Song Cang

In 1276, the Yuan army general Zhang Hongfan, a Han Chinese serving the Yuan, broke into Lin'an. However, after Kublai Khan arrived at the Song capital, he discovered that this Song dynasty, so wealthy that it used blue-green jade as tiles and gold as roofing, had left behind less than 300,000 taels of silver.

More than a hundred million taels of silver and gold, countless treasures and antiques, books on mysterious calculations and divination, and the skills of master craftsmen had all been secretly hidden away. Where was the treasure? Kublai Khan ordered Zhang Hongfan to find it no matter what.

In 1278, at the naval battle of Yashan, the Song fell. Prime Minister Lu Xiufu of the Song dynasty jumped into the sea with the young emperor and died by suicide, 800 soldiers who knew the truth leapt into the sea to follow him, and 100,000 people involved in the event all killed themselves.

The only person in the world who knew the whereabouts of the treasure was Wen Tianxiang, who would rather die than yield. On January 9, 1283, Wen Tianxiang was executed in Dadu, and from then on, no one could know where the treasure was. Since then, countless emperors and rulers have searched for this treasure, yet found nothing.

Some scholars believe that after Yashan, there was no longer a Chinese civilization. Until the day I emerged...