Chapter 112 Behind the Silver Coin
Now the sky is long and the night is short. It is not until 7:30 pm that the police station lights up.
"How is the situation? What do you say?"
Xiaozhen took a few deep breaths when she got into the car. When she saw me asking her, she said, "They said they attached great importance to it and would start an investigation immediately. They also warned me not to go far in the near future, and I still need my cooperation."
"Good job!" I clenched my fists.
"Brother Feng...Brother Feng, you...you said you gave me the money..." Xiaozhen said in a low voice.
"Don't be so anxious. I promised to give it to you and I will definitely give it to you. I won't break my promise, but I will have to wait until I receive the goods."
"Oh...that...that's OK."
Tonight is destined not to be quiet.
At 10:30, a B&B in Mohuo Village, including several hotels around Kangding County, were all sent to investigate. People named them and found XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The police station found more or less silver coins in the things these dealers carried with them, some of which were one or two, and some of which were twenty or thirty.
After searching for this thing, it was a proof that he even saved the routine questioning and pushed it into the police car and arrested it.
The only silver coins that were not found were Yuan Four pens, because they were all in my bag.
I wasn't at the first scene, but I heard about the scene at that time.
Like the board meeting, more than 20 land shovelers were squatting on the floor of the police station hall with silver bracelets and chatting. Several of them were shirtless and wearing slippers.
"You're here?"
"Damn, you're here too!"
"I don't know, how many of them have been found?"
"I have 6 pieces, how many of you?"
"Then you have more, I'll receive two in total! If I were sentenced to death in Kangding, I wouldn't have the shame to go back to Xinxiang!"
"Who said no, hey! We're really in trouble this time! Find a way to protect ourselves."
At this time, Yuan Sibi gritted his teeth and shouted: "Why haven't you seen it yet! It's obvious that this is a dog that sold us!"
"Yes! It must be done by people in the industry! Damn, who is this dog? I know, I will definitely not have the best results for him!"
In fact, no one except me knew that Yuan Sibi also wrote his name in the letter.
After he had an accident, I drove back to our hotel.
After listening to me telling what happened in the past two days, I smiled and said with a happy smile: "Good Yunfeng, good job."
"In this way, not only will local dealers no longer threaten you, but many foreign dealers may not dare to come to Kangding in the near future."
I nodded: "I have settled my head. My family in the village will cooperate with me. I will withdraw money to receive the goods at 1:00 a.m. tomorrow, I will take the money to receive the goods. Now the villagers can only sell me because they have no choice."
"How many do you plan to collect it?"
I thought about it and said, "Hundred Ones."
He blew his head over the ashes and coughed, "No, you drop by three thousand, and the gap is too big. In this way, some people who are not short of this hundred yuan would rather rot in their own hands than sell them to you."
“How much is appropriate?”
He said, "One single coin is 2,550 yuan, more than two coin, you can add one hundred yuan to one more coin, and the cap is still the original price you will be 3,500 yuan. In this way, you can not only save a lot of money, but also receive more goods."
"Yunfeng, don't always think about getting cheap. Why do we make money at this price? Do you know the background of those silver coins?"
I said I knew it was the silver coin of Sha Chongguo, Chongzhou.
"What then?" asked me, "Then tell me, who cast it? Why did you make these silver coins with flowers at that time? Was it dedicated to someone, or is it rewarded for circulation? Why was it buried in the coffin in the end?"
"This..." I scratched my head and couldn't say it.
He smiled and said, "Yunfeng, you have been busy these two days, and I have not been idle either. I have already solved this secret."
He took out a broken book from the drawer and threw it on the table.
I saw that this broken book was an old photocopy of the "newly compiled Chengdu Prefecture Chronicle" in the first year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty. To put it simply, it is the county Chronicle.
There are two statements here. One is that there is no county aristocratic agenda in Chengdu, and the other is that the earliest county agenda in Chengdu was the first year of Daoguang in the late Qing Dynasty.
Both of these statements are wrong. The earliest county annals was to hold the book in hand. The original book was written in the Sichuan Museum. The author was Li Min, a native of the Ming Dynasty.
Turn your head open the broken book, and one page of it is folded.
This part is Volume 3, including customs and building records. The architectural records also record in detail the private schools, schools, cities, offices, temples, palaces, gates, beams, temples, tombs, ancient monuments, etc. in various regions.
He pointed his head at two lines and asked me: "Look at these two sentences."
I silently recited: "About 7 kilometers in the northern suburbs of Chengdu, there is a tomb on the southern foot of Mopan Mountain, which should be the tomb of Meng Zhixiang."
I was surprised and said, "Big head, this Meng Zhixiang is the King of Shu Kingdom of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms?!"
Could it be...my face changed drastically!
He took a sip of tea and said, "Yunfeng, you are very smart. You can understand a lot of things at all. Yesterday I got news that the tomb owner of the ancient tomb of the sarcophagus should be a "Shangyan Fengyu" in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
"What kind of official is this?" I asked.
He said, "The horses are similar to our current Minister of Transportation."
I lowered my head and thought for a few minutes, and I understood.
This kind of silver coin was not made out of thin air. It has a great background and only a very small number of people have known and seen it. You can't see it.
The Shatuo Kingdom was in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and Chongzhou was included in the territory of the Later Shu Kingdom at that time.
The tomb of King Meng Zhixiang of Shu was located in the place recorded in the county chronicle. It has now become a tourist attraction and is not open to tourists. Because the tomb is empty and there is nothing, it was stolen a hundred years ago.
According to common sense, a person in power will not allow another small country to appear within his territory, right?
But this did happen.
Chongzhou was only a few hours' drive from Chengdu. In ancient times, people were fast-legged and could not take two days to walk there.
My analysis shows that the main reason is that although Meng Zhixiang was born in the Han official history in his early years, his ancestors were actually Shatu tribes, and they were all descendants of the Turks.
It can be seen in his tomb that the tomb of his tomb was a very rare conical structure in the original area, just like the roof of a yurt on the grassland.
They are both descendants of the Turks, so he couldn't bear to destroy the Chongzhou Shatuo Kingdom in his territory at that time, because after all, it was a lineage and a source of the same origin.
When the king of Shatuo Kingdom saw that the eldest brother did not mess with him and even allowed him to be the king independently, he must have wanted to please filial piety, so he cast a batch of silver coins to give filial piety to King Meng Zhixiang of Shu.
There may have been a lot of silver coins at that time.
The owner of the sarcophagus tomb was Shang Nian Fengyu of Shatuo Kingdom, who was in charge of transportation, so he embezzled some of his silver coins and hid them in his coffin. After he died, he brought them into the tomb.
We don’t have to study what the ancient Turks mean on the front of the silver coin means, and we can’t study the word “dead”.
Just look at the patterns carved behind it.
All are flowers, and there are also "hibiscus flowers".
What does this mean?
According to official records, Meng Zhixiang particularly likes flowers.
He once mobilized Shu Kingdom to plant flowers all over the country, both young and old, in Chengdu. When the flowers bloomed in September, there was a rust in Chengdu.
Therefore, this is the real reason why Chengdu’s nickname is called “Chengcheng”.
Chapter completed!