Master Archaeologist

Chapter 256 Gold, a lot of gold!

The cleaning of the main tomb requires time and patience.

A month passed quickly.

But the archaeological working group only cleared out a little bit of cultural relics.

More often, everyone is dividing areas, labeling cultural relics in different areas, and formulating extraction plans.

Yes, most cultural relics require an extraction plan.

There is no way, there are too many cultural relics in the main tomb, and after being soaked in silt and stagnant water, they all stick together into irregular groups of "cultural relic aggregates"!
This leads to the extraction of each cultural relic, which will be very troublesome.

If you are not careful, it may be broken or broken during the extraction process.

Especially those lacquered boxes.

If you want to say that what has the most things in the west room is definitely the lacquer box.

It can be seen that the west room should have been filled with lacquer boxes full of funerary objects.

It's just that with the passage of time, the lids of many lacquer boxes have rotted away, and the contents inside have undergone geological changes such as earthquakes and blisters, and they are scattered everywhere.

Then they are glued together by mud.

Therefore, before extraction, the corresponding extraction plan must be prepared first, so as not to cause damage accidents.

Chen Han and the others are also marking groups of cultural relics, taking pictures, and discussing how to extract them.

The so-called marking is actually very simple. It is to mark these cultural relics in order of 123456, which is convenient for filing and naming when making plans.

For example, "Extraction Plan No. 22" refers to the extraction plan for cultural relic No. 22, which is clear at a glance and cannot be mistaken!

After a month of hard work, this mark has reached more than 1400.

In other words, more than 1400 sets of cultural relics have been discovered in the West Room!

Note that it is a "group" not a "item"!
A group of cultural relics may be glued together by multiple or even a dozen cultural relics!

It is conceivable how many cultural relics there are in these more than 1000 groups of cultural relics!
It can be said that the stock of cultural relics in Haihunhou's tomb is indeed the largest discovery in the history of Chinese archaeology!
None of the tombs of Liehou and princes and kings unearthed so far in the Western Han Dynasty has such a rich number of funerary objects!
I am afraid that only the tombs of those few Western Han emperors can stand shoulder to shoulder with them!

But the imperial mausoleum cannot be excavated!

But Haihunhou's tomb needs rescue excavation!

Chen Han was excited, nervous, and excited. Even though the cleaning of the main tomb had been going on for a month, he was still full of energy.

This kind of tomb with such rich funerary objects is rare in a hundred years!

It's been a blast to be a part of it!

Holding a watering can in his hand, walking on the wooden operating platform, Chen Han used the watering can to spray the silt in the west room from time to time.

Relying on the impact of the jet of water, some of the silt covering the cultural relics can be washed away at once, revealing the cultural relics buried under the silt.

The archaeological team relied on this simplest method to find the cultural relics in the west room.

In fact, it’s too early to say that it’s too late. In fact, as long as you spray the mud with a watering can, cultural relics will definitely be sprayed out.

There is no way, the west room is almost full of cultural relics, there is not even a place to step down!
Spraying, Chen Han walked to the upper left corner of the west room.

This position was originally a bed.

The discovery of this bed made scholars who hold the view of "inside and outside" breathe a sigh of relief.

According to the supporters of the "Xitang Theory", this outer room is modeled after the front hall of the Western Han Dynasty house, that is, the living room.

The inner room is the owner's back room.

Then in the living room, it is obviously impossible to place a bed, right?

When Liu He was receiving guests, did he still have to do something on the bed with the guests?

And if it is the interior and exterior of a bedroom, it is very reasonable.

Originally, a bed was needed in the outer room for the maids and the like to rest.

The appearance of this couch obviously gained more support from the scholars of "Inner and Outer Space Theory"!
But these arguments are not important in Chen Han's eyes, so he doesn't care.

He only cares about how many cultural relics that will shock the whole country will be found in the main tomb this time!

The bed has now been extracted as a whole and sent to the archaeological base next door for laboratory archaeology.

After the bed was extracted, there was still a piece of mud at the bottom of the bed.

Generally speaking, there should be nothing under the bed.

However, adhering to his professionalism, Chen Han still stretched out his hand reluctantly, and sprayed the area with a watering can.

As a result, this spray produced a big baby!

When the strong water jet from the watering can washed over the mud under the original bed, a golden color suddenly appeared in front of Chen Han's eyes.

A severely damaged lacquer box appeared in his eyes.

The lid of the lacquer box has completely decayed and disappeared.

So, under the washing of the water, without Chen Han's mental preparation, a box of golden cakes appeared in front of his eyes.

"Fuck! Gold! A lot of gold!"

Chen Han's hand holding the watering can trembled a few times.

As a result, when he shook, the water swayed and washed beside the box of gold cakes.

Another box of gold cakes was also washed out.
Now, Chen Han really couldn't hold back anymore.

He shouted excitedly: "Teacher! I found two boxes of gold cakes!"

"A lot! There can be at least forty or fifty in a box!"

Yes, these two paint boxes are huge!

According to visual inspection, the length and width are about 30 cm * 15-20 cm!

The gold cakes in the box are stacked sideways, and the diameter of each gold cake is about four or five centimeters!
The shape is a round cake, like a five baht coin without holes.

A golden cake is about as big as a child's fist or an adult's palm!

But the thickness does not look thick, it is less than one centimeter.

However, gold is notoriously dense!
A small piece of gold can be very heavy!

Based on Chen Han's superficial understanding of gold, he estimated that such a piece of gold cake must weigh more than 200 grams!

and many more!

More than 200 grams?

According to the records of "Han Shu Lv Li Zhi", the weights and measures system in the Qin and Han Dynasties were: baht, two, catty, jun, and stone.

1石=4钧，1钧=30斤，1斤=16两，1两=24铢。

And from the unearthed large number of five baht coins of the Western Han Dynasty, it has been confirmed that one tael of the Western Han Dynasty should be 15.43 grams or 15.625 grams!
And a catty is about 247 grams to 250 grams!
However, in the Western Han Dynasty, the standard of measurement of gold has not always been calculated in terms of weight, liang, or catty, but a unit "gold" that belongs exclusively to gold!
Looking through the Han books, we can see that in the documents of the Han Dynasty, when gold is mentioned, most of them use "gold" as the unit.

For example, one gold, one hundred gold, and one thousand gold, and most of these numbers appeared when the emperor rewarded meritorious people.

However, how much is the "one gold" in the Western Han Dynasty and how heavy is it?

This has always been a controversial issue in the historian circle!

Some people also think that the "gold" here is actually related to "jin", and the so-called "gifting so much gold" means giving so many catties of gold.

However, this argument has always lacked evidence!

The "standard gold" of the Han Dynasty has never been unearthed.

Most of the unearthed gold is gold and silverware, not standard gold!
However, it's different now!

These gold cakes lying in lacquered boxes all seem to be the same shape, the same size, the same diameter, and the weight seems to be the same!
Obviously, this is a standard gold of the Western Han Dynasty!

So, what kind of calculation unit is the "one gold" that has troubled historians for a long time.

It seems that the answer can be found!

(End of this chapter)