Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

Of course, although the ring Liang En found from the silver cover was very precious as a witness to an important battle, what was even more precious was what was described in the following sentence.

Although the word Kawei is obviously a bit unpopular, as a Crusader King player, Liang En immediately thought of the Kawei battle flag.

According to ancient Persian legends, King Jamshid of Iran was incompetent 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 unbridled violence. Another demon assisted the tyrant and kissed Zohak on both shoulders. Two snakes immediately grew out of the place he kissed, and he had to feed them 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 taken away again, Kavi used a wooden pole to pick up his leather apron and called on the people to rise up and resist. , and finally overthrew Zohak's brutal rule.

From then on, Qavi's leather apron became the Persian war flag passed down from generation to generation, and this war flag naturally became one of the important representatives of the Sasanian Persian army and country.

However, legends belong to legends, and history belongs to history. At least historically, the origin of the Kawei battle flag has been unknown. It is only known that this battle flag appeared during the Sasanian Dynasty.

According to records, every time the Sasanian Persian army won a battle, it was decorated with a gem. As time went by, the Kawei battle flag was densely studded with various gems.

However, in the Battle of Qadisiya, a battle that determined the fate of the Sasanian Empire, the Persian army suffered a disastrous defeat, and the Kawi flag fell into the hands of the Arabs. In order to compete for the jewels on the flag, the Arabs tore into pieces the battle flag that recorded the glorious military exploits of Persia.

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

Although judging from the cards obtained before, this thing is likely to be like the inscription on the ring, but it is not too much to be cautious when facing this kind of item.

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

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

[However, due to the chaos on the battlefield at that time, the soldiers and officers who captured the battle flag directly chopped the battle flag into pieces with knives, and removed the gold and various precious stones on the battle flag. 】

[Because of these expensive jewelry, there were even small-scale fights on the battlefield, until finally the large army came up and took most of the gold and gems from the hands of some soldiers. However, there are still a few gems left in the hands of those soldiers and low-level officers. 】

[This ring came from a low-level military officer at the time. He later set the gemstone he obtained in a silver ring and passed it down from generation to generation to show off his martial arts. 】

"It seems that all the previous guesses are correct." After checking the data detected after using these cards, Liang En nodded with satisfaction, because this meant that he had indeed found something extremely valuable this time.

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

"Yes, it's very valuable." At this time, a porcelain research expert named Liu asked curiously. "But since it is such a precious thing, why is it an ordinary silver ring instead of a gold ring?"

"This is caused by the Arabs' religious views." Another scholar who studies Silk Road folklore said. "Because their prophet told them that silk fabrics and gold jewelry were unlawful for male believers and could only be used by women."

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

"So that's it!" Many scholars present nodded in agreement. Although everyone is a scholar of history, everyone is good at different aspects, so not everyone may know about this religious custom.

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

After discussion, everyone accepted Liang En's statement, which was that the Mongolians robbed it all the way from Asia to Europe during the Western Expedition, so this ring was most likely robbed at that time.

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

Therefore, those Mongolians who did not know how much gold and silver they had plundered naturally did not hesitate to use these jewelry. For example, they melted all the jewelry that was exquisite but did not suit their own aesthetics, and then made it into Mongolian-style jewelry.

For example, this lid is like this. It is possible that the craftsman saw that the ring was not bad, so he simply welded this thing to the lid as a handle. However, this laziness also happened to preserve this cultural relic.

If the ring had been melted according to traditional methods, in the absence of written evidence, even if Liang En found the gem and confirmed its condition, he would not be able to publicly confirm the identity of the thing.

The direct result of Liang En finding the ring was that several people came to the reef and started detecting it with metal detectors.

It's a pity that the next things excavated were nothing as precious as this ring, but they did find a lot of metal parts from the ship and some gold and silver coins.

From this point, everyone also judged that the entire ship should have been broken directly on the rocks by the waves in the wind and waves, rather than running aground on the rocks, 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 cleaning of the remains of the sunken ship on the shallow reef.

During this cleanup, they found 77,000 pieces of various porcelains, including Yuan blue and white plates, and dozens of gold and silver jewelry.

Among these jewelry, except for the ring that Liang En found before, the most precious thing is the small half of the gold foil with the Mongolian and Chinese characters of Basiba engraved on it.

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

As the most loyal country to the Yuan Dynasty among the four great khanates at that time, every great khan of the Ilkhanate would obtain canonization from the Yuan Dynasty. With the land routes cut off, all this could only be accomplished by sea.

Unfortunately, the remaining words on the gold foil only know that the gold foil was used to canonize the queen. As for who the queen was, we don't know at all, so the historical value is quite different.