I have been very obsessed with the stories of treasures since I was a child. Whether Chinese or foreign, I am very obsessed with them. If I see rumors similar to treasures in any magazine or newspaper, I will try my best to cut them down and paste them in a "big calculation" book.

Later, I read Mr. Jin Yong's "Flying Foxes on Snow Mountain" and was fascinated by the treasure treasure of the King of Chuang behind the Yubi Peak of Wulan Mountain in Liaodong. I even repeatedly borrowed the map album in the school library with Chaoyang in Liaoning to study and trace the red. On the map, the location of Wulan Mountain is just a small dot, and I don't know how many red circles and marks I drew on it.

Later, as I grew older, I realized that the treasure of the King of Chuang could not be hidden in Liaodong. How could the biggest enemy of the Qing Dynasty bury his national treasure in the enemy's nest? Even if it was dark under the light, the most dangerous place was the safest idea. The dozens of cars of property could not be transported out of the gate after a long journey.

However, I was not willing to give up on the treasure of the King of Breaking. After Zhang Xianzhong's shipwreck treasure was dug up one after another a few years, I was even more excited.

So I followed the development of the Dashun Army, hoping to add some personal subjective conjectures to the complex notes of the Ming Dynasty or historical books, and find some clues about the treasure of the King of Breaking. (I firmly believe in the existence of the treasure. Anyway, as long as I haven't dug it, I can't deny it does not exist. If I dug it......Ahem)

In short, what was sorted out in the end is that you have seen this text by now.

So first of all, how did this "Breaking King Treasure" come from? That is the main source of economic income for Li Zicheng's early troops———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

In the early days of the Dashun Dynasty, it was always publicized that the three-year exemption of money tax was exempted, and the money needed by the army was obtained through "chasing dirty and assisting with salary".

In the 14th year of Chongzhen, before Li Zicheng entered Henan, Li Zicheng had been defeated by the Ming army until it disappeared, with only a thousand or eight hundred people at most. Obviously, Li Zicheng had no money at this time.

After conquering Luoyang, Henan, he opened the palace of King Fu Zhu Changxun and made his first pot of gold. I don’t know how much money he received, but it can be seen from the two places.

The first is the notes of the Ming people, saying that when Li Zicheng attacked Xiangyang, the officials guarding the city cursed, "The royal family made a million yuan in money, but they were not rushing. They asked us to kill the thieves with an empty stomach, so that we all starved to death?" (Volume 8 of "Sui Kou Ji Lu" "Journal of the Garden" Volume 9 of "Er Shen Ye Lu" Volume 8)

The millions of money here are an imaginary number, but it is obvious that there is a lot of money in the Fu Palace.

Later, Li Zicheng broke the Fu Palace, and there were roughly two places to go to for this money.

One: It is to provide relief to the people and recruit troops to expand the army

("A Brief History of Yu Break": The hungry people from far and near are coming and they are coming, and those who respond to it are like flowing water, which is endless day and night, and one call is millions.)

Of course, this relief is definitely not for nothing to use grain and money for everyone. I think it will probably cost you some money.

(Volume 4 of "Ping Kou Zhi", Volume 9 of "Sui Kou Ji": Recruiting people as soldiers, giving five taels of silver a month, and hungry people are flocking to it)

Second: transport to the mountains

In "History of Peasant Wars in the Late Ming Dynasty", Gu Cheng said: It is transported to mountainous areas for military purposes (p143 page)

Of course, the books written by Mr. Gu can only be regarded as historical reference books and cannot be used as historical materials. However, I think Mr. Gu’s research is still very solid. Since he said that, I think I must have seen the statement of “transporting to the mountains” somewhere.

Unfortunately, Mr. Gu did not say how he transported it, and it was transported to which mountain area.

However, this section of Li Zicheng's army was very clear. He came out of Shangluo Mountain in December, broke into Jia County in early December, and defeated Yiyang on the 21st. Then he attacked Luoyang.

Therefore, if you follow the normal thinking, Li Zicheng was not yet rich and suddenly got a large sum of silver from the Fu Palace, and he would definitely have the idea of ​​hiding some wealth. It would prevent the future of military affairs and the future of this silver and money, which could be used as an emergency.

