judging from his clothes and the crown he was buried with, the deceased was alive."
He is the king of the Indians. The king has a noble status. Even if he is defeated by his competitors, he will not be hanged. Therefore, combined with the history of the Indians and the legend of the treasure, I think this skeleton was hanged by the Spaniards.
The last emperor of the Inca Empire.”
"After the last emperor of the Inca Empire died, the Inca people transported his body to a cave. Because the emperor was incompetent and failed to defeat the Spanish invaders, the Inca people hid the coffin in the cave and did not bury it." After listening to Chen Sen's words, Li Mingyuan guessed.
road.
"I think this is the case. The coffin only contained a crown that could prove the identity of the deceased and a few burial objects. Compared with the rich burial objects of other Inca nobles, it was much simpler. The Inca people may have resented him for failing to protect the country.
Put it in the cave." Chen Sen agreed.
"The contents of the big box must be not far from the cave. Let's search carefully around the cave." Wanting to understand the key to the problem, Li Mingyuan immediately ordered.
The soldiers of the cavalry regiment separated to search for the whereabouts of the treasure. Li Mingyuan and Chen Sen stayed in the cave and looked at the murals on the wall in trance.
"Chen Sen, do you think these murals are for the corpses in the coffins?" Li Mingyuan asked, looking at the murals on both sides of the cave.
"I don't think it's possible. The figures in the murals are exquisite and numerous. It's impossible to complete them in a short time."
"Well, these murals are indeed beautiful. I think this cave may be the tomb of the Inca nobles, and they temporarily used it as a place to place the coffin of the last Inca emperor."
The Inca Empire had a glorious civilization. If they had not perished, these murals might have been protected by the country and become as famous as the Mogao Grottoes in China.
Li Mingyuan walked into the mural, felt the veins of the mural on the wall, and inadvertently knocked on the wall where the mural was located.
Two muffled sounds of "dong dong" came out, which were completely different from the clear and crisp sound of the solid mountain.
Li Mingyuan noticed something unusual and knocked twice with more force, but still heard a muffled sound.
"Chen Sen, there is nothing behind the cave wall."
When Li Mingyuan hit the cave wall hard, Sen Liu noticed his behavior, walked to the cave wall, and knocked along the cave for more than ten steps.
"Your Majesty, there is a compartment behind the cave wall, and the gold must have been hidden by the Incas." Chen Sen said excitedly.
Chen Sen's voice attracted more than thirty soldiers in the cave, and they all ran to both sides of the cave to knock on the cave walls.
"Your Majesty, the cave wall on the left is empty for about twenty steps, and the cave wall for sixteen steps on the right is empty." Chen Sen reported after the Chinese soldiers knocked on the cave.
"If you look carefully, there must be a starting device that controls the opening of the darkroom."
"Yes" The soldiers in the cave immediately started groping in the cave again.
More than a hundred Chinese soldiers poured into the cave, each responsible for a small area. The search was quickly completed and twelve raised or depressed places that might have been used to open the darkroom were found.
When searching for the darkroom opening button, Li Mingyuan specifically warned not to activate anything similar to the button privately to avoid triggering possible traps.
Therefore, after finding a device similar to a button, the Chinese soldiers did not move around, but immediately reported it to Li Mingyuan for decision.
Facing a possible trap, Li Mingyuan and the other soldiers left the cave, leaving only twelve fully protected soldiers twisting twelve devices that might be buttons.
Li Mingyuan's worries were not unnecessary. After waiting outside for more than ten minutes, the soldiers inside reported that the moment the stone door was opened, hundreds of sharp arrows were shot out of the stone door. Fortunately, the soldiers put on thick iron armor and closed arrows in advance.
Iron helmet, so he was not shot into a hedgehog by sharp arrows.
"When the stone gate is opened, sharp arrows will be fired. There may be other traps inside. Everyone must be careful when entering." Before entering the cave, Li Mingyuan warned again.
"Yes" everyone said in unison, suppressing the excitement in their hearts.
Worried about Li Mingyuan's safety, the soldiers formed a circle and protected Li Mingyuan in the middle as they walked into the cave.
"I've just walked through the cave. There are no traps. You don't need to surround me." Walking in the cave, Li Mingyuan smiled and said to the soldiers guarding him.
"That's not possible. The prince is the backbone of our Chinese army and cannot be put in any danger."
The soldier said stubbornly.
Li Mingyuan saw how loyal he was in protecting his master and did not refuse his protection.
A group of people walked into the cave. The two secret rooms on both sides of the cave had been opened. A soldier with full body protection walked out of the secret room. He held two pieces of gold and said excitedly, "Your Majesty, it is full of gold. The whole secret room is filled."
"Wait a minute, let's try to see if there is poison on the gold?" Li Mingyuan was ecstatic and tried to stay calm. When he read martial arts novels before, he saw a story about getting a treasure but being poisoned by the poison on the treasure, so Li Mingyuan was very cautious.
While searching for the treasure, the poison-testing animals had been found. There were more than a hundred rabbits in total. However, after staying in Lake Titicaca for seven or eight days, most of the rabbits were eaten by the soldiers, leaving only five rabbits.
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The soldier took a rabbit, cut a small wound on the rabbit's leg with a dagger, and smeared gold on the wound twice. Five minutes later, the rabbit was fine.
Gold is not poisonous, so Li Mingyuan put down his worries and walked into the secret room with the soldiers around him.
The secret room was full of gold, and the two rooms on the left and right were piled high. Li Mingyuan picked up a gold nugget and felt it in his hand. It weighed about ten kilograms.
"Your Majesty, we have become prosperous this time. The gold in the secret room is enough for all the Chinese Independence Army to spend a lifetime." Chen Sen had never seen so much gold before and could not suppress the excitement in his heart.
Li Mingyuan was even happier than Chen Sen. No one knew the importance of this gold land better than him. With this gold, the establishment of the Chinese Independence Army in South America would be more stable.
Now Li Mingyuan has 120,000 Chinese under his command. Most of these Chinese are young men. The Chinese founding the country cannot all be men. When the time comes, Li Mingyuan must first solve the family matter of his soldiers. It is a long distance from South America to China. Li Mingyuan wants to give
Each of his soldiers found a wife, and the money spent was astronomical.
Now with this gold, not only the soldiers' family matters have been solved, but more Chinese immigrating from the mainland and Southeast Asia in the future will not have to worry.
The population base determines a country's overall strength in South America. As long as Li Mingyuan expands the number of Chinese in South America in a short period of time, he does not have to worry about counterattacks from Brazil and other countries.
Although he was happy in his heart, he thought that the Chinese Independence Army was still circling in Peru and was still far away from occupying southern Brazil. Li Mingyuan quickly calmed down and said, "This is a lot of gold, but we will use the money in more places in the future."
, we can’t slack off just because we got this gold.”
"I understand the humble position." Chen Sen also felt that he was happy too early. It is still early for the Chinese Independence Army to establish the country. If the Chinese Independence Army cannot defeat the enemy and obtain the land for the founding of the country, huge amounts of gold will fall into the hands of other countries.
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"I'm giving you a heads up in advance. Just understand our situation. Finding this gold today is a happy event after all. Tell the brothers that everyone will be rewarded when we go back." After reminding him, Li Mingyuan encouraged him again.
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The amount of treasure in the cave was so huge that it was difficult for more than 900 people to transport it away at one time. Li Mingyuan sent people back to report and find more people to carry it.
