Back in the 1980s, hiking in the mountains was also a way of life

Chapter 363 Three-layer Coffin
In Northeast China, people call copper coins "big coins", but no one knows why.

Although the big money was useless, Wang An still collected them all.

Although there are too many of these things and they are basically useless, it must be said that the smaller amounts of big coins are also worth some money.

When Wang An was in the fence in his previous life, the people in the same room with him who were sentenced to life imprisonment did all kinds of things.

There were several people who specialized in tomb robbing and dealing in antiques. They taught Wang An and other inmates a lot of knowledge about tomb robbing and antiques.

One of them said that some people specially collect large coins with good quality and small circulation. If you happen to get one, you can sell it for a lot of money.

So, what if there are a few of them that can be valuable in the future?

No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat.

Wang An put these big coins into the bag. During the packing process, Wang An found that these big coins were well preserved because they were all packed in jars or small jars. Except for the verdigris, there were very few rotten coins.

The most important thing is that, except for a small amount of Song Dynasty coins, the rest are from the Ming Dynasty.

Among all the big coins in history, only the "Da Zhong Tong Bao" of the Ming Dynasty is the most special.

Because only the Dazhong Tong Bao of the Ming Dynasty has place names on the back, including "Beijing, Yu, Ji, Beijing, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Guangdong, and Guangxi".

Later, there were "Yongle Tongbao", "Jiajing Tongbao",
That's not the case, there's nothing on the back.

In addition to these three large coins, Wang An also saw "Hongzhi Tong Bao", "Longqing Tong Bao", "Wanli Tong Bao", "Taichang Tong Bao", "Tianqi Tong Bao" and "Chongzhen Tong Bao" from the pile of large coins.

It has to be said that these big coins basically include all the big coins in the entire Ming Dynasty.

But there is not a penny left of the big money from the Southern Ming and Qing dynasties.

In addition to these, there are also a lot of large coins as big as eggs used for sacrifices, but no one knows which dynasty they are from.

Wang An speculated that the owner of this tomb was most likely a person from the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, for Wang An, it doesn’t matter at all when he was born.

When Wang An packed up all the big money, it filled an entire bag.

Wang Dazhu had been observing his son for a long time. It was only then that Wang Dazhu frowned and pointed at the big pit and said:

"You can win if you make some of this stuff, but you have to leave some for others. Why are you making so many of them?"

Wang An was stunned when he heard this, mainly wondering what "leave some for others" meant?
Then Wang An said with a smile:

"I'm thinking about finding someone to sell it to someday, and I can at least make some money from it."

Wang Dazhu rolled his eyes at Wang An but said nothing more.

As the area of ​​the pit continued to expand, various utensils were unearthed. As the sounds of "crack" and "crack" of porcelain shattering were heard, Wang An could no longer sit still.

These are all porcelain from the Ming Dynasty!
Even if it is not precious porcelain, it is still an antique!

So Wang An immediately shouted: "Slow down, slow down, you guys smashed all the good things."

To be honest, it's really not suitable for digging in such a cold weather.

If you don't use force, the soil is too frozen to move, and if you use force, no one knows what may be buried under the ice pick or shovel.

Therefore, it is normal for things like porcelain or jars to break into pieces.

In this era, in remote areas, people do not know the value of porcelain and antiques unless they use them themselves.

Even many city dwellers don't know this.

The main reason is that these things are in rural areas and there is no trading between them. The key is that no one buys them.

Of course, the antique fever had just begun to re-emerge across the country at this time, and it was mainly among collectors who bought, sold or exchanged antiques with each other.

In other words, the antique circle was actually very small in that era. The reason why these things are valuable in later generations is that they are driven up by capital speculation.

To be honest, antiques have no practical value to ordinary people, except for "appreciation" or use by some historians in research.

However, it is still quite useful in making money a little "cleaner".

Because Wang An had done this before in his previous life. He spent 500 million to buy a teapot, and then sold it for million.
Therefore, everyone was somewhat confused about what Wang An said.

But Wang An was the boss after all, and he had just distributed money to everyone, so what Wang An said still had an effect.

Everyone began to be cautious.

Then the bottles, jars, plates, bowls and other things that had been buried there were dug out intact.

To be honest, there are quite a few broken pieces, but they are definitely not as many as what is left.

Finally, it came to the most critical moment, which was to dig up the coffin.

After so many years, the coffin has long since rotted into rotten wood, but one cannot help but admire the wisdom of the ancients.

Although the coffin was slightly damaged, the impact was not significant, which means that the things inside should be intact.

What you need to know is that the coffin is not the coffin.

The coffin is used to hold the deceased, while the outer coffin is used to hold the coffin. Simply put, the outer coffin is a box that is much larger than the coffin.

The vast majority of ancient people’s burial objects were placed in coffins. Of course, there were also some placed in coffins, but not many.

Using a chisel to pry open the lid of the coffin is the most important part of the entire burial.

It has to be said that even if the deceased was not an official during his lifetime, he must have been a wealthy person such as a local landlord.

Because the coffin has layers, generally speaking, having one layer is already quite impressive, but this deceased had three layers.

From top to bottom, the first layer is all silver.

2斤重的银瓜2个，银如意2个，2两重的银元宝72个。

There are also some silver plates, silver bowls, silver chopsticks, silver wine glasses and other silver items, as well as silver hairpins, silver necklaces, silver belts, silver bracelets, silver rings and other jewelry.

However, these silver products are all black at this time, which proves that the sealing of this coffin is really not very good.

The second layer is all gold.

There were 1 gold bricks weighing 2 jin, 2 gold ruyi, 2 gold ingots and gold bars weighing 36 liang, and the rest were some gold utensils such as plates, bowls, chopsticks, wine glasses, and some gold jewelry.

The third layer is all jade artifacts.

However, except for a jade ruyi, most of these jade artifacts are ornaments or jewelry.

These gold, silver and jade articles are placed around the entire coffin. I don't know what the meaning is, but it should be convenient for the deceased to use them at any time.

Perhaps because they were digging a grave, even though everyone saw so much gold, silver and jade, no one exclaimed or laughed.

Instead, everyone clenched their teeth and remained silent.

To be honest, no matter how long the owner of this grave has been dead, people are indeed digging graves, so no matter how you look at it, everyone is a little bit creepy.

Without even considering whether they were good or bad, Wang An separated all these things and put them into three sacks. He did it quite quickly and one could clearly hear the sound of things colliding with each other.

In fact, jade is much harder than stone, so it is not so easy to break.

After packing these things, Wang An planned to pry open the coffin.

(End of this chapter)