The movement in the store quickly alarmed the old man behind the screen.

They went to the dumpling restaurant at noon to drink a little wine, and after eating, they rushed back again, chatting and farting to kill time.

Hearing the words of the West King's reward, the old man's eyes lit up, and they surrounded him excitedly.

The West King rewarded merit money, one of the great honorary products of ancient Chinese coins.

Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty, was minted in Sichuan, which was the coin used by Li Zicheng, the king of the Great Western Kingdom, to reward his merits, similar to the military merit medal for rewarding military merits.

According to legend, there are three kinds of materials: gold, silver, and copper, which are extremely rare and rare in the spring world.

In 1644, after Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the peasant rebel army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, occupied Sichuan, he built a great western kingdom in Chengdu, called himself "King of Daxi", and changed his name to "Dashun".

The money he plundered from the wealthy merchants in various states and counties ranged from thousands of taels of gold to tens of thousands, and it is no exaggeration to say that under that environment at that time, the wealth of the entire Sichuan belonged to Zhang Xianzhong alone.

According to historical records, Zhang Xianzhong also ordered craftsmen to cast "Dashun Tongbao" for money.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Shen Xunwei, a Shu man, recorded in the "Shu Difficult Narrative": "The thief ordered all the people in the city and town to give Dashun money to the head to avoid death", Zhang Xianzhong in order to consolidate the regime is to implement a high-pressure ruling policy, the people must wear the Dashun money watch on the top of their heads every day, loyalty can avoid death.

In addition, he also created an ingenious and pioneering cast of "West King Reward" big money, divided into gold, silver, and bronze three products, in order to reward those with military merits, a bit like today's military merit medal, which is extremely rare in the world.

In the years when the king of the West was king, it was already a treasure, and very few generals of the Great Western Army treasured it.

During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, any item involving the King of the West, even if it was a Dashun Tongbao copper coin, would be wiped out by the Nine Clans, not to mention the gold and silver reward money of the King of the West!

Regarding the reward money of the king of the west, an extremely interesting thing happened.

Because of the rarity of this coin, not many people know it.

In the last years of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, a stall in the Wudong Bridge in Shudu hung an iron coin of two folds, with the four characters of the West King's Reward, which was not sold for several months.

Later, a man named Zhang Broom touched the coin with his hand, and felt that the texture was soft, not like iron, so he bought it back for 80 yuan.

When I got home, I polished the edge of the coin and found that it was shining with gold, only to realize that it was gold, and I was immediately overjoyed.

It wasn't until later, when a numismatic collector heard about it, that they went to his house to ask to see it, and learned that he had melted the money and got about two pieces of gold.

In this way, because of ignorance, this heirloom was burned.

Therefore, as soon as they heard that the king of the west was rewarding money, the first thought of several old men was not to believe it.

Because there are so few of them, this idea is more fake than real.

The three types of Xiwang gold, silver and copper coins all have several common features: a large body and a round square hole.

The larger one here is not the average large, the general copper coin is almost thirty millimeters, and the previous one is slightly larger, with a diameter of thirty-eight millimeters, but it is still nothing compared to the Xiwang Gong.

The two coins in front of me belong to the silver coin, because of oxidation, the overall appearance is gray-black, after measurement, the diameter of the coin is 5.04, the thickness is 0.2 centimeters, the weight is 35.98 grams, and the file marks are all over.

The front side is worn all around, and there is a four-character italicized yang text of "West King Rewarding Merit", which is read. The four characters are evenly distributed, the strokes are thicker, and the pen is strong.

"It doesn't look like it's real......"

"Tsk, fake, definitely fake. ”

Almost all of the seven or eight old men went through their hands, shaking their heads and commenting.

In fact, they don't know the authenticity of this thing, it's just fooling around, killing time.

Hearing these words, the faces of the old and the young immediately changed.

The young man slapped the table heavily, not knowing what to say, and then glared hatefully again, and then helped the old man to turn around and walk out.

Those old men were obviously not big enough to watch the excitement, and they were all thick-skinned, so instead of being annoyed, they listened with a smile.

After the figures of the two disappeared, the old man turned his head and glanced at his neck, rubbed his chin, and said slowly: "Tsk, it's really interesting, the West King's reward is a treasure among treasures, not to mention the silver one." ”

"Not bad. ”

Another old man chimed in: "As far as I know, only two silver ones have been found now, and they are all in the museum, good fellow, two more have appeared this time, when did the king of the West reward become a cabbage." ”

"That said. ”

The old man turned his head and laughed twice, and said proudly: "Xiao Qi, you have to thank a few of us, these two people were definitely under the trap just now, and after we saw through it, we became angry." ”

After speaking, he turned his gaze to Zheng Shaoqiu, and asked with interest: "Zheng Xiaoyou, you also saw that the King of the West was rewarded just now, what do you think?"

Zheng Shaoqiu pursed his lips and said lightly: "It's indeed fake, the scratches on the back of the coin are obviously brushed out with steel wool balls." ”

As soon as the words fell, seven or eight old men all smiled and leaned back together, only afraid of their thighs.

Caught off guard, the sip of tea that the old man had just drunk suddenly squirted out, and he directly gave a thumbs up: "Master, this is a master!"

When Zheng Shaoqiu heard this, the corners of his mouth also showed a little smile.

After another two hours, these old men couldn't stay up anymore, so they went home directly to take a nap, Zheng Shaoqiu was still bored waiting for Li Henian, lying on a rattan chair and pretending to sleep.

It wasn't until more than three o'clock in the afternoon that Li Henian was late, and after seeing the figure at the door, he suddenly sighed: "Zheng Xiaoyou, I said that I look a little familiar, and it is you who dare to love." ”

Zheng Shaoqiu yawned, nodded and said, "This time, there are a few items that I want to ask Li Lao to handle, if the things are okay, by the way, help me contact the buyer." ”

After a pause, he added: "Of course, the commission is still according to the old rules." ”

Li Henian was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then nodded: "Okay." ”

He was very impressed by Zheng Shaoqiu, of course, of course, because of the five blessings, it was more of a strong and powerful cursive script.

The characteristics of cursive writing are the flow of ups and downs of the pen, the operation of the dragon and snake, the flow of hanging the wrist center, the swing of ink, the flow of the nine clouds, the spirit of leisure and arrogance, the flow of vertical and horizontal, free and easy, in one go, the flow of the hanging rock electricity, the potential of the sea, the flow of the law can be, the endowment of talents, the flow of the words are noble, the qi is particularly smooth, the flow of the pen is strong, the combination of conversion.

And Zheng Shaoqiu's cursive writing has reached its peak, and the gestures are wild and uninhibited, majestic and atmospheric, which makes people look like they have a sense of panic.

Li Henian also has a deep interest in calligraphy and attainments, that day after Zheng Shaoqiu left, he began to copy those three words, but later fell deeper and deeper, more and more felt that the mountains were standing still.

This time, when I saw Zheng Shaoqiu unexpectedly, he happened to be hooked to the itchy place.