Thanks to Ying Zheng for leaving the tradition of great unification in China, which is not only the unity of the concept of land, but the unity of the world in all aspects: Ying Zheng ordered the implementation of the decree of "the same text, the same track, and the same line" throughout the country when he just unified the six countries, unifying the written language, unifying the track, unifying the morality and norms, and unifying weights and measures!

A single unified weights and measures is very awesome, and this is also a tradition that China has been striving to achieve in the following years, and this is a fantasy to achieve in medieval Europe.

Broadly speaking, it's like the weight unit "mark", which weighs differently throughout Europe, and even if the big businessmen who travel long distances to do business settle in the mark and silver coins, this calculation method requires you to have a mathematician's head to be reliable!

In a small way, the weights and measures used between two adjacent counties, and even the barony's lands, were different, and the peasants were almost serfs anyway, responsible only to their own lords, and did not have to run around to buy things.

Charlize Theron is a white South African, who has American citizenship, and was a Westerner with a typical Western way of thinking. But this has been with Zhang Nan for a long time, and the melon seeds in his head are slowly pulling eastward, and he always feels that Huaxia is good.

Eating people has a short mouth, perhaps this is the reason for eating too much Chinese food.

It may also be the charm of Chinese culture - tolerance and integration, how many barbarian ethnic groups have been tolerated and integrated by the Han nationality over the years, and Zhang Nan's family seems to be thinking about the direction of integration.

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Small gold coins, Charlie is still disgusted with the pocket-sized size of these small gold coins, feeling that when the rich man asked for silver, he might slip through his fingers when he took one of them.

"If you're a medieval princess and you're shopping on the street, what are you going to buy with such a large denomination of gold coins?"

Zhang Nan was amused by her disgust with the appearance of gold coins, and thought that the Teremisis gold coin was small, so she simply picked up a small gold coin that weighed about 3 times the weight of 1 Tremisis, "This is 1 Soules, and ordinary people may not be able to earn one a month at the beginning."

You pay with gold coins, and beware that no one else can get change. ”

"Brother, the princess doesn't have to pay for her own things, and if she has a maid, I haven't brought my own money for a long time. ”

"Haha..."

Zhang Nan laughed, the little girl in front of her was completely cheating.

"In addition to coming out with me, you have at least one assistant by your side, and there are three of them when you go to filming, isn't it similar to a maid?"

Ignoring Zhang Nan's ridicule, the girl took the slightly larger gold coin from his hand and took a closer look: the frontal busts of the two figures on one side, and the statue of Brother Su on the other side.

"When was this?"

The workmanship is very delicate little things, especially some details of the lines are very clear, and the craftsmanship is first-class.

"Around 950, the Eastern Roman Emperor Nikephoros II issued the Nomisma coin, which has a gold content of about 9 into 5, and the fineness is very good.

The Greek meaning of 'Nomisma' is 'money', and the gold coin of Sulledus is called differently at different times, and the currency with the lights on, one is equivalent to three tremisis. ”

In order for Xiao Nizi to understand, Zhang Nan also used the name "Eastern Roman Empire", just like the "former Soviet Union", which is obviously problematic, or even completely wrong, but after being accepted by the world over time, it doesn't matter if it is wrong or not, it has become a convention.

Charlize Theron shrugged his shoulders, "It's complicated! I can't figure out the base system of money in medieval Europeans, last time you said that there are decimal, twelve, and twenty systems, and the weight of these gold coins is still a fraction of the weight." ”

Zhang Nan smiled and said: "In ancient times, there were no kilograms, and the base system in Europe was basically a calculation method that has been handed down since ancient Rome.

In 284 A.D., Diocletian became Roman emperor and began to mint a new gold coin with one-sixtieth of a Roman pound of gold.

Later, when Constantine I came to power, he slightly devalued Sulledus, and exchanged the weight for one-seventieth of a Roman pound, the same weight as the gold coins used in ancient Rome BC, and at first all of them were produced at the Mint of Constantinople, the new capital of the Roman Empire.

One Roman pound is 12 ounces, or about 328 grams, and this gold Sureeds coin weighs 4.48 grams.

"How did that get here?

I think almost a third of this pile is about the same as this Suredus. ”

This is in the western part of Austria, almost 1,700 kilometers away from Constantinople and Istanbul today, and if you go to Constantinople from western Austria in the Middle Ages, you go to the East!

It's a long journey, and if you need to travel overland through the whole of southern Europe, it will be a long and arduous journey.

There are no highways, no highways, robbers blocking the road, and there are many kings and lords who collect taxes!

If you take a detour southeast from Kitzbühel, or a southwest detour from Innsbruck around the highest part of the Alps, cross those mountain passes and river valleys into Italy, and then board a ship from Venice to Constantinople by sea, you have to watch out for all kinds of pirates and bad weather!

The Middle Ages are not modern, and the 1,700 kilometers in the air is like a horizon for most people, and this time the gold coins from Constantinople appeared in large numbers in western Austria, which made girls feel a little magical.

Zhang Nan disagreed, and said: "What's strange, the gold coins of the Eastern Roman era will appear in the ancient tombs of the same period in China, separated by tens of thousands of kilometers, and the distance is much more difficult to walk than on the European side."

I remember that two such gold coins were found in the tomb of a minority princess in Beihe Province, China, and the age is very clear, because our ancient Chinese people would make an epitaph after death, and many of them engraved the life deeds of the tomb owner on the stone and then put them into the tomb.

The time of death of all that princess is clear, it is 550 AD.

One of the two coins was coined by Anastasius I of the Eastern Roman Empire around 500 AD, and the other was coined by Justinian I around 520 AD.

The two gold coins found were scattered in the soil at the foot of the cemetery, which had been stolen and excavated many times, and there should have been far more than two Eastern Roman gold coins that were used as burial objects when the princess was buried.

Everyone loves gold, and there is basically no habit of making gold coins in ancient China, these gold coins are very beautiful, at that time, some people used gold to imitate them for funeral goods, but they were much lighter and thinner than those two Constantinople cast.

The time of the princess's death was only more than 20 years after the minting time of the gold coins of Justin I, and the gold coins could flow into China in such a short period of time through a long distance, and the distance at high speed could not stop the trade exchanges..."

Okay, Zhang Nan is lying to Xiao Nizi, those two gold coins should still be lying in that ancient tomb, that ancient tomb was initially discovered by archaeology, but it will take more than ten years for the gold coins to be discovered.

“... This heavy Sulledus is in good condition, and it is just right to use it for large payments such as tax collection and international trade. This kind of gold coin has been maintained for nearly a thousand years, full value, full weight, not only the standard currency of the Eastern Rome, but also the most internationally reputable currency in the entire Mediterranean economic circle, everyone likes it, more reliable than the current dollar!"

It is a miracle that a country has been able to issue a consistent and reliable gold coin of the same weight for nearly a thousand years. Of course, this time is too long, waiting for the Roman Empire is different from penguins, and this gold coin of Souledus also has different names, such as Nomisma, Heperon, Perpe, Baizant...

But they all basically weigh 4.48 grams and have a fineness of more than 9 percent.

The dollar is the oldest!