On December 25, 2015 (November 15, 2015 in the lunar calendar), the legend of Zhang Xianzhong's "Jiangkou Sinking Silver" was confirmed more than 300 years later. Over the past hundred years, the secret of Zhang Xianzhong's "Jiangkou Sinking Silver" has been excavated again and again, but the historical mystery has passed us by again and again. Maybe this time, the truth is really not far away from us. Jiangkou Sinking Silver will finally see the light of day. (Picture Source Network) At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant uprising army, led his troops into Sichuan, looted all the rich people in Shu, gathered thousands of dollars, and the car was endless. After Zhang Xianzhong died, the huge treasure he amassed has never gone, and no one can even tell whether this treasure is real or a huge lie. But in these hundreds of years, the speculation and search around it has never stopped. For more than 300 years, an ancient ballad has been circulating in Sichuan, "Stone cattle against stone drums, silver is thousands of dollars. Some people know it and buy all the Chengdu mansion", which was identified as the "secret spell" to crack the treasure hidden by Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the West, and no one could solve it for hundreds of years. But Zhang Xianzhong hid the gold and silver treasures in a place near Chengdu, but it was believed that the stone cattle and stone drums were used as secret records, which has always inspired subsequent treasure hunters. On December 25, 2015, after a number of authoritative departments and experts determined that the "Jiangkou Shenyang Ruins" in Pengshan District, Meishan, Sichuan Province, which had been excavated in recent years, was one of the central areas of Zhang Xianzhong's silver collection. This major discovery finally solved the mystery of Zhang Xianzhong's legendary huge treasure. " The Emperor of the West "Zhang Xianzhong is most famous for two things: murdering people like a lot of money and stealing countless portraits of Zhang Xianzhong. (Picture Source Network) The protagonist of this case, Zhang Xianzhong, was born in 1606 (thirty-four years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), a native of Yan'an. He was rebellious and unruly. During his time as a hunter in Yan'an, he repeatedly violated military law. In 1630 (three years of Chongzhen), coinciding with the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs were in power, and the people were not living well. Zhang Xianzhong followed Wang Jiayin in his hometown of Mizhi to rise up. After the death of the king, Zhang Xianzhong switched to Gao Yingxiang and belonged to the same rebellion army as Li Zicheng. Zhang Xianzhong soon split from Li Zicheng for some reason. He led his troops to attack the Yangtze River Basin, while Li Zicheng attacked the Yellow River Basin. As the power of the uprising grew, Li Zicheng called it" King of Zhang Xianzhong was an extremely cunning person. The Ming Dynasty treated him both hard and soft. First, he was promised high-ranking officials, hoping to appease him, and then he was besieged and suppressed many times. At every critical juncture, he fraudulently surrendered, and after surviving the crisis, he rebelled again. The Ming government could not satisfy his desires at all, and his goal was only one - to become the emperor. After 13 years of arduous "entrepreneurship", in 1643, Zhang Xianzhong captured Wuchang and proclaimed himself emperor. The country was called "Daxi", and finally realized his dream of being an emperor. In "Send to the Garden", Zhao Jishi, a Qing Dynasty scholar, said that he stuffed the King of Chu (Zhu Huakui) into a bamboo sedan chair and threw it into a lake to drown, while he "took millions of gold and silver from the palace and carried hundreds of cars." Zhang Xianzhong loved money, and he was consistent, never too much. In 1644, the year the Qing army entered the customs, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops into Sichuan. In the Land of Abundance, he did two things that made him notorious. One was to kill people and the other was to plunder money. Zhang Xianzhong was born in the army and never feared the dead. Killing people once became his means of solving problems. It is said that after Zhang Xianzhong captured Chengdu, his subordinates reported that there was a shortage of food and grass, and he solved this most difficult problem in the simplest way - killing people, killing people, killing soldiers. There is a "Seven Kills Stele" in Chengdu, which records his murderous: "All things are born to support people, and people have no virtue to repay the sky. Killing, killing, killing, killing, killing." Zhang Xianzhong's looting targets developed from royal officials and gentry to ordinary people. Liu Jingbo of the Qing Dynasty recorded in