How much do two boxes of gold cakes weigh?

This question, if you asked Chen Han before.

He definitely couldn't answer.

After all, he has grown so big in this life, and he has ever touched the heaviest pure gold object, that is, a gold necklace from his mother, more than 300 grams.

He couldn't imagine how much the gold cake would weigh in two large chests to fill.

However, this is no longer the case.

He's seen the world.

Because there are too many gold cakes and horseshoe gold and gold plates between the inner and outer coffins, the weight is too large.

At the beginning, when Chen Han, Zhuang Yunpeng and the other two sturdy archaeologists wanted to carry him away and send him to the laboratory, they couldn't lift it!

Four strong men with an average height of more than 1.8 meters and under the age of 35 didn't lift up!

Later, after adding two more people, the two boxes of gold cakes were safely lifted and sent into the cultural relics emergency protection room on the west side of the main coffin room!

"It is said that the density of gold is very high, and this time I really feel it."

Wiping the sweat from his forehead, Chen Han said with some sighs: "I used all the strength to eat milk." ”

The gold in the coffin of the Marquis of Hailun is more and heavier than they imagined, which is really a great miracle in the history of archaeology.

It is estimated that all this gold adds up, and there must be more than 100 kilograms, more than 200 pounds!

Gasping for breath, he returned to the main chamber.

Before Chen Han could take a break, an archaeologist who was cleaning other areas in the main coffin room exclaimed, which attracted his attention again.

"This is? Qian Fan? ”

In a lacquer jar in the main coffin room, archaeologists from the Jiangxi Institute found a stone fan that cast a five-baht coin.

What an amazing discovery!

Chen Han hurriedly walked over and looked at Qian Fan in the hands of the archaeologists, and a shocking conjecture arose in his mind.

"Could it be that Liu He minted coins privately?"

Fan, that is, the mold.

Stone fan casting is a kind of casting method, and the word "five baht" can be clearly seen on the stone fan unearthed this time.

Although the material of the stone fan is not particularly good, and it can be seen that it is not completely done.

In other words, before the death of the tomb owner, the stone model had not been used.

But this finding is even more questionable.

The archaeologist who found Qian Fan said suspiciously: "Could it be that Liu He was afraid that the money would be spent, so he kept it "behind him"?"

Or did he have the idea of privately minting coins during his lifetime, and he would also take this "evidence" to his grave after his death?"

Chen Han shook his head: "The material of this stone fan is not good, it is easy to break, and it is not a long-term solution for Shi Fan to cast money." ”

"In the Western Han Dynasty, it is more about using clay to cast money."

"Moreover, as early as the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court explicitly forbade the theft of currency by the people."

"Since it was a capital offense to privately mint five baht coins at that time, why did the owner of the tomb dare to be a stone fan?"

"Not necessarily." Professor Li, who heard Chen Han's discussion with the archaeologists of the Jiangxi Institute, walked over with his hands behind his back, picked up the stone fan and looked at it a few times, and said calmly: "The law has always been just a fig leaf for the aristocracy. ”

"Although the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was strictly private, in fact, in the period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, there was still no curbling on the private minting of currency by the princes and princes."

"At that time, Liu Bi, the king of Wu who launched the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, was the largest privately minted person in the Western Han Dynasty, and the privately minted currency of Wu State, because of its good copper content, even passed the entire Western Han Dynasty, and even the southern Sanyue used the copper coins minted by Wu."

"There is also the eunuch Deng Tong, who was favored by Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, who also minted currency privately in Shu."

"The princes, kings, and princes of all places have their own coinage to a greater or lesser extent."

"In the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, this kind of aristocratic private coinage behavior only improved slightly after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty severely cracked down and unified currency specifications."

"But this only made the nobles around the country rein in a bit, from the openly, privately minting money, to secretly minting their own money."

"Anyway, for the princes and even the princes and kings, this kind of thing is not a big crime, at least the crime is not death."

"Liu He used to be the king of Changyi before, maybe the first king of Changyi did the business of privately minting currency, Liu He just learned from his father to do this."

"Maybe when he was the Marquis of Haidu, the emperor was far away, so he had the idea of wanting to mint money privately, so he ordered someone to create this money fan."

"It's just that before he could officially carry out this act, he died."

"So I had to bury this secret forever in the ground."

Liu He's Marquis of Hailun only worked for four years in total, including the time to take office for a few months, build the Hou Mansion and so on.

In fact, Liu He's real days as the Marquis of Haidun were not long.

There was a plan to mint money privately, but he died before he could do it.

This explanation is quite reasonable.

After all, Liu He was definitely not very respectful to Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

It seems normal for him to do something to mint currency privately from Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

You know, this kind of thing like minting money, whether in ancient times or in modern times, is a lucrative thing.

After all, copper coins are not 100% made of copper, and they must be doped with other alloys.

As long as the proportion is adjusted a little bit, the money is minted, which is equivalent to earning.

The more you cast, the more you earn...

This is also the reason why the central government banned private coinage, nationalized the coinage rights, and banned private coinage in successive dynasties.

This thing can be forged by anyone.

It will be the same as in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, three baht, four baht, five baht, and half taels will be mixed in the market, and all kinds of copper coins with insufficient copper content will also be indiscriminately filled, resulting in the collapse of the country's monetary system.

And these lessons are actually left by the early and middle Western Han Dynasty.

Liu He, who lived in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, seemed to want to engage in some private coinage, which seemed not surprising.

Under Professor Li's explanation, Chen Han and the archaeologists of the Jiangxi Institute accepted this explanation.

As for the money fan itself, there is nothing unusual.

Qian Fan in the Western Han Dynasty unearthed a lot.

Even in the Shuzhong area, there was also an official coinage workshop in the Western Han Dynasty, and a batch of money fans were unearthed, and the clay of the stone was unearthed.

It's not that unusual.

After some inspection, the stone fan was put into a box and packed.

Artifacts such as stone tools and pottery, which are not much oxidized by the outside air, can be placed in the cultural relics preservation box on the spot and sent to the rear at once after the day's excavation work is over.

Anyway, the structure of this thing is very stable.

Not to mention 2,000 years, even if you put it for 10,000 years, you don't have to worry about destroying it or anything.

The original stone axes and stone spears of the Neolithic Age are intact in modern times, not to mention the stone fan of the Western Han Dynasty.

Chen Han also retracted his gaze, followed Professor Li back to the main coffin, and followed the archaeological cleanup work.