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Chapter 85 Tang Dynasty Treasury (400 recommendations plus updates)

If you really want to accept the inheritance of Tang Sancai, you must touch the Tang Sancai in the stone coffin.

Thinking about the Tang Sancai in the stone coffin, it should be smaller and more delicate.

After crossing the altar, carefully avoiding wooden figurines, bronze figurines, and pottery figurines, Chen Wenzhe came to the stone coffin.

Looking at the mottled paintings in front of him, Chen Wenzhe felt a little pity.

However, this stone coffin has been exposed to the air for more than a thousand years, and it is already very impressive to be able to leave some painted paintings.

"Sure enough, it is as I guessed, but the age of this stone coffin may be older than the one outside!"

Looking away from the stone coffin, Chen Wenzhe looked at some black things piled up on the ground with a smile.

Apart from the coffin, these things are probably the most valuable.

Wipe off the dust on it, and saw a piece of black.

After too long, these things have turned black. Needless to say, they must be silver.

The boat-shaped silver collar, picked up one, looks really ugly.

However, a feeling of joy spread from my heart.

The purity, weight, size, and characteristics of silver come to mind instantly.

This is the real touch for gold. It can be said that he is a gold and silver expert. He is particularly sensitive to gold and silver now.

This thing is in the shape of a boat, slender, with a thin bottom, and the two ends are tilted up. The silver on both sides is too thin, and it is flattened, making it even uglier to look at.

However, Chen Wenzhe knew that this was normal.

In many film and television works, such plots are often seen: the emperor casually rewarded others with a lot of gold and silver, and then carried out box after box of exquisitely shaped ingots.

In fact, anyone who knows history knows that the chubby and exquisitely shaped silver ingots belonged to later generations, and the real silver ingots are not like that.

The tradition of using gold and silver as currency in my country has a long history, and silver has already entered the stage of history in the Han Dynasty.

Later, Xu Shen, a great writer in the Han Dynasty, commented on "Huainanzi" and said: "The collars are made of gold, silver, copper and other unfinished wares, and they are called collars."

The collar refers to the billet of the metal material that has not been smelted, and is roughly in the shape of a strip.

Since precious metals themselves have relatively high value, they can be directly used as storage and bulk trade payment.

In the Tang Dynasty, what we call Tang Dynasty silver collars was formed.

The name silver collar comes from its shape. At that time, people used to call long and straight things "tight".

The wooden ones are "梃", the bamboo ones are "筳", and the metal ones are "collars".

When you hear the name, you can actually think of its shape.

In addition to the long wat-shaped silver collars of the Tang Dynasty, there is also a boat-shaped one, with the waist tied and the two ends raised.

Silver collars at that time could usually be used as a standard unit of counting, and the weight of a collar was fifty taels.

Therefore, the collar in Chen Wenzhe's hand was fifty taels of silver.

The reason why such a shape is adopted is that on the one hand, it can fully demonstrate the ductility of silver, and on the other hand, it can also prevent the mixing of other metals during casting.

As a high-value metal, silver is easy to be targeted by people with bad intentions. In order to prevent counterfeiting, it is necessary to let others see the silver itself in all directions, so the shape of the boat appeared.

The bottom of this shape is relatively flat and thin, which is convenient for people to make quick judgments.

The properties of silver are unique, and its pure white color is its biggest symbol, and once other impurities are mixed in, such as base metals such as copper and lead, it can be easily judged.

For example, after adding 2% copper to pure silver, the color of silver will obviously become gray.

So this is why we see the two sides of the silver, and it is easy to see the exaggerated wings, which are actually signs of anti-counterfeiting.

"With silver collars, there must be gold collars, haha, this is not a gold collar, but a gold brick!"

"Should this be called a gold bar?"

At some point, Chen Qinglin came to Chen Wenzhe's side.

Behind him was Chen Qingchuan, standing behind him, one on the left and the other on the right.

"It's gold bricks, they were still called treasury back then!"

Chen Wenzhe flipped it over with a smile. It didn't look like much, but it was heavy!
He casually picked up a piece, which was much heavier than the big yellow croaker he got earlier.

The purity should have reached [-]%, not three nines or four nines, Chen Wenzhe is very sure of this.

The skill of touching gold is so powerful in this respect.

He remembered that the small gold bricks in the treasury of the Tang Dynasty that are being faked now are fifty grams in weight, that is, one or two weights.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, it was one catty sixteen taels, that is to say, such a gold brick weighed a full [-] grams.

Not counting their historical value, simply selling gold, such a piece can be sold for almost [-].

After removing the silver pillars on the top, there are still quite a few gold bricks below.

"There are five or six boxes here. Even if there is less packing in one box, it must be filled with a hundred yuan, right? Five or six hundred yuan, count as five hundred yuan, and one piece is [-] grams. How much is this?"

While talking, Chen Wenzhe couldn't continue.

"Four hundred kilograms? That's four hundred kilograms, less than half a ton!"

After a while, Chen Qingchuan opened his mouth to speak.

Chen Wenzhe was speechless, less than half a ton, is that too much?Or less?

"We found a lot of iron gun heads in the back. This place should have been used as a cave for hiding soldiers!"

Chen Qinglin didn't talk about gold, but changed the subject.

Chen Wenzhe nodded, and threw the gold in his hand into the pile of gold and silver.

"I guessed it a long time ago. The owner of this tomb should be an aristocrat after the mid-Tang Dynasty. These silver pillars are proof."

According to historical records, the most popular time for silver collars in the Tang Dynasty was in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Its function was not limited to official use, but also began to use silver collars for large-amount payments and foreign trade.

During the Tang Dynasty, my country's foreign trade was very frequent, not only on the Silk Road, but also frequent maritime trade.

At that time, silver coins were widely used in West Asia, and it was difficult to exchange them with Kaiyuan Tongbao at that time. Therefore, using silver collars became the most convenient choice.

The ship-shaped silver collars of the Tang Dynasty were conducive to the smooth development of global trade, and in the era when there was no credit system, the ship-shaped or wat-shaped shapes were conducive to mutual inspection of the fineness of silver by both trading parties.

The face value of silver collars in the Tang Dynasty was too high, and ordinary people had almost no chance to see and use them. Therefore, it is not surprising that they were buried underground when they entered here.

"Huh? Did you find the weapon? Only the tip of the gun?"

"Most of them are gun heads, and these two boxes are also lacquerware. They are not small, and we only brought one!"

Speaking, Chen Qingchuan handed Chen Wenzhe a long and narrow lacquer box.

The length of this lacquer box reached [-] meters.

Seeing the flat and long box, Chen Wenzhe's heart suddenly beat violently.

In the cave of Tibetan soldiers, such a lacquer box was found, what else could it be inside?
(End of this chapter)