Master Archaeologist

Chapter 278
Some of these bamboo slips have been identified, which is very gratifying.

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 and the others cannot see the content on these bamboo slips.

No way, the high-tech scanner at the Jingzhou Archaeological Institute cannot be moved.

Otherwise, if the scanner can be in the archaeological base, you can scan it to know the text on it, and then read it slowly.

"Hey, Baoshan is right in front of you, but you can't enter it. 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 Qin and Han archaeology and studies seal script, Professor Li is naturally very curious about these Han Dynasty writings, and he can't wait to see the real content immediately.

Unfortunately, the time has not come.

Kong Jianwen, Chen Han and the others, after exchanging pleasantries with the staff of the Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center, turned around and planned to leave one by one.

However, just as they were leaving, several staff members opened the door and walked out of the still brightly lit research room next door.

"How many of you are colleagues from the Institute of Archaeology, Academy of Social Sciences?"

"We found some ink stains on the batch of gold cakes we found in the tomb. Do you have any gentlemen who are proficient in Xiaozhuan?"

It turned out that the next door was the research room where the batch of gold artifacts were cleaned.

Calculating the time, it has been half a month since the gold cleared from the inner coffin was delivered here.

The cleaning of gold is relatively simple.

Just soak in water, and then soak in medicine to separate the sticky matter and unknown rot attached to the gold cake, and then the cleaning is complete.

However, it seems that there is still a surprise!

Kong Jianwen looked back at Chen Han and Professor Li, nodded affirmatively and replied, "No problem, we have experts who can understand seal script."

Don't think that these gold-clearing staff are so ignorant, they can't even read seal script.

In fact, this is the normal situation.

Generally speaking, those who do the restoration of cultural relics are only for their own professional learning.

For example, those who repair silk fabrics can't study Xiaozhuan even if they have nothing to do.

And no one would write Xiaozhuan on silk fabrics.

The same goes for restoring gold and silverware.

For restorers, they are more of a "craftsman" than a scholar, and they only devote themselves to studying the style, shape, appearance, and how to restore cultural relics.

As for the study of characters, in most cases, only those who repaired bronzes, bamboo slips, and wooden tablets would study the corresponding characters.

It is also easy to fix.

Otherwise, those who repaired the bamboo slips would not be able to understand the bamboo slips, and would not know how to sort the scattered bamboo slips.

Those who repaired the bronze ritual vessels could not understand the bronze inscriptions. If some bronze vessels were seriously broken, they might make spelling mistakes.

Apart from these, other restorers are less likely to specialize in the study of text.

There are experts in this area who specialize in writing, and they don't need to be distracted.

And Chen Han and Professor Li are those two experts.

A group of people from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences was invited into the research room.

As soon as you enter the door, all you can see are gold cakes placed on the big white table in the center of the room.

These gold cakes have been cleaned up, without any mud on their bodies, and they are placed on the table in such a golden state.

Not to mention, seeing so many golden cuties all at once is quite shocking.

Fortunately, the gold was dug out by the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Social Sciences, but it has already become numb.

"Of the 285 gold cakes, only four we found leftover writing."

Greeting all the researchers, I picked up a plastic box specially stored separately from the shelf next to it.

In the plastic box, there were a few wet wipes underneath, and on the wet wipes were four gold cakes.

These gold cakes all showed a concave shape in the center, which should be caused by being placed in a box and squeezed by an external force.

And at the very center of the depression, there are some black, vertical ink marks.

Because dense wrinkles had appeared on the gold cake after being squeezed, these ink stains were also wrinkled, and it was difficult to distinguish them for a while.

Among them, the ink stains on two pieces have been completely indistinguishable, leaving only some black ink dots, which are difficult to form.

However, among the other two pieces, the text on one piece is quite clear.

Holding a magnifying glass, Wei Lai and Professor Li approached the golden cake.

Under the action of the magnifying glass, the originally blurred text immediately became clear.

"South China Sea. Haihun Hou Chenhe, Yuankang three years for a catty of gold?"

In fact, the writing on the gold cake is not Xiaozhuan as these researchers thought, but Han Li.

It's only because the ink blots are a little too blurry that it's hard to tell.

However, the researchers can still understand the word "one catty" at the end.

That's why they found Chen Han and Professor Li.

It's just that they didn't expect that the two of them just looked at it with a magnifying glass and interpreted it all.

"Yuankang three years, that is, 63 BC."

"This year, in spring, in March, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty granted Liu He, the former king of Changyi, the Marquis of Haihun."

Professor Li adjusted his glasses, and said calmly: "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."

"A catty of gold is just this piece of gold cake."

"According to the system of the Western Han Dynasty, every 2 households donated [-] taels of gold a year. When Haihunhou was first enshrined as a marquis, there were [-] households in Shiyi, that is, [-] catties of gold should be donated a year."

"Here are four gold cakes with words, which should be the amount of gold that Haihunhou had offered in two years."

"It's just that, according to the central system, the Marquis of Haihun only donates 2 catties of gold a year, which means that with the title of Marquis of Haihun, it is estimated that he can only earn less than ten catties of gold a year."

"It seems that the king of Changyi has saved a lot of gold."

Professor Li became more and more confused.

285 gold cakes, according to the system of the Western Han Dynasty, should be 285 catties of gold.

Haihunhou sells only 2 catties of gold a year, which is equivalent to a commission from the central government.

Even if the central government was very polite and only smoked two-tenths of it, it was probably only eight catties of gold that Haihunhou got in his hands that year.

Liu He was Haihunhou for 4 years, and in the last year he was deprived of the food town of [-] households.In fact, in the position of Marquis Haihun, he only saved twenty or thirty Han Jin of gold.

These 285 gold cakes, as well as those gold horseshoes, gold toes, and gold plates, are estimated to be mostly the gold saved by him as the king of Changyi, and the previous king of Changyi!
That being the case, just count how many years the last Changyi king reigned, how many years Liu He has been the Changyi king, and do some simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and you can figure it out. How much gold can be saved in a year!
Starting from these small details, we can actually get a glimpse of the income of the princes and princes and kings in the Han Dynasty!
This discovery made Professor Li very happy!
This is of great significance to the study of the economic strength and "earning money" ability of the nobles in the Han Dynasty!
(End of this chapter)