The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Just now I asked Wang Debiao to bring a bunch of hoes, shovel and sacks. It’s easier to use a bucket with an excavator, but you can’t squeeze some old coins. As a senior coin lover, Zhang Nan Can't let such a situation happen. Bayi Chinese ≤≤=≥≠≥≤=≈=

I yelled to the upper head: "Come and work hard, start work."

Several bodyguards looked at each other, and Alyosha took off his coat and went into the pit first, as well as Liu Wendong and Qiu Bo.

Here Xia Milli and Karimi also planned to go down to the pit, but Xiang Weirong said, "Forget about you two, you don't know how to use the hoe. Look at it from above."

Guan Xingquan in the pit murmured to Zhang Nan: Those two homes are herders, so they don't know how to do farm work at all. The squad leader was afraid that the soil had not been dug up, but instead opened up the people's heads.

Wang Debiao believed that he had the strength and volunteered to go to the pit, and he had to perform well at this time.

"I want to plow the earth! I think we were also the earthwork champion of the construction team back then!"

Wang Debiao is thirty-six and seventeen this year, but he is full of strength and strength.

It doesn't take so many people to dig with hoes, otherwise it will hit people's heads if they are crowded together.

Zhang Nan signaled everyone to stop moving, but put a small amount of scattered copper coins into the sack first, and then said, "Debiao, you have experience, first plan the soil above."

The digging bucket has been lightly planed twice, and the pit has revealed three sides: Wang Debiao's work is very good, he is definitely good at digging soil and he is used to farm work-not by digging, but by planing.

Within two minutes, the other corner was completely exposed.

Seeing that Wang Debiao was doing almost the same thing, Xiang Weirong jumped out from the side: "This, this is like a short coffin!"

"It's really like it, it's a little wider." It was Wang Debiao who replied.

Short coffin, curse! Because in the past, if a child died early, the coffin used would be very short, so these three words cursed others for short-lived when quarreling.

The cellar in front of you is rectangular, with a length of about 1.5 meters and a width of 7o cm.

Zhang Nan leaned down and looked at the edge of the cellar carefully, and took out some moldy things.

"This is a suitcase, the leather is almost rotten, and there are copper metal loops." As he said, he threw a rusty and rotten copper strap to the side. "These copper coins should have been Run through the strands of cotton thread, this will be almost worn out."

The copper coins are arranged neatly, with a certain pattern, and there are a small amount of moldy and dark brown cotton threads in the middle.

"Okay guys, put on your gloves and move!"

There is absolutely no shortage of white labor protection gloves on the construction site. There is a pair of workers, and they are packed in a few sacks.

There were a lot of people and strength, and they soon filled more than 20 bags: in fact, each bag was filled a little bit, and it couldn't be moved when it was full, so each bag weighed hundreds of catties.

Zhang Nan climbed into the pit and started the excavator.

Looking at this situation, several others in the pit hurriedly made bird and beast dispersal: Zhang Nan's technique has obviously not been recognized by everyone.

Putting down the digging bucket, a few people put the sacks in the bucket again, moving their hands and feet, and easily put tons of copper coins on the dump truck.

But I didn't dare to fall. Someone had to climb onto the cart and drag the sacks out of the digging bucket and pile them on the cart.

The people in the pit then cut a section into the four sides of the cellar without missing any scattered ones, and then went on to work.

In the past two hours, Zhang Nan drove the excavator three times, and the cellar had only bottomed out!

There was a lot of dirt on the people in this pit, and the most miraculous Wang Debiao was about to become a mud monkey. Guan Xingquan went and checked the metal detector again, but no one was left!

"A'nan, this trip is much more than the last time I was in the pharmaceutical factory, I think at least three tons!"

"So much? How did you estimate it?"

I remember that the final news broke out that it looked like two tons, about five to six hundred thousand.

"Each sack is at least 1 jin. We have 61 bags, and there will be 3 tons. You can't go wrong."

Wang Debiao said very confidently: for professional reasons, he is a little sure about the weight estimation.

"I-grass!"

"what?"

"I didn't say you, I said I didn't expect so many."

In fact, what Zhang Nan was thinking about this time was the extra one ton of coins: I didn't actually buy much this time with my friends from the TV station. It seems that there are more people who react quickly and have faster hands and feet! It's so muffled, I'm not the most capable person.

Just like the time in Wutai, no matter how strong your public security is, it is impossible to guarantee that everything will remain intact.

After all the digging was done, the method of burying the money was also revealed at that time: the coins were packed in a suitcase, first bury the suitcase in the rectangular pit, and then put the copper coins inside.

The suitcase is 1.5 meters long, more than 7o cm wide, and more than 6o cm deep-this is a big guy!

The surrounding soil pit is not built with bricks, and it is not deeply buried (6oo years of geostrophic time, this piece of land is low, it seems that after several floods, there is a new silt layer of tens of centimeters on the topsoil This can be seen from the cross section of the edge of the soil pit.) At the beginning, it seemed that it was buried in a hurry. It is estimated that the situation is already more critical, otherwise you will build a "small house" with bricks or slabs.

