Live broadcast of tomb robbing: fined 200,000 at the beginning

When everyone saw Li Hao holding a golden caterpillar in his hand, they all became excited.

"Wow! Li Hao has dug something, I saw him digging on the spot, I was so excited!".

"I feel like it's too small, and it's just a gadget that people throw away.

"I believe that what Brother Hao is digging will definitely not be an ordinary thing.

Cheng Qian also came up curiously to observe carefully: "Is this a silkworm or a caterpillar?"

Li Hao smiled and handed it to him: "This is a silkworm!"

"Silkworms? The first time I saw silkworm handicrafts, it was really strange!".

"Don't look at it small, this is definitely a national treasure.

Cheng Qian was stunned, looking at the little caterpillar in his hand in disbelief: "Isn't it...... This is also a national treasure? How do you feel that the national treasure is rotten and full of it?".

When everyone heard Cheng Qian's exclamation, they were all stunned.

"It's a

national treasure again!" "But it's too small!" "

This thing doesn't look like it if it's a national treasure."

"I can even break it when I feel like I have a little bit of force in my hand.

Just when everyone was talking, Li Hao spoke, and everyone immediately quieted down, they knew that Li Hao would give them an answer.

"That's right, don't look at him small, its power is far beyond your imagination, the silk it represents in China, which directly led to the financial collapse of the Roman Empire!"

It was like a boulder thrown into the water, making a big splash, and everyone present was unfamiliar with the Roman Empire, but had heard of it.

How can this little bug cause the financial collapse of a country?

It's unthinkable!

Li Hao continued to explain: "Let's talk about its origin in the Western Han Dynasty, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was in power, Zhang Sai came back after thirteen years of envoys to the Western Regions, and received a reward from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and allowed him to return to his hometown to save his relatives.

After the end of the provincial family, Zhang Sai reported to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that he had passed through the places where the provincial relatives had passed on the way to raise silkworms, weave silk, and live and work in peace and contentment. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was overjoyed after hearing this, and Zhang Sai took the opportunity to propose in the court to reward the silkworm breeders. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty immediately ordered the imperial court to cast Luan gold and copper silkworms and reward them to large silkworm weavers

In fact, in ancient times, the most fanatical about silk was not the Chinese, but always the Westerners, because before the sixth or seventh century AD, they could be said to know nothing about the production of silk!

Their clothes are either fur or linen, and the texture of their clothes can be imagined.

So when the emperor of the Roman Empire appeared for the first time in a gorgeous silk dress, the nobles of Europe were all stunned!

They could not understand how this kind of clothing was made, and even spread the word that in the far east there was a country of Seris, and a special kind of tree grew on it, and a special kind of wool would grow on it, and it could be picked to make this transparent and light silk. The

people around him burst into laughter when they heard this.

They had never heard such a story, and they all found it very interesting.

It's the first time I've heard of Cheng Qian, but it's still quite interesting to think about.

Silk, which is normal in our eyes, has become a bizarre story in the eyes of others.

Li Hao also smiled and continued to explain: "So later Roman nobles spent a lot of money to buy Chinese silk, do you know how expensive silk was at that time?"

Everyone shook their heads, how could they know that they didn't even know the price of ancient Chinese silk.

"Ten taels of silver and a pound of silk?".

"It should be more than that, right? I feel like I'm starting with a hundred taels. "

If you want me to say ten taels of gold, it's not illegal to brag anyway!".

......

Li Hao listened to their chat, and the corners of his mouth cracked into a smile: "Actually, he is really not bragging, silk at that time was more expensive than gold, less than a pound of raw silk can be sold for twelve taels of gold!"

Everyone was stunned.

The person who originally said ten taels of gold was also shocked.

He said nonsense, but he didn't expect it to be more expensive than what he said.

What kind of silk is this, this is simply gold silk is more expensive than gold silk!

Li Hao smiled and continued: "At that time, the Roman Empire was popular all over the country for this kind of silk clothes, and they had to spend a quarter of the national treasury every year to buy our Chinese silk, which caused a serious trade deficit!

Therefore, the Roman officials later found various reasons to prohibit the nobles from wearing clothes made of silk, saying that the silk dress was too thin and transparent, and it was the same as not wearing

it! I will give you an analogy, the weight of a plain yarn single coat is about 50 grams, what kind of concept is this!

Stack it up and put it in a matchbox. Together, ten pieces are equivalent to the weight of our thin summer shirts. "

Inside the live broadcast room.

"Awesome, one silk almost brought down the Roman Empire that big. You must know that the Roman Empire at that time was also very powerful, and the only country that could wrestle with the Qin State back then, I felt funny when I thought about it, and I also felt the power of the ancestors, and I couldn't think of it for a pound of twelve taels of gold.

"Such thin clothes, it must be very comfortable to wear on the body, not to mention them, I want to buy one to wear, but the problem is that I just searched the Internet and couldn't find such a thin one, is it because I'm too poor?" Big data doesn't recommend me to buy it?".

"The reason why cultural relics are called cultural relics is not because of how much value it has, but the story behind it, Li Hao is right, such a thing is definitely a national treasure, it records a piece of history, to be honest, I am still a little proud, because this thing almost ruined the country, haha! ".

"I suddenly remembered the treasure of Wang Mang that I dug up before, no wonder he had so much gold, I didn't know how much gold he sold just by selling silk at that time. I feel that at that time, silkworms were nouveau riche, this price, who raised who made a fortune, but I don't know if there were many middlemen at that time, and the price difference was not big.

After listening to Li Hao's explanation, everyone was stunned again.

50 grams, they don't have much of an idea.

But stuffed into a matchbox, that's too much of an exaggeration.

The underwear is so fabric, not to mention the matchbox, even the fist-sized box is difficult to stuff in.

In ancient times, plain yarn single clothes were all in the form of long skirts from top to bottom, and they could be folded to match matchboxes.

Even

if there is such clothing in modern times, it is estimated that it can only be worn as underwear, and it would be too embarrassing to wear it.

Li Hao continued: "Such transparent silk, even with modern technology, is difficult to restore, because it is made of Sanmian silk in the Han Dynasty!

This cultural relic in my hand, it is the Sanmian silkworm of the Western Han Dynasty, its body is particularly slender, and there are a total of 9 abdominal segments on its body, which is not at all like our current chubby silkworm baby.

It sleeps three times in its life, sheds its skin three times, and spits thinner silk, modern silkworms are all four-sleeping silkworms, all of which have become fat, and the spit silk has also become thicker, so the same clothes, made of three-sleeping silkworm silk, are very light and thin!

Huaxia is the first country in the world to master the technology of raising silkworm nest silk, the history says that the ancestor of the ancestor of the silkworm, the emperor's wife and ancestor invented silkworm raising, many people thought that Sima Qian was bragging, but now through archaeology, has been found more than 5000 years ago Yangshao era of silk fabrics!

It shows that before the appearance of writing, the Chinese people have begun to raise silkworms and make silk, so since ancient times, the Chinese people have a natural sense of intimacy

with the silkworm baby, so what is such a small piece of golden silkworm for! It has great historical and cultural relics value, and it has witnessed the Silk Road in China. "