Chapter 0839 – Pirate’s Treasure (III)

After all the effort, Zhuang Rui finally cleaned out this passage, if someone else did it, it would take at least a day or two.

With an excited and speculative mood, Zhuang Rui gently stepped into this treasure room, as if walking a little heavier would make the treasure lost in general.

Zhuang Rui’s this move, can be understood bit an antique collector and archaeology students, for the respect of history, people learn from history, can know the rise and fall, through these hundreds of years ago left behind the wealth, but also can be a glimpse of the social form at that time.

However, Zhuang Rui’s respect is only maintained for a few seconds, the attention is completely attracted by the gold in the chamber, looking at this full of gold, if a person still have to work to reminisce about the history, that is really exactly have a problem with it!

This small natural cave, about fifteen or sixteen square meters in size, and a bedroom about the same size, the surrounding walls obviously have traces of excavation.

In the middle of the chamber, placed like a mountain of gold and silver coins, covering an area of about six or seven square meters, the height reached Zhuang Rui’s chest.

Just these gold and silver coins that were bashed like small mountains occupied almost a large portion of the secret room.

In a corner of the cave, there are also two large and small boxes, in which the large box has a lot of places have been corrupted, the jewelry inside the box also rolled down on the ground, exuding Ying Ying beads of precious gas.

While the smaller box, but pure iron manufacturing, in the box outside also wrapped a layer of deerskin, looks and new, without the slightest damage, just the box above the lock hanging, is already rusty.

“Shit, better be careful!”

By the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie poisoned Zhuang Rui, is trying to think of a fish leap, pouncing on the pile of gold, suddenly remembered that those pirates in the movie were cursed, Zhuang Rui suddenly stopped the body, he did not want to turn into a skeleton in the night, eat what what does not smell good.

But to be honest, being cursed to become a skeleton, Zhuang Rui does not believe in it. But in this world, there are a lot of things, are with science can not answer, like into the ancient Egyptian pyramid in the violent death of those people, to now also can not give a reasonable explanation.

There is also a long rumored Miao compulsion in China’s Miaojiang, that is also rumored God, can be planted in the body of the controlled insects, Zhuang Rui think about it all shudder.

Taking a deep breath, Zhuang Rui quieted his mind, he was ready to use aura, first carefully check these objects, there is no weird stuff.

The two boxes can be checked slowly, Zhuang Rui’s attention, first put on these gold coins, he wanted to see, these gold coins underneath, whether there is something else.

“This …… is a gold anchor?”

After Zhuang Rui’s gaze penetrated the small mountain of gold coins, the whole person became dumbfounded, because he found that a gold anchor, which was the size of an ordinary ship’s anchor, was quietly lying at the bottom of the gold coins.

“Klaus’ treasure!”

After a short period of silence, Zhuang Rui was like a volcano erupting, and his whole body pounced towards that mountain of gold coins, and used his hands to keep plucking those gold coins away, his target, was the golden anchor at the bottom.

Although Zhuang Rui is not very proficient in foreign history, but the pirates, is the inevitable topic of the development of many countries, and the pirate story is very interesting, so Zhuang Rui for the history of the pirates, quite understand.

Speaking of the golden anchor, from the fourteenth century, in the second half of the fourteenth century, northern Europe’s rampant piracy, countless “independent” pirates go their own way, almost all of them from the port of northern Europe. At that time, a savage pirate team familiar with the sea, enough to make all the ships in the ocean to and from the wind, fleeing, in the Nordic coastline, almost no ship engaged in maritime trade can be in the resistance after their forgiveness.

At that time, under the strong desire for expansion of the Danish Queen Margrethe, countless Norwegians and Swedes died, so that the inhabitants of Stockholm had to resort to pirates to resist the Danish invasion.

In order to support the Swedish port city, the Duke of Mecklenburg issued a proclamation in the name of the King of Sweden: “All those who have robbed, stolen, and committed arson in acts of piracy in defiance of the Danish and Norwegian kingdoms, but at the same time have rendered assistance to Stockholm, may receive charters at Visma and Rostock.”

Thus, piracy was almost legalized, and this issuance of charters enabled many pirate captains from the north to break through the blockade lines and provide the beleaguered and starving inhabitants of Stockholm with essential foodstuffs, thus giving rise to what the pirates called the “Brothers of Food” alliance.

