Chapter 1336: A Treasure Worth Billions of Dollars

"What are the things that you roughly know? Do you have them written down?'

Xia Yu understood Ma Qianjun's feelings, but he didn't want to explain why he knew about them, so he let Ma Qianjun guess for himself.

Even Li Qian looked at her brother intently. She had never imagined that there could be such a distant and magical thing as a treasure, and her curiosity had reached its peak.

Ma Qianjun began to explain: 'I have been in both secret chambers of the temple, and both of them contain a large amount of treasure.'

'In the first secret room, there were nearly a thousand gold necklaces weighing about 2.5 kilograms each, three gold crowns, and a small elephant made of gold that I could not lift at all. I estimate that it weighs at least one tonne. Then there were also a large number of gold ornaments, gold coins, jewellery and diamonds, which also weighed at least one tonne. I am not a professional, so I cannot estimate the exact value.'

'The second secret room contained even more treasure than the first. There were at least five tons of gold ornaments, vessels, gold coins and jewellery, as well as five gold crowns, a gold sceptre, a gold throne and a gold Buddha. I also couldn't lift the gold Buddha at all. I estimate that it's not lighter than the golden elephant in the first secret room.'

Li Qian, who was listening to Ma Qianjun's story, was already stunned. She covered her mouth with her hands, afraid that she would let out a cry of surprise. She simply could not imagine the image of this treasure in her mind.

Xia Yu was also surprised.

He had never imagined that the Padmanabhaswamy Temple would have so much treasure!

It seems that in a previous life, there was a problem when the treasure of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple was excavated.

In his previous life, when he watched the news, only the Padmanabhaswamy Temple's Chamber A was exposed, because at that time no one knew if there would be any treasure, so when it was discovered, the news could no longer be kept secret.

The media swarmed to the scene, so the news was announced.

The first chamber Ma Qianjun mentioned was the Chamber A that was exposed in the news in his previous life, and Xia Yu remembered it very clearly. At that time, the iconic item of a golden elephant was discovered.

As for the second secret chamber, which had not been announced in the previous life, it had even more treasure than the first, but there had been no leaks.

Xia Yu guessed that it must have been the top echelons of the A-nation or a large family that had secretly divided up the treasure after the exposure of the A-secret chamber.

In the previous life, the explosion of the A-room vault reached a value of 11.2 billion US dollars. With the amount of treasure in the B-room, it would only be more. If the government found these things, the only way back would be to a museum or someplace like that, and the treasure would belong to the country and its people.

But if they secretly divided it up before the official excavation, the wealth would be theirs.

With the government structure of the three Indian countries and the overwhelming power of the high-caste families, it would be easy to do something like this!

Xia Yu let go of his speculation after feeling a sense of emotion, and no matter what the truth was, it could not be changed. He had discovered the treasure in advance.

As long as he could find a way to quietly transport the treasure from the two secret chambers out of the country, it would become his.

The combined value of the two secret chambers was hard to estimate, but based on the value of the treasure in later generations, it was at least worth 30 billion US dollars!

And the richer the country becomes, the higher the value of the treasure will be.

'Big brother-in-law, you make a plan and arrange for absolutely trustworthy people to transport all of this treasure out,'

Xia Yu immediately commanded Ma Qianjun.

'Good!'

Ma Qianjun decisively nodded in response.

After that, Ma Qianjun and Li Qian had a few more words before leaving.

After her brother left, Li Qian threw herself at Xia Yu, looking at him with sparkling eyes, her eyes full of joy and exploration: 'Ah Yu, you actually found the treasure, it's really amazing, how did you find it?'

Xia Yu said with a smile, 'There have always been rumours about the treasure of the Padmanabhaswamy Temple. After the independence of the three countries in 1947, the Kingdom of Travancore merged with the Cochin Sultanate to form the present-day state of Kerala. It has long been rumoured that the underground palace of this temple contains a large amount of wealth left over from the kingdom in those days, except that the temple administrators have always thought that there are only four secret rooms that have been opened.'

'I'm not sure there will be any, but I once accidentally learned that there are six secret chambers in the Padmanabhaswamy Temple. My intuition tells me that there are still two secret chambers that have not been discovered, so I asked your brother to find them.'

'You know, my intuition is the most amazing.'

Li Qian nodded in agreement: 'Well, Ah Yu, you are the chosen one.'

Xia Yu laughed silently and stroked Li Qian's back.

At this moment, Li Qian suddenly asked again, 'Yu, I heard that the Three Kingdoms was made up of several hundred countries. Since there are so many treasures in the two countries after they merged, do you think there are still temples like this one with a lot of treasures hidden inside?'

Xia Yu thought for a while and said with certainty, 'There must be more. Due to religious beliefs and concepts, the people of the Three Kingdoms didn't like to save money, they only liked to save gold. They also liked to donate gold jewellery to the temples. Each temple had more gold than a local bank.

I still remember that in a previous life, the country of A was known as the world's largest gold holder, with the highest amount of gold held by civilians in the world.

The gold held by the central bank of country A is only 500-600 tons, but the annual import of gold reaches 700-800 tons. The amount of gold held by civilians is estimated at 24,000-25,000 tons, worth trillions of dollars, which is equivalent to 40-50% of the gross national product of country A!

This wealth is truly enormous!

The only temples that can make the public willingly donate gold are, of course, the ones that have the most gold.

I remember a temple in Mumbai that had a fixed deposit of 12.5 billion US dollars alone, which is truly impressive.

'A Yu, do you want to go find other temples with folk legends?'

Li Qian proposed excitedly.

Xia Yu was also interested. He didn't like the country of A very much, and if there really were such treasures, it would be a waste to hide them. If they were discovered, they would go to the government of A or the high-caste families. It would be better if he got them. In the future, a part of them would definitely be used for the benefit of the Chinese.

'Xi Xi, that's a good suggestion. After the treasures of this temple are safely transported back, I'll let your brother arrange a group of people to specifically search for treasures in the country of A.'

Xia Yu smiled and agreed to Li Xi's proposal.

Man's greatest desires are the desire to explore and the desire to know, and Xia Yu is no exception.

What's more, this kind of treasure hunting is even more addictive.

Throughout history, many explorers have spent their entire lives exploring for treasure, not only satisfying their desire to explore, but also making them rich overnight, enough to pass down for hundreds of years in one family!

'By the way, there are certainly many treasures in the temples of ancient countries such as Assyria, but if you want to talk about the place with the most treasures, it must be the ocean. There are countless sunken ships of pirates and countries trading that are worth a fortune.'

'I remember that there are still quite a few sunken ships that have not yet been discovered,'

'Anyway, I don't have to do it myself, there is plenty of money, and I'm just sitting around, so I might as well have this kind of fun a few more times...'

Thinking about this, Xia Yu's face broke into a smile of anticipation.