So I followed my offensive route and transported the treasures obtained by the Fu Palace back to the nearest Shangluo Mountain. I think it was a more reasonable inference. So I drew a key symbol in the place of Shangluo Mountain.

A month later, Zhang Xianzhong left Sichuan and broke Xiangyang and took a lot of money from the Xiangyang Palace. When Li Zicheng later got Xiangyang, the money was taken away by Zhang Xianzhong, and it was basically an empty city. (Volume 14 of "The Record of the Bandits of Huailing": (Zhang Xianzhong) Distribute 150,000 silver to provide relief to the victims)

After that, Li Zicheng embarked on the road to success. After three openings, Kaifeng was flooded by the Yellow River. (This section is complicated, and all three statements are proved by classics, and they need to be discussed separately when there is a chance) The entire city was buried under the mud.

Anyway, no one got the money in Kaifeng. Later, Emperor Chongzhen found some eunuchs to dig for digging treasures, but he didn't get much.

So Kaifeng City must have no money to make money, but later in the Qin Palace in Xi'an, Shaanxi and Taiyuan in Shaanxi, Li Zicheng made a lot of money. However, at that time, the Dashun Army had already made great achievements. Military expenditure had become a burden that could not be removed.

Since Li Zicheng crossed the Yellow River in Shaanxi east, it can be said that the army surrendered. The Ming army that surrendered was just a mouthful of food. People surrendered, and Chongzhen had to pay the money he had accumulated over the years, so at least he shouldn't have owed the money for this month's money.

So I think that not only did Li Zicheng not save much money at this time, he probably had to spend a lot of money. Until the highlight came, the Dashun army captured Beijing.

The so-called legend of the treasure of the King of Breaking the King comes from here.

So how much money did Li Zicheng get in Beijing? Each classic records vary.

The "Jiashen Chronicle" says: More than 30 million taels of silver are still there, and 1.5 million taels of gold are still there.

"A Brief Introduction to the Truth of Jiashen" says: The total amount of silver in each treasury is 37 million, and the gold is 30,000.

"Ersu Records": Li Zicheng covered the inner treasury with nine million silvers and half gold

Mr. Gu Cheng, an expert in history who studied the late Ming Dynasty, also believed that the money was quite huge. His research is: 37 million silver and 1.5 million taels of gold.

Then they were "chasing the dirt and assisting the salary". According to the level of officials, the price was clearly marked. If they could not afford the money, they would be beaten or even killed.

(The "Ashen Certification" gives the specific price codes for torture officials: Zhongtang 100,000, Ministry of the Ministry, Jingtang, Jinyi 70,000, 50,000, 31,000, Ministry of Personnel 30,000, Hanlin 321,000, deployed thousands...)

I think, according to common sense, in addition to collecting cash such as gold and silver, other precious jewelry, antiques, etc. should be worth it.

Of course, later, "chasing dirty and helping pay" expanded, or it was too "fair". It did not unite all the forces that needed unity, but actually chased dirty and helped pay to Wu Sangui's father, "Wu Xiang".

This led to the distrust of the Dashun Dynasty by the Liaodong Wu Sangui Group, and finally surrendered and rebelled again. In the end, the Shishun Army was reversal by the joint forces of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and the Qing army.

After a stone, Li Zicheng took the property he tortured from Beijing (the treasure of the King of Breaking) all the way. Wu Sangui and Duoduo did not enter Beijing to repair the city after the stone battle, but were assigned by Dorgon to intercept the large amount of treasures Li Zicheng obtained from Beijing in Hebei.

So have Wu Sangui and Duoduo intercepted the treasure of the King of Chuang? Of course not!

In Hebei, the Qing army pursued all the way, and the Dashun army fought a total of two blocking battles.

The first battle was fought in Qingdu (Wangdu County, Hebei). This battle was a desperate battle fought by Gu Ying (Gu Kecheng) behind the palace. In the end, Gu Ying's troops were all killed in the battlefield in order to prevent the Qing army from pursuing the pursuit of the palace. Gu Ying was also killed in this battle.