the historical book "Shu Gui Jian" that the money Zhang Xianzhong stole from wealthy merchants in various prefectures and counties ranged from thousands of taels of gold to tens of thousands. After getting the money, he would kill people. His actions were tyrannical, unprecedented, unreasonable and humane. Zhang Xianzhong strictly controlled the property obtained by the looting, and set rules: if his subordinates hid one tael of gold and silver, he would behead the whole family; if he hid ten taels, he would skin it and behead the whole family. In this way, the entire wealth of Sichuan belongs to Zhang Xianzhong alone. According to historical records, Emperor Chongzhen can only be regarded as a "small family" compared with him. He once held a treasure fighting conference in Chengdu, proudly flaunting his wealth: 24 rooms were filled with rare treasures, gold ingots and silver ingots, which were dizzying and jaw-dropping. Later, some historians roughly estimated that Zhang Xianzhong owned at least 10 million taels of silver. According to the purchasing power of silver in the late Ming Dynasty and the current RMB, one tael is equivalent to about 300 yuan today. That is to say, in that era, Zhang Xianzhong had a wealth equivalent to 3 billion yuan today. In the turbulent era of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it must have been on the wealth list. Where is the treasure hidden? There are many folk versions. Some people say that the saddest thing in life is that people die and their money is not spent. This is especially true for Zhang Xianzhong, who has an almost morbid frenzy for wealth. After two years as emperor, Qing Dynasty Prince Hauge and Wu Sangui led the Qing army from southern Shaanxi into Sichuan to attack Zhang Xianzhong. In November 1646, Zhang Xianzhong's army was surrounded by the Qing army and hurried out of the city to fight. He was shot to death by Qing General Yablan at Phoenix Mountain (now north of Nanxi County, Sichuan Province). Unexpectedly, his huge treasure disappeared with him. Is the treasure hidden under the Jinjiang River? Or buried under Qingcheng Mountain? Or hidden in Lushan County (now Ya'an City)? Since ancient times, people have speculated that the most convincing treasure is sinking at the bottom of the river. The official history of the Ming Dynasty records that before Zhang Xianzhong was forced to evacuate Chengdu, he did an incredible thing: he asked his subordinates to build an embankment on the Jinjiang River, drain the river, dig a pit several feet deep in the sediment downstream of the embankment, pour the looted treasure into it, and then re-break the embankment to release water, flattening and submerging the pit, in order to hide people's eyes and ears. Later historical books, "Ming Ji", also copied this historical material word by word. The local chronicle "Pengshan County Chronicle" has another account of the whereabouts of Zhang Xianzhong's treasure: When Zhang Xianzhong evacuated Chengdu, because the dry road had been blocked by the Qing army, he had to divert the waterway out of the river, but the fleet had just traveled along the Jinjiang to the mouth of Pengshan County, when it was attacked by the local landowner's armed Yang Zhan troops, it was almost completely wiped out. Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to return to Chengdu, and many wooden boats full of gold and silver sank in the Jinjiang River. Some people say that Zhang Xianzhong's ship only self-immolated, and Yang Zhan's staff Fei Mi also recorded in the "Wilderness Book" written by the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty: "Yang Zhan pioneer saw thieves burn their boats." Why did Zhang Xianzhong burn the boat himself? This undoubtedly adds another layer of mystery to the theory of "the river mouth sinking silver". A third popular theory is that Zhang Xianzhong knew that the army was defeated. Before evacuating Chengdu, he asked his men to make a lot of wooden tubes in advance, poured silver ingots into it, and threw them into the Jinjiang River, so that they drifted along the water, ready to be salvaged in a narrow place. Unfortunately, he was ambushed by Yang Zhan's soldiers on the way, and the army fell like a mountain before he could salvage it. Those wooden tubes also sank to the bottom of the river with the passage of time. No matter what kind of theory, it points to Zhang Xianzhong sinking the looted treasure in the river, near the mouth of the river. This undoubtedly left endless space for future generations to search for treasure along the river. The treasure hunt has never stopped. Emperor Xianfeng also managed to salvage such a huge fortune, and future generations have naturally coveted it for a long time. