How rich is Zhang Xianzhong? Archaeological discoveries of treasure shipwrecks, gold and silver cult

The country is rich, and judging from the amount excavated so far, it should be able to fill the riverbed.

It's very rich, yes, that's why everyone will rumor it like this.

Zhang Xianzhong Shen YinA total of more than 42,000 items were excavated.

On December 26, 2016, the first archaeological excavation of the "Jiangkou Shenyin Site" was carried out. On January 5, 2017, the Shenyin site at the mouth of the Pengshan River.

Underwater archaeological excavations were officially launched. On April 13, 2017, the excavation area was more than 20,000 square meters, more than 30,000 pieces of cultural relics out of the water, hundreds of coins of Xiwang reward, thousands of gold, and tens of thousands of silverware.

On May 12, 2017, all the archaeological work was completed, with an archaeological excavation area of more than 20,000 square meters and more than 30,000 pieces of cultural relics out of the water.

There are thousands of cultural relics related to the letter series.

From October to November 2017, a new round of excavations was carried out, and the museum was planned to be built within 5 years. In April 2018, archaeological excavations again unearthed more than 12,000 pieces of various cultural relics.

Cultural relics unearthed by Zhang Xianzhong Shenyin:

On January 5, 2016, Zhang Xianzhong's "Jiangkou Shenyin Site" found a number of precious cultural relics in the central area of the mystery unveiled, in addition to the discovery of the pure engraved "Daxi" year name of the silver ingot and "West King Reward" gold and silver coins, the most precious is 12 cm long, 10 cm wide, 730 grams, engraved with 29 words of gold seal, identified as a national first-class cultural relics.

Zhang Xianzhong's treasure, that is, the Jiangkou Shenyin, has been excavated.

On January 5, 2017, the Pengshan River Estuary Shenyin excavation project was officially launched, and as of March 15, an area of more than 10,000 square meters has been excavated. On March 20, 2017, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology said on March 20 that the underwater archaeology of the Pengshan River Estuary has made significant progress: more than 10,000 pieces of cultural relics have been excavated, and the legend of Zhang Xianzhong's River Estuary has been empirically confirmed.

As of 2022, the excavation project of Zhang Xianzhong's cultural relics has ended, and the relevant results will be announced after the cleanup and research. The underwater archaeological excavation of the Shenyin site at the mouth of the Pengshan River has only gone through more than two months, and tens of thousands of cultural relics have been revealed. Gao Dalun, president of the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that after more than two months of underwater archaeology, more than 10,000 cultural relics were unearthed at the site.

A record of Zhang Xianzhong's treasure

According to the local county records, in 1646, Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the famous peasant uprising in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, went south to the Minjiang River to transfer his property, where he was ambushed by the Ming general Yang Zhan, and the ship sank in defeat. For hundreds of years, there are many local legends, saying that there are 1,000 boats of gold and silver treasures sunk at the bottom of the river, and there is a ballad that the stone ox is against the stone drum, and the silver is ten thousand five. Someone recognized it and bought all the Chengdu Mansion.

However, due to the lack of official historical records, there has been a long-term controversy in the historiography circles about whether and where the Jiangkou Shenyin exists and where the specific location is.

Zhang Xianzhong's Shenyin site is in: Meishan City, Pengshan District, Jiangkou Town, Minjiang River.

Sichuan Jiangkou Shenyin Site is located in the Minjiang River channel of Jiangkou Town, Pengshan District, Meishan City, about 60 kilometers away from Chengdu City in the north and about 20 kilometers away from Meishan City in the south.

Jiangkou Shenyin site

Jiangkou Shenyin site" is located in the Minjiang River in Jiangkou Town, Pengshan District, Meishan City, Sima Branch, in 2010, it was announced as a Meishan municipal cultural relics protection unit, with a distribution area of 1 million square meters, and the documents since the Qing Dynasty recorded that Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the Great Western Army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, had sunk silver here.

On April 29, 2020, Pengshan, Sichuan Province, more than 10,000 cultural relics were unearthed from the third phase of archaeological excavations at the end of the Ming Dynasty battlefield site in Jiangkou, including 2,000 important cultural relics. Found a broken into 4 pieces of about 16 pounds, 95% gold content of the gold seal, square printing pad, turtle-shaped printing button, the printing surface cast with "Shu Shizi Bao" four words.

"Shu Shizi Bao" is the first time in China to discover the real Jinbao of the world, and it is also the only one at present. The protection scope and construction control zone of "Jiangkou Shenyin Site" are as follows: east to the highway, west to the river embankment, 1,000 meters south of the Minjiang Bridge in the south, 500 meters to the north to the confluence of the two rivers in the north, and 500 meters to the north and south.

