In 2013, Song, a villager who lives in Shuangjiang Village on the edge of the Minjiang River, went into the water to fish for treasure, accidentally picked up a tiger seal, and finally sold it to a cultural relics dealer at a sky-high price of 13 million, living a worry-free life.
Originally, Song thought it was"Windfall from heaven"., but I didn't expect this to be in fact"Disaster from heaven".Just three years later, the police found Song's home.
What the hell is going on here?Who does that seal belong to?Why can it be sold at a sky-high price?
In May 2014, the Meishan Public Security Bureau in Sichuan Province received a report that a cultural relics dealer had received a treasure from Sichuan.
After the second transaction, it was sold for hundreds of millions of yuan, and now it is flowing abroad, and it is urgent to stop the outflow of national treasures.
After the preliminary verification of Sichuan**, even if it attracted great attention, finally followed the clues of the cultural relics dealer, and finally successfully arrested the cultural relics dealer Li.
And 22 cultural relics were seized from him, including a large gold ingot of more than 50 taels.
But the problem is that the highest value of these cultural relics is only about 10 million yuan, and it cannot reach the level of hundreds of millions of yuan at all
After interrogation, the truth was finally revealed.
It turned out that the cultural relics worth hundreds of millions of dollars were a tiger seal, which had already been traded.
However, Sichuan ** did not give up, they crossed most of China and finally took back the national treasure seal worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and the relevant personnel were also punished as they deserved.
However, with further interrogation, Sichuan ** suddenly found that this was not the end but only the beginning.
Behind this cultural relics trafficking case, there is even a huge cultural relics trading case, that is, the "Minjiangkou Cultural Relics Trading Case"!
Since the Minjiang River in Jiangkou Town, Pengshan District, was announced as a Meishan Municipal Cultural Relics Protection Unit in 2010, the Minjiang River Basin has become a "treasure digging paradise" for people.
Due to the arrival of the flood season, archaeological work was forced to be suspended, so people often ran to the river to fish for "treasures", and most of them were traded to cultural relics dealers.
It is tentatively estimated that at least tens of thousands of cultural relics have been lost in the past few years.
After learning this information, ** immediately completed the deployment and went to Pengshan District, and finally recovered more than 1,000 cultural relics directly from there, including 38 national second-class cultural relics and 8 national first-class cultural relics!
In addition to the confiscated items, ** also found the "provenance" of the tiger seal according to the map, that is, the villager surnamed Song we mentioned at the beginning.
In 2016, when ** contacted Song, Song was living happily at home, completely unaware that the so-called "gift" had already sent him to a dead end.
* After coming to the door, Song was directly arrested, and then interrogated him, and from his mouth, he initially learned about the "origin" of Song getting this seal.
In 2005, due to the discovery of a large number of cultural relics in the construction of the Minjiang River project, many people had secretly gone to dig treasures, and some people even made a "windfall".
This can be said to have completely detonated the treasure hunt craze in the local area.
At the beginning, the villagers were digging treasures by the river, and some people did dig up some gold ingots and silver lumps, and some people dug up some copper coins.
However, most of them were not of high value, and the ** soon imposed a blockade on the shore, so the local people gradually began to "find another way" - they set their sights on the bottom of the river.
Song, who dug up the tiger seal, was one of the original treasure hunt members.
In order to be able to dig out the treasure from the bottom of the river, he even borrowed money from a friend to buy a set of special diving equipment and a metal detector.
After the initial training, he began to go down to the river to fish for treasure, and at the beginning it can be said that there was no harvest, but he did not give up.
I didn't expect him to dig out the treasure in the end, a ** tiger.
After salvaging the ** tiger, Song contacted the cultural relics dealers everywhere and prepared to sell them, but he never managed to sell a satisfactory **.
In Song's eyes, this tiger can be sold for at least 10 million, but the cultural relics dealer only gives 8 million **, which makes Song very dissatisfied.
So he continued to devote himself to the salvage of cultural relics, but he didn't expect that he was really lucky, and it didn't take long to pick up a ** seal.
What's even more rare is that this **seal is a pair of the **tiger that he caught before, and Song knew that he was going to make a lot of money this time.