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, from the imperial court, officials, generals to local warlords and ordinary people, Zhang Xianzhong's treasure was all about it. Legend has it that the first person to obtain Zhang Xianzhong's treasure was Yang Zhan. Checking historical records can be seen that the battle that took place in Jiangkou did happen. The two sides of the war were Zhang Xianzhong and Yang Zhan. The former was defeated and the latter won. Based on this, later generations suspected that Zhang Xianzhong's river mouth sinking silver was obtained by Yang Zhan. According to Fermi's account in "The Book of Famine", Yang Zhan did not know what was hidden in the sunken ship at first. Later, a fisherman salvaged it, and tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver were all owned by Yang Zhan. Another theory comes from the historical book "Shu Difficult to Describe" written by Shen Xunwei in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that when Zhang Xianzhong burned the boat, a surviving boatman defected to Yang Zhan. According to the truth, Yang Zhan then ordered his subordinates to use long guns to salvage the wooden tube in the river. Once the wooden tube was found, it was nailed and dragged out. Yang Zhan was a native of Jiading (now Leshan, Sichuan). When the whole Sichuan was severely affected by war and famine, only Jiading was rich and stable. When the people of the time praised Yang Zhan, they also said that "Shu is dependent on it". Later generations therefore speculate that Yang Zhan achieved this by relying on the windfall of salvage. After the Qing Dynasty occupied Sichuan, it was natural that he would not let go of the search for this wealth. "Pengshan County Chronicle" records that in the winter of Qianlong's fifty-ninth year (1794), a fisherman salvaged a scabbard in the Jinjiang River. The news reached the governor Sun Shiyi's ears. Sun immediately sent people to the estuary. After several days of salvage, he finally recovered 10,000 taels of silver and a large number of jewelry and jade. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out. In order to solve the financial difficulties of the court, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, Chen Taichu, brought up the old story again and petitioned to find this treasure. He said that he had personally seen the residents of Pengshan, Meishan and other places fishing for abandoned silver. Emperor Xianfeng, who was strapped for money, ordered Chengdu general Yu Rui to "visit carefully, try to dig, and make preparations as appropriate," but in the end he found nothing. The passage of time has not diminished people's pursuit and desire for wealth. During the period of the Republic of China, a Qing Dynasty veteran surnamed Du was cornered by a crime and was helped by Yang Bailu, who was the secretary-general of Sichuan Province. To repay the kindness, Du gave Yang Bailu a sandalwood casket that he had carried with him for many years. He said that it contained a map of the location where Zhang Xianzhong buried the silver, which was secretly drawn by a stonemason who was involved in burying the silver at that time. In the winter of 1937, Yang Bailu told Ma Kunshan, a friend who had been a division commander, and the two hit it off and established the Jinjiang Gold Rushing Company, which specializes in salvaging treasures. They measured and explored carefully according to the original drawings, and deduced that the location of the buried gold and silver was on the opposite side of the lower reaches of Wangjiang Tower in Chengdu, on the left side of the intersection of the triangle below the original Stone Buddha Temple. From the winter of 1938 to the winter of 1939, hundreds of people worked hard for more than 10 months, and they actually dug up a large stone ox and a large stone drum. "Stone Ox, Stone Drum" came out, Yang Bailu and others quickly bought metal detectors, and one day soon after, the detectors really made a humming sound. But history once again played a joke on people, and the workers tried their best to dig up only three baskets of copper coins. More than a dozen experts confirmed that the century-old treasure of "Jiangkou Sinking Silver" has finally seen the light of day. Although the vigorous treasure hunt ended in a farce, in the following decades, ordinary people have continued to salvage property from the river. In April 2005, during the construction of the water diversion project in Jiangkou Town in the Minjiang River, a log with seven silver ingots was dug out from 3 meters below the surface. The silver ingots were engraved with the words "Chongzhen Eighteen Years × Day" and "Huanggang County Silver Four Pickup Two Positive". After being identified by the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, it was indeed the tax silver collected during the Chongzhen period. From the inscriptions, it can be seen that this batch of silver