Chapter 446: Ancient Roman Tyrants
Saudi tyrants will have American F15, Apache, and M1A2 main battle tanks in the future...... However, the United States is nothing more than tactical equipment, and Saudi Arabia's greatest strategic deterrent force for more than 20 years is still the Dongfeng-3 medium-range ballistic missile in its hand. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhang Nan remembered that it was two years before his rebirth that the Saudis pulled the DF-3 out at the military parade, which was also the first public appearance of the DF-3 in Saudi Arabia, and at that time, Huaxia had almost eliminated and retired this type of missile a few years ago.
Moreover, Zhang Nan seems to have heard that until more than 20 years later, the Saudi officers and soldiers did not master the independent launch capability of the Dongfeng 3: it was not that the Chinese trainers did not teach, but because the two launch bases on the Saudi side were in the desert, and even if the treatment was good, the Saudis did not want to stay there for long.
So what to do?
The core personnel were all sent by the Huaxia Second Artillery Corps, and they were rotated every few years: The final launch rights of the Dongfeng-3 missiles at the two strategic missile bases were said to have always been in the hands of the Huaxia Second Artillery Corps!
So what are the Saudis doing?
It is said that they are mainly responsible for the transfer of missiles from the launch site to the maintenance depot, which has little to do with the launch, and some Saudi troops are also responsible for the peripheral vigilance of the missile base and the delivery of daily necessities.
Some people say that Saudi Arabia spent 3.5 billion yuan to buy a talisman, and Huaxia has its first overseas military base abroad - although this is problematic, but both sides are profitable, and this is definitely a super bargain for both sides.
However, Zhang Nan didn't say anything about it, lest the other people in the car treat themselves as monsters.
The money tactics created by Saudi Arabia are almost invincible, which is at the national level, and Zhang Nan on this side also used the money tactics of private identity, intentionally or unintentionally, he also created a layer of protection for himself, which is not bad.
Thinking of this, Zhang Nan smiled and said to the people in the car: "Then make more money, and make it to the extent that no one can touch us."
Shen Wansan can't run away from foreign countries, we can go all over the world now, as long as I don't die, no one will want to do anything to me!"
Self-confidence comes together, and the farm is almost there.
The group hadn't used dinner yet, so they simply got some to deal with it.
I won't start work tonight, and I'll talk about it tomorrow.
I made a phone call to Huaxia and exchanged with my brother-in-law about the things mentioned in the newspaper. This great honor does not feel that there is much of a problem: he does not know what the game between countries is, but the work visas of the 150 Chinese "security guards" have been obtained, which means that the US government is likely to be thundering and raining.
Paper tiger, that's it.
Besides, the missile did not reach the doorstep of the United States, and he also had to rely on the oil of the Saudi tyrants, and it is estimated that in the end, he will be confused and face the fait accompli.
After dinner, Zhang Nan and Jenny sat in the courtyard, not far in front of them was the big pit, which would be covered with a large raincloth from the boss, and I don't know where they got it from Paul, who stayed at home in the afternoon.
"Alan, you found all the Boer gold a few days ago, didn't you mean it?"
Jenny asked casually.
Zhang Nan smiled, "It's just a burst of luck, that hunting ground was introduced by Brown's friend." If it weren't for the poaching, Brother Guan wouldn't have passed through that Great Zimbabwean ruins, and I wouldn't have gone over there to see them..."
I casually talked about what happened in the South African hunting grounds: the gold and Jenny had mentioned it on the phone, but they hadn't said anything about the poachers before.
This will Jenny listen quietly, and it will feel like listening to a legend.
"What a coincidence!"
It was too much of a coincidence, and under all kinds of coincidences, the Boer man's hidden gold cave was discovered.
"What about the poachers?"
"All dead, 25, Brother Guan and their hands. Nine times out of ten, this poacher is ruthless, and this can only be done. I don't know exactly how it went, but I'll be in the camp..."
I know that the bodyguards are fierce, but this is the first time Jenny really feels how fierce the bodyguards are: 8 to 25, annihilating the opponent, and even the skin of his own side is scratched.
Raised his hand and looked at the time, "It's late, you are tired from taking a day's plane today, and we will go back to the field archaeologists when we get up tomorrow morning." ”
I went back to my room, went to sleep, and didn't do anything else.
The next morning, get down to business.
I tear off the rain cloth that covers the top and excavate.
