Master Archaeologist

Chapter 69

After visiting the restoration work of bamboo slips in Jingzhou Cultural Protection Center, Chen Han's heart was very excited.

Seeing is better than hearing it!
Although he knew before that, Jingzhou cultural preservation center has the world's best restoration level of slips and slips, which is very good.

But after seeing it with my own eyes, I really felt the charm of this bamboo slip restoration technology.

Chen Han saw with his own eyes that a bamboo slip, which was as soft as noodles and completely blackened, almost indistinguishable from mud, was restored to its freshly written appearance.

This is simply amazing.

That is to say, he is a student of Kong Jianwen, so he has this treatment.

Otherwise, the entire restoration process that would take more than half a year to complete would not be so clear to him.

"How about it, Xiao Chen."

Rong Hua led Chen Han out of the Jane washing room with a smile, and said proudly: "You have seen the charm of cultural relics restoration."

Chen Han nodded fiercely: "I have seen it, and I will turn decay into magic!"

"Let's go, read what you need to see. Lao Li should have finished handing over to Chen Shuren. I'll take you to see the bamboo slips found at Tomb No. [-] in Fenghuang Mountain, where Hubei is located."

"This is a remarkable batch of Han bamboo slips."

Ronghua took Chen Han with him, and soon found Professor Li who was wandering around the [Hyperspectral Image Analysis System].

"Lao Li, let's go!"

"Go to my office, I'll show you the results of this machine!"

Professor Li immediately followed with great interest.

Ronghua took the two of them back to his office quickly.

His office is very simple, except for a pile of books, there is only a desk and a computer, without any decorations or paintings.

It is in line with the image of a scientific researcher.

"Come, come, take a look at the contents of these bamboo slips."

Greeting Chen Han and Professor Li to come to the computer, Ronghua skillfully opened a folder specially used for archiving.

In the folder, there is a file numbered "Tomb No. 10, Phoenix Mountain".

After clicking on it, a bunch of technologically processed bamboo slip rubbing photos appeared in front of their eyes.

To be precise, these are not bamboo slip rubbing photos, but photos synthesized by the [Hyperspectral Image Analysis System].

There are more than 170 bamboo slips and 6 wooden tablets, which sounds like a lot, but actually it doesn’t read many words, but it contains a lot of information.

This is also a major advantage of ancient Chinese prose, as a few words can contain a lot of information.

"Four years later, in September, Zhang Yan, the fifth doctor in Xinhaiping, informed the underground?" Chen Han softly read the seal script on the back of the first wooden tablet.

"Yes, according to the Hubei Institute's confirmation, the absolute date of tomb No. 10 should be the fourth year of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty."

"The owner of the tomb is a fifth doctor."

"The fifth doctor too?" Professor Li frowned.

The owner of tomb No. 168 is also a fifth doctor.

And according to the exploration results during this period, tomb No. 168 is already the largest tomb in the area under the responsibility of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Everyone has heard about this No. 10 tomb, and it is the largest tomb in the area Hubei is responsible for.

It seems that the noble Han tombs in Fenghuang Mountain are mainly buried with minor nobles, and the highest titles are the five doctors.

Keep looking down.

After reading several bamboo slips in a row, Chen Han was roughly sure that the owner of the tomb should be an official from Jiangling Xixiang in the Western Han Dynasty.

And it should be a "Xiang Zuo" who is mainly responsible for collecting taxes.

In today's words, it is the township tax official.

Because there are many bamboo slips in it, all of which record some content related to the acres of land and the loan.

For example, one of the slips wrote: "There are 25 households in Zhengli, 69 farmers, with a total population of 110 people. The total area of ​​the field is 617 mu. The loan amount of each household is 1 bucket per mu."

Li is the most basic administrative unit in the Qin and Han Dynasties, equivalent to the current village.

Zhengli, that is, a village called Zheng.

However, it should be noted that the 69 farmers recorded in this data are not all farmers in Zhengli, but poor people who borrowed seeds from the government.

Similarly, there is another bamboo slip that records that the number of people Zheng Li needs to pay taxes is 72 people.

These 72 people are not all the people in Zheng Li, nor are those who have the privilege of immunity from military service counted.

Looking at it this way, it should be reasonable for these two figures to be so close.

However, from these two sets of figures, it can be seen that most of the people in Zheng Li's registered household in Qimin are still poor, and they are so poor that they even need to borrow money from the government to plant seeds.

Moreover, based on the number of acres of fields and the population, even if the high-yield grain of 3 shi per mu is calculated, the average annual grain output of each family is only 74 shi.

Based on the minimum standard of 5 liters of grain per person per day, the food demand of each family is 79.2 shi.

Obviously, the people in Zhengli, even if the fields are high-yield, it is not enough to feed a family!

This is not counting the taxes that every household has to pay!
The batch of bamboo slips unearthed from Tomb No. [-] almost recorded in detail the Fu, Kouqian, and annual collection times during the period of Emperor Jing of the Western Han Dynasty.

For example, one of the wooden slips recorded that the counting money in Shiyangli was collected three times in February and March, four times in April, three times in May, and once in June, a total of [-] times !

However, the calculated tax is the same amount every month.

For example, Shiyangli levied three times in February, and each time it was 112, and the four levies in April were 109.

This shows that the collection of Fu should be a figure set every month, and then collected once a month, if not collected, then go to the countryside to collect.

It is enough for a household to pay only once a month, not multiple collections.

But even so, it needs to be collected once in February, March, April, May, and June, and the tax is paid five times in half a year. This tax is too onerous.

Even if the "Seven Kingdoms Rebellion" broke out in the third to fourth year of Emperor Jing, which could be regarded as a time of war, it is very likely that the government temporarily increased taxes, but it shouldn't be so heavy!

Jiangling was a relatively affluent area during the Western Han Dynasty, and the cultural relics unearthed from the Fenghuangshan Han Tombs also confirmed that this place was rich in products and the social economy was quite developed at that time.

However, in the Jiangling area, which was considered highly developed in the early Western Han Dynasty, according to the records of these bamboo slips, the proportion of local poor people almost exceeded 85%!

Moreover, the calculation of the burden of each poor household is also very heavy!
It is not enough to eat the output of farming alone, and there is still such a heavy tax to pay.

In addition, during the Western Han Dynasty, the poor had to bear various corvees every year, as well as burdens such as land rent and manuscripts, as well as some miscellaneous taxes that were not recorded.

No wonder, after seeing these bamboo slips, Ronghua thought that the contents recorded in these bamboo slips would shake the "Government of Wen Jing", the first era of great rule in China that has been widely recognized and accepted by the historians!
At least, judging from the content of this batch of bamboo slips, for ordinary people at that time, the rule of Wenjing was not so worthy of the name.

　Brothers, it's a new month, ask for a guaranteed monthly pass! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)