ingots came from Yuanling County, Xiangtan County, Hubei Jingshan County, Huanggang County and other places, which is very consistent with the place where Zhang Xianzhong fought back then, and the time is also synchronized. It can undoubtedly be regarded as another strong evidence of "the sinking of silver in the river mouth". In April 1999, Wang Gang, a researcher at the Institute of History of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, declared after years of research and research that there were indeed huge gold and silver buried under the Jinjiang River. Wang Gang said: "History of the Ming Dynasty", "Shu Jian", "Huang Shu", "History of Pengshan County" and other official and unofficial histories introduce "the sinking of silver in the river mouth" from different angles, and the objects that have been salvaged in recent years are even more powerful evidence. Therefore, "a whole thousand ships of gold and silver treasures are still sleeping at the bottom of the river!" According to him, the Pengshan County Government and the Jiangkou Town Government conducted a field survey, but due to the age being too old and the silt in the river being too deep, it could only be ended in the end. The truth is always long overdue. After generations of painstaking search, on December 25, 2015, more than 10 domestic authoritative archaeological and historical experts from the Institute of Archaeology of the Palace Museum and the Comprehensive Archaeology Department of the National Museum of China solemnly issued the "Expert Opinion of the Archaeological Seminar on the" Jiangkou Sunken Silver Site "in Pengshan, Sichuan Province, confirming that the" Jiangkou Sunken Silver Site "in Pengshan is one of the central areas of Zhang Xianzhong's Sunken Silver. This century-old treasure mystery has finally been revealed. Over the past hundred years, the secret of Zhang Xianzhong's" Sunken Silver in Jiangkou "has been excavated again and again, but the historical mystery has passed us by again and again. Perhaps this time, the truth is really not far away from us. "The stone bull is against the stone drum, and there are thousands of silver. Some people know it, and they will buy all the Chengdu Mansion." This song full of reverie and longing is still sung in the country of Sichuan Mansion. Whether it can really buy the Chengdu Mansion still awaits the final archaeological excavation report.On December 25, 2015 (November 15, 2015 in the lunar calendar), the legend of Zhang Xianzhong's "Jiangkou Sinking Silver" was confirmed more than 300 years later. Over the past hundred years, the secret of Zhang Xianzhong's "Jiangkou Sinking Silver" has been excavated again and again, but the historical mystery has passed us by again and again. Maybe this time, the truth is really not far away from us. Jiangkou Sinking Silver will finally see the light of day. (Picture Source Network) At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant uprising army, led his troops into Sichuan, looted all the rich people in Shu, gathered thousands of dollars, and the car was endless. After Zhang Xianzhong died, the huge treasure he amassed has never gone, and no one can even tell whether this treasure is real or a huge lie. But in these hundreds of years, the speculation and search around it has never stopped. For more than 300 years, an ancient ballad has been circulating in Sichuan, "Stone cattle against stone drums, silver is thousands of dollars. Some people know it and buy all the Chengdu mansion", which was identified as the "secret spell" to crack the treasure hidden by Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the West, and no one could solve it for hundreds of years. But Zhang Xianzhong hid the gold and silver treasures in a place near Chengdu, but it was believed that the stone cattle and stone drums were used as secret records, which has always inspired subsequent treasure hunters. On December 25, 2015, after a number of authoritative departments and experts determined that the "Jiangkou Shenyang Ruins" in Pengshan District, Meishan, Sichuan Province, which had been excavated in recent years, was one of the central areas of Zhang Xianzhong's silver collection. This major discovery finally solved the mystery of Zhang Xianzhong's legendary huge treasure. " The Emperor of the West "Zhang Xianzhong is most famous for two things: murdering people like a lot of money and stealing countless portraits of Zhang Xianzhong. (Picture Source Network) The protagonist of this case, Zhang Xianzhong, was born in 1606 (thirty-four years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), a native of Yan'an. He was rebellious and unruly. During his time as a hunter in Yan'an, he repeatedly violated military law. In 1630 (three years of Chongzhen), coinciding with the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, the