Gu Ying may not be familiar with everyone, but by opening the historical materials, you can see that there are only a dozen people who have been named marquis of Dashun Army for military merits. Qihou Gu Ying should be among the top ten in the Dashun Army. In other words, he can steadily enter the top ten founding marshals of Dashun.

Such a big man actually died in this blocking battle. Although the records in historical books are only a few words, the tragic battle can be imagined.

(Due to the lack of historical materials, is this Qihou of Dashun Army called "Gu Ying" or "Gu Kecheng", or "Gu Dacheng". It's all a mystery now, let's call it Gu Ying for the time being)

The second blocking battle was in Zhending, which is now Zhengding, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. Li Zicheng went to fight in person and was said to have suffered a little injury.

However, neither of these two battles retained the main force of the Dashun Army, and in the end, the Dashun Army fled.

There is a very interesting record in Volume 17 of "Baoding Prefecture Chronicles", "The big brocade is wrapped around the tree, and the gold is cast into the slightest and thrown to the right of the road."

Lingqi means bottle. This sentence means that when the army behind the palace hangs silk on the tree when they are running away, throws some gold-cast bottles next to the road to pick them up, and delays the pursuit of the Qing army.

Then there are two conclusions from this sentence.

The first one: The treasures Li Zicheng obtained from Beijing are not only gold and silver, but also some "treasures". For example, this "cast gold into the stake". Can I understand it as something like Xuande Furnace?

The second one: These things are thrown on the ground by the troops behind the palace, so the main force running in the front will definitely have more treasures and better ones.

To change the way of thinking of modern people, if someone chases me behind me, I will definitely throw away the bulky things like refrigerators and color TVs first when I run away. I have a more refined big gold bracelet and small watch in my arms... Well, maybe there is a laptop.

Finally, Duoduo and Wu Sangui chased all the way to the foot of Taihang Mountain. Historical records record that "the horse was trapped and tired, and could not be far away" so they turned back to Beijing. Li Zicheng's army and the treasure also passed Jingxing and Guguan entered Shanxi.

After Li Zicheng's large army carrying the treasure passed through Taihang Mountains, he was not attacked. Li Zicheng safely entered Taiyuan City with the "Treasure of the King of Breaking".

At this time, Li Zicheng made a very strange decision, which was to dispatch all kinds of people to guard several obstacles in Taiyuan City (Ma Chongxi guards Guguan, Chen Yongfu guards Taiyuan, Zhang Tianlin, and Jiang Guan guards Datong)

I didn't command Shanxi's operations on the front line, but returned to Shaanxi with my troops. (It was this decision that also led to the overall corruption and collapse of the situation in Shanxi in the later period)

So why is Li Zicheng in a hurry to return to Xi'an? I think a big possibility is to transport the "Treasure of the King of Breaking" back!

Immediately afterwards, history reached the beginning of my book "The Fourth Natural Disaster in the Late Ming Dynasty", and the Qing court sent two armies from east to west to directly lead the Central Plains. (I won't talk about the route of advancement in detail, it has nothing to do with this article)

Li Zicheng and Duoduo fought in Tongguan for thirteen days. Because the Ajige Legion also came down from Yan'an and the Imperial Guard. Under the attack of the two armies, Li Zicheng knew that Xi'an was not guaranteed, so he finally decided to give up Xi'an and attack Nanjing with his troops that were scattered. (If players who have played early real-time strategy games know that there is a proprietary slander term called "change home!")

But since it is called "changing home", we must first move. As my book says, gold and silver are easy to deal with, and this thing is hard currency.

But if you hold two blue and white plum vases and a scroll of Gu Kaizhi in your hand, who will you ask for to exchange for money? You should know that it is a chaotic world, and some places even have human flesh and blood, so who will buy your antique? No matter how good it is, it will be difficult to sell at a good price for a while.

(About ◆Win the King of Breaking Treasure◆, I actually guessed it roughly in "The Fourth Natural Disaster in the Late Ming Dynasty". Anyway, I guess it's all these things)

There are many of these things, but they can’t be sold, and they can’t be taken away. So what should I do? I think burying them is actually a good way.

