Just now, Wang Debiao had already brought a bunch of hoes, shovels and sacks - it would be easy to use the excavator bucket to make a few clicks, but it was not sure that some ancient coins would be squeezed out, and as a senior numismatic enthusiast, Zhang Nan would not let such a situation happen. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

shouted to the top: "Come and work a few people who have the strength to work, let's get started." ”

Several bodyguards looked at each other, Alyosha was the first to take off his coat and go down to the pit, as well as Liu Wendong and Qiu Bo.

Here, Xia Mili and Karimi also planned to go into the pit, but Xiang Weirong said: "Forget it, you two don't know how to use the hoe, just watch from above." ”

Guan Xingquan in the pit muttered to Zhang Nan: The two families are herdsmen, and they don't know how to do farm work at all.

Wang Debiao thought that he had the strength to volunteer to go down to the pit, and he had to perform well at this time.

"I'll dig the soil! I think we were also the earthwork champion of the construction team back then!"

Wang Debiao is six or seven years Chinese New Year's Eve old today, but he is just a horizontal flesh, and he has strength.

You don't need so many people to dig with hoes, otherwise you will smash people's heads if they are crowded together.

Zhang Nan motioned to everyone not to move the guy first, but first put a small amount of scattered copper coins into the sack, and only said when it was almost cleaned up: "Debiao, you have experience, first planed the soil on it." ”

Just now, after digging the bucket lightly twice, three sides of this cellar pit have been exposed: Wang Debiao is very good at digging and is definitely good at digging and doing farm work -- not by digging, but by planing.

Within two minutes, the other corner was completely exposed.

Seeing that Wang Debiao was almost done, Xiang Weirong popped out on the side: "This, this is like a short coffin!"

"It's like, it's a little wider. It was Wang Debiao who replied.

Because in the past, if a child died young, the coffin used would be very short, so these three words were used to curse people's short lives during quarrels.

The cellar in front of you is rectangular, about 1.5 meters long and 70 centimeters wide.

Zhang Nan leaned down and looked at the edge of the cellar carefully, and took out some moldy things.

"It's a suitcase, the leather is almost rotten, and the metal lap of copper. As he spoke, he threw a rotten copper lap to the side, "These copper coins should have been strung with stranded cotton thread, but they are almost rotten." ”

The copper coins are neatly arranged with a certain regularity, and there is a small amount of cotton thread in the middle that has rotted into a black brown.

"Alright guys, put on your gloves and move!"

There is absolutely no shortage of white labor protection gloves on the construction site, and each person has a pair of hands and puts them into several sacks.

There are many people with great strength, and soon more than 20 bags were filled: in fact, each bag was filled with a little bit, and it was impossible to move it when it was full, so each bag had hundreds of pounds.

Zhang Nan climbed the pit and started the excavator.

Seeing this situation, several other people in the pit hurriedly dispersed: Zhang Nan's technique obviously has not been recognized by everyone.

Putting down the bucket, a few people put the sack in the bucket again, and with a movement of their hands and feet, they easily put tons of copper coins on the dump truck.

But they didn't dare to fall, and someone had to climb into the car and drag the sacks out of the bucket and pile them on the car.

The people in the pit then cut down the four sides of the cellar so that not a single one of them was scattered, and then went on.

In two hours, Zhang Nan drove three excavators, and this cellar bottomed out!

The people in this pit are all sticky with a lot of soil, and the most miraculous Wang Debiao is about to become a mud monkey. Guan Xingquan went to get a metal detector and checked again, but there was no one left!

"Anan, this trip is much more than the last time in the pharmaceutical factory, I think it's at least three tons!"

"That's a lot, how do you estimate it?"

I remember that the final news broke out that it was two tons, about five or six hundred thousand.

"Each sack is at least 100 pounds, we packed 61 bags, there will be 3 tons, you can't be wrong. ”

Wang Debiao said confidently: for professional reasons, he is very sure of the estimation of weight.

"I-grass!"

"Huh?"

"I didn't say you, I said I didn't expect there to be so many. ”

In fact, Zhang Nan was thinking about the extra ton of copper coins: he and his friends from the TV station actually didn't buy much that time, and it seems that there are more people who react quickly and have faster hands and feet!

Just like in Wutai, no matter how powerful you are, it is impossible to guarantee that everything will not be lost.

After all the digging was done, the way in which the money was buried at that time was also revealed: the coin was packed in a leather case, first buried in a rectangular earthen pit, and then put copper coins inside.

The suitcase is 1.5 meters long, more than 70 centimeters wide and more than 60 centimeters deep - this is a super big guy!

The pit was not built with bricks around it, and it was not buried deep (600 years of long time to change the stars, this piece of land is low, it seems to have been flooded several times, and there is a new silt layer of tens of centimeters on the topsoil, which can be seen from the section on the edge of the pit). At first, it seemed that it was buried in a hurry, and it was estimated that the situation was already more critical, otherwise a "small house" would have been made of bricks or stone slabs.