eunuchs were in power, and the people were not living well. Zhang Xianzhong followed Wang Jiayin in his hometown of Mizhi to rise up. After the death of the king, Zhang Xianzhong switched to Gao Yingxiang and belonged to the same rebellion army as Li Zicheng. Zhang Xianzhong soon split from Li Zicheng for some reason. He led his troops to attack the Yangtze River Basin, while Li Zicheng attacked the Yellow River Basin. As the power of the uprising grew, Li Zicheng called it" King of Zhang Xianzhong was an extremely cunning person. The Ming Dynasty treated him both hard and soft. First, he was promised high-ranking officials, hoping to appease him, and then he was besieged and suppressed many times. At every critical juncture, he fraudulently surrendered, and after surviving the crisis, he rebelled again. The Ming government could not satisfy his desires at all, and his goal was only one - to become the emperor. After 13 years of arduous "entrepreneurship", in 1643, Zhang Xianzhong captured Wuchang and proclaimed himself emperor. The country was called "Daxi", and finally realized his dream of being an emperor. In "Send to the Garden", Zhao Jishi, a Qing Dynasty scholar, said that he stuffed the King of Chu (Zhu Huakui) into a bamboo sedan chair and threw it into a lake to drown, while he "took millions of gold and silver from the palace and carried hundreds of cars." Zhang Xianzhong loved money, and he was consistent, never too much. In 1644, the year the Qing army entered the customs, Zhang Xianzhong led his troops into Sichuan. In the Land of Abundance, he did two things that made him notorious. One was to kill people and the other was to plunder money. Zhang Xianzhong was born in the army and never feared the dead. Killing people once became his means of solving problems. It is said that after Zhang Xianzhong captured Chengdu, his subordinates reported that there was a shortage of food and grass, and he solved this most difficult problem in the simplest way - killing people, killing people, killing soldiers. There is a "Seven Kills Stele" in Chengdu, which records his murderous: "All things are born to support people, and people have no virtue to repay the sky. Killing, killing, killing, killing, killing." Zhang Xianzhong's looting targets developed from royal officials and gentry to ordinary people. Liu Jingbo of the Qing Dynasty recorded in the historical book "Shu Gui Jian" that the money Zhang Xianzhong stole from wealthy merchants in various prefectures and counties ranged from thousands of taels of gold to tens of thousands. After getting the money, he would kill people. His actions were tyrannical, unprecedented, unreasonable and humane. Zhang Xianzhong strictly controlled the property obtained by the looting, and set rules: if his subordinates hid one tael of gold and silver, he would behead the whole family; if he hid ten taels, he would skin it and behead the whole family. In this way, the entire wealth of Sichuan belongs to Zhang Xianzhong alone. According to historical records, Emperor Chongzhen can only be regarded as a "small family" compared with him. He once held a treasure fighting conference in Chengdu, proudly flaunting his wealth: 24 rooms were filled with rare treasures, gold ingots and silver ingots, which were dizzying and jaw-dropping. Later, some historians roughly estimated that Zhang Xianzhong owned at least 10 million taels of silver. According to the purchasing power of silver in the late Ming Dynasty and the current RMB, one tael is equivalent to about 300 yuan today. That is to say, in that era, Zhang Xianzhong had a wealth equivalent to 3 billion yuan today. In the turbulent era of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, it must have been on the wealth list. Where is the treasure hidden? There are many folk versions. Some people say that the saddest thing in life is that people die and their money is not spent. This is especially true for Zhang Xianzhong, who has an almost morbid frenzy for wealth. After two years as emperor, Qing Dynasty Prince Hauge and Wu Sangui led the Qing army from southern Shaanxi into Sichuan to attack Zhang Xianzhong. In November 1646, Zhang Xianzhong's army was surrounded by the Qing army and hurried out of the city to fight. He was shot to death by Qing General Yablan at Phoenix Mountain (now north of Nanxi County, Sichuan Province). Unexpectedly, his huge treasure disappeared with him. Is the treasure hidden under the Jinjiang River? Or buried under Qingcheng Mountain? Or hidden in Lushan County (now Ya'an City)? Since ancient times, people have speculated that the most convincing treasure is sinking at the bottom of the river. The official history of the Ming Dynasty records that before Zhang Xianzhong was forced to evacuate Chengdu, he did an incredible thing: he asked his subordinates