It is said that such a large suitcase is really rare! According to today's civil aviation aircraft boarding suitcase size 55 by 4o by 2o cm, the size of this suitcase is at least the size of 14 such suitcases!

The cellar is full of seas and seas. Depending on the dynasty and variety, copper coins basically contain 1 to 3 layers of lead: generally, the stronger the national power of the dynasty, the less lead content in this coin, and vice versa.

Some bad money and bad money have an ridiculously high lead content.

However, the quality of the coins in this cellar is not bad, and there is basically no bad money.

The internal volume of the entire suitcase is about 0.7 cubic meters, because the proportion of copper plus lead is heavier than pure copper, at least 9.

In this way, if such a cuboid is a solid copper block, it will weigh more than 6 tons!

Of course, the neatly stacked copper coins cannot be solid, but they are almost 3 tons!

3 tons! Zhang Nan really knows the preciousness of this batch of copper coins: it involves Western Han, Xinmang, Tang, Hou Zhou, Qianshu, Southern Tang and other countries in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, as well as the Northern Song, Southern Song, Xixia, Jin, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. There are also many warlords from the small imperial court.

The earliest was the four-baht "half-two" cast in the fifth year of Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty (175 BC), and the latest was the "Hongwu Tongbao" cast in the first year of Ming Taizu Hongwu (1368), which lasted more than 15oo years. .

Although the Song Dynasty has the most copper coins, the overall level of cherishment is definitely the first in the country!

The work here is almost finished, Xiang Weirong asked: "About how many?"

Last year, the more than 2oo kilograms was exaggerated. By now, it hasn't been sorted out. This time it's even more exaggerated.

Zhang Nan shook his head, "It's hard to say, at least more than 600,000 pieces. There are too many different formats. There are one small flat money, two, three, five, and ten. There are differences in each dynasty and variety.

For example, Hongwu's top ten coins weigh 34.4 to 37 grams, and Hongwu's small flat coins weigh 3.4 to 3.6 grams. The Daguantongbao of the Northern Song Dynasty only weighs 18 grams, while the four and a half baht of the Western Han Dynasty weighs only 2.2 to 2.8 grams.

There is also Kaiyuan Tongbao, which started casting in the fourth year of Emperor Tang’s Wude, and officially ceased casting in the eighth year of Emperor Taizu of Song Dynasty. There are 1.7 grams to 5 grams, usually weighing 4 grams, the variety is too right, and it is not old at all. The method is clear. "

However, Xiang Weirong had the final say, "Even if it is 4 grams each, the value of the club will be calculated by the quantity, no matter how much it is folded, this is 150,000 copper coins!"

"That's okay, it's a bit less. About 15oo guan, absolutely nouveau riche! Set in the early Ming Dynasty, this is the living expenses of a relatively wealthy civilian for forty to fifty years."

At this time the sky was dim, and it was almost dark.

Cousin Zhang Zhou has also returned, and supper has already been prepared in the big shed that serves as the canteen.

After washing, I went back to Yan County overnight after eating.

There is also a big "box" here, which is surrounded by a plastic rain cloth. Zhang Nan and the group of people eat here.

When Wang Debiao was eating, he was still wondering why so many copper coins were buried. Zhang Nan knew that he didn't want what he wanted, but was simply curious, so he made the simplest knowledge of ancient coins for everyone while eating.

“At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, paper-based Daming treasure banknotes were used. In the early stage, due to the lack of copper materials, Zhu Yuanzhang allowed the old money of the former dynasty to be used in the same way as the money made in the current dynasty. In the eighth year of Hongwu, when the use of banknotes was resumed in 1375, the banknotes parallel.

Later, too much money was cast privately. In 1394, the court ordered all copper coins not to be used, and all the coins were exchanged for Daming treasure banknotes.

However, because the actual price of copper coins is higher than that of treasure banknotes, the folks store the copper coins for later use. This may be the reason why the batch of copper coins are buried in the ground.

As for the burial time, I guess that it was in Hongwu 27, between 1394 and Ming Yongle ninth and 1411. That year Ming Chengzu Zhu Di began to make Yongletong precious coins. The copper coins buried earlier could be used and exchanged for new coins. money. "

"Paper is real money and reliable."

Wang Debiao was a little bit emotional, and Zhang Nan wanted to laugh when he saw his face full of flesh and emotion.

"Without sufficient credibility as a guarantee, misuse of banknotes will only depreciate, and Lao Jiang will do more excessively, so we Huaxia people will recognize silver dollars."

Zhang Nan smiled.

There is still something to say: "Xixi Cellar" has a strange phenomenon: all the collections here are copper coins, there are no iron coins, gold, silver, and no matter which dynasty copper coins, the appearance is very good, just No serious wear and tear.

Some people therefore speculate that it may be a special collection of a certain Ming Dynasty copper coin enthusiast.

"The Ming Dynasty was also a dynasty where collections were popular, but if that were the case, this player would be more crazy than me!"

Thinking about it in my heart, I didn't say: There are many unreasonable things, why do you collect so many Hongwu Tongbao?