On January 5, 2016, Zhang Xianzhong's "Jiangkou Shenyin Site" found a number of precious cultural relics in the central area of the mysterious Sun with the veil unveiled, in addition to the discovery of the "Daxi" year name of the silver ingot and "West King Reward" gold and silver coins, the most precious is 12 cm long, 10 cm wide, 730 grams, engraved with 29 words of gold seal, identified as a national first-class cultural relics.

The mystery of Zhang Xianzhong's sinking silver first originated from the long-standing rumors in the local area, and later the relevant professional archaeologists carried detection instruments to detect, and finally found the specific location of Zhang Xianzhong's sinking silver.

Whoever can unlock the secret of this folk song will be able to find the Shenjiang point of Zhang Xianzhong's treasure. Since then, there has been a steady stream of people coming here in search of treasure. It is recorded in the "Pengshan County Chronicle":

During the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, in order to enrich the treasury of silver, the Shunzhi Emperor once asked the local ** to organize a large-scale salvage, and part of Zhang Xianzhong's treasure was salvaged and handed over to the imperial court, which became the silver to enrich the treasury of the Qing Dynasty.

On September 14, 2015, a case of theft and excavation and trafficking of cultural relics supervised by the Ministry of Public Security was cracked in Pengshan District, and a number of criminal suspects from inside and outside the province were detained. According to expert estimates, there are many precious cultural relics above the first level, including golden lions, golden seals, golden booklets, etc., whose value is estimated to exceed 100 million ......Behind all this may involve a shocking secret of nearly 400 years - Zhang Xianzhong's rare treasure.

The mystery of Zhang Xianzhong's sinking silver first originated from the local legend that has been circulating for a long time, and at the beginning of the relevant professional archaeologists gave Gu to help the detection instrument to detect, and finally found the specific location of Zhang Xianzhong's sinking silver.

Zhang Xianzhong's experience of Shenbao in the river.

Yang Zhan, the general of the Southern Ming Dynasty, defeated Zhang Xianzhong's troops at the mouth of the Minjiang River, "burned his boat, and the thief ran back." Hearing that the Zhan army was very strong, he was terrified, led tens of thousands of troops, loaded thousands of gold treasures, went down the river to the east, and fought a decisive battle with the exhibition ......Zhanwen rebelled against the mouth of the Pengshan River (now the Minjiang section of Pengshan County, Sichuan), set fire to the battle, burned Shen Qizhou, thieves ran north, and the soldiers lost several times. Return to Chengdu.

Exhibition the gold treasures left behind, in order to benefit the military reserve, since the rich and powerful generals (so far residents in the bottom of the river to get a big sheath, its gold and silver engraved with the name of each state). Wang Xiang and Zeng Ying approached Chengdu with troops. Wang Xiang, a native of Qijiang, is brave and famous, and is a Jiuwei sub-pass official, abiding by Zunyi, and thieves dare not peep.

As a result, he and Zeng Ying marched into the army to fight against the thief, and the thief was afraid of the Shu general, so he decided to do it. The thieves destroyed the feudal mansion and went to the north of Sichuan. Dedicated to the defeat of Jiangkou, the momentum is sluggish, and heard that Wang Xiang, Zeng Ying is close to the capital, Jane, decided to go to the north of Sichuan, the rest of the Shu Mansion gold and silver cast iron, and Yaobao and other things, the use of the Jinjiang River, the flow of the stream, through the hole of several real, because of the killing of the chisel, under the soil and stone to cover, and then break the embankment to release, so that the latecomer can not be sent.

The name is called gold. He destroyed all the palaces, built wells, burned the city, and fled. His Royal Highness has two dragon stone pillars, named Optimus Prime, thieves, take dozens of layers of leno and other things, and soak them in oil.

Three days later, a fire was raised, and the flames rose to the sky, and the pillars withered and broke day and night. Press the bull dog. Take the dogs and cattle in the season, and do not leave them for future generations.

Yang Zhan chased the thief in Hanzhou, but he couldn't do it, so he sealed the bones and returned. Zhan heard that the thief had escaped, and hurriedly led the troops to chase him, to Hanzhou, the thief had gone far away, because he had collected all the bones of the reckless bones. Knowing its pillars said:

Yu was ordered to beg the thief, and the teacher passed here, and the misery of the white bones was merciful, and the seal of yellow soil was added. ”