to build an embankment on the Jinjiang River, drain the river, dig a pit several feet deep in the sediment downstream of the embankment, pour the looted treasure into it, and then re-break the embankment to release water, flattening and submerging the pit, in order to hide people's eyes and ears. Later historical books, "Ming Ji", also copied this historical material word by word. The local chronicle "Pengshan County Chronicle" has another account of the whereabouts of Zhang Xianzhong's treasure: When Zhang Xianzhong evacuated Chengdu, because the dry road had been blocked by the Qing army, he had to divert the waterway out of the river, but the fleet had just traveled along the Jinjiang to the mouth of Pengshan County, when it was attacked by the local landowner's armed Yang Zhan troops, it was almost completely wiped out. Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to return to Chengdu, and many wooden boats full of gold and silver sank in the Jinjiang River. Some people say that Zhang Xianzhong's ship only self-immolated, and Yang Zhan's staff Fei Mi also recorded in the "Wilderness Book" written by the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty: "Yang Zhan pioneer saw thieves burn their boats." Why did Zhang Xianzhong burn the boat himself? This undoubtedly adds another layer of mystery to the theory of "the river mouth sinking silver". A third popular theory is that Zhang Xianzhong knew that the army was defeated. Before evacuating Chengdu, he asked his men to make a lot of wooden tubes in advance, poured silver ingots into it, and threw them into the Jinjiang River, so that they drifted along the water, ready to be salvaged in a narrow place. Unfortunately, he was ambushed by Yang Zhan's soldiers on the way, and the army fell like a mountain before he could salvage it. Those wooden tubes also sank to the bottom of the river with the passage of time. No matter what kind of theory, it points to Zhang Xianzhong sinking the looted treasure in the river, near the mouth of the river. This undoubtedly left endless space for future generations to search for treasure along the river. The treasure hunt has never stopped. Emperor Xianfeng also managed to salvage such a huge fortune, and future generations have naturally coveted it for a long time. From the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, from the imperial court, officials, generals to local warlords and ordinary people, Zhang Xianzhong's treasure was all about it. Legend has it that the first person to obtain Zhang Xianzhong's treasure was Yang Zhan. Checking historical records can be seen that the battle that took place in Jiangkou did happen. The two sides of the war were Zhang Xianzhong and Yang Zhan. The former was defeated and the latter won. Based on this, later generations suspected that Zhang Xianzhong's river mouth sinking silver was obtained by Yang Zhan. According to Fermi's account in "The Book of Famine", Yang Zhan did not know what was hidden in the sunken ship at first. Later, a fisherman salvaged it, and tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver were all owned by Yang Zhan. Another theory comes from the historical book "Shu Difficult to Describe" written by Shen Xunwei in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that when Zhang Xianzhong burned the boat, a surviving boatman defected to Yang Zhan. According to the truth, Yang Zhan then ordered his subordinates to use long guns to salvage the wooden tube in the river. Once the wooden tube was found, it was nailed and dragged out. Yang Zhan was a native of Jiading (now Leshan, Sichuan). When the whole Sichuan was severely affected by war and famine, only Jiading was rich and stable. When the people of the time praised Yang Zhan, they also said that "Shu is dependent on it". Later generations therefore speculate that Yang Zhan achieved this by relying on the windfall of salvage. After the Qing Dynasty occupied Sichuan, it was natural that he would not let go of the search for this wealth. "Pengshan County Chronicle" records that in the winter of Qianlong's fifty-ninth year (1794), a fisherman salvaged a scabbard in the Jinjiang River. The news reached the governor Sun Shiyi's ears. Sun immediately sent people to the estuary. After several days of salvage, he finally recovered 10,000 taels of silver and a large number of jewelry and jade. