"How much? Dozens of tons of copper coins?!

”

Chen Han looked at the staff member who came to deliver the message in great surprise.

What is the concept of tens of tons of copper coins?

In the Han Dynasty, one tael and twenty-four baht, one tael was equivalent to nearly five five-baht coins.

In the Han Dynasty, sixteen taels were one catty, so there was the idiom "half a catty and eight taels".

And one catty in the Han Dynasty was only about half a catty in modern times.

So if it is a modern catty, there are about 160 copper coins!

One kilogram is about 320 copper coins!

One ton, it's already an astronomical amount.

Dozens of tons, even more unbelievable.

I'm afraid that copper coins can be piled up into a copper mountain!

The staff member who came to deliver the message gasped and replied, "There must be at least a dozen tons, which is enough to fill a storage room, which has been named the treasury." ”

"The location is in the first room to the west of the back room!"

The layout of the tomb of the Marquis of Haiyang is a large tomb that is approximately square.

There are two carriage and horse garages on the left and right in front, and after the middle corridor is down, there is the main burial chamber, and on both sides of the main burial chamber is the east XZ room.

And behind the main burial chamber, there is also a row of back rooms.

In these back rooms, archaeological teams from the province and Shaanxi and other places supported by archaeological institutes came to help clean up and excavate.

At present, a wine storehouse, a grain storehouse, and two back storage rooms on the west side have not been cleaned up.

Unexpectedly, one of them was actually a treasury full of copper coins!

Ignoring the low-oxygen workstation that had already left, Kong Jianwen and Director Wen took Chen Han and the others to immediately go down the tomb and rush to the back room.

Are you kidding!

A whole chamber of copper coins was stuffed.

This kind of thing, all the archaeological staff present have never seen it!

The tomb covering an area of 400 square meters is both large and small.

The group quickened their pace, and after a while, they came to the back room.

Following the pace of the guide, everyone entered one of the five rooms in the back room.

As soon as you enter the door, the copper coins stacked together appear in front of everyone.

These copper coins are all strung into a string of hemp rope, and then piled up into a "mountain of money".

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Although after more than 2,000 years, most of the hemp rope used to wear copper coins has rotted, and only a few traces remain.

But because it has been fixed for a long time, even if the hemp rope is broken and rotten, these copper coins basically remain in the form of strings and stacks on top of each other.

Even, many copper coins have long been glued together, and they are stronger than being strung with hemp rope.

"As the history books say, during the reign of Wenjing, there were many copper coins in the treasury, and the hemp rope of the money was rotten and broken.

Kong Jianwen muttered: "It can be regarded as a vision, what is the money of the Jingshi, which is huge and cannot be studied. ”

The archaeologists of the Nanchang Institute, who had been busy in this treasury for a long time, stepped forward and said: "We have already checked some of these copper coins. ”

"All of them are five-baht coins made during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and they are all engraved with the word "five baht!"

"Rough estimates, there should be more than a dozen tons, more than two million!"

Director Wen smashed his mouth and said dryly: "It's a big scene." ”

"This Marquis of Hailun is afraid that he will not have any money to squander after his death, so he will send so much money to the tomb."

These copper coins were not put into the tomb after the removal of the Marquis of Haidu.

The nobles of the Han Dynasty would start to prepare for the construction of tombs for themselves before their deaths.

From the Son of Heaven to the princes and princes, and even the high-ranking nobles such as the Marquis of Guannei, they will basically repair the tomb in advance.

After the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, he immediately started to build the imperial mausoleum, and he built it for as long as he reigned.

The princes and kings were similar, and they all started to build mausoleums immediately after inheriting the throne.

The second-level nobles such as the liehou and the marquis of Guannei are estimated to be similar.

At least judging from the specifications of the tomb of the Marquis of Haiding, it will not be repaired in a few years.

And there is no sign of hastily started or hastily finished.

This shows that although the Marquis of Hailun died at the age of 33, the construction of this tomb may have begun after he became the Marquis of Haidu.

At least he built it for four years during his lifetime, and another two or three years after his death, and it may be completely built.

This also shows that when building this tomb, the Marquis of Hailun himself participated in the planning, and even led it himself.

And this back room, which is all used to hold copper coins, is obviously also planned by the Marquis of Haiyang himself, and it was prepared in advance, not made by later generations.

This is quite surprising.

Counting the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty in the past dynasties, most of them are buried with precious gold, and there will also be five baht money to accompany the burial, but it will definitely not be exaggerated to the burial of more than ten tons.

Because for the high-ranking nobles above the liege, they actually don't need copper coins at all in their daily lives.

Whether it is communication or trading between princes and princes, it is usually gold as the upper currency, and it is impossible to use copper coins, which are inconvenient to trade.

Because it involves the transactions between the princes, if the settlement is settled with copper coins, it will often have to be tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of copper coins, and several carriages may not be able to pull it away.

Therefore, in the eyes of nobles above the rank of princes, copper coins are far less important than gold, and they are not as good as gold.

It may be that the treasury of the Liehou Mansion is full of copper coins, but there is rarely a chance to spend them.

Not to mention being taken to the grave.

But Liu He brought two million five-baht coins to the burial...

"I'm afraid this has something to do with Liu He's bumpy life." Kong Jianwen sighed: "Liu He's fate has been ups and downs, with several ups and downs. ”

"He probably has also developed a frightened character."

"So after he died, he went to another world, and Liu He didn't want to treat himself badly, so he brought so much five baht money into the grave."

"It's the same mentality that some people are afraid of."

Chen Han nodded understandingly.

Thinking of Liu He's bumpy life experience, it seems understandable that he is so afraid that he will have no money to spend underground.

At this time, several archaeologists from the Nanchang Archaeological Institute approached and asked, "Two professors, how can we extract these five baht coins?" ”

Because of the age and the fact that it has experienced an earthquake, the placement of these five-baht coins has become disorganized.

And a lot of it sticks together.

Don't look at the appearance, these five-baht coins still look like they are one by one.

But in fact, all of them are glued into mountains of money, and it is difficult to extract and process them individually.

This made the Nanchang Archaeological Institute, which had never seen such a big battle, a little helpless.

In this regard, Director Wen was a little embarrassed.

How can I say that the Nanchang Institute is also his subordinate unit, why is it helpless when he encounters this matter.

He said with a somewhat unsatisfied expression; "What else can I do, of course, the whole box is extracted!"

"A mountain of money is only a few meters long and one or two meters wide, and it is directly surrounded by crates and sent to the rear laboratory."

In the rear, there is a special chemical potion for copper utensils and copper coins, as long as you put these money mountains in it for a period of time, it is easy to turn back into copper coins.

It's not hard to deal with.

However, Director Wen thought about it for a while, and said: "Leave a few to remain unchanged, and then you can extract them as a whole and take them directly to the museum for exhibition." ”

This kind of copper coin mountain, which has been stacked for more than 2,000 years, still looks quite shocking, and it is very suitable for the public to visit!

No matter how detailed the book is, it doesn't have a good effect when you look at it with your own eyes!