Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 548 Secret
It is a custom for Indians to store treasures in temples. At the same time, these treasures are not hidden somewhere. At least those who are in charge of the temple know this.

For example, Liang En heard about the hidden treasures of Indian temples in Kerala in his previous life. In 2001, there was an intelligence officer named Sandara Lajang who was an officer of the Indira Gandhi government. Settle near the temple known as Padmanabhaswami Temple.

As a devout Hindu, although that Sandara Lajan was over seventy years old, he insisted on going to the temple to pray at 2 o'clock in the morning every day, which lasted up to 8 hours a day and used this time to search.

In 2009, Sandara Lajan found that the security maintenance of the temple was not enough, so he complained to the Kerala High Court, demanding that the government should take back the management rights of the temple, and be responsible for the disposal of property in the temple and anti-theft.

The virtues of Indian officials can be said to be well known to everyone, and it is naturally impossible to let go of the benefits of this kind of door-to-door delivery. In January 2011, the Kerala High Court ruled that the temple should be taken over by the state government.

Before the official takeover, a committee composed of 7 people was responsible for counting the total assets of the temple in advance and making a list for filing.Before the inventory work began, the staff had already ascertained that the temple had 6 underground chambers.

These secret rooms are numbered with English letters a to f, and the two secret rooms numbered "a" and "b" have not been opened for nearly 140 years.

2011年6月29日，人们打开了a密室以及其他4个密室，发现的财宝包括近1吨重的黄金饰品、钻石、宝石。

还有1200多根约重2.5公斤的金链、3个黄金皇冠、3尺半高的镶钻毗湿奴神像，1吨重的黄金大象等等。其他如金币、黄金制品等不可计数。

It is estimated that these treasures are worth more than 1 trillion rupees, or about 1450 billion yuan, or more than 200 billion US dollars. According to previous records, the richest temple in India is the Tirubati Temple in Andhra Pradesh.

However, the value of the property owned by Tirubati Temple is only 3200 billion rupees.The value of the treasures held by Padmanabaswamy Temple far exceeds this figure, and it has become the richest temple in India.

But the problem is that these treasures are not ownerless.At least the local families knew about the existence of the treasure house, and even many of the treasures were donated by their ancestors.

This can also be regarded as a tradition of high castes such as Brahmins and Kshatriyas in India. Wealthy members of the high caste will donate wealth to the temple, while those members of the downcast high caste can receive funding from the temple.

For them, in addition to traditional religious needs, the temple can also provide them with financial support, and also shoulder part of the obligation of insurance.

In addition, for a country like India where illiteracy is everywhere at the grassroots level and is still under the feudal rule system, don't expect much public service. In this case, the temple will naturally make up for this aspect.

To give the simplest example, once there is a natural or man-made disaster, these temples are often the important rescue centers in the region to perform a series of grassroots businesses, which is why the internal systems of many Indian temples are extremely complicated.

After all, for Indians, a temple is not a simple religious occasion, but a special occasion with a core of grassroots government and spiritual leadership.

Therefore, under such a background, a lot of wealth is often accumulated in Indian temples, so Liang En's first reaction after realizing that this is a secret room under the temple is that this place probably once held some kind of hidden treasure.

That's right, there used to be hidden treasures. After all, thinking about the gold and silver coins scattered on the ground, the explosives found in the ruins above, and the traces of the explosions, it is unlikely that those treasures are still in place.

As they continued to advance, Liang En and the others' faces became more and more serious, because the depth and length of the tunnel were much larger than imagined.

Although there are no carvings on the stones beside the corridors, it is already very powerful to be able to build an underground building of this scale in such a remote place, and it can also prove the importance of this temple.

After walking forward for more than 20 meters from the exit, Liang En and the others finally stopped, because at this time they found a stone gate installed on the road ahead.

"This should be the treasure room." Looking at the stone slab that was obviously blown away by explosives, he nodded and said. "But as we guessed before, it should have been robbed."

"To be precise, it was completely ransacked." Fan Meng looked at the shattered gate and said, "I bet you that there are only a few coins or a few coins left for us inside." Two small pieces of jewelry."

"You are a crow's mouth!" After 40 minutes, Liang En looked at Fan Meng and said with a depressed face, because the pile of things they found with the metal detector could not even cover the palm of a person.

Apparently the group of guys who destroyed the place with explosives had completely ransacked the place, leaving only a few bits and pieces in the mud.

In addition, they found several remains, each of which had marks of gunshots. If there is no mistake, this is probably the scene left by the group of tomb robbers who killed and silenced them.

Because Fan Meng can be sure that this group of people was shot to death from the back of the head after being tied up. If it is connected with this temple secret room, it is easy to guess that this situation should be related to killing and silence.

At the same time, after a brief analysis of the wounds on these people, they also determined that the pistol used by that group of people was a black powder revolver used by the British around 1860.

"It seems unlikely that the diggers were sent by the British government back then." After everyone left the basement, Joan carefully analyzed the previous situation after listening to their findings.

This is not because of the whitewashing of his British colonists, but for the British Indian officials at the time, it was enough for them to excavate such abandoned relics directly, and there was no need to choose to kill people.

For the group of British colonists who scraped the ground in India, it was enough to just take what they wanted, and all kinds of sneaky looks revealed that the guys who made it like this even in that era It's also a crime.

"You're right, but I think so much wealth is eye-catching in any era, so we should be able to find clues about this ruin." Liang En nodded to Joan of Arc.

"The next work will be done by the servants and workers sent by the Varma family. They will clean up the basement as much as possible, and then we can see if there are enough clues."

Next, Liang En and the others ate lunch and waited for the workers' search results.Soon after more than an hour, Liang En and the others who were drinking tea got new information.

"You mean there was an Englishman among the dead?" Liang En frowned after listening to the servant's report on the current situation. "Take me to have a look. I think the situation may be different from what I imagined."

(End of this chapter)