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement broke out. In order to solve the financial difficulties of the court, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, Chen Taichu, brought up the old story again and petitioned to find this treasure. He said that he had personally seen the residents of Pengshan, Meishan and other places fishing for abandoned silver. Emperor Xianfeng, who was strapped for money, ordered Chengdu general Yu Rui to "visit carefully, try to dig, and make preparations as appropriate," but in the end he found nothing. The passage of time has not diminished people's pursuit and desire for wealth. During the period of the Republic of China, a Qing Dynasty veteran surnamed Du was cornered by a crime and was helped by Yang Bailu, who was the secretary-general of Sichuan Province. To repay the kindness, Du gave Yang Bailu a sandalwood casket that he had carried with him for many years. He said that it contained a map of the location where Zhang Xianzhong buried the silver, which was secretly drawn by a stonemason who was involved in burying the silver at that time. In the winter of 1937, Yang Bailu told Ma Kunshan, a friend who had been a division commander, and the two hit it off and established the Jinjiang Gold Rushing Company, which specializes in salvaging treasures. They measured and explored carefully according to the original drawings, and deduced that the location of the buried gold and silver was on the opposite side of the lower reaches of Wangjiang Tower in Chengdu, on the left side of the intersection of the triangle below the original Stone Buddha Temple. From the winter of 1938 to the winter of 1939, hundreds of people worked hard for more than 10 months, and they actually dug up a large stone ox and a large stone drum. "Stone Ox, Stone Drum" came out, Yang Bailu and others quickly bought metal detectors, and one day soon after, the detectors really made a humming sound. But history once again played a joke on people, and the workers tried their best to dig up only three baskets of copper coins. More than a dozen experts confirmed that the century-old treasure of "Jiangkou Sinking Silver" has finally seen the light of day. Although the vigorous treasure hunt ended in a farce, in the following decades, ordinary people have continued to salvage property from the river. In April 2005, during the construction of the water diversion project in Jiangkou Town in the Minjiang River, a log with seven silver ingots was dug out from 3 meters below the surface. The silver ingots were engraved with the words "Chongzhen Eighteen Years × Day" and "Huanggang County Silver Four Pickup Two Positive". After being identified by the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics Appraisal Committee, it was indeed the tax silver collected during the Chongzhen period. From the inscriptions, it can be seen that this batch of silver ingots came from Yuanling County, Xiangtan County, Hubei Jingshan County, Huanggang County and other places, which is very consistent with the place where Zhang Xianzhong fought back then, and the time is also synchronized. It can undoubtedly be regarded as another strong evidence of "the sinking of silver in the river mouth". In April 1999, Wang Gang, a researcher at the Institute of History of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, declared after years of research and research that there were indeed huge gold and silver buried under the Jinjiang River. Wang Gang said: "History of the Ming Dynasty", "Shu Jian", "Huang Shu", "History of Pengshan County" and other official and unofficial histories introduce "the sinking of silver in the river mouth" from different angles, and the objects that have been salvaged in recent years are even more powerful evidence. Therefore, "a whole thousand ships of gold and silver treasures are still sleeping at the bottom of the river!" According to him, the Pengshan County Government and the Jiangkou Town Government conducted a field survey, but due to the age being too old and the silt in the river being too deep, it could only be ended in the end. The truth is always long overdue. After generations of painstaking search, on December 25, 2015, more than 10 domestic authoritative archaeological and historical experts from the Institute of Archaeology of the Palace Museum and the Comprehensive Archaeology Department of the National Museum of China solemnly issued the "Expert Opinion of the Archaeological Seminar on the" Jiangkou Sunken Silver Site "in Pengshan, Sichuan Province, confirming that the" Jiangkou Sunken Silver Site "in Pengshan is one of the central areas of Zhang Xianzhong's Sunken Silver. This century-old treasure mystery has finally been revealed. Over the past hundred years, the secret of Zhang Xianzhong's" Sunken Silver in Jiangkou "has been excavated again and again, but the historical mystery has passed us by again and again. Perhaps this time, the truth is really not far away from us. "The stone bull is against the stone drum, and there are thousands of silver. Some people know it, and they will buy all the Chengdu Mansion." This song full of reverie and longing is still sung in the country of Sichuan Mansion. Whether it can really buy the Chengdu Mansion still awaits the final archaeological excavation report.