According to the size of the luggage of today's civil aviation aircraft is 55 by 40 by 20 centimeters, the volume of this suitcase is at least equivalent to the size of 14 suitcases!

The cellar is full of seas, and copper coins basically contain 1 to 3 layers of lead according to different dynasties and varieties: the stronger the national power of the general dynasty, the less lead content in this coin, and vice versa.

Some rotten money and bad money will have ridiculously high lead content.

However, the coins in this cellar are of good quality, and there are basically no bad coins.

The internal volume of the whole suitcase is almost 0.7 cubic meters, because the specific gravity of copper money and lead is heavier than that of pure copper, at least 9.

In this way, if such a cuboid is a solid copper block, the weight will be more than 6 tons!

Of course, the neatly stacked copper coins can't be solid, but it's almost 3 tons!

Zhang Nan really knew the preciousness of these copper coins: involving the Western Han Dynasty, Xinmang, Tang Dynasty, and the Later Zhou, Former Shu, Southern Tang and other countries of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, as well as the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Western Xia, the Jin, the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and the warlords of the small dynasty.

The earliest is the Western Han Dynasty Emperor Wen five years ago (175 B.C.) began to cast four baht "half two", the latest for the Ming Taizu Hongwu first year (A.D. 1368) began to cast "Hongwu Tongbao", before and after more than 1500 years.

Although the Song Dynasty has the most copper coins, the overall degree of cherishing is absolutely the first in the country!

When the work here was almost finished, Xiang Weirong asked, "How many are there?"

Last year's more than 200 kilograms was exaggerated enough, and it has not been sorted out yet, and this time it is even more exaggerated.

Zhang Nan shook his head, "It's hard to say, at least more than 600,000 pieces, there are too many various systems." Fold a small flat penny, fold two, fold three, fold five, fold ten, each dynasty, variety is also different.

Like Hongwu's dang ten coins weigh 34.4 to 37 grams, Hongwu dang a small flat coin weighs 3.4 to 3.6 grams. The Daguan Tongbao of the Northern Song Dynasty is only 18 grams when folded into ten coins, while the four and a half baht taels of the Western Han Dynasty weigh only 2.2 to 2.8 grams.

There are also Kaiyuan Tongbao from Tang Gaozu Wude four years to Song Taizu Kaibao eight years before the official casting, from 1.7 grams to 5 grams, usually weighing 4 grams, the variety is too right, there is no way to calculate it clearly. ”

However, Xiang Weirong still calculated, "Even if it is 4 grams each, the value of the meeting will be calculated according to the quantity, no matter how much it is folded, this is 150,000 copper coins!"

"That's fine, it's a little less. About 1,500 yuan, absolutely a local tyrant! In the early Ming Dynasty, this was the living expenses of a relatively wealthy commoner for forty or fifty years. ”

It was getting dark, and it was getting dark.

Cousin Zhang Zhou has also returned, and dinner has been prepared in the big shed that serves as a canteen.

After washing up, I went back to Yan County overnight after eating.

There is also a large "box" here, which is enclosed with a plastic tarpaulin, and Zhang Nan's group eats here.

Wang Debiao was still curious about why so many copper coins were buried when he was eating, Zhang Nan knew that he didn't want anything, just pure curiosity, so he made the simplest science popularization of ancient money knowledge for everyone while eating.

"At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, I liked to use paper Ming treasure banknotes, and due to the lack of copper materials in the early stage, Zhu Yuanzhang allowed the old money of the previous dynasty to be used the same as the money made in the current dynasty. In the eighth year of Hongwu, that is, in 1375 A.D., when the use of paper money was restored, money and banknotes were parallel.

Later, there were too many private coins, and in 1394, the imperial court ordered that all copper coins should not be used, and all were exchanged for Ming treasure banknotes.

However, because the actual price of copper coins is higher than that of treasure money, the people will store the copper coins for later use, which may be the reason why the copper coins are buried underground.

As for the burial time, I speculate that in the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, that is, between 1394 and the ninth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty and 1411, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, began to cast Yongle Tongbao coins, and the copper coins buried earlier could be taken out and exchanged for new money. ”

"Paper is real money. ”

Wang Debiao was a little emotional, and Zhang Nan wanted to laugh when he saw his face full of meat and emotion.

"If there is not enough credibility as a guarantee, the indiscriminate issuance of paper money will only depreciate, and Lao Jiang will do more excessively, so we Chinese people will recognize the silver dollar. ”

Zhang Nan said with a smile.

I still haven't said something: there is a strange phenomenon in the "Xixi Cellar": all the copper coins collected here are not mixed with iron coins, gold and silver, and no matter which dynasty's copper coins, this is in very good condition, and there is no serious wear and tear.

Some people speculate that it may be the special collection of a certain Ming Dynasty copper coin enthusiast.

"The Ming Dynasty was also a dynasty where collecting was prevalent, but if that's the case, this player is even crazier than me!"

Thinking about it in my heart, I didn't say: there are a lot of unreasonableness, why do you collect so many Hongwu Tongbao?