So where are you buried? If you open the map, you will find that the mountainous area closest to Xi'an City is the 800-mile Qinchuan below.

The Shangluo Mountains are also part of the Qinling Mountains.

This place is too familiar to Li Zicheng.

First of all, in the novel "Li Zicheng", Yao Xueying simply said that Li Zicheng had been in Shangluo Mountain for two years. You should know that Yao's "Li Zicheng" is absolutely unambiguous in important places. It is not an exaggeration to read it as half a historical book. It is completely different from the jokes like Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Although Gu Cheng, a historical expert in the late Ming Dynasty, did not agree with the statement that Yao had been in Shangluo Mountain for two years, he also said that Li Zicheng had been in the mountainous area at the junction of the three provinces for two years (of course, this mountainous area also includes Shangluo Mountain), and finally entered Henan from the direction of Shangluo Mountain and began the beginning of conquest for the world.

There are various historical materials that are mixed, but one thing is certain that during the eleventh year of Chongzhen and the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng did have a lot of activities in Shangluo Mountain.

Secondly, Li Zicheng was not only very familiar with Shangluo Mountain, but also, according to my previous research, Li Zicheng buried him once in Shangluo Mountain after obtaining the treasures of the Fuwang Mansion.

According to "criminal psychology", human behavior patterns are easy to repeat previous successful experiences.

Since Li Zicheng buried his treasure once in Shangluo Mountain, can he buried his treasure a second time? I think it is very likely!

The third point is Li Zicheng's movement trajectory. Don't forget that after Li Zicheng gave up Xi'an and entered Hubei, he had to pass Shangluo Mountain. With the previous guesses and this one, is it a bit more likely?

That's why in "The Fourth Natural Disaster in the Late Ming Dynasty", I paved various groundwork, allowing Xiong Yuanba to jump off the cliff and climb up the stream. He traveled through mountains and rivers, from the Songguo Mountain where the water flowed to the branch of Wushan. Finally, he ran to the Shangluo Mountain area with great difficulty, and then ran to Tian Jianxiu and Zhang Nai who were burying the treasure of the King of Breaking.

Then someone must ask, you have concluded that the "Treasure of the King of Breaking" is in Shangluo Mountain. Can't it be elsewhere? For example, Jiugong Mountain, you should know that Li Zicheng died in Jiugong Mountain in the end. So is it possible that Li Zicheng was accidentally hit and beaten to death by Cheng Jiugong when he wanted to bury the treasure?

Okay, let’s talk about the exclusion method. I won’t talk about the things before giving up Xi’an. I think it’s already very detailed. Let’s talk about what happened after Li Zicheng gave up Xi’an.

First of all, Li Zicheng's strategic plan is to "the Dashun Army descended along the river and conquered Nanjing for development."

Even now I think this plan may not be a bad plan, but two of the most fatal events occurred in the middle of the implementation.

The first fatal incident was that Tian Jianxiu's "mercy" ruined the big thing. When Li Zicheng evacuated Xi'an, he found that there were too many supplies in Xi'an and could not take them away, so he ordered Tian Jianxiu to burn it. However, Tian Jianxiu was also a poor man and knew that the food was precious. Burning food was more uncomfortable than cutting his own meat.

(Not to mention that at that time, even now, I felt uncomfortable seeing food waste in variety shows. Not to mention that Tian Jianxiu, who was a farmer, had to know that Tian Jianxiu had really suffered from hunger and was suffering among the people)

So the food was not burned, and the later Azig troops received important supplies for the baggage.

However, Tam Misoo's benevolent behavior not only brought a catastrophe to the Dashun Army, but also a catastrophe to the people. This was something Tam Misoo never thought of.

After Li Zicheng learned about this, in order to delay Ajige's pursuit, he repaired the sheep. On the way to Jingxiang, he carried out a cruel operation to clear the fields, and all the places he passed were ruins. Even the wells were filled to death. Even the residents who escaped to the mountains by chance could not survive after returning.

The second fatal incident was to give up Xiangyang, call everyone up, and attack Nanjing with all their might. It has to be said that due to the short-term founding of the People's Republic of China, there were no outstanding advisers under his command, which was a major failure.
To be continued...