The cleaning of the main burial chamber takes time and patience.

A month passed quickly.

However, the archaeological team only cleaned up a few cultural relics.

More often than not, everyone is dividing the area, labeling the cultural relics in different areas, and formulating an extraction plan.

Yes, most artifacts have to be extracted.

There is no way, there are too many cultural relics in the main tomb, and then after being soaked in silt and stagnant water, they all stick into an irregular "cultural relics aggregate"!

This leads to the extraction of every cultural relic, which will be very troublesome.

If you are not careful, it may break down and break during the extraction process.

Especially those lacquer boxes.

If there is any thing in the West Room, it is definitely the lacquer box.

It can be seen that there should have been a box of lacquer filled with burial goods in the west room.

It's just that with the passage of time, the lids of many lacquer boxes have rotted, and then the contents have undergone geological changes such as earthquakes and blisters, and they are scattered everywhere.

It is then glued together by the silt.

Therefore, before extraction, the corresponding extraction plan must be done first, so as not to cause damage accidents.

Chen Han and the others are also following together to mark groups of cultural relics, then take pictures, and then discuss how to extract them.

The so-called marking, in fact, is very simple, that is, to mark these cultural relics in the order of 123456, which is convenient for keeping records and facilitating the naming when making plans.

For example, the "No. 22 extraction plan" refers to the extraction plan of the No. 22 cultural relics, which is clear at a glance and will not be mistaken!

And after a month of hard work, this mark has been made more than 1,400.

In other words, in the west room, more than 1,400 groups of cultural relics have been discovered!

Note that it's a "group" and not a "piece"!

A group of artifacts may be made up of many, or even a dozen artifacts glued together!

It is conceivable how many cultural relics there must be in these more than 1,000 groups of cultural relics!

It can be said that the stock of cultural relics in the tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang is indeed the largest discovery in the history of Chinese archaeology!

At present, the tombs of the princes and kings of the Western Han Dynasty unearthed do not have such a rich number of burial goods!

I'm afraid that only the imperial tombs of those Western Han emperors can be compared!

But the imperial tomb cannot be excavated!

However, the tomb of the Marquis of Hailun needs to be excavated salvagely!

Chen Han was excited, nervous, and excited, even though the cleaning of the main tomb had been going on for a month, he was still full of energy.

This kind of burial goods are so rich in burial goods, it is rare to find it in a hundred years!

It's so cool to be a part of it!

Holding a watering can in his hand, walking on the operating table built of wooden boards, Chen Han used the watering can to spray the mud in the west room from time to time.

Relying on the impact of the water jet, some of the silt covering the cultural relics can be washed away at once, revealing the cultural relics buried under the silt.

The archaeological team relied on this simplest method to find the artifacts in the West Interior.

In fact, as long as you take a watering can and spray it on the silt, you can definitely spray cultural relics.

No way, the west room is simply full of cultural relics, and there is not even a place to put your feet!

Spraying and spraying, Chen Han walked to the upper left corner of the west room.

This location was originally used to house a bed.

The discovery of this bed has made scholars who hold the view of "inside and outside" breathe a sigh of relief.

According to the proponents of the "Xitang Theory", this outer room is the front hall of the Western Han Dynasty house, that is, the meeting room.

And the inner room is the master's back room.

So in the living room, it's obviously impossible to put a bed, right?

When Liu He meets guests, he still has to do something with the guests in bed?

And if it's the inner and outer rooms of a bedroom, it's very reasonable.

Originally, there was a need to put a bed in the outer room for the maid and the like to rest.

The appearance of this bed obviously made the scholars of the "internal and external theory" gain more support!

But these arguments are not important in Chen Han's eyes, so he doesn't care.

He only cares about how many cultural relics that will shock the whole country will be found in the main tomb this time!

The bed has now been extracted in its entirety and sent to the archaeological base next door for laboratory archaeology.

And after the bed was extracted, there was still a piece of silt at the bottom of the original bed.

Generally speaking, there should be nothing under the bed.

However, adhering to professionalism, Chen Han still reached out and sprayed the area with a watering can.

As a result, this squirt, squirting out big babies!

When the strong water jet from the watering can washed over the mud under the original bed, a touch of golden color appeared in front of Chen Han's eyes.

A badly damaged lacquer box appeared in his eyes.

The lid of the lacquer box is completely decayed and gone.

So, under the washing of the water, under Chen Han's unprepared situation, a box of golden gold cakes appeared in front of his eyes.

"! Gold! That's a lot of gold! ”

Chen Han's hand holding the watering can shook a few times.

As a result, he shook it, and the water flowed crookedly, washing up next to the box of gold cakes.

Another box of gold cakes was also washed out....

At this time, Chen Han really couldn't hold back.

He shouted excitedly, "Teacher! I found two boxes of gold cakes! ”

"That's a lot! There can be at least forty or fifty in a box! ”

Yes, these two lacquer boxes are huge!

Visually, the length and width are about 30 cm * 15-20 cm!

The gold cakes in the box are stacked diagonally, and the diameter of each gold cake is almost four or five centimeters!

The shape is a round cake, like a five-baht coin without holes.

A gold cake can probably be the size of a child's fist, or an adult's palm!

However, the thickness does not look thick, less than a centimeter.

However, gold is notoriously dense!

A small piece of gold can be very heavy!

Based on Chen Han's shallow understanding of gold, he estimated that such a piece of gold cake would weigh more than 200 grams!

Wait a minute!

More than 200 grams?

According to the records of the Book of Han and the Chronicles of the Law, the system of weights and measures in the Qin and Han dynasties was: baht, two, jin, jun, and stone.

1 stone = 4 jun, 1 jun = 30 catties, 1 jin = 16 taels, 1 tael = 24 baht.

From the unearthed large number of Western Han five-baht coins, it has been determined that one or two of the Western Han Dynasty should be 15.43 grams or 15.625 grams!

And one catty, it is about 247 grams to 250 grams!

In the Western Han Dynasty, the measure of gold has always been not calculated in terms of weight, taels, and catties, but a unit of gold that belongs to gold alone, "gold"!

Looking through the Han books, we can see that in the literature of the Han Dynasty, when gold is mentioned, most of them are in "gold".

For example, one gold, one hundred gold, and a thousand gold, and most of these numbers appear when the emperor rewards meritorious people.

However, how much is the "one gold" in the Western Han Dynasty and how much does it weigh?

This has always been a controversial issue in the field of historiography!

Some people also believe that the "gold" here is actually "catty", and the so-called how much gold is given is the meaning of how many catties of gold are given.

However, there has always been a lack of evidence for this claim!

The "standard gold" of the Han Dynasty has never been unearthed.

Most of the gold unearthed is gold and silverware, not standard gold!

However, this is no longer the case!

These gold cakes lying in lacquer boxes all look the same style, the same size, the same diameter, and the same weight!

Obviously, this is a kind of standard gold of the Western Han Dynasty!

So, what is the unit of calculation of "one gold" that has puzzled historians for a long time.

Seemingly, you can find the answer!