Forbidden City Treasures
by Yellow River
About This Novel
The novel is based on the great transfer of treasures from the Forbidden City in Peking before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in the last century. In 1924, Feng Yuxiang launched a coup in Beijing and expelled the deposed Emperor Puyi from the Forbidden Palace. From then on, the Forbidden Palace became an empty city. The large number of treasures hidden in the palace became the coveted objects of warlords, politicians, gangsters and foreign treasure stealing groups at that time. Some of the exiled palace maids and eunuchs and the military police guarding the Forbidden Palace colluded with foreign barbarians to guard and steal. On a dark and stormy night, Ma Jiatian, a young man from Northeast China who came to the capital to look for his relatives, ran into a treasure thief, so he stepped forward to protect the treasure... After the "September 18th Incident", the Japanese invaders entered the country. Due to the situation, in February 1933, the largest treasure transfer in human history began in Peiping. The gangsters and robbers from Pingjin and other places in the international treasure stealing syndicate took action upon hearing the news, and the thrilling show began one after another...
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