"By the way, Anan, as the old saying goes,'wonderful waist', here is 3 tons, it's still a hairy, even a dump truck can't pull it away!"

"Magical metaphor, you can bring gold, but it's not light. Wan Guan is about 10 kilograms."

Seeing Wang Debiao dipping some rice wine there and drawing his fingers on the table, Zhang Nan said, "Don’t forget it, it’s not clear. Some people have studied that in China, the price of gold and silver has risen from 1 to 8 around 16oo AD. By the end of the 18th century, it was 1 to 2o. In the Tang Dynasty, silver was more expensive, and it is estimated to be more than 1o times that of the Qing Dynasty.

In the early years of Daoguang of the Qing Dynasty, one tael of silver was exchanged for a hang, that is, the consistent money, one thousand wen. Before that, the Qing Dynasty had a lot of silver, and the export was much more than the import. Every year, a large amount of silver flowed into China;

However, by the time of the Opium War in Daoguang's 20th year, one tael of silver could be exchanged for 1,600 yuan to make money, the opium trade was given to the whole, and the silver went out.

After the Xianfeng Year, the price of silver rose sharply, and that would lead to an outflow of silver. When the price was the highest, one or two silver could be exchanged for as much as 2,230 yuan.

However, from this we can know that under normal circumstances, one tael of silver can be exchanged for about 100 to 15 liters of copper coins in the past few hundred years. At that time, it is usually said that one penny or one penny is 100 liters.

However, we in Jiangnan and the people in the old capital have different opinions about a sling: We can only say that a sling is consistent. We often say that a sling is only 1oo in text, which means the same thing as "a string" in other places. "

"A lot anyway!"

Wang Debiao didn't forget it, and it was a mess.

"Nowadays, gold and silver are cheaper. Industrialized large-scale mining, especially silver production is huge, because it is used in many industrial manufacturing and its actual purchasing power is much smaller than in ancient times."

Speaking of this, Zhang Nan took two bites of rice, "Tell you two stories to understand the value of this copper coin. In the 36th chapter of "Dream of Red Mansions", I wrote about a conversation between Madam Wang and Wang Xifeng, which was about the maids. The monthly bill is the salary.

Mrs. Wang asked about the maid’s monthly schedule. Sister Feng said: The eight big girls in the old lady’s house take one or two per month, and the seven big girls in Baoyu’s house, including Qingwen and Sheyue, pay a buck each month. Jiahui waits for eight small girls. The girl has five hundred dollars a month.

And because Xiren was from Jia’s mother, Yueli took one or two from the old lady. Mrs. Wang decided in her heart that Xiren’s aunt who would become Baoyu would be a little wife, but she was inconvenient to go out, so she told Feng Jie that she would follow In her own twenty-two month case, she gave two and one money to the attacker.

Cao Xueqin would count one or two silver coins as two pennies, one coin of 100 coins, then Qingwen and the others would have a lot of monthly routines, and the person who buried the coins was definitely not an ordinary person.

Can bury 15oo pens at a time, rich.

By the way, in the Ming Dynasty, even if the Qi's army soldiers paid full payment, they paid three cents a day, less than one tael a month.

In the 26th episode of "Water Margin," Wu Song gave Yun five taels of silver. Brother Yun thought that it would be enough for his father to use it for three to five months. It can be seen that one tael of silver would be enough for a commoner to live for a month.

15oo money is the living expenses of commoners in the Song Dynasty for 40 to 50 years. If the money is all the assets of a family, then this family should be considered a relatively wealthy family. "

As for how much so much copper will be worth today, Wang Debiao already feels that it will probably be a lot more expensive than scrap copper-but relying on Zhang Nan, the great god, he makes all the money, even if it is more, he is not jealous.

As for the others, they simply ignored this and planned to do their job well. Anyway, Zhang Nan would not lose them.

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After dinner, Wang Debiao and his two cousins ​​explained some of the ideas of beverage and food companies ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ everyone planned to return to Yan County overnight.

"As soon as the plant is completed, several production lines can be put in place. The beverage production lines for cans and plastic bottles are imported from the United States, and only the flexible packaging is domestically produced..."

Listening to Zhang Zhou's words, Zhang Nan can only complain in his heart: when picking the materials, they produce them by themselves, but the packaging shells of the flexible packaging must be made by themselves after purchasing the raw materials!

If there is a manufacturer nearby for this thing, then this production line can be omitted.

But there are none near Hangzhou. Some are still in Guangdong Province. If you add freight, you might as well just get a production line by yourself, and you won’t be constrained by others.

After explaining the company's affairs, Yongqiang drove the dump truck. Li Panfeng and a Yanxian driver who was originally on the construction site were also on the way. He will drive the truck back tomorrow.

Lin Ming became the driver of the Lincoln, and the four cars went home.

At night, the car didn't drive fast at all. The Camas 55111 pulled 3 tons of things and ran better than Cherokee and Lincoln cars-the Soviet beast had more horsepower and a well-deserved reputation! (To be continued.)