My system is not decent

Chapter 889 Unsolved Mysteries
It seems that there was no shortage of gold in the Han Dynasty, only toys for children could make so many, and all of them were used for funerals.

Come to think of it, those people back then dug an ancient tomb of a child!

Such a situation was not uncommon in ancient times. The children of nobles are also nobles, and they also need to be buried!
Clean up these little beasts slowly and put them aside.

After entering this cave, Chen Wenzhe was stunned to see the dazzling array of things neatly placed in the large cave.

He can be regarded as having seen the world, but he was still shocked when he actually saw the various utensils here.

This discovery finally let him know where all the gold from the Han Dynasty went.

Where can I go?It's all here!
And Chen Wenzhe determined that what he discovered was at most the accumulation of ten or eight Han tombs, and there could be no more.

The whole thing has been down for two Han Dynasties, it seems to be more than four hundred years in total, right?
Even if there was not much gold in the Eastern Han Dynasty, how many princes and grandchildren would there be in the Western Han Dynasty for more than two hundred and twenty years?

For so many years, so many vassal states have had rich burials, so how many treasures are buried underground in our country?
Chen Wenzhe really didn't dare to imagine it. You must know that the collections here are only the funerary objects of a few ancient tombs.

And with just a few Han tombs, so much gold can be buried underground.

So how many gold and silver products were buried by the princes and generals throughout the Han Dynasty?
So much gold recorded in history disappeared in the Western Han Dynasty. Where did it go?
Many domestic experts probably underestimated the princes and generals at that time.

Many people have searched a lot of information, but they did not find any detailed records in any documents, at least so far, they have not found the whereabouts of many golds from the Western Han Dynasty, so the disappearance of gold from the Western Han Dynasty is a mystery.

Therefore, there have been many speculations in later generations.

One guess is that a large amount of gold was used to worship Buddha.

Since Buddhism was introduced into China at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, there has been a wave of worshiping Buddha regardless of the rich or the poor. .

Local tyrants compared each other, even decorated Buddha statues with gold powder, and added gold powder to ink to write scriptures.

And that's it, the consumption of gold increased so much that in less than a hundred years it was exhausted.

Another guess is that after the opening of the Silk Road, ancient Rome made a lot of gold by doing business with us.

However, this statement is not very reliable.

At that time, we were rich in tea and silk, and in the process of trade between the East and the West, we were the ones who gained higher profits, and a large amount of gold flowed in, but could not flow out.

The third guess is more convincing, that is, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the construction of the emperor's tomb consumed a quarter of the country's fiscal revenue, and there were countless funeral objects.

Taking Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty as an example, the imperial mausoleum was built after he became emperor at the age of 16, and it lasted 54 years until his death, without interruption, and the cost can be imagined.

After the death of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, his funeral objects filled the entire tomb.

As the saying goes, "Those who are good at the top will be bad at the bottom", the emperor of a country has such a strong funeral atmosphere, will the common people below not learn the truth?

For a period of time, from nobles to officials, from wealthy businessmen to ordinary wealthy households, they all imitated each other and were all proud of their rich burials.

Therefore, the gold reserves in the Western Han Dynasty decreased sharply.

However, when this speculation appeared at the time, some people expressed opposition to it.

They called gold at the time, not gold, but brass.

Because from a historical point of view, the social productivity at that time was not enough to produce so much gold, and there would be more copper products.

However, there is one point that this statement is untenable, that is, in the Western Han Dynasty, the unit of measurement of gold was "镒", while the unit of measurement of copper was "baht", or directly called "qian". This difference is very obvious. .

Between the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was another dynasty, the new dynasty established by Wang Mang.

At that time, the gold reserves were 560 tons. In addition, including the private reserves, the gold reserves at the end of the Western Han Dynasty were absolutely astonishing.

However, only a few decades later, Wang Mang lost his dynasty and Liu Xiu restored the Han Dynasty, but so much gold disappeared.

And all of this later became an unsolved mystery.

But now, Chen Wenzhe believes that what is a mystery is the short-sightedness of modern people.

Look at the gold cakes hidden here. In ancient times, apart from gold bricks, gold cakes were the most common thing.

There are too many gold cakes placed here, it is not small to pick up one casually.

这种金饼直径6.2～6.5厘米、厚0.6～0.7厘米，重247.5克，这也算是标准的汉代一斤金饼了。

These gold cakes are in the shape of irregular round cakes, with bumps on the front and ice cracks on the back. On the top, there are four characters "Juji Shangkou" in vertical official script and "U" in Yin script, and a small square stamp on the edge. A little illegible.

Chen Wenzhe has seen this kind of thing a lot, and knows more about it.

The size and weight of the unearthed gold cakes are not consistent, the diameter of the larger ones is mostly 5-6.6 cm, and the diameter of the smaller ones is about 3 cm.

Most people can't catch it, but if it falls into the hands of princes and generals, it must be used for burial.

This generation after generation of princes and princes were buried with them non-stop, and finally they were all buried underground.

Without looking at the gold, Chen Wenzhe looked in other directions.

Here gold is the most common, and he has developed aesthetic fatigue, so this time he discovered something different.

"Is this silverware?"

With just a glance, Chen Wenzhe saw a small silver basin among the golden utensils.

A small basin appeared among a large number of gold wares, which seemed extraordinary.

Sure enough, when he picked it up, Chen Wenzhe found the inscription on it.

The accurate name of this thing should be called Yinjiao.

"鋗, Xiaopen also, Guangyun is called Tongcho."

"Cho, the thermostat."

It can be seen from this that 鋗 is a warm water utensil for washing and bathing.

This silver cat is not small, with a height of 19.5 cm and a diameter of 45.7 cm.

The shape of the vessel is also good, with a flat folded edge, a short straight neck, a ring ear on each side, a bulging belly, and a flat bottom.

The inscription is on the abdomen, which is carved in Yin, and it is engraved on it: "The family members of the eunuchs are still bathing and bathing. One stone, one bucket, eight liters, weighing twenty-one catties, ten twenty Zhu, the first emperor."

The value of things with inscriptions and things without inscriptions is absolutely different.

It seems that the villagers in the Republic of China knew this very well, so they treasured this small pot here.

Looking at it happily, these utensils are well preserved, which is not easy.

It is definitely not easy to transport it all the way from Pengcheng, China.

Unfortunately, it was left here in the end and fell into his hands.

Chen Wenzhe felt a little emotional, such a large amount of wealth has not played any role, and has been circulating underground for two thousand years!
(End of this chapter)