After the battle, with this “legal document”, the pirates not only plundered Danish ships, and began to plunder every ship engaged in trade on the sea, “Food Brothers” participants, and even began to their organization to the “state”. The participants of the “Grain Brothers” even began to develop their organization into a “state”. And Zhuang Rui mouth Klaus, full name is called Klaus Stoltebeckel, he is this in the “grain brothers” alliance, one of the most daring pirates.

Klaus was born in Germany Wismar, always commanding fifty ships in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea plunder, to some people he is a terrible sea wolf, but in the eyes of others he is the “Robin Hood of the sea,” he plundered the rich, and then give the plundered wealth to the poor.

When the pirate ships of the “Brothers of Grain” became more and more reckless in the North Sea, King Richard II of England and Queen Margrethe of Denmark, in order to fight piracy together, intended to unite against the enemy.

In the summer of 1401, while sailing against the wind in a zigzag pattern on the sea where he often sailed, Klaus was ambushed by English ships. After a fierce naval battle, the pirates were eventually defeated.

In the battle, a total of 73 pirates, including Klaus Stoltebeckel, were thrown into prison, 40 pirates were killed, and then the pirate captain was sent back to his native Germany for trial, where he was sentenced to death by beheading.

One day in October 1401, after his arrest, Klaus and his 73 pirate brothers were taken to Glasbrook.

When the noose was about to be put around their necks, the pirate leader made an offer to the Hamburg parliamentarians: he promised to buy the freedom of the pirates by giving them a gold anchor chain as beautiful as a wreath and countless gold coins, plus the donation of a gold church bell-tower roof to Hamburg.

This request, however, was flatly rejected by the officials, and 73 pirates fell headlong to the ground, after which their bloody heads were lined up on stakes for public display.

The Hamburg parliamentarians were sure that they would always find the Stoltebeckel’s treasure, no matter what means were used, but the parliamentarians were proved wrong, and to this day all of the German pirate captain’s possessions remain unaccounted for.

Of course, what is unaccounted for is only the hiding place of the treasure, but the contents of the treasure owned by Klaus have long been rumored in the world.

One of the most true legends is that Klaus in order to loot the gold and silver treasure as much as possible to carry away, deliberately captured a blacksmith, a large amount of gold melted into a gold anchor chain, hidden in the mast.

With the death of Klaus and his pirate brothers, his treasure has been no one knows where it is hidden anymore, and now more than six centuries have passed, still not found, and the story of the famous golden anchor has been passed down in the world.

So Zhuang Rui after seeing that gold anchor, immediately guessed who the owner of this pirate treasure is.

After seeing this golden anchor, Zhuang Rui went crazy, he no longer cared about any legendary curse, and directly rushed towards the gold coins. In nearly seven hundred years of time, this treasure has been sought by countless people are not allowed to see, did not think, it even appeared in this deserted island.

Countless gold coins flew in the air and then fell on the ground, making a crisp ringing sound, Zhuang Rui already couldn’t care about those contraptions, his hands, already grasped on that gold anchor.

“Come out to me!”

Both hands exerted force, and that huge golden anchor, was pulled out from the mountain of gold coins by Zhuang Rui with a stiff stroke.

“Mom yo, how did they transport it in?”

Looking at this and the general size of the ship on the gold anchor, Zhuang Rui eyes are full of surprise, to his two arms hundreds of pounds of strength, actually can only pull but can not pick up this even the chains are made of gold anchor.

Giggling in the gold anchor touch half a day later, Zhuang Rui only to transfer the attention to other places, in fact, if really on the value of this gold anchor, but also worse than that on the wall of a pearl!

But because this thing is a legendary object, with antique line words, that is the orderly inheritance, this is a work of art, already can not simply use the value of gold to measure, so this is Zhuang Rui another eye.

After leaving from the pile of gold coins, Zhuang Rui walked to the two boxes in front of, just that the big box rotting too much, Zhuang Rui just gently touched, the whole box fell apart, inside countless pearls rolled out.

“Damn, how can this walk?” Zhuang Rui felt a big mistake, isn’t this giving himself a hard time?

Most of these are pearls and gemstone necklaces, due to the age, many of them have already lost their luster, after a cursory glance in the big box that fell apart, Zhuang Rui lost interest.

“Anyway, I came for a trip, take something as a souvenir!”

Zhuang Rui found a chopstick-thick gold necklace inside, at the pendant of the necklace, it was a thumb-sized, pure gold beaten skull, it looked a bit mysterious, Zhuang Rui reluctantly took it out and hung it on his neck.