Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 324 Harvest
Of course, although the ring that Liang En found from the silver cover before is very precious as a witness of an important battle, what is even more precious is what is described in the following sentence.

Although the term Kavi is obviously unpopular, as a player of Crusader Kings, Liang En immediately thought of the Kavi Battle Banner.

According to an ancient Persian legend, Jamshid, the king of Iran, was ineffective in his later years. The Arab tyrant Zohak took the opportunity to lead his army to attack Iran. Jamshid fled to the Amu Darya River in Central Asia and was killed by his pursuers.

Zohak ruled Iran with tyranny.There are also demons who help him to abuse him, kissing Zohak's shoulders, two snakes grow out of the place where he kissed, and they have to feed the heads of two people every day.

Seventeen of the eighteen sons of the blacksmith Kavi have been captured and fed to snakes. When the last son was about to be captured again, Kavi lifted his leather apron with a wooden pole and called on the people to rise up and resist , and finally overthrow Zohark's brutal rule.

Since then, Kavi's leather apron has become the Persian battle flag passed down from generation to generation, and this battle flag has naturally become one of the important representatives of the Sasanian Persian army and the country.

But legends belong to legends, and history belongs to history. At least in history, the source of the Kavi battle flag has always been unknown. It is only known that this battle flag appeared during the Sasanian Dynasty.

According to records, every time the Sassanid Persian army won a battle, they affixed a gem to it.As time went on, the Kavi battle flag was densely studded with all kinds of gems.

However, in the battle of Qadisiya, the battle that determined the fate of the Sasanian Empire, the Persian army was defeated, and the Kavi battle flag fell into the hands of the Arabs.In order to compete for the jewels on the flag, the Arabs tore the battle flag that recorded the great exploits of Persia into pieces.

So if those inscriptions on the ring are true, then this ring is not only an important witness of that battle, but also the only known trace of a legendary treasure left in this world.

Although judging from the cards obtained before, this thing is likely to be the same as the inscription on the ring, but it is not an exaggeration to be cautious when facing this kind of item.

After a [Appraisal (N)] card was used, line after line of tiny words appeared in front of Liang En out of thin air, telling the story behind the ring.

[During the era of the Arab Conquest, the Arabs won an absolute victory in the Battle of Qadisiya and captured the Qavi battle flag of the Persian army]

[However, because of the chaos on the battlefield at that time, the soldiers and officers who captured the battle flag directly chopped the battle flag to pieces with knives, and removed the gold and various gems from the battle flag. 】

[Because of these expensive jewels, there were even small-scale fights on the battlefield at that time, until finally the large troops came up and took away most of the gold and gems from the hands of the soldiers.However, a small number of gems remained in the hands of those soldiers and low-ranking officers. 】

[This ring came from a low-ranking officer at the time. He inlaid the gemstone he obtained on a silver ring afterwards, and passed it down from generation to generation to show off his martial arts. 】

"It seems that all the previous guesses were correct." After checking the data detected after using these cards, Liang En nodded in satisfaction, because this meant that he had indeed found a very valuable thing this time.

"If the inscription on it is true, this is indeed a very valuable item." When Liang En returned to the ship with this ring and showed it to other scholars, everyone commented on this item. Not low.

"That's right, it's very valuable." At this time, a porcelain research expert surnamed Liu asked curiously. "But since it's such a precious thing, why did you use an ordinary silver ring instead of a gold ring?"

"This is caused by the religious views of the Arabs," said another scholar who studies the folklore of the Silk Road. "Because their Prophet told them that silk and gold jewelry is illegal for male believers and only for women."

"So according to their religious habits, the jewelry on their men is basically made of silver, and all the men's jewelry unearthed now are also made of silver."

"So that's the case!" Many scholars present nodded in agreement. Although they are all scholars of history, they are good at different aspects, so not everyone knows about this religious custom.

In the following time, they began to study why this ring appeared on the lid of a bowl or teacup, and appeared on the ship as a handle on the lid.

After discussion, everyone accepted Liang En's statement that when the Mongols marched westward, they robbed them all the way from Asia to Europe, so there was a high probability that this ring was also robbed at that time.

Although it seems that this ring is very precious now, in the eyes of the Mongols, it is just a ring inlaid with gems.

Therefore, those Mongolians who do not know how much gold and silver treasures they have looted naturally do not hesitate to use these jewels, such as melting all those exquisite but not in line with their own aesthetic jewelry, and then making them into Mongolian-style jewelry.

For example, this cover is like this. It is likely that the craftsman saw that the ring was made well, so he simply welded this thing on the cover as a handle, but this laziness also happened to preserve this cultural relic.

If the ring had been melted according to the traditional method back then, even if Liang En had found the gemstone and confirmed the status of the gemstone without written evidence, he would not be able to publicly confirm the identity of the thing.

The direct result of Liang En's discovery of the ring was that several people came to the reef and began to detect it with metal detectors.

It's a pity that there was nothing as precious as this ring in the things excavated next, but a lot of metal parts and some gold and silver coins on the ship were found.

From this point, everyone also judged that the entire ship should have been directly photographed by the waves and broke on the reef during the wind and waves, rather than hitting the reef, so there are so many precious things left here.

Finally, half a month later, Liang En and the others ended their exploration work. In 15 days, they completed the cleanup of the wreck on the shallow reef.

During this clean-up, they found 77000 pieces of various porcelains headed by Yuan blue and white plates, as well as dozens of gold and silver jewelry.

Among these jewellery, apart from the ring that Liang En found before, the most precious thing is the gold leaf engraved with Basiba Mongolian and Chinese characters on the small half.

According to the judgment of the experts on board, this gold foil was part of a certain gold book conferred by the Yuan Dynasty on the Ilkhanate. Considering that the Chagatai Khanate located in the Western Regions of China was always against the Yuan Dynasty, it was difficult for the Yuan Dynasty to pass the silk on land. road to get there.

As the most loyal country to the Yuan Dynasty among the four major khanates at that time, every great khan of the Il Khanate would obtain the canonization of the Yuan Dynasty, and all this could only be done by sea when the land route was cut off.

It is a pity that the remaining text on the gold leaf only knows that this gold leaf is used to canonize the queen. As for who the queen is, it is not known at all, so the historical value is quite different.

(End of this chapter)