I saw that the cave was filled with countless gold and silver utensils, as well as a large number of gems of various colors, under the illumination of the cold light, emitting a brilliant light, that kind of golden light was brilliant and crystal clear, even the thick dust could not cover it.

"Tiantian, we're making a fortune now." It was easy for Sun Hui to correct the "O" shaped mouth due to surprise.

The gold, silver and jewelry in this cave can be said to be more than enough to solve the financial crisis of the Song Dynasty.

"With so much gold, I'm afraid it's not so easy to move." Xiao Tiantian reminded Sun Hui, "Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many dried corpses here." ”

"Yes, none of these gold, silver and jewels seem to have been touched, and we didn't see anything left on the way here, so I'm afraid there will be very strong guardians." Sun Hui said, touched his pocket, and found that there were only five Lei Yan bullets.

Due to the heavy Lei Yan bullets, he didn't have much with him, and he was in a hurry in the face of the attack of the group of dry corpses just now, and threw a little too much, and now if he encounters an enemy, these few are not enough at all.

"Brother Sun, you try again now and see if you can get in touch with the 'system'." Xiao Tiantian saw the worry in Sun Hui's heart and reminded him.

Sun Hui closed his eyes and tried to contact the "system", but still unsuccessful.

"Forget it, if you encounter an enemy, you can rest and watch me." Xiao Tiantian saw Sun Hui's depressed appearance, smiled and comforted him, "Now, you can enjoy what it's like to be buried in gold." ”

Sun Hui was stunned for a moment, but she pushed him from behind, and he suddenly fell from the hole and fell straight to the pile of gold below.

The gold in the cave was really piled high enough, after Sun Hui sat on it, he fell in, and his whole body hurt, he easily grabbed the surrounding gold and crawled out, Xiao Tiantian jumped down from it naughtily, he instinctively reached out to pick her up, and smashed her into the pile of gold again.

"Tiantian, although you girls all like gold, I understand your excitement after seeing so much gold, but I want to remind you that this is not a naughty castle......" Sun Hui climbed out of the pile of gold again with difficulty, and said to Xiao Tiantian, who was as excited as a child who gestured to him for a selfie.

"That's how I made sure that these were real gold, not illusions that would disappear at the slightest touch." Xiao Tiantian smiled and pulled Sun Hui up, she picked up a gold coin casually and threw it to Sun Hui, "Brother Sun, can you tell when this gold coin is?" ”

Sun Hui took the gold coin and looked at it, because it was old and had been used in circulation, the pattern of the gold coin had been a little blurred, but Sun Hui could still see that this was a gold coin from the Byzantine Empire.

"This is a gold coin minted by the Eastern Roman Empire, that is, the Byzantine Empire, with the head of Emperor Justinian on the obverse, and an angel holding a cross and a celestial sphere on the back, which should be between 527 and 565 AD." Sun Hui said.

"How could the gold coins of the Eastern Roman Empire be here?" Xiao Tiantian asked strangely.

"Came through the Silk Road." Sun Hui replied, "There are a lot of Byzantine gold coins in China. ”

Sun Hui knew that later archaeologists continued to find Byzantine gold coins in China, especially since the middle of the 20th century, the number of discoveries has been increasing, reaching more than 100 pieces, second only to Persian silver coins. Judging by the minting age of the Byzantine gold coins that have been discovered, gold coins from the 5th to the middle of the 7th century show great continuity, with the first half of the 6th century being the most significant. These coins were distributed along the Silk Road and its vicinity from west to east, and were found in various places in Xinjiang (Hotan, Turpan), Gansu (Wuwei, Tianshui, Longxi), Ningxia (Guyuan), Shaanxi (Xianyang, Xi'an, Shangzhou, Dingbian), Hebei (Zanhuang, Cixian), and Henan (Luoyang), which became strong evidence of the foreign trade of the Byzantine Empire, and also proved the dominance of the traditional "Silk Road" in east-west transportation from the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties.

The discovery of Byzantine gold coins corroborates the records of ancient Eastern and Western texts with reliable antiqual evidence. The Byzantine Cosmas Indicopleustes, who was engaged in trade in the Indian Ocean in the Red Sea as a young man and was known as "a sailor who sailed to India", wrote about the trade in Eurasia in his Chronicles of Christendom, which was completed around 535 to 547, and deals with information about the silk trade between China and the West. Cosmas called China "Tzinitza" or "Tzinista", the root of which is Tzini, which is equivalent to Sanskrit Cini, Cina, which is the name given to China by Westerners from the sea. Cosmas observed the overland silk trade from the vantage points of India and Ceylon: "The deviation of the kingdom of Chiniza to the left was quite severe, and the time required for the silk caravans to reach Persia by land was relatively short, while the distance to reach Persia by sea was much greater. …… Thus, those who traveled overland from Chiniza to Persia would have had their journey greatly shortened. This may explain why Persia has always accumulated large quantities of silk. This account geographically illustrates the great superiority of the Sassanid Persian Empire in eastern trade. Cosmas also proudly mentions the superiority of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire), especially the uniqueness of its gold coins as an international hard currency: "Another sign of God's privilege to the Romans was that from one end of the world to the other, all nations traded in their currencies, and all accepted this fact with envy because their countries did not have a similar currency. It is difficult to convince people of the authenticity of such an account without supporting evidence, and it must be regarded as an exaggeration. Fortunately, Chinese classics record the circulation of gold coins in the Hexi Corridor. "Sui Shu • Food and Goods Chronicles" mentioned that at the beginning of the Later Zhou Dynasty, "the counties of Hexi may use the gold and silver money of the Western Regions, and the officials cannot help it". According to the Biography of the Three Tibetan Masters of the Great Ci'en Temple, Xuanzang gave a lecture in Liangzhou in the autumn and August of the third year of Zhenguan (629 AD), with a large audience, and received many alms at the end, including "money, silver, and countless mouths". The "money" mentioned in both cases is Byzantine gold coins. This indicates that Byzantine gold coins appeared in eastern countries such as China before the Sui Dynasty or earlier. The Chinese historical records of the circulation of gold and silver money in the Western Regions illustrate the widespread use of Roman (Byzantine) gold coins in Eurasia, proving that Cosmas's claim is not an exaggeration. So it's easy to understand how Byzantine gold coins are found here.

"Brother Sun, you're still so powerful." Xiao Tiantian's eyes flashed with admiration, and he kissed him lightly on the face.