1 189, after Richard I succeeded to the throne, he made his brother John Earl Morton the Duke of Ireland, but he asked John to promise not to enter England during Richard's crusade. However, when Richard 1 190 set out for the crusade, John immediately broke his oath. 1 193 Richard failed to seize the throne when he was detained in Germany. After Richard I died in 1 199, he finally became the heir to the throne.
After John succeeded to the throne, he fell into endless internal and external disputes. First, the war between Britain and France resumed, and finally the war between Britain and France ended. The Archbishop of Canterbury died in 1206. John opposed the appointment of Langton as archbishop, so he quarreled with innocent III and was sentenced to absolute punishment by the Pope. At this time, there were complaints in Britain, and the civil war finally broke out the next year. 12 15 In May, the rebels occupied London. 12 15 In June, John had to sign the magna carta proposed by the nobles.
Soon, the war broke out again, and Prince Louis of France invaded England. 12 16, John surrendered to the Pope and paid tribute to him, and this dispute ended. After John reconciled with the Pope, with the support of the Pope, he began to retaliate against the nobles.
John led a mercenary to rob his country and occupied city after city except London. In this case, the nobles decided to turn to France for help and were willing to let French Crown Prince Louis ascend to the British throne. 1216 in may12, the French crown prince landed in dover.
In the city that John occupied, he built more than 20 official residences, but none of them could be his permanent home. He always stays in every place for only a few days all the year round. All its valuables were also taken on the journey, packed in countless big boxes and kept moving around.
Although the king had a bad reputation all his life and many derogatory words after his death, he received a good education, high cultural accomplishment and elegant taste. John's greatest specialty is appreciating jewelry. He has collected many very precious jewels. Because he likes to play around and hunt, and he contacts people all the year round, he is very familiar with the national conditions of England. During his reign, the judiciary was clear, the state treasury was enriched, and taxes and military affairs were improved.
John keeps expanding his collection. In his jewelry collection, he bought several rare treasures from agents in continental Europe. Out of love, he always takes these jewels with him and makes special boxes for them. But sometimes, for the sake of safety, he will also spread some of his collections to temples all over the country for safekeeping. But he asked his people to mark the list very carefully. Among the treasures entrusted to him are his grandmother, queen and the widow of German emperor Henry V? The symbol of imperial power when Lady Mathilde was crowned: a big crown from Germany, a short-sleeved tunic of a cardinal, a belt inlaid with jewels, a silk curtain worn by Henry V when she was crowned, a huge sapphire, a golden scepter with a golden dove, two swords, a golden cup and a golden cross.
12 16 at the end of summer, the nobles in England finally realized that the French army was not their ally, and they came to England only to gain greater benefits, so the nobles' support for the French army became less and less, and John felt the opportunity to turn to 12 16 in mid-September to retaliate against those who gave his things to the French.
On September 17, John came to Cambridge, visited two historic castles, then went to Lincoln, and then went to the Earl of Norfolk. 10 year 10 9 year, 10 year, he stayed in the south of Walsh river (today's king? Ryan).
On June+10/October 1 1 day, 65438, John went from Rennes to Weisbach, and the next day, he headed for Svinahead. When John arrived in Raine City, he had collected countless trophies from all over the world, and there were more and more treasures in those solid boxes in the huge army, so he had to order those luggage to be left in Raine.
Later, John's followers received orders that if they want to see the king in Svina Sea, they must take the road directly across the Rem River in Vilster and across the estuary, because the quicksand here is full of traps, so it is extremely unsafe. Matthaeus, the greatest chronicler who collected/kloc-the richest historical materials in Britain in the third century? Parikinsis wrote down this important event: "At that time, when crossing the river, the fog was very heavy, and vehicles began to struggle through the sand in this dangerous area. Perhaps the vanguard troops got stuck in the mud, and the rapid influx of water blocked their retreat and put them in a dilemma. " King John of England himself was there. Seeing something bad, he wanted to ask for help, but he was forced to retreat by the nearby river.
At this time, John suddenly found that the land in the water suddenly cracked, and the whirlpool swept everything, people and horses, to the bottom of the water. In a blink of an eye, the king of England not only lost his army, horses and chariots, but also lost his jewels collected for many years and valuables taken out of the monastery storage room. Everything sank into the quicksand of the Rem River in Vilster.
It is estimated that these treasures are worth about 2 million pounds today. The king got dysentery, lost all his jewels in the blink of an eye, and soon became very ill.
The abbot of Croston listened to the king's final confession and held a final oiling ceremony for him. 12 16 10 09 10 19, John died in Newark, and was buried in cheshier Cathedral.