Sure enough, this time, the cultural relics dealers took the ** out to 13 million.
After the tiger seal, Song immediately became a wealthy man in the village, he not only renovated his home, but also drove a luxury car, which can be said to be unique for a while.
And his harvest also made people more blushing, so they increased their energy to devote themselves to the "** craze, which led to the loss of so many cultural relics outside.
Of course, after getting rich overnight, Song still did not give up salvaging the cultural relics at the bottom of the river, but the harvest was relatively small.
In addition, the cultural relics at the bottom of the river are getting fewer and fewer, and Song gradually tends to enjoy himself, and gradually forgets the sale of tiger seals at the beginning.
It's just that he never thought that in 2016, he would be "brought up again", and the former treasure made him in prison, so that he could avoid a period of imprisonment, and he was to blame.
The person who sold cultural relics was punished, but the matter is far from over, how can a ** tiger seal be sold for a sky-high price after that?
This starts with the ownership of this ** tiger seal.
This seal is golden, the tiger button posture is vigorous, the most striking thing is to use the "nine stacks of seals" to print on the stamp pad"Yongchang Generalissimo Seal, made on an auspicious day in the midwinter of the year of Guiwei (1643)".Words.
Because"Generalissimo Yongchang Seal".6 big characters, so people once thought that the owner of this seal was Li Zicheng.
After all, he was the leader of the peasant rebel army, and it was difficult for people not to think of him when he met the specifications for using the gold seal, and with the special era name of "Yongchang".
But then some experts who study the history of the Ming Dynasty pointed out that the owner of this seal is unlikely to be Li Zicheng.
First of all, in the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, although the marshal was regarded as the supreme leader, this was without the establishment of political power.
In the first month of 1643, Li Zicheng captured Chengtian and was promoted as "Generalissimo of Fengtian Advocate Righteousness and Civil Martial Arts", and in March, Li Zicheng changed Xiangyang to Xiangjing and called "King Xinshun".
If it's his seal, then it should be"Yongchang Xinshun Wang Yin".
Secondly, although Li Zicheng has called himself the generalissimo many times, he often has the word "advocacy" in his title, but this seal does not.
In addition, the Yongchang era was only decided in 1644, and this seal was cast in the winter of 1643.
Moreover, in order to avoid his father and ancestors, Li Zicheng also specifically said that all documents should avoid crosses such as "seal", so it is even more impossible for him to engrave the word "seal" on the seal.
Therefore, this seal should have nothing to do with Li Zicheng.
As for the real owner of this seal, it should be Zhang Xianzhong, who was also the leader of the rebel army at that time.
At this time, there are two more theoriesFirst, this seal was cast by Li Zicheng, and then given to Zhang Xianzhong, so that he wanted to take him under his command.
Another theory is that the seal was made by Zhang Xianzhong himself, which in itself is a challenge to Li Zicheng's authority.
Of the two statements, there are more people who agree with the latter.
Because before this seal was cast, Zhang Xianzhong had already taken refuge in Li Zicheng, but the final result was not very good, and he was almost killed.
From this point of view, there is a certain contradiction between the two, and it is unlikely that Li Zicheng will assign the post of generalissimo, which symbolizes the highest military power, to Li Xianzhong.
It is unlikely that Zhang Xianzhong will accept such an appointment and devote himself to Li Zicheng's command again.
According to historical records, in May 1643, Zhang Xianzhong had already captured Wuchang and proclaimed himself the "King of Daxi".
In this case, it is very normal for him to follow Li Zicheng's example and proclaim himself as the acting marshal, and as for the so-called Yongchang, this is more likely to be an expectation in his heart.
After all, just one year later, he was proclaimed emperor in Chengdu, and from this point of view, this person is also extremely ambitious, and it is impossible to succumb to Li Zicheng.
After the official title of emperor, the so-called position of Generalissimo Yongchang is not in line with Zhang Xianzhong's identity, so the tiger seal is most likely to be shelved in the high pavilion and included in the inner library.
It stands to reason that such a seal should be properly preserved, so why did it end up in the river?
This point should be viewed in the context of the history of the time.