"By the way, Anan, as the old saying goes, 'the waist is wrapped in ten thousand', there are only 3 tons here, and there is still a hair, and a dump truck can't pull it away!"

"Figuratively, you can bring gold, but it's not light, Wanguan is almost more than 10 catties. ”

Seeing Wang Debiao dipping some rice wine there and drawing his fingers on the table, Zhang Nan said: "Don't forget it, it's not clear." Some people have studied that in China, the price of gold and silver rose from 1:8 around 1600 AD to 1:20 at the end of the 18th century, and silver was more expensive in the Tang Dynasty, estimated to be more than 10 times that of the Qing Dynasty.

In the early years of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, one or two silver was exchanged for money and one hanging, that is, consistent money, a thousand Wen, the Qing Dynasty before that meeting had a lot of silver, and the export was much more than the imported things, and a large amount of silver flowed into China every year;

However, by the time of the Opium War in the 20th year of Daoguang, one tael of silver could be exchanged for 16,700 yuan, and the opium trade was given as a whole, and silver flowed out.

After the Xianfeng year, the price of silver rose sharply, and the silver outflow, when the price was the highest, one or two silver could be exchanged for as much as 2,2300 yuan.

However, it can be known from here that under normal circumstances, in recent centuries, 1 tael of silver can be exchanged for about 1,000 to 1,500 copper coins, and at that time, it was usually said that 1 yuan or 1 hanging coin was 1,000 yuan.

However, we in Jiangnan, and the people in the old capital have different opinions about a hanging money: 1000 money, we will only say that it is consistent, and it is often said that a hanging money is only 100 Wen, and the 'string' in other places is the same meaning. ”

"A lot anyway!"

Wang Debiao doesn't count it, it's a mess of paste.

"Nowadays gold and silver are cheaper, and large-scale industrial mining, especially silver, is very large, because it is used in many industrial manufacturing, and the actual purchasing power is much smaller than in ancient times. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan took two mouthfuls of rice, "I can tell you two stories to understand the value of this copper coin, in the 36th chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions", I wrote a conversation between Mrs. Wang and Wang Xifeng, which is about the monthly rules of the maids and the salary.

Mrs. Wang asked the maid about the monthly example, and Sister Feng said: The eight big girls in the old lady's house each have one tael per month, the seven big girls in the Baoyu house, such as Qingwen and Musk Yue, have one penny per month, and the eight little girls such as Jiahui have five hundred dollars per month.

And because the attacker was Jia's mother's person, she received one or two from the old lady every month, and Mrs. Wang decided in her heart that she would be Baoyu's aunt after the attack, that is, the little wife, but it was inconvenient to publicize it, so she told Sister Feng that she would take out two taels and one hanging money from her own twenty-two months to attack the person.

Cao Xueqin will treat one or two pieces of silver as two coins, 1 million copper coins, then Qingwen and their monthly cases are quite a lot, and the person who buries the copper coins is definitely not an ordinary family.

You can bury 1,500 pieces at a time, and you have money.

By the way, even if the soldiers of the Qi family army in the Ming Dynasty were paid in full, it was three cents of silver a day, less than one tael a month.

and in the 26th episode of "Water Margin", Wu Song gave Brother Yun five taels of silver, and Brother Yun thought that it was enough for his father to use it for three or five months, so it can be seen that one tael of silver is enough for a civilian to live for a month.

1,500 guan money is the living expenses of the common people of the Song Dynasty for forty or fifty years, if these money are all the assets of a family, then this family should be regarded as a relatively wealthy and solid family. ”

As for how much copper money will be worth now, Wang Debiao already feels that it will probably be much more expensive than scrap copper - but relying on Zhang Nan, the great god, he has made a lot of money, even if there is more, he will not be blushing.

As for the others, they didn't pay attention to this matter at all, and planned to do their job well, anyway, Zhang Nan wouldn't lose them.

......

After eating, he and his two cousins explained some ideas of the beverage and food company to Wang Debiao, and everyone planned to return to Yan County overnight.

"As soon as the plant is completed, several production lines will be in place. The cans and plastic bottles beverage production lines are imported from the United States, and only the flexible packaging is domestically ......"

Listening to Zhang Zhou's words, Zhang Nan could only spit out in his heart: he produced it himself when he received the materials, but the packaging shell of this flexible packaging had to be made by himself after purchasing raw materials!

If there is a manufacturer of this thing nearby, then you can not have this production line.

But there is no near Hangzhou, and some are still in Guangdong Province, and if you add freight, it is better to make a production line directly, and you will not be controlled by others.

After explaining the company's affairs, Yongqiang drove the dump truck, along with Li Panfeng and a driver from Yan County, who was originally at the construction site, and he will drive the car back tomorrow.

Lin Ming became the driver of the Lincoln car, and the four cars went home.

At night, the speed of the car was not fast at all, and the Camas 55111 was pulling three tons of things, and it was happier than the Cherokee and Lincoln cars -- the Soviet beast of prey was powerful and worthy of its name! )