preface
We live in a rapidly developing society, and some rural areas on the mainland still retain the habit of digging wells, on the one hand, they can irrigate the fields in the countryside by drilling wells, and on the other hand, they can also be used as drinking water, so in many places, even if the tap water has been opened, some families still choose to dig a well at home, as described in the ancient text. ", but when digging a well, we often encounter some unexpected situations, once an old farmer inadvertently dug out 120 pounds of gold cake when digging a well in his own vegetable garden, and later after it was handed over, experts claimed that there was still 200 tons of gold cake, what is going on, what happened to this?
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There is a family in the countryside northeast of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and this family's old Man surnamed Zhang is busy digging wells these days to use these wells to water his vegetable garden, and this work has been going on for several days. One of the most feared things about digging a well in the countryside is to encounter a hard stone in the process of digging a well, this is because if you touch a stone, it means that the place where the well is dug is not right, and you need to change the place to continue digging the well, on this day, when the old man surnamed Zhang dug to about 4 meters, he heard the hoe touching the ground when it made a banging sound, this sound The old man is very familiar, because this is the sound of metal collision;
So the old farmer changed a tool to dig out the metal and continue to work. What the old farmer did not expect was that this digging found something terrible, and after the old farmer dug it, the hard stone was not dug out, but many round metal knots like cakes were dug out. At that time, the old farmer's first feeling was that the material of these things should be copper, so he quickly dug out the rest, and after digging, the old man also quickly brought all the cake-like metal home. After the old farmer returned home, he found that the surface of these round cakes actually emitted a golden color.
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At that time, the old farmer suppressed his inner excitement, as described in "Night Tan Suilu • Escort Girl": "The young man got his answer, and he was surprised." And with a bite of his teeth, he finally confirmed that the metal of these round cakes was real gold, and the old farmer was a little sluggish at this moment, only because the windfall came so suddenly that he was not ready. Later, after the old farmer eased for a while, he began to count the round cake metal that he had dug up, and the old farmer finally picked up a total of 108 pieces of cake-like gold, and the weight of these gold was also as high as more than 120 pounds, at that time, the old farmer did not think much, but just regarded this windfall as a wealth given by heaven, so in the evening he gathered everyone in the family to discuss how to spend this gold.
Later, after some deliberations, it was decided to cash out the money through the bank. A few days later, the old farmer and his son went to the bank with gold cakes and asked the staff about the realization of gold, which was also the reason for the gold, which aroused the vigilance of the staff, so the staff also contacted the local experts at the first time. When the expert rushed to the bank, went straight to the gold cake and made an appraisal of the gold cake for the first time, and then the expert initially speculated that this belonged to the gold ware of the Western Han Dynasty, and later the father and son were educated, and finally under the persuasion of the staff, the father and son handed over about 120 pounds of round cakes to the local cultural relics bureau.
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The Antiquities Bureau rewarded them with 500 yuan and a pennant to thank them for this behavior. Later, after many studies by experts, it was finally concluded that these round cake gold was the treasury gold minted in the Western Han Dynasty, but with Wang Mang's uprising, the gold was eventually collected by Wang Mang into the national treasury, and after Wang Mang became emperor, it took another 15 years to collect all the gold of the people at that time into the national treasury. The purpose of this is to revitalize the national economy.
According to historical records, Wang Mang spent several years scavenging more than 200 tons of gold, but later due to the war, all this gold was eventually left in all corners of the country. This time, the old farmer found more than 100 catties of gold, which was far from his original 200 tons of gold. So the expert directly asked him about the whereabouts of other gold, but the old man said that he only found so much gold at that time, and as for the other gold old man, he said that he did not know. Today, most of these precious cultural relics are still undiscovered.
epilogue
The land of China is a country with a long history and culture, on this piece of land, it has experienced 5,000 years of ups and downs, and there have been many dynasties on this land, and each dynasty has left some cultural products that belong to the characteristics of this dynasty. They have experienced the rise and fall of dynasties, and have been passed down to the present day in many ways through wars, and their existence has enabled future generations to better understand the glorious dynasties that once had, the events and customs that happened in that era, and these are of great significance to the study of history. It is just that there are many cultural relics still buried under the loess soil, waiting to be discovered one day, and I believe that one day in the future, these cultural relics will eventually be discovered, and through these cultural relics, people can more fully understand the history that later generations have not experienced.