This time, Jenny brought a lightweight metal detector, and Guan Xingquan took it to the pit and probed it, "There are still about twenty or thirty centimeters." ”
Zhang Nan nodded, and said to the people standing in a circle: "Let's play some regular today, field archaeology." Jenny. ”
"Ready!"
Jenny is a cute answer: she wears a waterproof apron with a large basin of water on the side, and most interestingly, she has a brush for washing shoes.
"Alyosha, Limman, Randy, you three remove another 20 centimeters of soil from underneath. ”
No problem, the three big guys got out of the pit and immediately buried themselves in hard work.
The excavation is open, and the division of labor is really similar to archaeology, but the things belong to the individual in the end.
Archaeology, that is, the three parts of archaeological investigation, archaeological excavation and indoor tidying, for outsiders, the most exciting is the "archaeological excavation" stage.
Is there any, what is there, when it is dug up, it is the most exciting, and when it is sorted out, it feels a little worse.
What about stealing digging?
It's the same thing: find a place first, do it, dig it home and tidy it up.
It's always the most exciting when you're hands-on.
Guan Xingquan stood on the edge of the pit, looked at the guys working below, and asked Zhang Nan: "Do you want to use chopsticks to probe?"
Shaking his head: "No, it's all precious metals underneath, just change the small shovel when it shows up." ”
I know what's down there, it's not the cellar porcelain that I dug in Nishikawa, so I don't need to be so careful.
While he was talking, he heard Randy say in the pit, "There's something!"
The other two immediately stopped what they were doing, and a group of people gathered around and watched as Randy handed over a small coin that was still stained with dirt.
"It's a silver coin. ”
Very small, Zhang Nan felt that it weighed only three or four grams: this is a silver coin made in ancient Rome, the surface of the silver coin has been seriously oxidized and discolored, but the front can be seen to be an ancient Roman emperor's head, and the back is a sitting woman.
There was a bucket on the side, and I put the silver coins in it and washed it, so I could see it more clearly.
The small coin has a lot of wear and tear on the surface of circulation, and it feels like the coin has been used for a long time before it is buried in the ground.
The facial features of the portrait are almost rounded, and this image feels like it has been circulating for at least a few hundred years.
"There are so many varieties of silver coins in Rome, and I really know this one, it's relatively early.
This is a silver coin from the time of Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome, and it looks like from the ten to thirty years AD.
On the front is his head, and on the back is a seated statue of the goddess of peace. ”
Ancient Rome has been around for a long time, and the coins issued here are also rich and numerous, including gold, silver, and copper, and the exchange rate has changed many times over a long period of time.
In addition, the ancient Roman rule area is vast, the nationality is complex, and some coins are minted and made by various provinces in some special time periods, and the number of varieties is comparable to that of ancient Chinese coins!
Zhang Nan was not an expert on ancient Roman coins, and most of them did not know him at all.
It was only a coincidence that I recognized this as a silver Tiberius coin, but it was only because I bought a set of professional English reference books on ancient Roman coins last year.
However, the ancient numismatic systems of the East and the West were very different, and it was a difficult challenge for the Chinese to understand the weights and measures, exchange rates, and numismatic names of the ancient Romans.
Zhang Nan only then read the first book carefully, it is three big heads, which is quite difficult to understand. Until now, there are still a few books that I haven't read carefully, so I flipped through them at random.
This ancient Roman silver coin came out, and everyone was looking forward to what was down there.
"Take the dirt off the top and see how much there's down there. ”
Ten minutes later, a large area of ancient Roman silver coins mixed with many glittering gold coins appeared in front of everyone's eyes, among which there were a small number of gold and silver small works of art, and even a few fist-sized gold ingots emerging from the dirt.
With the exception of Randy and Limman, everyone else had seen a huge amount of gold coins in Berchtesgaden, and there were also many gold and silver coins that were prized in ancient Greece and Rome.
But this pocket is a bag to move, and this is going to be dug out of the soil by hand like this.
"It's like having a direct conversation with the ancients, what an interesting feeling!"
Zhang Nan's argument was immediately accepted by everyone.
In the midst of the densely packed coins and handicrafts, there are still some black-brown residues, which are the remnants of the charred and decaying wood, and these treasures were probably buried in large wooden boxes.
Jenny said: "Alan, this ancient Roman is really rich!"
"If you have money, you won't have the life to spend it. ”
Zhang Nan held a small Roman gold coin in his hand, an ancient Roman gold coin called a nine-seven-point coin, with a diameter of only two centimeters and a zero, and each one weighed about 4.5 grams.
