Until the 16th year of Guangxu (1890), the Qing court began to mint the "Guangxu Yuanbao", that is, Long yang, Long Yang did not circulate much in the Qing court, Yuan Datou in the Republic of China period was the mainstream currency, and now the silver dollar collection is basically Yuan Datou silver coins, but it is rare to dig out 67981 silver dollars at one time.
On June 16, 1982, it was an extraordinary day for Tao Jinlan, 16, a 16-year-old in Guide, Qinghai, at four o'clock in the afternoon, Tao Jinlan and his brother Tao Enming went to the county horticultural farm to reclaim the land, they contracted a section of pipe, this land is very hard, they have to dig an eighty centimeters wide, 1.5 meters deep laneway.
On June 16, 1982, In Guide County, Qinghai, Tao Jinlan, a militia member of the Guola Brigade of Heyin Commune, went to work in the county 'horticultural field' as usual, and now many people do not know what ''horticultural field'' is, in fact, the horticultural field is a special economic entity of the last century, and the older generation knows that he is a comprehensive state-owned agricultural enterprise of the whole people. At about 8 o'clock in the evening of this day, Tao Jinlan was ready to dig a water pipe ditch, and went home to rest, at this time, I did not think that there was an "unexpected" situation.
When Tao Jinlan dug the ditch to more than 1 meter deep, suddenly fell from the ditch wall a bunch of white flowers of the "garden pieces", another iron milling down, the "garden pieces" that flowed down more, she did not know what this was, but vaguely felt that there was great value, so she quickly called the cousin at the other end to take a look, his cousin Tao Enmin was surprised to see it, and seriously told him that these "garden pieces" were silver dollars, very valuable. As they talked, they dug more and more, and the silver dollars buried in the ground seemed to be endless.
At that time, Tao Jinlan was still a female militiaman, and she knew that she had to report to her superiors at the first time when encountering any situation, so she quickly reported the situation to the county party committee and county government at that time, and Secretary Liu Jian personally received her, and at this time she knew that the original white flowers were silver dollars, and then the armed forces department used a number of personnel to dig, and dug two tractors, which was nearly two tons of weight.
Later statistics showed that the result was 67981 silver dollars, 1568 silver hammers, equivalent to 369,000 yuan at that time, if put to the present, its value is already hundreds of millions, but Tao Jinlan did not hesitate to hand over all these to the state, leaving no point.
Although Ma Yuanhai had not read a book, but had the courage and the heart, he scavenged a lot of people's fat cream in Guide, in 1949 he buried a part of the money in his own yard, only took a small amount of money to flee abroad, but surrendered in the Ceji grassland, died of illness in 1951, and this money became a secret. As for Tao Jinlan's two brothers and sisters, they did not stay on this matter, Tao Jinlan worked in the Cadre Bureau, took care of the elderly, and also sponsored a college student, Tao Enming is also a bodyguard, and now, the value of the silver dollar has already exceeded hundreds of millions of yuan.