Gold, whether in modern times or in ancient times, is a treasure of extremely high value. An inch of time and an inch of gold is the best description of gold. An inch of gold can be compared with an inch of time, which is enough to show its preciousness.
In ancient times, gold was a circulating currency, so there were often many gold reserves in the vaults of large households. It is only due to the development of the times and the destruction of the war that many gold coins of collector's significance in our country have either been damaged or disappeared. So the value of the more than 100 gold coins discovered in 1999 was particularly high.
First, discover the golden cake
In November 1999, a brick factory worker was driving a forklift to work in Xi'an's Weiyang district. But his forklift was suddenly stuck by something, which made him very unhappy, after all, the forklift was very difficult to maintain.
If something on the ground gets stuck in the car, it will take a long time, and if you delay the working hours, you may be deducted.
The forklift driver walked up to the forklift, touched the ground, felt as if something hard was sticking underneath, and then dug it out.
Unexpectedly, the excavated thing frightened the forklift driver, and it turned out that there was a pile of gold buried under the ground. These golds are not thin pieces of gold without weight, but very thick gold cakes.
This made him happy and afraid, wanting to sneak away the golden cake and wanting to give it to the state, at this moment he can be said to be very entangled. It was just that he hadn't struggled for long, and the news of digging out the golden cake under the ground was spread.
According to the usual, if some bronzes are excavated, people will report to the relevant departments as soon as possible. Because they don't understand the value of these bronzes and murals, and they can't tell if they're real or fake.
Gold, on the other hand, is worth even a child. So at this moment people's nature is exposed.
Villagers from neighboring villages did not report the news, but chose to come and grab the gold. Some villagers even sneak around several places at night to grab gold.
After grabbing the gold, these villagers did not secretly hide it, but instead pulled it out and showed off it to others, so the news spread farther and farther, and the relevant departments finally learned about the matter.
The archaeologists immediately recognized the importance of these golden cakes and asked the police to come to their aid. It's just that by this time it's too late, and those golden cakes have already been robbed.
Since the archaeologists didn't actually come into contact with the goldbread, they had no way of determining how many pieces there were. After much consultation, archaeologists had to decide to go door-to-door to look for exploration.
2. Recover the golden cake
The natives of Xi'an are not unusual for cultural relics, but the products excavated this time are rare gold, which is a windfall for local people, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Everyone has a greedy heart and exposes something when they encounter it.
Archaeologists began to go door-to-door and educate villagers in real time in order to get the artifacts back. Let them realize that these gold cakes belong to the property of the state, and if the villagers choose to hide them without reporting them after discovering these cultural relics, it is a violation of the law.
At first, the villagers did not pay attention to this kind of investigation, and did not take the initiative to hand over the gold cake to archaeology. It was only with the police and archaeologists that round after round of investigation, round after round of persuasion made the villagers start to be afraid.
Then some villagers voluntarily handed over these things, and the driver who first found the gold cake was carried by the police and archaeologists, and one by one identified the person who had taken the gold cake. As more and more people turned in, some people began to sit still because they did not want to hand over the golden cake to the state, so they chose to flee to the mountains.
Even so, they did not keep the golden bread in the end. In the end, the police and archaeologists recovered a total of 219 gold cakes, which is more than 2 billion according to today's value, and if these gold cakes are lost, it can be said that it is a large loss to the country.
Third, the value of the golden cake
These golden cakes have not lost their radiance because of the baptism of time, and they still emit a dazzling golden light after being cleaned up. Archaeologists looked at these gold cakes and felt very confused. Although the currency in circulation in ancient times was gold coins, most of them were very light in weight, and this large weight of gold cakes was not used in daily circulation.
After studying the beautiful ornaments on these gold cakes, experts speculated that this time the gold cakes should have been used for tribute to the feudal state at that time. However, the location of these gold cakes is a bit strange, they are not in the royal burial chamber or the mansion, but in ancient times, it was very famous mass burial, which also made archaeologists more and more curious about the origin of these gold cakes.
After repeated comparisons and verifications by experts, a conclusion was drawn that this batch of gold cakes should come from the Han Dynasty. Because Wang Mang was in power during the Han Dynasty, these golden cakes seemed to be paid tribute to Wang Mang by the vassal states closer to the Han Dynasty at that time.
It was only after studying the gold coin ornaments used at the time that there was also a great divergence among experts. Because the ornamentation of these gold cakes is not the same, and these gold cakes are not placed in Wang Mang's treasury.
In fact, throughout the history of China for thousands of years, the change of dynasties and generations is a very common thing. Although Wang Mang was in power at the time, he reigned for only 15 years. After 15 years, the city was lost due to the rebel army, and even animals knew that they had to bring food with them when fleeing for their lives, let alone people.
Everyone knows that when they are fleeing for their lives, they must bring a little money to make their lives smoother in the future, and the gold cake, as a priceless treasure, may have been taken out of the city at that time.
It was only because the rebel army at that time was chasing and blocking everywhere that these people eventually had no way to escape and were killed. The rebels certainly could not bury these people well, they could only throw them together in the mass burial post, so these golden cakes would appear in the mass grave.
4. Summary
Cultural relics have immeasurable value, and the value of cultural relics is not only in itself, but also contains its inherent historical meaning. Cultural relics not only carry historical changes, but also are an important symbol of cultural development.
Everyone exposes their greed in the face of wealth, and who doesn't want to be able to get a large sum of money and live a life comfortably.
Human selfishness, especially seeing these very rare gold cakes, will make people expand their selfish desires indefinitely. But at any time, we should remember that the interests of the country should be in the first place, and each of us should take the initiative to protect cultural relics and refuse to embezzle cultural relics.