Guan Xingquan is of a good nature, this will start to clean up in the pit, and the dozens of gold coins that were picked up first are all of the same variety.
In 395 AD, the Roman Emperor Theodosius I divided the empire between two sons, Arcadius and Honorius, on his deathbed, and from then on, the Roman Empire was divided into two parts: the Eastern Roman Empire and the Western Roman Empire.
This coin is the head of Honorius, who was, if I remember correctly, the first Western Roman Emperor from 395 to 423 AD.
Moreover, there is almost no sign of circulation on these gold coins, and they are in an excellent state of preservation, which is believed to have been buried in the ground not long after they were produced. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Nan didn't say it, Jenny and the others were still curious, and even Guan Xingquan, who was still working hard, got up to listen to Gao Yi, this is not the next thing?
Zhang Nan looked at everyone's curious expressions and said, "Why are you looking at me like this? Who knows when the Romans evacuated England, this is clear." ”
A few seconds later, Zhang Nan found something very depressed: a few old-fashioned Americans obviously did not learn history well, which should be in the middle school textbooks of Westerners.
"Well, dear Jenny, and Zach, the history of the West is not as good as that of me, a Chinese.
It was 409 A.D.
The Romans ruled England and Wales for more than 300 years, and in 54 BC, Caesar led two Roman legions into Britain, but both times they were repelled by the British.
In 43 AD, the Roman Emperor Claudius I led an army to invade Britain, conquering Britain and turning it into a province of the Roman Empire.
However, by the end of the 4th century AD, the rise of barbarian tribes in the north of Rome seriously threatened the security of the empire.
And in Britain, the Romans were also attacked from two sides. The threat came from the Irish from the west on the one hand, and the Saxons from the east on the other.
By 395 A.D., the Roman Empire had been divided into two, and the Goths in the north of the empire were constantly invading under the leadership of their leader Alaric......"
It was a process of decline and contraction of the Empire, and the Romans voluntarily evacuated Britain in 409.
Before the evacuation, various rebellions in Britain had already broken out one after another, and it was impossible for the people of the Association to understand who buried these treasures in the first place, and why?
As with all the treasures in the cellar, posterity can only guess: of course, the greatest possibility is war!
The earliest upper limit of gold coins was 395 years, which means that not long after the gold coins were released early, the Romans withdrew from Britain, and these ten years were the most chaotic period in Britain.
There is a life to earn a life flower, this is what I am talking about.
"After the story is told, guys get to work!"
As soon as they heard Zhang Nan's words, everyone began to work and took out the treasures in the pit.
The coins could be grabbed whole, and when they came out, Jenny took a few people to clean them, and Zach took them aside to dry.
Zhang Nan and Liu Wendong preliminarily classified, packaged, and counted.
From morning to night, this work is finished.
Everyone was happy to participate in this activity, it was fun!
After Jenny finished the part she was responsible for, she asked Zhang Nan, "How many are there?"
"Wait a minute. ”
Zhang Nan is folding the last dozen silver coins in long rolls of toilet paper one by one, so that they can avoid mutual wear and tear, and can also prevent moisture for a short time.
After wrapping, write down the number in a notebook next to you.
"There are 14,191 silver coins, 565 gold coins, and 24 copper coins, and the crafts, jewelry, and gold nuggets are not counted.
I just looked at it, and all the gold coins were Honorius gold coins, silver coins were everything, and I saw that there were very small silver coins from ancient Greece and Persia.
"Is it rare?"
"It's hard to say that there are too many varieties of silver coins, and the gold coins of this variety are not extremely rare varieties on the market, but they also cost thousands of dollars, and they definitely can't get such a good image, and the circulation time is too short.
These can be rated, the score is not low, a small amount of 5,000 to 10,000 a piece. ”
Well, it can't be compared with the legacy of the Third Reich, but it's not a lot.
Guan Xingquan used a metal detector to probe the big pit and made sure that there was nothing else left, so he ordered everyone to backfill it.
Zhang Nan is sorting out other things.
In half an hour, the number was finally figured out: in addition to the ancient Roman coins, there were 79 silver spoons, 27 silver candlesticks, 26 silver figurines, large and small, and 29 pieces of fine jewelry made of pure gold.
However, most of the gemstones set in these pieces were lost before they were buried, and the weight of the gold nuggets was weighed to add up to more than 250 kilograms!