Chapter 274: Gold Has Words
The bamboo slips have been partially identified, which is a very gratifying thing.
That is, because bamboo slips need to go through multiple processes, it takes half a year to a year before they can be completely dehydrated and restored.
So now Chen Han, they can't see the content on these bamboo slips.
There's no way, who called the high-tech scanner over there at the Jingzhou Archaeological Institute, it can't be moved.
Otherwise, if that scanner can be in the archaeological base, you can know the text on it by scanning it, and then look at it slowly.
"Hey, Baoshan is right in front of you, but you can't get in, it's really itchy," Professor Li sighed, turned around and planned to go back to the dormitory to rest.
As a scholar who specializes in the archaeology of the Qin and Han dynasties and delves into seal scripts, Professor Li is naturally very curious about these Han Dynasty writings, and is eager to see them immediately.
Unfortunately, the time has not come.
Kong Jianwen and Chen Han, after greeting the staff of the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center, also turned around one by one and planned to leave.
However, just as they were leaving, several staff members opened the door and walked out of a still brightly lit research room next door.
"How many of you are colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences?"
"We found some ink on the gold cakes we found in the tomb, do you have any gentlemen who are proficient in small seals?"
It turned out that next door was the research room that cleaned up the batch of gold.
Calculate the time, the gold cleaned out of the inner coffin has been here for half a month.
The clean-up of the gold is relatively simple.
It is to soak in water, and then soak the potion, and separate the sticky matter and unknown corruption attached to the gold cake, and then it is considered to be cleaned up.
However, it seems that there is still a surprise!
Kong Jianwen glanced back at Chen Han and Professor Li, nodded affirmatively and replied, "No problem, we have experts who can understand seal scripts."
Don't think that these gold cleaning staff are so ignorant that they can't even read the seal script.
Actually, this is the normal situation.
Generally speaking, those who do cultural relics restoration work are only for their own professional learning.
For example, if you do silk fabric restoration, it is impossible to study small seals if you have nothing to do.
And no one will write a small seal on silk fabrics.
The same is true for the restoration of gold and silverware.
For the conservators, they are more of a "craftsman" than a scholar, who will only be interested in studying the style, shape, appearance and how to restore the artefacts.
As for the study of writing, in most cases, it is only those who restore bronzes, bamboo slips, and wooden slips that study the corresponding characters.
It is also convenient to fix.
Otherwise, the repairers of bamboo slips can't understand the bamboo slips, and they don't know how to sort the scattered bamboo slips.
The repair of bronze ritual vessels does not understand the golden text, and if some of the bronzes are broken and more serious, they may do something wrong.
In addition to these, other restorers are not very good at studying words.
There are experts in this area who specialize in words, and there is no need for them to be distracted.
And Chen Han and Professor Li are those two experts.
A group from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences was invited into the research room.
As soon as you enter the door, you can see the golden cakes placed on the large white table in the center of the room.
The gold cakes had been cleaned up, and there was not a single bit of mud on them, so they were placed on the table with gold in their glory.
Not to mention, seeing so many golden cuties at once, the impact is quite big.
Fortunately, the gold was dug up by the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Social Sciences, but it has also become numb.
"Of the 285 gold cakes, only four of them we found still had words left."
Greeting everyone, the researcher picked up a plastic box from the side shelf.
In the plastic box, there are several wet wipes underneath, and on the wet wipes, there are four gold cakes.
These gold cakes all show a concave appearance, which should be placed in a box and squeezed by external forces.
And in the very center of the concave, there are some black, vertical ink.
Because the gold cake has been squeezed, dense folds have appeared, so these ink blots are also crumpled, and it is difficult to distinguish them for a while.
Among them, the ink on two pieces has been completely indistinguishable, and only some black ink spots remain, which are difficult to form.
However, in the other two pieces, the text on one of them is quite clear.
Holding a magnifying glass, Wei Lai and Professor Li approached the golden cake.
Under the effect of a magnifying glass, the words that were originally still in the lake immediately became clear.
"Nan... Sea... Haiyang Hou Chenhe, Yuankang three years of gold and a pound...?"
In fact, the text on the gold cake is not the small seal that these researchers think, but the Han Li.
It's just that the ink is a little too ambiguous, so it's hard to tell.
However, the researchers can still understand the word "one catty" at the end.
It is also because of this that they found Chen Han and Professor Li.
It's just that I didn't expect that the two of them took a magnifying glass and looked at it like this, and they directly interpreted it all.
"The third year of Yuankang, that is, in 63 B.C."
"This year, in the spring and March, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty enshrined Liu He, the king of the late Changyi, as the Marquis of Haidu."
Professor Li lifted his glasses and said steadily, "This should be the first batch of gold that Liu He presented to the Central Committee of the Western Han Dynasty after he regained the title of Marquis of Lie."
"A pound of gold, that's this piece of gold cake."
"According to the Western Han system, every 500 households will pay four taels of gold a year, and when the Marquis of Haiyang was first made a marquis, he was a 4,000-household household, that is, 2 catties of gold should be given a year."
"There are four gold cakes with words on them, which should be the amount of gold offered by the Marquis of Haidun in the second year."
"It's just that, according to the central system, the Marquis of Haiyang only gives 2 catties of gold a year, which means that with the title of Marquis of Haidu, it is estimated that he can only earn less than ten catties of gold a year."
"It looks like the king of Changyi has saved a lot of gold."
The more Professor Li spoke, the more confused he became.
285 gold cakes, according to the Western Han Dynasty system, should be 285 catties of gold.
The Marquis of Haiyang only makes 2 catties of gold a year, which is equivalent to the central commission.
Even if the central government is very polite, only two-tenths of it is smoked, and it is estimated that it is only eight catties of gold when Haiduhou arrives that year.
Liu He was the Marquis of Haiyang for 4 years, and in the last year, he was cut by 3,000 households. In fact, in the position of the Marquis of Haidu, he also saved twenty or thirty catties of gold.
These 285 gold cakes, as well as those horseshoe gold, lintoe gold, and gold plates, it is estimated that most of them are the gold he saved as the king of Changyi and the previous king of Changyi!
In this case, as long as you calculate how many years the previous king of Changyi reigned, how many years Liu He was the king of Changyi, and do some simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, you can calculate how much gold King Changyi, the prince of the Han Dynasty, can save in a year!
Starting from this small detail, in fact, you can get a glimpse of the income of the princes and kings of the Han Dynasty!
Professor Li was very pleased with this discovery!
This is of great use to the study of the economic strength of the Han Dynasty aristocracy and their ability to "make money"!
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