At that time, although Zhang Xianzhong successfully became emperor, the situation he faced was not good, on the one hand, he was attacked by the Southern Ming and Qing Dynasty, and on the other hand, his own ruling ability was also worried.
Under internal and external troubles, he had to give up everything to seek a way out, which is the so-called"The silver of the militia of the treasury is loaded with a hundred ships, and it goes east with the river."
To put it bluntly, it is to pack up his property, and then run eastward, waiting for opportunities in the future, and then waiting for the opportunity to move, but what he didn't expect was that he encountered a volley halfway, which fell short.
In Sichuan, there has been such a popular nursery rhyme"The stone ox is against the stone drum, and the silver is ten thousand and five. Someone recognized it and bought all the Chengdu Mansion. ”
The meaning of this nursery rhyme is that whoever can find the treasure left by Zhang Xianzhong back then will be able to get rich overnight and buy the entire Chengdu Mansion.
But where is Zhang Xianzhong's baby?No one is conclusive.
According to historical records, we can only know that his team was ambushed by Yang Zhan, a bureaucrat in western Sichuan, at the mouth of the river in Pengshan County.
Then the fleet collapsed, and the gold and silver fell into the river, and the whereabouts of the treasure of a thousand boats became a mystery.
Some people may also say, isn't it a bit exaggerated to say that the baby of a thousand boats?
In fact, it is really not, when Zhang Xianzhong captured Wuchang in 1643, he got a huge fortune from the king of Chu, it is said that it is"Millions of gold and silver are carried in hundreds of carts."
This is just a place he has captured, basically everywhere he goes, Zhang Xianzhong will sweep the wealth of the gentry in the official mansion, and then collect a wave of people's fat and people's ointment.
In the long run, the accumulated wealth is naturally terrifying, but the money did not fall into his pocket in the end, but sank to the bottom of the river, which can only be said to be fateful.
Yang Zhan, who ambushed Zhang Xianzhong at the beginning, and later the imperial court, of course, also thought about salvaging this huge wealth.
It's just that due to the relatively low social productivity and various technologies at that time, it was impossible to salvage the treasure in the turbulent river water.
In the end, only a few copper coins were found, and more things were immersed in the bottom of the river, and disappeared with the passage of time.
It wasn't until 2005 that these treasures came to light, attracting residents along the river to dig for treasures.
Of course, although the people dug a lot, they were not able to dig all because of the relatively backward equipment.
After rescue excavations by experts, more than 30,000 artifacts were unearthed from there, which would have been a huge fortune at any given time.
In particular, many of them are of great historical research value, and in the end, except for a few of these artifacts are used for research, most of them are sent to local museums for the world to see.
Some people may say, I can dispose of the treasure I dig up as I want, and how can it be illegal?
On this point, we can only say that we must be a person who knows the law and abides by the law, in our country's Constitution, cultural relics protection, intangible cultural heritage law and the People's Republic of China cultural relics protection, the ownership of unearthed cultural relics is clearly defined.
Unless it is handed down from an ancestor, the treasure that is picked up or accidentally obtained outside belongs to the state, and we have the obligation to hand it over to the state.
At this time, remember not to buy and sell cultural relics, especially when it comes to some cultural relics of extremely high value, otherwise there is a high probability that the more you sell, the heavier the judgment.
Not only can you not make money, but you have to be in prison, and in the end, the bamboo basket is empty.
In fact, after picking up cultural relics, it is a matter of course to hand them over to the state.
If it weren't for the state opening museums, and the cultural relics were collected by some private collectors, then those extremely meaningful cultural relics may not be seen in our lifetime, let alone studied.
In addition, we should not fantasize about getting rich overnight, we should earn wealth with our own hands, otherwise even if we get what we want, it is likely to be a blessing or a curse.
After all, after winning the lottery, there are not a few people who end up with a bleak evening, not to mention ordinary people who collect cultural relics privately.
Not to mention whether there will be damage to cultural relics due to improper preservation, the husband is not guilty, and everyone understands the truth of his guilt.
Treasures beyond our control will not only not bring us benefits, but may also bring us unexpected disasters.
Therefore, everyone still has to maintain a normal heart, be a law-abiding person, as for those precious cultural relics, you can look at it from a distance, there is no need to force it.