Most farmers living in Minjiang River have found coins in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and even some gold and silver ingots. Usually, these properties were discovered by farmers after the flood. As more and more ancient coins were salvaged by farmers along the river, the local people decided to set up a special team to see what treasures were hidden underwater. Later, this small gang sneaked into the bottom of the river many times and found many cultural relics. They didn't give these cultural relics to the country, but took these treasures for themselves. Later, the gang gradually became a grave robbery gang. They even found golden seals, golden lions and Jin Hu in the river, which attracted the attention of the government.
20 15 the official thought that there might be a site at the bottom of the Minjiang River, so experts made a special trip to the local area for investigation. Some farmers revealed that they can really find gold and silver in this area. As for where it will be sent after it is found, they said that there will be cultural relics dealers to collect it regularly. Experts went to the cultural relics market to investigate. After a long period of exploration, they learned that a cultural relic dealer bought a "Jin Hu" from a farmer for 7.7 million yuan.
After successfully selling "Jin Hu", the farmer secretly rejoiced and became rich overnight. Unexpectedly, he was arrested. In fact, the grave robbery gang to which the farmer belongs has existed for a long time and has stolen many underwater cultural relics. The relevant departments immediately and urgently recovered cultural relics, and thousands of pieces have been recovered, involving a transaction amount as high as 300 million yuan. As for this restored "Jin Hu", experts judged that it should be Zhang's seal according to the words "Marshal Yongchang" at the bottom of the seal.
Later, this incident spread in the archaeological community, and archaeologists from all over the world came here to conduct archaeological research and submit opinions, calling on relevant departments to carry out rescue excavation of the site, and the official also approved the excavation. Some people will think that since it has always existed at the bottom of the river, it is more difficult to clean up cultural relics in stormy rivers than to ascend to heaven. Even if it can sneak into the river bottom to clean up cultural relics, if it is not cleaned thoroughly, it will also cause damage to cultural relics. As we all know, once a cultural relic is destroyed, it is almost impossible to completely restore it.
China experts have also taken this into account. Instead of jumping into the water, they chose to change course, drain the water and clean it up in the ruins. This kind of cleaning is the most convenient and comprehensive, and will not waste tiny cultural relics.
Experts have cleaned up Zhang's site. More than 50,000 cultural relics, including gold ingots, silver ingots, gold seals and pure gold picture books, have been unearthed in this famous Zhang site. Many of them are valuable, not including the lost or stolen ones, which are sky-high and of high research value.