In the next 700 years, these royal treasures were forgotten in the swamp.
Until1February, 906 15, John, secretary of the London association of cultural relics researchers? Hope made a report entitled "The Lost Luggage Team in King John", which aroused public interest in John's lost items.
Ward, the founder and amateur archaeologist of the Daily Mail? Cliff asked his subordinate Kurnock to look for this legendary trace. After many twists and turns, Kurnock found two other treasure hunters, Avicodo and Scottish engineer William. William used to work in the drainage of Lake Swede in the Netherlands.
Three people started a systematic search. After several years of investigation, they came to the conclusion that the treasure is in a rectangular area about one square kilometer underground, but it has been submerged by the lake for a long time. William drilled a hole and found that the treasure did not sink to the bottom of the hard riverbed 22 meters deep. He estimated that it probably sank into quicksand with a depth of 1 1 ~ 12 meters.
At the end of 1929 and 1930, the British government issued two treasure hunting licenses, one near Sutton Bridge; In addition, in a 440-hectare area near Sutton, known as the "Oriental Sutton Bridge", the license clearly stipulates that after deducting all the expenses required for treasure hunting, the net profit of the treasure will be divided equally between the royal family and the treasure hunters. But what is puzzling is that this matter has not been followed.
1in the summer of 929, John, an American rich man from Baltimore? Hurt? Bona decided to raise money for the treasure hunt after learning about it. Later, he met a man named Ponsenbai and appointed him as the head of the newly established committee.
1October 6th, 1932, 10, they got the license, which is valid for 3 years or until they find the treasure. Two months later, they registered a joint-stock company in the name of "Marsh Research Boundary", with a share investment of 1000, which was divided into 1000.
1June, 933, Bona met a chemist Carl who fled from Germany. Gratewitz, he promised Bona that he would use his own metal detector, the treasure detector, which can locate the treasures most quickly and speed up their excavation. Gratewitz began to work at once. After a field trip to the swamp, he is going to ask for about 500 pounds, which is equivalent to the current reward of 10000 mark. Then, he made different measurements with a self-made metal detector, which consists of a needle inserted in a cork and a thin wire hanging at both ends. On September 15, he made the following report: "At a place 8 meters long and 8 meters wide 1 meter by Sutton Bridge, 50 yards away from the sinking river bed, at least 24 cars loaded with silver and other goods, 200 horses and soldiers carrying gold bags were trapped in the swamp, and the number ranged from 800 to 3,000. These cars are fully loaded.
Although this report caused a sensation, there was nothing about treasure hunting except that Bona knew that he had spent 20,000 yuan in advance in the spring of 1934. Soon, the company was dissolved, its financial situation was hopeless, and it soon came to an end in numerous lawsuits.
1950, the "Walsh River Research Committee" was established in Britain, and the attempt to find John Wang Baozang began again. The company's primary goal is to find the clay dam used to cross quicksand in the Middle Ages. This area has always been wet, low-lying and watery, and the face of this land has changed greatly since the Middle Ages. With the rise and fall of the tide, the wide estuary of Rem Vilster has become a dry land; The original river has long since disappeared, so that people simply don't know where the swamp ends and where the sea begins.
Soon, with the support of a London company, Dr. Tucker, an expert in electronic measuring tools from Deakin Haimu, developed an instrument called "resistance meter with high resistance meter" to measure the resistance in soil. The Walsh River Research Committee proposed to Dr. Tucker to use the instruments he provided to find clay dams, and Dr. Tucker agreed to their request.
1In the autumn of 954, Dr. Tucker came to the swamp for the first time with instruments and his team. In his later work report, he said: King John's team chose a relatively solid shoal and crossed the Rem River in Vilster, which was still used by people until the16th century. However, modern people must know that the banks of the Rem River in Vilster are completely different from the Walsh River as we know it today. Most of this area has turned into quicksand. In the past three years of research work, they have continuously improved this special resistance measurement method. The specific work is: insert 30 electrodes into the ground in a straight line at equal distance, then pass through the ground at the outermost two electrodes with known current values, and measure the difference between the two electrodes at the same time. Because the special resistance changes through the change of electrode spacing, people can draw a conclusion from these changes because of the different soil quality. In the exploration year after year, they used about 30 horizontal lines to list more than 2 square kilometers and got more than 1000 different values. Finally, it is proved that there is indeed a carriage passing by here. After all the investigation results, the conclusion is that there was indeed a team crossing the estuary in the King John era.
What happened afterwards? 30 years of work, is it just to get this conclusion? Where is King John's precious treasure buried?
Maybe, in the future, we will find those treasures, and maybe they will sleep there forever.