So, after Ceng Guoquan caught Li Xiucheng, he kept asking him about the whereabouts of the jewels hidden in Tianjin. Although Li Xiucheng finally voted for the Tseng brothers, the gold hoard in Tianjing of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was put on hold for various reasons.
However, there is evidence that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did have cellar gold in Tianjing. After Tianjing was breached, a small amount of gold hoarded was discovered by Xiang soldiers and kept for themselves. There is a record in Volume 12 of the Diary of a Buddhist who can pass the scriptures, and there is also a record in the manuscript of Songhu Essay written by Sun Wenchuan, a scholar of Shang Dynasty. However, it is not known whether there are a large number of jewels in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
According to some written records circulating at that time, there once was a magnificent garden in Nanjing, named Jiangyuan, and its owner was surnamed Jiang. An accidental opportunity was appreciated by Li Xiucheng, who was awarded the title of "Third Line Manager of Donkey Car". After Tianjing was besieged, thousands of boxes of gold and silver were taken out of the palace by him to hide. Legend has it that when Nanjing was liberated, some people listened to rumors and drained the lake in Jiangyuan, but there was still no trace of Hong Xiuquan's gold hoard.
Rumors about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom hoarding jewelry have always existed. In the early years of the Republic of China, according to some Nanjing gentry, "there was a treasure somewhere in the Hong family, but relatives buried it", while some of the founding fathers of Xinhai "made money at any time", so many people became greedy and hired people to dig it, and nothing was found.